Learning At Home

Educational Activities & Lesson Plans

• Scholastic Learn at Home: 20 days of education activities, broken up into four grade levels
• Amazing Educational Resources, a HUGE spreadsheet of tools/programs/services that usually cost money but are being offered for free, with info on subject and grade level (crowdsourced)
• Encantos Learning Hub (pre–K-1 resources available in English and Spanish)
• Learn@Home, educational YouTube channels curated by age group (YouTube)
• Sesame Street has videos, games, and activities for younger kids) (sesamo.com in Spanish) 
• Tinkergarten has a week's worth of outdoor education DIY activities (sign up for the email newsletter on Tinkergarten's website)
• Newsicle, a daily news trivia game put on by the folks behind XYZA: News for Kids
• News-o-Matic suspends fees for daily news stories for kids K–8 (News-o-Matic app)
• Complexly, a series of video series on educational topics ranging from literature to biochemistry (YouTube)
• Story Pirates University, writing video lessons from the Story Pirates podcast team  (YouTube)
• Two Whats and a Wow!, a daily science-based game show from the Wow in the World podcast team, including activity challenges (NPR)
• GoNoodle Good Energy at Home, entertaining videos and educational at-home activities that encourage movement

Arts, Film, and Music Lessons & Resources

• Rebel Girls providing 90+ writing/drawing/DIY prompts (sign up via email) 
• Digital curriculum and lessons available to go along with The Representation Project's films (lessons are free; films are available to rent or buy on streaming platforms)
• Keep Kids Smart with ART, art lesson plans run through the Boca Raton Museum
• CircleTime classes for age 0–6 including yoga, storytime, cooking, and music (registration required)
• Daily cartooning lessons from MazeToon's Joe Wos (YouTube @HowtoToon)
• A downloadable coloring book from illustrator Liz Climo (PDF)
• Kanopy, a movie streaming service available with a library card
• Interactive pretend play challenges and activity sheets from the Bay Area Children's Theater Creativity Corner (YouTube)
• Quarantine Art Club, a daily drawing challenge from illustrator Carson Ellis (Du Iz Tak?) (Instagram @carsonellis)
• Stop Motion Kids Camp enrollment from artist Trisha Zemp is being offered for free (redeem enrollment code by sharing one of Zemp's posts on Instagram @trishazemp)
• Drawing and comic-creating prompts from Jarrett Lerner (Enginerds)
• Printable coloring pages from Latinx artists from Veoleo (donations encouraged)
• Printable coloring pages featuring Latinx trailblazers from Con Todo Press
• Educational music videos from Laurie Berkner (YouTube)

Audiobooks & Virtual Storytime

• Audible Stories, an extensive streaming library of children's and young adult audiobooks (Amazon Audible)
• Authors read their books aloud (curated on Kate Messner's website) (YouTube)
• #OperationStorytime, a partnership with picture book authors and Romper to read their stories aloud (posted and curated on Twitter @romper, updated regularly)

Virtual Tours

• Virtual tour of American National Parks (Google Arts & Culture)
• Virtual tour of the deYoung Art Museum in San Francisco (Google Arts & Culture)
• Virtual museums, classes, and exhibits in San Francisco (curated by Red Tricycle)
• Virtual museums, classes, and exhibits in Seattle (curated by Red Tricycle)
• Virtual museums, classes, and exhibits in San Diego (curated by Red Tricycle)
• Virtual museums, classes, and exhibits in Chicago (curated by Red Tricycle)
• Virtual tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
• Virtual tour of the Louvre museum in Paris, France
• Virtual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
• Virtual tour of the Boston Children's Museum (Google Earth)
• Virtual tour of the Great Wall of China
• Virtual tour of Mars from pictures from NASA's Curiosity rover (Google)
• Virtual "field trips" to zoos, dairies, symphonies, and operas (curated by Red Tricycle)

Fun & Games

• Family Time Machine, ideas for activities for the whole family, available in Spanish 
• Virtual rides on Disney attractions (YouTube, curated on PopSugar)
• Virtual "Dungeons & Dragons" trial adventure from Wizards of the Coast (Roll20)
• Mobile and console games, including Alto's Adventure and The Sims 4, available for free or on sale (curated by The Verge)
• Amazon's original kids' series will be available for free (with or without a Prime account) (Amazon Video)
• StoryToys makes its educational preschool apps free to download 

          Real Authors. Real Illustrators. Real Time!

Stimola Live is a website of live stream events for kids, tweens, and teens by professional authors and illustrators represented by Stimola Literary Studio. Events will be streamed live from a variety of platforms and archived on the Stimola Live Channel! Schedule here!

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Learning at Home

Junior Library Guild is offering FREE access to their entire online reading platform!

"With JLG Gold Standard eBooks for Elementary, Middle School and High School students, JLG Digital gives readers unlimited access to read books online from any device. There is no limit to the number of users who can access the books, so you can click to your hearts' content! Titles enter and exit the digital stream regularly, so there are always new picks available!

Stories by Audible has vowed to stay open and FREE for kids to use as long as schools are closed. "Starting today, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids." All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

Story Time from Space has videos of astronauts in space reading books to the children of Earth. The videos are placed under the heading "Story Time Videos."

Storyline Online is a children’s literacy resource featuring the world’s best storytellers (actors) reading books aloud.