Resources for Covid Closure

GoNoodle
BrainPOP
Time for Kids (K-6)
PBS Kids
Ideas for Activities During School Closings
Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch (Video)
ByrdseedTV (Educational Videos)
Reading Eggs
Epic! Digital Book Library
Storyline - Streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations
Best Music Apps and Games for Kids
New Kids' TV Shows
50 Books All Kids Should Read Before They're 12
Best Family Movies
Common Sense Selections highlighting the best movies and TV shows
Sibling Watch-Together TV
Best Documentaries for Kids and Families
Common Sense Media (reviews for what your kids want to watch before they watch it)
Scratch Jr. - Coding is the new literacy! With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games. In the process, they learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer
Code.org - Learn computer science
Kodable - Programming for kids
Hello Ruby - Hello Ruby is the world's most whimsical way to learn about computers, technology and programming. The story started with a book, and now Ruby continues her adventures in exercises, activities and videos. It’s suited for kids age 5 years and older (but even adults might learn something new)

Podcasts for Kids
Calendar/list of live streams to watch
Netflix Party Chrome extension - a Chrome extension for watching Netflix remotely with friends
15 Broadway Plays and Musicals You Can Watch On Stage From Home
20 Virtual Field Trips
Entertainment for a Quarantine
Math card games
Library of Congress digital collections
NASA has made their entire media library - images, sounds, and video - public
Mix.com - formerly stumbleupon, Mix is a social content curation site that allows you to collect articles, and content about specific interests or topics that you like. When you curate and add to your collections, your content is shared with friends and made discoverable to others on Mix who share similar interests.
Use DuoLingo to learn a new language or practice one you already know!
You Can Now Tour 2,500 World-Famous Museums From the Comfort of Your Own Sofa
Free audiobooks
The Actor’s Fund will be producing daily Broadway Virtual Concerts featuring stars of the stage and screen, singing and performing live (from home)! Tune in each day at 2pm and 8PM
The San Diego Zoo hasa website just for kids with videos, activities, and games!
Tour Yellowstone National Park
Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover
The Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs
40+ Best Indoor Activities from Busy Toddler
Google Earth Has Virtual Tours of 31 National Parks in the U.S.

450 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free
Met to launch “Nightly Met Opera Streams” - A free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the website during the coronavirus closure
TED-Ed Video Playlist - Sorted by categories
Virtual Field Trips - Over 30 virtual field trips with links
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
Educational YouTube channels
Unite for Literacy - free online audiobooks
Cincinnati Zoo is Bringing the Zoo to You!
100 things to do while stuck inside due to a pandemic
Story time from space
Chris Field - live streaming Afternoon Adventures on Facebook every Monday-Friday until April 3rd at 3pm Eastern time (previous videos will be saved for viewing at any time)
Coronavirus: Kids stuck at home should go on these virtual Disney World rides
The Palace of Versailles is offering a free virtual tour
Free virtual tours of museums, parks, and cities
Audible.com - all stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet
JMRL - The library has digital books and virtual programs
Stick Figure Art YouTube channel
50 Ways to Keep Kids Engaged at Home During the Coronavirus Shutdown
Wash Your Lyrics - Generate a hand washing lyrics meme based on your favorite song lyrics
Write notes, letters, draw pictures to send or drop off at local nursing homes - the elderly in nursing homes aren’t allowed to have visitors right now and it will brighten their day!

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