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Multiple Subject Sites
Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!
Open educational Resources (OER) is a collection of free online textbooks and more. A site where teachers can get the support they deserve—and students get the high-quality curriculum they need
YouTube Kids gives your family an easy way to watch their favorite shows, or explore anything that captures their imagination. It’s free, simple to use, and full of family-friendly videos. Free; Android, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch; Grades: Pre-K - 3
PBS KIDS GO!
Free; website; Grades: Pre-k- 6
PBS kids educational content
School Tube
Free; website; Grades: 3-8
Video sharing website
Big History Project
Free; website; Grades; 9-12
Big History teaches students to examine their intuition, looking at the authority, evidence, and logic of claims across disciplines and scales.
Facing History and Ourselves is a rich source of material for exploring the Holocaust and other instances of mass violence throughout history. Powerful lessons and units help students and teachers grapple with controversial issues and the complex nature of human behavior. Free; website; Grades 6-12
Annenberg Learner's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Learner videos exemplify excellent teaching.
Zinn Education Project . Resources and lessons based on Howard Zinn’s well-known book, A People’s History of the United States, help teach a more inclusive version of U.S. history. Free; website; Grades 6-12
CNN News for kids. Free; webite; Grades: 6-12
Project Ed
Free; Website; Grades: 7-10
Aspiring filmmakers converge to create video content for the classroom. This site's video contests have the potential to boost authentic learning and help forge bonds between students and teachers. On top of this, the clever premade videos are a boon for both traditional and flipped-class
Parable of the Polygons
Free; Website; Grades: 9–12
Parable of the Polygons is an interactive website that stimulates thought and discussion around the connection between people's biases and segregation. The interactive games help students see and understand how “harmless choices can make a harmful world.”
Global Oneness Project
Free, Paid; Website; Grades: 9–12
Short videos, photo essays, and articles give students a window onto diverse life experiences around the world. From Alaskan fishers to Mongolian nomads struggling to preserve their way of life, these valuable stories situate day-to-day events within a larger, historical context.
The Google Cultural Institute brings together millions of artifacts from multiple partners, with the stories that bring them to life, in a virtual museum.
Academic Skill Builders Academic Skill Builders is a research-based and standards-aligned free website featuring educational math and language arts games that will engage, motivate and help students improve their academic skills. There are many interactive games to choose from and they're all pretty fun, have decent graphics/sound effects, and offer great practice to specific skills. Grades 1 - 6.
Essential apps for students to help families find the best of the best, here is a guide to over 100 essential (and age-appropriate) apps that will challenge, delight, and entertain students of every age. Provided by Common Sense.
Common Sense Education developed Graphite, a platform created to make it easier for educators to find the best apps, games, and websites for the classroom.
MindShift asked Julie Dillemuth and Kathleen T. Horning, director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, to recommend some engaging, spatially challenging picture books for young children. Click here are the 15 they selected.
Funbrain - Since 1997, kids, teachers, librarians, and parents have enthusiastically turned to Funbrain for its free educational games, online books, and comics. Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.
Fact Monster games, puzzles and fun facts.
KHAN ACADEMY Watch one of our 4,000 videos or try a practice exercise. Then check out your profile to view your history and suggestions on what you can learn next. You can also select your avatar and show off your accomplishments.
PBS KIDS Lab - Kids can learn preschool and early elementary math and literacy skills with games aligned to state and national standards. Detailed audio and visual tutorials teach kids how to play, and tasks increase in difficulty as they master the levels of each game.
Kids can learn about numbers, letters, colors, shapes, and more from hundreds of videos and games featuring their favorite Muppets. Like the beloved TV series,
SesameStreet.org introduces little ones to preschool and early elementary math and language concepts
Virtual visit to the National Museum of Natural History. A virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum.
Native American Pueblo
Make your own virtual climb of Mt. Everest.
360Cities is the web’s largest collection of stunning, georeferenced panoramic photos, created by a network of thousands of expert panorama photographers from around the world. We are the web's largest and fastest growing collection of interactive panoramic images from around the world
Collection of panoramic photos form around the world.
