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Please forward this message to faculty, students and research scholars.
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*Important Databases*
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www.coursera.org
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www.scholar.google.com
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Udemy
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Beast Academy (Math)
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Khan Academy
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Creative Bug
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Discovery Education
YouTube
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Lots of
board games, library books (and Kindle), tinkering/upcycling with household
junk, etc.
Some resources to help with kids at home:
*Scholastic
has created a free learn-from-home site with 20+ days of learning and
activities.
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
*Pretend
to travel the world..Go on a virtual tour of these 12 famous museums.
https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours
*This
is the awesome free curriculum that we use. Everything from preschool
activities to 12th grade is here!
https://allinonehomeschool.com/
*List of thinking games by grade:
https://allinonehomeschool.com/thinking/
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200 Free Kids Educational Resources:
Video
Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More
This collection provides a list of free educational resources
for K-12 students (kindergarten through high school students) and their parents
and teachers. This page is being updated and cleaned up during the COVID-19
crisis. Please tell us if we're missing something valuable.
Below you will find free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile
apps; free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; quality YouTube channels; free
foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and free web resources in
academic subjects like literature, history, science and computing.
Home Schooling Resources During COVID-19
• Amazing Educational Resources: A spreadsheet of 300+ education
companies offering free subscriptions due to school closings. Additional
helpful resources can be found in this article by Forbes.
• Resources for Educators During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Common Sense
Media has created a collection of remote teaching resources, family education
materials, and research-backed strategies to ease stress and encourage learning
at home. On this other page, you can find Online Learning Resources to
Supplement Homeschooling, Free Educational Apps, Games, and Websites, and more.
• Zoom's Free Videoconferencing Tools: During the COVID-19 crisis, Zoom
is providing K-12 institutions free access to their videoconferencing tools
needed to run online courses. Get details here. Also here are tips on how to
look your best on a webcam.
• Free Zoom Artistic Backgrounds: If you would like to customize your
Zoom background, you can find free art from Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (the
makers of Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, etc.) You can also get free art
from world class museums. Instructions for customizing the background can be
found here.
• Engineering Challenges for Children During Lockdown: Designers from
the James Dyson Foundation "have come up with a series of challenges to
help kids learn at home during isolation. Comprised of 22 science tasks and 22
engineering activities, the Challenge Cards can be completed by children using
common household items such as eggs, string and balloons." There's a
related set of videos on YouTube.
• Free Online Resources for Schools Shifting Online During Coronavirus
Pandemic: A collection of resources curated by SchoolChoiceWeek.com. It covers
communication platform resources, math and science resources, social studies
resources and more.
• Ideas to Steal: A New Zealand organization provides free activities
you can do with your kids, using basic materials at home.
• Khan Academy: Khan Academy has created guides designed to help parents
and teachers get through the COVID-19 crisis.
• Google Teach From Home: A central hub of information, tips, training
and tools from across Google for Education to help teachers keep teaching, even
when they aren’t in the classroom.
• Google Learn at Home: Google has partnered with Khan Academy and other
learning creators to bring parents & families resources and activities to
make the coming days as educational and fun as possible. These resources won’t
replace any homework assigned by teachers — but they can complement that work.
• How Schools Can Start Teaching Online in a Short Period of Time: Free
Tutorials from the Stanford Online High School.
• National Emergency Library: In the wake of our crisis, the Internet
Archive has made available online 1.5 million books. They're ready to be
checked out.
• Netflix Educational Documentaries: During this period, Netflix has
made some of its educational documentaries free to stream online. The list
notably includes David Attenborough’s nature series Our Planet and Abstract,
which looks at the art of design.
• New York Public Library COVID-19 Resources: Need some good book
recommendations? Read aloud suggestions? NYPL has your at-home reading needs
covered for kids of all ages. See sections on Pre-K to 2nd Grade, 3rd to
5th Grade, Middle School and High School.
• Scholastic Learn at Home: Day-to-day projects to keep kids reading,
thinking and learning. Goes from PreK to 9th grade.
• Free Online Drawing Lessons for Kids, Led by Favorite Artists &
Illustrators: During the COVID-19 crisis, some well known illustrators (Mo
Willems, Wendy McNaughton, Wendy, etc.) are offering free drawing lessons for
kids.
• The National Constitution Center: This organization is offering daily
live constitutional conversations for middle school, high school, and college
students, available through Zoom, and accessible on home computer, laptop, or
phone
Free Audio Books, eBooks and Textbooks
• Free Audio Books: Our collection of 450 free audio books includes many
children's classics. The Wizard of Oz, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn and Mark Twain, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The
Swiss Family Robinson, Gulliver's Travels, Anne of Green Gables, Aesop's
Fables, The Wizard of Oz series, and much more. You can download audio files
straight to your computer or mobile device.
• Free eBooks: This collection includes many children's classics in
ebook format. You generally have the option to download these texts to your
Kindle, iPad, Nook or computer. Video tutorials are included on the page. You
may also want to visit our resource: Download 20 Popular High School Books
Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books.
• Audible Stories: During the COVID-19 outbreak, Audible is providing
free stories to kids and teens.
• Bartleby.com: Gives you access to free online classics of reference,
literature, and nonfiction, including Strunk & White's Elements of Style,
The World Factbook, The Oxford Shakespeare, and The King James Bible.
