- Question of the day: Come up with a question that you can answer using an online resource. Record the answer in a Headrush task along with how you found the answer.
- Rabbit hole research. Start with a random Wikipedia article and keep clicking on the most interesting thing in the article until you have burrowed deeply into topics you didn’t imagine you would find.
- Research how the things around you are made. How is spaghetti made? How is toilet paper made? How do they make the lead in a mechanical pencil?
- Take an Ivy League class: https://www.classcentral.com/collection/ivy-league-moocs
- Cool writing prompts: https://writingprompts.tumblr.com/ or https://www.writeabout.com/ideas/ or https://www.nytimes.com/
- Virtual Marine Biology Camp http://oceansinitiative.org/virtual-marine-biology-camp/
- Take an Online Class: https://www.classcentral.com
- Learn a language: http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons
- Watch a Classic Film: http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline
- Visit an art museum: https://artsandculture.google.com
- Try Coding: https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/c/cs-first/en/curriculum.html or https://academy.cs.cmu.edu/splash or https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar
- Google A Day http://www.agoogleaday.com
- Play a Breakout/Escape Room type game https://www.breakoutedu.com/funathome
- Make Music: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments
- Explore Careers: https://inventingheron.com
- Take a online fitness class https://www.fitnessblender.com
- Listen to Audible stories for free: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
- Practice questions for the ACT https://www.act.org/content/act/en/products-and-services/the-act/test-preparation/math-practice-test-questions.html?page=0&chapter=0
- Brush up on your math facts with apps: Math Majong, Times Table Rock Star, or Sushi Monster
- Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems (every day at 12noon Central) www.kennedy-center.org/mowillems
- Listen to Poetry Unbound (they release Monday mornings and Friday mornings) https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/
- Watch some TEDed videos. Here is a big list of TEDed organized by topic area. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lUzad8RFMU8cFwCLMeTv7bq1R3ctmdAo1MvZ-NOobpY/preview
- Home based art https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/
- Disney Imagineering in a Box : https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/hass-storytelling/imagineering-in-a-box/orientation/v/intro-welcome-to-imagineering-in-a-box
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