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Museums, movie theaters, concerts and other events have all taken a hit since COVID-19 emerged. Luckily, the creative world has gotten - creative - and found new, alternative ways to provide virtual cultural and educational experiences during these challenging times. If you're hankering for a little art immersion, there are a variety of virtual museum tours you can take, all from the comfort of your home. Best of all, you won't have to navigate a sea of crowds and selfie sticks to get a closer look at a Van Gogh or Monet.

13 Virtual Museums and Galleries

The following list of virtual museums and galleries are organized based on interest:

Virtual Art Museums

Virtual Tour for Kids

Virtual Natural History and Science

Weird Virtual Museums

Virtual Art Museums

The Louvre

The Louvre is one of the best museums in the world - and the most-visited one. If you don't book your Louvre tickets before your airfare, you may miss out on a peek from the crowd of the Mona Lisa or Venus de Milo. There's a better way to view the iconic works of art - through virtual tours. You can admire a painting without getting turned away because of capacity or worrying about socially distancing from the large crowds.

The Met

The Met is the largest museum in the U.S. - and now you can view its wings of art without your feet aching. There are 31 virtual exhibits in the Met's digital museum, available through Google Arts & Culture, for a total art immersion featuring over 200,000 items. There's something for everyone - classic or modern art, fashion exhibits and behind-the-scenes tours are the most popular.

The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

If Warhol, Picasso, Monet and Van Gogh are more your speed, you can have VIP access to the MOMA from the comfort of your home. View over 90,000 works of art online or take a virtual stroll of select online exhibits through Google Arts & Culture.

Virtual Tours for Kids

Children's Museum Houston

The Children Museum in Houston has developed the All-Time Access program so kids can experience interactive learning wherever they may be. There are 3D or virtual field trips, daily broadcasts kids can tune in to listen to a story or learn how to create something, or explore a long list of videos, all designed to answer the questions curious kids ask.

Easter Island

Kids love the scene in the movie Night at the Museum when the giant moai statue says "Dum dum give me gum." Now they can explore the actual site on Easter Island where these giant mysterious statues originated. Google provides webcams of the scenic, tropical island, as well as a little history of the origins of the large carvings.

MetKids by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

MetKids was developed for (and by) kids of ages seven to twelve. Kids can hop in time machines, watch videos or navigate a map to learn more about some of The Met's most popular art. Masha Turchinsky, Series Producer and Senior Manager of Digital Learning for the Met explains: "We worked with #MetKids contributors from around the world. They told us they saw the Met as a huge time machine that they wanted to jump into and explore, in terms they could understand."

Museum of the World by The British Museum

The British Museum's website for its Museum of the World is a stunning way to travel through time by clicking on interactive locations on the web page. Kids of all ages could get lost for hours exploring topics such as Art and Design, Living and Dying, Religions and Beliefs and Trade and Conflict. Travel as far back as 2,000,000 BC and choose the continent you'd like to explore, all with a point and click of the mouse.

Virtual Natural History and Science Museums

NASA

NASA's library of online exhibits, videos and resources is pretty extensive. You can follow the Mars 2020 mission, virtually visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or have a closer look at the rings of Saturn. There are 41 exhibits to view through the Google Arts & Culture page, perfect for a rainy day, or two or three.

Natural History Museum

First opened in 1881, the Natural History Museum houses objects including plants, fossils, minerals and dinosaur bones. There's a large collection of items collected by Darwin during his travels and research. You can take a fascinating tour from behind the screen to explore Hope the Blue Whale, which is over 80 feet long. Best of all, the museum includes the capability to view Hope in augmented reality.

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

The Smithsonian is the most visited natural history museum in the world. You'll find a massive collection of fossils, stones, minerals, meteorites and rare jewelry such as the Hope Diamond. Traveling to D.C. isn't easy right now, but you can always access a variety of narrated tours, as well as permanent and temporary exhibits online when you take a Smithsonian virtual tour.

Weird Virtual Museums

Dali Theater Museum

Some call Salvador Dali's art "avant-garde". Others just say the artist's interpretations were just plain weird. Take a virtual tour of Dali's museum and you'll realize his art was imitating life. Insert one Euro into a car Dali transformed and it comes to life. Check out the room with the large lip sofa and nose cabinet. And although his art was over the top, Dali is buried in the center of the theater's atrium under an unmarked slab you'd probably never notice among all the oddities.

Mütter Museum

The Mütter Museum is part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and houses 19th Century medical instruments, anatomical specimens and models. You'll find Einstein's brain preserved there, as well as John Wilkes Booth's vertebra and the jaw tumor of President Grover Cleveland. The current exhibit, "Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 in Philadelphia" takes a look at last century's Spanish Flu pandemic. Philadelphia was the hardest-hit city in the United States at the time.

Paris Catacombs

Five stories underneath the grand, elegant streets of the City of Lights is a whole underworld where over 6 million people rest. Consecrated in 1786, the overflowing bodies of those buried in the limited cemeteries of Paris were moved over 12 years to a subterranean maze of claustrophobic tunnels. The tunnels lead to sections displaying neat stacks of unnamed skulls and bones.

How to use your credit card points for museums

You don't have to break the bank to visit a museum or book the best virtual tours. Many galleries and museums offer free virtual tours. For those that don't, travel credit card points can often be used to buy museum tickets or book an exclusive museum tour.

Before you cash in your points or miles, do a quick calculation on whether it's worth it - points may be better used for airfare or travel instead of museum tickets. Some cards provide special perks for cardholders interested in cultural events and experiences.

Bottom line

There's a silver lining to the pandemic - museums and galleries are more accessible to all. As long as you have a screen and an internet connection, you can admire famous artwork or go on a virtual travel adventure to places that may be located on the other side of the world. And best of all, you can experience it right from your living room.

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With schools shuttered due to the pandemic, are kids still reading? They are, according to data from Follett. Here are the top 25 lists for ebooks and audiobooks for grades K-3, 3-6, 5-8, and young adult titles.

With schools shuttered due to the pandemic, are kids still reading? They are, according to data from Follett.

"We have seen about a 15 percent increase in [book] usage compared to last year," says Doug Thompson, a spokesman for the company, a leading provider of books in the K-12 market.

