OPJS Creative Activities and Links

Here's some great links for some cracking activities:

Virtual tours

• Arctic Travel Experts created 'virtual lights over Lapland' tour

• Roman fort 

• Museums from around the world - Virtual, online tours

• Access to 500 Museums & Art Galleries - Free, online

• How to explore London's top museums at home 

• How to explore London's top art galleries at home

• Future Learn - Explore the architecture and history of Rome, walking around a 3D digital model of the ancient city, with this free online course.

• Aquarium – Georgia aquarium allowing you to tour under the sea, live cams - otters, sea lions, pirana, jellyfish, etc. 

• Virtual farm trips - American dairy association

• Virtual field trips - Created for children, but they look great for adults too! 

• Edinburgh Zoo - Live streams: Panda Cam  /  Tiger Cam  /  Penguin Cam  /  Rock Hopper Penguin Cam  /  Koala Cam

• Chester Zoo - Virtual tours - Via Facebook 

Online learning

• Open Culture - learn 48 different languages online - FREE

• BBC languages - Learn languages online free

• FrenchTeacher.Net - Free French study pack
   
• Royal institute - Christmas lectures. A series of lectures presenting scientific subjects to a general audience in an entertaining manner.
   
• Learn 10 useful things to say in...
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish
     
• Milan Presse - French magazines available to download
   
• Periodic videos - Science-related YouTube videos
   
• Blocky games - Games to help beginners learn computer programming skills
   
• Scratch - Beginners computer programming games/projects
   
• T.K.S.S.T - Smart videos for curious minds of all ages

Geography, nature, science, and history

• National Geographic

• Tutorful - Top Geography websites, YouTube videos, and resources 

• Project Noah – Global site where you can view and share wildlife

• Seterra - Free world geography, online quizzes 

• Online film festival - Resistance in the Rainforest

• Kent Wildlife association - Simple ideas you can do in the garden to help wildlife

• World games - Geography games 

• Wild Science - Podcast 

• The relationship between humans and animals - podcast
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• Historical association - Learn about 20th Century history
   
• 13.8 billion years of history, online - FREE
   

• STEM Activities: https://education.theiet.org/key-stage-1-2-3-and-4-free-stem-resources/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_campaign=Design%20and%20Manufacturing%20April%202020&utm_medium=Newsletters%20-%20Sector%20News&utm_content=Design%20and%20Production%20Sector%20News&utm_term=4

 Music 

• Rotterdam Philharmonic musicians team up online to play Beethoven's 9th

• Concerts online - Various concerts held without audiences to stream online for people having to stay at home - list of live streaming concerts

• Free Opera  - Dates confirmed until the end of March. Check the website via the link for future dates to be added

• Metropolitan Opera online, nightly streams 

• Free classical orchestras - Live streaming performances

• Free Chamber music - Live streaming

• Berlin Philharmonic orchestra - Live streams and performance archive

• Announcements/lists - of worldwide performances being streamed

• Livestream concerts list - artists and bands

• Bands and artists - streaming performances 

• Full-length concerts - watch online free

• Celebrities performing on social media

• Facebook Virtual Choir - Duet with a choir online

• Chris Martin (Coldplay) streaming from his home - YouTube

Arts and culture

• J P Brewer - View classic paintings online

• Walter's Museum - houses the highest artistic achievements from nearly every corner of the world. View some of the past, present, and future exhibitions

• Rob Biddulph an artist posting draw-along videos via Twitter here

• Google Arts and culture - Learn something new every day! 

• British Museum - Free video
   
• Teaching history - 100 objects from museums across the UK with resources, information and teaching ideas to inspire your students’ interest in history

 Literature online

• Mindful poetry moments 

• Kindle Unlimited - 2 months free access 

• Gutenburg - Download free books, e.g. Shakespear, Edgar Allen Poe, Frankenstein, etc. 
   
• Solomon Kingsnorth - Books in PDF, Word and audiobook format - Alice in Wonderland / Wind in the Willows / The Railway Children / The Jungle Book / Peter Pan / Black Beauty
   
• Read great literature online - Free Ebooks, poetry, classic literature

• Read Free Literature - also includes study guides

• 50,000 free ebooks - arranged by genre

• Open Library Access - Free

• Audible - Free for this period - Available in 6 languages

Learn a new skill or develop a current one!

• Teach yourself to draw - Advice  /  Where to start?  /  Drawing tricks!  /  Sketching-basics  /  How to get the proportions right - faces  /   How to draw faces   

• Free, 3 months lessons online - Guitar, Fender, Base, Ukulele 

Entertainment

• Musicals, shows, and movies
   
  • 10 best Broadway shows to watch online free
• • 76 free Musicals and theatre productions streaming online

• • Wind in The Willows - How to stream the West End performance free

• • National Theatre - Streaming shows on YouTube every Thursday 

• • Open culture - 1,150 Free movies to watch online

• Jamie Oliver - helps the nation with easy recipes, cooking tips, and ingenious hacks whilst many of us are staying at home. Jamie: Keep Cooking and Carry On starts Monday at 5:30pm on Channel 4

• James Dyson foundation - Challenge cards - how many can you complete?