Royalty Free Resources

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

• PikWizard

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

• Pixabay Music

• SoundGator

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

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