SUGGESTED RESOURCES &
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
May 23-June 5, 2020

FEATURED INTERESTS:
Native American Pottery ♦ Memorial Day ♦ Memory Mapping ♦ Folk Remedies ♦ Spring Cleaning ♦ Art Studies ♦ Sense of Place ♦ Animal Studies ♦ Ornithology ♦ Farm Animals ♦ Animal Welfare ♦ Veterinarian Science ♦ Animal Behavior ♦ STEM ♦ Algebra ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Physical Education ♦ Language Arts

NATURE-BASED LEARNING:
Nature-Based Learning ♦ Buds & Blossoms ♦ Dandelion ♦ Lily-of-the-Valley ♦ Mindfulness ♦ Biomimicry ♦ Phenology ♦ Geology ♦ Natural History ♦ Minerals ♦ Biospheres ♦ Weather & Erosion ♦ Meteorology ♦ Galaxies ♦ Wild Edibles ♦ Forests ♦ Forest Ecology

FOOD & FARMING:
Garden Tool Lending Library ♦ Virtual Farm Store ♦ Culinary Arts ♦ Pie Crust ♦ Scones ♦ Fermented Foods ♦ Backyard Chickens ♦ Plant Sale ♦ Organic Gardening ♦ Fruit Trees ♦ Agriculture

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

LOCAL RESOURCES:
Curly Willow ♦ Oak Meadow ♦ 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 ♦ 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 ♦ Common Good ♦ Veterans ♦ River Valley Co-Op ♦ Bare Roots Farm ♦ Historic Deerfield ♦ nbCC Bike Collective ♦ GreenLove Eco Cleaning ♦ Greenfield Community College ♦ Hancock Shaker Village ♦ Berkshire Humane Society ♦ Northampton Parks & Rec ♦ Enchanted Circle Theater ♦ Connecticut Science Center ♦ Berkshire Historical Society ♦ Herman Melville’s Arrowhead ♦ Tuesday Market

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Language Arts ♦ Literature ♦ Children’s Literature ♦ Virtual Mapping

HISTORY:
History ♦ Native American Studies ♦ U.S. History ♦ Local History ♦ Food History ♦ Guilded Age ♦ Gender Studies ♦ Women’s History ♦ Fashion History ♦ Art History ♦ Aviation History

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

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

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

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