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Check out how the penguins are doing at Jenkinson’s Aquarium in Point Pleasant by viewing the livestream on their website.

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It's great family fun at Jenkinson's Boardwalk & Aquarium. Ride, eat, splash, play, fireworks, movies, concerts and much more!

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Educational video lessons on everything from space and science to mythology and literature.

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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. This series is beginning with 5th grade science, so we’ll be delving into Earth Science, Physical Science, Biology, Geography, Engineering, and Astronomy. Have a look at our playlists on each subject!

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Check out one of the zoo’s various live webcams, from koalas to tigers.

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Live wildlife cameras at the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

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he SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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Scroll to the very bottom of the ocean with the help of this interactive visual about the deep sea.

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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.

But even in those extreme conditions specialized life finds a way to survive.

Yeti Crabs live on hydrothermal vents.

This is the average depth of the ocean.

But in some places it goes deeper.

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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An interactive page that lets you scroll down the ocean. Visit the great depths of the Mariana Trench and discover all the sea creatures hidden beneath.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a dedicated kids section on its website, complete with videos, an interactive map, and a “time machine” that brings the viewer to different art pieces in the museum.

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

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Explore The Met using the interactive #MetKids map.

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Weekly PBS videos, hosted by curator Sarah Urist Green, that explore art and history.

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The Art Assignment

The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Green. We take you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete. For more, subscribe to The Art Assignment on YouTube: youtube.com/theartassignment.

PBS Digital Studios is a network that connects, inspires, and cultivates the next generation of public media enthusiasts. We create bold, thought-provoking programs that illuminate the world around us. We bridge the gap between new and existing audiences at PBS by meeting people where they are-online and across different streaming platforms.

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The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Green. We take you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete. For more, subscribe to The Art Assignment on YouTube: youtube.com/theartassignment.

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Explore different works of art, famous places, and more in Google’s interactive space 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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Take a look at the bald eagles at Duke Farms in Hillsborough.

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In 2008, Duke Farms installed a webcam on a tree adjacent to a Bald Eagle nest to provide a live look at the daily lives of the eagles. In partnership with The Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, lesson plans were created to facilitate place-based educational opportunities for students. Between the general public and classrooms up and down the east coast, the Duke Farms Eagle Cam has many fans – over 10 million viewers and growing!

It is important to remember that although we have access to witness their behaviors, the eagles are still wild animals. If you find the nesting behaviors of the eagle chicks bothersome or disturbing, do not watch the Eagle Cam.

April Update:

The nest will be visited on April 11, 2022, by Fish & Wildlife ENSP biologists who will band, measure, and take blood samples from the young bird. The camera live stream will be turned off during the banding.

March Update:

Unfortunately, the second chick doesn’t look like it's doing well and didn’t get any food yesterday. It appears he has health problems that we cannot know about. Usually, a smaller chick will do fine as long as there's plenty of food like there is in this nest. So, we suspect there is an underlying problem the chick was born with. It is difficult to watch and while we still hold out a small hope that this little one rallies, the reality doesn’t look good. We can be glad that this pair still has one healthy chick. This type of situation goes on in eagles’ nests all over the state, we just don’t witness it up close and we will not intervene.

Bald eagles are a state endangered species and the jurisdiction falls under the State of NJ, not private landowners like Duke Farms.
While we are supportive advocates of wildlife conservation, we leave the management decisions to the State.

The eagle’s comeback in NJ from a single nesting pair in 1980 to more than 200 pairs today is a success story and a tribute to habitat and conservation work by the Division of Fish and Wildlife. Watching nature on a camera is a raw experience but shows the full and often hard circle of life in nature. While seeing a non-flourishing chick is hard for us as viewers, it is important to understand that overall, the species population is rising.  Intervening in a nest situation has the potential to do more harm than good because it would disturb the adults, disrupt normal behaviors, and could risk the health and safety of this eagle family. As such, the State will not intervene with what are deemed natural solutions in the nest.

