1. Virginia Living Museum (VLM)
Emily & Andrew

2. What’s at the VLM?
View some of Virginia’s most interesting and endangered animals. Touch live horseshoe crabs and fossilized dinosaur tracks. It’s all at the Virginia Living Museum.

3. What animals will I see at the VLM?
If it swims, flies, slithers, or walks and lives in Virginia you can see it at the VLM. While they don’t have every animal native to Virginia they focuses on Virginia’s natural and living resources. Join the other curious animals today at the VLM.

4. Do young learners have fun at the VLM?
Virginia’s native animals are on display in their natural habits. Visit the interactive exhibits, you are only limited by your own imagination.

5. Outside

6. Nature walk

7. Want to see a bobcat or a wolf up close?

8. Lower level

9. Red wing hawk

10. Who wants to be a vet or animal keeper?

12. World Of Darkness Learning Center

14. Horseshoe crab

16. Come see what swims in VA

18. Can you find the flounder?

19. Entrance level

24. Travel to the different regions of VA at the VLM
Come see a realistic portion of an appalachian mountain cove and cypress swamp. Visit the piedmont and mountains gallery, the coastal plain gallery, Virginia’s underground gallery, and Virginia’s world of darkness area.

25. Kindergarten SOL
K 7 The student will investigate and understand basic needs and life processes of plants and animals. Key concepts include
Animals need adequate food, water, shelter, air, and space to survive;
Plants need nutrients, water, air, light, and a place to grow to survive;
Plants and animals change as they grow, have varied life cycles, and eventually die; and
Offspring of plants and animals are similar but not identical to their parents or to one another.

26. Second grade SOL
2.5 The student will investigate and understand that living things are part of a system. Key concepts include
Living organisms are interdependent with their living and nonliving surroundings;
An animal’s habitat includes adequate food, water, shelter or cover, and space;
Habitats change over time due to many influences;and
Fossils provide information about living systems that were on Earth years ago.

27. Third grade SOL
3.5 The student will investigate and understand relationships among organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food chains. Key concepts include
Producer, consumer, decomposer
Herbivore, carnivore, omnivore; and
Predator and prey.

28. Fourth grade SOL
4.9 The student will investigate and understand important Virginia natural resources. Key concepts include
watershed s and water resources;
Animals and plants;
Minerals, rocks, ores, and energy sources; and
Forest, soil, and land.

29. As a class
There are a few options where you can get the VLM to visit your classroom.
Discovery boxes $
Student Tour Groups $-$$ min
School outreach $$ 235 first program 205 each additional
Visiting
Teacher’s corner - self guided visits $ 7 per student teachers free
Classes $ 9.75 per student 195 min+
School Safaris $$$ 650 min

30. As a family or group Games Camp-ins $$ 35/kid 25/adult
Free PDFs - they go great with the visit
Rotating Exhibit
BIG BUGS
Educational Movies $ 4
A few times a day, change seasonally
Laser Evenings $ 6
Second Saturday Every month
Camp-ins $$ 35/kid 25/adult
Friday 6:30pm - Saturday 9am
Must register
Classes for kids $$12-40
Limited days
Different classes on different days for different age groups

31. The more you visit the more you learn!
Parents are encouraged to participate as class chaperones. I would ask to see if discount tickets could be purchased for students and families that return for additional visits for school and research purposes. Students that return to the museum can earn extra credit by completing a scavenger hunt.