Explore.org

Explore is home of the world’s largest live nature videos. Its purpose? “We want you to fall in love with the world again,” is its purpose says founder Charlie Annenberg. https://explore.org/livecams

If you’re hungry for more, check out the 25 best animal live cams to watch while social distancing.

Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture is like window to the world’s art and culture, no seriously. And if I’m wrong, I apologize. To illustrate how incredible this library of videos is, here’s an example: you can virtually tour the Louvre in Paris. I know!! Incroyable. https://artsandculture.google.com

Duolingo

I have wanted to learn Spanish for the longest time and one of my goals as a mom is to learn it with my daughter. Knowing more than one language is helpful and useful in so many ways, and Duolingo makes it manageable for you to learn a language for free (or not) in bites. The credo of duolingo is “5-10 minutes a day is all you need to form a life-changing habit.” I just completed lesson 1 and me siento bien. https://www.duolingo.com/

Camp by Walmart

Through the eko app or on the eko website , you have access to some really cool learning videos. This summer Walmart launches through the app a summer camp run by celebrities!

“Camp by Walmart is a new experience designed for the Internet. The free virtual camp, where celebrities are the counselors, is powered by the interactive video platform eko. Neil Patrick Harris is our head counselor, who greets you. Idina Menzel teaches singing, LeBron James does sports and mental wellness, and we have Drew Barrymore doing a makeup challenge, blindfolded.”

I want to take the singing lessons from the voice of Elsa myself! Click here to start

The Internet Archive

This requires parental supervision, but the Internet Archive is a mecca library of all kinds of media (books, movies, tv, music, and its Way Back Machine lets you see how websites used to look; just pick a day in almost any year.

For example, there’s a Looney Tunes Merrie Melodie cartoon short from 1959 that I fondly remember but couldn’t find on iTunes or anywhere. But I found it on https://archive.org/.

Disney Junior’s: Ready for Preschool

Apple Camp at Home

This summer, registration for Apple Camp at Home opens around July 1st every year. It’s Apple’s annual online summer camp that brings free activities right to your little one(s). Click here to sign up for the 2020 summer season.

The City of Chicago’s Virtual Field Trips

https://www.hitplaychicago.org

Just launched Tues., April 28, 2020:

To get the latest follow along on Instagram and the #StayHomeHitPlay hashtag on social media for daily updates.

And If You Live In Tinley Park….Don’t Forget The Tinley Park Library Gives You Access To Many Online Resources

Here’s what your Tinley Park Library card let’s you borrow:

To Stream: Movies, Music, Audiobooks

Kanopy

We added the Kanopy app to our Apple TV and it has so many random movies I had never heard of that are really cool. It’s got popular movies and tv programs, but its collection of independent and international films is just as vast. And you can stream everything on your preferred devices (i.e. smartphone, tablet) too.

Maximum Checkouts: 10 films/month. *Once you begin playing a movie you have 3 days to finish before the film is returned.

Hoopla

Hoopla is more geared towards checking out e-books, audiobooks, and music. But technically it has movies and other media.

Max Checkouts: 7 items/month. *eBooks, Audiobooks & Comics 21 days — Music 7 days — Movies & TV Shows3 days

Lynda.com

How To videos for developing business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Mango Languages

AV language learning tutorials & full-length movies to help you learn over 70 world languages.

The Screening Room

Browse and borrow streaming movies & TV shows from OverDrive/Media on Demand.

To Borrow E-books And More

MediaOnDemand

MediaOnDemand is a Libby product. It was the only app that had the audiobook for the Jessica Simpson memoir Open Book I had been looking to check out.

Maximum Holds: 20 items
Maximum Checkouts: 20 items

RB digital

Haven’t tried this one.

Audiobooks Maximum Checkouts: 20 audiobooks at a time.
Get help with RBdigital on your devices

Hoopla

Like I said above, Hoopla is really strong for e-books and audio books.

Maximum Checkouts: 7 items/month

Tumble Books

This is really awesome. It has storybooks for young children all the way to books for high schoolers.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Dolly Parton’s philanthropic endeavor Imagination Library gifts nearly 1.5 million children’s books monthly. Founded in 1995 as a tribute to her father who couldn’t read, Parton’s Imagination Library has been mailing free books to children for almost a quarter of a century. Fun Fact: The Imagination Library gave out its one hundred millionth book last year (2019)!

By The Way, If You’re Looking For Math Resources For Learning

K-12 Resources

https://www.comed.com/SafetyCommunity/Education/Pages/ForTeachersStudents

Elementary Resources:
www.Zearn.com
www.happynumber.com
https://www.stmath.com/coronavirus
https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/new/blog/preparing-remote-learning-amid-covid-19-concerns
https://learnzillion.com/resources/99913-math-instructional-videos/
http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/
https://www.dreambox.com/
https://www.khanacademy.org/

Middle School:
https://access.openupresources.org/curricula/our6-8math
https://www.dreambox.com/
https://www.elementsofmathematics.com/
https://www.khanacademy.org/

Problem Solving (Elementary and Middle School)
https://solveme.edc.org/Mobiles.html
https://www.openmiddle.com/
https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/
https://gregtangmath.com/
http://www.kenkenpuzzle.com/
https://mashupmath.com/freemathpuzzles

Mobile Apps:
https://illuminations.nctm.org/mobile/ https://dragonbox.com/