So many of us are home under shelter in place or self isolation, and we want to help you make the most of your time at home! So we're going to be sharing ideas from the list every day of things YOU can do (with your SheHeroes & Heroes) from home! How are you passing the time while at home during the Coronavirus? We plan on regualrly updating the list with your suggestions! Let us know via social media and we’ll make sure we add to the list as we go on. #Coronastaycation #AloneTogether
- Of course our website is ALWAYS here with resources to entertain and inspire!
Places you can visit and awesome experiences you can have FROM HOME:
- How to Optimize Your Home for Another Semester of Virtual Teaching.
- Stars Read Harry Potter Online for Families to Enjoy at Home
- Sundance is Giving You Free Access to Its Entire Library of Online Master Classes.
- Japan's famous Ghibli Museum is now offering exclusive online tours
- Here's how to virtually tour everything from Yosemite to the SF's de Young Museum
- Children's Museums (with online programs)
- Take Virtual Guided Tours Of Puerto Rico To Feel Like You Are On Vacation
- David Attenborough to Teach Virtual Geography Lessons to Kids in Quarantine
- Explore zoos, aquariums, museums and destinations around the world without leaving home. Here are 20 virtual field trips you can take with your kids.
- Join our friends at NCWIT May 4-22 for a series of free virtual events featuring workshops, keynotes, Q&As, on-demand videos, and more! Get all the details here: http://ncwit.org/conversations.
- Focused Reading Channel on YouTube Featuring Writers, Artists and Stars
- Check out Coded, Kirsten Brandt's innovative new play about women game designers , which managed a couple of small preview performances before the coronavirus crisis and is available to see FREE!
- The Globe Theatre is streaming Shakespeare’s greatest plays for free this month
- Visit Disneyland: VIRTUALLY!
- Harry Potter At Home
- Behind-the-Scenes Live and Interactive at Oakland Zoo
- Nature Conservancy and its 550 scientists have created Nature Lab: to help students learn the science behind how nature works for us and how we can help keep it running strong
- IF/THEN Coalition Member Education Resources
- 10 virtual tours of the world’s most famous landmarks
- Neil Gaiman offers tons of cool stuff for free for you to kill your time with
- Alvin Ailey to Stream Full-Length Performances Online
- Take a real look at life around the world.
- From 17 March, the Paris Opera will be putting its most beautiful shows from its archives online free of charge.
- Enjoy a One-of-a-Kind Learning Experience from Disney Imagineers!
- Free Classes from the YMCA
- Free Cooking with one of the world’s top chefs on his instagram account!
- Five Gardens You Can Virtually Tour, Just in Time for the First Day of Spring
- Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch. Experience the best museums from London to Seoul in the comfort of your own home.
- Now is the Time to Send Your Loved Ones Mail
- Live Video Streams From the Monterey Bay Aquarium
- You can watch Broadway musicals and plays free online for a limited time
- Here are 450 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free
- The lost art of deep listening: Choose an album. Lose the phone. Close your eyes.
- Critical Role, D&D, and Roll20 have released a free adventure you can play online
- Actor Josh Gad Is Reading Books to Kids Online Every Night During Coronavirus Quarantines
- Rolling Stone is launching a new IGTV series titled “In My Room.”
- While Disney World & Disneyland Are Closed, Take Your Kids On Virtual Rides
- A List Of Live Virtual Concerts To Watch During The Coronavirus Shutdown
- Google Earth Has Virtual Tours of 31 National Parks in the U.S.
- Cleveland celebrity chef Michael Symon to host live cooking demos on Facebook during coronavirus crisis
- Comic Book creators are giving online classes, or hosting drawing challenges
- While Winchester Mystery House is closed to the public due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is offering fans a free digital tour of the Estate for guests to enjoy from the comfort of their own homes.
- 'Selma Online' Offers Free Civil Rights Lessons in Response to Lack of Comprehensive Black History Curriculums
- The Hogwarts Digital Escape Room
- Audible just made hundreds of titles completely free to help during coronavirus crisis
- 12 historic sites you can virtually tour from the couch during the coronavirus outbreak
- A List of Animal Cams
- Metropolitan Opera, After Shutting Its Doors, Will Offer Free Streams From Live in HD Catalog
Activities and Online Resources for keeping up with learning at home:
- NGCP Mathematics Resources
- All NGCP Resources
- STEAM from a Distance Education Resources
- EarSketch – FREE from Georgia Tech. EarSketch helps you learn coding through music. Use sounds from the EarSketch library or your own sounds, along with Python or JavaScript code, to produce studio quality music.
- Ready for some Science at Home? Make Your Own Atmospheric Model!
- HISTORY at home from the History Channel! A special collection of free educational videos and at-home activities for parents and kids. A new video lesson will be posted on Mon, Wed and Fri at 11:00am(ET)/8:00am(PT)
- PBS LearningMedia is a collaboration of PBS and your local station, offering curated standards-aligned videos, interactive and lesson plans.
- PenPal Schools, the largest collaborative online learning community, uses FILMS BYKIDS to connect students from around the world to learn and share perspectives, and they're offering free access to their tools and platform during COVID-19.
- NASA offers tons of at-home activities for children home from school
- STEM Learning Resources
- Creative Writing and Storytelling Series: Star Wars This class will focus on creative writing and storytelling from the perspective of the books/movie series Star Wars.
- Cloudco Launches Digital Camp Care Bears for All Ages
- 200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More
- 5 Easy STEAM Projects for Hands-on Learning at Home
- Check out The Connectory, the largest directory of youth-serving STEM programs and opportunities.
- The National Girls Collaborative Project and its many partners has compiled this list of STEM-related online learning resources to assist as you serve your programs and communities
- Closing the gap of gender in technology and changing the image of what a programmer looks like can begin at home with Girls Who Code's online computer science educational activities.
- World Wildlife Fund is connecting educators and parents with the resources and tools to help kids continue exploration of the natural world
- the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media(GDIGM) has created an educational children’s program in collaboration with PBS titled “Guess Who?
- How To Make Awesome Animated Movies (Intro-level Filmmaking)
- Park Activities You Can Do from the Comfort of Your Home
- ABCMouse is giving free access to its learning software to kids affected by school closures
What else should we add? Let us know!
