Side Menu Ends, main content for this page beginsBack to Side Menu (includes search)
Online Learning Resources for Your Student
Posted on: March 20, 2020
Keeping your children occupied during this forced schooling-at-home can be a struggle – for them and for you! There are all kinds of web-based opportunities for your children to enhance their learning, and one of these websites might take the edge off their boredom when they’ve had enough of reading and other games around the house. Enjoy these options, and please share those you have found with us as well.
- America’s Test Kitchen: help your child learn to cook!
- But Why? Podcast: a way to explain coronavirus to kids
- ChessKid: play chess online with other elementary-aged kids
- Cincinnati Zoo: Home Safari Facebook Live, 3 pm, 7 days a week
- Commonsense Media: a list of the best documentaries for kids
- Concerts & Broadway performances: livestreaming
- Cosmic Kids Yoga: yoga lessons via YouTube
- Duolingo: learn foreign languages for free
- Exploration of the Day: Prompts to get creative juices flowing
- Free educational resources: websites offering free subscriptions due to school closings
- GoNoodle: fun, active games to engage kids
- Khan Academy: personalized learning in math, grammar, science, history, SAT®, AP®, and more
- KidzBop: dance-along videos on YouTube
- Learning Resource Hub: a group started by a teacher & parent to share resources for kids of all ages
- Liv-Bits: interactive read-alouds with favorite authors
- Lunch Doodles with Mo Willem: from the Kennedy Center
- McHarper Manor: free online art & craft tutorial, daily at 1 pm
- National Park exploration: virtually explore our national parks
- Open Culture: free cultural & educational media options, including textbooks, audiobooks, movies, and free online courses from professors
- Outschool: live online classes on a variety of subjects
- PBS Kids: a daily newsletter with lots of ideas
- Pinna: free audiobook subscription for 2 months with code PINNA4KIDS
- Scholastic Learn-at-Home: free daily projects
- StorySeeds Podcast: kids & authors collaborate on story ideas in real time
- So You Think You Can Dance: virtual dance parties through Instagram
- Ted-Ed: video learning from top educators
- Virtual Field Trips: 20 options
- Vooks: online streaming library offering one month free
- Writing Prompts: from author Kate DiCamillo