Take a virtual tour of some of the world’s most famous landmarks such as the Great Wall of China, the Eiffel Tower, and more!
Atlanta ZooPanda Cam
Giant Panda Wild Encounters. Visit their website if you’ve yearned to get closer to the animals.
Buckingham Palace
Take a virtual tour of Buckingham Palace. Explore the White Drawing Room, the Throne Room and the Blue Drawing Room.
NASA
Virtual room tour
National Aquarium
Live Broadcast
National Park Service
Virtual Tour
San Diego Zoo
Live Cam
Duke Farm Eagle Cam
Take a live look at the daily lives of eagles. In partnership with The Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, lesson plans were created to facilitate place-based educational opportunities for students.
Houston Zoo Webcam
Tune in to the Houston Zoo Webcams and enjoy a live look at animals that call the Houston Zoo home!
Scratch is a block-based visual programming language and online community for children.
Smithsonian Learning Lab
Free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources.
Typing Club
Learn touch typing for free
TedEd
TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas
You Tube Learning
Find Learning Playlists ranging in subjects from physics to filmmaking
The place where young readers meet to talk about books.
YCloud Library
Log in with your library card to browse and access a digital shelf of books. For readers of all ages
Reading
Dust those meant-to-read books on your shelf that have been waiting for you! Don’t have one that inspires you enough to open it up? Our own Riverside Library offers some!
International Children’s Digital Library
The ICDL Foundation’s goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. The ICDL collection includes 4619 books in 59 languages.
Save With Stories
Welcome to @SAVEWITHSTORIES—a spot to watch your favorite celebrities read your favorite children’s books. Join us, along with @savethechildren and @nokidhungry, to #SAVEWITHSTORIES.
Stories Podcast
On the Stories Podcast, we perform a new story for your children every week. The stories range from retellings of fairy tales like Snow White to classic stories like Peter Rabbit and even completely original works.
The place where young readers meet to talk about books. The podcast show includes a celebrity reader and an interview with the author. The host is award winning public radio journalist Kitty Felde. Book Club won the California Library Association Technology Award.
Exploratorium
The Exploratorium isn’t just a museum; it’s an ongoing exploration of science, art, and human perception. Explore our vast collection of online experiences to feed your curiosity and education resources supporting online teaching and learning.
Field Museum
The Field Museum fuels a journey of discovery across time to enable solutions for a brighter future rich in nature and culture. Check out their videos and education materials for people of all ages.
Google Art and Culture
Google Arts & Culture is an online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative’s partner museums.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress
Metropolitan Opera
Nightly Met Opera Streams Every day for the duration of the Met’s closure.
The Met Museum
5,000 Years of Art, Online. From the first cities of the ancient world to the works of our time, experience our Collection Online. Immerse yourself in 360-degree video of iconic spaces in the Museum
You Tube Learning
Find Learning Playlists ranging in subjects from physics to filmmaking
You and your family might be facing weeks at home while either trying to work or complete school assignments. We understand this is a new norm and we want to help you find a routine. Here’s an article that might help you build a home schedule for the family.
Science Experiments
Create and explore! Test how things work and use your common household items too.
Virtual Fieldtrips
Travel locally or abroad and step inside the White House, the Louvre, The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History plus much more! See how a working farm operates and visit a zoo!
Coloring Pages for Youth:
Youth see if you can find your favorite Disney character to color!
Coloring Pages for Adults:
Adults need a creative outlet too! Melt your stress away with coloring pages.
10 Fun Sidewalk Chalk Ideas
Put on your grubby clothes and have some fun making chalk art!
Write a Note to Our Troops
This is the way you can communicate your support and thanks to our troops. Pay it forward and send them an uplifting and encouraging note.
NASA STEM
Inspire and engage with NASA STEM Activities such as “Now in Space,” “Earth Minute Video Series,” “Celebrate Solar Week”.
Teach Youth and Teens How to Budget Money
Introduce youth to a life skill that can serve them well throughout their life!
Sesame Street – Games, Videos, Art Ideas:
Don’t miss the Fun at Home Printables! There are crafts, recipes, mazes, bingo, paperdolls, coloring pages and so much more!
Fitness
Stretch and relax with a free yoga class.
Card Games:
Card Games are the perfect stay-indoors activity. Learn some new family-friendly games.
