Ideas for Fun at Home
Here is a collection of free resources that you and your family can use and enjoy during this time of social distancing for both learning and fun.
Virtual Vacations
Fun things to explore on your own or with the whole family!
Mystic Seaport: While the museum is closed, they have opened up a brand new digital space to explore the museum remotely. They are also hosting daily virtual workshops on a number of topics.
The Louvre: Explore the famous Paris museum through a virtual tour.
The Great Wall of China: Get a glimpse of this 300-mile wonder with a cyber stroll.
The San Diego Zoo: Get up close and personal through the many live cams positioned around the zoo.
Big Wave Surfing in Maui: Watch surfing at its most surreal.
Travel to Mars: Explore Mars from aboard NASA's Curiosity Rover.
#TogetherAtHome: The World Health Organization and Global Citizen, have partnered to create a series of free concerts performed by award-winning artists on their Instagram Live feeds.
Metropolitan Opera: Tune into their website each night at 7:30 pm for a free, livestreamed show.
Broadway's Living Room Concerts: With their shows on pause, Broadway's brightest are posting performances live from their living room.
Explore.org: Close to one hundred webcams set up in national parks and wildlife sanctuaries around the world.
Google Earth: Check out all 31 National Parks, travel overseas to far off lands, of even take a tour of Hogwarts using Google Earth and it's Voyager feature.
Google Arts and Culture: Check out some of the world's wonders and most incredible monuments, or tour and browse the digitized collections of more than 1,200 cultural institutions around the world including Museum of Modern art in NYC, Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and Pusee d'Orsay in Paris.
VRBO: Indoor Activities for the Whole Family
Family Crafts: Create a number of DIY projects with materials you have at home.
PreK-2
Kelly Lane Media Center Website: A hub for all of the curated digital learning resources for Kelly Lane students, including Pebble Go, ABC Mouse, and PBS Kids.
Other Fun Things to Do
Sesame Street: The Sesame Street characters are here to help through Distance Learning, and have created a new hub of videos and games for kids.
Breakout EDU: Digital breakout rooms for students of all ages.
Kate Messner Read Alouds: A collection of authors reading aloud children's books.
Cookie: Interactive games for learning and fun, developed by child experts and educators.
Active for Life: 20 ways to keep busy at home during spring break.
87 Activities at Home: Fun things to do at home, published by Today's Parent.
GoNoodle: Short and fun videos for students to dance with.
Cosmic Kids Yoga: Making Yoga and Mindfulness fun for kids.
3-5
Learning
Wells Road Media Center Website
ABCya: Provides over 400 fun and educational games for PreK-6.
Pebble Go: Read Aloud resources for Literacy and Research. Posting 2 ideas for each day of the week to keep kids interacting with a variety of topics.
PBS Learning: PBS and local stations have curated Free, standards-aligned videos, interactives, and lessons.
Scholastic Learn at Home: Offering different activities, articles, and challenges. New each week of Distance Learning.
NASA at Home: STEM-based readings, activities, games, puzzles, and videos from NASA.
Math Playground: Math Games for a variety of math concepts, grades 1-6.
Chrome Music Lab: Learn more about music through fun, hands-on experiments.
Be Internet Awesome (Interland): An adventure-packed online game to put key lessons of digital citizenship to use.
Fun
Breakout EDU: Digital breakout rooms for students of all ages.
Kate Messner Read Alouds: A collection of authors reading aloud children's books.
Active for Life: 20 ways to keep busy at home during spring break.
87 Activities at Home: Fun things to do at home, published by Today's Parent.
GoNoodle: Short and fun videos for students to dance with.
Tynker: Tons of coding activities, tutorials, and games for students of all ages.
Cosmic Kids Yoga: Making Yoga and Mindfulness fun for kids.
6-8
Learning
PBS Learning: PBS and local stations have curated Free, standards-aligned videos, interactives, and lessons.
Capstone: Interactive ebooks - username: engage, password: learning
Scholastic Learn at Home: Offering different activities, articles, and challenges. New each week of Distance Learning.
Actively Learn: Offering a number of fiction and non-fiction texts for students to read and respond to.
NASA at Home: STEM-based readings, activities, games, puzzles, and videos from NASA.
Chrome Music Lab: Learn more about music through fun, hands-on experiments.
Fun
Breakout EDU: Digital breakout rooms for students of all ages.
Audible: Kids listen for free using Audible's collection of stories, free to stream.
Free Nook Books from Barnes and Noble
9-12
Ms. Laplant's Padlet: A collection of fun things to do when you need a break from binge-watching