Some Great Websites for those Sheltering at Home

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? ~ Chuck Palahniuk

So for the last week I’ve been collecting virtual activities off of social media, here’s a collection to help make your time stuck in the house a little happier. ~ Rev Kane

I’m going to start with this one, the NY Philharmonic Digital Archive, this one is personal as my brother works there, so give it lots of hits so they keep him working.  🙂

The Bucket Shot, a 20 minute video on the photo of a lifetime

A link to 450 Ivy League courses you can take online.

A great blog post, by my friend Shari

63 experiments for kids to do at home with household stuff

100’s of free children’s audiobooks to listen to on Audible

If that’s not enough 6000 Digitized Children’s Books

A blog post containing one of the best stories of ever heard, Remember the Sweet Things

Take a virtual tour of Hawaii

Watch a video stream of the Northern Lights

A little something to mess with your mind

300,000 downloadable books from the New York Public Library

A list of upcoming live concerts you can watch at home

Activities to keep college students active, but a lot of these could be adapted for younger students

33 Virtual National Park tours that you can take from home

Library resources you can access from home. This is a truly amazing list put together by the Portland Library.

100,000 images from French Art Museums

Scholastic has put a bunch of learning modules for kids online

Apollo 13, a multimedia presentation where you can follow this flight to the moon.  The site offers the same for Apollo 11 and Apollo 17.

Five astronomy and space related activities, this includes the Apollo sites above.

The Berlin Philharmonic Concert archive, lots of concerts online as well as streaming concerts.

12 museums with virtual tours online