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With school buildings closed for the foreseeable future, many families are seeking new activities that align learning with social distancing. Fortunately, we can still connect with 鈥� and learn from 鈥� the great outdoors even as we quarantine.

As spring blossoms across the nation, so does a therapeutic activity: bird-watching. Online resources like and offer cultivated activities and information to guide bird studies for streamers of every age. The two groups also provide round-the-clock live feeds of birds in their natural habitats.

We鈥檝e clicked through the different cams and found five unique options to pair with your daily remote studies:

Mondays: Feasting Tropical Birds

Begin the week with the tropical birds in Panama; additional information about the weather and the locale are also provided, so viewers know exactly what they鈥檙e looking at:

Tuesdays: Nesting in Montana

Birds are everywhere, so everyone can take up bird-watching. City dwellers: Audubon has you covered with plenty to learn about . But Explore.org live cams are all over the map, so if it鈥檚 wide open spaces and frosted mountain caps you鈥檙e dreaming of, tune in to observe this osprey nest in Charlo, Montana:

Wednesdays: The Alligator Swamps of Florida

Meanwhile, in Florida, meet the roseate spoonbills and their version of a guard dog through a cam overlooking the swamp at the Alligator Farm Zoological Park in St. Augustine, Florida. you can see the sunbathing gators that keep the spoonbills 鈥� and the occasional heron and stork that stop by 鈥� safe from their predators:

Thursdays: The Cranes of Africa

Log on early and globe-trot to South Africa, where you can see docile, long-legged cranes and herons coexist with everything from hippos to giraffes:

Fridays: Daydreaming on a Pacific Island

Spin the globe, and end your school week at a cave鈥檚 edge on California鈥檚 remote Anacapa Island in the Pacific Ocean. You can try to spy a family of peregrine falcons in the Channel Islands 鈥� or any of the other animals or plants, of which 145 are found nowhere else on Earth:

Other Environmental Resources

Audubon鈥檚 hub for students, , aims to 鈥渂ring together activities from across their national network of environmental educators, including the classroom curriculum Audubon Adventures, plus related DIY activities and content from Audubon鈥檚 editors.鈥� They have introduced weekly lessons (there are currently two: and with Migration coming soon), complete with games, crafts and quizzes. You can also download and print the Audubon adventures .

… And Don鈥檛 Forget Art Class

Another option for getting to know birds 鈥� while remaining indoors 鈥� is drawing them. David Sibley starts with the basics in this step-by-step how-to, bringing a black-capped chickadee to life in under five minutes.

The student artist can then find their bird subject in Audubon鈥檚 , where you can hear their calls and learn everything from diets to nesting. Or, to take it to the next level, try to find them alfresco.

If you need to tune everything else out, these sites have a lot worth tuning in to. Visit them for videos, crafts and knowledge that can enrich a basic science curriculum 鈥� or, at the very least, provide some additional serenity.

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