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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a trusted information source that is aimed at school age students.
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BrainPop
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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology.
Khan Academy
You can learn anything. Expert-created content and resources for every course and level. Always free.
EBSCO databases
Science, Literature, History and general educational resources
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Twig World
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Twig Education's products are based around real-world video content, with three-minute videos on science, engineering and mathematics. These are accompanied by learning materials for students and teachers.
Newsademic Newspaper for schools
The International Newspaper - written and edited as an easy to read introduction to world news for students
AllSides - Read World News from all sides of the political spectrum
Unlike regular news services, AllSides exposes bias and provides multiple angles on the same story so you can quickly get the full picture, not just one slant.
Topic Packs from Britannica
Britannica resources grouped by subject and grade level
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Pictures from Britannica
Britannica Image Quest Library - 2 million free-use images with citation tools
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Open Culture
Open Culture scours the web for the best educational media. We find the free courses and audio books you need, the language lessons & educational videos you want, and plenty of enlightenment in between.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Harvard YouTube channel
Here, we present a selection of multimedia stories produced by science communicators at Harvard.
TOK - Philosophy for Beginners
Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it?
MIT OpenCourseware
OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. 2400 courses & 500 million visitors
iTunes U - for iPhone and iPad
iTunes U also allows anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to learn from a large collection of free education content in public courses from leading schools, universities, museums, and cultural institutions. Browse a rich catalog of free education content: • Choose from a variety of free lectures, videos, books, and more on a range of subjects from leading educational and cultural institutions around the world, including Stanford, MIT, Yale, La Trobe University, University of Tokyo, Smithsonian Libraries, National Theatre, and more.
Delete Social Media
Advice on deleting your different social media accounts. Spoiler: It's harder than you think...
What to Read Next?
Discover books you'll love! Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers' favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next. Start typing the title or the author of a book you like, and click on the link underneath which matches best. If several similar results are shown, click the highest one.
Privacy Advice
You deserve privacy. Companies are making money off of your private information online without your consent. At DuckDuckGo, we don’t think the Internet should feel so creepy and getting the privacy you deserve online should be as simple as closing the blinds.
JSTOR Research
Free access until May 2020 - JCS offers a wide and excellent range of resources to choose from. All resources are ideal for individual research and extended essays, and support the development of essential digital literacy and research skills.
Audiobooks from Audible
For as long as schools are closed, we're open. Starting today, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. Explore the collection, select a title and start listening.
OpenLearn
Free courses Produced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. We offer nearly 1000 free courses across 8 different subject areas. Our courses are available to start right away.
YouTube Learn@Home
As schools around the world close their buildings and families find themselves at home, we want to ensure that learning together continues. So we’re partnering with Khan Academy and other learning creators to bring parents & families resources and activities to make the coming days as educational and fun as possible. Of course, these resources won’t replace any homework assigned by teachers — but they can complement that work.
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