Virtual Classroom Programs
Let the World Awareness Children’s Museum bring our interactive, hands-on, outreach programs directly to your site! Designed for individual classrooms of up to 30 students, all programs:
- Are virtual and interactive
- Are taught live by a Museum Educator
- Are available to any school in the United States
- Are one hour (60-minutes) long
- Feature virtual learning with the Museum’s cultural and historical artifacts collection
- Include an art project to work on either during or after the lesson
- Are aligned with NYS Next Generation Learning Standards and modules
- Can be taught to a maximum of 30 students per presentation
Please contact us for more information:
Sarah Bauer, Program Coordinator
Phone: (518) 793-2773
Email: sarah@worldchildrensmuseum.org
This program is made possible with funding from the Cohoes Savings Foundation.
Preschool – Grade 2
Celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year
An introduction to the Chinese Lunar New Year Festival, students learn through interactive virtual learning tools with authentic clothing, objects, and a group discussion that brings this celebration to life.
Our Earth: Keep It Clean
In this program, students will explore ways the air, land, and water are polluted. They’ll also find ways that they can help make it cleaner by replanting and recycling. Students will analyze art together and learn about the environment around the world, including what they can do to make our earth a great place to live by conserving our resources. Students will learn more about these environmental topics through virtual learning tools.
Explore the people and places that make up your community! Students learn through virtual interactive learning tools, art from the museum’s collection, and hands-on activities that help bring this topic to life! Available for grades 1 – 3.
Grades 3 – 6
Chinese Lunar New Year Traditions
Study the traditions and customs of Chinese Lunar New Year, learn some Mandarin phrases, and learn about traditional Chinese New Year customs through interactive virtual learning tools.
Discover Brazil
Through interactive virtual learning and activities, students explore three major regions of Brazil and how climate, geography and natural resources affect the way people live.
Flags & Countries: Civic Characteristics
Learn about international flags and their symbolism! Students will learn through interactive virtual learning tools and will think about the citizenship qualities flag symbols represent. Students will decide what qualities they would like citizens to have in their imaginary country, and create their own flag to represent the qualities they chose.
Our Earth: Keep It Clean
In this program, students will explore ways the air, land, and water are polluted. They’ll also find ways that they can help make it cleaner by replanting and recycling. Students will analyze art together and learn about the environment around the world, including what they can do to make our earth a great place to live by conserving our resources. Students will learn more about these environmental topics through virtual learning tools.
Mexican Celebration: Day of the Dead
Study the colorful and exciting customs of the Day of the Dead, learn some Spanish phrases, analyze art together, and make your own Day of the Dead mask to bring home. For grades 3 – 5.
“This program was smooth from start to finish. The museum educator is knowledgeable about Day of the Dead and great with the kids! She mentioned each student by name during the presentation made them feel important and connected. This is a great culminating activity if you are studying Day of the Dead.”
“I highly recommend booking ‘Celebrate the Chinese New Year’ – even in a virtual situation because students thoroughly enjoyed themselves and seemed to take a great deal of content away. My students were completely engaged and had a great deal of laughs and smiles!”
“The Day of the Dead presentation was very well done – I would absolutely book another program with them. The crafts that complemented the virtual lesson arrived in good time and everything was great, the sessions were for the whole grade level and the price was reasonable.”
