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:

https://osr.org/oms/

 

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!

https://surebak.github.io/

 

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:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/lucid/blob/master/notebooks/differentiable-parameterizations/appendix/infinite_patterns.ipynb

 

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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:

https://family.gonoodle.com/

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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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