Explore the world from your computer with this virtual field trips for scholastic.
Virtual tour of the White House. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are committed to opening the doors of the White House and truly making it the People’s House.
Watch exclusive "Inside the White House" videos Tour the West Wing, Residence, East Wing and South Lawn
E-Learning For Kids e-Learning For Kids is a great site with some wonderful interactive learning games that are engaging and fun. Students click on their grade and can then choose from a list of games divided into subjects.
Sophia is a free social teaching and learning platform that offers academic content to anyone, anywhere, free of charge. The website, which has been described as a mashup of Facebook, Wikipedia, and YouTube that is focused solely on education, also lets educators supplement their instruction with tools to create a customized learning environment in a private or public setting.
Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves Internet search skills that start with understanding how digital information is different from print information, knowing how to use specialized tools for finding digital information and strengthening the dispositions needed in the digital information environment.
Use GovTrack to keep tabs on your representatives in Congress or to research pending legislation that might impact your life or business.
Start a Petition Whether your issue is global or local, your success is important to us. We support you every step of the way with our in-depth petitions toolkit, online sharing tools, and an app that makes it simple to add your petition to your website or blog. Most of all, you'll love the personal assistance offered by our Care2 team. Your petition may even be chosen as a top petition and promoted by our Citizen Petitions Team; like we said, we're here to help you succeed.
Here at Project Vote Smart, Americans young and old volunteer their time, take no money from special interest groups, and have committed themselves to an extraordinary effort that, if successful, will provide their fellow citizens with the tools for a reemergence of political power not known for half a century.
Pazocalo fosters communication between victims and survivors from Darfur living in remote and unconnected areas and human rights advocates, students, and communities willing and able to help
The Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) is a non-profit organization that helps communities decide how to spend public money, primarily in the US and Canada.Our mission is to empower community members to make informed, democratic, and fair decisions about public spending and revenue. We pursue this goal by working with governments and organizations to develop participatory budgeting processes, in which local people directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.
Citizenship Quiz
TeachableMoment includes hundreds of issue-oriented classroom lessons, as well as lessons to foster students' social and emotional learning, essays and reviews. It has been recommended as a valuable resource by the websites of PBS, the National Education Association, and many university websites.
Doctopus a Google add-on, to help manage, organize and grade student projects through Google Drive. The add-on also lets students edit work.
PBS LearningMedia now offers a student learning portal and a NEW suite of productivity tools for teachers. These exciting features make it easy to create personalized learning experiences for students — whether inside or outside of the classroom.
Edutopia provides resources to help you implement project-based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher development, integrated studies, and technology integration.
Teaching and Learning with the New York Times. A weekly collection of lesson plans and Student Opinion questions from The Learning Network, a free blog that uses Times content to create daily cross-curricular materials that teach skills, invite inquiry and engage students with current events.
History Classroom provides free curriculum resources for middle school and high school teachers.
Annenberg Learner's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Learner videos exemplify excellent teaching.
iCivics prepares young Americans to become knowledgeable, engaged 21st century citizens by creating free and innovative educational materials.
Class room resources This section highlights the best of public media’s interactive resources and educational projects for use with middle school and high school students, multimedia productions created by youth, and professional development videos for educators.
PBS Learning Media's innovative digital content is designed for educators to engage students and inspire learning. Sign up today for free, instant access to the best of public media (videos, interactives, audio, photos, and in-depth lesson plans)!
At the Teaching Channel teachers have opportunities to learn from each other… whenever they want; and teachers tell us that video has become essential to helping them see a broad range of approaches for working with students and for fostering self-reflection.
TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of lessons, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform is also the home to TED-Ed Clubs – an exciting new program that aims to stimulate and celebrate the best ideas of students around the world.
FormSwift is a free, online lesson plan template resource that provides Common Core-aligned lesson plan for a math, science and language arts class. This site could help teachers and educators expedite the process of writing a lesson plan at absolutely no cost.
