BLOGS > AUGUST 10, 2020
BY SHANNON MCCLINTOCK MILLER
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While many camps have been cancelled for the summer, there is another way your kids can take part in the fun. Keep them engaged with a 12-week long Virtual Camp Adventure! This program is great for the summer, or anytime during the school year.
Shannon McClintock Miller, district teacher librarian at Van Meter Community School and Future Ready Librarian spokesperson, brings camp to life for your students with an educational twist. Each week has its own theme, choice board, collection curated in Collections by Destiny, and many other reading, learning and activity resources.
We will share each week’s theme and link them below, so you have direct access!
12 Week Virtual Camp Adventure:
Week 1: Let's See Where Imagination Will Take Them
Week 2: Let's Go to the Farm
Week 3: Let's Go to the Ocean
Week 4: Dinosaurs
Week 5: Gardens, Plants and Flowers
Week 6: Camping and Picnics
Week 7: Pets
Week 8: Bugs
Week 9: Games and Sports
Week 10: Furry Critters
Week 11: Things that Fly
Week 12: Space
Shannon McClintock Miller
Innovation Director of Instructional Technology and Library Media
Van Meter Community School
Van Meter, Iowa
Shannon McClintock Miller is the Innovation Director of Instructional Technology and Library Media at Van Meter Community School in Van Meter, Iowa. She is also the Future Ready Librarians Spokesperson working with librarians, educators and students around the world every day as an international speaker, consultant and author who has a passion for education, librarianship, advocacy, technology, social media and making a difference in the world and lives of others, especially children. Shannon brings a special expertise and vision to conversations around school libraries, education, technology, creativity and student voice. Learn more about Shannon on her award-winning blog, The Library Voice. Follow her on Twitter @shannonmmiller.
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