Based on circulation data derived from Destiny, Follett's library management system used by more than 60,000 schools, the following lists of most popular ebook and audiobook titles reveal some surprises. The top three ebooks for kindergarten through third grade were Spanish language titles, including nonfiction about matter, birds, and rainbows.

Top 25 titles for grades 3-6, on the other hand, were dominated by tried-and-true favorites from popular authors, such as Kate DiCamillo, Cece Bell, and Lincoln Peirce with his "Big Nate" series.

What trends can we expect? Meg Graham, Follett's director of education content strategy and curation, says she anticipates the lists will increasingly feature academic titles, biographies, and informational texts.

Here are the top 25 lists for ebooks and audiobooks for grades K-3, 3-6, 5-8, and young adult for the two-week period ending April 7.

What Students Are Reading Since School Closures, Ebooks

1 La materia: Mira, toca, prueba, huele by Darlene R. Stille (English Translation for Spanish title: Matter: See It, Touch It, Taste It, Smell It)
2 Sabes algo sobre aves? by Buffy Silverman (English Translation for Spanish title: Do You Know About Birds?)
3 La luz sombras, espejos y arco iris by Natalie Myra Rosinsky (English Translation for Spanish title: Shadows, Mirrors and Rainbows)
4Neck & Neck by Elise Parsley
5 El arbol que trepó el oso by Marianne Collins Berkes (English Translation for Spanish title: T he Tree That Bear Climbed)
6 20 Hungry Piggies by Trudy Harris
7 The Best Pet Yet by Louise Tidd
8Dragons and Marshmallows by Asia Citro
9Inky the Octopus by Erin Guendelsberger
10 El áire afuera, adentro y en todos by Darlene R. Stille (English Translation for Spanish title: Air: Outside, Inside, and All Around)
11The Princess and the Pit Stop by Tom Angleberger
12 El Corazón by Lisa E. Greathouse (English Translation for Spanish title: The Heart)
13 The Bagel King by Andrew Larsen
14 Sabes algo sobre mamiferos? by Buffy Silverman (English Translation for Spanish title: Do You Know About Mammals?)
15 You Don't Want a Unicorn! by Ame Dyckman
16 Los sólidos by Lisa Greathouse (English Translation for Spanish title: Solids)
17Good News, Bad News by Jeff Mack
18 Fun Frogs/Ranas Saltarinas by Rose Carraway
19The Desperate Dog Writes Again by Eileen Christelow
20 The Action of Subtraction by Brian P. Cleary
21Melia and Jo by Billy Aronson
22 Courageous Canine: And More True Stories and More True Stories of Amazing Animal Heroes by Kelly Milner Halls
23 Sabes algo sobre peces? by Buffy Silverman (English Translation for Spanish title: Do You Know About Fish?)
24 Keesha's Bright Idea by Eleanor May
25The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat

1 B ecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
2 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
3 El Deafo by Cece Bell
4 The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
5 Wonder by R.J. Palacio
6 The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
7 Big Nate: I Can't Take It by Lincoln Peirce
8 CatStronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington
9 Overboard! by Terry Lynn Johnson
10The Ambrose Deception by Emily Ecton
11The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
12 Sled Dog School by Terry Lynn Johnson
13Stella Diaz Has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez
14 Big Nate: Game On! by Lincoln Peirce
15 Big Nate: Say Goodbye to Dork City by Lincoln Peirce
16Runs with Courage by Joan M. Wolf
17Survival Tails: The Titanic by Katrina Charman
18 Captain: Level 4 by Christopher L. Harbo
19Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery & A Very Strange Adventure by Lissa Evans
20 Restart by Gordon Kormon
21 What is Citizenship? by Leslie Harper
22 Big Nate and Friends by Lincoln Peirce
23 Big Nate: Revenge of the Cream Puffs by Lincoln Peirce
24 The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
25Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul by Jeff Kinney
2 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
3Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney
4The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
5 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal by Jeff Kinney
6 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney
7 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney
8 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
9 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
10 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
11 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
12Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney
13 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down by Jeff Kinney
14 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway by Jeff Kinney
15The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
16 The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
17 The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
18The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
19 The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
20 The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
21 Night of the Spadefoot Toads by Bill Harley
22The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
23Refugee by Alan Gratz
24 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown by Jeff Kinney
25 Vortex by Vanessa Acton

1 The Giver by Lois Lowry
2 The United Nations Children's Fund by Ada Veloren
3 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
5Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
6Lost in the River of Grass by Ginny Rorby
7 Iceberg, Right Ahead: Tragedy of the Titanic by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
8 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
9 The Maze Runner by James Dashner
10Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
11The Call of the Wild by Jack London
12 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
13 The 5th Wave by Richard Yancey
14 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
15 The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E.K. Johnston
16 All the Bright Places by Jennifer Nivenz
17 Governments from Around the World: From Democracies to Theocracies by Fred M. Shelley
18 After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick
19 Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
20The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
21 Peak by Roland Smith
22 Greek Gods & Goddesses by Michael W. Taft
23Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
24 A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
25 Tangerine by Edward Bloor

What Students Are Reading Since School Closures, Audiobooks

1 Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! by Mo Willems
2 A Princess Collection by Cassandra Morris
3 The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka
4 A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
5 Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
6 The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Barbara G. Hennessy
7 Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
8Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
9 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
10 Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type And Other Barnyard Stories by Doreen Cronin
11Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie by Herman Parish
12 Crazy Hair Day by Barney Saltzberg
13 Corduroy by Don Freeman
14 There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat by Lucille Colandro
15 Thump, Quack, Moo: A Whacky Adventure by Doreen Cronin
16The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
17 Diary of a Fly by Doreen Cronin
18 Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
19I Spy Fly Guy! by Tedd Arnold
20 Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin
21 Dooby Dooby Moo by Doreen Cronin
22The Rough Patch by Brian Lies
23 Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
24 Something About Hensley's by Patricia Polacco
25 The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

