Free Family Field Trips 

Do you Love Math?

Free online Math enrichment activities found below!

Also, check out these links:

https://www.stevens.edu/schaefer-school-engineering-science/departments/mathematical-sciences/outreach/stevens-mathematical-olympiad/how-prepare

We can still do Breakout!

Breakout EDU is allowing us to access all the sessions that have ended through the link below:

https://www.breakoutedu.com/liveepisodes

Check it out and have some fun!!!

Extra Enrichment:

FREE Live Breakout EDU:

Live Breakout EDU  is an OPTIONAL opportunity offered for free, every weekday at 2:00 pm. 

If you are looking for family fun, Breakout EDU encourages families to work together to solve the puzzles!

Have fun, and if you participate, let me know how you did!  Check out the link below

Need a change of scenery?

13 Virtual Train Rides From Around the World That You Can Experience Right Now (Video)

https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/bus-train/virtual-train-rides?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

How about Oceanography?

https://www.boem.gov/environment/virtual-archaeology-museum

For many people, the idea of strapping on diving gear, dropping off the side of a boat and descending to explore the secrets of the ocean first-hand is more fantasy than reality. Well, now the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has brought that fantasy closer to home — right into your home, in fact.

The BOEM (which manages submerged resources on the country's continental shelves) recently launched its own Virtual Archaeology Museum, an online resource that takes visitors under the waves to explore five sunken vessels — one just off the North Carolina coast and others in the Gulf of Mexico. The museum contains videos, virtual three-dimensional models and mosaic maps that allow users to traverse wrecks from the 19th and 20th centuries. The wrecks were originally discovered during gas and oil exploration, and through the use of remotely operated vehicles (they are too deep for divers to visit), BOEM scientists were able to survey the ships in minute detail to create the digital models.

Users can explore the decks and hulls, but also get a look at the cargo they were carrying. Littered across the floor of the Gulf are ceramics, demijohn wine jugs, animal hides, muskets, cannons and more. The BOEM believes that the museum serves several purposes — giving armchair wreck divers a close view, helping teachers and acting as a resource for scientists studying wrecks or the evolution of underwater habitats. 

"The Virtual Archaeology Museum will serve as a valuable teaching asset in both school and university classrooms," said BOEM Gulf of Mexico Region Director Mike Celata, via press release, "and the data collected will be a focal point for underwater researchers, its online presence allowing collaboration worldwide."

For all the detail now at everyone's fingertips, there is still very little known about the ships themselves. The Blake Ridge wreck off the Carolina coast is believed to have been a small merchant vessel traveling the Gulf Stream, a common trade route. Three of the ships — known as the Monterrey wrecks — are more mysterious. It's believed that all three went under at the same time because of how close together they ended up on the seafloor. The ship known as Monterrey A was equipped with a cannon mounted on a pivot carriage, suggesting it was a heavily armed privateer vessel. B and C, on the other hand, have the design of merchant vessels. Perhaps they were being escorted by the site A ship, or were captured by pirates aboard that ship before they all fell victim to a storm.

Interested in Cephalopods?  Check out these videos on the octopus:

Grades 6-8:  https://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/the-distributed-mind-octopus-neurology/

https://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/cephalopodweek-celebrating-all-things-tentacled-2/

K-8:  Octopuses 101 | Nat Geo Wild  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSyEZAm8nb8

10 Most Beautiful Octopus in the World   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyzFAMpqIT8

Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary - Cláudio L. Guerra  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLkKiVIBxXU

Octopuses are Ridiculously Smart  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOV-DlxTiFU

Octopuses are the World's Greatest Escape Artists  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSn7CJ0cNZ4

Octopus Escape Room Challenge  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=303S9kOxd0c

Octopus Intelligence Experiment Takes an Unexpected Turn  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKWssIQplw8

Octopus with a Big Dilemma - Behavior Observation  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBAClAx9Njc

Now run some experiments yourself:

• Can you write or draw with both hands simultaneously?

• What do you do when someone "fills your spot"?

• Fun April Fools, but do this only if you won't get into trouble!  Try changing something in your living room around such as the pillows on the couch.  Who notices?  Who changes it back?  

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden

The title is the link :)  "While the Cincinnati Zoo is closed and kids are home from school, let us help make your children’s hiatus from school fun and educational. Join us for a Home Safari Facebook Live each weekday at 3pm where we will highlight one of our amazing animals and include an activity you can do from home. Join us starting Monday, March 16 at 3pm for our first Home Safari- featuring Fiona!"

Please Note:  This is on Facebook.  Please do not access without parental permission.

https://www.facebook.com/cincinnatizoo/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARA_7ugyd8FeOoofNQNQw2cauAiU3I7WQf3x8oUyf4oOY6zecJAGp5HPLzrB1lkg5FFX0KWf0C2HGKx4