Troop Resources
Homework Help Volunteers: These Girl Scouts and leaders can help you with homework subjects.
(Want to volunteer? Add your name here!)
Badge-Making Videos: If you can make a video of yourself demonstrating how to earn a badge, please sign up for one here! We can post your video or a link to it here.
We’re Girl Scouts... of course there’s a patch for that.
“MOOOOOOOM, I’M BORED!”
Girl Scouts USA Girl Scouts from Home Resource page for Troops, Parents, and Scouts
Warren County Library Resources for Kids page, including Storytime, books, magazines, research portals, art projects, math, science, music, LEGOs, virtual escape rooms, and lots more.
Washington Post Parents Guide to Education and Activity Resources, which updates regularly.
Journaling Project: Dispatches from Quarantine. A museum curator is sharing journal entries from young people of the past and encouraging teens to contribute their own experiences, in whatever medium (writing, video, etc.) they choose to use. Aimed at children from middle school to age 25.
Varsity Tutors: Expert live instruction at all grade levels; much is free. There are summer programs as well.
BOOKS
A lot of authors reading from their books plus links to other DRM-free books at Kate Messner’s website
Audible is making lots of stuff free
Project Gutenberg (PARENTS: this is a general site, not child-restricted. Please be aware of what your child is downloading)
EDUCATION
Scholastic is making about three weeks of content available free on any device
Virtual field trips, including the Great Wall of China, Yellowstone National Park, and MARS!
Dictionary.com Learn from Home
Wide Open School: All subjects, all grades.
Tinkergarten at Home: DIY week-long lesson plans to do in the backyard or on the stoop. Get outside safely.
ENTERTAINMENT
San Diego Zoo animal live cams!
HD on Tap Live Cams: Eagles, wolves, owls, deer, cat café, falcons, giraffes, many other cams
Nightly Metropolitan Opera Streams
NPR’s list of live virtual concerts, updated daily
Slate’s list of live daily entertainment streams
The U.K.’s National Theatre Live Thursday night streams
MUSEUMS
Italian museums to visit online for free
The Louvre in Paris
Smithsonian Natural History Museum
Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam