For more than a decade, the Skirball has been a favorite field trip destination for students and teachers across Los Angeles. But in 2020–2021, these in-person visits couldn't take place. As schools shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Skirball's team of educators sought new ways to support distance learning.

Learn how the Skirball brought the meaning and messages of Noah's Ark into virtual classrooms, creating a suite of streaming videos and downloadable lesson plans, plus online teacher programs and virtual field trips.

“We started to think about, ‘How are we going to keep our kids connected?’ And the Skirball Cultural Center was one of the first organizations that I found that was actually reaching out to educators.”—Shannon Garrison, Grade 5 teacher, on responding to the pandemic