Open educational Resources (OER) is a collection of free online textbooks and more. A site where teachers can get the support they deserve—and students get the high-quality curriculum they need
YouTube Kids gives your family an easy way to watch their favorite shows, or explore anything that captures their imagination. It’s free, simple to use, and full of family-friendly videos. Free; Android, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch; Grades: Pre-K - 3
PBS KIDS GO!
Free; website; Grades: Pre-k- 6
PBS kids educational content
School Tube
Free; website; Grades: 3-8
Video sharing website
Big History Project
Free; website; Grades; 9-12
Big History teaches students to examine their intuition, looking at the authority, evidence, and logic of claims across disciplines and scales.
Facing History and Ourselves is a rich source of material for exploring the Holocaust and other instances of mass violence throughout history. Powerful lessons and units help students and teachers grapple with controversial issues and the complex nature of human behavior. Free; website; Grades 6-12
Annenberg Learner's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Learner videos exemplify excellent teaching.
Zinn Education Project . Resources and lessons based on Howard Zinn’s well-known book, A People’s History of the United States, help teach a more inclusive version of U.S. history. Free; website; Grades 6-12
CNN News for kids. Free; webite; Grades: 6-12
Project Ed
Free; Website; Grades: 7-10
Aspiring filmmakers converge to create video content for the classroom. This site's video contests have the potential to boost authentic learning and help forge bonds between students and teachers. On top of this, the clever premade videos are a boon for both traditional and flipped-class
Parable of the Polygons
Free; Website; Grades: 9–12
Parable of the Polygons is an interactive website that stimulates thought and discussion around the connection between people's biases and segregation. The interactive games help students see and understand how “harmless choices can make a harmful world.”
Global Oneness Project
Free, Paid; Website; Grades: 9–12
Short videos, photo essays, and articles give students a window onto diverse life experiences around the world. From Alaskan fishers to Mongolian nomads struggling to preserve their way of life, these valuable stories situate day-to-day events within a larger, historical context.
The Google Cultural Institute brings together millions of artifacts from multiple partners, with the stories that bring them to life, in a virtual museum.
Academic Skill Builders Academic Skill Builders is a research-based and standards-aligned free website featuring educational math and language arts games that will engage, motivate and help students improve their academic skills. There are many interactive games to choose from and they're all pretty fun, have decent graphics/sound effects, and offer great practice to specific skills. Grades 1 - 6.
Essential apps for students to help families find the best of the best, here is a guide to over 100 essential (and age-appropriate) apps that will challenge, delight, and entertain students of every age. Provided by Common Sense.
Common Sense Education developed Graphite, a platform created to make it easier for educators to find the best apps, games, and websites for the classroom.
MindShift asked Julie Dillemuth and Kathleen T. Horning, director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, to recommend some engaging, spatially challenging picture books for young children. Click here are the 15 they selected.
Funbrain - Since 1997, kids, teachers, librarians, and parents have enthusiastically turned to Funbrain for its free educational games, online books, and comics. Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.
Fact Monster games, puzzles and fun facts.
KHAN ACADEMY Watch one of our 4,000 videos or try a practice exercise. Then check out your profile to view your history and suggestions on what you can learn next. You can also select your avatar and show off your accomplishments.
PBS KIDS Lab - Kids can learn preschool and early elementary math and literacy skills with games aligned to state and national standards. Detailed audio and visual tutorials teach kids how to play, and tasks increase in difficulty as they master the levels of each game.
Kids can learn about numbers, letters, colors, shapes, and more from hundreds of videos and games featuring their favorite Muppets. Like the beloved TV series,
SesameStreet.org introduces little ones to preschool and early elementary math and language concepts
Virtual visit to the National Museum of Natural History. A virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum.
Native American Pueblo
Make your own virtual climb of Mt. Everest.
360Cities is the web’s largest collection of stunning, georeferenced panoramic photos, created by a network of thousands of expert panorama photographers from around the world. We are the web's largest and fastest growing collection of interactive panoramic images from around the world
Collection of panoramic photos form around the world.
