Open Educational Resources

826 Digital has a massive library of prompts, lessons, projects, and other resources for developing better writers. The Resource Library can be filtered by grade level, genre, literary device, and skill. Each resource comes with a step-by-step guide for the teacher and thoughtful slideshows, handouts, and other materials for students

The Adobe Education Exchange is an online platform designed to support educators and students in enhancing their digital skills and creativity. It provides a community-driven environment where educators can access free resources, courses, and lesson plans related to Adobe software and tools. Through the exchange, educators can collaborate, learn, and share their knowledge to integrate digital creativity into their teaching practices.

aiEDU is a website designed to help teachers introduce the concepts and importance of Artificial Intelligence to students grades 7-12. There are three main sections: The Project Dashboard, AI Snapshots, and Intro to AI. The Project Dashboard is a small searchable library with a mix of independent and teacher-led projects. AI Snapshots are short classroom warmups meant to spark debate and curiosity about AI. Intro to AI is an entire 10-week PBL course that introduces students to AI, complete with lesson plans, handouts, and more.

The American Museum of Natural History has a library with nearly 500 educational resources for teaching and learning about science. The library lets you filter by grade level, topics like Careers in Science, Life Science, and Space Science, and you can filter by resource type like lesson plans, games and videos.

Annenberg Classroom's free resources include over 65 videos on constitutional concepts and Supreme Court cases as well as games, lesson plans, timelines, downloadable books, a glossary, and a Constitution guide.

ASSISTments is a platform that provides students with immediate feedback on their math practice, as well as data that teachers can use to adjust their teaching. The platform pulls questions from a variety of sources, including popular math textbooks and released state tests. This allows students to practice with a wide range of questions, while also receiving feedback to keep them motivated and engaged.

Our friends across the pond at the BBC have a great website with hundreds of educational videos and activities! Browse through dozens of categories to find engaging videos, many of which come with teacher guides and accompanying worksheets.

BetterExplained.com is a website dedicated to simplifying complex mathematical concepts and making them easier to understand. It offers intuitive explanations, visual aids, and real-life examples to help learners grasp challenging mathematical ideas more effectively. The website covers a wide range of topics, from basic arithmetic to advanced calculus, making it a valuable resource for students, educators, and anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of mathematics.

This website has thousands of pre-made lesson plans with a search function including a filter by grade level, subject, and focus areas like SEL, PBL, and ESL. Each lesson plan comes with meticulous detail, including objectives, reasoning, and other tips for the teacher. It also has some terrific articles and PD about different instructional strategies and best practices for teachers

Primary-source based, ready to use lesson plans for history, government, and civics classrooms.

Birdbrain Technology's Project Library is a repository of educational projects and resources aimed at promoting robotics and computational thinking among students. It offers a wide range of ready-to-use project ideas, lesson plans, and programming codes that can be implemented with Birdbrain's robotics platforms, such as the Hummingbird Robotics Kit and Finch robot. The library empowers educators and students to explore hands-on activities, experiment with coding, and engage in creative problem-solving using robotics as a tool for learning.

Boddle Learning is a 3D math game for K-6 kids that helps them boost math engagement and close learning gaps. Boddle's adaptive learning platform tailors the game to each child's individual needs, so they can learn at their own pace and level. Plus teachers can align content to state or national standards. This makes Boddle a fun and effective way for children to learn math.

Brainscape is a flashcard study website with thousands of pre-made study sets. Brainscape asks your confidence level after "flipping" over a flashcard and shows you the cards you struggled with more often.

Brilliant is a learning platform that elevates STEM learning in your classroom through thousands of free interactive lessons, class warm-ups, puzzles and more. Brilliant is a supplemental tool that helps you engage your Middle and High School students in their STEM learning journey.

The California Academy of Sciences operates an excellent resource website for Science Teachers. Search or filter through hundreds of detailed lesson plans and other activities that thoughtfully bring science to life.

Provided by INFOhio for Ohio educators, Capstone Interactive is a collection of eBooks that teachers and students can use as curriculum supplements or to encourage more interest in reading. This library has over 800 eBooks and can be filtered by reading level, grade level, subject area, and by keyword.

Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The Civic Online Reasoning (COR) curriculum from Stanford provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.

