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13 Digital Learning Resources in Education

Angeliz Diaz

13.1 Introduction

Asynchronous online learning – is a student-centered teaching method where their learning can occur in different times and spaces particular to each learner
Digital learning resources – electronic resources such as applications (apps), software, programs, or websites that engage students in learning activities and support the learning goals of students
Online learning – a method of education whereby students learn in an entirely internet-based environment
Remotely – at or from a distance; typically by means of an electronic connection
Synchronous online learning – a method of learning that requires students to attend classes at a structurally scheduled time virtually
Traditional learning – a method of instructional interaction that occurs in person and in real time between teachers and their students

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:

Understand the role digital resources have in education
Understand how the presentation of information digitally may affect the quality of learning
Describe the different types of instruction delivery
Distinguish the difference between synchronous and asynchronous learning
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of virtual learning

The inclusion of technology for lesson delivery in classrooms is progressively becoming the new normal nationally. Even though COVID-19 has sparked an exponential increase in the number of students signing up for e-learning, the use of digital learning resources like websites and applications created to enhance learning comprehension of the courses’ content was something already seen before the pandemic. Our earlier implementations combined traditional learning materials and the use of multimedia technology as supplements to the courses. This ratio, where most of the course content was presented with traditional tools like notes, in-person lectures, and textbooks, allowed the 21st-century tools like online tutorials to not be overused or over-depended on. Even with such an efficient balance, society had to adapt from traditional learning in an in-person learning environment to online learning using entirely internet-based environments due to the pandemic. The pandemic itself created an increase in the amount of digitized information and learning resources. Because these technologies have always been there, their implementation to the extent where society actually had to rely on them to learn was a very concerning transition for us all. With that increase in the usage of other resources for learning, their effectiveness, more specifically, digital learning resources, was put into question. The digital resources set forth to carry out the education of students gained broad acceptance as a result of the limited options available.

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With the choice to sign up for online courses and usage of digital resources so readily available, it was assumed to be the newly convenient method of lesson delivery. The idea that students could learn in preferred environments through different learning styles was appealing. Still, it consequently held the power to create an over-reliance on online tools, thus decreasing the quality of learning regarding retention, comprehension, and accessibility regarding digital learning resources.

13.2 What are digital resources? How are they used in both traditional and online learning environments?

Key Takeaway

Digital learning resources are used for education in many ways and implemented in different forms. In traditional classrooms, digital learning resources are used as supplements to the primary course content, while in virtual learning the digital resources actually make up what is the “content” of the class.

With the choice to sign up for online courses and usage of digital resources so readily available, it was assumed to be the newly convenient method of lesson delivery. The idea that students could learn in preferred environments through different learning styles was appealing to ensure the achievement of students’ learning goals. These digital learning resources are opportunities for the expansion of learning. They are available online, worldwide, and at the touch of a hand. The most recognized digital learning resources are Youtube, Khan Academy, MOOCs, podcasts, Quizlet, e-textbooks, and so forth.

13.2.1 How digital resources are implemented in Traditional teaching and E-Learning environments

Traditional learning occurs in an in-person classroom setting where a teacher delivers knowledge to their students. Traditional learning classrooms expected their students to engage not only with the content but also their peers through constructive subject-related discussions. Outside of the classroom, the students are expected to develop their knowledge on the lesson learned in class and apply it to not only real-world scenarios but also put it to practice in assigned homework exercises. Digital learning resources are readily available for students, whether they are inside the classroom or applying their knowledge outside of class. Typically when learning a particular topic that may be harder to understand without visualization, the instructor of the courses may use digital resources to provide more information to the student and enhance the student’s overall ability to see beyond what is on paper. This availability and access to digital resources allows students to balance between the traditional paper-based course materials they are assigned in their traditional classroom and selectively implement digital learning resources when they may need further clarification on the course content and so forth.

