Subject Area Resources
Art
Google Arts and Culture - explore collections from around the world.
Khan Academy for Arts and Humanities -
SmartHistory - official provider of art history for khanacademy.org; also supports AP art history and A-level curriculum.
Culture Trip - insider travel guides to the world’s most exciting cities -
The Art of Education University - Browse hundreds of K-12 art lesson plans, plus thousands of other curriculum materials through the FLEX Curriculum platform, right now -
CTE
CTE Online- Course outlines, projects, lesson plans
Elementary Resources
Happy Numbers- Math Centers K-5
One Minute Math videos- These videos take a mathematics concept and break it into pieces that are easy to understand and only take a minute to watch.
Scholastic Learn at Home Projects - special cross-curricular journeys created for K-6. Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers.
3 Weeks of Maker Stations for Home - Maker Stations provide targeted design thinking challenges for elementary students, emphasizing skills in engineering, art, math, science, technology, and music. 15 Maker Station options are provided for 3 weeks of daily home activities.
ELA and Reading
Google Earth - Voyager
Scholastic Story Starters - Creative Writing Prompts
DIY MFA Writer Igniter - Creative Writing Prompts
StoryLine Online - Books read aloud by famous people
Unite for Literacy - a collection of readers
Sora App - Online lending library for schools
Teaching Research Skills using Google Search
NewsELA - Web-based resource to support reading in both English and Spanish.
ESL/ELL Education: Interactive Websites for Learning- A website full of interactive websites that can be used to support ELLs.
Nearpod- Scaffolded grade-level learning experiences and language instruction. Free subscriptions offered for COVID-19.
NYPL English Resources: Free ESOL websites
Khan Academy- Accessible in multiple languages
Teacherful.com- an extensive digital library of free, original, high-interest language arts and math learning materials, provided in downloadable PDF format, for unlimited use with elementary, intermediate, and middle school students.
Scholastic Learn at Home Projects - special cross-curricular journeys created for K-6. Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers.
3 Weeks of Maker Stations for Home - Maker Stations provide targeted design thinking challenges for elementary students, emphasizing skills in engineering, art, math, science, technology, and music. 15 Maker Station options are provided for 3 weeks of daily home activities.
Enl
Resource Collection compiled by OBEWL for English Language Learners and World Language Students- with links to Resources compiled by the NYS RBERNs
ESL/ELL Education: Interactive Websites for Learning- A website full of interactive websites that can be used to support ELLs.
Khan Academy- Accessible in multiple languages
Nearpod- Scaffolded grade-level learning experiences and language instruction.
NewsELA- Web-based resource to support reading in both English and Spanish.
NYPL English Resources: Free ESOL websites- many types of activities (grammar, listening, pronunciation, vocabulary, reading, etc.) for language learners of all levels.
PBS LearningMedia: Resources for Emergency Closure – Spanish Edition (Grades PreK-12) a special collection of resources organized by grade and subject area including videos, lesson plans, and activities that support learning at home.
Unite for Literacy- (P-5)- Read alouds of books and stories. Users can choose the language of both the text and the narration (English or Spanish).
Brainpop ELL- Movies, quizzes, activities, and games, for English Language Learners of all ages.
Global Storybooks (2-12) -Digital stories narrated in fifty available languages
Learning Chocolate (2-12)- Online vocabulary building resource for ELLs.Topics include colors, numbers, action words, routines, food, months, etc.
Lingo Hut (2-12)- A free resource for learning a language. Lessons begin with common words and phrases written and pronounced, and grow in difficulty.
Literacy Center- Pre-reading materials focusing on letters, numbers, shapes, and colors. Available in Spanish, French, German, and English.
The Fable Cottage- Classic fairy tales and fables told in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German.
New York Times English Language Learner My Learning Network- A plethora of varied texts, podcasts, videos, and lesson plans to engage and instruct ELL/MLL students in reading and writing.
Common Sense Media- A site for Spanish-speaking families containing videos, texts, and digital applications instructing children and sharing information for parents.
Languages Other Than English Activities- Students can practice math and build English vocabulary while referencing their home language. Languages include French, Turkey, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Math
Expii - Math and Science Explanation Videos & Handouts
Desmos - Graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and assign digital lessson through the Teacher page
GeoGebra - Get our free online math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, and more!