• Calibre: Download free e-book software that will manage your
electronic library, convert e-books from one format to another, and give you
online access to free e-books. We have more on it here.
• CK-12: This non-profit provides "open textbooks" for K-12
students all over the world. It offers free high-quality, standards-aligned,
open content in the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics).
• Historic Children's Books: The University of Florida’s Baldwin Library
of Historical Children’s Literature has digitized 6,000 books. They're free to
read online from cover to cover. You can find other collections by The Library
of Congress and UCLA.
• International Children's Digital Library: Provides free access to
high-quality children's books from around the world in different languages,
including Arabic, Afrikaans, Danish, English, Farsi and beyond. Hosts books for
kids 3-5, 6-9, and 10-13. Start browsing the library here.
• Librivox: A favorite of ours, Librivox provides free audio books from
the public domain. You will find 5000+ books in their catalogue.
• OER Commons: Free, adaptable, openly licensed textbooks and
supplemental resources.
• Project Gutenberg: The mother of all ebook sites hosts 40000 free
ebooks, and makes them accessible for Kindle, Android, iPad, and iPhone.
• The Harvard Classics: Harvard’s influential president, Charles W.
Eliot, said that if you spent just 15 minutes a day reading the right books,
you could give yourself a proper liberal education. He published a 51-volume
series, now known as The Harvard Classics, and they're available free online.
Ideal for the older student.
• Free Textbook Collection: Our site provides a meta collection of free
textbooks available on the web. It covers everything from Art History to
Biology, Math, Physics, and Psychology.
• Physics Comic Books - PhysicsCentral, a web site run by The American
Physical Society (an organization representing 48,000 physicists), has created
a series of comic books designed to get kids excited about physics. Among other
comics, you can can read Nikola Tesla and the Electric Fair for free online.
• RadioLab for Kids: Kid-friendly stories curated by Radiolab. All in
one bingeable spot.
• Watch Stars Read Classic Children’s Books: Betty White, James Earl
Jones, Rita Moreno & Many More: Storyline Online streams imaginatively
produced videos featuring celebrated actors including Viola Davis, Allison
Janney, Chris Pine, Wanda Sykes, Justin Theroux, and Betty White reading
children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
Foreign Languages
• Open Culture Foreign Language Collection: This list created by Open
Culture offers free lessons in 40 different languages. You can generally
download the mp3/podcasts to your devices.
• Duolingo - Learn 30+ languages online with bite-size lessons based on
science.
• Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish: This video instructional series
for high school and college classrooms teaches Spanish speaking and listening
skills. Produced by WGBH Boston.
• Deutsch – warum nicht?: An extensive collection of introductory
German lessons put together by Deutsche Welle. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part
4.
• French in Action: Become fluent in French by exploring French culture
in this well-known video series for high school and college classrooms.
Produced by Yale University and WGBH Boston with Wellesley College.
• Ma France: The BBC offers 24 video lessons that will teach you French.
• Real Chinese: Presented by the BBC. A lively introduction to Mandarin
Chinese presented in 10 short parts with video clips from the Real Chinese TV
series.
• Talk Italian: A lively introduction to Italian presented by the BBC.
• WatchKnowLearn: This site has aggregated YouTube videos that will
teach students new languages.
Video Lessons/Tutorials
• Free Courses: Our collection, 1,500 Free Online Courses from Top
Universities, contains countless video lectures from courses offered by top
universities. Some material can be useful for high school students, or their
teachers.
• Khan Academy: The site famously features K-12 video tutorials created
by Sal Khan and team. It currently gives students access to thousands of video
tutorials that explain the ins-and-outs of algebra, geometry, trigonometry,
calculus, statistics, finance, physics, economics and more. Videos can also be
accessed via YouTube and iTunesU, or on the Khan Academy's website.
• Crash Courses: Created by author John Green, this YouTube channel
provides crash courses in physics, philosophy, games, economics, U.S.
government and politics, astronomy, anatomy & physiology, world history,
computer science, biology, literature, ecology, chemistry, psychology, U.S.
history and more.
• Learner.org: Run by The Annenberg Foundation, Learner.org hosts multimedia
resources for teachers, students and lifelong learners. You can browse their
general collection of educational videos here. Selected collections are
cataloged below.
• MIT-K12: Taking a page from Khan, MIT is now producing ”short videos
teaching basic concepts in science and engineering” for K-12 students. The
videos are generally created by MIT students. You can sort the videos by topic
and grade level. Find versions of these videos on iTunes.
• NeoK12: Designated a "Great Site for Kids" by the American
Library Association, this site provides educational videos, lessons, quizzes
and educational games for K-12 students in various subject areas, such as
science, math, health, social studies and English.
• The Kid Should See This: This blog aggregates interesting,
kid-friendly videos focusing on science, art, technology, and more. The videos
weren't necessarily made for kids, but kids can get a lot out of them. That's
the premise of the site.
• TED-Ed: The maker of TED Talks now provides carefully curated
educational videos or "lessons worth sharing." Topics range from
Literature and Language, to Mathematics, to Science and Technology.
• Schoolhouse Rock: Animated musical educational short films that aired
during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television
network ABC. The topics covered included grammar, science, economics, history,
mathematics, and civics
• WatchKnowLearn: This site has indexed over 33,000 educational videos
from YouTube and placed them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The
videos are available without registration or fees to teachers in the classroom
and to students at home 24/7.