1 Front Desk by Kelly Yang
2Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
3 Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
4 The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
5The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier
6The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
7The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui Sutherland
8Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star by Rachel Renée Russell
9 Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
10Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
11 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
12 Out of My Mind by Shannon M. Draper
13A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
14Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
15Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
16The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
17A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
18The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
19 Ban This Book by Alan Gratz
20Almost Super by Marion Jensen
21 Big Nate: On a Roll by Lincoln Peirce
22 Magic Tree House Collection: Books 1-8 by Mary Pope Osborne
23 Freak the Mighty by W.R. Philbrick
24Wedgie & Gizmo by Suzanne Selfors
25The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade by Max Brallier

1 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
2The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
3 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
4 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
5Ghost by Jason Reynolds
6 Holes by Louis Sachar
7 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
8Refugee by Alan Gratz
9Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
10Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
11 The Giver by Lois Lowry
12Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
13 The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
14 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
15 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
16Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
17A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
18The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
19 Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
20 Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
21Spy Camp by Stuart Gibbs
22The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
23 The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
24 E speranza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
25 Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

1 The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
2 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
3 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
4 The Maze Runner by James Dashner
5 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
6 The 5th Wave by Richard Yancey
7 The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
8 One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
9 Dear Martin by Nic Stone
10 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
11 Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
12 Cinder by Marissa Meyer
13 Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
14 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
15 Divergent by Veronica Roth
16 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
17 Miles Morales (Spider Man) by Jason Reynolds
18 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
19 Eldest by Christopher Paolini
20 Monster by Walter Dean Myers
21 The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
22 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
23 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
24 The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry
25 Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

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What Are Kids Reading Now? Follett Reveals the Top Ebook and Audiobook Checkouts.

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With schools shuttered due to the pandemic, are kids still reading? They are, according to data from Follett. Here are the top 25 lists for ebooks and audiobooks for grades K-3, 3-6, 5-8, and young adult titles. With schools shuttered due to the pandemic, are kids still reading?

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Below is a list of resources for students in grades K-12 and college. These resources include access to eBooks, audiobooks and other reading materials; databases providing journal articles and authoritative information appropriate for homework and research purposes; digital language learning platforms; online tutoring resources; educational videos and documentary movies; and more.

Some of these resources are provided free to all New Jersey students by the New Jersey State Library, and others vary by local public library. Any questions regarding access should be directed to your local public library.

READING

The following is a list of apps and services provided by school and public libraries that offer access to eBooks, comics, audiobooks, magazines, movies, music, and more. Contact your school library or local public library to find out if these services are offered to you.

Read thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks on your mobile device or computer, with cloudLibrary by bibliotheca. These books are automatically returned so you'll never pay late fees. cloudLibrary by bibliotheca works with a huge range of eReading devices, and they're adding support all the time. Contact your local public library to find out if they participate. (All ages)

Access thousands of digital books, comics, audiobooks, and more, all available for mobile and desktop use. Digital content from publishers can be borrowed for instant reading or streaming to smartphones, tablets, and computers, or for temporary downloading to smartphones and tablets.

Visit hoopladigital.com or contact your local public library to find out if they participate. The Hoopla mobile app is available for download from the Google Play or App Store. Hoopla is also now available to be installed on Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV. Hoopla can also be integrated with Amazon Alexa. (All ages)

Did you know that we have thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks that you can download and read for free? Libby is a mobile app to browse, checkout, and read digital content from Overdrive. Contact your local public library to find out if they participate. (All ages)

Resource for young readers to use when looking for the next book to read. Available to all New Jersey residents with a valid public library card. (Grades K-8)

Resource for older teen readers to use when looking for the next book to read. Available to all New Jersey residents with a valid public library card. (Grades 9-12, college)

This collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books), Tumble Puzzles, and Tumble Games may be viewed online or downloaded for 90 days. TumbleBooks collection includes fiction, non-fiction, and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), eBooks and audiobooks. This collection is available to students for free for 90 days due to COVID-19 school closures.

RESEARCH

The following is a list of statewide databases that provide access to biographies, historical essays, journal articles, and other information appropriate for homework and research purposes. The following research resources are available to all New Jersey residents with a valid public library card.

EBSCO Explora (Primary Schools) is designed for students in grades K-5. Students will find reliable information on a variety of topics with Explora, an easy-to-use interface that lets you search all of your library's EBSCO resources at once. (Grades K-5)

Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags. (Grades 5-8)

Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. (Grades 5-12)

Comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries.

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. (Grades 9-12, college)

A full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticisms, more than 253,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), more than 460 literary journals, more than 693,000 book reviews, nearly 78,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 19,600 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 6,500 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more. (Grades 9-12, college)

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,050 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Elite also includes 52 full text reference books and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps and flags. (Grades 9-12, college)

LANGUAGE LEARNING

An online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication. Through fun and engaging interactive lessons, Mango makes learning a new language fast, easy and incredibly effective. The system is completely web-based and remotely accessible, so you can learn anywhere you have an internet connection. Languages include Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more. English courses are available for non-English speakers. Contact your local public library to find out if they participate. (All Ages)

Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone's language division uses cloud-based solutions to help all types of learners read, write, and speak more than 30 languages. Rosetta Stone is available to all New Jersey residents with a valid public library card. (All Ages)

TUTORING

Help Now! Free live one-on-one online tutoring from a Brainfuse tutor. Tutoring is available in math, science, writing and other subjects for elementary, middle school, high school and college students. All BrainFuse tutors have at least a four year degree and are background checked. Includes live online help for Spanish Language help from Spanish speaking tutors, a writing lab that gives feedback on written assignments within 24 hours and much more. Requires a Teaneck Library card barcode number. This database is provided with funding from the Teaneck Public Library. Includes resources for GED, US citizenship test prep, resume writing, help with Microsoft Office, Excel, Powerpoint, and more. Contact your local public library to find out if they participate. (Grades K-12, college)

The Tutor.com Learning Suite combines online tutoring, homework help, and test preparation with powerful diagnostic tools and self-study resources to provide a well-balanced and flexible educational environment designed to meet the individual needs of all learners. Contact your local public library to find out if they participate. (Grades K-12)

VIDEOS

Kanopy provides access to a video streaming service which offers a broad selection of educational content including documentaries, and training videos from producers including The Criterion Channel, The Great Courses, PBS, Music Box Films, Kino Lorber, First Run Features, BBC, and many more. Kanopy can be accessed via a web browser, or download the mobile app from Google Play or the App Store. Contact your local public library to find out if they participate. (All Ages)

PUBLIC LIBRARIES

Your local public library may be closed right now due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in New Jersey, but they may still have a wealth of virtual services available to you, including:

Online library card applications

eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, movies, music, and more for download and streaming

Research and other homework help databases

Virtual storytimes, read-alouds, and other online programs

Tutoring and online classes,

And much more!

