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Learning to speak Spanish? Check out our free Spanish lessons and children's stories in SpanishGlobal Languages and Culture under their Humanities section. Courses and resources from across MIT.
Open Culture maintains a list of free courses in 48 languages across the Web, from Amharic to Yiddish. With these collected resources from governments, universities and respected private institutions across the world, you’re sure to find free, high-quality lessons in 48 languages that are learned far and wide.
Open Culture maintains a list of free courses in 48 languages across the Web, from Amharic to Yiddish. With these collected resources from governments, universities and respected private institutions across the world, you’re sure to find free, high-quality lessons in 48 languages that are learned far and wide.
1,200 online collections and virtual galleries from museums, galleries and institutions in 70 countries.A frequently updated site with free online media, textbooks, ebooks, audiobooks, movies and video clips.Standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and materials
Developed by the team off music educators at NYU, Groove Pizza is an online drum sequencer that allows you to create drum patterns using a pizza-shaped circular interface. You can have up to three independent parts playing at once—like a kick drum, snare drum, and hi-hat (the main components of a basic rock beat)—and you can control the tempo, the volume, the amount of “swing,” and more.
Website dedicated to free lessons for all grade bands across all Arts subjects - Dance, Music, Visual Art, Media Arts, Theater, and Literary Arts
Developed by the team off music educators at NYU, Groove Pizza is an online drum sequencer that allows you to create drum patterns using a pizza-shaped circular interface. You can have up to three independent parts playing at once—like a kick drum, snare drum, and hi-hat (the main components of a basic rock beat)—and you can control the tempo, the volume, the amount of “swing,” and more.
Website dedicated to free lessons for all grade bands across all Arts subjects - Dance, Music, Visual Art, Media Arts, Theater, and Literary Arts
When logged in as an educator, teachers are able to create cohorts of students (accessible through a simple invite code) allowing the teacher to track things like questions asked and answers received. Educators also have access to free resources including standards-aligned lessons and videos. Find Your Calling matches career pathways to suit a student’s strengths based on the site’s assessment. Connects students to industry professionals via videos and live chats. Free through April 30th
Standards aligned content and practice for a variety of math levelsMath courses and resources from MIT.standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for Illinois teachers.
Free online math tools, simulations, exercises, lessons, and games for math & science
Free online math tools, simulations, exercises, lessons, and games for math & science
National Science Teaching association. Offering free 30 day membership giving access to over 12,000 digital professional learning resources and tools.Provides dozens of simulations for physics, chemistry and biology. The website also includes a collection of teacher contributed activities, lab experiences, homework assignments and conceptual questions that can be used with the simulations.Standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for Illinois teachers.Citizen science project finder. Over 3,000 projects and events are searchable by location, scientific topic, and age levelA stunning collection of science-themed infographics, charts, and illustrations. Run by a science teacher, this site is full of illustrations of chemical compounds in visually appealing graphics. A collection of science multimedia resources that includes short films, virtual labs, teacher guides, and Click & Learns.Students can explore articles, interactives, and videos that teach the basics of genetics, plus other lessons on cell biology, human health, and neuroscience. See their companion website, Teach.GeneticsPhET offers a huge library of free interactive simulations on science and math concepts. Each simulation allows you to manipulate different conditions such as molecules and light simulation lets you change the light’s intensity and the types of molecules that are interacting with the light—and many concepts also come with free lesson plans. A collection of resources seems to give physics teachers and students just about everything they need to learn basic physics. It includes interactive simulations, concept builders and teacher toolkits. Click on any of the elements and a window pops up that gives a full description of the element, a photo of it, and other data. By changing the viewing preferences, you can show or hide types of information like weights and electrons, orbitals, isotopes, and compounds. Each feature-length article contains a link to a series of classroom questions that can be sent out via Google Classroom or some other LMS to spark student discussion.A collection of a limited number of interactive graphic novels on biology and physics topics.
Here’s how Storybird works: Users begin by browsing through a gallery of artwork until they find an inspiring image, and then they write a story or poem to accompany the image. The written piece can then be published on Storybird or purchased as a print book In Storyboard That, users build comic strip-style storyboards from a searchable library of hundreds of backgrounds, customizable and posable characters, and props, including items from specific historical periods. Storyboard That also offers a massive library of lesson plans and teacher guides for middle and high school ELA, U.S. and world history, K-5, Spanish, Special Ed, and STEM.
A free online library of literary and informational texts for grades 3-12, CommonLit helps teachers quickly locate leveled texts that fit into a lesson or unit, assess student understanding, and pair the texts with other media. The library includes public domain texts, professional writing contributed from other publications, and short works donated by published writers.
SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+. SYNC 2020 will use Sora, the student reading app from OverDrive.
Digital Public Library of America
Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.A free online library of literary and informational texts for grades 3-12, CommonLit helps teachers quickly locate leveled texts that fit into a lesson or unit, assess student understanding, and pair the texts with other media. The library includes public domain texts, professional writing contributed from other publications, and short works donated by published writers.
SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+. SYNC 2020 will use Sora, the student reading app from OverDrive.
NewseumED offers free educational programs, primary sources and standards-aligned resources that focus on history, media literacy, civics and the First Amendment.The site houses a big collection of current events articles from sources like the Washington Post and the Associated Press. For each article, the Newsela staff has adapted it for five different reading levels, allowing readers to simply select the level they want and read the same content written in language that’s the best fit for them. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor created this site loaded with interactive games that teach civics.
This game allows players to redraw the boundaries of voting districts to see how they impact election outcomes. Read the original text, click highlighted sections to learn about changes, and read scholarly commentary. A huge collection of photos, films, maps, documents, and other resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
This game allows players to redraw the boundaries of voting districts to see how they impact election outcomes. Read the original text, click highlighted sections to learn about changes, and read scholarly commentary. A huge collection of photos, films, maps, documents, and other resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Powerful collection of videos, including viewer-submitted stories, documenting moments in the Civil Rights Movement.Digital Public Library of America
Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.
Google Teach from Home Help Site
A temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.With Listenwise, teachers can easily use podcasts as classroom texts, amplifying content and giving students practice in required listening skills. With a free membership, teachers have access to the entire Listenwise library of curated podcasts. Each one includes a podcast player embedded right on the page, along with a graphic organizer that helps students follow along and a set of listening comprehension questions.