Learning Fun
Games
ABCya! K-6 Games
you can play at home.
Use your research knowledge to "escape " from these virtual rooms.
Breakout - Reference Edition
Virtual Field Trips
Social Studies - Visit Interesting Places
Science - Zoos, Space and more
Virtual Field Trip Activities
Choose any of these awesome activities to help you learn more about the place you visit.
Go on one of the Virtual Tours below and report on your visit. Click the link in the microphone above to find the Google Slide. Write your facts and tell what you saw, reporter style! Click and type on the lines to write down your facts. Remember to create a copy before you start to write!
Take a virtual tour and turn your trip into a song to tell about what you saw. Your imagination is the only limit to what you can create. Just click the singing smilie to get the directions and begin your song. Remember to create your own copy before you start to write!
Take a virtual zoo tours from the list below. Learn about characteristics that make them who they are. Then combine their characteristics to make a new animal. Click the animal picture above to get the directions. Remember to make a copy of the directions before you start to write!
Tools to use before and after your trip.
These resources are tools you can use with most field trips to help you show what you learned when you visited the sites.
Things to do at home and on the road with family.
Use these easy instructions to make a kite. This is a simple project to do with kids. All you need are two sticks, a bag, string and scissors and you have a kite!
View this link to get some wonderderful day trip ideas for summer learning experiences.
Learn about our galaxy and see if you can find out more about space. Find this book in in the epoint database.
Click the password link for login information.
The small. quiet town of Sleepy Hollow NY is the home of one of the most famous stories based in NYS, Its about 60 minutes from Albany and is a nice place to stroll with your family.
Click here for story and activities
Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor works to preserve and share our extraordinary heritage, to promote the Corridor as a world class tourism destination, and to foster vibrant communities connected by more than 500 miles of waterway.
Just a little over an hour from the elementary school, you can follow the Schoharie Creek to the limestone memorial to Rip Van Winkle. Envision the story as you travel through the beautiful Catskill Mountains.
See which planets are visible in the skys in our area. Maybe Mom and Dad will gaze with you.
*Ask your parents to try one of the free constellation apps from their phone store to help you find stars, planets and constilations!
This Rosen book is available on our database webpage. It has some great graphic organizers and state map to fill in as you go. Driving the Erie Canal is a great way to experience what it was like to travel the water highway. Makes a great local history day trip.
CK-12 Resources to help you discover our galaxy, the Milky Way, the location of our solar system within it, and the supermassive black hole at its center.
Join the NYS Museum for an on-line themed tour of the exhibit “Enterprising Waters: New York’s Erie Canal” an learn how travel on the canal helped NY grow.
Learn more about the pine bush and its plants and animals. Go for a visit with your family and enjoy the preservation center and trails.
Learn more about wildflowers on our National Forests and Grasslands, and also about pollinators, gardening, invasive plant species, and how plants are used for medicines in the past.
Visit 5 of America's most beautiful parks online. Make sure you put on your headphones if you have them!
Get a 360 degree view of the US side of the falls.