Google Arts & Culture teamed up with over 500 museums and galleries around the world to bring anyone and everyone virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world…Google Arts & Culture’s collection includes the British Museum in London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Guggenheim in New York City, and literally hundreds of more places where you can gain knowledge about art, history, and science. Here is a story from Travel and Leisure that has a good summary and links to some of the best.

Virtual Field Trips

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.

Free Educational Resources

This web page, Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions due to School Closings,  is being constantly maintained with new resources. http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/

Devotional Materials

As a family, you may already follow a spiritual discipline of praying at meals or before bedtime, regularly reading from the Bible together, or engaging in acts of kindness toward others. If so, build upon what is offered here; if not, this can give you a great way to begin. The Way of Love is a resource from the Episcopal Church that helps you focus on seven steps of faithful living:

• Turn: Pause, listen, and choose to follow Jesus
• Learn: Reflect on scripture each day, especially on Jesus’ life and teachings
• Pray: Dwell intentionally with God each day
• Worship: Gather in community weekly to thank, praise, and dwell with God
• Bless: Share faith and unselfishly give and serve
• Go: Cross boundaries, listen deeply, and live like Jesus
• Rest: Receive the gift of God’s grace, peace, and restoration

Download this free pdf, The Way of Love for Families, which has great suggestions for Bible readings to do at home with children, examples of prayers for morning, mealtime, and bedtime, and hundreds of specific suggestions for activities in each of the seven steps above.

We will be offering Zoom calls for formation and activities, stay tuned for details. Also, visit this All Saints post for a list of other good devotional materials. Please call the church office if we can help, or email us here.

Remember, As followers of Jesus, we are called to model Christ’s loving, non-anxious presence in and for the world, even in the midst of chaos and uncertainty.

Blessings and peace,
Keith+