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For Chicago Park District Staff

Below are selected activities that could be used in a socially distant or virtual summer camp. Some of the activities or videos could be used as suggestions for kids to do at home. All the links are live to the museum’s website, YouTube, or to a PDF.
Adler Planetarium
  • Digital Resources
  • Chalk Shadows Activity
  • Rover Relays Activity and Cards
Virtual Experience
  • Virtual Field Trip
The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Picture This: The Safety Patrol
  • Get Creative at Home website
  • JourneyMaker
  • JourneyMaker Activities
    • Extreme And Extraordinary
    • Let’s Play
    • Lines, Shapes, Colors
    • Strange And Wild Creatures
  • Essentials Tour
  • Stay Home. Hit Play. Video
Virtual Experience
  • Summer Virtual Workshop
Chicago History Museum
  • Set Sail! (Making and testing cork boats)
  • Windy City Kites (making and flying paper bag kites)
  • Sing It! (Using a template to write and sing your own blues song to the tune of Sweet Home Chicago)
Chicago Flag activities
  • Know Your Chicago Flag
  • Ft. Dearborn; Pack Your Trunk
  • Great Chicago Fire: Artifact Detective
  • Taking a Ride at the World’s Fairs
  • Chicago Waterways
  • Chicago Landmarks
  • My Neighborhood Story
  • Chicago Poetry
  • Fifth Star Challenge
  • My Flag
DuSable Museum
  • Stay Home. Hit Play. Video
Field Museum
  • Sue the T. rex Virtual Tour
  • Illinois Field Guides
  • Mission to the Mesozoic
  • Discovery Adventures Videos
  • Brain Scoop Videos
  • Learning Resources Page
  • Stay Home. Hit Play. Video
MCA Chicago
  • Art Projects online
  • Video Tours
Museum of Science & Industry
  • Learning Resources for Educators and Learners
  • Brain Games
  • MSI activities for summer camp
  • Stay Home. Hit Play. Video
National Museum of Mexican Art
  • Art Activities & more (coloring sheets, puzzles)
  • ALEBRIJE workbook
  • Alebrijes coloring book
  • Stay Home. Hit Play. Video
National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
  • Online exhibit – Samuel Lind: Portales (Portals)
  • Local Puerto Rican artists videos
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
  • Online Resources
  • Curious by Nature videos and activities
  • Wonder at Home resource roundups
  • Wonder Workbooks
Virtual Experiences
  • Virtual Field Trip with Student Workshop
Shedd Aquarium
  • Stay home with Shedd
  • NextGen Animal Responders Curriculum
  • Sea Curious
  • Underwater Beauty Live Cam
  • Shedd’s Audio Guides
  • Google Expeditions Virtual Reality experiences
  • Shedd’s Blog
  • Stay Home. Hit Play. Video
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