Online Enrichment
Below are some online enrichment ideas for you! Try as many as you like. Don't forget to review them here.
Cultural Enrichment
- Osprey Cam: Live from Loch Arkaig in Scotland, the Woodland Trust shows off its breeding pair, Louis and Aila.
- Zoo Webcams: a list of popular webcams from some of the best zoos and sanctuaries around the world. A variety of creatures are there to observe.
- The British Museum: leads you on a world tour of objects from its collection. Search by time period or area of interest.
- United States Holocaust Museum: Virtual Field Trip (parental supervision recommended)
- Anne Frank Museum: online tours and resources, created in memory of the famous young diarist.
- Buckingham Palace: Virtual Tour
- Egyptian Pyramids: Virtual Tour
- Macchu Picchu, Peru: Virtual Tour
- National Archaeological Museum of Greece: Virtual Tour
- Palestine Museum: ‘Jerusalem Lives’ exhibition: Virtual Tour
- United States National Women’s History Museum: Online Tour
- Louvre Museum, Paris: Virtual Tour
- Google Arts and Culture: take virtual tours of thousands of online galleries around the world.
- National Gallery: 360 degree views of many of the gallery’s most famous locations, from individual portraits to large, dramatic alterpieces.
- Art UK: every publicly owned artwork in the UK, digitised.
- Map Crunch: Always wanted to travel, but can’t? Map Crunch takes you to a random location in the world, powered by Google Maps. Why not ‘visit’ two places and see how they compare?
- Access Mars: Being indoors can’t even stop you from visiting space, thanks to the work of the team behind the Mars Curiosity Rover.
- NASA Image Library: Speaking of space, NASA’s entire image gallery is now available to the public.
- ZoomQuilt: This infinitely zooming image by artist Nikolas Baumgarten is oddly mesmerising, and a good prompt for how every artwork can contain the smallest details!
- Pobble 365: a daily image to give a spark of inspiration for story writing and media literacy
- Guardian: 10 of the world’s best virtual museum and art gallery tours
Academic, Arts and Music Enrichment
- Grammy Awards Museum: Virtual Tour
- Montreux Jazz Festival: Free online concerts to stream
- Opera Vision: free performances available to stream online.
- Royal Opera House: free performances to stream online.
- Social Distancing Festival: various performances available to stream of performances cancelled due to Covid 19.
- Stage It: concerts and performances to be viewed online.
- Sonnet A Day: Watch Sir Patrick Stewart perform a different Shakespearean sonnet each day.
- Globe Theatre: stream live and recorded performances from your home.
- TED Ed: educational video lessons
- BBC Sound Archive: create your own soundscape or soundtrack with this archive of over 16,000 sound effects.
- Exploration of the Day: A new art assignment every day by artist Keri Smith.
- Draw with Rob: Draw along videos for all the family, hosted by artist Rob Biddulph.
- Adventures at Home: These activities, although curated by Girl Guiding UK, are suitable for all ages and genders.
- Artful Parent: Creative activities for parents and children to do together.
- Free Colouring Books: Pages to colour from world class libraries and museums
- My Home, My Museum: Curate your own museum exhibit with the help of the Liverpool World Museum.
- Creative Bug: Online classes and workshops in various creative activities
- Explore More: story starters, which launch onwards into different activities.
- STEAM Co: Using Art to support STEM.
- Dualingo – Learn a new language. Choose from over 30 languages
- Studio Code: Learn how to code
- Combat Code: Coding through games design
- Idea: Minicourses in coding
- Skills Share: Learn a new skill
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book Club with Ms. Jenner.
- A Place Called Perfect Book Club with Ms. Jenner.
Sports, Health & Well Being
- Headspace: this website and app provides a mixture of free and paid for subscriptions to aid sleep and relaxation through meditation.
- Shake it with Oti Mabuse: Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse leads online dance classes, suitable for children, via her Facebook page.
- Diverse Dance Mix: Inclusive dance programmes suitable for all ages.
- Sadler’s Wells Workshops: the famous dance company has expanded its range of free family friendly workshops, especially suitable for children unable to attend school.
- TaiFlow: 5 minute Tai Chi routines to promote wellbeing and mindfulness.
- Do Yoga With Me: a range of online yoga workouts, for beginners and up.
- Yoga with Adriene: free 30 minute yoga challenges to build into your daily fitness practice.
- PE with Joe: Joe Wicks’ hugely popular PE workouts are available to stream live daily from 9am, or at your leisure. There are also workouts for adults and older people to keep fit.
- Fitness Blender: free workouts of varying lengths, suitable for all abilities.
- Sweaty Betty: From yoga to high impact routines, this site provides a range of free choices to be completed at home.