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Stay at Home

Free Fun & Educational Online Resources for Kids, Teens & Adults

With the recent school, library, business, and community center closings, we know a lot of you are wondering how to stay busy during this time of uncertainty, social distancing, and staying home. Our library staff has compiled a list of some creative, fun, and educational resources for kids, teens, adults, and the whole family, including virtual visits, storytimes, classes, homework help, videos, and more! We'll continue to update this list as we find additional free resources to share. 
Stay at home resources

for everyone

for kids

At-home Learning

Scholastic Learn at Home: Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing 

WatchKnowLearn.org: Educational videos organized by subjects

PaleoPortal: Learn all about paleontology

NASA for Students: STEM activities and more

Khan Academy Student Schedules (includes preschool and elementary)

Monthly Activity Calendars: Early Literacy & Children

Educational Resources for At-Home Learning

Books & Storytimes

Free Online Picture Books

Epic: Digital library for kids 12 and under

Storytime with Josh Gad: He's reading books to kids online every night during Coronavirus quarantines

Virtual Storytimes for Kids

Storytime Online: Stream videos featuring celebrated actors reading children's books alongside creatively produced illustrations

Spanish Children's Stories

Storytime Online Resources

Storytime with Dan Gutman

Dolly Parton to Read Children's Books on Weekly YouTube Series

Creativity

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems: Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo’s studio virtually once a day for the next few weeks  

Indoor Activities for Kids

Digital Cooking Classes For Kids Every Week Day

Free Online Events and Activities for Kids at Home

Health & Staying Active

Indoor Activities for Kids

P.E. with Joe - Daily Kids Workouts 

Kid Yoga Videos

Free eBooks for Kids about the Coronavirus

Games

Dog Man Digital Escape Room

Librarian-recommended Apps & Games for Kids Staying Home

Socrates: Personalized math games and learning activities (use your library card to access)

NeoK12: Educational videos and games for school kids

for teens

BrainFuse: Get live tutoring help or schedule sessions with friends in private virtual study rooms (use your library card to access)

Nevada DMV Practice Tests 

CodeAcademy

Khan Academy Student Schedules (includes middle and high school)

For adults

LIFELONG LEARNING

LearningExpress Library Adult Learning Center: Improve your technology skills, including computer skills (use your library card to access)

GCF Learn Free Typing: Learn the basics of touch typing and then practice your new skills

Digital Learn: Online hub to learn basics for computers and the Internet including internet privacy, Microsoft Word, and email

TechBoomers: Tutorials for popular websites like Facebook, Amazon, and eBay for older adults or other inexperienced Internet users

Office365: Learn the basics of Microsoft Office 365, including Outlook, OneDrive, Word, and Excel

CODE.org: Learn computer science using free, online tutorials. Create projects like games and activities using code.

W3Schools: Free, online tutorials for learning HTML, CSS, SQL, PHP, Python, Java, jQuery and JavaScript with the world's largest web developer site