Next Gen Personal Finance Arcade || The NGPF provides FREE  up-to-date curriculum, engaging professional development and advocacy resources to increase access to financial education in high school and middle school. 

The Math Learning Center||FREE digital manipulatives and models.

Polypad by Mathigon||FREE tools, courses, and manipulatives.  

STEM Projects Pilot Program ||Texas Instruments will allow you to borrow everything you need for your first STEM project for FREE, including shipping all materials to you.

myViewBoard by ViewSonic|| FREE limited web-based version available

Google Arts and Culture||FREE online access to cultural organizations such as museums and historic sites.

Tinkkercad||FREE web app for 3D design, electronics, and coding

Doodle 3D||FREE open-source web-app whiteboard that lets you draw in 2D and 3D in real time

Worksheetworks||Don't let the title throw you off! Create FREE custom note-taking templates, graphic organizers, and graph paper for your class.

Animated Drawings: MetaDemoLab|| Upload children's drawings to digitally animate them. 

Classroom Screen||Digital display board to support classroom management.  FREE version available.

Class123 || Classroom management tool with features for gamified behavior managment, parent-teacher communication, and lesson tools like random picker and timer.  FREE version available.

Gynzy || Classroom Management tools, many features are FREE to use.

MoneyMagic Game || Financial literacy game

Coding Resources

• STEM Projects Pilot Program ||Texas Instruments will allow you to borrow everything you need for your first STEM project for Free, including shipping all materials to you.

• CS First (Google) ||Free easy-to-use computer science curriculum designed for students in grades 4-8.

• Scratch|| Free block coding website developed by MIT media lab

• BootstrapWorld.org||Free research-based, integrated Computer Science and Data Science modules for Math, Science, Business and Social Studies classes grades 5-12. 

• Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet||Great reference for those familiar with Python

• Tynker|| Educational programming platform to help children learn coding skills, including game design, web design, animation and robotics. Free limited account available.

• Trinket.io||Learn Python for Free with easy-to-follow tutorials.

• TI Codes||Free step-by-step 10-minute mini lessons by Texas Instruments designed to learn how to code using Python and TI-BASIC on your TI-84, TI-Nspire, Rover, Innovator Hub, or even a micro:bit. 

• micro:bit.org||Free block- and text-based coding projects designed for the BBC micro:bit, an affordable, award-winning programmable device with many built-in sensors and input options as well as external pin options ideal for physical computing.

• CodeClubWorld|| Free online platform full of step-by-step projects ideal for 9-13 year olds to learn to code.  Sponsored by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.  Consider becoming a Code Club Volunteer!

Cybersecurity Resources

• Professor Messer YouTube Channel || Professor Messer is the Internet's most comprehensive choice for CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, and other IT certifications. Watch his videos for free.

• TryHackMe|| Learn by following a structured paths and reinforce your skills in a real-world environment by completing guided, objective-based tasks and challenges. 

• GenCyber || The GenCyber program aligns with the goals of the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) program in order to provide awareness of college and career pathway opportunities for secondary students and educators. GenCyber programs are offered in four formats: Student Programs, Teacher Programs, Combination Programs and Student Language Programs.  To ensure a level playing field for all, GenCyber programs are offered at no cost to student and/or teacher participants.

• Cyber.org || CYBER.ORG's goal is to empower educators as they prepare the next generation to succeed in the cyber workforce of tomorrow. They have lessons, sorted by grade level and subject, grades K-12.  They also have Career Exploration resources available to teachers for free. 

• Ohio Cyber Range Institute || The Ohio Cyber Range Institute offers free virtual labs for cybersecurity education aligned with the NICE framework, led by NIST. These resources support instructors with modules and lessons in a virtual environment. Explore OCRI's programs and modules by category or use the search feature to find relevant materials.

Getting Started with VEX||Learn about VEX platforms and programs

Getting Started - Competition || How-to guide to getting started with a VEX competitive Robotics Team.  

Educators Landing Site||VEX Educator landing page.  Resources, links, curriculum, etc.

Funding||Grant and Scholarship information from VEX

Canva||Free online graphic design tool for social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos, fliers, and much more.

Adobe Express||Online graphic design tool to make social media posts, ads, banners, logos, flyers, etc.  Free version available.

SlidesGo||Prepared Google Slides themes

Slides Carnival||Prepared Google Slides themes

Slides Mania||Prepared Google Slides themes

Microsoft Bing Image Creator||AI-assisted image creation and then use Microsoft Designer to bring it to life!

INFOhio Open Space||Curriculum curation and collaboration tool that empowers educators to build community through groups, access curated collections, search for freely accessible instructional materials, and curate and share resources that promote innovative and collaborative learning.

PBS Learning Media Career Connections Collection||Young professionals tell us about their jobs and take us behind the scenes to show us what they do every day. Learn about Ohio’s in-demand jobs, and what it takes to get there. Career Connections is a powerful career resource for any student! 

Visual Patterns by Fawn Nguyen || Explore these patterns with your students and watch their natural tendencies to see patterns morph into powerful algebraic thinking and reasoning.

Mathworlds, Dan Meyer || Math and technology resources. 

 Teacher Tech: Paperless is Not a Pedagogy, Alice Keeler || Tech blog and resources

Control Alt Achieve, Eric Curts||Google and other technology resources

OpenAI Blog||From the makers of ChatGPT on AI resources, safety, and use of AI

John Spencer || EdTech, PBL, and best practices

Learning Unboxed || PAST foundation