We appreciate everyone’s concern and understanding. Thank you.
-Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ, NJ DEP Endangered & Nongame Species Program, Duke Farms

2022 Season
Egg 1 laid: January 17, 2022
Egg 2 laid: January 20, 2022

Egg 1 hatched: February 24, 2022
Egg 2 hatched: February 28, 2022

Eagle Kits for the Classroom

We've compiled all of our eagle-themed lessons, several storybooks and field guides, life-sized replicas of an eagle egg, skull, talon, a life-sized wingspan cutout, vinyl eagle photo, and even an eagle costume! Eagle Kits are free for educators to borrow for up to three weeks at a time.

Click here to learn more about Eagle Kits and reservations.

Check out our Virtual Eagle Kit for Distance Learning lessons.

The Duke Farms Bald Eagles Book by Jim Wright

Have you seen Duke Farms' Bald Eagle free online e-book yet? If not, what are you waiting for? You can view it on any electronic device with Internet access.
(The e-book was done with the help of the good folks at Conserve Wildlife Foundation.)

Download the e-book PDF here.

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The zoo employees will highlight different animals at 3 p.m. each day on their Facebook page.

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The National Zoo has live webcams of its naked mole rats, giant pandas, and more.

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The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute plays a leading role in the Smithsonian’s global efforts to save wildlife species from extinction and train future generations of conservationists.

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The website’s most popular science lessons are available for free.

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Open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science.

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Mystery Science offers open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. The hook, visuals, and activity have all been prepared for you. Less prep, more learning.

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Free Fairytale and poem stories

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Storyberries - Fairy Tales, Bedtime Stories and Kids Poems!

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Read the BIGGEST collection of free fairy tales, bedtime stories, nursery rhymes, poems for kids, and short stories for kids. Free kids books and baby books online!

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NASA has hundreds of photos and videos of planets, space, and more, available to view for free.

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NASA encourages you to visit NASA Kids' Club and use its games and activities to inspire the next generation.

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The library is live streaming its virtual storytime on certain Wednesdays at 11 a.m. Check their Facebook page for more information.

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Check out eBooks and eAudiobooks, or stream movies and music. There are even magazines! We've made it easy to access our digital collection from your phone or tablet.

Our research databases, available both in-library and remotely, cover a broad spectrum ranging from history and politics to literature and culture. Whether you are looking for career services, business, and consumer information, or researching a topic, we have you covered!

Looking to brush up on your language skills? We got resources for that, too! We offer both Mango Languages and Rosetta Stone ( click here for Rosetta Stone mobile app instructions) to our community members looking to learn a new language in a fun and engaging way.

We also loan out pre-loaded Amazon Kindles for reading on the go. Click here for more information, including a list of available eBooks.

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The library has a video story hour on weekdays at different times, so check their Facebook page for upcoming times.

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Videos of children’s books are read aloud, along with musical performances.

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KidLit TV - Explore the world of children’s literature.

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Welcome to the award-winning KidLit TV! Go on an adventure in a world of stories with us! We’re a trusted resource for parents, teachers, and librarians. KidLit TV is a winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award and one of the American Library Association’s Great Websites For Kids. KLTV is available in over 700,000 schools worldwide via our website and video distribution partners. Meet our diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award-winning filmmakers working together to create fun new ways to reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

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The library is hosting a children’s music event (ages birth to 5 years old) every day at 10:30 a.m. on Facebook Live.

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Kids can create their own interactive stories and games.

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With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games.

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The company put many of their educational lessons and resources online for free, including online books and activities.

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Scholastic | Books for Kids | Learning Resources

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Find the best kids books, learning resources, and educational solutions at Scholastic, promoting literacy development for over 100 years.

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The website is free to all visitors through the end of June. The digital editions of the magazines are all free to the public for the next few months.

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Parents Choice Gold Award Winner 11 Years Running. Available in both Print & Digital. Connecting Kids & Nature. Holidays gifts for children.

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Recipes and activities are available for kids for free.

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

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Have fun cooking with your kid! See kid-friendly recipes, activities, subscription boxes, podcasts, books & more from America’s Test Kitchen Kids.