CK-12 is a massive website that includes a searchable library of K-Adult resources for Social Studies, English, and adult studies, but with a particular emphasis on Math and Science. A big part of CK-12 are their "FlexBooks" which are customizable text books, many of which include interactive content. It also has adaptive practice questions for Math and Science, Simulations, and pre-made Study Guides for High School level Math and Science.

INFOhio's Create, Lead, Empower Ohio (CLEO) toolkit provides easy access to a curated collection of resources to help teachers create opportunities for K-12 students to grow and thrive through accelerating personalized learning, fostering career exploration, and cultivating employability skills.

Code.org features a full K-12 Computer Science curriculum. The curriculum ranges from the principles of coding all the way up to software engineering. Each lesson is fully detailed and includes a teacher guide. Each activity can be shared directly to students through a link or Google Classroom.

CommonCurriculum.com is a user-friendly website designed to streamline lesson planning for educators. It offers a digital platform where teachers can easily create, organize, and share lesson plans, unit plans, and curriculum materials. The website's intuitive interface allows teachers to collaborate with colleagues, align their lessons with academic standards, and efficiently manage their instructional resources, ultimately saving time and enhancing the overall teaching experience.

Common Lit features a library of over 2,000 high-quality free reading passages for grades 3-12, complemented by pre-made aligned interim assessments. Search for materials by grade level, Lexile range, and even literary devices like alliteration, characterization, hyperbole, and more!

The Copyright & Creativity website houses lesson plans and activities that teaches students about what copyright allows and how students can successfully navigate and rely on copyright in their own roles as creators. The resources are organized into three sections for elementary, middle, and high school - each with fully prepared lessons and activities.

While the majority of Desmos Classroom's resources are behind a paywall, there is still a strong number of free lessons and activities. These resources all use Desmos' powerful math tools like their calculators and interactive graphs. Browse through Math 6-8 and Algebra 1 for interactive math practice!

Docsteach.org is a website created by the National Archives that offers a range of educational resources for teaching history. It features ready-to-use document-based activities and lesson plans with detailed teacher guides. It serves as a valuable resource for teachers looking to incorporate primary sources into their history curriculum and foster historical inquiry among students.

Earth@Home is a free educational resource created by the Paleontological Research Institution. Their goal is to provide free and accessible resources for educators, students, and anyone interested in learning about the Earth.

Easel by Teachers Pay Teachers is a platform that helps teachers create, share, and manage digital interactive activities. Simply search the regular TPT library and filter for Easel activities or assessments.

Edmentum has a variety of products and services for schools, including an assortment of Open Educational Resources. The Edmentum website includes free worksheet bundles for K-12 Math, Science, and ELA, plus fully detailed lesson plans, and several printable activities.

Edpuzzle is a video-quiz platform that allows teachers to find (or create!) video quizzes. Students watch a video, and Edpuzzle will pause the video to display a question, then the student continues watching. If you are familiar with PlayPosit, it is the exact same concept

EDSITEment offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials. All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, civics, language, art, architecture, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality.

Educating for American Democracy (EAD) offers curriculum frameworks, inquiry-based lesson plans, entire unit plans, games, interactives, assessments, and more. Educators can access these resources to enhance their teaching of civics, history, and social studies, with a focus on developing students' civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The materials provided by EAD aim to support educators in preparing students to be informed and engaged participants in American democracy.

Education Galaxy combines question-and-answer learning with games to help students learn in an engaged way. The goal is to help them prepare for testing. The free-to-use platform also provides feedback so teachers can take away how students are doing as well as how the class is fairing as a whole. It's a learning and feedback tool all rolled into one simple and fun system. Pricing is free for Basic, limiting you to either 30 students for all subjects or 150 students on one subject. (techlearning.com)

EL Education is a website that houses full ELA curricula for grades K-8. Each lesson features detailed teacher guides, resource lists, and downloadable materials mostly formatted in Microsoft Word files.

Just like INFOhio's Open Space, eMedia is Utah's repository for Open Educational Resources. Search by subject area, grade level, resource type, and more! This website is a great place to find fully-detailed lessons or engaging activities.

