Educational Resources During Remote Learning
Curated by our friends at Common Sense Media, the following lessons, videos, and interactive experiences can help keep you and your child stay engaged in the joy of learning during this time of social distancing.
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)
- Learn@Home, educational YouTube channels curated by age group (YouTube)
- 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)
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
- 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
- Shape Origami (K-5) (curated by Youcubed at Stanford)
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)
Games & Other Activities
- Fewest squares (3-12) (curated by Youcubed at Stanford)
- Paper folding challenge (3-12) (curated by Youcubed at Stanford)
- Dice games for number fluency (K-12) (curated by Youcubed at Stanford)
- Analyzing Graphs (3-12) (curated by Youcubed at Stanford)