COVID-19 Educational Resources

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In these crazy times parents are looking for, among other things, good ways to occupy their childrens’ time in a wholesome fashion. I didn’t want my childrens’ learning to just stop. To move the ball forward, at least a little, I have currated a list of education related resources to help in that process. My goal was to find things that are in the spirit of fun and learning. Nothing here is officially endorsed by me. I only provide these links because our family has found them helpful, I hope you do to. Stay safe, stay sane.

Biology

Zoo America - Zoo America features an animal (11:00AM daily)

Cincinnati Zoo - Cincinnati Zoo features an animal (3:00PM daily)

San Diego Zoo Live cams - Animal cams

Snapshot Safari - Crowdsourced projects to classify animals from nature cameras

Art

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems - A fun drawing time (1:00PM daily)

Draw every day with Jarett J. Krosoczka - A fun drawing time

Google Music Lab - Fun little music lab

Virtual museum tours

Metropolitan Opera - Live performance every night from their catalog of recorded events.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra - Free live stream performances

Geography

Location Estimater - Guess the world location from Google-van images

GeoGuesser - Guess the world location from Google-van images (nice, but kind of naggy)

Language

Duolingo - Learn or practice another language

Hello Chinese - Learn Chinese

Audible - Audible provides a selection of free kids books

StorylineOnline - World’s best storytellers reading books aloud. Each video includes an activity guide with lessons for K-5 students

We Are Teachers - Math card games

Educational Games

Brain Pop

Kahoot

Seterra Geography

Mystery Science

Science

Skype a Scientist - Scientists cover wide variety of topics

Activities

Scholastic Daily - Activities/Articles/Videos

Discovery Education - Daily activies for kids

Misc

Lancaster Library Links - A nice list of more links

Free Subscriptions - Education companies offering free subscriptions during COVID-19