We hope this list of resources will be a blessing to you!
MUSIC:
- Songs to Sing in a Pandemic by Bob Kauflin
- Kids Worship Music Playlist
- Live Family Hymn Sing with the Getty Family – Every Tuesday Night
- Preschool Praise – Every Monday at 10AM
- The Baptist Catechism Set to Music
- Introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, exercises, ear trainers, and calculators.
- Prodigies is a colorful music curriculum for kids 1-12 that will teach your kids how to play their first instrument, how to sing in tune & how to understand the language of music!
- QuaverMusic is offering free access to general music activities to all impacted schools, including free student access at-home
- A large selection of fun songs to help teach preschool and kindergarten students
- Sight reading and sight singing practice exercises.
- Lets kids play instruments online. Instruments include the guitar, piano, pan flute, drums, and bongos.
- The Theta Music Trainer offers a series of online courses and games for ear training and music theory.
ACTIVITIES:
- 50+ Cheap Easy Indoor Activities for your Kids
- Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover.
- This Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs.
- Indoor Activities for busy toddlers
- Play games and learn all about animalsThe San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour!
- International Coloring pages from Compassion International
- Tour Yellowstone National Park!
- Two weeks of free kid cooking classes
- This iconic museum located in the heart of London allows virtual visitors to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies.
- Read, play games, and hang out with Dr. Seuss.
- Virtual Tour of the Carlsbad Caverns
- 300,000+ FREE printable worksheets from toddlers to teens.
- Travel to Paris, France to see amazing works of art at The Louvre with this virtual field trip.
- This Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China is beautiful and makes history come to life.
- Geography and animals.
- Crafts, activities, mazes, dot to dot, etc.
- Live Cams at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Fun games, recipes, crafts, activities.
- Virtual tours of 31 of the world’s most incredible national parks
- Daily free science or cooking experiment to do at home.
- Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
- 3 Free Weeks of Maker Stations to keep your children creating at home! Each challenge includes simple instructions using materials around the house, QR code video resources, and a student recording sheet.
- Google 3D Animals
- Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts.
- Illustrated recipes designed to help kids age 2-12 cook with their grown-ups. Recipes encourage culinary skills, literacy, math, and science.
- 80+ do at home science activities
- Quick & easy at home projects curated for kids 2 and up
- Kid-friendly workouts — choose from Strength for Kids, Agility for Kids, Flexibility and Balance for Kids, Warm-Up for Kids, Cooldown for Kids, Stand Up and Move for Kids, OR create your own custom kid workout.
- At home OT, PT, and ST resources designed to build skills in children through movement and play.
- Learn all about earthquakes
- Guide to gardening for kids
- Online digital coloring pages
- Tons of science experiments that you can do at home
- Crafts, activities, bulletin board designs, and finger plays for early education teachers and parents to use with kids.
- No need to travel to one of the Smithsonian’s zoos or museums — this website brings your child everything from live video of the National Zoo to the Smithsonian Learning Lab right to their screen
- Cool Kid Facts gives your child access to educational videos, pictures, quizzes, downloadable worksheets, and infographics. They can use these to learn about geography, history, science, animals, and even the human body.
- This interactive website, hosted by the U.S. Government Publishing Office, allows your child to see the ins and outs of the U.S. government by taking a series of learning adventures with none other than Benjamin Franklin.
- This NASA initiative covers a wide range of topics including weather, climate, atmosphere, water, energy, plants, and animals.
- Your child can play games, learn fun facts, and find out how to turn coin collecting into a hobby.
- From rainbows to tornadoes and winter storms to tsunamis, meteorologist Crystal Wicker breaks down the fascinating world of weather.
- Kids Think Design explores careers in fashion design, graphic design, interior design, book design, product design, film and theatre, architecture, animation, and environmental design.
- This educational website hosted by the Smithsonian Museum takes a deep dive into ocean life.
- Alaskan Wildlife cams
- Coding with Star Wars
- Tons and tons and tons of games some learning some just fun
- Crafts, projects, science, recipes for young children
- Engineering challenges with things you have at home
- Online photograph jigsaw puzzles You can set the pieces from 6-1000+
- Toddler and preschool age ideas
READING / MEDIA:
- Truth and Grace Memory Books – Catechism
- Andrew Peterson is doing daily live readings of his books: The Wingfeather Saga
- Free audiobooks (lots of classic children’s literature)
- 4 free weeks access to Focus on the Family’s Adventures in Odyssey
- The Torchlighters Series – Amazon Prime
- Focus on the Family Radio Theatre – Apple Music
- The Jesus Storybook Bible Video Bible Study by Sally Lloyd-Jones
- Fave kids books read by famous people.
- Novel Effect makes storytime a little more fun for kids (and grown-ups too!) As you read out loud from print books (or ebooks!) music, sound effects, and character voices play at just the right moment, adjusting and responding to your voice.
- National Geographic Young Explorers is a magazine designed specifically for kindergarten and first grade students. Children can listen to the magazine being read to them as they follow along with the highlighted text.
- Free stories online ages 3-12
- Interactive games based on the book series: The Magic Treehouse
- Bible story resources early childhood – 6th grade
- Simple sermon notes page for kids that might be helpful for watching services with family
EDUCATION:
MATH:
- Math games.
- K-8 online math program that looks at how a student is solving problems to adjust accordingly and build a unique learning path for them.
- Math games.
- Math practice from counting to algebra and geometry.
- Math as a fun part of your daily family routine.
- A wide range of math content from middle school through AP Calculus
- Elementary Math through 6th grade.
- Math Videos with lessons, real life uses of math, famous actors
- Elem Math games, logic puzzles and educational resources
- Math Games, Logic Puzzles and Brain Builders
- Website allows students to play basic games to reinforce math skills and compete against the computer or others
- Immerse yourself in cryptography
- Math games galore
- Short videos about numbers that help kids explore complex math topics and make math more fun.
- Scratch draws students of all types into coding and lays a foundation for future learning.
- Algebra games for kids
- Fractions practice
- Math and logic problems for ages 5 and up to adult
- Scads of free resources, games, learning resources, and lesson plans for teaching personal finance
- Banzai exposes students to real-world financial dilemmas to teach them the importance of smart money management.
LANGUAGE / GRAMMAR:
- Printable board games, activities and more for phonics and reading all using evidence-based methods. Can be customized to any student’s needs including creating flashcards for other subjects.
- Language games.
- Vocabulary, grammar, listening activities and games in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Korean, and Latin.
- Phonics skills.
- Resources for Spanish practice
- Grammar practice for middle grades
- Foreign languages
- Magic Spell is a carefully crafted spelling adventure.
- Improve your typing skills while competing in fast-paced races with up to 5 typers from around the world.
- The Shurley English program for grades K-8 provides a clear, logical, and concrete approach to language arts.
- Course sets (Levels 1–5) that combine and thoroughly cover phonics, reading, writing, spelling, literature, grammar, punctuation, art, and geography—all in one easy-to-use, beautiful course.
- Spelling 1-4 grade
- 22 languages to learn
- Phonics worksheets for kids
- Work on the 8 parts of speech
SCIENCE:
- A human visualization platform that allows students to explore the human body in really cool ways.
- Farmer’s almanac for kids… Date, weather, moon phase, etc.
- Learn all about the periodic table
- NASA Space science for kiddos
- Learn all about cells
- Hands on Elementary science videos.
- High school chemistry topics.
- Biology Simulations
- Science simulations, scientist profiles, and other digital resources for middle school science and high school biology
- Chemistry
- Ask Dr. Universe is a science-education project from Washington State University. Kids can send Dr. Universe any question they may have about history, geography, plants, animals, technology, engineering, math, culture, and more.
- Science and math labs and simulations
- K-5th Science lessons
- Interactive video earth science based curriculum supplement.
- Science podcasts to listen to with your kids
- Innerbody explores the 11 bodily systems in depth. With interactive models and detailed explanations, this website will help them learn more about the internal mechanics of the amazing human body.
HISTORY / CULTURE / GEOGRAPHY:
- Helps kids learn to appreciate the arts by providing them with the opportunity to play games, conduct investigations, and explore different forms of art.
- Games, quizzes and fact sheets take kids on a journey through time.
- NGAkids interactives offer an entertaining and informative introduction to art and art history.
- News and more for kids
- An interactive way to learn history
- 35,000 pages of online content on the cultures and countries of the world.
- Digital archive of history
- A wonderful, endlessly detailed way to get kids engaged in the world of art.
- Tests kids’ geography skills. Using images from Google’s Street View, it plops players down in the middle of the street and asks them to figure out where they are.
- Allows students to type in any city, state, or country to view an archive of historical photographs and other documents. It’s a unique way to help them learn about history.
READING:
- Reading passages for grades 3-12, with reading comprehension and discussion questions.
- Engaging reading game for grades 2-8 that combines strategy, engagement, and imaginative reading passages to create a fun, curriculum-aligned literacy game.
GENERAL:
- Educational games K-12
- Tons of free classes from leading universities and companies
- Free printable K-8 Reading and Math activity packs (available in English and Spanish)
- Digital learning content for preschool through high school
- Resources for AP students including live reviews, live trivia, and study guides!
- Educational brain breaks to help students review essential literacy and math skills, while getting in some exercise. Find over 900 videos to help your child keep learning at home and burn off some extra energy. Our site is best used for ages 4-8.
- ClickSchooling brings you daily recommendations by email for entertaining websites that help your kids learn.
- Games to get “into the book”.
- Online homeschool platform & curriculum for Pre-K to 12th grade. All main subjects are covered, plus extra curriculum courses.
- 7,000 free videos in 13 subject areas
- Carmen Sandiego videos, stories, and lessons for all subject areas
- Entertaining & educational videos for all levels and subjects
- Online education program for toddler through high school.
- Free Printables for PreK-2nd Grade
- Free printables library with activities for children 0-6
- Online curriculum that builds better writers.
- PreK-12 digital media service with more than 30,000 learning materials
- Curricular content hub specifically designed for K-3 students.
- Critical Thinking resources for K-6 students
