Choose your favorite book and illustrate it in the style of an artist you saw during the virtual field trips above.Write your own book and illustrate it.

Ask permission to paint a mural on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk. Make sure you sign your name as the artist.

Ask family members to sit for portraits drawn by you.Share your designs with your family so they can share on social media to inspire others.

Tag your favorite illustrators and artists with your work. This extended time at home may help you find your new career.

Compare and contrast the work of artists that you view.

Create a passport book and design your own stamps to use in your book.Check out the Application for a Passport- Create one for your use.Get an old map and put it up on the wall to flag when you visit a new place.Eat something new from a country that is not your own.

RESOURCES:Paper Leis: Create your own paper leis and wear them during dinner. You will need colored paper (or paper that you color, scissors, and string. Cut out small squares and then fold into flowers. String your flowers and wear around your neck. (Don't use toilet paper....you might need that later)Snacks: Pineapple, juices, nuts, flavored popcorn, and here are some recipes! https://www.yummly.com/recipes?q=hawaiian%20snacks&ingredient-count.max=5&gs=1d3c79Make a paper "Bird of Paradise" flower.Aloha!

1. Where are you?
2. What country are you in?
3. What continent?
4. What do you see in the photo?
5. What happens here?
6. What questions do you have after seeing the photo?
7. What else would you like to see in the photo?
8. How far is the city from you? (keep track of the mileage)

1) A Yosemite bear once slapped at so many people, it was nicknamed “Swatter.”2) The Rockefeller family built a nuclear fallout shelter under the bowling alley at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Vermont.3) A South Dakota miner started calling Mount Rushmore by this name after a visiting New York attorney – Charles Rushmore – inquired about the name of the granite cliff. The name stuck and became official in 1930.4) In 1999, the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras National Seashore was moved about a half mile inland due to erosion.5) The NPS oversees two former World War II Japanese internment camp sites: Manzanar and Minidoka national historic sites.6) Biscayne National Park in Florida is 95 percent underwater, and it is known for its beautiful coral reefs.7) Zion National Park has a popular slot canyon whose tubular appearance earns it the moniker, “the Subway.”8) According to Kiowa Native American legend, Devils Tower National Monument was created when seven young girls chased by bears jumped on a low rock and prayed for help. The rock rose, lifting the girls out of reach. The bears then scratched deep gouges in the enormous pillar of rock.9) Everglades National Park is the only place in the world where American alligators and American crocodiles co-exist.10) Skeletons of pygmy mammoths — small mammoths that likely evolved from Columbian mammoths — are found only on California’s Channel Islands National Park.11) The layers of rock in the formations of Badlands National Park in South Dakota — sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires — reveal more than 75 million years of geologic history.12) Kalaupapa National Historical Park in Hawaii was first established in 1866 as a leper colony. A few former patients, who are no longer contagious, still live there today.13) Mesa Verde National Park includes ruins of 600 cliff dwellings and is the largest archaeological preserve in the U.S.14) Some trees in Redwoods National Park are approximately 2,000 years old!15) Speaking of old trees, bristlecone pines, found in western national parks such as Great Basin National Park in Nevada and Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah can be up to 5,000 years old.16) And if that’s not old enough for you, many trees in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park are about 218 million years old. Though they died long ago and are actually tree fossils.17) Biologists at Rocky Mountain National Park once found a deer skeleton 14 feet up in a tree, likely dragged up by a mountain lion.18) The 2,180-plus-mile Appalachian National Scenic Trail passes through 14 states.19) Saguaro National Park cacti live an average of 150 to 175 years, but can live for more than 200 years. The tallest ever measured was 78 feet tall, but typically they reach about 45 feet.20) A feud over ownership led to the creation of Wind Cave National Park. In 1899, the Department of the Interior found neither of the parties claiming ownership had a lawful claim to the land. President Roosevelt signed the bill establishing the park in 1903.

K-5 Activities from Toms of Maine
:https://www.tomsofmaine.com/good-matters/thinking-sustainably/how-does-a-solar-panel-work-activities-that-teach-kids-about-solar-energy

Middle School Activities from BP: https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/country-sites/en_us/united-states/home/documents/community/science-fair-book-bp-intermediate.pdf

High School Activities: https://www.cei.washington.edu/education/lessons/solar-tracker-arduino-project/

https://vimeo.com/391203375/8e08d7d7eb

Check out the actual July 1969 moon landing and then create your own reenactment. Share with us on FB!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlpstXNjImY

Activity: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1M-JLIlG-qOZnJfT2FFd3BkalU

• Old CD/DVD (ask permission)
• Straws
• Wooden Skewer
• Sharpened Pencil
• Balloon
• Old packing styrofoam
• Duct Tape

Coral Reef
:https://www.natureworkseverywhere.org/resources/secret-life-of-corals/

Temperate Rainforest:

https://www.natureworkseverywhere.org/resources/view-from-a-canoe/

Borneo Rainforest:

https://www.natureworkseverywhere.org/resources/borneo-rainforest-symphony/

China's Great Forest
:https://www.natureworkseverywhere.org/resources/chinas-great-forests/

Planets Around the Sun-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peG2Z5bkWqU

App for StarGazing: SkyView will allow you to see the night sky at all times of the day- even while inside. The FREE version is just perfect.https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skyview-lite/id413936865

Space Place Activities:https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/do/

STEMWorks Activities:http://stem-works.com/subjects/12-space/activities