Community Opportunities

Grand Rapids Children's Museum

• Play@Home: The Children's Museum brings play to you! Transform your living room, backyard, or bedroom into your very own mini-GRCM with these ideas for engaging in open-ended play at home!

Grand Rapids Public Museum

• Live Stream: A 24/7 live feed of cool exhibits like the Grand Fish, Grand River exhibit featuring GRPM's Lake Sturgeon
• Digital Collections: Explore GRPM's collection of more than 250,000 artifacts and scientific specimens from home 

Van Andel Institute

• Home Experiments and Activities: Keep curiosity alive with these fun science and engineering experiments kids can do at home

Resources for Teachers

• Blue Apple Tele-Teach: Free 30-minute consultations to help K-12 teachers with virtual teaching methods
• Free Germ Spread Prevention Unit: A free PBL unit for distance learning to help students understand how germs spread and also empower them to make a difference by creating their own public service announcements

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

• Learn from Home: Find video resources and activities to keep kids engaged in learning at home, great for families and teachers

Grand Rapids Public Library

• eBooks and Digital Media: eBooks, audiobooks, movies and more available for download with a valid GRPL card
• Temporary e-Cards: During GRPL’s closure in response to COVID-19, they're offering temporary e-cards to expand access to digital resources. Access GRPL from home with a temporary e-card.
• Share Your COVID-19 Stories: Help GRPL create a shared memory of this time. Your stories will become a part of the Grand Rapids Public Library’s permanent archival collections and will give scholars, historians and medical researchers a record to study in the future.

Kent District Library

• KDL Virtual: Use the library from home to access digital resources
• Learning Resources: Activities, homework help, video story time and other tools to help kids learn at home
• Summer Wonder: Join KDL's annual summer reading challenge with cool prizes for little readers, youth and teens & young adults

John Ball Zoo

• Insider Videos: Adorable and informative videos of John Ball Zoo's resident critters hosted by their animal experts

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Library

• Tomorrow's Leader's Summer Camp (Virtual) - Activities to promote leadership and civic participation including creating campaign posters and learning how to write to elected officials. See the flyer here.
  • Monday, July 27 - Thursday, July 30, 2020; 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m
  • Registration Deadline: July 22, 2020