Online learning, also known as e-learning, is a learning system in education whereby students learn the things they would traditionally but in an entirely internet-based environment. In these online courses, the content of the class is delivered to students in either a synchronous style or an asynchronous style. While the two styles both heavily rely on digital resources to execute their lessons, the structure of the courses is what sets them apart. In a synchronous online learning course, the instructor and the course students engage with each other and the course content remotely in different locations but at the same scheduled meeting time. The instructors of synchronous courses typically require their students to complete assignments and readings in preparation for class discussion virtually. These courses involve interactive lectures, discussions, student-led conversations, and presentations during structured class meetings (Staff Writers, 2021). In an asynchronous online learning course, the instructor and the students all interact with the content of the course at their own time from different locations. The instructors of asynchronous courses allow the students to learn a sequence of units through prepared digital resources without holding a live session or enforcing a meeting schedule. Both synchronous and asynchronous courses use online tools and assign readings, upload media, assign online quizzes, suggest supplementary subject-related videos for clarification, utilize Google Docs, and much more (University of Waterloo, 2020).

13.3 The history of technology in education

From paperback books to microcomputers, the technological advancements established throughout decades worth of time have created the technologically advanced classroom environments our students take part in presently.

Since the early 1800’s different forms of technological breakthroughs have shaped education. With the development of new printing techniques in the 1820s, greater production and distribution of books was finally made possible. Because of this newfound accessibility brought by printing, the diversity of materials available to teachers and students significantly increased as textbooks began to become the new norm in public schools during that decade (Cohen, 1988). As the 19th century progressed, so did our societies’ ability to come up with technological advancements like the radio and television that would ultimately be used for the spread of class lessons, similar to the way we do so now with programs like Zoom and podcasts to make sure information is presented regardless of physical circumstances.

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In the 1970s, the computer was first introduced into the education system, leaving thousands of schools mesmerized by the potential the computers had to enhance the quality of learning for their students. In fact, they were so admired that federal and state programs began to require schools to purchase these technologies so that they could transform the instructional practices being carried out. By the end of the 1990s, computers were used to enhance classroom instruction, and there was an estimated one computer for every five students (Christensen, Johnston, & Horn, 2008).

Since its introduction into education back decades ago, there has been an evolution where we believe that students’ best performance can be achieved through the use of computers. While computers, initially, served as tutors for students, they have become so technologically advanced that our society has progressed to a state where we have almost become infatuated with the digital learning resources these computers grant us the access to utilize.

Society’s progression through time displays a pattern where the technological advancements developed were typically implemented into the educational systems in some form. The combination of traditional teaching and the implementation of multimedia technology as supplements to the course beneficially transformed the quality of learning for students. As a result of our continuous desire for progressions, the national shift from traditional learning in classrooms to completely virtual learning across millions of homes due to COVID-19 was not as difficult had these technological progressions not been in place. Because of the pandemic’s halt on normality, educational organizations were forced to make the most out of what was already available. The pandemic’s the form of instructional delivery. Granted, these e-teaching materials like e-textbooks and digital learning resources allowed for information to be accessible in a time of despair; it is argued that they were not anything new but rather a form of earlier digital learning materials. Earlier digital learning materials were merely electronic versions of paper-based teaching materials (Li, 2021). The digital learning resources that were once implemented in education as a complementary supplement to paper-based materials and course content are now the digital resources that are being used for the actual learning process itself. Now, society is progressively transitioning back to traditional in-person learning the way it was before COVID-19, with the presentation of information digitally being what seems to be a newly adopted form of normality.

1.4 The impact of digital learning resources on education

Digital learning resources are powerful tools that can be used to enhance the learning quality of students in ways a textbook may not be able to, and though these digital resources have their perks, there are also things that traditional paper-based materials like textbooks allow students to experience that digitalized materials for learning may not. Whether it be the traditional paper-based material or digitalized materials, each resource has its strengths and weaknesses when it comes to enhancing the quality of student education.

The effectiveness of any technological advancement can only be beneficial if it is used correctly so that it may serve its original purpose. The same notion applies to the development of different digital resources. While they come in various forms serving different educational purposes, all-digital learning resources hold the potential to enhance the learning comprehension, learning quality, and overall content retention of the student. The manner they are used and implemented allows for conclusions to be made regarding their effectiveness. The effectiveness of textbooks as a learning resource for students is actually one of the most discussed amongst most because of how traditional paperback textbooks have always served as a greater source of reference for digital learning resources.