• YouTube EDU: A curated collection of educational videos from sources
ranging from Sesame Street to Harvard. Created by YouTube itself.
Art & Visual Culture (Web Resources)
• A Virtual Tour of 30 World Class Museums and 2 Million Works of Art:
The page gives you access to collections of digitized art from 30 world class
museums. It features more than 2 million works of art.
• Google Art Project: A new tool that gives you access to more than
1,000 works of art appearing in 17 great museums across the world. Using
Google’s Street View technology, you can now tour collections at 184 museums
world wide, including the MoMA and Met in New York City, the Uffizi Gallery in
Florence, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Van Gogh Museum, and the
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
• ArtThink: Created by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this site
offers theme-based activities in visual arts, language arts, history and social
studies. The site lets students investigate artists' work, lives, and their
historical context.
• Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums:World
class museums and libraries have made free coloring books available for
download.
• SmartHistory: Smarthistory provides an extensive collection of audio
and video introductions to works of art found in standard art history survey
texts. (See our post "An Introduction to 100 Important Paintings with
Videos Created by Smarthistory.") You can find a complete collection of
their videos on YouTube.
• Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel: Thanks to Villanova University,
you can take an amazing virtual, panoramic tour of the Sistine Chapel. Using
buttons in the lower left screen en, you can move around the room and zoom in
on the paintings, including those on the ceiling.
Geography (Web Resources)
• National Geographic: Provides facts, photos, videos, and more about
countries around the world -- something NatGeo knows a lot about.
• World Atlas: An educational resource for world maps, atlases, and
in-depth geography information. Provides teachers and students free maps of
Europe, Asia, the U.S., Canada, Florida, the Caribbean Islands and much more.
• World Data Atlas: Great source of world statistics on every country.
Includes data on more than 2500 indicators. Topics cover Economics,
Demographics, Health, Education, Energy and other socioeconomic information.
Includes interactive visualizations like rankings, graphs and maps. All information
can be exported and embedded onto the web.
History & Politics (Web Resources)
• 50States.com: Offers copious information about the fifty United States
of America.
• A Biography of America: This video series for high school and college
students presents American history as a living narrative rather than a
collection of facts and dates. Produced by WGBH Boston in cooperation with the
Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration.
• A Crash Course in World History: Best-selling author John Green gives
you a playful and highly visual crash course in world history, taking you from
the beginning of human civilization 15,000 years ago through to our modern age.
The videos are animated and fun. We have a few more details here.
• Abraham Lincoln at the Crossroads: An educational game for advanced
middle- and high-school students. Learn about Lincoln’s leadership by exploring
the political choices he made.
• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government: A primer on American government for
grades K-2.
• Bridging World History: Created by Learner.org, this site offers
multimedia materials designed to help learners discover world history. The
material is organized into 26 thematic units, which include videos and an audio
glossary.
• Democracy Web: The site features an interactive world map and an
online study guide for teachers. Designed for use with upper secondary- and
lower college-level students, this resource provides an overview of the
principles of democracy and their origins, as well as an examination of how a
variety of contemporary political systems function.
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History is a nonprofit devoted to the improvement of
history education. The GLI web site features video/audio with experts
discussing various topics in American history. Don't miss their iTunesU
collection with talks including: Famous Americans, American Presidents, The
U.S. Constitution, The American Civil War, The Great Depression and World War II,
Women in American History, Lincoln and the Civil War, and Slavery and Anti
Slavery.
• Google Cultural Institute: Google has built a robust, umbrella
Cultural Institute to house 42 new online historical exhibitions. Each exhibit
features, in Google’s words, "a narrative which links the archive material
together to unlock the different perspectives, nuances and tales behind these
events." Topics currently covered include the Life and Times of Nelson
Mandela, the Fall of the Iron Curtain, the Spanish Civil War, the Life of Anne
Frank, D-Day, and Apartheid in South Africa. The Cultural Institute also gives
you access to super high resolution images of The Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Google Historical Voyages and Events: This site is dedicated to the
explorers, voyages, events, and historical backgrounds of countries throughout
the world, and uses Google technology to bring this history back to life.
• History and Politics Out Loud: A searchable archive of politically
significant audio materials for scholars, teachers, and students. It is a
component of "Historical Voices," funded by the National Endowment
for the Humanities in partnership with Michigan State University.
• History Matters: Designed for high school and college students and
teachers, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other
useful materials for learning and teaching U.S. history.
• iCivics: Founded by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics
prepares young Americans to become knowledgeable and engaged 21st century citizens
by offering free and innovative educational materials. iCivics has produced 16
educational video games as well as vibrant teaching materials that have been
used in classrooms in all 50 states.
• Liberty's Kids: An animated educational historical television series
originally broadcast on PBS Kids. Teaches 7 to 14 year olds about the founding
of the United States.
• The Living Room Candidate: An archive of presidential campaign
commercials from 1952 to the present, organized by year, type, and issue, with
teacher resources and playlists created by experts.
• Teachinghistory.org: This site is designed to help K–12 history
teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in
the classroom. Provides lesson plans and best practices. Funded by the U.S.
