1. Children's Museum of Indianapolis

The museum may be closed but the Children's Museum of Indianapolis is coming to YOU! With live Facebook events from museum educators kids of all ages can experience the wonder and discovery from home. 

The museum also offers lots of other amazing distance learning opportunities like:

• DIY Science
• Storytime
• Museum in Minutes
• Warm up with Riley Children's Health Sports Legends Experience Coaches
• Curate Your Own Collection
• Morning Greetings from Rex
• Museum at Home: Classroom Connections

More online Museum resources:

• Explore the American Museum of Natural History online

2. California State Parks PORTS

The PORTS program offers 6 interactive live videoconference programs each weekday to students of all grade levels. The goal of the program is to offer academic content through the context of California's state park system. Each video conference is led by interpretive rangers who interact with the students throughout the presentation.

More guided national park tours from Google Arts and Culture:

• Kenai Fjords
• Hawai'i Volcanoes
• Carlsbad Caverns
• Bryce Canyon
• Dry Tortugas

3. Wild Center Lunchtime Live

Every Monday-Friday the staff from Wild Center go live on Facebook to show viewers a behind-the-scenes look at animal encounters. They also share projects and activities you can do at home.

More animal live streams and resources:

• California Academy of Sciences at Home
• Live broadcasting from the National Aquarium
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Cams
• Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari Live

4. Code Break

Code Break from Code.org gives students from around the world the opportunity to create through weekly classroom projects and interactive classes featuring code.org founder Hadi Partovi and special guests Wednesdays at 10am PT/1pm ET.

5. Read Aloud with Peter Reynolds

Peter Reynolds, author and illustrator of incredible books like Ish and The Dot, is hosting live read alouds through his Facebook page each Friday. Resources to accompany the books, or activities are also shared and can be accessed during the live stream or after.

6. Lil Maestros

Lil' Maestros offers live lessons for anyone interested in learning more about music. Each day at 12pm PT/3pm ET Ausounds will be hosting lessons that teach guitar, piano, percussion, music theory and more. No instruments are needed to participate but a tablet or smartphone with the recommended free apps is suggested.

7. Digital Cooking Classes for Kids

Delish.com is offering free digital cooking classes for kids every weekday at 1pm ET. Joanna Saltz, Delish's editorial director, and her children are going live on Instagram to teach kids (and adults!) how to cook fun and delicious dishes.

8. Talk About Real Things: Well Being Teens

The Well Being Therapy Center is offering a safe place for teens ages 13-17 to come together for support for learning to deal with stress, anxiety, boredom, isolation and other social challenges they may be experiencing. Teens can access the live stream weekdays at 7pm ET. Check out Live stream helps teens stuck at home during coronavirus talk to peers for support for a great article about the program.

9. P.E with Joe

Joe Wicks has daily 30 minute P.E. classes for kids of all ages on his YouTube channel. You can subscribe to be notified when Joe goes live and follow along or catch the daily episodes on his YouTube playlist.

10. Draw Together with WendyMac

Each school day at 10am PT, WendyMac hosts a 30 minute live drawing class for kids on Instagram Live. You can also see her past classes on her YouTube playlist.

More online art lessons:

• Lunchtime Doodles with Mo Willems has ended but you can still view all of the videos on YouTube
• Daily online drawing sessions with Toni DiTerlizzi on Facebook Live