Online Learning Resources
Explore the best online learning resources for kids, featuring free reading tools, math practice apps, science activities, and virtual arts and leisure experiences. Perfect for enhancing education at home or on the go!
Reading
- Audible Stories: Offering free service for kids if school is out.
- Caribu: An app that lets kids enjoy virtual story time with grandparents and other friends and family members living apart from one another.
- CommonLit: Kids can practice reading and answering questions on their level.
- Libby: Free eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines with your library card.
- Overdrive: Free eBook and audiobooks through your local library.
- ReadWorks: Leveled fiction & nonfiction on all topics.
- TumbleBooks: Offering free eBooks through your local library.
- Vooks: Storybooks read out loud by teachers.
Math
- DreamBox: For kids K-8 to practice math concepts and skills.
- KhanAcademy.org: Grade appropriate math courses for kids.
- Monumental Math: Free math website packed with thousands of problems for elementary and middle school math, geometry, and algebra.
- XtraMath: Quick math fact (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) practice.
Science
- Engineering Challenges: A compilation of 15 engineering challenges to stimulate creativity and critical thinking skills.
- Interactive Simulations: This site provides interactive models to explore different math and science concepts by grade level, or subject.
- National Geographic Kids: Explore animals, history, space, geography, and more through games, videos, and brain boosters.
Arts & Leisure
- Boston Children’s Museum at Home: Experience discovery and exploration by accessing a range of activities including science, art, engineering, storytelling and music.
- BroadwayHD: Browse hundreds of musicals and play to watch from your own home.
- ChopChop Cooking Club: Free cooking club for kids 5-12. Learn new recipes, essential cooking skills and complete challenges and activities.
- Cosmic Kids Yoga: Your place for yoga, stories, and fun.
- Farm Food 360: Immerse yourself in Canadian Farm and food tours.
- The Met Kids: Explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art through interactive maps, virtual time travel and videos.
- Smithsonian for Kids: Explore virtual tours of exhibits, fun activities, games, videos, and more.
- Zoo Trips: Watch live streams from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium, and the San Diego Zoo.