Department of Education and the Center for History and New Media.
• The Internet History Sourcebooks: This site features collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for
educational use. Hosted by Fordham University, this resource is broken down
into sub-areas: Ancient History, Medieval, Modern, Byzantine Studies, African
Studies, East Asian Studies, Global Studies, India, Islamic, Jewish, Lesbian
and Gay, Science, and Women's Studies.
• What So Proudly We Hail: An educational resource about what it means
to be an American, inspired by the anthology of the same title. Through a
series of online conversations about classic American texts, award-winning
teacher-scholars Amy A. Kass and Leon R. Kass seek to educate both hearts and
minds about American ideals, American identity and national character, and the
virtues and aspirations of our civic life.
• World History for Us All: A powerful, innovative curriculum for
teaching world history in middle and high schools. The site offers a wealth of
teaching units, lesson plans, and resources. Ideal for anyone thinking about
how to teach world history to students.
• World Wonders Project: Created by Google, this valuable resource lets
students virtually discover some of the most famous sites on earth -- for
example, the ruins of Pompeii, Stonehenge, Versailles and more. It also lets
you visit the Great Barrier Reef and Shackleton's Expedition in Antarctica. The
project offers an innovative way to teach history and geography to students of
primary and secondary schools. Teachers can download related guides for using
these resources.
• Visualizing Emancipation: A map of slavery’s end during the American
Civil War. It finds patterns in the collapse of southern slavery, mapping the
interactions between federal policies, armies in the field, and the actions of
enslaved men and women on countless farms and city blocks.
Literature (Web Resources)
• Download 20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks &
Audio Books: Gives you access to classic texts frequently taught in the
classroom. Includes works by Mark Twain, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Jane
Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more.
• A Crash Course in English Literature: A new video series by
best-selling kids author John Green covers Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Salinger,
and Emily Dickinson and more. See our post on this series.
• Folger Shakespeare Library: Offers a world of online resources for
teachers -- from lesson plans to study guides to videos -- for teaching
Shakespeare on the K-12 levels.
• Google Lit Trips: This site provides free downloadable files that mark
the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google
Earth. We offer more details here.
• International Children's Digital Library: Provides free access to
high-quality digital books from around the world. Offers books for kids 3-5,
6-9, and 10-13. Start browsing the library here.
• Lit2Go’s Audio Books: The University of South Florida provides an
extensive collection of free audio books along with materials to help K-12
teachers present literature in the classroom. Find more information on our blog
here.
• Poetry Archive: Search the Poetry Foundation's archive of over 10000
poems. Searchable by poet, title, first lines and more.
• Shakespeare’s Plays: If you're looking for Shakespeare's plays on the
web, MIT offers the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William
Shakespeare. If you're looking for a nice collection for the iPhone/iPad,
Oxford has you covered. They offer the first complete collection of
Shakespeare's plays, from the First Folio of 1623, in their original spelling
and orthography. You can also read all of Shakespeare’s plays free online,
courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
• Shakespeare’s Plays Animated: The Animated Shakespeare brings to life
famous Shakespeare plays. Leon Garfield, a well-known British children’s
author, wrote the scripts, mainly using Shakespearian language. And some
talented Russian artists did the animation. You can find free copies of
Shakespeare's plays in our collections of Free Audio Books & Free eBooks.
• Shmoop Learning Guides: Shmoop's learning guides break down some of
the texts most frequently taught in high school classrooms. Everything from
Mark Twain to Ayn Rand to Shakespeare.
• Invitation to World Literature: A multimedia course for students,
teachers, and lovers of literature. The course moves from ancient to modern
literature, and is taught by David Damrosch at Harvard. Find more details here.
Mathematics (Web Resources)
• AAA Math: Features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic
lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough
mastery of the concepts. You can sort by grade level. K-8.
• Against All Odds: Inside Statistics: This resource shows students the
relevance of statistics in real-world settings. Video series for high school
and college classrooms.
• IXL: Site features thousands of exercises designed to help young
students (K-8) practice math. Features practice questions, step-by-step
explanations, engaging awards and certificates, easy-to-read progress reports,
and more.
• Khan Academy Math: You can dive into the Khan Academy's math tutorials
using the following links: Arithmetic and Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Geometry,
Trigonometry, Probability, Statistics, Precalculus, Calculus,
Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Applied Math, Brain Teasers, and Vi
Hart Animations.
• Math Shack: Created by Shmoop, Math Shack allows students to practice
an infinite number of auto-generated math problems in Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and
Geometry. It’s Common Core-aligned, and students can see how they’re
performing—by topic and subject—through an easy color-coded system.
• NRICH: The Nrich Math Project (based at Cambridge University) offers
mathematics resources for children, parents and teachers to enrich learning. It
provides resources for students of all ages.
• STEM From The Start: Designed for PreK-2 learners, SFTS uses the power
of educational video to help lay the groundwork for STEM subjects by engaging
children in learning that is fun, engaging and long-lasting. Produced by New
Hampshire PBS & Learniverse Educational Media.
• Wolfram MathWorld: Bills itself as the web's most extensive
mathematical resource. Designed for more advanced students, this
collection is provided as a free service by Wolfram Research, makers of
Mathematica. Topics covered include: Algebra, Applied Mathematics, Calculus and
Analysis, Discrete Mathematics, Foundations of Mathematics, Geometry, History
and Terminology, Number Theory, Probability and Statistics, Recreational
Mathematics, and Topology.
