Additional Activities for Children at Home

Tune into Taronga TV For Your Daily Dose of Animal Antics (Ref:070/20)

For the first time in Taronga’s 103-year-history, Taronga Zoo Sydney and Taronga Western Plains Zoo Dubbo will be going virtual, with the launch Taronga TV having occurred on 1 April 2020.

Tune in daily for a packed schedule of fascinating keepers talks and shows, 24/7 live animal streams, amusing animal antics and behind-the-scenes sneak peeks at what the animals (and the keepers) actually get up to when the zoo is closed.

For more information please https://taronga.org.au/taronga-tv

ONLINE RESOURCES

✅Virtual Field Trips- https://docs.google.com/…/1SvIdgTx9djKO6SjyvPDs…/mobilebasic

✅Visit museums. Google Arts and Culture partnered with over 2,500 museums and galleries around the world to offer virtual tours of their spaces. Some of the options include New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum- https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en

The Louvre, based in Paris, is also offering its own virtual tour online for free- https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne

✅The San Diego Zoo has a live webcam for animals- https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-cams

✅ Melbourne Zoo also has live webcams https://www.zoo.org.au/animal-house

✅Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover- https://accessmars.withgoogle.com/

✅The British Museum- located in the heart of London allows virtual visitors to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies- https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/

✅Geography with National Geographic- https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

✅Children’s books read by famous- people https://www.storylineonline.net/

✅Crafts and activities- https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/

✅Fun games, recipes, crafts, activities- https://www.highlightskids.com/

✅Online history classes for all ages preteen through adults- https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive

✅Educational games K-12- https://www.breakoutedu.com/funathome

✅35,000 pages of online content on the different cultures and countries of the world- https://www.countryreports.org/

✅Illustrated recipes designed to help kids age 2-12 cook. Recipes encourage culinary skills, literacy, maths and science- 

News from Life Education NSWhttps://www.lifeeducation.org.au/news/covid-19-the-need-for-health-education - 

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