Homeschooling resources during coronavirus working-from-home

With schools closed and many pharma and healthcare companies asking employees to work from home during the coronavirus outbreak, a lot of us are under pressure to split responsibilities between family and work.

pharmaphorum has put together this list of easily-accessible online activities that can help educate and entertain children during these busy times.

Zoos with webcams:

https://www.holidaypirates.com/travel-magazine/13-zoos-that-offer-live-streams-see-giraffes-koalas-pandas-tigers-penguins-more_35765

Art museum websites:

https://www.kitchentableclassroom.com/best-art-museum-websites-interactive/

Children’s authors / artists providing book readings and quick art classes:

Oliver Jeffers - https://www.oliverjeffers.com/books#/abookaday/

Kitten book reading on YouTube!

Live reading of my picture book, Kitten Lady’s Big Book of Little Kittens, and a short Q&A for kids! The book is geared toward ages 4-8, but all are welcome. And yes...there will be kittens!

Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org

Especially good for maths and computing for all ages but other subjects at Secondary level. Note this uses the U.S. grade system but it's mostly common material.

BBC Learning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/

This site is old and no longer updated and yet there's so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV licence required except for content on BBC iPlayer.

Futurelearn

https://www.futurelearn.com

Free to access 100s of courses, only pay to upgrade if you need a certificate in your name (own account from age 14+ but younger learners can use a parent account).

Seneca

https://www.senecalearning.com

For those revising at GCSE or A level. Tons of free revision content. Paid access to higher level material.

Openlearn

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/

Free taster courses aimed at those considering Open University but everyone can access it. Adult level, but some e.g. nature and environment courses could well be of interest to young people.

Blockly

https://blockly.games

Learn computer programming skills - fun and free.

Scratch

https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/games/

Creative computer programming

Ted Ed

https://ed.ted.com

All sorts of engaging educational videos

National Geographic Kids

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/

Activities and quizzes for younger kids.