Music (Web Resources)
• A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: In 1961, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley,
the jazz saxophonist best known for his work on Miles Davis’ epic album Kind of
Blue, narrated a children’s introduction to jazz music. Features music by Louis
Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk and Cannonball
himself.
• Free Music Theory Flash Cards: Doctor Mozart provides free music
flashcards for students of all ages.
• Classics for Kids: Introduces elementary and middle school children to
classical music in a fun and entertaining way. The site gives you access to
famous pieces of classical music online and also related lessons plans and
activity sheets. Plus it has a page with other helpful teaching resources.
• Exploring the World of Music: Learn the essentials of music theory and
how music expresses culture in this instructional video series for high school
classrooms.
• K-12 Resources for Music Educators: Valuable resources for music
educators and music students at all educational levels. Carefully researched
and commercial free.
• The Alan Lomax Sound Archive: This huge treasure trove contains folk
songs collected by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s to the
1990s, as well as interviews recorded by Lomax. The collection has been
digitized and made available online for free listening. Gives you access to
17,000 songs. More details here.
• The World Music Archive: Run by the BBC, this archive allows you to
sample the musical traditions of more than 40 countries. India, Corsica, China,
Cuba, Iran, Brazil, Mozambique, Turkey -- they're all represented in this
eclectic collection of indigenous music.
Philosophy (Web Resources)
• 350+ Animated Philosophy Videos: A meta collection of animated
philosophy primers covering philosophy, from ancient to modern.
• Philosophy for Kids: Dedicated to helping adults conduct philosophical
discussion with elementary school children, this site uses well known picture
books to raise philosophical questions -- for example Harold and the Purple
Crayon, Harry the Dirty Dog, The Cat in the Hat, various Frog and Toad stories
and much more. The site is run by Tom Wartenberg at Mount Holyoke.
• Philosophy for Kids!: This site given the same name as the one above
is run by Gary Matthews, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. It also uses children's stories to introduce students to philosophical
questions.
• Philosophy for Children: A non-profit organization affiliated
with the University of Washington Department of Philosophy, the Northwest
Center for Philosophy for Children provides lesson plans for using children's
literature to introduce philosophy, activities for engaging children in
philosophy, and tips for successful pre-college philosophy sessions.
Science (Web Resources)
• 100,000 Stars: An interactive visualization of—you guessed it—more
than 100,000 stars. 100,000 Stars was created by Google using data from NASA
and the European Space Agency. Before you experience the map, you will need to
download the Chrome browser. We have more on it here.
• Ask an Astronomer: In video format, scientists answer questions about
the universe. For example, where is the center of the universe? What happens
when galaxies collide?
• Atlas of the Universe: Contains maps of the universe zooming out from
the nearest stars to the entire visible universe.
• BioED Online: An online educational resource for educators, students,
and parents. Dedicated to biology, the site offers access to streaming video
presentations and a slide library that features, among other things, exciting
lesson plans and activities.
• Bugscope: Lets K–12 students view bugs under a scanning electron
microscope over the web. From the University of Illinois.
• BuiltByKids: Encourages next generation of makers to tackle the
do-it-yourself projects of their dreams. Engineering very 101.
• CELLS Alive!: Brings together 30 years of computer-enhanced images of
living cells and organisms for education and medical research.
• Chemistry Activities for Kids: Features chemistry demonstrations,
crafts, and projects that are suitable for kids. Some activities require adult
supervision. Assembled by Anne Marie Helmenstine, About.com Guide to Chemistry.
• Digital Universe Atlas: Developed by the American Museum of Natural
History's Hayden Planetarium, with support from NASA, this digital atlas makes
available the most complete and accurate 3D atlas of the Universe from the
local solar neighborhood out to the edge of the observable Universe. Download
it for free!
• Discover Space: The Space Foundation Discovery Center in Colorado
Springs hosts STEM and space-themed educational lessons, videos, and
activities. Of particular interest are lesson plans featuring Snoopy and the
Peanuts Gang that are fun and easy for everyone to enjoy.
• Dynamic Periodic Table: An interactive Web 2.0 periodic table with
dynamic layouts showing names, electrons, oxidation, trend visualization,
orbitals, and isotopes.
• Impact Earth!: An interactive tool that lets anyone calculate the
damage a comet or asteroid would cause if it happened to collide with our
planet. You can customize the size and speed of the incoming object, among
other items.
• Khan Academy Science: You can explore the Khan Academy's science and
technology lessons using the following hotlinks: Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology
and Astronomy, Healthcare and Medicine, Organic Chemistry, Physics, LeBron
Asks, MIT+K12, Projects.
• NASA for Students: America's space agency provides educational media
for different age groups. See Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, and Grades 9-12.
• Eyes on the Solar System: A 3-D environment lets you explore the
cosmos from your computer, hop on an asteroid, fly with NASA's Voyager
spacecraft, see the entire solar system moving in real time. Created by NASA.
• NASA Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth: Brings together all
images and videos of the Earth taken by NASA astronauts from space.
