Tennessee Aquarium Produces New Educational Video Series, Available Free To Teachers Thursday, May 6, 2021
Tennessee Aquarium Senior Educator works to train a Southern Flying Squirrel. These training sessions are covered in detail in a special behind-the-scenes video available through Science Streams, a series of videos produced by the Aquarium for educators. - photo by Tennessee Aquarium/Casey Phillips For nearly three decades, the Tennessee Aquarium’s world-class living collection has sparked the curiosity and wonder of millions of visiting school children. Even as the global pandemic slowly recedes, however, many schools have placed field trips in indefinite timeout. At the moment, many students are unable to see the Aquarium firsthand and experience the wonder and connection it offers with the natural world, but nothing says the Aquarium can’t come to them.
Tennessee Aquarium, Reflection Riding Partnering As Hosts For Summer Camp Fun Tuesday, February 16, 2021
After taking a year off due to health concerns, the Tennessee Aquarium announces redesigned summer camp programs, now in partnership with Reflection Riding Arboretum & Nature Center and presented by Children’s Hospital at Erlanger. From sun-drenched team games and dirt-stained clothes to hand-made crafts and friendship pacts, a week at summer camp is a quintessential part of growing up for many kids, officials said. Thanks to months of being cooped up in the house and only zooming around on a computer, kids need the release of this summertime tradition now more than ever.
IMAX 3D Film Celebrating America’s Wildest Open Spaces Comes To Chattanooga Feb. 12 Monday, February 8, 2021
A climber dangles beneath the graceful stone curve of Wilson Arch in Utah’s Arches National Park - photo by MacGillivray Freeman
Astronaut and Chickasaw Nation member John Herrington poses atop a stone outcropping in New Mexico’s Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area - photo by MacGillivray Freeman
Beautiful, wave-notched coves dot the stretch of Oregon’s coast known as the “kelp highway” - photo by MacGillivray Freeman
The lead “characters” and hosts of Into America’s Wild include astronaut John Herrington, Alaskan bush pilot, youth advocate and reality TV star Ariel Tweto and speed hiking legend Jennifer Pharr Davis, from left