Wednesday, July 8, 2020
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What is in store for you this week? What were some considerations we made when choosing which sites to use? |
Read All About It!
Visit the Williamsburg Regional Library eBooks to access these two young adult fiction books:
Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath by Helene Boudreau The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall |
Sea Exploration
Travel around the world with these virtual underwater tours.
Dive in with the National Marine Sanctuaries. Explore a shipwreck, watch coral restoration, and travel to Hawaii. This site has a page with videos and information translated to Spanish.
Join National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry as he explores Buck Island Reef.
Visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium and watch live webcams of sharks, jellyfish, penguins, the open sea, and more.
The Georgia Aquarium live webcams bring you into the world of piranhas, Southern Sea otters, Indo-Pacific Barrier Reef marine life, and more.
Google Earth allows you to soar to Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, the Galapagos, Japan, and other place around the world to learn about and explore the world's oceans.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020
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Where can you travel this week? What are some sources you can use to learn about history and the world around you?
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Read All About It!
Check out the following books about the Revolutionary War.
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Explore Historical Virginia
If watching Hamilton on Disney Plus has sparked your interest in history, travel around Virginia with these historical landmark virtual tours.
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Join Mrs. Persson as she explores the battlefields in Yorktown and historic Yorktown. Want to know more? Visit the National Park Service website or visit a Yorktown Virtual Tour at battlefields.org.
Venture into the Governor's Palace and the Capitol building in Colonial Williamsburg. After your virtual tour, explore other areas of Colonial Williamsburg through the website.
Explore The Jefferson Monticello house. Then learn more about Monticello and Jefferson through additional videos and text on the website.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
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Does space travel and exploration interest you? Do you enjoy science fiction movies and books? What is another way you can learn more about these topics?
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Read All About It!
Check out these eBooks in the BMS Destiny online catalog:
Exploring Space Travel by Laura Hamilton Waxman A Look at Neptune by Suzanne Slade A Look at Mercury by Mary Dunn |
Travel Out of This World
Venture to space and new planets with these virtual tours.
Learn what a swimming pool and astronaut training have in common in this 360 degree video of NASA's Commercial Crew Program VR 360 Tour: Train Like an Astronaut
Grab your 3D glasses for this tour of the International Space Station.
Curious about the Hubble Telescope? Journey to Missions Operations- 360 Degree Tours. Then explore the many other links on NASA's website.
What would it be like to travel through the Orion Nebula? Join NASA while exploring with this 360 degree virtual tour.
Ever wonder what the Star Wars planet Tatooine might be like? Explore a planet like Tatooine and other planets NASA has collected limited data for with artists' creations of the possibilities.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020
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No passport needed to travel around the world with these sites. How can we find where these places are located?
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Read All About It!
Don't have an atlas at home? That's okay. Learn about maps and access maps of the world at these two sites:
National Geographic: read map stories and search maps of the world for your virtual travels and research. World Atlas: find countries, oceans, cities, and more with this world map. |
Adventures Abroad
Embark on a global expedition with these virtual tours.
Start your journey in India at the Taj Mahal with this 360 degree tour. Then travel throughout India with the 360 degree Google Arts and Culture virtual tour.
After India, venture to Egypt to explore five Egyptian Heritage Sites with Smithsonian Magazine. While on the African continent, visit an African village and learn about the animals, daily life, and conservation with My Africa.
Next, you can visit the Paris underground, literally, with these two 360 degree tours of the Paris Catacombs.
Explore 25 different locations in Brazil with Google Arts and Culture Rio: Beyond the Map.
End your adventure with a visit to Mexico City.
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