Resources for Families and Kids: Have Fun and Learn While Social Distancing

Here you are a few days into COVID-19 restrictions, maybe working from home, and helping your children adjust to a life that includes remote learning, homeschooling, and social distancing. Maybe you could use a little inspiration and help with adjusting to your new normal. We’ve put together this great list of free resources that includes ways to get your kids learning, having fun, moving, listening, and exploring.

Earn Badges

• Badge Squad
• Let’s Play School

Explore the Earth

• Google Earth

Fun & Games

• Boredom Busters
• Breakout Edu
• Funbrain
• Highlights for Kids
• PBS Kids

Have Storytime at Home

• Our favorite songs, rhymes, and stories help you have library storytime at home

Get Moving

• Cosmic Kids Yoga
• Go Noodle

Get Drawing

• Draw Everyday with Jarrett J. Krosoczka
• Family Drawing Game with PBS Kids
• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
• Dav Pilkey at Home

Learn

• Amplify Resources for Remote Learning
• Bad Science from The Franklin Institute
• Brainfuse
• Kahn Academy Remote Learning
• Kids Ask Authors with Grace Lin
• Knowledge on the Go Video Lessons
• LearningExpress
• LearnZillion
• Mystery Science
• National Geographic Kids
• Power Kids
• Reading Rockets: Resources to Keep Kids Learning at Home
• Read, Learn, Wonder with Kate Messner: Resources for Learning Anywhere
• Scholastic Learn at Home
• Thirty Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month at Home or Online
• Zearn Math

Listen to a Podcast

• Common Sense Media: The 25 Best Podcasts for Kids
• The History Chicks
• Podcasts for Preschoolers

Listen to a Story

• Goodnight with Dolly Parton
• Dan Gutman Reads His Books
• Oliver Jeffers Reads His Stories
• Operation Storytime
• Save with Stories
• Stimola Live

Virtually Visit a Cultural Institution or Historic Site

• Georgia Aquarian Barrier Reef Webcam
• Georgia O’Keefe Museum
• Google Arts and Culture including:
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • British Museum
  • The Colosseum
  • Guggenheim Museum
  • Great Pyramid of Giza
  • Machu-Picchu
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Musée d’Orsay
  • Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
  • Museum of Modern Art (MoMa)
  • National Gallery of Art
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Zoo
  • Palace of Versailles
  • Rijksmuseum
  • Taj Mahal
  • Van Gogh Museum
• Go on a Trek with Google
• Great Wall of China
• Heinz History Center
• The Louvre
• Metropolitan Opera House
• Monterey Bay Aquarian Live Web Cams
• Museum of the American Revolution
• National Museum of Natural History
• San Diego Zoo
• Sistine Chapel
• State Museum of Pennsylvania
• Valley Forge National Historical Park
• Van Gogh Museum
• Yellowstone National Park
• Yosemite National Park