Online Fun & Learning
Information and activities to help stay in and keep brains sharp at home!
At-home activities, lessons, and learning games:
Guys Read- Great books for boys and more; site by author Jon Scieszka
Book Hive- Kids can read and make book recommendations
Booklists- On all kinds of popular topics
Digital Escape Rooms- These Digital Escape Rooms and other activities are compiled here by Sun Prairie Public Library and made by librarians from all over
DK Find Out- Info on all kinds of topics for kids
DK Camps- Help your children stay curious and keep active with summer camp, DK-style. From science experiments, to nature crafts and rainy-day LEGO builds, explore activity packs to keep kids educated and entertained.
Build vocabulary- And help fight world hunger
Wacky Web Tales- Kind of like Mad Libs
Scratch- Program your own video games and animations
Stop Bullying- Being an upstander, dealing with bullying
Iowa Falls Recreation Challenge- Iowa Falls Parks & Recreation has created the IOWA FALLS RECREATION CHALLENGE for you and the kids to complete each week. Completing the challenges will enter you into drawings for weekly prizes and grand prize of a Season Family Pool Pass!! The more weeks you complete the more chances you have to win! Challenges will come out Monday afternoon on Facebook and the city website. Challenges will need to be completed and submitted by Sunday at midnight. ONE submission per family. The first week please email your completed submission to ifpro@cityiowafalls.com More information is on the flyer. If you have any questions please call us at 648-641-2527.
Book Connections
Ideas for good books, videos with authors, and more
Some digital materials, including all downloadable eBooks and eAudiobooks, are only available to those with Barlow Library Cards!
Don't have one and would like one? Please give us a call and we can create you a digital card over the phone!
Check out our amazing online resources that can be used from home:
- Scholastic Online – free access to remote learning activities, articles, and lesson plans. Includes activities for pre-k through 9th grade students.
- Learning Library at education.com – Printable worksheets, online games, guided lessons, and more
- Discovery Mindblown – STEM information and activities, including DIY experiments
- Kentucky Association for Gifted Education – Virtual Gifted and Talented Enrichment Support Materials
- Tween Tribune – magazine for tweens by the Smithsonian Institute (also available in Spanish)
- Virtual tours of museums, monuments, zoos, and more
- Museums
- Google has compiled a collection of museum tours
- The Louvre in Paris offers their own tour
- Museum Computer Network (mcn.edu) virtual tours collection
- National parks – Yellowstone & Yosemite
- Zoos & Aquariums
- Monterey Bay Aquarium’s live cams
- Georgia Aquarium offers webcam views of their many different aquatic animal habitats
- San Diego Zoo is offering several live cams of different animals
- Blank Park Zoo is offering Facebook activities
- Great Wall of China virtual tour
- Tour of the surface of Mars, as photographed by the Curiosity Rover
- Use Google Earth to visit Hawaii (and navigate from there to explore other areas of the world from the comfort of your home!)
- Museums
Guys Read- Great books for boys and more; site by author Jon Scieszka
Book Hive- Kids can read and make book recommendations
Booklists- On all kinds of popular topics
Digital Escape Rooms- These Digital Escape Rooms and other activities are compiled here by Sun Prairie Public Library and made by librarians from all over
DK Find Out- Info on all kinds of topics for kids
DK Camps- Help your children stay curious and keep active with summer camp, DK-style. From science experiments, to nature crafts and rainy-day LEGO builds, explore activity packs to keep kids educated and entertained.
Build vocabulary- And help fight world hunger
Wacky Web Tales- Kind of like Mad Libs
Scratch- Program your own video games and animations
Stop Bullying- Being an upstander, dealing with bullying
Iowa Falls Recreation Challenge- Iowa Falls Parks & Recreation has created the IOWA FALLS RECREATION CHALLENGE for you and the kids to complete each week. Completing the challenges will enter you into drawings for weekly prizes and grand prize of a Season Family Pool Pass!! The more weeks you complete the more chances you have to win! Challenges will come out Monday afternoon on Facebook and the city website. Challenges will need to be completed and submitted by Sunday at midnight. ONE submission per family. The first week please email your completed submission to ifpro@cityiowafalls.com More information is on the flyer. If you have any questions please call us at 648-641-2527.
Book Connections
Ideas for good books, videos with authors, and more
- Also try searching other libraries’ websites, such as New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library (clicks through to Chicago Public Schools), or LA Public Library, for free resources! (Note that some of their resources, like some of ours, are only available to patrons within their service area!)
Some digital materials, including all downloadable eBooks and eAudiobooks, are only available to those with Barlow Library Cards!
Don't have one and would like one? Please give us a call and we can create you a digital card over the phone!
Check out our amazing online resources that can be used from home:
- Brain Fuse has test preparation and practice exams for GED, ACT, AP tests. Also, career information, computer skills instruction, and more!
- Transparent Languages is an online language learning program.
Adopted from the Marshalltown Public Library website