During this challenging time, 12-Story Library wants to make sure you have the resources needed for your young readers to continue to learn and excel during their time spent learning remotely. Access for free through May 31, 2020.
Free access to ABDO Digital's titles for K-8 available free through June 2020
Free access to ABDO Digital's titles for 5-12 available free through June 2020
This database provides online research opportunity for young children. Access is free through June 2020.
Amicus is providing free access to its K-16 ebooks in both English and Spanish through May 31, 2020.
For as long as schools are closed, we're open. Starting today, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.
These companies are offering free subscriptions to educational resources during the COVID-19 outbreak.
EducationPerfect is a great tool that teachers who are affected by school closures can take advantage of. Educators are able to assign tasks to students, monitor progress, and even comment on student work. This website is always free and has already shown to be very helpful for teachers who have been out of school.
This group is to support educators who are planning distance or online learning due to school closures for COV19. This group educator-focused, so parents should find homeschooling groups.
BrainPop is offering free unlimited access to BrainPop for schools that have been closed and will continue to offer free access until schools are back in session.
Originally designed for homeschooling, this website provides worksheets and other educational materials for students from preschool to high school
Singer Dolly Parton reads bedtime stories from the Imagination Library live on Facebook.
Puzzles, Games, and other activities from the company that produces the famous Highlights magazines that many of us remember from childhood.
HippoCampus provides thousands of educational videos covering varying topics. This service is always free and it even allows teachers to put together playlists for their students to watch.
This Google Doc from Khan Academy provides daily schedules of learning experiences for students broken down by age groups. It includes videos, activities, and even regularly scheduled breaks.
Daily live and recorded lessons in drawing from the Kennedy Center's Artist in Residence, Mo Willems. Episodes are streamed at 12:00 Central Time every week day and available for streaming after that.
Mike Flynn and Sarah Bent from Mount Holyoke College have created a virtual professional learning community to support educators (PreK-16) in this transition to online education. Join this group to access all of the free resources, attend live trainings and/or receive recordings of them, and get the support you need.
PBS Learning has standard aligned videos that go with premade lesson plans. This is a great resource for parents and teachers alike.
PenPal Schools is an online learning community that allows students from all around the world to learn different things and discuss their findings in educational discussions. PenPal schools is available free to all teachers, parents, and students.
Prodigy offers students fun math games that are aligned with standards and are great to keep students excited about learning. Prodigy is a free resource.
Offers online and printable resources for students. Readings from a wide variety of subject areas and comprehension building questions included.
Daily cross-curricular projects for kids ranging in age from kindergarten through high school. Each activity is group around a story or video.
This Sesame Street toolkit includes videos, activities, and a printable workbook.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning and Daytime Emmy-nominated children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams imaginatively produced videos featuring celebrated actors.
This YouTube channel provides videos of astronauts reading popular children's stories from orbit.
TedEd offers a multitude of different lessons with a wide array of different subject areas covered. There are also educational videos available that also span a wide variety of subject areas.
Popular children’s brain breaks, action and dance song, Move and Freeze. Move and Freeze is from the award-winning CD, “Brain Boogie Boosters.”
This popular YouTube channel provides age appropriate Yoga videos for children as young as three.
A fun, short exercise video for kids down to the age of three.
This special edition Kids Workout is for all of our Blenders and their little ones. Go at your own pace; take breaks when you need to, and have fun!
Go Meals Go! dietitian Shana Hussin leads kids aged 3-12 through a quick full-body workout that can be repeated over and over. Let your kids work out a little steam with these exercises.
GoNoodle is free for teachers, parents, and kids! In addition to energizing content, GoNoodle has 300+ dance videos, mindfulness activities, and more engaging videos for kids!
Join Allison & Kai as they take you through lots of fun moves! Some include the Soccer Dribble, Ski Hops, Goalie Saves, and go Surfing!
A 360-degree Virtual Tour of all three floors of the Boston Children's Museum.
The British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. Over 6 million visitors every year experience the collection, including world-famous objects such as the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, and Egyptian mummies. Includes an interactive History of the World activity.
The Georgia Aquarium provides webcams for several exhibits, including sharks, barrier reefs, beluga whales, sea otters, and piranhas.
Google curates a large set of collections made available via its partners around the world.
The online collections include Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Browse by artist, date, medium, movement, and venue, or by several of the major groups of acquisitions that have entered the holdings of the foundation since its inception in 1937.
Take 360-degree tours of the Louvre and closely examine collections from ancient Egypt, the museum's medieval architecture, and Louis XIV's Galerie d'Apollon.
In addition to other exhibits, #MetKids is a digital feature made for, with, and by kids. Explore The Met with our interactive map and watch behind-the-scenes videos that feature kids just like you. With fun facts and creative projects for the galleries or at home, #MetKids has been inspired, tested, and approved by real kids ages 7–12.
During the temporary closure, visit the Gallery virtually through video tours of current exhibitions, in-depth looks at highlights of the collection, online learning opportunities, audio and video recordings of lectures by artists and curators, and more.
Virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop of mobile device. Visitors can also access select research and collections areas at our satellite support and research stations and past exhibits no longer on display.
This collection examines a wide array of exhibits in American Women's History. that tell the stories of women who transformed our nation.
Provides 36-degree virtual tours of seven exhibits, including the Sistine Chapel.
Past productions from the The Teatro Regio in Turin, including February's Nabucco.
Live streamed and recorded music from the Chamber Music Society, provided while the Lincoln Center is closed for the coronavirus pandemic.
Nightly streaming of opera from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
This website provides access to a free archive of opera performances from across Europe, including mini Mozart festivals. Operavision also has a YouTube channel.
The musicians of the Seattle Symphony have generously volunteered to share free broadcasts with everyone during this time of uncertainty. All broadcasts can be streamed through the Symphony’s social media channels on YouTube and Facebook.
Free access to concerts and opera, including Madame Butterfly, La Traviata, and a Barber of Seville.
The Vienna State Opera is provided live and recorded performances during the coronavirus outbreak.
In addition to free live streaming of performances, past live streams of classical music are available on demand.
Provides Facebook Live streams daily at 3:00 pm Eastern Time, with recordings of sessions posted to YouTube later in the day. Attractions include ocelots, hippos, and porcupines.
A curated collection of webcams showing wild and not-so-wild spaces around the world.
Houston Zoo Webcams include giraffes, gorillas, elephants, chimps, leafcutter ants, and rhinos.
Monterey Bay Aquarium live cams highlight otters, jelly fish, coral reefs, penguins, sea turtles, sharks, and the bay itself.
ake your grade K-8 students behind the scenes into Shedd’s animal hospital, shark or penguin habitats—without leaving your school! Through our Live from Behind the Scenes program, Shedd experts, from trainers to veterinarians, and animals will make a virtual visit to your classroom for a live 50-minute interactive experience.
While the National Zoo is temporarily closed to the public, the animals are still active. Webcams include naked mole rats, lions, giant pandas, and elephants
This tour allows users to visually explore Bryce Canyon National Park in Southern Utah.
Explore the rock formations of the famous caverns, watch thousands of bats, and see the bat's view of the world in a simulation.
This Google Culture tour allows you to dive a century-old shipwreck, swim through a coral reef, and explore a Civil War fort.
This million acre park in Montana boasts mirror lakes and one of the largest populations of Grizzly Bears in North America.
Explore a lava tube, view coastal cliffs, and fly over an eruption from the 1950s.
Alaska's smallest national park at "just" 1,000 square miles still provides virtual kayaking expeditions and a trip into the crevasse of a glacier.