MediaSmarts.ca is a Canadian site that focues on Media Literacy resources and lesson plans
Criticalthinking.org - The Critical Thinking Foundation Website is a great resource for critical thinking growth. Here is a link to some remodeled lessons.
TIM Arizona Technology Matrix - The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal directed (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells.
Applied Digital Tasks - Google - A free computer literacy course designed to prepare learners for a growing number of jobs that require basic digital skills.
Google Teacher Tribe Hour of Code Podcast
Teacher-Led Hour of Code Lesson Plans
Ask A Teacher - Hour of Code Lessons by Grade Level
Create a Holiday Cart with Scratch
Here at ReadWriteThink, our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
H5P - Create interactive content for your online course.
Sandra Kaplin - Depth and Complexity Charts USC Website - Presentation
Ian Byrd - Byrdseed resources for gifted and talented students
MediaLit Moments Lesson Plan Archive
Short lesson plans to teach and reinforce media literacy. Great for sub-plans and long test day fillers.
Learn to code interactively, for free.
Codecademy's resources to help instructors teach computer science to students of all ages and backgrounds.
Teaches students programming concepts by using algebra and geometry to create a video game.
OER Commons - OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
OpenStax CNX - Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month. Its content services the educational needs of learners of all ages, in nearly every discipline, from math and science to history and English to psychology and sociology. Connexions delivers content for free over the Internet for schools, educators, students, and parents to access 24/7/365. Materials are easily downloadable to almost any mobile device for use anywhere, anytime. Schools can also order low cost hard copy sets of the materials (textbooks).
OERPub.org - OERPUB is creating innovative open-source tools for authoring, adapting, remixing, and publishing open education resources and then delivering them to the web, mobile, tablet, and print. OERPUB is supported by the Shuttleworth Foundation and a coalition of like-minded organizations supporting free and open education.
FigShare- Store, share and discover research. Free research open content.
OpenLearn - an innovative leading open educational platform where individuals and organisations can publish their open content, open courses and resources. It is Moodle based and has tools for collaboration, reuse and remixing.
OpenStax CNX - View and share free educational material in small modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports or other academic assignments. Sharing knowledge and building communities.
P2PU - Peer 2 Peer University (or simply P2PU) is a non-profit organization that facilitates equitable learning beyond institutional walls.
Radical Curriculum Sharing at the Open High School of Utah - Edutopia article on OER resources.
OpenStax, (Links to an external site.)
Open Textbook Library (Links to an external site.), and College of the Canyons OER/ZTC page (Links to an external site.).
San Bernadino Valley College OER by discipline (Links to an external site.).
OASIS (Links to an external site.) and LibreTexts (Links to an external site.). OASIS is particularly popular for it's user-friendly interface.
Cool4Ed- California Open online library for education.
From @One course - Digital Citizenship
If you'd like to learn more about OER, here are some good places to start:
Can I Use That? A Guide to Creative Commons (Links to an external site.)
Best Practices for Attribution (Links to an external site.)
Creative Commons Website (Links to an external site.)
Advocacy for CC-BY (Links to an external site.)
Is a Creative Commons-Non Commercial License killing your project?
How to get a CC for your work. Video Want to work together?
How to Get CC for your work website
Open Pedagogy How to incorporate open, collaborative work in your classroom
Teach.wikiedu.org - Wiki Education
SolutionTree - Resources for books and on-line curriculum and lesson plans for teaching with and about technology. Social Networks, Digital Citizen, Connected Learners, and more.
SolutionTree Designing Teacher-Student Partnership Classrooms - Links and instructions to:
The Desmos Guide to Building Great (Digital) Math Activities - Dan Mayer, featured on CNN, Good Morning America, Everyday With Rachel Ray, and TED.com, provides the philosophy behind Desmos activities.
YouCubed.org - Our main goal is to inspire, educate and empower teachers of mathematics, transforming the latest research on math larning into accessible and practical forms. Dr Jo Boaler is a Professor of Mathematics Education at Stanford University, and the faculty director of youcubed. She is the author of the first MOOC on mathematics teaching and learning. Former roles have included being the Marie Curie Professor of Mathematics Education for Europe, a mathematics teacher in London comprehensive schools and a researcher at King's College, London. She is the author of nine books – including the best seller: Mathematical Mindsets - and she has received numerous awards for mathematics equity and leadership.
NovoPro - Wireless presentation and collaboration system.
Learn Genetics - Teach.Genetics University of Utah Genetics Website. Molecular Biology.
Our Fluid Earth - Hundreds of lessons, activities, labs and assessment questions in several topics to view for any of the three science courses. Also, each piece is NGSS aligned; they are very clear with what SEP, CCC, and DCI is being practiced.
Nepris- Connect with professionals that can assist your students with their projects and help you when it's time to go live and present.
RealWorldScholars - At Real World Scholars, we've created an e-commerce platform that allows any teacher to operate a classroom-based business. Since all the business happens under our non profit umbrella, we take care of things like banking, taxes, and web support.