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Hoot Reading

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We deliver a personalized, one-to-one learning approach that is effective and engaging Our personalized online literacy program is designed for kids age 4 to Gr. 6 to help … learn more

Education World: Special Themes

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Education World is a complete online resource that teachers, administrators and school staff can visit each day to find high-quality and in-depth original content.

Beestar: Math & Reading

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Beestar.org is the premier after-school enrichment platform for K-12. It provides innovative online math and reading exercises and helps thousands of students achieve excellent grades. Using its curriculum-based programs … learn more

iKeepSafe

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iKeepSafe promotes digital citizenship through online safety, security and ethics.

Common Sense Education

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Learn practical strategies for teaching with technology and supporting students in their digital lives. Common Sense Education provides educators with digital learning tools that engage students and teach … learn more

Kids Discover Online: Free Lesson Plans

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Nonfiction, at its Finest Enrich your science, social studies, and ELA curriculums with engaging, standards-aligned nonfiction texts, at 3 Reading Levels. With a specialty in science and social … learn more

Outschool: Classes about Social Studies

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Outschool offers over 140,000 interactive online classes. Keep your kids inspired and engaged with online classes, clubs, and camps covering all their favorite topics., clubs, and camps covering … learn more

Canva Tutorials

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Fast-track your ability to create amazing designs. Canva’s tutorials have all the tools you need for your creative journey. Create, communicate and engage your students with Canva for … learn more

TeachersFirst: Biomes of the World

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TeachersFirst’s Biomes of the World unit is an online research project for middle school or advanced upper elementary students. The unit has three parts. A description of the … learn more

10 Best ELA Tools for Middle School

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Middle school is the perfect time to ignite students’ passion for reading and writing. These hand-picked ELA apps, games, and websites do just that, building on foundational elementary skills with … learn more

Kid-Safe Browsers and Search Sites

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Want to let your kid do some online research for homework and projects but you’re worried (understandably!) about what they might find? This list of safe search sites … learn more

Fun English Games for Kids

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Welcome to Fun English Games for Kids! Find a wide range of free teaching resources that are perfect for students learning English, ESL classes and teachers looking for … learn more

Babbel

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More ways to explore, more ways to learn Learn a new language through quick lessons, live online classes, podcasts & more

Kids Safe Search Engine

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Kidssearch.com is a website designed to be a safe search engine for kids. It aims to provide a fun and educational online experience for children by: Filtering out … learn more

Kid Thesaurus

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Kid Thesaurus is a kid-friendly thesaurus that allows students to find synonyms easily. If you’ve used another online thesaurus then you have realized how difficult they can be … learn more

EasyBib

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An online citation generator that helps with citing sources.

Technology and Young Children: Online Resources

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NAEYC Position Statement  When used intentionally and appropriately, technology and interactive media are effective tools to support learning and development.  Intentional use requires early childhood teachers and administrators … learn more

Free Online Science Games

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Test your knowledge about the universe with our quizzes and games! Expand your science horizons by reading our fascinating illustrated articles.

OpenSciEd Middle School Science Program

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Our middle school science materials and free online science resources for teachers are phenomenon-based, three-dimensional units that prioritize student coherence and equitable science sensemaking. The units are developed … learn more

Google Education Center

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Learning never stops. Start your journey with training courses Learn basic and advanced skills across Google tools with free of charge online training courses designed for educators of … learn more

Lesson Planet: Lesson Plans for Teachers

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Search over 550,000 teacher-curated reviews to free and open educational resources (OER). Founded by educators for educators, Lesson Planet is passionate about creating and delivering innovative digital tools … learn more

Explore Distance Learning Resources

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Whether you are teaching in a hybrid classroom or delivering your entire curriculum through remote or distance learning, this collection of resources will help you effectively manage the … learn more

Education.com : Math K-8

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Discover online educational resources to help students reach their learning goals. Our resource library includes teacher-created games, practical hands-on activities, and engaging guided lessons to help kids learn … learn more

Virtual University

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Virtual University is the oldest e-learning community on the Internet, and one of the earliest sites built on the Web, launched in 1994. VU is now transitioning from … learn more

California Virtual University

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The California Virtual Campus provides complete, timely, and accurate information about online courses and programs in California higher education. They offer a Associate Degree for Transfer that guarantees … learn more

Why Online?

Olin Virtual Academy ‘s list of questions can give you a idea of why on-line high schools have become an alternative. Do you like to work independently and … learn more

Arizona Virtual Academy

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Arizona Virtual Academy is an example of the free-to-students on-line schools now available. With individualized learning approaches, their goal is to provide a quality education, and encourage interaction … learn more

Virtual Schools  Topic Page

Online delivery has been quite popular at the university level. We are now seeing offering at the high school and even grade school levels. Many offerings augment traditional … learn more

NSTA Learning Center

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The NSTA Learning Center provides journal articles, book chapters, events (online and in-person), professional learning goals and activities tracker, and connections with other teachers through 14 topical forums … learn more

DonorsChoose

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A high school teacher has developed an online site to match school proposals with donors. The mission of DonorsChoose is to help students in impoverished schools. It serves … learn more

Ask Dr.Math

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The Math Forum at Drexel University enjoys an excellent reputation. Not only are their lessons sound but the site was designed for online access so it is interesting … learn more

GenScope Project

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GenScope Project, developed by Paul Horwitz, is an advanced tool which links stored data (such as animations) to software objects with their own properties in disconnected online databases. … learn more

Medical Mysteries

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This online web adventure from Rice University encourages students use the scientific method and science process skills to investigate infectious disease outbreaks.