13.4.1 Impacts of digital resources on the quality of learning

With digital learning resources, the way in which they are presented to students can significantly impact the quality of learning they receive. It is found that student retention is highly correlated with student perception of quality, meaning that instructors can only attract and aid students with digital learning resources if they provide educational services that are known to meet student requirements and add value to students learning (Ali et al., 2021). In order to ensure that students are intrigued by the content they are being presented, these digital learning resources must come into play in a strategic way that is able to engage the students with the content they are being taught in class. The only downside to this opportunity of engagement is that all students learn in different ways. Though digital learning resources have proven to be highly effective, they have also proven to highly distort the main idea and the bigger picture of certain material teachers are covering.

13.4.2 Advantages of digital resources in education

Digital resources can relieve financial strain. Because e-textbooks are generally cheaper than printed books, the usage of e-textbooks can provide a certain level of relief to the students worried about their rising academic expenses. The Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance reported that an average student spends from $700 to $1,000 on textbooks every year (ACFSA, 2007). With textbooks being such an overwhelming amount of money every year, students have become hesitant and given the purchasing of these books a second thought, which is why digitalized textbooks can serve as the median for having a needed educational resource at a lower price. Because of the great benefits that come from purchasing textbooks in general, digitized ones, with their prices significantly lower than paper-based ones, are a better option for those students who are not easily able to afford them. As a result of this affordability problem being one that is common amongst many students, the bright side is that states and colleges are already taking steps to increase the affordability of these educational resources. Furthermore, compared to printed books, e-textbooks are portable and relatively easy to purchase. The features that e-textbooks can provide, like searching, hyperlinking, highlighting, creating flashcards, and note sharing, is an advantage that paper textbooks don’t have. These active engagement features are advantages to the learning quality of students because of their ability to interact with the content and the satisfaction perceived from usefulness and ease of use.

13.4.3 Disadvantages of digital resources in education

Digital learning resources, while they can be efficient, are not as reliable as paper-based. Though technological enhancements to most digital learning resources are still being made through features like “offline” modes, where students can access their resources even when disconnected from the internet, technology can still fail elsewhere. Unlike traditional paper-based textbooks, online textbooks are limited to a specific amount of accessibility because access to the resources depends on the battery life of the device they are being used on. Additionally, the digital devices required to attain the benefits that may come with online learning resources are very costly and not necessarily a readily available resource to all students. In the United States, there is an overwhelming assumption that all students have access to online resources because of the modernized era of technology we live in. In the United States, there are 1 in 5 children who live in households that do not have food security. With that being said, this conception that incorporating modern technology into their lives is secondary (Gaille, 2019). Granted, these devices hold access to great resources, priorities have to be made, and realistically a pantry stocked with the essential groceries a family needs is of more importance than having a new device that can be the cost of a months worth of groceries or more. Furthermore, with the numerous resources available online to students, the authenticity of students’ work has been noted to be a consistent concern with students plagiarizing and cheating in order to keep up with their assignments. Unless students have a good sense of self-motivation, digital learning resources can set students behind if they are consistently procrastinating their responsibilities and getting out of them using digital learning resources that are meant to be supplementary to the content of the course. In conclusion, factors like battery life, distraction brought by the student’s device, authenticity, internet connection, and so forth are significantly degrading the quality of learning.

13.5 Where the use of digital learning resources in education will lead us?

The amount of students turning toward digital resources to enhance their learning is increasing in an upward trend. The upward trend foreshadows that as more things become digitized so will the amount of students who make use of these digital resources.

With the evolution of technology in the 21st century, the rate of learning resource digitalization is on the increase. As these traditional learning resources like paperback textbooks continue to be digitized at a rate higher than ever, so do the number of students using these digital learning resources. With this influx, it is essential for students to maintain a balance between traditional and digital resources because of the effects the overuse of digital information can have. By utilizing digital resources to enhance learning and retrieve information, rather than using digital information out of dependence, will allow students to greatly benefit from instructional e-resources. The proper usage of digital resources truly influences the quality of learning students receive, and when used properly, the learning quality can be exponentially significant. As the resources for students continue to expand digitally, the prevalence of technology can be predicted to continue to increase the same way it is presently.

