Learn Online with Shedd

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Join us online!

Experience the wonders of the aquatic animal world right from your home! Introducing Shedd's new digital online learning center. A space for individuals, families and children who want to look nature in the eye from home. Discover all our digital learning resources in one place! From at-home activities and videos, to virtual animal encounters, to immersive live cam experiences... feel like you are a part of the aquatic animal world, wherever you are in the world!

Virtual Animal Encounters
K-5 & Teen Programs
Activities and Videos
Audio Miniseries & Stories
Virtual Reality & Live Cam
Educators

Virtual Animal Encounters

Virtual Penguin Encounter

Ages: All ages
Cost: $49.95 ($44.95 members) - the encounter is priced per screen.

Special Offer: Purchase two links for the price of $69.95 ($64.95 members), to share this experience with a friend or family member from anywhere in the world. If a second link is purchased, it must be used during the same date and time as the first link.

You’ve followed the penguins on their adventures. Now for a limited time, you can meet them up close in their habitat! Will you waddle with Wellington? Hang out with rockhopper penguin pair Edward and Annie? Meet Magellanic penguins Izzy and Darwin?

Meet the penguins, virtually , visit Virtual Penguin Encounter

Virtual Sea Otter Encounter

Ages: All ages
Cost: $49.95 ($44.95 members) - the encounter is priced per screen.

Meet the sea otters at Shedd Aquarium—virtually! Come face-to-face with the playful, adorable sea otters that call Shedd home. Join us behind the scenes (virtually) for a sea otter play session. Watch them dive, socialize, vocalize and groom and find out how their sustainable, restaurant-quality food prep happens. Dive in and explore the world of sea otters firsthand!

This 35–40 minute virtual Sea Otter Encounter will take place on Zoom so you can enjoy the experience without leaving home.

meet the sea otters, virtually , visit Virtual Sea Otter Encounter

K-5 & Teen Programs

Activities and Videos

Stay Home with Shedd

Ages: Grades 3-5
Cost: Free

Easily facilitate educational and engaging learning experiences, synchronously or asynchronously, that bring you and your students' eye to eye with animals at Shedd Aquarium and their remarkable underwater biology and aquatic biodiversity. Each episode includes grade and standards aligned activities that you can use in your classroom, plus a parent/teacher guide. Watch all the videos at once or make aquatic learning a weekly event - customize the experience based on your needs!

What's included:

4 aquatic animal videos, 10-15 minutes each
3 student activity packets per video
1 companion educator or parent guide per video
3 additional activity packets on biodiversity and conservation

begin stay home with shedd learning , visit Stay Home with Shedd

Audio Miniseries & Stories

Virtual Reality & Live Cam

Educators

Curricula & Lesson Plans

Grades: K-12, varies by lesson
Cost: Free

Adapt aquatic lessons into your curricula with these free lessons plans from Shedd. We offer a variety of lessons, guides and curriculum to tailor to your classroom needs. These include:

Dolphin Calf Virtual Backpack:
Google Classroom compatible
Celebrate dolphins with these four fun classroom or pod activities focused on dolphin play, groups, Olympics and movement.

NextGen Animals Responders Curriculum
Lesson plans are printable PDFs
Incorporating Next Generation Science Standards, our inquiry-based curriculum guides offer an inside look at animal rescue and recovery efforts. There are five lesson plans in total.

Exhibit Guides
Lesson plans are printable PDFs
These teacher and student guides spanning ages K-12 cover topics of animal adaptations, ecology, evolution and the relationship between organisms.

View All Curricula & Lesson Plans , visit Curricula & Lesson Plans

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