YouCubed - Ideas & Tasks to Inspire ALL Students with Open, Creative Mindset Mathematics
Greg Tang Math - Math resources for elementary
Math Central from the University of Regina -
One Minute Math videos- These videos take a mathematics concept and break it into pieces that are easy to understand and only take a minute to watch. (K-6)
Polyup - A free and open computational thinking playground. Modify expressions, build simulations, and play games to experience the joy of math!
Would You Rather - Justify your math
Crash Course - YouTube Channel
InstaSearches on Google - Insta-searches on Google can get you dice, flip a coin, a timer, conversions and more.
Data Gif Maker - Make data fun!
Music
Google Music Lab - Play with and create music online!
Music Teachers National Association - MTNA offers this overview of selected websites that teachers might find helpful for augmenting lesson materials-particularly to enhance those six practice days between lessons.
PE and Health
Cosmic Kids Yoga - YouTube yoga instruction for elementary students
Fat Cat - 7 minute Workout - Using body weight and a chair 7 minute workout with instructions
GoNoodle - Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts
Science
PhET Simulator - PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations.
Mystery Science- Science Lessons grades K-5 They have pulled their most popular science lessons and are offering them for anyone to use for free.
Royal Society of Chemistry Interactive Periodic Table - features history, alchemy, podcasts, videos, and data trends across the periodic table.
Chemix Lab Drawing Tools - an online editor for drawing science lab diagrams and school experiment apparatus. The app provides easy sketching for both students and teachers.
HHMI BioInteractives - Real science, real stories, and real data to engage students in exploring the living world.
Interactive Site on Waveforms - fundamental physics of sound, learn how it relates to music and harmony, and discover how to build complex tones from simple ones.
Smarter Every Day - YouTube Channel
Veritasium - YouTube Channel
Crash Course - YouTube Channel
Bozeman Biology - YouTube Channel
American Museum of Natural History Weather & Climate Graphs Weather & Climate Data
Explore.org - Live Animal Webcams
Social Studies
New Visions (Grades 9-11):- Full scope and sequence curricular frameworks designed for the Global History and Geography I and II courses and the U.S. History course
World History for Us All (Grade 6, 9-10)- World History for Us All is a national collaboration of K-12 teachers, collegiate instructors, and educational technology specialists.
Selma Online- A free teaching platform that aims to change how the civil rights movement is taught in the United States. Selma Online uses twelve scenes from Ava DuVernay’s award-winning film “Selma” as a storyboard for exploring the events in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 and the complexities of the voting rights movement.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)- Primary Source Sets that explore topics in history, literature, and culture.
New York State Archives- The New York State Archives presents historical records (1630-present) and standards-based learning activities. Search all digitized primary sources available from the New York State Archives from the Digital Collections page.
New Netherland Institute- The Institute provides online resources for teachers and students to explore New York’s colonial Dutch heritage
Icivics- Icivics provides educational online games and lesson plans to promote civics education and encourage students to become active citizens.
New York State Museum- The New York State Museum offers standards-based lessons, developed by cultural educators, and vetted by classroom educators that support Science, Social Studies, and Art subjects for a variety of grade levels
Kid Citizen - KidCitizen is part of the Congress, Civic Participation, and Primary Sources Project, supported by a grant from the Library of Congress.
Case Maker- Inquiry based learning with the Library of Congress primary sources documents for 6th-8th grade
Crash Course - YouTube Channel
British Pathe - YouTube Channel
Google Earth - Voyager
National Archive - Primary source documents
World101 - a course that provides the basic knowledge on the issues, challenges, and opportunities that people face in today's connected world. From the Council on Foreign Relations.
Virtual Louvre
The British Museum
The National Museum of Natural History
National Women's History Museum
National Museum of African American History & Culture
National Museum of American History
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Learning Lab
special education
Center on Technology and Disability- An extensive collection of evidence-based resources and learning opportunities related to assistive technology
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)- Users have access to free learning tools across content areas that utilize the principles of UDL
National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM)- The center provides resources and technical assistance regarding AEM in accordance with the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS).
Bookshare- Ebook library with the most extensive collection of accessible ebooks in the world.
Learning Ally- Multi-sensory reading accommodation that levels the playing field for students who struggle to read due to a reading deficit.
World Languages
Ba Ba Dum - Games for practicing language. 22 languages including English
Audible Stories- Audible Stories is a free website where kids of all ages can listen to hundreds of Audible audio titles across six different languages—English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese.
DayByDayNY - Spanish Version (early learners) The Family Literacy Calendar includes engaging daily activities, songs, educational games
Britannica Escolar - via NOVELNY (primary and secondary levels)- Accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students and students learning Spanish.