Library Journal

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The Library Journal claims that 100,000 librarians read the online version of their management journal for librarians. It includes both national and regional headlines.

ProQuest

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Designed especially for K12 students, ProQuest has amassed magazines and other print media. The service is not free, but, as the costs of acquiring and maintaining these resources … learn more

InfoPeople at Berkeley

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Based in California, Infopeople provides continuing education and professional development opportunities to library staff in and outside the state of California. Training formats include 2-6 week asynchronous online … learn more

New York Public Library

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Some of the famous collections at the New York Public Library have been placed online, including Small-Town America Stereoscopic views from the Robert Dennis Collection.

National Diet Library of Japan

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The national library of Japan has a wide range of on-line resources, including digitized books and publications, historical recordings, an earthquake archive, and an online gallery.

Think of this as a reminder…

Anything you post online could go viral. If you don’t want everyone – your students, colleges, and administrators – seeing it, think twice before posting it online.

YouTube Creator Hub

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Sharing your videos is easy now with sites like YouTube, which supports online digital video editing. This link can get you started quickly. While the ads can be … learn more

Victor Navone’s Online Gallery

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In addition to making Alien Song (“I Will Survive”), Victor has a great web blog where he talks about the animated movies he’s worked on, tutorials, and more.

Why would you want to do this?

We were surprised when teachers started coming up to us at conferences saying that while they liked the fact that we had indexed all these “free to use” … learn more

Paint.NET

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Paint.NET is a free(!) image and photo editing program for Windows PCs. While not as “feature rich” as PhotoShop, it does a great job and loads faster than … learn more

Education World: Lesson Plans

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Connecting educators to what works. Includes many topics: Teachers Essentials, New Teacher, Technology in the classroom, and Professional Development. Education World is a complete online resource that teachers, … learn more

Brookwood’s 3D Design Problem Bank

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Here’s the actual site referred to in the “Now What?” article. Built using Weebly.com, a web site hosting service specializing in online shopping, this site allows adults (faculty, … learn more

How To Teach Students Remotely

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Danielle Rochford has been teaching online for over 10 years. She put together this 52 minute webinar to address issues like: How do I get started? What should … learn more

National Writing Project

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The National Writing Project has worked hard to cultivate the concept of teacher as researcher. Online collaboration and publishing have bound this community, spread all over the US, … learn more

MOODLE

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MOODLE allows you to quickly create – or experiment with – your own on-line learning environment. MOODLE is an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. Moodle is … learn more

Brightspace

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Brightspace provides online learning solutions that can be combined with face-to-face instruction, creating a blended learning environment that can be tailored to each student’s needs. Their solution includes … learn more

Edutopia: Professional Learning

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Edutopia Online, sponsored by the George Lucas Foundation, documents and disseminates innovative practices for administrators. Educators must always hone their craft. Discover the many formal and informal professional … learn more

Get Educated

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Get Educated, a distance learning resource center serves the population of students, eligible for adult education. They publish a free monthly newsletter – back issues are available at … learn more

School Psychologist Files

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Any School Psychologist has a filing cabinet filled with resources and various information on a wide variety of topics. It is part of the school psychologist’s role to … learn more

National Teachers Enhancement Network

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The National Teachers Enhancement Network (NTEN) offers online, graduate-level science courses from a world-class public research university. NTEN was one of the first online professional development programs for … learn more

Education Week

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Education Week is available online. You can explore particular issues and search the archives. In an early September issue a calendar of key conferences nationwide is published by … learn more

Digital Citizenship

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Whether it is called digital citizenship, digital wellness or digital ethics the issues are the same; how should we act when we are online, and what should be … learn more

Webwise: Internet Safety

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Webwise promotes the autonomous, effective, and safer use of the internet by young people through a sustained information and awareness strategy targeting parents, teachers, and children themselves with … learn more

New York Times

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Most newspapers, such as The New York Times, are now online. Search your local newspapers for tie ins to current class topics, everything from math (what does 3 … learn more

Peace Corps’ Educators

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Peace Corps’ Educators initiative fosters an understanding of other cultures and global issues by providing online educational resources and linking U.S. learners and current and returned Peace Corps … learn more

Special Education  Topic Page

Data can be mustered to demonstrate the benefits of homogeneous and heterogeneous grouping in classrooms, in this case learning disabled and gifted students. Folks hold quite strong opinions … learn more

Encyclopedia.com

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As the Internet’s premier collection of online encyclopedias, Encyclopedia.com provides you reference entries from credible, published sources like Oxford University Press and Columbia Encyclopedia. At Encyclopedia.com, you get free access to over 300,000 … learn more

The Exploratorium

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The Exploratorium’s (San Francisco) permanent collections emphasize physics and a unique version of psychobiology. Students serve as explainers for the exhibits and visitors can observe the making of … learn more

National Museum of Women Artists

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The National Museum of Women Artists has placed some rare works of even well-known artists like Frida Kahlo online – an opportunity to inspire budding young women who … learn more

Games, Quizzes, and Videos about the Environment

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The EPA has compiled a list of environmental games and find other activities to play online, including crossword puzzles and word searches. Topics include recycling, water, and sunburns.

Botanical Gardens  Topic Page

These sites display a variety of species with clear and in-depth descriptions. They are climate sensitive so students can witness the variety in its real environment. Comparisons/contrasts can … learn more