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Games for kids from popular TV shows, including Curious George, Sesame Street, and more.

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Educational games and videos from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Wild Kratts and other PBS KIDS shows!

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Free movement and mindfulness videos created for kids. America’s

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Activities and videos for kids on topics in science and math, including daily science experiments.

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Club SciKidz/TechScientific Maryland | Summer Camps in Maryland

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Club SciKidz / Tech Scientific offers the finest science and technology summer camps in Maryland for kids and teens. We also offer after-school science clubs, Robotics, science assemblies, in-school field trips, teacher workshops, science birthday parties and scouting badge activities.

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Code.org® is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools

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Anyone can learn computer science. Make games, apps and art with code.

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A free computer science curriculum that makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn.

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CS First has been turned down - CS First Help

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Google’s CS First was turned down on June 30, 2025. When CS First launched in 2013, the intention was to provide much-needed resources for K-12 computer science education. The landscape has since evol

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Improve your typing skills while competing in fast-paced races with up to 5 typers from around the world. Compete against your friends, earn new cars, track your scores, and so much more... all for free!

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Jungle Junior is an interactive typing game for kids. Through the course of about 200 friendly, colorful videos and interactive lessons, kids will learn all about the alphabet and practice sight words, word families, and simple sentences.

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The highest quality free courses through the most awesome learning platform.

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Easy to follow touch typing tutorials are offered in the form of interactive games, to attract the kid’s interest and boost their efforts through different Levels of learning.

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Kids Typing Games are a fun and interactive way to improve your typing skills. Our games combine entertainment with practical learning, allowing users to increase their typing speed and accuracy while having fun. Discover our Kids Typing Games and start improving your skills today.

Touch Typing

Today, almost all over the world, the age of computers and technology prevails. Therefore, in our digital world, touch typing has become a necessity. Many people including employees, businessmen, students, teachers, scientists, are all using computers on a daily basis. Everything has started to revolve around computers, even communication. This is why touch typing becomes imperative for everybody - it allows you to type faster, easier, and without any efforts

Benefits Of Typing

Touch typing is the act of typing quickly without using your sight to determine the keys. It also refers to using all ten fingers without removing them from the keyboard, but rather sliding them. This makes for efficient and fast typing skills and many offices even require employees to have touch typing skills. Whereas people who cannot touch type write up to 35 words per minute, people who can touch type can type up to 65 words per minute. In this time saving, efficient world, it is easy to see why touch typing is so valued.

Typing Games

Dance Mat Typing is an interactive game that easily takes you through the introduction, tutorials, and reviews of how to touch type. It has different levels and different stages so users basically learn how to touch type in a step-by-step manner, which makes it very easy for them to get the hang of touch typing. The game uses colorful cartoons that interact and communicate with the players, easily guiding them through all the stages of touch typing. The game teaches you how to use the letter keys, basic punctuation marks, and even how to capitalize words, all the while maintaining your touch typing.

Typing Benefits

Touch typing also has health benefits - it allows typists to keep their spine straight, the wrists easy, and their overall posture relaxed and easy, reducing the risk of health problems that come when you hunch over your keyboard for too long. There is a vast use of touch typing in today's world and time and no one goes without having to use computers so people of all ages and occupations can benefit from playing typing games. It is never too early or too late to learn how to touch type and this is one skill that will always be of use for you.

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Virtual field trips (VFTs), guest speakers, and collaborations to supplement curriculum.

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Flatten Your Class

Are you looking to tear down your classroom walls? Well, we're here to help.

We provide virtual field trips (VFTs), guest speakers, and collaborations to supplement your curriculum. We strive to make our programs interactive, unique, and an experience that will get your students excited about global education. Our goal is to help your create a space for your students to thrive as global citizens.

Be social, be local, be global; learn around the wold!

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Google Arts & Culture teamed up with over 500 museums/galleries around the world to bring everyone virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world.

