Looking for ways to stay engaged while self-isolating? Check out some of the resources we've come across that can help you live, learn, play, connect, and create from the great indoors.

LIVE

• AltaSea's Project Blue features content and education resources around the emerging blue economy, healing our oceans, and saving our planet.
• TreePeople has educational activities about important environmental topics.
• Camp Kindness Counts provides teachers and parents with free guide books that foster strong, compassionate character and awareness in children.
• HERE is a free app that combines meditation practice with interactive exercises.
• Respectful Ways is offering teachers and parents free access for up to 3 modules in their social-emotional learning curriculum.
• NHMLA's Connects page invite you to explore natural and cultural wonders from their exhibits to your own backyard.

LEARN

• Los Angeles Public Library has tons of free online learning tools that you can access instantly with either a library card or e-card, including language learning with Mango Languages, courses ranging from grant writing to team management fundamentals with Lynda, and more.
• California Science Center's Stuck at Home Science is featuring science activities for families using common household supplies.
• LAUSD has partnered with PBS SoCal and KCET to offer free daytime educational programming for students in Pre-K through 12th grade.
• Scholastic offers free online day-by-day projects for students in Pre-K through 9th grade.
• Academy 4SC hosts free videos and content on psychology, philosophy, and economics.
• American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States that combines research with innovative mapping techniques.
• American Archive of Public Broadcasting provides access to significant historical content created by public media, with suggested topics to start ranging from biography and consumer affairs to travel and parenting.
• Audible has a large variety of free audiobooks.
• Abdo Digital Bookshelf has free ebooks for children of all ages.
• Petersen Automotive Museum offers free live stream and video activities in addition to coloring and building activities that include building your own race car and more.
• Khan Academy provides students aged 2-18 with free remote learning resources in subjects such as math, science and engineering, arts and humanities, computing, and more.
• KQED Learn is a free platform for middle and high schoolers to build media literacy and critical thinking skills.
• These free Carmen Sandiego educational resources for kids include exercises that build self- and social-awareness, activities such as creating animal trading cards and writing an opera, and more.
• Storyline Online hosts free videos of actors reading children's books.
• The Huntington Garden released The Collections, a podcast hosted by Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence.

PLAY

• Little Kids Rock is offering free online music lessons for kids.
• Canadian Olympic School Program offers free online resources on adopting and maintaining healthy active lifestyles.
• GoNoodle hosts free movement and mindfulness videos for children.
• Smithsonian's National Zoo is hosting live webcams of their animals, such as the lion cam, elephant cam, and giant panda cam.
• Monterey Bay Aquarium is hosting live webcams, including a sea otter cam, penguin cam, open sea cam, and more.
• CorePower Yoga is providing free access to some of their On Demand videos.

CONNECT

• Civics 101 is a podcast refresher course on the basics of American democracy.
• The Metropolitan Opera is offering free nightly opera streams.
• World101 provides modules to understand the issues, forces, and actors that shape the world.
• Google Arts & Culture offers free virtual tours of museums and cultural institutions.
• Louvre Museum is offering free online tours of the museum's exhibition rooms and galleries.
• Berliner Philharmoniker is offering their Digital Concert Hall for free to everyone who signs up before March 31.

CREATE

• Bay Area Video Coalition is offering free virtual courses in video production, audio production, and game design for youths aged 14-17.
• Little Kids Rock is hosting online music lessons with and without instruments, including ukelele, pop acoustic guitar, body drum set, and more.
• Chrome Music Lab is a free tool with hands-on music experiments.
• Doodles Academy provides free art projects for children of all grades.
• Tallo is a free platform that connects individuals with scholarships, college admissions, internships, apprenticeships, jobs, and more.
• Check out these local cultural institutions that have gone digital: A+D Museum, The Broad From Home, The Getty, The Grammy Museums Museum, The Hammer Museum, LACMA, MOCA, and LA Plaza.
• Jarrett Lerner is offering free drawing and writing prompts and activities for download.
• Annenberg Photo Space is offering audio tours.
• Fender is offering three months of free guitar lessons online.

For more context about what is open and what is closed at this time, browse this list.

For more resources in response to COVID-19, check out our article compiling all the local resources we're aware of.

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