Chapter Summary:

As seen in the most recent years, technology has become one of the most used resources in the daily lives of millions of individuals. From a business setting to a classroom one, the digital world has expanded to many aspects of a single day-to-day affairs, one of them being education at all grade levels. The challenge has arisen where the learning quality of these students using digital learning resources through their digital devices has been significantly put into question because of the power they hold to either support or degrade learning quality. With the insight this shift from traditional paper-based material to information being presented to students digitally, the conclusion has been made that it does not necessarily matter what students use as their resources, but rather how they are using it and whether or not they are dependent on the online-learning resource to attain any form of knowledge.

Review Questions:

1. How can digital learning resources play a role in education?

A. They can make enhance the education of students

B. They can lower the costs of academic expenses

C. They can provide convenience because of their high accessibility

D. All of the above

2. What is a style of learning that occurs online where students attend classes virtually at a scheduled time?

A. Traditional online learning

B. Synchronous online learning

C. Asynchronous online learning

D. Remote online learning

3. The presentation of information to students digitally affects the _______ of learning of students.

B. Endurance

C. Enthusiasm

4. Which of the following is true about the trends in learning?

A. The amount of students signing up for online learning is now at zero because society has successfully transitioned back to traditional in-person learning completely.

B. Students continue to use digital resources in learning at rates that are predicted to continue to increase over time.

C. Students have relied more on textbooks than technology since the pandemic because they appreciate what they had.

D. Students will no longer be able to use digital learning resources because trends show an increase in price that does not allow students to even afford them.

Food for thought:

What has your educational experience been like? What learning resources have you interacted with, have they evolved over time? How have they played a role in the quality of your education?

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Electronic resources such as applications (apps), software, programs, or websites that engage students in learning activities and support the learning goals of students.

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A method of learning that requires students to attend classes at a structurally scheduled time virtually.

At or from a distance; typically by means of an electronic connection.

Is a student-centered teaching method where their learning can occur in different times and spaces particular to each learner.

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75 digital tools and apps teachers can use to support formative assessment in the classroom

There is no shortage of formative assessment strategies, techniques, and tools available to teachers who use formative instructional practice in their classrooms. Here is an extensive list of 75 digital tools, apps, and platforms that can help you and your students use formative assessment to elicit evidence of learning. We didn’t just add any old tool to this list. Here are the criteria we used for those that made the cut:

Supports formative instructional strategies and ways to activate learners to be resources for themselves and peers
Is free or awful close to it (under $10 per year, where possible)
Allows both students and teachers to take the activator role when possible (sometimes teachers need to get things started)

Before you dig into the tools, I encourage you to spend some time thinking about exactly what you want to accomplish with your students. “How to pick the right digital tool: Start with your learning goal” by Erin Beard can help you wrap your head around goals and guide you in choosing the best tool for the task. “27 easy formative assessment strategies for gathering evidence of student learning” can help you decide what strategies work best for you and your students.

Record audio and video

Animoto Gives students the ability to make a 30-second video of what they learned in a lesson.
AudioNote A combination of a voice recorder and notepad, it captures both audio and notes for student collaboration.
Edpuzzle Helps you use video (your own, or one from Khan Academy, YouTube, and more) to track student understanding.
Flip Lets students use 15-second to 5-minute videos to respond to prompts. Teachers and peers can provide feedback.
QuickVoice Recorder Allows you to record classes, discussions, or audio for projects. Sync your recordings to your computer easily for use in presentations.
Vocaroo Creates audio recordings without the need for software. Embed the recording into slideshows, presentations, or websites.
WeVideo Lets you use video creatively to engage students in learning. Teachers and students alike can make videos.

