Huge thank you to Leighanne Ferguson from the English team for this post!
Miss Ferguson has drawn together a list of things we can all do for free, and from home during the school closure and now ‘lock down.’ (She has included one section on local walking with a note about following the government advice.)
We look forward to hearing of your ‘staying home’ adventures!
Physical activity
- PE with Joe Wicks: daily 30 minute PE sessions designed for children and young people but open to everyone
- YMCA physical activities on demand
Online reading, writing and audiobooks
- Audible free audiobooks
- Story Pirates
- Wheelers – the school has signed up to this for students and staff, use your school login details to log in and borrow books or resources (login guidance here)
- Creative writing now – creative writing ideas and a free ebook if you sign up
Virtual tours
- National Park Service
- 360 degrees views of cities and places
- Africam safari tours and livecams from African countries
Animal cams
If you are interested in animals, you might also like the following website about how animals use smell https://www.perfume.com/
Zoos and aquarium
All of these zoos and aquariums have set up webcams so you can watch some or all of their animals online:
- Edinburg Zoo
- Marwell Zoo
- Dublin Zoo
- San Diego Zoo
- Houston Zoo
- Living Coast penguins
- Paignton Zoo
- Smithsonian
- Chattanooga Zoo
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium
- Reid Park Zoo
- Kanzas City Zoo
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Atlanta Zoo
- Baltimore Aquarium and Virtual Tour
- Washington Aquarium
- Alaska Zoo
- Vancouver Aquarium
Art galleries
- Google Arts and Culture
- Pinacoteca di Brera art gallery (Milan)
- Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
- Prado (Madrid)
- Louvre (Paris)
- The Met (New York)
- Tate Modern (London)
- VanGogh Museum (Amsterdam)
- National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea)
- Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
- Guggenheim (New York)
Museums
- Vatican Museum (Rome)
- Athens Archaeology Museum (Athens)
- British Museum (London)
- The Hermitage (St Petersburg)
- Musee d’Orsay (Paris)
- Natural History Museum (London)
- Paris Museum Collections
- National Air & Space Museum (Smithsonian)
- Field Museum (Chicago)
Special sites
- Eiffel Tower
- Great Pyramids of Egypt
- Great Wall of China 360 and Virtual tour
- Anne Frank House Virtual Tour
- Buckingham Palace
- Soon Doong Cave (Vietnam)
- Ellis Island New York
Courses
- Ancient Rome Virtual Tour with Lessons
- Disney Imagineering in a Box: a 2-hour course showing you how Disney Imagineers develop their skills
Education and interest
STEM
- Science with Bill Nye – experiments you can do at home
- Discovery science virtual field trip
- Arizona Science Centre science from home
- Liberty Science Center (New Jersey)
- Marine Traffic Around the World
- NASA Mission Operations Room and NASA image library
Walks and local activities
(24/03/20) The Government advice is that you can go out for one form of exercise a day to maintain your physical and mental well-being, but in your household group only, and make sure to stay 2 meters away from everyone around you. So here are some ideas:
- RainbowTrail UK or Chasetherainbow Gosport and Fareham: basically, paint or draw a rainbow and put it in your windows so people can see it. As you are going on your walk, look out for rainbows in the windows around you!
- Gosport Rocks local Gosportians paint rocks with bright colours and images and hide them around Gosport, you can find them when you go on your walks. Stay safe – don’t touch the rocks!
Crafty and creative
- Draw with Rob
- Bread Ahead baking tutorials
- Origami
- VideoJug learn to make or do a whole range of things with these youtube videos
- Good Tricks learn to do magic!
Music and the stage
- Patatap make your own music using your keyboard!
- Tabletop Audio – an ambient sound mixer with a fantasy fiction/game leaning, immerse yourselves in different places, like a fantasy library. Studies show ambient sounds can help with concentration and improve both the output of work and your mental well-being as you do it, so this is a great option for studying.
Watch concerts
- Berlin Philharmonic: Digital Concert Hall
- Kennedy Center Digital Stage
- The Met Opera you do need to buy a subscription to watch the full operas, but you can watch clips, short videos, etc., free
- Liverpool Philharmonic live streamed concerts
- Oslo Philharmonic videos
Miscellaneous
- ABC Australia: Multiple Education Resources
- Reach the World journeys and adventures for teachers and students
- Rainforest Alliance
- National Geographic – Kids
Not free but close!
British Sign Language – £5 for students £10 for key workers; learn British Sign Language online