Create personal or collaboriative projects -- everything from storytelling apps to zines -- using dev tools on the Glitch platform (formerly Mozilla Thimble). Free but need to sign up for account.

Build a working iOS or android app; brings design thinking, multimedia, and computational thinking together. Free but need to sign up for account.

Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories and has been designed to benefit history teachers and their students. With links to over 1,200 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness, the site also includes links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more.

Through our immersive storytelling and curricula, we explore the deeper issues facing humanity. Use our award-winning films, photo essays, and essays to learn about social, cultural, and environmental issues from people and communities worldwide. For grades 3-12, our stories and lessons encourage students to broaden their perspectives and worldviews while fostering inquiry, empathy, resilience, and a sacred relationship to our planet. We aim to bring universal values into the lives of educators and students.

We’re committed to providing educators accessible, high-quality teaching tools. Read for some ideas on how you can use our Beyond the Bubble assessments to help students learn the historical thinking skills of sourcing and contextualization. Peruse a list of our history lessons and assessments that ask students to evaluate pieces of visual art. Lists of interactive projects and free publications to help students gain new insight into History and Social Studies.

Smithsonian's History Explorer was developed by the National Museum of American History in partnership with the Verizon Foundation to offer hundreds of free, innovative online resources for teaching and learning American history. History Explorer's resources focus on learning history by "reading" objects for the stories they hold about the nation and its many peoples. Learning activities feature artifacts selected from over 3 million items in the Museum's collections, and draw on the expertise of the Museum's renowned curatorial staff.

We are a non-profit organization publishing the world's most-read history encyclopedia. Our mission is to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide.

Journey through nearly 14 billion years of history in this self-guided, six-hour version of Big History. You'll find every chapter full of great activities to keep you entertained and test your learning. Big History examines our past, explains our present, and imagines our future. It's a story about us.

Google provides a virtual jigsaw puzzle of art pieces you can play with your friends and family.

Origami Club is an interactive craft exploration of all things origami with video tutorials and step-by-step instructions on hundreds of origami creations for inspiration for all ages.

500,000 drawings are posted on YouDraw's Draw Pad and published in a book specially designed for the YouDraw / Humanity at Human Proportions drawing exhibition. View thousands of pictures and click on any drawing in the recent drawing page to interact with the artist. Vote for your favorite art piece or link messages to any drawing.

The Louvre, the world’s largest and most-visited museum, draws nearly 10 million people each year. Explore the virtual tours available.

Tour The Art Institute of Chicago's collection of art from around the world right from yur computer.

Explore the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and virtually walk through the halls of modern and contemporary art exhibits.

Explore the virtual MMCA, Seoul. and their global contemporary art. MMCA encourages communication and cross-pollination of contemporary art with other various disciplines of art, science, and humanities.

The National Museums Liverpool offers a variety of virtual displays to explore, including the huge collections from Africa, The Americas, Asia and Oceania.

Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, provides an interactive museum experience.

Virtually explore the Musee d'Orsay, a former railway station in the centre of Paris on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens. Wander among collections of art from the period 1848 to 1914.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of artworks by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in the world. Virtually explore all the floors in the museum.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, offers a virtual tour of their museum. The Museum collects across all art forms with strong holdings in painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper and moving image, as well as significant representation of works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.

The MASP offers a virtual tour of Brazil’s first modern museum. MASP’s collection contains more than 8.000 works, including paintings, sculptures, objects, photographs, and costumes from a wide range of periods, encompassing art from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Take a virtual tour of The Getty collection. It includes European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European, Asian, and American photographs.

The Gallery is one of the most famous museums in the world for its extraordinary collections of ancient sculptures and paintings from the Middle Ages to the modern. View the works in augmented reality using Art Projector and see how artworks look in real size in front of you.

Voices of Youth is UNICEF's digital community FOR YOUTH, BY YOUTH.

Model Diplomacy is a free simulation program that invites students, educators, and professionals from a variety of backgrounds to step into the roles of decision-makers on the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) or UN Security Council. Used in all fifty states and over one hundred countries by high schools, colleges and universities, military academies, international organizations, and the U.S. and foreign governments, Model Diplomacy delivers compelling interactive materials to meet a range of curricular goals.

Welcome to Facing Today, a Facing History interactive blog. Facing History and Ourselves combats racism and antisemitism by using history to teach tolerance in classrooms around the globe.

FirstVoices is a suite of web-based tools and services designed to support Indigenous people engaged in language archiving, language teaching and culture revitalization. It is a set of open-source software designed to record and promote Indigenous oral culture and revitalize the linguistic history of their people. Member groups represent over 50 Indigenous nations, bands and other non-profit organizations. The unique 'community sites' they create promote diversity of Indigenous language and culture in British Columbia. Importantly, members retain ownership of content created by them for use on their community site.

Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants. Our program emphasizes social justice and anti-bias. The anti-bias approach encourages children and young people to challenge prejudice and learn how to be agents of change in their own lives. Our Social Justice Standards show how anti-bias education works through the four domains of identity, diversity, justice and action.

YES! Media is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism. Through rigorous reporting on the positive ways communities are responding to social problems and insightful commentary that sparks constructive discourse, YES! Media inspires people to build a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world.