Storyline Online: The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy nominated, Storyline Online, is a free literacy program where celebrated actors read to children!
Check out Tumblebooks– animated, talking books for children!
KidLit TV – Read aloud, practice writing, arts and crafts, and more!
Brittanica School
Brittanica School is the go-to site for learning more about any subject—for all grades and all reading abilities—offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases—Elementary, Middle, or High.
Virtual Tours
Visit museums
Google Arts and Culture partnered with over 2,500 museums and galleries around the world to offer virtual tours of their spaces. Some of the options include New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. The Louvre, based in Paris, is also offering its own virtual tour online for free.
Explore national parks
National parks are providing virtual tours of America’s most popular parks. Virtual visitors can travel through the trails of Yellowstone National Park, as well as the Yosemite National Park.
Tour California State Parks with a Park Ranger
Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students (PORTS) program provides FREE live interactive videoconference programs (virtual field trips) to expand learning beyond the classroom walls. K-12 students from California and around the world are connecting with live interpretive rangers and learning academic content standards within the context of California’s dynamic state park system.
Visit the Zoo
Spaces like the San Diego Zoo, the Georgia Aquarium and the Monterey Bay Aquarium are offering live webcam viewings of pandas, penguins and beluga whales.
Tour the Great Wall of China
A tour of the Great Wall of China is available for anyone who’s ever wanted to visit this wonder of the world.
Go to Mars
NASA partnered with Google to offer a tour of a 3D replica of the Martian surface recorded by the Curiosity rover.