Visit your local public library's website, or contact them directly to find out more information. You can view a map of public libraries provided by the New Jersey State Library, with helpful information about virtual services they are currently providing.

QUESTIONS?

Certified New Jersey librarians are available to answer your questions Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Questions left outside of those hours will be answered as soon as possible. Type a question in the chat box on the bottom right to get started.

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In celebration of National Space Day on May 1, 2020, PCG is excited to announce the launch of our Online Space Program beginning with a project created in partnership with the Aldrin Family Foundation, ShareSpace Education, and NASA.

We Came in Peace: The Apollo Visitor Complex Project is a team activity that invites families to imagine a time when people travel to the moon for vacation, visiting lunar landing sites from NASA's Apollo missions. Due to unique characteristics of the moon, these historic sites have been preserved almost exactly as they appeared when the astronauts first walked on the moon. The footprints - as well as many other artifacts like American flags, a lunar lander, scientific equipment and even golf balls - are still there!

In this unique program, families work together to research, report, design, construct, and present a visitor complex for people visiting the lunar landing sites. Your team will create a video that will be shared with others in our online learning community, Pepper™ ... to win prizes and share with other aspiring astronauts.

PCG is excited to present this adventure in a time of distance learning and remote education. This activity combines elements of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math with the excitement of space travel.

We Came In Peace will help you prepare for a future role in the space program. We believe that one of you working on this project will be the first person to walk on Mars!

And the countdown begins ... 3 - 2 - 1 Liftoff!

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We know that this is a challenging time for girls-staying home from school away from friends is a significant change in their routine that can make them feel disconnected. At Girl Scouts, we are fortunate to be able to continue offering quality programming to girls, volunteers, and families virtually for at-home enrichment experiences.

The unique and far-reaching Girl Scout sisterhood experience will help us stay connected during these unprecedented times.

School may be canceled.

Meetings may be canceled.

Practice may be canceled.

But Girl Scouts is not canceled.

GSCSNJ is proud to offer new badge activities, virtual programs, and resources for girls and families to engage with from home regularly.

We are currently experiencing issues with Chromebooks connecting to our live Virtual Programs. If you have a Chromebook, you can seek an alternative smart device to use or wait for the program's recording to be posted. Thank you for your understanding!

Our free virtual programs are available to the public.

That means no Girl Scout membership necessary!

With thousands of girls already participating from across the country, it's not too late to join the virtual fun and bring your non-Girl Scout BFF to check out our virtual programs.

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Just because COVID-19 is keeping kids at home doesn't mean they can't still have engaging, STEM-filled adventures.

There are lots of simple STEM activities children can do alone or with a little help from parents. Take a look at a few of our favorites. They all use simple, household items or electronics, and they're all designed to nourish children's curiosity.

Technology Projects

1. Create a video report: Give regular assignments a technological twist with a video. Create biographies, explain math concepts, or explore a period in history with visuals that'll make those topics even more exciting. If you want to start with an easy option, try a book report. Your child can even use Animoto's Book Report template as a launching off point.

2. Practice coding: Help kids keep up their tech literacy by giving them some time to code. Try the free, easy-to-use app for kids from 8-16, and for younger kids around 5-7 years old.

At-home engineering activities

4. Make a boat out of recycled materials: Before you throw out that milk carton, why not put it to use? Let kids design their own boats using whatever you might have around the house. The project will teach them the properties of different materials and let them engage in some educational play.

Easy science projects

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Fun Math Activities

If you have a favorite STEM activity we missed, let us know in the comments! Or if you want to learn more ways you can add video to your lessons, visit our Classroom page for inspiration.

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ClassicReload was setup for preservation of 6,000+ old retro abandonware games and abandoned OS/interfaces that you can play DOS games online right in your web browser for education and research purposes. There is just something magical about the old DOS games that just brings back memories and takes many of us back to our childhood or a time when things were simpler and just as much fun without all the animation that is the standard these days. These games were from a time when there were so many different types of PC's on the market that all had different hardware. You will notice that many of the games will let you change sounds cards, graphics cards etc. There was so much change in the 80's and 90's with DOS games and many seem to be all but forgotten, but we have them here! (If there is a game missing shoot us a message and we'll put it up.) This website was not only setup to try to preserve these games, but also to make them playable for free on modern desktop computers, tablets and phones. Before you get started make sure that you are using the latest Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

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Looking for ways to keep kids excited about reading? The Reading Machine provides links to 36 online games to help you teach and reinforce important reading skills, and to help your students practice and enhance their skills. The games make great "reward time" activities too.

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No sunlight is able to reach this deep.

Many deep-sea creatures cope by creating light themselves - also known as bioluminescence.

Narwhals dive to this depth up to 15 times a day in search for food.

The Japanese Spider Crab is the largest known crab with a maximum leg span of 3.8m.

Coelacanths were thought to be extinct until found alive in 1938.

Leatherback Sea Turtles are the oldest sea turtle species.

Giant Oarfish can grow up to 11m long.

Sixgill Sharks spend the day in deep waters and the night in shallow waters. They can be found all over the world.

Telescope Octopus are almost completely transparent and have unique protruding eyes.

Barreleye Fish have a transparent head that allows their eyes to collect more light.

Black Swallowers can swallow entire fish whole - even those vastly larger than themselves!

Vampire Squids eat marine snow - organic material that falls from shallower waters.

Headless Chicken Fish are sea cucumbers with wing-like fins that allow them to swim.

Colossal Squid are the largest known squid species. They can reach a length of 10 meters and weigh up to 700 kg.

The Orange Roughy can live up to 200 years. Deep sea life often have elongated life spans.

Meals are rare in the deep sea. Deep sea creatures have adapted to this - one Giant Isopod in captivity went five years without eating.

Many deep sea species use the color red as camouflage since it's the first color to leave the spectrum as you dive deeper.