• NASA Photo Archive: NASA curated a big archive of historical images
into Flickr Commons, giving users access to more than a half century of NASA’s
photographic history. The images are divided into three neat sets – “Launch and
Takeoff,” “Building NASA” and “Center Namesakes” – and they’re all
copyright-free, meaning that you can share and use these images however you
like.
• Paleontology Portal: This site is a resource for anyone interested in
paleontology, from the student in the classroom, to the interested amateur
scouting for fossils, to the professional in the lab. Funded by the National
Science Foundation, the site was produced by the University of California
Museum of Paleontology, the Paleontological Society, the Society of Vertebrate
Paleontology, and the United States Geological Survey.
• Physics to Go: A collection of websites where you can learn physics on
your own, through games, webcasts, and online exhibits and activities. Features
a collection of more than 950 websites with physics images, activites, and
info. Produced by the American Physical Society.
• Robotics: Created by the University of Southern California, this web
site is designed to help K-12 teachers and other educators in developing or
improving courses that use robotics as a tool for teaching STEM topics or
robotics itself. Robotics is a great way to get kids excited about science,
technology, engineering, and math.
• Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: Back in 1825, Michael Faraday,
the venerated English scientist, established The Royal Institution Christmas
Lectures for Children, hoping to get a younger generation interested in
science, and the tradition has carried on ever since. You can watch the lectures
presented by famous scientists online, including Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan.
• Science Kids: Provides educational resources for teachers and parents
to help make science fun and engaging for kids. Features fun activities, facts,
projects and experiments that promote a desire amongst kids to learn more about
science and technology.
• Science News for Kids: Helps kids (middle school and above) stay
up-to-date on scientific trends. Provides crisp, concise coverage of all fields
of science daily.
• STEM From The Start: Designed for PreK-2 learners, SFTS uses the power
of educational video to help lay the groundwork for STEM subjects by engaging
children in learning that is fun, engaging and long-lasting. Produced by New
Hampshire PBS & Learniverse Educational Media.
• TeachEngineering.org: A searchable, web-based digital library
collection populated with standards-based engineering curricula for use by K-12
teachers and engineering faculty to make applied science and math (engineering)
come alive in K-12 settings.
• The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science - A
multimedia course for high school teachers and adult learners interested in
studying environmental science. The Web site provides access to course content
and activities developed by leading scientists and researchers in the field.
Jointly created by Harvard and the Smithsonian.
• The Known Universe: This video takes viewers from the Himalayas
through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big
Bang. The film is made with the Digital Universe Atlas (download it here) that
is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural
History.
• Understanding Evolution: Created for K-12 teachers, this online
resource provides a one-stop, comprehensive resource on evolution. This site is
a collaborative project of the University of California Museum of Paleontology
and the National Center for Science Education.
• USGS Science Resources: Assembled by the U.S. Geological Survey, this
site brings together lots of resources that will teach students about Biology,
Geography, Geology, Water, and more. The site is divided into sections: K-2,
3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
Technology (Web Resources)
• Codecademy: This venture gives students the ability to take free
computer science lessons online. Teaches everything from HTML basics to Python
in a “user active” style. We have more details here.
• Computer Science Courses from Great Universities: The more advanced
student can watch lectures from computer science courses presented at great
universities.
Khan Academy Technology: Find lessons in Drawing & Animation and
Programming Basics.
Educational Apps (Mostly for iPhone/iPad)
• Aesop’s Fables Interactive Book: The Library of Congress has released
a free app for use on iPhones, iPads and Android platforms. This innovative
reading experience has been adapted from the 1919 book The Aesop for Children,
and includes outstanding drawings by Milo Winter, a noted illustrator.
• American Museum of Natural History: Cosmic Discoveries: Take a ride
with the Museum’s astrophysicists through our Solar System, the Milky Way
Galaxy, and beyond. Cosmic Discoveries is the first app to collect nearly 1,000
stunning astronomic images.
• Babbel: Supported by the European Regional Development Fund, the
Babbel apps are available for 11 languages, and contain 2,000-3,000 vocabulary
words per language. All words are accompanied by images and pronounced for you
by native speakers.
• BrainPop Featured Movie: This well-respected app presents a different
animated movie every day covering subjects related to historical and current
events, and then lets youngsters test their new knowledge with an interactive
quiz.
• 3D Brain: Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when
the brain is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed
structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case
studies, and links to modern research. Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom
around 29 interactive structures.
• Color Uncovered: Beautiful app teaches you the basics of color science
using smart, interactive optical illusions.
• Dictionary.com: Pretty simple, but handy. A good dictionary in your
pocket.
• Earthlapse: Turn your iPad or iPhone into a window aboard the
International Space Station. Experience stunning views of planet Earth captured
by NASA astronauts. Touch the views and control the planet with your finger.
• EduCreations: This app will turn your iPad into a whiteboard where you
can do screencasting.
• Evernote: A handy app for taking notes.
• Exoplanet: This app offers a comprehensive visual database of all
known exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) discovered so far. It is
frequently updated as new discoveries are confirmed.
• Fotopedia UNESCO World Heritage Site: Drawing on 20,000 curated
photos, this free iPhone/iPad app lets you visit (at least virtually) 890
UNESCO World Heritage sites. In a matter of minutes, you can move from Notre
Dame in Paris, to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, to Machu Picchu in Peru,
to the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Fotopedia offers a number of other great
apps related to foreign travel here.
