There’s more to social distancing than Netflix. Check it out:
Education & Entertainment
Use your time in isolation to learn everything you’ve always wanted to: Free Online Courses, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Coloring Books & More
10 university art classes you can take for free online
Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: The Met, New York Public Library, Smithsonian & More
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems! free video series
You can now download over 300,000 books from the New York Public Library for free
Whittier Public Library offers thousands of streaming movies through the Kanopy platform, e-books, audiobooks, and magazines online, and local history documents and photos.
Over 450 manga volumes released online for free
‘Together At Home’: John Legend, top artists live streaming free concerts from homes
Moog and Korg make synth apps free to help musicians stuck at home
Metropolitan Opera to Offer Up ‘Nightly Met Opera Streams’
15 Broadway plays and musicals you can watch on stage from home
Center for Puppetry Arts to livestream performances for free
12 famous museums offer virtual tours you can take on your couch
Cleveland Inner City Ballet to launch virtual online ballet instruction program
You can now binge-watch every single episode of The French Chef with Julia Child
Slate Magazine roundup: All the stuff people are releasing for free because of the coronavirus
Student & Parent Resources
Companies large and small are making resources free to students learning at home:
Coronavirus turned us into homeschoolers – NOW WHAT? Sue Patterson Coaching
Spectrum offering free access to broadband and Wi-Fi for students without access for 60 days
Education companies offering free subscriptions due to school closings
Scholastic is offering free online courses so your kids can keep learning while schools are closed
STEM activities from NASA For students
Indigenous educators volunteer to teach short K-8 lessons online amid school closures
#OperationStorytime | Your favorite authors host story time online!
Over 30 virtual field trips with links, shared by Mrs. Fahrney
You can virtually tour a whole bunch of national parks from your couch
The Georgia Aquarium has live cams so you can go under the sea at home
50 plus easy indoor activities for kids from Hello, Wonderful
Lifestyle & Self-Care
Take care of yourself and your loved ones in a time of uncertainty:
Watch Alton Brown’s funny and informative handwashing tutorial — stop at 4:30 if you don’t like gross-out humor 🙂
People Magazine: Don’t self isolate alone: Animal shelter encourages fostering a pet during coronavirus pandemic
Talking to children about COVID-19 (coronavirus): A parent resource / Hable con sus hijos sobre el COVID-19 (coronavirus) Un recurso para padres
National Center for Transgender Equality: The coronavirus (COVID-19): what trans people need to know
Text HELLO to 741741 and speak anonymously with a crisis counselor at Crisis Text Line
WIRED Magazine: Covid-19 Fears Shouldn’t Trash Your Zero Waste Efforts
Uber Eats: Delivery fees waived for 100,000 North American restaurants
Bread shortage? This is the easiest kind of bread you can make
Victory garden time: The Old Farmer’s Almanac offers a free Planting Calendar for Places in California
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