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Can’t bring your students on an Academy field trip next year? Visit the Academy virtually from your classroom.  We have programs that bring our experts, animals, collections, and exhibits to your school over the internet.  

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Virtual Programs: Book a private session with an Academy educator

Requiring nothing more than a computer with a reliable internet connection, speakers, and a projector, these sessions will bring the Academy collections, animals, and exhibits to your classroom.

Program Menu (Grades K-8)
Waddle Like a Penguin (Grades K-3)
Rainforest Meals: Adaptations for Eating (Grades 2-3)
Impacts in the Solar System (Grades 3-8)
Sharks, Rays, and Their Lagoons (Grades 3-8)
 

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Special Live Events: Join multiple classrooms in free webcasts

Explore our collections with Academy researchers, jump into the coral reef with a diver, and get a glimpse of the night sky with experts from our planetarium. 

Special Live Events take place occasionally throughout the school year.  We announce programs on a rolling basis.

These webcasts are entirely free, so book a spot for your class before the spaces fill up!

Who participates in Distance Learning from the Academy?

Classrooms, libraries, homeschool groups, and more have connected with our educators. We've served groups from around the county, and have even delivered programs to students in Canada and Mexico!

Successful Broadcasts!
Want to get a better feel for how our Special Live Events impact classrooms near and far? Browse through these news articles where we've recapped recent online programs.
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Skulls Program in sessions
Distance Learning: Skulls! Halloween Edition

Whoa! Over 700 students from Alaska to CA connected with Academy educators at the same time—virtually, online.

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Academy educators showing their biologist friend
Distance Learning: African Penguin Awareness Day

Recently students from over 60 classes connected with us simultaneously to celebrate penguins!

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Asking questions to Academy Scientists

Students had the opportunity to ask Michelle about their curiosities.

Students Got the Scoop About Insects

Over 750 students around the country learned about insects with Academy Scientist, Michelle Trautwein.

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Students talking with Academy Biologist

Moe Flannery, Academy biologist, showing students a sea lion skull.

Distance Learning: Chat with an Academy Biologist

Check this out! Students from California and Pennsylvania had a chat with one of the Academy Biologists.

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We Thank Our Donors

Student Education programs and activities are generously supported by the Hearst Endowed Fund for Science Education; Barbara and Gerson Bakar; E. Richard Jones Foundation; and Wendy W. Kwok.