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- FROM ART TO ZOOS – LEARNING UNDER LOCKDOWN THE UK’S TOP VISITOR ATTRACTIONS OFFER EDUCATIONAL WORK AND CONTENT FOR CHILDREN AND SCHOOLS

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29 January 2021: With week 5 of homeschooling about to begin, members of ALVA (Association of Leading Visitor Attractions) are offering a variety of innovative “virtual” learning activities for Children and Schools. These range from building LEGO Shakespeare and drawing a comic strip inspired by The Tempest, to creating a gruesome recipe for a witches spell from Macbeth with Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to how to use your body to make art with the Tate or create your very own lolly stick theatre and re-tell the story of the Great Fire of London with Museum of London to Virtual Zoo Days with Chester Zoo and Edinburgh Zoo to celebrating Chinese New Year and LGBTQ+ History Month with Royal Museums Greenwich and Birmingham Museums’ science museum, Thinktank has created 16 kitchen science videos for kids and parents to try while home schooling. They include amazing experiments such as how to get an egg back from space and make ice cream without using a freezer!

Bernard Donoghue (Director) of ALVA, explains: “All visitor attractions provide educational and learning experiences in normal times, physically onsite and digitally online, but over the last year they have all stepped-up to the challenge to produce even more creative learning experiences to help children, teachers and parents who are learning and teaching at home.

He continues: “We know that museums and galleries, parks and gardens, zoos and castles, palaces and cathedrals are the backdrops for people's happiest memories and these examples of learning tools are just a small indication of how attractions keep themselves digitally open when they are physically closed.”