Links and Videos, Part 3

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Part 3: Nature | Culture
Archive – Performances
More Videos
Even More Videos (includes Bela Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart – Discs A and B)
Even More Videos, Part 2 (includes Bela Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart – Concert Extras and Full Concert Performances)

Nature – zoos, aquariums, rescue centers, …
Carolina Tiger Rescue: Wednesday live streams; recent replays include: July 8 | July 15
On The Wing: lots of videos of rescued raptors, including: | May 21 – turtles | May 29 – a great horned owlet
North Carolina Zoo: Virtual Visit – includes art projects, at-home science and nature activities, virtual resources, live events, videos and recordings of past events – the online series include Zoo Classroom, Untamed Science, Living With Nature distance learning event, and Zoo EDventures online series – live streams (Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:00); recent replays include: July 8 – Zebra | July 15 – Venomous Reptiles | July 17 – Honey Bees | July 21 – Zookeeper Week | July 22 – Brown Bear Habitat Renovation
Cincinnati Zoo:
Roger Williams Park Zoo: Zoo School online series – live stream archive
Duke Lemur Center: Lemur Science (Thursdays at 10:00, starting May 14) – Have you ever wondered what a DLC researcher gets up to in the field? Or how you extract and preserve a 30 million year old primate fossil?

Have you ever wanted to learn more about the unique island of Madagascar, and our conservation efforts on the ground there? Or how lemurs evolved such unique traits?

Join us every Thursday at 10:00 AM EST for a live talk with Q&A from a DLC expert! We’ve partnered with Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants to bring weekly lessons on all things lemur right to a screen near you. We’re not kidding when we say this series will have it all, so we hope you’re ready to learn!

Each talk will be hosted by our virtual education partners on YouTube Live. Teachers and students are welcome to sign up in advance on http://www.exploringbytheseat.com to reserve video chat spots for the Q&A, and anyone is welcome to join in via live chat during the talk!

We will be posting the link to the live talk in each event on Thursday mornings, and if you can’t join us live, that’s okay! We’ll share the recorded talk and Q&A on our own page for you to enjoy a few days later.

In case you need a little more motivation to attend this awesome series – watching these weekly talks will give you a leg up on the trivia competition. So be sure to keep up with our weekly videos and keep your eyes peeled for more information on when our next trivia challenge video will be posted!

Georgia Aquarium: Eight different live webcams – this link is for the Ocean Voyager webcam
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Ten different live webcams
WildEarth: safariLIVE (Sunrise Safari: daily midnight to 3:00 AM ET; Sunset Safari: daily 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM) – WildEarth’s safariLIVE is an award winning, expert hosted LIVE safari, broadcast directly from the African wilderness into your home. Available on both the internet and television, this show enables you to interact with an expert game ranger in real time. Safari vehicles, guides on foot, drones, balloons, rovers and remote cams are all searching for their favourite characters. Completely unscripted and unpredictable – this show is reality TV as it is supposed to be. Authentic and REAL.

WildEarth’s safaris come to you from Djuma Private Game Reserve in The Sabi Sands and &Beyond Ngala Private Game Reserve. These reserves are found in the north-east corner of South Africa and offer a vast expanse of wilderness that Africa’s iconic animals can roam in freely.

Recent safaris: Sunrise Safari, July 22 | Sunset Safari, July 22
Google Earth: virtual tours of national parks – Arches | Badlands | Black Canyon of the Gunnison | Channel Islands | Denali | Glacier | Mesa Verde | Shenandoah | Wind Cave | Yellowstone | Yosemite | Zion (thank you, Diply)
National Geographic:
  • NatGeo At Home – learn at home, tips for families, fun for kids, experiments, podcasts, and much more
  • Photo Ark – from the website:

    Sounding the alarm for species at risk, one photograph at a time

    Species are disappearing at an alarming rate, but together we can help.

    The National Geographic Photo Ark is using the power of photography to inspire people to help save species at risk before it’s too late. Photo Ark founder Joel Sartore has photographed more than 10,000 species around the world as part of a multiyear effort to document every species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, inspire action through education, and help save wildlife by supporting on-the-ground conservation efforts.

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Culture – Virtual tours, online exhibits and more
Google Arts & Culture – thousands of museums, historic sites, and more – Home page – some examples:
North Carolina Museum of History: History at Home – Exhibits, podcasts, at-home learning packets, collections, blogs, stories from sister museums, and more
Morehead Planetarium: Morehead At Home – live virtual events, a Spotify playlist for some skywatching tunes, 360° videos of our most popular planetarium shows, and more
Currituck Beach Lighthouse: COVID-eo series – live streams; replays include: March 19 – First Day of Spring | March 20 – Fast Facts | March 23 – Fascinating Fact 1 | March 25 – Fascinating Fact 2 | March 29 – Creating A Flash Pattern
National Air and Space Museum:
Bob Ross: The Joy of Painting – all 403 episodes!!!
Colonial Williamsburg: Explore From Home – teacher resources, an interactive timeline, videos, quizzes, recipes, colonial crafts, collections, coloring sheets, and more
Louvre: Online tours – virtual tours and room descriptions
NASA: NASA At Home — For Kids and Families – general topics, virtual tours, augmented reality
#DisneyMagicMoments: Facebook, YouTube, Disney.com: Experience the magic of Disney wherever you may be, includes At Home With Olaf and How To Draw With Disney Animation (very next section below), Storytime (in Books section above), Draw With Pixar, Earth Day Animal Conservation With Nat Geo Explorers, We’re All In This Together, JaMMonitors, and more – some of the items include:Virtual Viewing of Disney’s Magic Happens Parade (March 29) | A Virtual Tour of Walt Disney Imagineering: Part 1 (March 31) | A Virtual Tour of Walt Disney Imagineering: Part 2 – The Sculpture Studio (April 7) | A Virtual Tour of Walt Disney Imagineering: Part 3 – the DISH (Digital Immersive Showroom) (April 14) | A Virtual Tour of Walt Disney Imagineering: Part 4 – Research & Development (April 21) | A Virtual Tour of Walt Disney Imagineering Art Library (April 27) | Learn to Draw a Disney Castle (June 25)

and the firework and other spectacular show videos on Fridays:

Walt Disney Animation Studios:
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