Create quizzes, polls, and surveys

Crowdsignal Lets you create online polls, quizzes, and questions. Students can use smartphones, tablets, and computers to provide their answers, and information can be culled for reports.
Edulastic Allows you to make standards-aligned assessments and get instant feedback.
FreeOnlineSurveys Helps you create surveys, quizzes, forms, and polls.
Gimkit Lets you write real-time quizzes. And it was designed by a high school student!
Google Forms Part of the Google suite, Google Forms lets you create quizzes, polls, and surveys and see answers in real time.
Kahoot! A game-based classroom response system that lets you create quizzes using internet content.
MicroPoll Helps you create polls, embed them into websites, and analyze responses.
Naiku Lets you write quizzes students can answer using their mobile devices.
Poll Everywhere Lets you create a feedback poll or ask questions and see results in real time. Allows students to respond in various ways. With open-ended questions, you can capture data and spin up tag clouds to aggregate responses.
Poll Maker Offers unique features, like allowing multiple answers to one question.
ProProfs Helps you make quizzes, polls, and surveys.
Quia Lets you create games, quizzes, surveys, and more. Access a database of existing quizzes from other educators.
Quizalize Helps you create quizzes and homework.
Quizizz Guides you through designing quizzes and lets you include students in the quiz-writing process.
Quizlet Lets you make flashcards, tests, quizzes, and study games that are mobile friendly.
Quizmaker Helps you write quizzes quickly and easily.
Survey Hero Designed to build questionnaires and surveys.
SurveyMonkey Helpful for online polls and surveys.
SurveyPlanet Also helpful for online polls and surveys.
Zoho Survey Allows you to make mobile-friendly surveys and see results in real time.

Brainstorm, mind map, and collaborate

AnswerGarden A tool for online brainstorming and collaboration.
Coggle A mind-mapping tool designed to help you understand student thinking.
Conceptboard Software that facilitates team collaboration in a visual format, similar to mind mapping but using visual and text inputs.
Dotstorming A whiteboard app that allows digital sticky notes to be posted and voted on. This tool is best for generating class discussion and brainstorming on different topics and questions.
Educreations Whiteboard A whiteboard app that lets students share what they know.
iBrainstorm Lets students collaborate on projects using a stylus or their finger.
Miro Allows whole-class collaboration in real time.
Padlet Provides a blank canvas for students to create and design collaborative projects.
ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard Another whiteboard tool to check understanding.
XMind Mind-mapping software for use on desktop computers and laptops.
Equity Maps These discussion maps can help you ensure every student has a chance to share their ideas.

Present, engage, and inspire

BrainPOP Lets you use prerecorded videos on countless topics to shape your lesson plan, then use quizzes to see what stuck.
Buncee Helps students and teachers visualize, communicate, and engage with classroom concepts.
Five Card Flickr Uses the tag feature from photos in Flickr to foster visual thinking.
PlayPosit Allows you to add formative assessment features to a video from a library or popular sites, such as YouTube and Vimeo, to survey what students know about a topic.
RabbleBrowser Allows a leader to facilitate a collaborative browsing experience.
Random Name/Word Picker Facilitates random name picking. You can also add a list of keywords and use the tool to prompt students to guess words by providing definitions.
Socrative Uses exercises and games to engage students with a topic.
Adobe Express Lets you add graphics and visuals to exit tickets.
Typeform Helps you add graphical elements to polls.

Generate word or tag clouds

EdWordle Generates word clouds from any entered text to help aggregate responses and facilitate discussion. Word clouds are pictures composed of a cloud of smaller words that form a clue to the topic.
Tagxedo Allows you to examine student consensus and facilitate dialogues.
Wordables Helps you elicit evidence of learning or determine background knowledge about a topic.
WordArt Includes a feature that allows the user to make each word an active link to connect to websites, including YouTube.

Get real-time feedback

Formative Lets you assign activities, receive results in real time, and provide immediate feedback.
GoSoapBox Works with the bring-your-own-device model and includes an especially intriguing feature: a confusion meter.
IXL Breaks down options by grade level and content area.
Kaizena Gives students real-time feedback on work they upload. You can use a highlighter or give verbal feedback. You can also attach resources.
Mentimeter Allows you to use mobile phones or tablets to vote on any question a teacher asks, increasing student engagement.
Pear Deck Lets you plan and build interactive presentations that students can participate in via their smart device. It also offers unique question types.
Plickers Allows you to collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.
Quick Key Helps you with accurate marking, instant grading, and immediate feedback.