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MSN | Outlook, Office, Skype, Bing, Breaking News, and Latest Videos

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Your customizable and curated collection of the best in trusted news plus coverage of sports, entertainment, money, weather, travel, health and lifestyle, combined with Outlook/Hotmail, Facebook, Twitter, Bing, Skype and more.

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Authentic content from the world's most trusted providers and turn it into learning materials that are classroom-ready.

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Newsela | Content and assessment platform

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.

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New episodes will be live each weekday at 1 p.m. and will remain online to be streamed afterwards.

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Author and Illustrator Mo Willems has been awarded the American Library Association’s Caldecott Honor three times for his picture book illustration. Additionally, he is the recipient of two Theodor Geisel Medals and five Geisel Honors for his Elephant & Piggie early readers. Mo began his career as a writer and animator on Sesame Street, where he garnered six Emmy Awards. His work has been exhibited around the world, including solo retrospectives at the High Museum in Atlanta and the New-York Historical Society. Over the last decade, Mo has written three musical theater works based on his books, two of which were commissioned and toured by the Kennedy Center.

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Go Noodle gets kids up and moving to fun and engaging content and games.

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Each weekday, Cape May Zoo holds Zoo School at 11:30 am. At the end of each episode, they have a challenge YOU can do at home!

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Day 28 - Deer, Llama, Alpaca Key Terms:
- solid bony structure that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family, usually found on males. Typically shed and grown back annually.

Bucks - male deer.

- is a partial loss of pigmentation in an animal causing white, pale, or patchy colors.
- a person or animal having a genetic absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes.

Melanin - Dark brown to black pigment in hair, skin and eyes.
- irregular patches of two colors.
- new world camelids consist of llama, alpaca, vicuna and guanaco.

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Day 28 - Deer, Llama, Alpaca Key Terms: - solid bony structure that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family, usually found on males. Typically shed and grown back annually. Bucks - male deer. - is a partial loss of pigmentation in an animal causing white, pale, or patchy colors.

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Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants aims to inspire the next generation of scientists, explorers and conservationists. We do this by bringing science, exploration, adventure and conservation into classrooms through virtual speakers and field trips with leading experts across the globe.

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We level the playing field for classrooms by keeping everything 100% free so any classroom, anywhere, anytime can take part!

There are three ways your classroom can join the adventure:
1) Nervous about getting started? Any number of classrooms can watch the events live. You can watch the live stream via the hangout listings or on our YouTube page. Events will start automatically when the host starts the live stream, it's that easy!!!
2) Ready for the next level? Grab a camera spot so your class can appear on screen and interact with the speaker. We generally have 4-6 classrooms joining in this way each hangout. Simply fill out the camera spot request form at the bottom of the monthly event listings page and submit. We'll contact you to confirm your spot.
3) Every hangout is recorded directly to YouTube, we're building a library of past events that can be viewed byt classrooms anytime!

Paddling Shipwrecks: Adventures in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary

July 27, 2020

2:00 pm EST

Teachers, Join Our Newsletter List!

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The essence of the Google Lit Trips project is the use of Google Earth to create immersive 3D literary field trips where students virtually become traveling companions with characters in stories commonly taught in grades kindergarten through high school.

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Google Lit Trips, educational nonprofit, award winning, educational technology, place based storytelling, reading about reading

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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 tour is additional information about visiting in person.

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Virtual Tours - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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Lets you explore a 3D replica of the martian surface as it was recorded by the Curiosity Rover

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

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Virtual Reality

Take yourself on a real life expedition of Canadian farms and food processing facilities from the comfort of your home. It's a fun, simple and affordable way to educate and engage audiences in workshops, trade shows, classrooms and the like. This can be done through Google Cardboard or Gear VR. Grab one and get started!

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Virtual Reality Take yourself on a real life expedition of Canadian farms and food processing facilities from the comfort of your home. It's a fun, simple and affordable way to educate and engage audiences in workshops, trade shows, classrooms and the like. This can be done through Google Cardboard or Gear VR.

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The China Guide is a Beijing-based travel agency that customizes private tours, educational student tours, and incentive trips in China.

