Schools Shut? Let Your Kids Learn Through These Global Classrooms While Sitting At Home

The educational company has launched a Learn at Home website that provides daily courses for students from pre-kindergarten to class 6 and higher. Keep your little ones academically and creatively active with Scholastic’s rich and meaningful daily lessons. The courses provide approximately three hours of learning per day, including writing and research projects, virtual field trips, and geography challenges. The website is accessible on any device that has internet and no sign up is required. It will remain free and open indefinitely.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empowers your kids to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Be it math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, or more. Check out their website for daily schedules you could adopt as is or modify to better suit the needs of your kids. You can use their self-paced, interactive content exercises, videos and articles absolutely free of cost.

Always wanted to teach your kids how to code but never got a chance? Well, now you do. Tynker is the #1 Kids Coding Platform, where lots of kids learn to code every day. Tynker offers self-paced online courses for your children to learn coding at home, as well as specially designed curriculum for schools and camps. From beginner puzzles, where your kids learn the ABCs of coding with engaging story-based challenges, to solving dungeon puzzles, where they can program armies to follow their commands. 

Does your child hate math? Then, maybe you can use this time to make your child love the numbers. Beast Academy is an attempt to solve the problem of kids dreading mathematics by presenting the subject as the beautiful, creative discipline it is. They do so with challenging problems, engaging explanations, and a focus on the hows and whys of mathematics. It's the curriculum we wish we'd had when we were aspiring math beasts ourselves. While you’re flattening the curve (of Corona spread) ensure your child’s graph of understanding mathematics goes up with Beast Academy. 

Let us all follow the maxim of #createdonthate in these unsettling times and teach our kids to do the same. Creative Bugs is a team of dreamers and makers who believe that everyone has a creative side - even you! They pride themselves on bringing the latest in art and craft education by working with renowned artists from across the globe. By signing up for Creativebug you and your kids will enjoy unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft classes. Best part? You can start and stop projects at your own pace because their classes never expire. No pressure, just possibilities!

Make any room a classroom with BrainPOP! This online resource is here to help you and your curious learners stay informed and on-track with free access during school closures. BrainPOP has over 1,000 short animated movies for students in Kg to class 12, together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering & technology, health, and arts & music.

Varsity Tutors has some really fun ideas up their sleeves to engage and inspire young minds. Take for instance the Virtual Field Trips. Here young adventurers can sail the seven seas, explore languages and faraway cultures, and tour ancient civilisations - all in an afternoon’s work and from the comfort of their homes. Best part? All these amazing resources come to you free of cost. Don't miss checking out the Featured Class Collection where your kids can enjoy the benefits of a class taught by celebrity instructors and top experts across categories.