Foster family communication

Remind Lets you text students and stay in touch with families.
Seesaw Helps you improve family communication and makes formative assessment easy, while students can use the platform to document their learning.
Voxer Lets you send recordings so families can hear how their students are doing, students can chat about their work, and you can provide feedback.

Strengthen teacher-to-student or student-to-student communication

AnswerGarden Gives you access to formative assessment feedback.
Biblionasium Lets you view books students have read, create reading challenges, and track progress. Students can also review and recommend books to their peers.
Classkick Helps you post assignments for students, and both you and your students’ peers can provide feedback. Students can also monitor their progress and work.
TeacherEase Rubrics . This paid tool can help you ensure your rubrics are clear and accurate.
Lino A virtual cork board of sticky notes, it lets students ask questions or make comments on their learning.
Online Stopwatch Provides dozens of themed digital classroom timers to use during small- and whole-group discussions.
Peergrade Helps you create assignments and upload rubrics. You can also anonymously assign peer review work. Students can upload and review work using the corresponding rubric.
Verso Lets you set up learning using a URL. Space is provided for directions. Students can add their assignment, post comments, and respond to comments. You can group responses and check engagement levels.
VoiceThread Allows you to create and share conversations on documents, diagrams, videos, pictures, and more.

Keep the conversation going with live chats

Yo Teach A backchannel site great for keeping the conversation going with students.
Chatzy Supports live, online chats in a private setting.

Create and store documents or assignments

Google Drive Google Drive allows you to create documents students can collaborate on in real time using smartphones, tablets, and laptops.
Piazza Lets you upload lectures, assignments, and homework; pose and respond to student questions; and poll students about class content. This tool is better suited for older students as it mimics post-secondary class instructional formats.

There are several resources for learning more about formative assessment and responsive instruction strategies. Consider our formative practices workshops , where school and district teams can gain a better understanding of the role formative practice plays in instruction and the four foundational practices to use in the classroom. Or for a quick start, download our eBook “Making it work: How formative assessment can supercharge your practice.”

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AASL Announces 2024 Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning

CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has released its annual list of Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning. The Best Digital Tools provide opportunities for school librarians to enhance learning, engage learners, and collaborate with educators. The list can be found at www.ala.org/aasl/awards/best .

“The year’s list provides new additions covering all grade levels and offering valuable resources to assist educators and enhance learning,” said Committee Chair Alexa Lalejini. “Book Creator, Khan Academy, Masters of Tradition, Parlay Ideas, and Write the World offer school librarians inclusive and engaging tools to use with learners or in collaboration with classroom teachers. ClassHook, Diffit, PebbleGo, TeachingBooks, and SeeSaw offer standards-aligned instructional support. Two new tools are bringing music to the school library, Musiquest offers creative ways to learn music, while EarSketch teaches coding through music composition. Tools receiving recognition for a second time, demonstrating their commitment to enhancing and evolving their resources as educators' needs and roles change, include Copyright & Creativity, KidLitTV, New American History, Pixton, Sora, and Wild Classroom.”

The recognition honors digital tools that foster innovation and collaboration, encourage exploration and participation, are user-friendly, and offer information and references. The technology resources are also evaluated for their application of AASL’s National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries .

"As we look to enhance and increase the collaborative opportunities within our school communities, what could be more exciting than sharing these new resources with colleagues and learners,” said AASL President Courtney Pentland. "I encourage everyone to share these resources with your fellow educators to demonstrate the essential role school librarians serve within the school in connecting the right tool with the right lesson to meet the needs of our diverse learner communities.”

A Best Digital Tools presentation will be held at ALA’s Annual Conference on Sunday, June 30, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. For more information, visit https://2024.alaannual.org/ .

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With school districts starting the 2020/2021 school year online, parents and teachers are continually looking for online learning resources. Teachers have been tasked with delivering lesson plans and classroom activities as part of distance learning. Parents are trying to keep students on track with their studies and educational growth. We are here to help! This growing list offers a wealth of resources for all ages of students, parents, and teachers!

