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Oxbow Virtual Learning

Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center Columbus | Ft. Benning, GA

Explore Oxbow’s reimagined virtual learning opportunities, including interactive programs to pre-recorded hands-on lessons that will provide you and your students with a brief exploration into science.


a laptop on grass

Interactive Distance Learning

Bring Oxbow Meadows to your classroom through a digital format!

Click here to Schedule your Virtual Field Trip

Combines video instruction and live virtual interacting with an Oxbow educator.  Designed to provide real-world learning in a virtual world.

During an Interactive Distance Learning program, your student will:

  • Interact with an Oxbow education professional
  • Have the opportunity to ask questions
  • Enjoy an encounter with one of Oxbow’s animal ambassadors
  • Apply their classroom knowledge in a virtual “real-world” setting

Interactive Distance Learning programs can be scheduled as a Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams session, any format the school is using to teach for the 2020-2021 school year.


Virtual Hands-on Lessons

children sitting on the ground performing a science experiment

Full hands-on lesson plans, correlated
to standards, which combine video
instruction, worksheets, reading, and
hands-on activities that can be replicated
in the classroom or at-home.

Virtual Hands-on Lessons  

I See, I Wonder...
Videos

a great blue heron

Short-hands on science activities and
hands-on demonstration to engage
learning or expand classroom experiences.

I See, I Wonder... Videos  

Wildlife Education Presentations

a black snake

Learn about Oxbow’s animal ambassadors, including native and non-native species.

These videos are recordings of live streams.

Wildlife Education Presentations  

Phenomenon Video Collection

an iceberg in the water

Library of phenomenon videos to enhance engagement and exploration in the
classroom or can be used as an
anchor phenomenon video.

Phenomenon Video Collection  

CSU Student Created Materials

a great horned owl

Digital resources created by CSU
Early Childhood education students.

CSU Student Created Materials  

External Virtual Resources

children sitting in a classroom listening to a lecture

Additional resources for virtual
and in-person teaching.

External Virtual Resources