Explore the world from your computer with this virtual field trips for scholastic.
Virtual tour of the White House. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are committed to opening the doors of the White House and truly making it the People’s House.
Watch exclusive "Inside the White House" videos Tour the West Wing, Residence, East Wing and South Lawn
E-Learning For Kids e-Learning For Kids is a great site with some wonderful interactive learning games that are engaging and fun. Students click on their grade and can then choose from a list of games divided into subjects.
Sophia is a free social teaching and learning platform that offers academic content to anyone, anywhere, free of charge. The website, which has been described as a mashup of Facebook, Wikipedia, and YouTube that is focused solely on education, also lets educators supplement their instruction with tools to create a customized learning environment in a private or public setting.
Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves Internet search skills that start with understanding how digital information is different from print information, knowing how to use specialized tools for finding digital information and strengthening the dispositions needed in the digital information environment.
Use GovTrack to keep tabs on your representatives in Congress or to research pending legislation that might impact your life or business.
Start a Petition Whether your issue is global or local, your success is important to us. We support you every step of the way with our in-depth petitions toolkit, online sharing tools, and an app that makes it simple to add your petition to your website or blog. Most of all, you'll love the personal assistance offered by our Care2 team. Your petition may even be chosen as a top petition and promoted by our Citizen Petitions Team; like we said, we're here to help you succeed.
Here at Project Vote Smart, Americans young and old volunteer their time, take no money from special interest groups, and have committed themselves to an extraordinary effort that, if successful, will provide their fellow citizens with the tools for a reemergence of political power not known for half a century.
Pazocalo fosters communication between victims and survivors from Darfur living in remote and unconnected areas and human rights advocates, students, and communities willing and able to help
The Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) is a non-profit organization that helps communities decide how to spend public money, primarily in the US and Canada.Our mission is to empower community members to make informed, democratic, and fair decisions about public spending and revenue. We pursue this goal by working with governments and organizations to develop participatory budgeting processes, in which local people directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.
Citizenship Quiz
TeachableMoment includes hundreds of issue-oriented classroom lessons, as well as lessons to foster students' social and emotional learning, essays and reviews. It has been recommended as a valuable resource by the websites of PBS, the National Education Association, and many university websites.
Doctopus a Google add-on, to help manage, organize and grade student projects through Google Drive. The add-on also lets students edit work.
PBS LearningMedia now offers a student learning portal and a NEW suite of productivity tools for teachers. These exciting features make it easy to create personalized learning experiences for students — whether inside or outside of the classroom.
Edutopia provides resources to help you implement project-based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher development, integrated studies, and technology integration.
Teaching and Learning with the New York Times. A weekly collection of lesson plans and Student Opinion questions from The Learning Network, a free blog that uses Times content to create daily cross-curricular materials that teach skills, invite inquiry and engage students with current events.
History Classroom provides free curriculum resources for middle school and high school teachers.
Annenberg Learner's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Learner videos exemplify excellent teaching.
iCivics prepares young Americans to become knowledgeable, engaged 21st century citizens by creating free and innovative educational materials.
Class room resources This section highlights the best of public media’s interactive resources and educational projects for use with middle school and high school students, multimedia productions created by youth, and professional development videos for educators.
PBS Learning Media's innovative digital content is designed for educators to engage students and inspire learning. Sign up today for free, instant access to the best of public media (videos, interactives, audio, photos, and in-depth lesson plans)!
At the Teaching Channel teachers have opportunities to learn from each other… whenever they want; and teachers tell us that video has become essential to helping them see a broad range of approaches for working with students and for fostering self-reflection.
TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of lessons, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform is also the home to TED-Ed Clubs – an exciting new program that aims to stimulate and celebrate the best ideas of students around the world.
FormSwift is a free, online lesson plan template resource that provides Common Core-aligned lesson plan for a math, science and language arts class. This site could help teachers and educators expedite the process of writing a lesson plan at absolutely no cost.