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Remote learning and virtual classroom platforms, professional development & training, online resources for kids in grades k-5.

These sites have ready-to-use lesson plans and activities for a vast amount of subjects for younger students.

ABCmouse Early Learning Academy

What It Is: This comprehensive program covers a wide variety of subjects for students aged 2-8 (Pre-K through second grade). It offers more than 850 self-guided lessons across 10 levels. A companion program focuses on teaching English as a second language for this age group.

Adventure Academy

What It Is: This MMO game gives kids something other online learning resources may lack: a sense of community. Students up to age 13 play games to learn across a range of topics (math, reading, social studies, science, and more), while also creating their own online persona and interacting with others in the game.

Aperture Education

What It Is: Aperture Education is providing free Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Growth Strategies for educators and parents.
What They’re Offering: Both are accessible online for free here- Aperture Education .

AWE Learning

What It Is: Pre-loaded digital learning solutions for early learners, ages 2-12.
What They’re Offering: Free printables for parents and students to use at home.

ASL Literacy Activities

What It Is: Daily free resources and activities in American Sign Language and English, for young deaf children ages 3-10. They offer weekly activities based on their award-winning VL2 Storybook Apps to support bilingual language development. It is run by Motion Light Lab , part of a research center on Visual Language and Visual Learning at Gallaudet University.
What They’re Offering: Free access to Motion Light Lab’s award-winning VL2 ASL Storybook Apps . Every week, the Motion Light Lab offers a free Storybook App which includes daily offerings in ASL and English, live storytelling “sign aloud” on Mondays, and an ASL/English literacy lesson live-streamed every Wednesday on YouTube featuring deaf narrators and accompanying worksheets for a deeper dive into each story.

Beanstack Distance Learning Reading Challenge

What It Is: Zoobean’s new Beanstack Distance Learning Reading Challenge, sponsored by Lerner Publishing Group, promotes independent student reading through the use of best-in-class digital learning resources with free access to the Lerner™ Sports Database, featuring athlete biographies using digital literacy tools that correlate with curriculum standards.
What They’re Offering: Zoobean and Lerner invite all interested school districts to participate, even if they are not current customers of either organization; free product licenses will be provided for those that need them. In addition, Lerner pledges to donate new books to the winning institutions upon completion of the challenge.

Bamboo Learning

What It Is: Free, voice-based educational applications for students in grades K-5 (available on all Alexa devices, including Fire tablets, Echo Dot, Echo Show, and Fire TV) that promote active conversational learning, cover a range of academic subjects (math, ELA/listening comprehension, social studies), and focus on fun, home-based, family-friendly learning.
What They’re Offering: Free voice-based resources to help students in the areas of language development and listening comprehension, mental math, and social studies. Parents can use a web-based dashboard (Bamboo Grove) to follow their children’s progress.
What It Is: A math platform for Grades 1-6 that makes learning fun and personalized. Teachers and parents are able to track student progress remotely and quickly identify learning gaps.
What They’re Offering: Boddle’s math game platform is available at no cost to educators, parents, and students dealing with school closures due to Covid-19.

Boreal Tales

What It Is: A literary and artistic creation platform designed to motivate school students to write. Aimed at Grades 1-8, Boreal Tales also allows teachers to track student progress and give specific, personalized feedback.
What They’re Offering: Free trial.
What It Is: BrainPop offers in-depth learning on topics across the curriculum for upper elementary and middle school students. Each topic includes videos, quizzes, related reading, and even coding activities. Teachers have access to planning and tracking resources too. They also offer BrainPop Jr. , specially designed for younger kids.
What They’re Offering: All schools get free access to their COVID-19/coronavirus online learning resources for talking to students about the topic.

Breakout EDU

What It Is: Breakout EDU uses online games to bring the fun of escape rooms to learning across the elementary curriculum.
What They’re Offering: They’ve put together a list of free online games kids can play at home. Click here to see them.

