Homeschool Resources: Sparkito Kinder and Museo Galileo Virtual Museum

Charlie and I are excited to share two new Homeschool Resources: Sparkito! Kinder and Museo Galileo Virtual Museum where you will be able to visit a museum in Italy. Before Charlie and I check out these resources I would like to know if you’ve used them with your students. If so, what did you think of the resources and why?

Sparkito! Kinder

Sparkito! Kinder is an interactive, multi-subject program in English and Spanish that is designed to teach mathematics, science, social studies, language, and music academic concepts for the Pre-Kinder and Kindergarten levels.

Museo Galileo Virtual Museum– Grades 3-12, with parental supervision

With the aid of this website, visit the Museo Galileo Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy from your home.

• Select from the following ways to explore the exhibits:
• Rooms – Take a room-by-room virtual tour of the museum.
• Objects – Search through the alphabetical list of objects.
• Videos by thematic area – Watch videos describing various objects with a related theme.
• Videos alphabetically ordered – Choose objects from the alphabetized list of the videos.
• Biographies – Learn about the inventors and creators of the objects in the museum.

There is also a glossary and downloadable catalog available to enhance your studies.
Once you have decided how you would like to browse the virtual museum, select your object of interest to learn more through text, images, and videos. There are thousands of interesting exhibits to examine, so be sure to bookmark this one to come back to often.

Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates