Educational Resources
The Virginia Living Museum is committed to connecting you to nature through our educational experiences that promote conservation. Below are some video activities to help extend your learning at home. Just click on the title and it will take you to a video from the Virginia Living Museum YouTube Channel.
Special thanks to Bayport for sponsoring our virtual education efforts.
Family Fun
Outdoor Adventure
Science Corner
Living Green – Sustainability
Science at Home
Awesome Animal Ambassadors
- American Alligator
- American Lobster
- Atlantic Spadefish
- Barred Tiger Salamander
- Blue-tongued Skink
- Chain Catsharks
- Coyote
- Eastern Painted Turtle
- Eastern Screech Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Groundhog
- Horseshoe Crab
- Kestrel
- Lined Seahorses
- Lionfish
- Moray Eel
- North American River Otters
- Shortnose Sturgeon
- Snapping Turtle
- Spotted Turtle
- Summer Flounder
- Turkey
- Virginia Opossum
- Vultures
- White-tailed Deer
Other Animal Videos
Vet Visit
Weird & Wild
Age Specific Activities
Pre-Kindergarten
Let’s learn together about what an observation is and how to explore the world around us using our 5 senses.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Test the strength of different shapes and try to build a strong structure!
2nd and 3rd Grade
Learn about weather and the water cycle. Create your own cloud in a jar.
4th and 5th Grade
Explore the six simple machines and see how they play a role in your daily life. Construct your own Rube Goldberg machine with items you have at home.
Discover how to tell time and detect the Earth’s motions using your own shadow.
Additional Resources:
Check out games, podcasts, fun and real science about animals, plants and space at DragonflyTV.
The Museum is an official NASA Space Place. Check out these neat activities for kids.
The NASA’s Space Place is a partnership between the International Technology Education Association and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
AZA Children’s Picture Books
These books were developed as part of AZA SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) in which the entire AZA-accredited zoo and aquarium community is focusing its conservation science, its wildlife expertise and its 180 million visitors on saving species in the wild.
Thanks to our Corporate Sponsors who annually make it possible to continue our mission of education, conservation and sustainability.