Goblin Sharks are known as "living fossils" because they're the only living species of a lineage that has existed for 125 million years.

Is it a squid, or a worm? It's a worm.

Sea Angels are majestic sea slugs that use wings to propel themselves.

The Scaly-Foot Snail gets its name from the iron plates on its foot and the iron shell it makes out of Iron Sulphide.

Anglerfish have a large bioluminescent lure used to attract prey in the darkness.

Giant Tube Worms get their nutrients from hydrothermal vents.

Hydrothermal vents are formed from seawater passing through extremely hot volcanic rocks. They release heavy metals that are toxic to most animals.

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Yeti Crabs live on hydrothermal vents.

This is the average depth of the ocean.

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Cuvier's Beaked Whales are the deepest diving mammals.

On April 14th, 1912 the Titanic sank to its final resting place at a depth of 3,800 meters.

This is the deepest point of the Manila Trench in the South China Sea.

Patagonian Toothfish have antifreeze proteins in its tissues to prevent freezing in sub zero temperatures.

Megamouth sharks are one of the largest growing shark species with some reaching 7 meters long.

The temperature here is near freezing and very few animals can survive the extreme pressure.

This shark takes cookie-shaped chunks out of its prey.

You have scrolled the height of Mount Everest.

Comb Jellies have been around for 500 million years. Despite looking like jellyfish, they are not closely related.

This is the lowest point of the Puerto Rico Trench.

This is the deepest point of the Java Trench in the Indian Ocean.

The USS Johnston sank in WWII and is the deepest shipwreck ever found.

More people have been to the Moon than the Hadal Zone.

Most of the Hadal Zone takes place in deep sea trenches.

Deep sea trenches form by a process called "subduction" where the Earth's tectonic plates meet and push together.

The deep sea can be a lonely place.

Life here is sparse - the extreme conditions make survival difficult.

But still not impossible.

So little is known about life in these deep environments. Almost every expedition uncovers something new.

Many probes and submarines have been lost trying to reach the deepest parts of the ocean.

On January 23rd, 1960, about 9 years before the moon landing, humans went where they never had before.

Two men, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, onboard the submarine Trieste slowly descended into the Mariana Trench.

Their goal was to reach The Challenger Deep - the deepest point in the ocean.

The submarine used a re-breather system that would later be used in spacecraft. There was barely enough space inside the pressure sphere for both of them.

The immense pressure of the deep sea means any mistake would mean certain death.

During the descent, one of the window panes cracked and shook the entire vessel.

Nevertheless, they continued.

Even at these unfathomable depths, Jacques and Don could still see life out the window. Life can survive unimaginable environments.

After 4 hours and 47 minutes of anxiety and claustrophobia...

They succeeded and became the first humans to reach the deepest point in the ocean.

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Cooking with Kids: Recipes, Books & More | America’s Test Kitchen Kids

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Day 9 - American Black Bear Key Terms: Opportunistic - an animal that eats whatever food is available. Kermode Bear - A rare white (non-albino) species of American black bear found only in British Columbia, Canada. Subspecies - a subspecies is a population of a certain species living in a different area or having different morphology (color, size, pattern, etc..)

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Welcome to Crash Course Kids! This bi-weekly show from the producers of Crash Course is all about gradeschool science. We'll look at Earth, Habitats, Space, Chemical Reactions, Engineering, and much much more with host Sabrina Cruz. So, join us every Tuesday and Thursday for new uploads.

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Printable Games

Keep the educational ball rolling throughout the year (including summer) with our printable games worksheets, which are a perfect blend of stimulating, challenging, and amusing. Dot-to-dot and coloring pages, along with matching games, will keep little ones enthralled while improving counting, alphabet, memory, and motor skills. Meanwhile, older students will enjoy completing crossword puzzles, word searches, and other games to learn about muscle anatomy, the solar system, black history, and more!

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Parking fees apply when visiting. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance members receive complimentary parking by registering their vehicle.

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Reid Park Zoo is committed to providing experiences that inspire adults and children to care for wild animals and wild places.

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See elephants, lions and naked mole-rats on animal cams streaming live, 24/7 from the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

Download Animal Cam Bingo Cards (link opens in new window). These activities are designed to engage learners of all ages in looking closely and thinking deeply about animal behavior and habitats. Welcome to the wild side of learning!

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The Zoo's animal webcams are some of the most famous on the internet. Tune in to watch the Zoo's elephants, lions and naked mole-rats - live, 24/7!

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Discovery Education has teamed up with Polar Bears International to host a series of shared learning experiences to engage students and inspire their interest in studying the science of polar bears and their Arctic habitat.

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Tune in to our Houston Zoo Webcams and enjoy a live look at animals that call Houston Zoo home! See the herd of Asian elephants wander through their enormous habitat. Watch as giraffes nibble lettuce fed to them by guests at the feeding platform; you could join them on your next visit. See the rhinos roll in their mud puddle or the flamingos float next to a waterfall. See the chimpanzees interact with guests at their window or snooze in a hammock.

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With ten live cams to choose from, you can experience the wonder of the ocean no matter where you are. Be delighted by the antics of our sea otters or mellow out to the hypnotic drifting of our jellies. Tune in to one of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's web cams.

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National Aquarium in Washington, DC Virtual Tour

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Honoring Place

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The Seattle Aquarium offers fun, exciting ways to discover more about the amazing Puget Sound and our world's one big ocean. Join us in our mission: Inspiring Conservation of Our Marine Environment.

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NASA, JPL, and Google bring the real surface of Mars to your browser.

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In the fall of 2011, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission released its original Tour of the Moon, a five-minute animation that takes the viewer on a virtual tour of our nearest neighbor in space. Six years later, the tour has been recreated in eye-popping 4K resolution, using the same camera path and drawing from the vastly expanded data trove collected by LRO in the intervening years.

The tour visits a number of interesting sites chosen to illustrate a variety of lunar terrain features. Some are on the near side and are familiar to both professional and amateur observers on Earth, while others can only be seen clearly from space. Some are large and old (Orientale, South Pole-Aitken), others are smaller and younger (Tycho, Aristarchus). Constantly shadowed areas near the poles are hard to photograph but easier to measure with altimetry, while several of the Apollo landing sites, all relatively near the equator, have been imaged at resolutions as high as 25 centimeters (10 inches) per pixel.

