Free Online Resources

FREE ONLINE RESOURCES

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4teachers - this site contains many resources to help the classroom teacher organize and plan activities. A useful example is Rubistar which allows you to create and edit rubrics for nearly anything you create.

Brainpop Educator - our free professional community, where teachers can find and share innovative lesson plans, video tutorials, and best classroom practices.

Discovery Education's Teacher Resources - Lesson plans, puzzles, forums, grant info, and much more.

Discovery Education's Puzzlemaker - Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more using your own word lists.

Education World - a home for educators on the Internet, a place where teachers could gather and share ideas; a complete online resource that educators could visit each day to find high-quality lesson plans and research materials. Contains original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts; Web site reviews; special features and columns; and employment listings.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,600 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

Free Tech for Teachers - Resources curated by Richard Byrne, this website has a plethora of tech tools available for a teacher's every need

IZZIT - Free educational videos and current events lessons.

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

NY Times Learning Network - The New York Times Learning Network is a free service for students in grades 3-12, their teachers and parents. The site is updated Monday through Friday throughout the year.

SchoolTube - SchoolTube.com is the nation's largest K-12 moderated video sharing website that provides students and educators with a safe and FREE video sharing website that is exclusively endorsed by leading education associations.

Smithsonian Learning Lab - The Smithsonian Learning Lab is a major rethinking of how the digital resources from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, 9 major research centers, the National Zoo, and more, can be used together, for learning.

TeacherTube - Teach the World - Teacher Videos, Lesson Plan Videos, Student Video Lessons, documents, audio, photos

TeachingHistory.org - Funded by the U.S. Department of Education (contract number ED-07-CO-0088), the National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC) is designed to help K-12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.

TECH & LEARNING - For 30 years, Tech & Learning has served the K-12 education community with practical resources and expert strategies for transforming education through integration of digital technologies. Our audience includes all job roles within the district community, with district-level technology coordinators the primary recipients. Beyond that, our magazine is often used as a professional development tool to help educators across the board get up to speed with the newest technologies and products in order to best prepare students for the global digital workforce.

Web Quest - the most complete and current source of information about the WebQuest Model. Whether you're an education student new to the topic or an experienced teacher educator looking for materials, you'll find something here to meet your needs.