Online, In-Person or Do-at-Home Opportunities
Community Education has been working hard to create a variety of online, in-person and/or hybrid enrichment classes, and sports/recreation camps. To view our latest offerings, please visit our registration site at
sowashco.ce.eleyo.com or
sign-up here to receive our latest emails of 'What's Happening in Community Education.'
SoWashCo at Home Enrichment for Elementary Students
View our District website for a list of parent resources and at home enrichment for students looking to extend their learning on FLEX Fridays or any other day.
Free Opportunities
Junior Achievement is now providing free online resources for teachers and parents to keep our children engaged, inspired, and educationally challenged.
Monica J. Sutton is an early childhood educator with over 18 years experience. She offers children's lessons, children's programming, and talks about child behavior. If your household is looking for a racial mirror in the classroom for your child, or you just want to supplement what you've been doing in our ECFE program, she is a great resource!
STEM
Discovery Education - Offers a variety of topics including: Health & Wellness, Careers & College Readiness, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Tech & Manufacturing, Sports, Financial Literacy/Economics, Literacy, Community Engagement, Argumentation with Evidence, Collecting & Analyzing Data, & Agriculture.
Boeing Future U - Explore aerospace technology with virtual field trips and interactive videos.
Manufacturing - Explore STEM careers by meeting professionals and exploring facilities.
JPL- Videos about Earth, our Solar Systems, Stars & Galaxies, and Technology
Access Mars - Explore the real surface of Mars as recorded by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Star Atlas - Explore over 60,000 stars, locate planets
Volcanoes - U.S. Geological Survey interactive map
Nature Works Everywhere - The Nature Conservancy offers 11 virtual field trips.
The Great Lakes - This virtual field trip from Great Lakes Now has three components: coastal wetlands, algae, and lake sturgeon.
Farms, Zoos, and Aquariums
Farm and Food Tours
San Diego Zoo
Smithsonian's National Zoo
Houston Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Panda Cam at Zoo Atlanta
Georgia Aquarium's Ocean Voyager Webcam
Virtual Tour of the National Aquarium
Let's Explore History and Social Studies!
Constitution Center
National Constitution Center
Colonial Williamsburg
Ellis Island
Cities of the World
China
Easter Island
Son Doong - World's largest cave!
Ancient Egypt
Discovery Education
360 Cities
Museums
Smithsonian Virtual Exhibitions
National Museum of Natural History
The Louvre
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Boston Children's Museum
Google Arts & Culture
British Museum, London
Guggenheim Museum, NY
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
MASP, Sao Paulo
National Museum of Anthropology
National Women's History Museum
The White House
National Parks
Yellowstone National Park
Kenai Fjords National Park
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park
Dry Tortugas National Park
Carlsbad Caverns
Music / Reading
New York Philharmonic - Games and concerts from the New York Philharmonic
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Music Hall - Virtual tour
The Metropolitan Opera - Watch live opera
Birthplaces of Music - Boise State created this virtual field trip to four music locations: Vienna, Austria; New Orleans, LA; Cleveland, OH; and Bristol, Tennessee--Virginia.
The Seattle Symphony is offering free, online broadcasts of their concerts.
Amazon's Audible, launched a free listening experience for children who are isolated and away from school and friends. The collection includes audio in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
Under normal circumstances,Hesta Prynn can usually be found DJing for fashion brands and celebrity shindigs—but these days she's stuck at home with her 6-year-old. To save us all from weeks of Kidzbop or Baby Shark, she's releasing family-friendly playlists every few days on Spotify. Have an older kid who dreams of becoming a DJ? Prynn is also giving virtual DJ lessons via herInstagram stories. Get Hesta Prynn's newest playlist on Spotify
Dance
If your child has always wanted to take ballet class with a famous ballerina, now is their chance.Tiler Peck, principal dancer at New York City Ballet, is teaching daily ballet classes every day at 1 pm EST via Instagram Live. Throw on a pair of ballet slippers and join in as she takes dancers through basic stretching and ballet positions. She even throws in some pointe work at the end for more advanced dancers. Join Tiler Peck on Instagram