The new tour highlights the mineral composition of the Aristarchus plateau, evidence for surface water ice in certain spots near the south pole, and the mapping of gravity in and around the Orientale basin.
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International Space Station Tour With Sunita Williams

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Inside Space Shuttle Discovery 360 | National Air and Space Museum

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Volcano observatories reduce risk around the globe. Here's how we can support them.

When a volcano erupts, there can be global ripples caused by interruptions of air travel, agriculture, and tourism. One way to keep everyone secure is to ensure that volcano observatories around the world have the expertise and resources to detect and forecast volcanic activity, and can provide useful warnings and messages used by both local and global populations.

Two scientists from the USGS Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP is funded largely by USAID) penned a short overview of ways that different entities such as academia, governments, NGOs, and the global insurance industry can work together to bolster global resilience to volcanic disasters through support of front-line science institutions, like volcano observatories.

The article, Volcano observatories reduce risk around the globe. Here's how we can support them, delves into topics such as infrastructure donation, research and operational motives, and training of observatory staff, while maintaining the key goal of supporting the autonomy and authoritative role of the local observatory.

Volcano Observatories Continue Operations Amid COVID-19

The five volcano observatories of the USGS Volcano Hazards Program continue to monitor the volcanoes of the United States and issue forecasts and regular updates of volcanic activity. Through telework and other adaptations we continue to maintain our monitoring networks and analysis of the incoming data. Our field crews visit field stations as needed to maintain the quality and functionality of the network. All work will follow federal government guidelines to ensure public safety and the safety of our staff. The health and safety of the public and our employees are our highest priorities, and we continue to follow guidance from the White House, the CDC, and state and local authorities, as we implement teleworking, social distancing and virtual meeting tools.

Our priority is to continue the important work of the Department of the Interior and the USGS, while also maintaining the health and safety of our employees and community. Based on guidance from the White House, the CDC, and state and local authorities, we are shifting our operations to a virtual mode and have minimal staffing within our offices. If you need additional assistance, please contact vhpweb@usgs.gov.

Read Our Two Weekly Volcano Observatory Science Articles

Scientists within the USGS Volcano Hazards Program operate from within five U.S. volcano observatories. One of the primary goals of the observatories is to be an authoritative source for enlightening information about our Nation's volcanoes.

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), the oldest of the five, has a long history of writing regular articles about volcanic activity and scientific research on the Hawaiian volcanoes. HVO's weekly article, "Volcano Watch," entered its 27th year of publication in November 2017. The entire catalog of articles can be accessed and searched on their website. New articles are published every Thursday afternoon.

Taking lead from HVO, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO), the newest of the five observatories, began a weekly article on the first day of 2018. This new column- the "Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles"-is posted each Monday on the homepage of YVO's website . Like HVO's Volcano Watch series, the YVO Chronicles are peer-reviewed and edited before publication.

If you are interested in learning more about a specific topic related to Yellowstone or Hawaiian volcanism, please contact us. We will certainly answer, and you may see a longer-winded answer in a future Volcano Watch or Yellowstone Caldera Chronicle article.

Volcanic Unrest is Persistent in Alaska. No Current Eruption in Hawaii.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory website (AVO) includes complete information about volcanoes in Alaska.

Great Sitkin, located in the central Aleutian Islands, has been in a state of volcanic unrest since February 26, 2020. Seismicity is above background levels.

Mount Cleveland, located in the central Aleutian Islands, has been in a state of volcanic unrest since June 17, 2015. Explosive eruptions can send ash to altitudes hazardous to aviation.

Semisopochnoi, located in the western Aleutian Islands, has been in a state of volcanic unrest since July 5, 2019. Seismicity is above background levels. No explosive activity has been detected on the Adak infrasound array.

Shishaldin, located in the eastern Aleutian Islands, has been in a state of volcanic unrest since July 12, 2019. Seismicity is above background levels and elevated surface temperatures have been observed at the summit.

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory website offers information about volcanoes in Hawaii.

Kīlauea Volcano on the Island of Hawai'i is not erupting. Eruptive activity ceased in mid-August, 2018.

Mauna Loa Volcano on the Island of Hawai'i is not erupting. Earthquake and ground deformation rates at Mauna Loa Volcano have exceeded long term background levels. An eruption is not imminent and current rates are not cause for alarm. However, scientists have detected changes in the shallow magma storage system at Mauna Loa.

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Youth Engagement

Nature Lab is The Nature Conservancy's youth curriculum platform.

Connect With Nature Middle school children birdwatch and learn about the species of birds during the First State National Park's Bioblitz outside Wilmington, Delaware. On May 20 and 21, 2016, the Nature Conservancy and the National Parks Service partnered with National Geographic to execute the First State National Park's first Bioblitz. Over the course of the two-day event, over 800 observations were recording and more than 300 species were identified. More than 30 volunteers, 200 middle and high school students, and 100 community members participated in nature walks, species inventories and educational science experiments. © Devan King/TNC

Nature is the fantastic factory that makes the building blocks of all our lives-food, drinking water, the stuff we own and the air we breathe. That's why The Nature Conservancy and its 1000+ scientists have created Nature Lab: to help students learn the science behind how nature works for us and how we can help keep it running strong.

Wildfires: Impact of Climate Change

The impacts of climate change can be seen in ecosystems in many ways. Some effects can be minor, and some can be more detrimental to the overall health of the ecosystem. Since ecosystems can manage changes well for a certain amount of time, changes can often be seen through long term research. Explore how wildfires leave a measurable impact on an ecosystem.

Ocean Heroes: Coastal Frontline Communities and Climate Justice

The health of the oceans is suffering, and this has affected some of us more than others. Coastal communities, and those who are less-advantaged because they have less access to resources and face increased societal oppression, are more at risk from rising sea levels and storms. But there's some amazing groups working around the world to make change.

Nature Lab at Home!

Grades 3-8 | Use our week-long thematic family guides to lead at-home enrichment activities! With videos and learning activities, including a weekly hands-on project to get outside safely, kids can explore nature right in their community. Download individual weekly guides below.

