Online Resources For Kids
Online museums/galleries
Art Gallery of NSW Art Gallery at Home https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/art/channel/virtual-visits/
The Museum of Contemporary Art have uploaded multiple online exhibitions https://www.mca.com.au/
Australian National Maritime Museum have uploaded a range of online experiences including games https://www.sea.museum/
Natural History Museum London has a virtual tour https://www.nhm.ac.uk/
Australian Museum have a range of resources including animal factsheets and virtual experiences from the museum https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/
New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum- https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en
The Louvre https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
The Getty has a wide range of exhibitions online, virtual tours and other resources available http://getty.edu/art/
The British Museum- located in the heart of London allows virtual visitors to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies- https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/
A wonderful detailed way to get kids engaged in the world of art- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metkids/
Zoos/animals
Livesteams of animals and keeper talks from the Australian Reptile Park https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQD_qJVx0NfDYVbEWMGWFdv6Wr_yLsHt_
The San Diego Zoo has a live webcam for animals https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-cams
Melbourne Zoo also has live webcams https://www.zoo.org.au/animal-house
Live video of the National Zoo and Smithsonian Learning Lab https://www.si.edu/kids
For budding Marine Biologists- take a deep dive into ocean life https://ocean.si.edu/
Online live wildlife cameras around the world https://www.wirefence.co.uk/wildlife-webcam/
Collection of wildlife teaching materials https://www.buyrope.co.uk/wildlife-resources/
The world around us and beyond
Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover- https://accessmars.withgoogle.com/
Geography with National Geographic- https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
This NASA initiative covers a wide range of topics including weather, climate, atmosphere, water, energy, plants, and animals- https://climatekids.nasa.gov/
Listen to astronauts read stories from space- https://storytimefromspace.com/library/
Virtual Tours of Buckingham Palace: https://www.royal.uk/virtual-tours-buckingham-palace
Creative kids
Think Design explores careers in fashion design, graphic design, interior design, book design, product design, film and theatre, architecture, animation, and environmental design- http://www.kidsthinkdesign.org/
Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts- https://www.gonoodle.com/
Online learning
ABC Educational resources- https://education.abc.net.au/home#!/home
Kids News- https://education.aec.gov.au/teacher-resources/
Maths as a fun part of your daily family routine http://bedtimemath.org/
Maths games galore https://gridclub.com/
Lots of science experiments that you can do at home https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/
Work on the 8 parts of speech https://www.grammaropolis.com/
Scratch teaches students all about coding https://scratch.mit.edu/
Coding for 4-10 year olds- https://www.kodable.com/
Musical kids
Music is for everyone https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments
A large selection of fun songs to help teach preschool students- https://www.songsforteaching.com/preschoolkindergarten.htm
Lets kids play instruments online. Instruments include the guitar, piano, pan flute, drums, and bongos- https://www.virtualmusicalinstruments.com/
A list of online music learning games: https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/online-music-games/
