Jackson Library: Homeschooling Resource Guide: Homeschooling Resource Guide

Resources for Homeschooling

Toddlers & Preschool Age Kids

40+ Best Indoor Activities from Busy Toddler
List of indoor activities to help keep toddlers going.
At Home Resources for Kids: HarperCollins
HarperCollins has compiled a running list of resources from around the internet for kids and their parents to help make the coming days a little more fun, hopeful, and educational for us all.
Author's Everywhere
A YouTube channel where authors provide workshops, readings, activities, art projects, writing games, writing advice and more.
A Big List of Podcasts for Little Kids
Here’s a list of great shows to keep kids ages 2 through 6, and their caretakers, occupied.
Goodnight with Dolly Parton
Everyone’s favorite Book Lady is bringing children and families everywhere just what they need during a time of unrest. Goodnight with Dolly is a 10-week special series of weekly videos featuring Dolly Parton reading select Imagination Library books.
Homeschool Preschool
Hands-on, simple-to-follow curriculum for teaching preschool age children at home.
STEM Clearinghouse: Activities for Pre-K kids
High-quality, vetted STEM activities for kids, provided by STARnet.

Elementary Age Kids

123 Homeschool 4 Me
Free printable worksheets and other resources for Pre-K to 8th grade
At Home Resources for Kids: HarperCollins
HarperCollins has compiled a running list of resources from around the internet for kids and their parents to help make the coming days a little more fun, hopeful, and educational for us all.
Author's Everywhere
A YouTube channel where authors provide workshops, readings, activities, art projects, writing games, writing advice and more.
A Big List of Podcasts for Little Kids
Here’s a list of great shows to keep kids ages 2 through 6, and their caretakers, occupied.
Cool Online Museums for Curious Kids
A roundup of apps, games and websites for exploring museums.
COVID 19 Resources & Coloring Book
Together powered by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital put together this page to help you talk to your child about COVID-19, how to prevent the spread of coronavirus, and what COVID-19 means for children with weakened immune systems and for childhood cancer survivors.
Free eBooks about COVID-19
This is a collection of free eBooks about COVID-19 curated by the New York City School Library System.
Fun Brain
Online games, videos, books, and math activities for grades Pre-K to 8
Goodnight with Dolly Parton
Everyone’s favorite Book Lady is bringing children and families everywhere just what they need during a time of unrest. Goodnight with Dolly is a 10-week special series of weekly videos featuring Dolly Parton reading select Imagination Library books.
KidLit at Home - KidLit TV
Brings together the best videos from around the web created for kids by diverse kid lit authors and illustrators.
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems!
Mo Willems, a children's author/illustrator is teaching kids to draw in live videos every weekday at 10 a.m. Pacific time.
Math Playground
Math games for kids grades 1-6 with premium games currently available for free
Scholastic Learn at Home
Day by Day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
Scratch Coding Jr.
With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games.
Space Foundation Discovery Center
The Space Foundation supports PreK through 20 students with standards-based curriculum that uses space principles to integrate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) into all content areas.
STEM Clearinghouse: Activities for Kids
http://clearinghouse.starnetlibraries.org/118-activities-for-pre-k
Storyline Online
Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
Story Time from Space
Astronauts reading children’s books from the International Space Station.

Middle School Age Kids

123 Homeschool 4 Me
Free printable worksheets and other resources for Pre-K to 8th grade
At Home Resources for Kids: HarperCollins
HarperCollins has compiled a running list of resources from around the internet for kids and their parents to help make the coming days a little more fun, hopeful, and educational for us all.
Author's Everywhere
A YouTube channel where authors provide workshops, readings, activities, art projects, writing games, writing advice and more.
COVID 19 Resources & Coloring Book
Together powered by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital put together this page to help you talk to your child about COVID-19, how to prevent the spread of coronavirus, and what COVID-19 means for children with weakened immune systems and for childhood cancer survivors.
KidLit at Home - KidLit TV
Brings together the best videos from around the web created for kids by diverse kid lit authors and illustrators.
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems!
Mo Willems, a children's author/illustrator is teaching kids to draw in live videos every weekday at 10 a.m. Pacific time.
Scholastic Learn at Home
Day by Day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
Scratch Coding
Learn to code while creating stories, games and animations.
Space Foundation Discovery Center
The Space Foundation supports PreK through 20 students with standards-based curriculum that uses space principles to integrate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) into all content areas.
STEAM Squad!
People-powered STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) curriculum for grades 5-7. Check in Tuesdays for a new project.
Explore with us!
STEM Clearinghouse: Activities for Tweens
High-quality, vetted STEM activities for kids, provided by STARnet.

