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Winter Break Enrichment Activites for Students

To keep our students active over the break, the District has worked with partners to provide exciting educational challenges and opportunities for our K-12 students. Challenges range from iReady Math and Reading to high school writing challenges to earn cash prizes. For more information, click here.

In addition, over mid-winter break, have your student participate in K-12 S.T.E.A.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) enrichment virtual field trips and activities to stay engaged. These activities include educational and fun activities that incorporate math, science, art, and design. See below.

 

Grades

Resource

Description

Format

K-4

Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Cams

From the Monterey Bay Aquarium: “Be delighted by the antics of our sea otters or mellow out to the hypnotic drifting of our jellies. Experience the wonder of the ocean no matter where you are.”

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K-5

San Diego Zoo Kids

Experience the sights and sounds of the San Diego Zoo through educational videos, activities and games about the animals at the zoo.

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3-6

Slime In Space

What happens when you send slime to space? We are about to find out! This 15-minute Nickelodeon “Slime in Space” virtual field trip answers that question.

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5 - 8

 

The Nature Conservancy Field Trips

The Nature Conservancy allows students to travel the world and explore natural environments. Featured virtual field trips include Climate Change, The Secret Life of Corals and Borneo: The Symphony of the Rainforest.

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6-12

 

Great Lakes Now Virtual Field Trips

Great Lakes Now brings along students on virtual field trips to learn more about the importance of coastal wetlands, the danger of algal blooms and a deep dive into lake sturgeon.

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7-12

DIA Art Conservation Virtual Field Trip

Learn the science of art conservation in this 23-minute virtual field trip.  Go behind-the-scenes at the Detroit Institute of Arts with Detroit Public TV Virtual Field Trip and go where no one has ever gone before!

What lies behind the surface of a 400-year-old sculpture? Is what you see on a painting real, or did the artist mean to draw something totally different? And, what about Infrared Reflectography—what does that exactly do?

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