Databases
Bureau of Labor Statistics - contains information and data sets on labor market activity, working conditions and the economy.
CIA World Fact Book - provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Congress.gov - is the official website for federal U.S. legislative information including committee hearings and reports, congressional and senate communications, members and legislation.
Data.gov - access to over 250,000 datasets on a variety of topics including agriculture, education, science, finance and public safety.
ERIC - digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences.
Healthfinder.gov - contains information on over 120 health and wellness topics from several government agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Library of Congress - provides access to a variety of digital collections for primary source documents, images, recordings and video.
National Institute of Health - provides information on science and healthcare topics.
National Archives - Explore our nation's history through their documents, photos, and records.
Pub Med - comprises more than 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
US Census Bureau - provides access to datasets, publications and infographics on population related information including geography, economics, business and social structures.
Digital Public Library of America - a portal that provides access to primary source digital collections accross the US. Contains over 35,000,000 image, text, video, and sound files.
Center for Young Women's Health Center for Young Women's Health - Offers quality health info on a broad range of topics, and each is available in English and Spanish. The articles are arranged alphabetically and by topic.
Core - harvests and aggregates open source research data; currently contains 135,539,113 open access articles, from over tens of thousands of journals, collected from 9,643 data providers around the world.
Go Ask Alice - Contains a wide array of reliable health and wellness information for teens supported by a team of Columbia University health promotion specialists, health care providers, and other health professionals, along with a staff of information and research specialists and writers.
JStor Daily - provides background—historical, scientific, literary, political, and otherwise—for understanding our world. All of our stories contain links to free, publicly accessible research on JSTOR.
Pew Research Center - conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Datasets and articles based on the research are available. Topics include U.S. Politics & Policy, Journalism & Media, Internet & Technology and Global Attitudes & Trends.
ProCon.org - sourced pros and cons of debatable issues, as well as a host of reference information relevant to those issues
ProPublica - news site that aims to produce investigative journalism in the public interest.
Statista - data and statistics website with global information on a wide variety of facts and topics
Teen Drive 365 - Includes digital interactives, quizzes, videos and virtual fieldtrips.
World Politics Review - in-depth news and expert analysis on global affairs to help our readers identify and make sense of the events and trends shaping our world.
Young Men's Health - An educational health site produced by Children’s Hospital Boston includes health guides for young men on a wide range of topics, including general physical health, emotional health, and sexual health.
Creative Commons is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain images to be discovered and used by everyone.
Giphy is a source for gifs.
Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos.
Unsplash over 1 million high resolution images free to use under the Unsplash license.
Wikimedia Commons freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses.
Slides Carnival provides many templates for slide presentations
Sound Bible has a royalty free sound effects section that allows free downloads under Creative Commons licenses.
Bensound makes a wide variety of music available under the Creative Commons licenses.
Pexels provides shared free stock videos for download.
Purple Planet provides royalty free music for download.
Twisted Wave online audio editing tool (similar to Audacity) can work on Chromebooks with no downloading required
Videvo provides free stock video and audio (music & effects).