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Nature Lab is our hub for youth curriculum that gives teachers, students and families customizable, interactive lesson plans to explore and understand nature.

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Ready to explore Yellowstone? You don't have to wait for your trip out here. You can start exploring now by virtually touring some of the main attractions around the park. Included with each map-based tour is additional information about visiting in person.

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Great Lakes Now Virtual Field Trip - Great Lakes Now

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Great Lakes Now and Detroit PBS KIDS takes you along on a Virtual Field Trip to learn more about the Great Lakes on Friday, November 1, from 10-10:30 am ET.

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Discovery Education: Interactive Field Trips

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Take students beyond the classroom and into some of the world's most iconic locations with virtual field trips. Learn more!

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Grand Canyon Weather Forecast and Road Conditions

Grand Canyon National Park's (at the Yavapai Museum of Geology on the South Rim) offers a window into the sights, weather, air quality and seasonal changes that the park is experiencing. Click on the photo below for the most recent image and for Current weather and air quality information.

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Grand Canyon Weather Forecast and Road Conditions Grand Canyon National Park's (at the Yavapai Museum of Geology on the South Rim) offers a window into the sights, weather, air quality and seasonal changes that the park is experiencing. Click on the photo below for the most recent image and for Current weather and air quality information.

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The Hidden Worlds of our National Parks by Google Arts & Culture

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Explore The Hidden Worlds of our National Parks

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Explore The Hidden Worlds of our National Parks

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Follow rangers on a journey to places most people never go in stunning 360° video.

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https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm Webcams...Glacier National Park Webcams We are currently reworking our Webcam Program. Glacier...infrastructure. During this time, some webcams will ...

https://www.nps.gov/index.htm ...social media channels. Photos, Videos, Webcams & More Explore the national parks...multimedia. Search for photos, videos, webcams, and audio files on ...

https://www.nps.gov/shen/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm webcams...Contact Us Webcams View from the Valley Webcam A new perspective! A live-feed...Big Meadows Live Webcam The new and improved Big Meadows web ...

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webcams - National Park Service Search Results

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Virtual Hikes at Rocky Mountain National Park

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Virtual Hikes at Rocky Mountain National Park

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About Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park
Estes Park is a town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. A popular summer resort and the location of the headquarters for Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park lies along the Big Thompson River. Estes Park had a population of 5,858 at the 2010 census. Estes Park sits at an elevation of 7,522 feet (2,293 m) on the front range of the Rocky Mountains at the eastern entrance of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Its location is 40°22?22?N 105°31?09?W. Its north, south and east extremities border the Roosevelt National Forest. Lumpy Ridge lies immediately north of Estes Park.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.9 square miles (15 km2), of which 5.8 square miles (15 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.85%) is water.

Three million tourists visit Rocky Mountain National Park each year; most use Estes Park as their base.

Rocky Mountain National Park is a national park located in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Colorado. It features majestic mountain views, mountain lakes, a variety of wildlife, varied climates and environments-from wooded forests to mountain tundra-and easy access to back-country trails and campsites. The park is located northwest of Boulder, Colorado, and includes the Continental Divide and the headwaters of the Colorado River.

The park has five visitor centers. The park headquarters, Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, is a National Historic Landmark, designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin West.

The park may be accessed by three roads: U.S. Highway 34, 36, and State Highway 7. Highway 7 enters the park for less than a mile, where it provides access to the Lily Lake Visitor Center which is closed indefinitely. Farther south, spurs from route 7 lead to campgrounds and trail heads around Longs Peak and Wild Basin. Highway 36 enters the park on the east side, where it terminates after a few miles at Highway 34. Highway 34, known as Trail Ridge Road through the park, runs from the town of Estes Park on the east to Grand Lake on the southwest. The road reaches an elevation of 12,183 feet (3,713 m), and is closed by snow in winter.

The California Zephyr serves Granby (near the west entrance of the park) by rail from Denver, crossing the Continental Divide through the Moffat Tunnel well south of the park. The park's website suggests Granby as an appropriate rail terminus for visitors, although it lies about sixteen miles from the park without public transportation connections.

The park is surrounded by Roosevelt National Forest on the north and east, Routt National Forest on the northwest, and Arapaho National Forest on the southwest.

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Estes Park Virtual Hikes | Estes Park Webcams

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About Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park Estes Park is a town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. A popular summer resort and the location of the headquarters for Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park lies along the Big Thompson River. Estes Park had a population of 5,858 at the 2010 census.

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Grand Canyon Virtual Run Rim to River with Ambient Sound

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Ouwehand Park Polar Bear Cubs Rhenen, Netherland

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Ouwehand Park Polar Bear Cubs Rhenen, Netherland

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Polar Bear Cubs Camera - Live Zoo Cam | Explore.org

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This live camera at the Ouwehand Zoo in The Netherlands shows two baby polar bear cubs and their mother.

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NPS

Every night the Night Sky Cam takes images every few minutes and merges them into a video. If you can't stay awake to watch the night sky these videos will give you a good idea what Glacier's dark nights have to offer.

Night Sky Video from last night.

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Glacier National Park Webcams - Glacier National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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View of Western North Carolina from Clingmans Dome
Jim Renfro, NPS

Stunning Views
Current digital images combined with weather and air quality information (if available) from monitoring locations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are part of the NPS air quality web camera network, the National Ecological Observatory Network ( NEON), and the PhenoCam Network. Digital Images from the web-based cameras are updated approximately every 15 minutes. Near real-time air quality and meteorological data are also provided hourly, if available - including ozone, particulate matter, visual range, & weather conditions.

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Webcams - Great Smoky Mountains National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Thanks to this partnership with 500 museums around the world, kids can get a glimpse of some of the most incredible collections available. Take a look at internationally-renowned sites like the British Museum in London, England, or the Ufizzi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Birthplaces of Music: A Virtual Field Trip is a fully interactive, virtual field trip through the world of music history. During this trip, you will visit the birthplaces of four of the most popular genres of music in the world today: classical, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and country. The birthplaces of these great forms of music are Vienna, Austria; New Orleans, Louisiana; Cleveland, Ohio; and Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia respectively. In short, this virtual field trip will provide you with a deeper understanding of the history of each form of music, its particular artists, and its specific sound. In the end, you will be able to see how each physical location played a part in shaping and forming its own special sound and culture in the world of music.

