Coming together as a community
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Family Resources
Community connection through the virtual world is becoming increasingly important, and Confetti wants to do our part to facilitate our mission of community-building as much as possible during these times.
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Please enjoy these tested resources to bring education, entertainment, exploration, and growth for your family.
Do you have a favorite that we've missed? Send us a note at play@confettiplaycafe.com so we can add the resource to the list!
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EXPLORE
Explore our national parks with extensive virtual tours, overviews of collections
and their stories, and videos from the National Park Service:
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/national-park-service
Learn about our stars and galaxy with this interactive experience from online star register:
Go on a virtual field trip to the tundra to see polars bears courtesy of Discovery:
https://www.discoveryeducation.com/learn/tundra-connections/
Explore lesson plans with guides, activities and videos compiled by the Field Museum. Topics included resources for early learners, evolution, plants & animals, world cultures, and earth science:
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/educators/learning-resources?
Explore the Tate Britain in London:
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/tate-britain
and dive in on their special online RE.CREATE exhibits such as fashion:
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/re-create-with-tate-britain-fashion/gQXpBlIj
or cooking:
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/re-create-with-tate-britain-cooking/gQXeCyN2
Space exploration through NASA archives fueled by AI:
https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/nasasvisualuniverse
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Take a quick virtual journey through the best of Dubai:
https://www.bayut.com/mybayut/virtual-travel-dubai/
Ancient Earth - explore what weather was believed to look like through ancient periods:
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth/#240
Tour the Louvre:
https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
Museum of the World:
https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/
Explore humpback whale songs:
https://patternradio.withgoogle.com/
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Virtual Field Trips:
https://www.aaastateofplay.com/playgrounds-at-home-virtual-field-trips-to-beaches-parks-and-more/
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Geography Games:
https://www.titlemax.com/geography-games-and-virtual-travel-through-the-usa/
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CREATE
Make your own virtual snowflakes by “cutting” paper and watch it snow!
Use AI to experiment with choreography using your camera or selecting a series of poses:
https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/living-archive/?token=1584909308
Conduct your own orchestra by your hand movements:
https://semiconductor.withgoogle.com/
Play this keyboard to learn more about instruments, scale, and root:
https://creatability.withgoogle.com/keyboard/
Play with words in song while exploring scale, root note, and tempo in Word Synth:
https://creatability.withgoogle.com/word-synth/
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Create and infinite pattern by uploading an image as guide through this tutorial:
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GET ACTIVE
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Your family can groove to free disney Zumba classes:
https://insidethemagic.net/2020/03/disney-zumba-lp1
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Dance your heart out with free ballet classes:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/BalletNovaCenterForDance/
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Cosmic kids yoga:
https://www.cosmickids.com/category/watch/
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Go Noodle gets kids moving with song, movement, exercise, and more:
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Move to learn offers dance workout videos by grade from pre-K to high school:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MovetoLearnMS
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Get dancing with 5-10 minute mini-workouts by GROOV3Dance:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2C841486EB885F1
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Work on your basketball skills with the Jr Wizards Program, complete with coaching guide:
https://www.dcfamily.com/athome
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EDUCATION MATERIALS
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Lakeshore learning lesson plans, worksheets, craft ideas, word searches and more:
https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/resources/free-resources
HomeSchool Pop - video content, including content classified by grade:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfPyVJEBD7Di1YYjTdS2v8g
Free School Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCebMFnw6WxozGmqGekJHOJg
DC public library digital resources:
https://www.dclibrary.org/godigita
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