Empatico is a free tool that connects classrooms around the world. It combines live video chats with activities designed to foster meaningful connections among students. Empatico provides virtual exchange activity plans that are designed to spark empathy, curiosity, and creativity through joyful student interactions, as well as supporting resources for educators to create meaningful experiences.

Epic! Books is a free digital library perfect for elementary through middle school classrooms. Teachers and students can find thousands of ebooks, comics, videos, and more. Plus teachers can assign specific books to students through Google Classroom and require them to do a short pre-made quiz.

Esports Ohio is a free-to-join educational nonprofit esports organization and league created by teachers for students. This website includes resources for starting an Esports league in your school, plus curriculum resources for Esports content aligned to Technology and ELA courses.

Everfi is a free educational platform that comes with fully prepared learning modules on subjects such as Social-Emotional Learning, Financial Literacy, Health and Wellness, STEM, and more! Each module comes with age and grade level recommendations, videos or readings, and accessibility functions like closed captions and an option to hear the page read aloud. They also feature lesson plans and other resources for both teachers and students, as well as estimated timeframes for completion. Most modules take about 1 hour to complete.

Facing History offers lesson plans, multimedia materials, teaching strategies, and readings that focus on topics such as history, social justice, and human rights. Teachers can utilize these resources to engage students in critical thinking, empathy-building, and understanding of historical events and their impact on society.

The FDIC has some great Financial Literacy resources for teachers and students. They have a catalog of K-12 resources called Money Smart that includes educator guides, lesson plans, student handouts, and more! You can also explore their Money Smart Games at playmoneysmart.fdic.gov/games

The Federal Reserve is the Central Bank of the United States. Did you know they have a huge library of learning resources? From their website, you can search by grade level, topic, standards, and more to find meticulously detailed lesson plans, videos, activities, and more! It's not all Financial Literacy either, they also have resources for History, Government, Economics, and Career Exploration.

Fishtank Learning features full ELA and Math curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12 ELA and 3rd grade through Algebra 2 Math. The free version of Fishtank Learning includes teacher guides, daily lesson plans, and end-of-unit assessments.

Formative (formerly called GO Formative) features thousands of teacher-created formative and summative assessments. On this platform, teachers can search for assessments by grade level, subject, and standard. Most Formatives even auto-grade! Teachers can also take advantage of the user-friendly assessment creator and publish their own activities for other teachers to use. Students can get to their assignments in Google Classroom and complete their work on the Formative website.

GeoGebra has over 1 MILLION free activities, simulations, exercises, lessons, and games for math & science! Each is designed to be an interactive demonstration of a mathematic or scientific principle. Teachers can browse through the resources and share them with students via a link or a join code.

Global Problem Solvers in an animated web series that stars a group of teenagers who work together to solve a real global issue. Season one focuses on how to provide clean drinking water to people in Malawi, and season two focuses on how to help students whose school shut down as a result of a hurricane on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Each episode comes with activities and tips for the teacher for integrating a problem-solving mindset into the classroom.

Google Applied Digital Skills is Google's platform for teaching students practical computer and technology skills. The curriculum uses a series of videos to guide learners through creating a project from scratch. This means that learners who complete a lesson leave with a useful project, such as a resume, a college planning sheet, or an interactive story.

Google Arts & Culture is an enormous website with thousands of images, videos, virtual field trips, games, and other educational resources. They also have a dedicated section for teachers to explore lesson plans and other activities that can be immediately integrated into their class.

Google Earth has a lot of cool features, but one particularly useful for teachers is "Voyager." Look for the pirate ship wheel in the menu, then explore premade virtual field trips such as a tour of the Underground Railroad or Geometry found around the world. Anothe great feature is called "Projects" that allows students to create and share their own virtual field trips in Google Earth.

Goosechase EDU is a platform for scavenger hunts. Keep your students on their feet, quite literally, and encourage active learning every day! Take the learning off-site too, for field trips, outdoor education or virtual classrooms. Get started with 250+ Goosechase Experience templates that are ready to run.

Hey Listen Games is a space for two main things. The first is a resource for people interested in utilizing video games in classrooms. The second is a place to reflect on these lessons/games as they are being taught in the classroom. Video games are more popular than ever and the lessons we can learn from them are endless. Check out the "Home" tab in the top to find various lesson plans, sorted by subject, for how you can teach with video games.