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Outdoor Learning Activities
- Wish you could grow a garden? You can!
How to Plan and Plant a Garden for Kids provides everything you need to know to grow, care for and enjoy the harvest from your garden.
-My Kid's Adventures
If you do not have a place outside for a garden, How to Grow Vegetables Indoors provides guidance on planting a successful container garden inside.
-The Spruce
And if you'd like to start smaller, try some of these Garden Projects and Crafts. This page provides more than 60 ideas, complete with suggested age guidelines.
-kidsgardening.org
- Birdwatching with children can start in your own backyard. Birdwatching.com explains what you need and how to begin. The National Audobon Society provides free pictures of birds by region and also offers the "Audobon Bird Guide" app you can download to your phone.
- Getting back on a bicycle along with your kids? Check out these videos for a quick refresher so you can get the most out of your rides. We highly recommend the helmet fit video as well.
-League of American Bicyclists
- More backyard activities during COVID-19: Try starting a backyard rock collection, doing leaf and bark rubbings, or creating a scavenger hunt. These ideas and more can be found here.
-NC State University, College of Education
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Indoor Learning Activities
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Spark your child's curiosity with TED talks for kids. Or, request a daily email from TEDEd with lesson plans across all subjects and age groups.
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NASA brings science and technology to life through their standards-based videos for Grades 3 to 12.
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National Geographic is providing "curated collections of learning activities to implement at home." Written by educators, the activities engage K-12 students around social studies, geography, and science.
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Museums from around the world are offering virtual tours, including the Rijksmuseum, Musée d’Orsay, Picasso Museum, National Palace Museum in Taipei, and many more.
Or, color museum collections with free coloring pages of famous works of art.
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Encourage students to program their own games and animations with the Scratch programming language from MIT. Scratch was designed for ages 8 to 16. A simplifed version for 5 to7 year olds, ScratchJr, can be found here.
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Miss your school or local library? The National Emergency Library is offering a collection of more than 1.3 million books to support remote learning while schools and universities are closed.
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Experience the great outdoors without going outside . . . Take virtual tours of 32 national parks here, including the Grand Canyon and Denali National Park. The National Park Foundation offers even more options here, some through live webcams.
More Fun
- Keep kids entertained with these 125 ideas from Parade.
- Hear celebrities read popular children's books on Twitter and Instagram (#SaveWithStories). Started by Jennifer Garner and Amy Adams, in partnership with Save the Children, the initiative is designed to help support families most impacted by COVID-19.
- Watch newly released movies from your living room. Given that theaters are closed, studios have been making new movies available through video-on-demand services. You can check to see which ones are appropriate for children at Common Sense Media.
- In case you missed the One World Concert with about 70 musical artists to celebrate COVID-19 workers, you can replay it here.
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