Homeschooling Resources
When the majority of the population is staying indoors to battle COVID-19, we collated a list of useful homeschooling resources. For parents to use with their children. The home learning resources are divided into reading materials for parents to educate themselves, youtube channels, podcasts, educational apps, movies to watch, and fitness resources.
Useful Resources to Read
Homeschooling during coronavirus? Try this 3 hour homeschool solution!
10 Ways to Live Your Best Life While Staying Home During COVID-19.
Emergency Homeschooling Quick Start Ideas.
12 Ways to Effectively Parent During Crisis (Part 1)
If your child’s school closes, don’t panic: Here’s a list of homeschooling resources
Eureka! 5 Easy Ways to Grow Kids’ STEM Skills at Home
Options for Homeschooling Your Child or Teen During the COVID-19 Outbreak
8 Steps to Starting Homeschool During COVID-19 (and Keeping Your Sanity)
To Watch (Youtube Channels)
Left Brain Craft Brain Channel for STEM crafts to encourage brainpower in our kids.
The Spangler Effect Channel for creative science experiments.
The Backyard Scientist Channel to foster backyard science experiments.
Babble Dabble Do Channel helps nurture curiosity in kids and family bonds through creative projects.
STEMbite Channel (recommended) consists of bite-sized videos of science and math projects.
STEM learning at home for all things science through the Science Buddies Channel.
Educational videos from the Homeschool Pop Channel for elementary students with a fresh balance of curriculum-based content.
Pepper and Pine Channel is all about food, paper, and education.
For influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech, and creativity we highly recommend the TEDed Channel.
We also recommend the LAB 360 Channel for the coolest and simple science experiments and learn how science works.
Curriculum Connections STEM has a playlist of videos curated to match STEM education.
On Crash Course Kids they cover Science to start, then adding in more subjects as the channel grows.
STEM Apps for Kids
Go Car Go (iOS)
Car racing, building cars and using materials to customise cars.
Hopscotch (iOS)
Coding, animation, arts, gaming
World of Goo (iOS, Google, Kindle)
Physics Puzzler
Monster Math. (iOS)
Interactive and challenging math games
NOVA elements. (iOS)
Learn about atoms, molecules, the periodic table of element
Star Walk Kids. (iOS, Android)
Astronomy for Children
Swift Playgrounds by Apple. (iOS)
Coding through puzzles and challenges
Noticing tools
Collaborative and creative STEM projects
Activities & Games
Learn environmental preservation through facts about coral reefs with Chronicle Books: The Deep Brilliant
Making the magic tree grow using DIY Terrarium
DIY Volcano aids in knowledge thinking and learning.
Build your own Solar House for amazing Eco learning.
Gain environmental awareness and scientific knowledge with the Photosynthesis game
A great game of quick draw and guessing with Junior Pictionary.
Dinosaur Dig Kit for some adventurous fossil excavating.
Grow crystals at home with the Glow in the Dark Crystal Lab.
Block printing with HandMadeLife.
Kinetic Sand Bag is perfect for creative and imaginative mold play
Podcasts
History:
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Current Events:
Science:
Stories: Around the World Stories (not technically a podcast, but it best fits here.)
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Short and Curly (This is an ethics podcast and great for conversations!)
The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian
The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd
via MyLittlePoppies
Science Movies to Watch
Read our blog on 15 science fiction movies to watch
Keep Fit/ Move (Apps, Websites)
Travel between the real world and the virtual world of Pokémon with Pokémon Go (iOS, Android).
Sworkit Kids (iOS, Android) is an exercise and fitness app aimed at kids of all ages.
NFL Play 60 (iOS, Android) is the League’s national youth health and wellness campaign to encourage kids to stay active.
I am Love (iOS, Android) is an easy-to-use app that introduces yoga to kids through rich storytelling and fun pose instruction.
Just Dance Now (iOS, Android) helps you unleash your inner dancer.
Go Noodle Kids (iOS) engages kids every month with movement and mindfulness.
IronKids (iOS) offers young athletes the opportunity to feel the excitement of competition while being outdoors.
Kids Fitness (Android) offers daily 10 simple and playful poses to guide children through a first discovery of yoga.
Geocaching (iOS, Android) offers a fun way for the whole family to spend time outdoors.
Zombies! Run (iOS, Android) is an immersive running game where you run through a series of missions, listen to various audio narrations to uncover the story.
For Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation for kids use Cosmic Kids Yoga.
Netball Australia has free NETFIT activity online.
The Find your 30 Challenge has 30 minute workouts and activities for the family.
Enjoy indoor and outdoor activities with FunBrain.
Virtual activities
Freedom homeschooling for virtual field trips.
Take virtual trips to the Fire Station using PBS Learning Media
Louvre
Virtual field trips to the Louvre.
The China Guide
Virtual field trips to the Great Wall of China.
Brit + Co
Free colouring pages.
Open Culture
Downloadable free colouring books.
Highlights
A monthly magazine filled with stories, adventures, and brainteasers.
Earth viewing live streams.
List of zoo and aquarium live streams on Mashable Australia.
Inspire a lifelong love of reading with Storyline Online.
Virtual field trip to the Museum of modern art at MoMA.
Highlights Kids has a variety of online activities.
The kids should see this offers smart videos for kids of all ages.
Senict Software teaches activities for children and young adults with severe and complex additional needs.
Story and Circle time
Astronauts reading stories from Space.
Audible stories for toddlers.
Famous children’s authors reading stories along with activites.
Literacy
Real, LOLZ, Opps or Fake to get students to establish good news-reading habits.
Create your own story boards with Storyboard That.
Literacy activities during the early years with Crayola.
Children’s authors doing online read aloud and activities on We Are Teachers.
Squishy Minnie Book Store provides weekly online stories.
Numeracy
Improve Algebra skills with the The Math Dude.
NRich provides thousands of free online mathematics resources for ages 3 to 18.
At Timestables you can easily practice all of your tables.
Learn about counting days, weeks, and months with Counting and calendar.
Achieve excellent Math skills with YouCubed.
Activity book to learn more about Addition and 3D Objects.
The Eureka Challenge encourages your family to think about geometry and about how different shapes create structure.
Languages
Show off your language skills and how much you know in the worksheet activities with Language Learning at home
BBC Languages offers free resources and lessons to learn 48 languages
Learning resources
ABCMouse
You can access free membership when the schools are closed with the code: SCHOOL7771
Fun learning games to keep all ages entertained using ABCya
Learn about the earth with Kids National Geographic
PBS Kids
Engaging daily activities to help kids play and learn.
Scholastic
Learn – from – home activities.
Redgate Coding
Free online coding classes every Friday.
NGV Kids
Creative online resources. We recommend the M.C. Escher activity book.
via Brit + Co
Generation Genius
A science teaching resource that brings school science standards to life through fun and educational videos.
ABC Splash offers thousands of free curriculum-linked resources for school teachers and students.
Digital Technologies Hub provides learning resources and services for teachers, students, school leaders, and parents.
STARPortal makes the connections to STEM learning activities that inspire kids to explore, discover, and create.
The purpose of NASA STEM is to is to engage students in NASA’s mission.
My Computer Brain is for exploring artificial intelligence, binary numbers, pixel graphics, algorithms, and the inner workings of a computer processor.
The GiST provides resources to inspire and inform girls, schools and families about STEM education.
Free Drone Training and STEM Education for kids with SheMaps.
You can also keep the kids occupied by getting them interested in different science projects at home. Signup to InquiBox and receive a curated set of activities each month at home. Sign up here.
