FREE VIRTUAL
FIELD TRIPS
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Accesible Learning
At TTK, we believe everyone should have access to adventure learning. In an effort to maintain our mission, we are offering all of our Virtual Field Trips free. Join us!
Use the code: FREEVFT
Our Partner
We are partnering with the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC), a nonprofit organization that works with renowned experts, treasured museums, zoos, historic sites, National Parks, and more to provide virtual field trips to learners at no cost!
Please Note
These are digital products. After purchasing your VFT, you will have access to a document that includes the link and other VFT information.
How Do I Join?
1. Sign your child up for the event using our coupon code.
2. Mark your Calendar!
3. When you receive the document, print it off and share any preparatory materials with your child.
4. Confirm that your child's device has a working webcam and microphone. If you are joining from a phone, please download the free Zoom app in advance.
5. Field trip day: to join the field trip, click the link from the document and you are in for a great adventure!
Attention: We recommend that students use a PC to access the virtual field trips. There have been previous technical difficulties with students joining the field trips via a Mac.
Walking Up a Food Chain
With Leslie Science and Nature Center
Together with the Leslie Science and Nature Center, we will create a food chain using LIVE animals (such as hawk/owl, snake, frog, spider and roach). Starting with a roach as our decomposer, we will take a close look at 5 live animals on a guided tour up a food chain. On our journey we will discuss how these animals are all connected and learn about the delicate balance that allows them to survive both individually and as wildlife sharing a habitat. *Materials for this event will be emailed.
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Date: Wednesday, April 10, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
WWII Cartoons as Wartime Propaganda
With National WWII Museum
Join The National WWII Museum for this Virtual Field Trip on how cartoons played a role in propaganda on the Home Front. A Museum educator will examine different pieces of wartime propaganda that were aimed at students during the war, including artworks by Disney. Students will be able to understand the purpose of propaganda and see how propaganda would have impacted their lives if they had grown up during World War II.
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Date: Thursday, April 11, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
Pets in Archaeology
With Penn Museum
April 11 is National Pet Day! Humans have been keeping pets for thousands of years, be they furry, feathered, scaly, or anything else in between. Students will track the history of pets across different ancient cultures by studying artifacts in the Penn Museum collection. They will then design their own paper pet collar.
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Date: Friday, April 12, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
Westward Ho
With Booth Museum
Students become explorers in this highly interactive program! Inspired by art and artifacts, each will create their very own Lewis and Clark inspired journal as they journey westward! Guided movement, discussion and simple journal drawings bring to life the stories of Lewis & Clark, Sacagawea, mountain men, trade, pioneers (Oregon Trail), bison and Plains Indians, the stagecoach and diversity of people who settled the West.
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Date: Tueday, April 16, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
Beaks, Bubbles & Burrows
With Alaska SeaLife Center
See how Alaska's seabirds stay warm in the cold ocean, and find out what other adaptations allow them to dive underwater, catch fish, and dig burrows. Featured birds: tufted & horned puffins, common murres, rhinoceros auklets, pigeon guillemots, eiders, smews, and harlequin ducks.
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Date: Wednesday, April 17, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
Weaving with Recycled Materials
With Penn Museum
The process of weaving allows people to take thin pieces of thread, yarn, or plant material and turn it into strong cloth and baskets. It is a simple yet sophisticated technology that developed independently in cultures all over the world. In honor of Earth Day, students will join Penn Museum educators to learn more about weaving techniques from around the world and then try some paper weaving of their own.
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Date: Friday, April 19, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
Draw with Us: Hooray for Habitats
With Aquarium of the Pacific
Join us to for an Earth celebration! We will dive into the vast Pacific ocean and explore different habitats and see what amazing animals we can find. Don't forget to bring your coloring tools and paper to create your own habitat masterpiece.
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Date: Tuesday, April 23, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
Weather Wow! Up in the Air
With UCAR Center for Science Education
Did you know a typical cumulonimbus cloud can weigh 105.8 MILLION pounds?! How does it stay up in the sky?! Explore how the sun affects our Earth’s weather with an interactive experiment comparing hot and cold air. Transform your students into science sleuths and cloud detectives as we explore this mystery together and learn how air behaves when it changes temperature.
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Date: Wednesday, April 24, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
Anishinaabe: Past and Present
With Dunes National Lakeshore
The name "Sleeping Bear Dunes" comes from an oral tradition of the Anishinaabe people. Find out more about the Anishinaabe's connection to Sleeping Bear Dunes and their traditional seasonal activities some still practice to this day. Participants will craft and decorate their own birchbark basket paper model during the program.
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Date: Thursday, April 25, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
Indigenous Games
With Penn Museum
April 25 marks the start of the Penn Relays, America’s largest track-and-field competition. This year, we’re celebrating this University of Pennsylvania tradition by taking a closer look at Indigenous American sports. Using collection artifacts, students will learn the rules and significance of games played by Indigenous peoples from North, Central, and South America and how many of those games are still played today.
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Date: Friday, April 26, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
Creative Movement
With the Cowles Center for Dance
Through interdisciplinary arts activities and structured improvisation, we will build movement skills–coordination, balance, flexibility, strength, and vocabulary–while exploring our 5 senses and imaginations. Students gain mastery in critical problem-solving built on the Elements of Dance. All the while joyfully connecting with others through playful curiosity.
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Date: Monday, April 29, 10 AM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-5 / All Ages
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Length: 45 minutes
Interdisciplinary Improvisation
With the Cowles Center for Dance
Dancers will experience the pleasure of moving, while learning elements of photography and how our vision can inspire choreography and creativity! We will play games/scores that involve scavenger hunts, memory and dancing/drawing. Dancers will develop and hone their visual acuity, looking for light, shadows, shapes, details and more. Students will engage in movement exercises to create visual images and foster an appreciation of movement and visual art.
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Date: Monday, April 29, 11 AM ET
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Target Audience: Grades 6-12 / All Ages
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Length: 45 minutes
Musical Theater Jazz
With The Cowles Center for Dance
Focusing on rhythm, musicality, and storytelling, this Musical Theater Jazz dance class starts with a jazz warm up and then takes off into an exciting tour of musical theater history. This class introduces choreography from multiple popular musicals both old and new. The dance combinations will be inspired by the original Broadway choreography as well as catered to a more beginning dance level experience. By the end of the class, students will have learned a short combination which can be shared with family or a small audience if applicable.
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Date: Monday, April 27, 2 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades 2-12 / All Ages
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Length: 45 minutes
Draw Joshua Tree
With Joshua Tree National Park
Embark on a creative adventure in the Mojave Desert with our ranger-led directed drawing program. Capture the essence of the desert landscape by sketching the iconic Joshua tree and the diverse array of animals that inhabit this rugged terrain. Led by an experienced ranger, participants will gain insight into the unique ecology of the Mojave while honing their artistic skills in a captivating outdoor setting. Join us for a memorable experience that blends art, nature, and exploration in the heart of one of America's most iconic desert landscapes.
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Date: Tuesday, April 30, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
Hanafuda: Japanese Flower Cards
With Penn Museum
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Join Penn Museum educators as we learn about hanafuda, a style of traditional Japanese playing cards dating to the 1600s. The cards are intricately designed with different flower patterns connected to the months of the year and used to play different games. Students will learn about hanafuda cards, design their own card, and watch a brief play session of koi koi, a popular hanafuda game.
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Date: Wednesday, May 1, 1 PM ET
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Target Audience: Grades K-6
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Length: 45 minutes
