We compiled the links of our favorite websites, apps & courses from all of these resources to share today. Thankfully, many gracious companies have dropped the price to join their website, allowing students to use their resources for free:
YouTube’s New Website: Learn At Home – Virtual Field Trips, Educational Videos by Subject, and more.
Ted-Ed@home – We are sure you’ve heard of TED talks- these Ted-Ed videos are lessons for students, parents & teachers covering all topics.
Raz Kids – Free for 90 Days (books, comprehension & more)
Duolingo – free app to teach another language. It starts with a personalized quiz to help you learn where to start
Literacy Trust’s Family Zone – Engaging activities for reading, writing & language development. Includes audiobooks & activity sheets.
Beanstalk – Free (fun) video & interactive lessons, experiments & more (cooking, reading, math, health, etc…)
Basho and Friends – Free Spanish Lessons for 3 months
MathScore.com Free home use account for online math practice and assessment.
Prodigy: Prodigy is an engaging, curriculum-aligned math platform for students and teachers.
Belouga online learning platform where students & teachers learn about the world, with the world
Pebble Go – Safe, interactive online research resources on topics selected by their teachers for students.
Arcademic free multiplayer educational games, language arts games, and more!
Time Management Course Time Management mini-course from Bigger Brains
Discovery Education– free access to Discovery Education (digital textbooks & more) for the remainder of the school year
BrainPop.com Animated Educational Site: Science, Social Studies, English, Arts & Music, Health, & Technology.
Kahoot! A game-based learning platform: Easy to create, share & play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.
Times Tables Rockstars – Free multiplication help for 60 days with daily times tables practice
Numbots – Addition & Subtraction practice
Seterra: Seterra is the ultimate map quiz site (countries, states, capitals & more!)
Pronto: connects people via chat and video, so they can learn faster, work smarter, and communicate seamlessly
BookCreator App An easy digital book-making tool with limitless options
Typing Club: A typing course online to teach letter location on the keyboard & which fingers to use to type.
Buncee Build media-rich lessons, reports, newsletters, presentations and so much more
Pear Deck (free semester!) Lets students interact with teacher presentations from any device. (Google Slides, PDFs…)
Kamian online document annotation and markup tool to highlight, underline, and strikethrough text.
Parlay Ideas Students read prompt & then submit a response to the discussion area. Peers join in on the discussion.
Elementari– Learn coding beginning w/ simple picture books, then code the stories to play music, sounds, & animations
EdPuzzle– Video Platform that collects data as students watch and interact with the video
Wakelet– Teachers can save articles, videos, images, Tweets and more in one place to share with students.
Twinkl lesson plans, schemes of work, assessment, interactive activities, games, resource packs, PowerPoints, etc.
Hapara Enables teachers to organize their students and their assignments, track their activity and progress and dynamically personalize instruction across different metrics.
Listenwise Collection of podcasts & public radio stories. Build student listening skills. (English, SS, Science, ESL)
MobyMax provides teachers with content, assessments, and activities for all topics in 27 subjects
We Video online video editor designed to make it easy to capture, create, view and share movies
HeadSprout– Free for 90 days
Screencastify – great way to video for students!
Mystery Science – my sister in law just told me about this one!
HippoCampus– 7,000 free videos in 13 subject areas
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Carmen Sandiego – Free lessons, posters, activities, etc. for subjects & growth mindset
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Math at Work– Videos and Lesson Plans
ICivics– educational online games & lesson plans to encourage students to become active citizens.
Ideas Roadshow– Lessons in all subjects.
IDEA– Free online classes on coding, social media & online skills
IDE Corp. – activities, worksheets & lessons for all subjects
InThinking – Help students to prepare effectively for exams.
Inq-ITS – Free virtual labs.
InScribe – College Q&A with experts: free access through spring term
InScribe Continuity Planning and Support Community– A teachers community forum
i-Ready Practice Packs At-home packs are free for K-8 Math & Reading
Inventing Heron – curriculum about career discovery
Writing Legends – lesson plans & help for writers.
Izzit.org– entertaining & educational videos come with tons of additional resources
Jen Henson ACT Prep – ACT/SAT punctuation guide and ACT practice tests (high school students)
JoVE – Education video content free to use in STEM teaching efforts.
K12MovieGuides – free maps & free movie reports/comparison worksheets
K5Technology Curriculum- 3 weeks of free access to 18 technology lessons and activities
Kahoot! The premium for the rest of the year for educators.
Kami- access to all tools & features available in Kami: Integrations w. Google Classroom, Schoology and Canvas.
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