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VI supports
ObjectiveEd's digital curriculum enables students with visual impairments to practice the skills you teach them, in educational games on the iPad, between your sessions with them. Our distance-learning system allows you to remotely adjust and assign skills for each student to practice, and to monitor their progress on a web-dashboard.
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Helping Families during DL
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Supporting students during DL
Help your family maintain a healthy mind and body!
Calm.com has handpicked some of their favorite meditations, sleep stories, movement exercises, journals, and music. Click here
Family Activities (Virtual Tours and field trips)
Over 30 Virtual Field Trips with Links. Safe Travels!
San Diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour!
Yellowstone National Park Virtual Field Trip
Mud Volcano, Mammoth Hot Springs, and so much more. Tour Yellowstone National Park!
MARS!!!
Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover. They are updating from WEBVR to WEBXR now, but 360 Mode offers a digital view!
Animal Cameras
Live Cams at the San Diego Zoo, Monterey Bay Aquarium live cams, Panda Cam at Zoo Atlanta, 6 Animal Cams at Houston Zoo
Georgia Aquarium has Jellyfish, Beluga Whales, and more
Virtual Farm Tour
This Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs.
U.S. Space and Rocket Museum in Huntsville, AL
See the Saturn 5 Rocket on YouTube and more on this tour thanks to a real father/son outing.
Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips
A few of the field trip topics include Polar Bears and the Tundra, Social Emotional Skills, STEM, Manufacturing
The Louvre
Travel to Paris, France to see amazing works of art at The Louvre with this virtual field trip.
The Great Wall of China
This Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China is beautiful and makes history come to life.
Boston Children’s Museum
Walk through the Boston Children’s Museum thanks to Google Maps! This virtual tour allows kids to explore 3 floors of fun.
Have fun learning at home!
