Royalty Free Resources
Please use the following sites/sources to find images, music/sound effects, and videos for your school projects. As a student you should not be creating accounts to any of these sites. AND remember you CAN create your own images: Take a photo, Photos App, Use Sketches, Notability, Rocket Paint, Keynote- they all have great drawing and editing tools.
Don't forget we have Britannica Image Quest as a paid resource for all MS students- See our HR Library Database Page!
Note: Please remember to cite your sources even though they are stating they are free to use- many still require attribution.
Images/Photos
Remember you can alway take your own!
Free Images Live: search for free images
OpenVerse- Creative Commons Search: search for images, videos, music, and more
NASA Image and Video Library: search all image, video, and audio files in NASA's database
Pexels: free stock photos
PhotoPin: millions of Creative Commons photos
Photos for Class: image search with automatic citations embedded on downloaded files. Images often sourced through Flickr so double check licensing.
Photos for Work: image search with automatic citations embedded on downloaded files. Images often sourced through Flickr so double check licensing.
Pics 4 Learning: a curated collection of images free for educational use
Pixabay: beautiful, free images
Unsplash: beautiful, free photos
Wikimedia Commons: a collection of freely usable media files
Stockio: beautiful, free photos
Copyright Free Images: beautiful, free photos
Vintage and Historical Images- British Library: The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer access to millions of public domain images
Library of Congress: Copyright free, primary source photos from American History useful for getting photos for projects
Stocksnap: beautiful, free photos
New York Public Library Digital Collection: Living Database of historical images
Sound Effects/Audio Files/Music
Or create your own in GarageBand!
Purple-Planet: Royalty free music
BBC Sound Effects Collection: over 16,000 sound effects available for personal, educational, and research purposes
Incompetech: search the collection of royalty-free music, view collections, or browse the A-Z listing
Soundbible (Overview Video): free sound effects
Videos
Or create your own in iMovie!
OpenVerse- Creative Commons Search: search for images, videos, music, and more
Pexels Videos: free stock video
Pixabay Videos: beautiful, free videos
Videvo: free HD stock footage and motion graphics for your project
Internet Archive: download or listen to free videos, movies, and films
Coverr is a website that offers free B-roll video clips that you can download and reuse in your own projects. Most of the videos are silent and are short clips of less than a minute. Downloading them takes just one click. Registration is not required in order to download from Coverr and, according to Coverr's terms of service, attribution is not required although it is appreciated.
Stockio- registration not required, download button
Clip Art
Or create your own in a drawing app, keynote, explain everything, or emojis.
Coco Materials- an online library of nearly 2,500 clipart drawings that you can download and re-use for free- CoCoMaterial can be customized before you download them. You can change the color of the outline of the drawing, change the fill color of the drawing, and choose the size of the drawing that you download. Help Video
The Florida Center for Instructional Technology hosts two fantastic resources for teachers and students in search of clipart and pictures for classroom projects. One of those is ClipArt ETC and the other is Clippix ETC.
ClipArt ETC is an online catalog of more than 70,000 pieces of clipart that students and teachers can download and use in classroom projects. The catalog is arranged in thematic collections and sub-collections. Simply pick a collection then a sub-collection to find the clipart that you want to use. The clipart is available in three file sizes to meet most needs.
Clippix ETC is an online catalog of thousands of pictures teachers and students can download and use for free in their classroom projects. Like ClipArt ETC, Clippix ETC is arranged in thematic collections and sub-collections. Images are available in three resolutions to meet most needs.
Watch this short video for an overview of ClipArt ETC and Clippix ETC.
IconFinder: over 100,00 free icons - be sure to only use icons labeled "Creative Commons", "MIT License", or "Free for Commercial Use".
Clker: Free clip art
Pdclipart: Public Domain clip art
See document below for more information about Copyrights, Creative Commons, and Fair Use!