• Gene Screen: A fun way to learn how recessive genetic traits and
diseases are inherited and why certain diseases are more prevalent in different
populations. Gene Screen also provides information on some recessive genetic
diseases and genetic screening programs.
• Google Sky Map: Sky Map enables users to identify stars and planets by
pointing their devices towards these objects in the sky. Users can zoom in and
out, and switch various layers such as constellations, planets, grids, and deep
sky objects. Users can also determine the locations of planets and stars relative
to their own current locations.
• iTunesU: The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from
leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital
catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
You can find many of these courses on our list 550 Free Online Courses from Top
Universities.
• Khan Academy: This new app for the iPhone and iPad gives users access
to nearly 3,500 videos covering K-12 math, science topics such as biology,
chemistry, physics, and the humanities.
• Letterpress: The highly rated app lets young students find
words, steal tiles, and color the board!
• Louvre Museum: From the most important museum in Paris, this app
provides a virtual tour of the Louvre's galleries and lets users check out the
works of everyone from DaVinci to Michelangelo. The app gets you up close and
personal with paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and even the French
Crown Jewels.
• Molecules: An app for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules
and manipulating them using your fingers. You can rotate the molecules by
moving your finger across the display, zoom in or out by using two-finger pinch
gestures, or pan the molecule by moving two fingers across the screen at once.
• Mindsnacks Spanish Lessons: Award winning app teaches students the
language skills they need: getting directions, ordering food, meeting new
friends, shopping, relaxing. The introductory level is free, although more
advanced levels require paying for the app.
• Moon: The perfect resource to help students learn about the moon.
• Moon Globe: This free app puts the moon in your pocket with 3D
graphics and touch screen navigation.
• Museum of Modern Art: The MoMA lets you take a close look at art by
Abstract Expressionists, including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, David Smith,
Willem de Kooning and many others.
• Name It: “Name It” is a biology learning app for the iPhone. It will
teach you to recognize species by pictures. Provides access to 1,117,900
species pages and 1,914,317 pictures. Based on the Encyclopedia of Life, the
open source projet to document all living organisms on earth.
• NASA: Discover a wealth of great space travel information on this free
app. The NASA App collects, customizes and delivers an extensive selection of
dynamically updated information, images and videos from various online NASA
sources in a convenient mobile package. Available for Android, iPhone and iPad.
• Official SAT Question of the Day: Created the College Board, this app
gives you a new official SAT question every day. It also gives you a
statistical analysis of your performance.
• Periodic Table of Elements in HD: Created by Merck, this chemistry app
has received lots of praise.
• Planets: A 3D guide to the solar system for aspiring astronomers.
Downloaded over 8 million times, the app lets kids locate planets with a flat
view of sky in 2D, or a planetarium style view of the sky in 3D.
• Poetry from the Poetry Foundation: From William Shakespeare to César
Vallejo to Heather McHugh, the Poetry Foundation’s app turns your phone into a
mobile poetry library.
• Project Noah: A great tool to explore and document wildlife and a
platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere. Available for
Apple devices and the Android.
• Quick Graph: A powerful, high quality, graphic calculator that takes
full advantage of the multitouch display and the powerful graphic capabilities
of the iPad and iPhone, in both 2D and 3D.
• Science 360: The Science360 for iPad app, created by The National
Science Foundation, provides easy access to engaging science and engineering
images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news
from NSF-funded institutions.
• Shakespeare: A nice app that puts the complete works of Shakespeare on
your iPhone. As you will see, the app comes with some handy functionality: you
can search the text by keyword and also increase/decrease the fonts. Plus the
app automatically remembers the last page you read.
• Sight Words List: Sight Words, also known as the Dolch List, are an
integral part of learning how to read. The Dolch Word list contains 315 words
that are broken down into appropriate age groups. Ideal for kids 1 - 5 years
old.
• Spacecraft 3D: NASA's Spacecraft 3D is an augmented reality
application that lets you learn about and interact with a variety of spacecraft
that are used to explore our solar system, study Earth, and observe the
universe.
• SparkNotes: SparkNotes -- the publisher of popular literary study
guides -- offers a free iPhone app that features 50 pre-installed study guides.
And it also gives you access to hundreds of study guides available for viewing
online.
• Stanza: Another good app for downloading free e-books on the iPhone.
Once you download the app, navigate to the “Online Catalog” section and then
focus on the “Project Gutenberg” materials, which contain a long list of free
classics.
• StreetMuseum: This free iPhone app from the Museum of London overlays
400 years of historic images on today’s city streets.
• TED: TEDTalks need no introduction. They’re perhaps the most popular
video lectures on the web, featuring talks by “the world’s leading thinkers and
doers.” Now you can access these talks on your mobile phone too.
• The Elementals: Introduces children to the different elements of the
periodic table. Highly rated and free.
• Today in History: Lists notable events in history and when important
people were born/died. Includes over 100,000 events.
• USA Presidents: A flash card app that teaches you cool facts about the
historical line of American presidents.
• Yours, Vincent The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh: Provided by the Van
Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, this application uses the artist’s own letters to
explore the life and times of the great painter. Includes videos and images of
Van Gogh paintings.
YouTube Channels
• American Museum of Natural History: This channel features the
excellent “Known Universe” video, which gives you a six-minute journey from Mt.