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As China's most famous attraction, the Great Wall of China is an essential stop on all China tours. Commonly considered a wonder of the world, the Great Wall boasts a history of over 2,000 years and stretches more than 3,000 miles across several provinces of northern China, making it one of the most impressive ancient structures on the planet.

Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China

Best Sections to Visit

Beijing is usually considered the main gateway to the Great Wall, since there are several world-famous sections of the Wall in the suburbs of Beijing, including Badaling, Mutianyu, Jinshanling, Juyongguan, Gubeikou, and Jiankou. These sections were built during the Ming dynasty between the 14th and 17th centuries and have been well preserved.

Of all the sections of the Great Wall near Beijing, Badaling is the most famous one. As a result, Badaling is the destination of choice for many large tour groups and is often very crowded. The nearby Juyongguan Great Wall features one of the three great mountain passes of the Great Wall but is almost as crowded as Badaling.

Mutianyu Great Wall is just as close as Badaling and offers wonderful views of the Great Wall and the surrounding hills with far fewer tourists. This section of the Wall also features a thrilling toboggan run that you can ride from the top of the Wall down to the bottom of the hill.

Due to their proximity, Badaling, Juyongguan, and Mutianyu are all doable as a half-day trip from downtown Beijing. We usually recommend Mutianyu over Badaling or Juyongguan, since the massive crowds at the latter two sections can ruin one's experience of this impressive structure.

Further away from Beijing, Jinshanling Great Wall is about 150 km northeast of downtown and it usually takes about two and a half hours to drive there. Despite the longer drive, Jinshanling is among the most stunning sections of the Great Wall. If your itinerary allows for one full day seeing the Great Wall, then we highly recommend a tour to Jinshanling.

Gubeikou and Jiankou can also be visited within a day tour from Beijing. Both sections have not been restored since they were first built in the Ming Dynasty, making them ideal choices for those who want to hike and experience the wild Great Wall. Do be aware that the Jiankou section features very steep and dangerous climbs and is only suitable for experienced hikers.

There are also some other famous sections of the Great Wall within or outside Beijing, such as Huanghuacheng, Simatai, and Shanhaiguan, but we only recommend these if you are visiting the Great Wall for a second time or planning a multi-day, in-depth Great Wall tour.

Great Wall Hiking and Camping

Due to its original purpose as a military defense, almost all sections of Great Wall were built on mountain ranges and thus involve some challenging climbs and uneven stairs, including the well-restored sections. If you are visiting a restored section but hike to the end of the renovated part, you will be able to see the unrestored part of the Great Wall.

For most visitors, Mutianyu and Jinshanling offer good, medium difficulty hikes, while still being very safe. For those looking for a serious hike along wild, unrestored portions of the Wall, we suggest the Jinshanling to Jinshanling East, or Gubeikou to Jinshanling routes. All these routes boast both unrestored and picturesque renovated sections of the Wall. However, please be aware that hikes along wild, unrestored parts of the Great Wall involve many steep climbs and loose bricks, and can be very dangerous in some places. (People can no longer hike through from Jinshanling to Simatai since the route was closed years ago.)

Camping on the Great Wall is usually banned, especially on the renovated sections. If you want to spend a night sleeping on the Great Wall, we can take you to a watchtower on the Gubeikou section of the Great Wall to experience the life of an ancient soldier and catch amazing sunrise/sunset views over the Wall.

Best Time to Visit

For all sections of the Great Wall near Beijing, the spring months (April to June) offer temperate weather and are great for climbing. In late April to early May, many trees begin to blossom, making this a particularly beautiful period to visit the Wall. Fall is also a nice time to visit, as temperatures are usually comfortable. October to early November are particularly picturesque, as the tree leaves on the mountains begin to change color. The winter months, from December to February, are cold and can be windy, but there are usually far fewer tourists on the Wall during these months. July and August are hot and humid, and thus not the best for long hikes. In addition, it's best to avoid hiking on the Wall after rain or snowfall because some parts can get very slippery.