Resources for Kids (Young & Old)

All Ages

10 World-Class Museums You Can Visit Online
10 of Europe’s most renounced art museums that you can visit online.
Amazing Educational Resources
A spreadsheet with hundreds of free-to-access materials
Code.org
Try any of the over 500+ one-hour tutorials to learn about computer science.
Explore.org
The world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. (Live Camera Feeds)
Free K-12 Resources
(Open Culture) lists 200+ resources, including Khan Academy, TED-Ed, and YouTube EDU. It also features free home schooling resources during COVID-19.
Free Online Book Access for Students and Kids
Publisher's lunch is compiling updates on collections of digital books for students, both K-12 and higher ed.
Gardens You Can Virtually Tour
From Claude Monet’s garden in France to the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden to Waddesdon Manor in England.
Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture has partnered with thousands of museums and galleries around the world to provide free virtual tours.
Ideas to keep busy at home for all ages
This site has loads of great sites for all ages and all categories, specifically intended to lessen stress and increase a sense of productivity and purpose.
The Learning Network - Teaching and Learning with the New York Times
Sign up for The Learning Network Newsletter by The Learning Network which brings you lesson plans and student activities for teaching and learning with New York Times content. (Lander faculty, staff, and students have free digital access to the New York Times. Use this link to subscribe: https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass.
Museum Coloring Sheets
Color the collections of many museums with a coloring page for every age.
National Geographic Kids
Online games, videos, animal facts, and fun geography facts
Online Educational Materials for Adults During COVID-19
University of Texas at San Antonio provides a great resource of educational materials for adults.
Online Educational Resources for Children During COVID-19
University of Texas at San Antonio provides a great resource of educational materials for children.
Over 30 Virtual Field Trips
List of webcams where you can watch animals plus a virtual farm tour.
Parent Resource Hub
University of Florida Literacy Institute organizes extensive online language and literacy resources by age group.
PBS Learning Media
Free health, science, math and art videos and activities
San Diego Zoo Kids
Animal fun facts, live cameras, games, art & craft projects, and printable coloring pages
South Carolina ETV At-Home Learning
Resources to support at home learning.
STEM Clearinghouse: Activities for Any Age
High-quality, vetted STEM activities for kids, provided by STARnet.
Steve Spangler's Science Experiment Library
Science experiment ideas and instructions
ThinkWritten Writing Prompts
No writer's block here. Get a writing prompt for every day of the year.
Virtually Visit 8 World-Class Libraries
Eight of the world’s most beautiful—as well as a few of the most out-there—libraries are a click away for now and a bucket list destination for the future.
Virtual Marine Biology Camp
This is being offered on Mondays and Thursdays at 11 am Pacific time by the Oceans Initiative.
Virtual Tours - Yellowstone National Park
Ready to explore Yellowstone? You don't have to wait for your trip out here. You can start exploring now by virtually touring some of the main attractions around the park.
Virtual Tours You Can Take If You're Stuck at Home
"Virtual Tours You Can Take If You’re Stuck at Home" shares how to explore zoos, aquariums, national parks, Mars, and other sites from home.
Wall of Birds
The Wall of Birds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology showcases 270 species of birds. Bird Academy features videos, learning games, and open lectures.

Library's Resources for Kids

Resources for the Classroom (even the home classroom)
This page links to age-appropriate resources toe help with learning and research that faculty, staff, and students have access to with their Lander credentials. Most of these are provided by DISCUS, which allows any SC Resident to have access.
Government Information for Children
Enrichment activities for K-12 are available from the U.S. government's many departments and agencies. Jackson Library is a federal & state government repository. Check our guide for online government information: https://libguides.lander.edu/govinfo.

Learning Express Library provided by South Carolina's Virtual Library -- DISCUS This link opens in a new window
Online tests, skill-building courses, and e-books for elementary school children through adults.