Everest to the farthest reaches of the observable universe.
• Bad Astronomy: Bad Astronomy is all about astronomy, space, and
science. The videos are created by Phil Plait, an astronomer, writer, and
sometimes TV-science-show host.
• HooplaKidz: This channel is dedicated to animated nursery rhymes and
stories designed to entertain and educate children between the ages of 2 and 8.
• Edutopia: Offers inspiration and information for what works in
education. Edutopia is run by The George Lucas Educational Foundation.
• Khan Academy: This channel features thousands of videos that will
teach students the ins and outs of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus,
statistics, finance, physics, economics and more.
• Minute Physics: Cool science videos that are all about getting people
into learning physics.
• NASA Television: NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space
exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. This channel helps
explore fundamental questions about our place in the universe.
• Numberphile: Videos about numbers - it's that simple. Videos by Brady
Haran.
• Periodic Videos: Your ultimate channel for all things chemistry. A
video about each element on the periodic table.
• Sick Science: Videos and cool science experiments from Steve Spangler
and SteveSpanglerScience.com
• SpaceLab: Can plants survive beyond Earth? Can proteins observed in
space reveal the mysteries of life? These questions and more get answered by
SpaceLab, a YouTube channel created by Google and Lenovo, in cooperation with
Space Adventures, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the
European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
• YouTube EDU: YouTube hosts a section dedicated to academic videos.
It’s a little bit of a mixed bag, but it features some quality videos.
Test Prep (Web Resources)
• Khan Academy Tutorials: SAT Math, GMAT, CAHSEE, California Standards
Test, Competition Math, IIT JEE.
• Official SAT Question of the Day: Created the College Board, the
iPhone/iPad app gives you a new official SAT question every day. It also gives
you a statistical analysis of your performance.
• SAT Practice: The College Board (the makers of the SAT exam) also
hosts free practice exercises on its web site.
General Reference (Web Resources)
• Bartleby.com: Gives you access to free online classics of reference,
literature and nonfiction, including Strunk & White's Elements of Style,
The World Factbook, The Oxford Shakespeare, and The King James Bible.
• Convert-me.com: Provides instant conversions for thousands of various
units and measurements, both common (e.g., U.S. and metric) and quite exotic,
such as ancient Greek and Roman measurements.
• Dynamic Periodic Table: An interactive Web 2.0 periodic table with
dynamic layouts showing names, electrons, oxidation, trend visualization,
orbitals, and isotopes.
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian: The Smithsonian provides a set of handy
online resources across many disciplines. From Art & Design to Science
& Technology.
• Interactive Timelines: This site allows people to create interactive
timelines, which they can share anywhere on the web.
• Unz.org: This right-leaning archive gives users access to American
periodicals going back to 1821. The archive also has a collection of free books
and videos & film. We have more on the archive here.
• World Atlas: An educational resource for world maps, atlases, and
in-depth geography information. Provides teachers and students free maps of
Europe, the U.S., Canada, Florida, the Caribbean Islands and much more.
Teacher and Parent Resources
• Climate Classroom: A National Wildlife Federation initiative that
focuses on creating age- and developmentally appropriate curricula and projects
that educate youth about the causes of and remedies for global warming. The NWF
also offers a great number of lesson plans.
• Common Sense Media: Non profit dedicated to improving the lives of
kids & families by providing the trustworthy information about education,
media and technology. Includes reviews of movies, games, apps, & more so
parents can make informed decisions.
• Curriki: The site hosts an online community for creating and sharing
curricula and teaching best practices. Currently the site offers over 46,000
free K-12 lessons, units, assessments, and multimedia learning resources across
all subject areas, and the platform enables educators to build their own
curriculum by assembling Curriki resources, as well as their own, into
collections.
• Edutopia: Run by The George Lucas Educational Foundation, Edutopia
empowers teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and
resources to better education. You can access materials by grade level: K-2,
3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.
• EDSITEment: A free high quality K-12 educational resource from the
National Endowment for the Humanities. The collection has over 450 lessons
plans in the humanities written by scholars and teachers covering the fields of
history, literature, art and culture, and foreign languages. The site also
features guides for teachers.
• Learner.org: Run by The Annenberg Foundation, Learner.org provides
multimedia resources for teachers, including video series designed to help
teachers improve their instruction in specific areas.
• National Science Foundation Classroom Resources: A diverse collection
of lessons and web resources for classroom teachers, their students, and
students' families. Covers Astronomy & Space, Physics, Biology and much
more.
• PBS Teachers: PBS Teachers serves up educational resources, lesson
plans, and activities for the K-12 classroom.
• Share My Lesson: A site where educators can come together to create
and share their very best teaching resources. Developed by teachers for teachers,
the free platform gives access to high-quality teaching resources and provides
an online community where teachers can collaborate with, encourage and inspire
each other.
•
Teaching Channel: Teaching Channel is a video showcase—on the Internet and
TV—of inspiring and effective teaching practices in America's schools. The
video library offers educators a wide range of subjects for grades K-12. The
videos also include information on alignment with Common Core State Standards
and ancillary material for teachers to use in their own classrooms.
•
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: Annenberg's Learner.org provides lessons
appropriate for K-12 teachers of foreign languages.
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