Instructions

During this field trip, you will use the interactive map, text, photos, audio, and video to explore the various birthplaces and genres of music. Additionally, the navigation menu on the top of each page will guide you from city to city on this journey. Use all of the interactive elements of each page to learn about a particular style of music. Furthermore, keep notes and a journal of your experiences and impressions of each birthplace, and answer the questions included on each page about a particular type of music. At the end of your field trip, use your journal, your questions, and your answers to write an essay about the history of these four musical genres.

Learner Description

This virtual field trip was created for high school students studying music history. Furthermore, it can also aid any individuals that wish to explore the genesis and characteristics of a particular style of music.

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Birthplaces of Music: A Virtual Field Trip is a fully interactive, virtual field trip through the world of music history. During this trip, you will visit the birthplaces of four of the most popular genres of music in the world today: classical, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and country.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art - #MetKids

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art - #MetKids

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum

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#MetKids is a digital feature made for, with, and by kids.

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We offer an array of educational resources for teachers to use in the classroom and the museum, including discussion questions for artworks, lesson plans, graphic organizers and worksheets, artist interviews, animations, and more.

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The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

Visit us on the National Mall between Third and Seventh Streets at Constitution Avenue, NW, we are open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and closed on December 25 and January 1. Admission is always free.

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National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States - Google Arts & Culture

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Top 10 Museums You Can Explore Right Now

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Top 10 Museums You Can Explore Right Now

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10 Museums You Can Explore Right Here, Right Now - Google Arts & Culture

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Enjoy performances from symphony orchestras across the country, with compositions new and old. Let's stay in and make it a night out at the symphony.

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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of artworks by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in the world. The permanent collection includes over 200 paintings by Vincent van Gogh, 500 drawings and more than 750 letters. The museum also presents exhibitions on various subjects from 19th-century art history.

For more information on Vincent van Gogh, please visit the section Vincent van Gogh's Life on the museum's website.

View the Van Gogh Museum YouTube Channel

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Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Google Arts & Culture

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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of artworks by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in the world. The permanent collection includes ...

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Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy - Google Arts & Culture

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The Uffizi was designed by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de’Medici to house the Granducal Magistratures of Tuscany. Over time, the top floor loggia b…

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The history of the museum, of its building is quite unusual. In the centre of Paris on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, the museum was installed in the former Orsay railway station, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. So the building itself could be seen as the first "work of art" in the Musee d'Orsay, which displays collections of art from the period 1848 to 1914.

Open from 9.30am to 6pm daily, except Mondays
Late night on Thursdays until 9.45pm
Last tickets sold at 5pm (9pm Thursdays), museum cleared at 5.30pm (9.15pm Thursdays)
Closed on Mondays, on 1 January, 1 May and 25 December

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National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

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National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

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Since opening its door in 1969, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea has lived through the history of Korean art. In the process, MMCA established itself as a representative institution of Korean modern art. The museum's four branches, including Gwacheon (opened in 1986), Deoksugung (opened in 1998), Seoul (opened in 2013), and Cheongju (expected to open in 2017), each in its own way, will continue to carry out MMCA's commitment to the art and culture of Korea by enriching the first-hand cultural experience of the viewing public. Boasting a superb natural landscape surrounding the site, MMCA Gwacheon will be devoted to various genres of visual arts such as architecture, design, and crafts. Located within a historical site, MMCA Deoksugung will showcase modern art from Korea and overseas. In the heart of the city, MMCA Seoul will focus on introducing global contemporary art. With its up-to-date art storage facility, MMCA Cheongju will fulfill the museum's primary duty to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and educate. Through its various locations, MMCA intends to function as a cultural platform that encourages communication and cross-pollination of contemporary art with other various disciplines of art, science, and humanities. MMCA's foremost mission is to offer a culturally rewarding experience to its visitors. We will remain committed to this mission for many generations to come.

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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California

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The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center features works of art dating from the eighth through the twenty-first century, showcased against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views of Los Angeles. The collection includes European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European, Asian, and American photographs.

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu features Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities presented in a setting modeled after a first-century Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Italy.

Get information about visiting the Getty Center and the Getty Villa at getty.edu/visit.

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The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center features works of art dating from the eighth through the twenty-first century, showcased against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views of Los Angeles. The collection includes European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European, Asian, and American photographs.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, New York, United States - Google Arts & Culture

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MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil - Google Arts & Culture

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The Museu de Arte de São Paulo is a private, nonprofit museum founded by Brazilian businessman Assis Chateaubriand, in 1947, as Brazil’s first modern museu…

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Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Mysia. It is located 26 kilometres from the modern coastline of the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus and northwest of the modern city of Bergama, Turkey.
During the Hellenistic period, it became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon in 281-133 BC under the Attalid dynasty, who transformed it into one of the major cultural centres of the Greek world. Many remains of its monuments can still be seen and especially the masterpiece of the Pergamon Altar. Pergamon was the northernmost of the seven churches of Asia cited in the New Testament Book of Revelation.
The city is centered on a 335-metre-high mesa of andesite which formed its acropolis. This mesa falls away sharply on the north, west, and east sides, but three natural terraces on the south side provide a route up to the top. To the west of the acropolis, the Selinus River flows through the city, while the Ketios river passes by to the east.
Pergamon was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014.

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The Metropolitan Opera is offering free nightly streaming videos of encore opera performances.

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Inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Daniel Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas tells the enthralling story of an opera diva who returns to her native South America to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle.

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Check out other National Parks by searching “virtual tours” at nps.gov.

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Ready to explore Yellowstone? You don't have to wait for your trip out here. You can start exploring now by virtually touring some of the main attractions around the park. Included with each map-based tour is additional information about visiting in person.

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See photos of the real Mars surface, and learn about the Mars Rover. They are updating this site, so it may be slightly limited for now.

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Step 01

Image mosaics are captured with the left and right Navcam and Mastcam.

Step 02

The two mosaics are then combined together to create a stereo match.

Step 03

Using the data from the stereo match scientists are able to extract 3D mapping data.

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Great Wall of China Travel Guide & Tours

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As China’s most famous attraction, the Great Wall of China is an essential stop on all China ... Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China…