You should also avoid visiting the popular sections, such as Badaling, Juyongguan, and Mutianyu, around National Day (the first week in October) and Spring Festival. August is also a busy time for the Badaling and Juyongguan sections, since students are on summer vacation and many families travel to these famous sections with their kids before the new school year starts. Learn more about how to avoid the crowds when traveling in China.

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When kids are acting out parents often feel powerless. You may have tried different techniques for discipline, but without much success. In fact, trying too many different strategies for managing disruptive behavior can sometimes be part of the problem, since kids respond better to firm boundaries that are consistently reinforced. But if you haven't seen progress before now, don't feel discouraged, because parents have more power than they may realize when kids are being oppositional. By using strategies that are informed by child psychologists who specialize in behavior management, you can begin to improve kids' behavior and even improve the parent-child relationship.

This section begins with some general rules of thumb recommended by behavior experts as effective strategies for responding to problem behavior in the moment. Next it examines problem behavior in greater depth, which can be helpful for parents who want to understand more about why kids act out, and how to tackle specific behaviors you would like to change.

Tips for responding in the moment:

Don't give in. Resist the temptation to end your child's tantrum by giving her what she wants when she explodes. Giving in teaches her that tantrums work.

Remain calm. Harsh or emotional responses tend to escalate a child's aggression, be it verbal or physical. By staying calm, you're also modeling for your child the type of behavior you want to see in him.

Ignore negative behavior and praise positive behavior. Ignore minor misbehavior, since even negative attention like reprimanding or telling the child to stop can reinforce her actions. Instead, provide lots of labeled praise on behaviors you want to encourage. (Don't just say "good job," say "good job calming down.")

Use consistent consequences. Your child needs to know what the consequences are for negative behaviors, such as time outs, as well as rewards for positive behaviors, like time on the iPad. And you need to show him you follow through with these consequences every time.

Specific (so expectations are clear to everyone in the family)

Observable

Measurable (so everyone can agree whether or not the behavior happened)

Wait to talk until the meltdown is over. Don't try to reason with a child who is upset. You want to encourage a child to practice negotiating when she's not blowing up (and you're not either).

Targeting specific behaviors

When you are trying to manage disruptive behavior, it is helpful to identify specific behaviors that you are trying to change (or encourage). It's true that when families are feeling overwhelmed sometimes it can seem like every interaction is a struggle. However, identifying specific behaviors is an important first step to effective discipline. Taking behaviors one at a time allows you to be more focused, gain a better understanding of why the behavior is happening, and have a greater sense of control. Of course, there may be multiple behaviors that you would like to change, but evaluating them one by one is important.
Potential triggers to avoid
Target behaviors should be:

Assuming your expectations are understood: Kids may not know what is expected of them - even if you assume they do. Demands change from situation to situation and when children are unsure of what they are supposed to be doing, they're more likely to misbehave.

Calling things out from a distance: Tell your children important instructions when you are face-to-face. Directions that are yelled from a distance are less likely to be remembered and understood.

Transitioning without warning: Transitions can be hard for kids, especially if they are in the middle of doing something they enjoy. When kids are given a warning and have a chance to find a good stopping place, transitions can be less fraught.

Asking rapid-fire questions, or giving a series of instructions: Delivering a series of questions or instructions limits the likelihood that children will hear, answer questions, remember the tasks, and do what they've been instructed to do.

Potential triggers to embrace
An example of a poorly defined behavior is "acting out" or "being good." A well-defined behavior would be running around the room (bad) or starting homework on time (good).

Adjusting the environment: Try to manage environmental and emotional factors that can make it much more difficult for children to rein in their behavior. Things to consider: hunger, fatigue, anxiety or distractions. When it's homework time, for instance, remove distractions like screens and toys, provide snacks, establish an organized place for kids to work and make sure to schedule some breaks.

Making expectations clear: You and your child should be clear on what's expected. Even if he "should" know what is expected, clarifying expectations at the outset of a task helps head off misunderstandings down the line.

Providing countdowns for transitions: Whenever possible, prepare children for an upcoming transition. For example, give her a 10-minute warning when it is time to come to dinner or start homework. Then follow up when there are 2 minutes left. Just as important as issuing the countdown is actually making the transition at the stated time.

