SUGGESTED RESOURCES &
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
May 2-15, 2020

Saturday, April 25 • Sunday, April 26
Monday, April 27 • Tuesday, April 28 • Wednesday, April 29
Thursday, April 30 • Friday, May 1

Saturday, May 2 • Sunday, May 3
Monday, May 4 • Tuesday, May 5 • Wednesday, May 6
Thursday, May 7 • Friday, May 8

FOOD & FARMING:
Virtual Farm Store ♦ Culinary Arts ♦ Early American Cuisine ♦ Pie Crust ♦ Scones ♦ Fermented Foods ♦ Backyard Chickens ♦ Plant Sale ♦ Organic Gardening ♦ Fruit Trees ♦ Agriculture

NATURE-BASED LEARNING:
Nature-Based Learning ♦ Biomimicry ♦ Phenology ♦ Geology ♦ Minerals ♦ Biospheres ♦ Weather & Erosion ♦ Meteorology ♦ Galaxies ♦ Wild Edibles ♦ Forests ♦ Forest Ecology ♦ Sky

ANIMALS & INSECTS:
Animal Studies ♦ Herpetology ♦ Ichthyology ♦ Ornithology ♦ American Woodcock ♦ Bobolink ♦ Frogs ♦ Bird-Watching ♦ Peregrine Falcon ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Oysters ♦ River Herring ♦ Merino Sheep ♦ Entomology ♦ Symbolic Relationships ♦ Beetles ♦ Butterflies

STEM:
Science ♦ Math ♦ Kitchen Science ♦ Molecular Gastronomy ♦ Zymology ♦ STE(A)M ♦ Astronomy ♦ Psychology

MUSIC, ART, THEATER, DANCE STUDIES:
Film Studies ♦ Music Studies ♦ West African Music ♦ Chorus ♦ Symphony ♦ Classical Music ♦ Art Studies ♦ Museum Tours ♦ Art History ♦ Color History ♦ Sculpture ♦ Printmaking ♦ Dr. Seuss ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Puppet Theater ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Sword Fighting ♦ Dance Studies ♦ World Folk Dances ♦ Contemporary Dance Studies ♦ Canadian Stepdance ♦ Rock Climbing ♦ Magic

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Language Arts ♦ Literature ♦ National Poetry Month ♦ Ecopoetry ♦ Poem in Your Pocket Day ♦ Children’s Literature ♦ Virtual Mapping ♦ Communication Skills

HISTORY:
History ♦ Native American Studies ♦ U.S. History ♦ Local History ♦ Food History ♦ Guilded Age ♦ Renaissance History ♦ Gender Studies ♦ Women’s History ♦ Fashion History ♦ Art History ♦ Aviation History ♦ History of Personal Hygiene ♦ Social Movements

COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Acts of Kindness ♦ Community Service ♦ Virtual Food Drive ♦ Homelessness ♦ Sewing Masks ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Nature’s Notebook ♦ Light Pollution

LOCAL RESOURCES:
Nolumbeka Project ♦ Walking Tours ♦ Becket Land Trust ♦ Old Sturbridge Village ♦ Berkshire Museum ♦ Community Experts ♦ Small Businesses ♦ Northeast Organic Farming Association of Massachusetts ♦ Food Bank of Western MA ♦ Springfield Symphony Orchestra ♦ Emily Dickinson Museum ♦ Norman Rockwell Museum ♦ The Trustees ♦ New England Air Museum ♦ Ventfort Hall ♦ Historic Northampton ♦ Naumkeag ♦ Regreen Springfield ♦ Hitchcock Center ♦ Great Barrington Land Conservancy ♦ Jacob’s Pillow ♦ Smith College Museum of Art ♦ Hampden Gallery ♦ The Clark ♦ IS183 Art School of the Berkshires ♦ Springfield Museums ♦ Cooley Dickinson Hospital ♦ Mass Audubon ♦ Best Buddies ♦ Common Good ♦ Veterans ♦ Curly Willow ♦ River Valley Co-Op ♦ Bare Roots Farm ♦ Historic Deerfield

EARLY CHILDHOOD:
PreK ♦ Vision Boards ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Play Ideas

OPPORTUNITIES:
Online Tutoring ♦ Online Animation Class ♦ Cinco De Mayo ♦ National Poetry Month

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