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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.

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.

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

Virtual Sea Lion 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 may know California sea lions best for their loud vocalizations, and their ability to traverse both land and water. During this encounter you will meet one of the four rescued sea lions at Shedd—Biff, Cruz, Laguna, or Tanner—and learn how their rescue and rehabilitation gave them second chance at life.

Meet the sea lions, virtually , visit Virtual Sea Lion Encounter

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

Sunday, October 25, 2020

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