NatGeo@Home Is What You Need to Up Your Homeschooling Game

Let’s face it, most of us aren’t trained teachers, and while we’re  all doing our best to muddle through, distance learning during COVID-19 quarantine isn’t really giving our kids the well-rounded education they normally get at school. And while teachers are doing their best to answer questions via Google hangouts, those aren’t quite the same as  interactive lessons. Enter NatGeo@Home, which aims to make your  life as a newly minted homeschool teacher a little bit easier. 

Earlier this month, National Geographic launched NatGeo@Home, a hub filled with free digital resources designed to enhance your kids’ online learning. . The hub has  live connections so your kids can watch real scientists at work every day, along with day-to-day lesson plans broken down by grade. The site also taps into Nat Geo’s Kids Books that cover every topic from STEM and writing to history and travel. You’ll also find worksheets, experiments and quizzes to make learning more fun. 

Daily themes and lessons  are broken down into digestible chunks, so you can decide just how much you want to learn about elephants, for example. 

Want to do some research on their heritage? They can learn about almost any country out there, and see some stunning pics from the National Geographic library. And while the hub is designed for kids, we loved learning a a fun fact or two about Abe Lincoln on a Weird But True page. And there are timely articles, like this one about raising kids that are more plastic conscious. 

Apologies in advance if you and the kids  fall down a rabbit hole with the personality quizzes to figure out which president, dinosaur and ice cream flavor you are. I’m Theodore Roosevelt, a T-rex and mint chocolate chip.