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Adventure & Nature
- BBC: Games, quizzes and fact sheets take kids on a journey through time
- Cincinnati Zoo: Daily Home Safari + Activity
- Google Earth: All sorts of fun, if you dig in
- National Geographic Young Explorers: Magazine designed specifically for kindergarten and first grade students
- Project Explorer: Free videos from around the world
- San Diego Zoo: Website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games
- Smithsonian: Everything from live video of the National Zoo to the Smithsonian Learning Lab
- Switch Zoo: Play games and learn all about animals
- University of Illinois: Guide to gardening for kids
- US Mint: Play games, learn fun facts, and find out how to turn coin collecting into a hobby
- What was there: Type in any city, state, or country to view an archive of historical photographs and other documents
Arts & Music
- Artsology: Appreciate the arts by providing the opportunity to play games, conduct investigations, and explore different forms of art
- The Color: Online digital coloring pages
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: A wonderful way to get kids engaged in the world of art
- Music Lab: Music is for everyone
- National Gallery of Art: An entertaining and informative introduction to art and art history
- Prodigies Music: Colorful music curriculum that will teach your kids how to play an instrument, sing in tune, or understand the language of music
- Quaver Music: General music activities
- Songs for Teaching: A large selection of fun songs to help teach preschool and kindergarten students
- Virtual Musical Instruments: Lets kids play instruments online. Instruments include the guitar, piano, pan flute, drums, and bongos
Culinary
- Nomster Chef: Illustrated recipes designed to help kids cook with their grown-ups
Educational
- Amazing Educational Resources: A document with submissions from teachers of free online resources
- Education Above All: Online resources in a number of languages, including: English, Italian, French, Spanish, Arabic and more
- Fun Brain: Math and Reading games
- Fun Fonix: Phonics worksheets for kids
- The Good and Beautiful: Easy to use courses that cover cover phonics, reading, writing, spelling, literature, grammar, punctuation, art, and geography
- Math Playground: Math games, logic puzzles, and educational resources
- Math Score: Math practice from counting to algebra and geometry
- Magic Spell: A carefully crafted spelling adventure
- Memrise: 22 languages to learn
- PBS Learning Media: Digital media service with more than 30,000 learning materials
- Spelling Training: Spelling training for Grades 1 - 4
- Starfall: Phonics skills
- Turtle Diary: Fun Educational and Online Games for Kids
General Activities
- 123Homeschool4me: 300,000+ Free printable worksheets from toddlers to teens
- ABCYa: Math and reading games
- All Kids Network: Crafts, activities, mazes, dot to dot, etc
- Arcademics: Math and language games
- Busy Toddlers: Indoor activities for busy toddlers
- Camp Kinda: Free virtual summer experience designed to keep kids engaged, curious, and having fun
- Carmen San Diego: Videos, stories, and lessons for all subject areas
- CitySpace Storytime: A WBUR CitySpace virtual series featuring WBUR personalities reading children's books
- Cool Kid Facts: Educational videos, pictures, quizzes, downloadable worksheets, and infographics
- Free Childrens Stories: Free stories online
- Free Maker Stations: Maker Stations to keep your children creating at home!
- Go Noodle: Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts
- Kiwi Co: Quick & easy at home projects curated for kids
- Little Twisters Yoga: Free at-home kids yoga lesson plans
- Novel Effect: 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
- Open Culture: 200 online resources, books, and videos
- Preschool Express: Crafts, activities, bulletin board designs, and finger plays for parents to use with kids.
- The OT Toolbox: At home OT, PT, and ST resources designed to build skills in children through movement and play
- PBS Kids: Play with favorite show characters and learn too!
- Seussville: Read, play games, and hang out with Dr. Seuss
- Super Simple: Flashcards, coloring pages, worksheets, and other resources for children
- Storylineonline: Favorite kids books read by famous people
Science & Technology
- Ask Dr Universe: Send Dr. Universe any question about history, geography, plants, animals, technology, engineering, and more
- Club Sci Kidz: Daily free experiments to do at home
- Elemental Science: At home science activities
- Farmer's Almanac for kids: Learn about the weather, moon phases, calendar, etc
- Kodable: Coding for younger children
- Mad Science of Boston: At-home experiments, online quizzes, and printable coloring sheets
- Manga High: Play basic games to reinforce math skills and compete against others
- MIT Scratch: Scratch draws students of all types into coding and lays a foundation for future learning
- Mystery Science: Science lessons
- NASA: Space science for kids
- NASA: This NASA initiative covers a wide range of topics including weather, climate, atmosphere, water, energy, plants, and animals
- Smithsonian Museum: Take a deep dive in to the ocean
- Steve Spangler Science: Science experiments kids can do at home
- Supercharged School: Daily lessons and educational activities that kids can do on their own
- Weather Wiz Kids: Meteorologist Crystal Wicker breaks down the fascinating world of weather