Letting kids have a choice: As kids grow up, it's important they have a say in their own scheduling. Giving a structured choice - "Do you want to take a shower after dinner or before?" - can help them feel empowered and encourage them to become more self-regulating.

Before the behavior happens

When you are thinking about a particular behavior that you are targeting, it is important to think about what generally happens before that behavior and may be triggering it. This helps parents understand not only why a child might be acting out but also how anticipating certain triggers might help prevent those behaviors from happening. Parents can also examine the triggers that make positive behaviors (like obeying a command on the first time) more likely.

These things often lead to misbehavior.
Consequences that aren't effective
These are things that can bolster good behavior.

Giving negative attention: It seems counterintuitive, but consequences that seem negative to us (like raising your voice or spanking) can sometimes reinforce the very behavior we are trying to prevent. That's because children value attention from the important adults in their life so much that any attention - positive or negative - is better than none. That's why negative attention can actually increase bad behavior over time. Responding to behaviors with criticism or yelling can also adversely affect children's self-esteem.

Delayed consequences: Immediate consequences are the most effective. Children are less likely to link their behavior to a consequence if there is a lot of time between the two, which means delayed consequences are less likely to actually change a child's behavior.

Disproportionate consequences: Parents can sometimes become so frustrated that they overreact when giving consequences, which is understandable. However, a huge consequence can be demoralizing for children, and they may give up even trying to behave.

Consequences that are accommodating: When a child is slow to doing something you want him to do, like picking up his toys, many parents will become frustrated and just do it themselves. While this reaction is also understandable, it also increases the likelihood that he will dawdle again next time.

Consequences that are effective
After the behavior happens

Positive attention for positive behaviors:Praising children when you "catch them being good" makes them more likely to repeat that good behavior in the future. Positive attention is also a good thing for the parent-child relationship, improves a child's self-esteem, and feels good for everyone involved.

Ignoring actively: This consequence might seem counterintuitive, but child behavior experts often teach "active ignoring" as an effective behavior management strategy. To perform active ignoring, deliberately withdraw your attention when a child starts to misbehave. As children learn that acting out doesn't get them your attention, they will begin to do it less. An important component of active ignoring is to immediately give a child positive attention as soon as he exhibits behavior you do want to see, like sitting calmly. Of course, this consequence should be used only for minor misbehavior - active ignoring is not appropriate when a child is being aggressive or doing something dangerous.

Reward menus:Rewards are a tangible way to give children positive feedback for desired behaviors. Rewards are most motivating when children can choose from a variety of desirable things: extra time on the iPad, a special treat, etc. Rewards should be linked to specific behaviors and always delivered consistently.

Time outs: Time outs are one of the most effective consequences parents can use, but also one of the hardest to do correctly. The next section in the guide gives parents tips on how to have a successful time out.

Considering what happens after a targeted behavior is important because consequences can affect the likelihood of a behavior recurring. That is true for consequences that are positive (like getting an extra 10 minutes of screen time) or negative (like getting a time out).
Set a specific behavior that you want to target
Some consequences are more effective than others. Ideally consequences create structure and help kids understand the difference between acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. However, consequences can also do more harm than good when they are sending the wrong message. Understanding how to use smart and consistent consequences makes all the difference.
Examine triggers
These types of consequences are common, but they generally don't have the desired effect.

Consequences that are more effective begin with generous attention to the behaviors you want to encourage.
Examine consequences
Example: Targeting a specific behavior

Stop jumping on the couch

Your daughter often starts jumping on the couch when you go to change the baby's diaper or give him a bath.

Possible solution: Come up with ways your daughter can "help" you do these tasks. Her assistance may slow you down slightly, but it gives her something positive to do - and it makes her feel like she's still getting your attention. When she helps out, praise her for being such a good big sister.

Ineffective consequence: Yelling, "I've told you this a million times, Katie, you can't jump on the couch! Why do you keep doing it?!"

Effective consequence: Send to time out immediately.

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