These microphones run at just under $9 each. I keep 8 of them in my classroom, and attach them to long poles to make "boom mikes" that the students can use for filming. This improves the sound quality of their video projects immensely.

The JBFC is located in Chicago. However, their website provides a plethora of free resources for multimedia literacy and media production, geared towards students of every age.

At $6 these are the most useful, budget-friendly tripods I've found. The legs wrap around anything (I show students how to attach them to a rolling chair to make a dolly, or a headband to make a POV cam, etc.) I will say that one or two of them break every year, so I do have to replace them.

Into Film is a British organization, but getting young people to make movies is their entire purpose. The free resources on their site are invaluable!

Students with iPhones SHOULD have these, but they get lost or forgotten. The official Apple adapters are like $20, but from Amazon, you can get 2 for less than $7. So I keep 4 in my classroom just in case students need them to hook up microphones.

Editing videos with Adobe Spark is more like making a Powerpoint than a movie. For this reason, it is great for beginners and younger students. And, it is free and web-based, which makes it easy to use in a classroom setting.

Everyone wants Adobe Premiere, but it is EXPENSIVE. Lightworks is a free, open-source alternative. It has 90% of the same features, and it is so similar to Premiere that it will feel familiar to those who have used the pricey software.

If you prefer hands-on resources to digital ones, this is one of the most useful books I've found on the subject of student filmmaking. I would only recommend it to those teaching dedicated media courses, however. I don't think the expense would be worth it to a content-area teacher who just wants to do one filmmaking project.

Because my school has been migrating to mostly Chromebooks, I have had to find video editors that function effectively there. OpenShot is free and web-based, and while it does not have all of the features of Premiere or Lightworks, it does do one thing they do not: all videos are accessed and saved in Google Drive, which is very useful, since I use Google Classroom for everything.

I use videos from this YouTube channel all the time in my classroom. They are well-explained, digestible, and have taught my students many concepts better than I could have done myself. There are other YouTube channels that are great too if you hunt around, but none quite as polished as RocketJump

If you're looking for a wide range of high-quality films made by young people, this is a great resource. There are a few films on this site that are not entirely appropriate for young viewers, however, so it's important to be discerning.