Brookes Publishing

What It Is: Resources to help early childhood, special education, and communication & language professionals during this time of uncertainty.
What They’re Offering: A number of free resources as well as a thrice-weekly chat with various authors and education experts.

Carrot-Top Educational Resources

What It Is: Educational Resource Worksheets in PDF format that can be downloaded by students and teachers who are working from home.
What They’re Offering: Resources are always free!

Carson Dellosa Education

What It Is: Products that inspire learning moments at school, at home, and everywhere in between.
What They’re Offering: Free educational resource worksheets, activities, and readers in PDF format that can be downloaded by parents and teachers.

The Character Tree

What It Is: A character education video subscription series for K-2 students that highlight positive character traits, exemplified by prominent figures.

Classroom Champions

What It Is: A nonprofit and charity, Classroom Champions connects volunteer Olympians, Paralympians, Student-Athletes, and Professional Athletes to K-8 classrooms through a social and emotional based curriculum and mentorship experience.

Clever Tykes

What It Is: Entrepreneurial storybooks and resources for 6-9 year-olds, inspiring positivity, innovation, independence, resilience, and resourcefulness.
What They’re Offering: Free printable activity packs full of activities like word searches, coloring pages, and puzzles, all while exploring the entrepreneurial lessons of the Clever Tykes books
What It Is: A fun and educational game-based environment where kids learn to code without any prior experience. After completing CodeMonkey’s award-winning coding courses, kids will be able to navigate through the programming world with a sense of confidence and accomplishment.

CreositySpace

What It Is: A unique inquiry-based, learner-directed science curriculum that connects ALL K-5 students to science and capitalizes on their creativity and curiosity at a time when they ask, “What do I want to do when I grow up?”
What They’re Offering: CreositySpace is providing lessons from their Contagion Crushers, Water Watchers, and Conscientious Chemists units at no cost to help support teachers, parents, and guardians to keep all kids engaged in science.

Curriculum Associates

What It Is: Curriculum Associates is offering printable activity packs and guidance for educators and student families to support learning at home. The content, which is available for Grades K-8 for both reading and math, comes in both English and Spanish.
What They’re Offering: Free printable activity packs.
What It Is: Virtual Manipulatives are a great way to enhance at-home learning. Simply drag the manipulatives into position to see math concepts come alive!
What They’re Offering: Free resources and Downloadable Activities .
What It Is: Digital activity packs help take children beyond the book, engaging with their imagination and creativity as they color, draw, play, and write.
What They’re Offering: Free resources for teachers and parents.
What It Is: edHelper is online service that provides printable worksheets to teachers and homeschooling parents.
What They’re Offering: EdHelper is providing daily free workbook pages for grades K-6. Click to see the offering today !

Educational Insights

What It Is: Educational Insights is providing families with activities and printables that spark children’s curiosity and helps keep their education moving in the right direction. The educational toy company has also partnered with Mensa for Kids to provide even more valuable resources to support learning through play in areas such as STEM, reading and creativity.
What They’re Offering: Thousands of FREE games, printable worksheets, DIY ideas and crafts, as well as daily uploads of “Home’s Cool with Educational Insights,” a video series on fun, educational activities for parents to recreate at home with household items.
What It Is: Turn writing assignments into something amazing with the illustrations, animations, and sound effects available. Kids can even write their own choose-your-own-adventure story!

Emotional ABCs

What It Is: This research-based emotional skills program is designed for children ages 4-11 and gives kids practical tools for dealing with impulse control, frustration, and acting out. Emotional ABCs teaches children how to figure out what they’re feeling, why they’re experiencing that emotion, and how to make better choices for lifetime emotional resilience.

Essential Skills

What It Is: Online K-6 reading, math, and ELL programs that can be individualized to the needs of each student. It includes pretests, custom teacher assignments and automatic tracking of student results.
What They’re Offering: A free, no-obligations 45 day trial period.
What It Is: Three beta-stage eLearning tools from the scientists in their R&D division to help improve reading, writing, and English language speaking skills.
What it is: FabuLingua teaches Spanish through interactive stories on mobile phones and tablets. Their unique method is designed to introduce the new language in a way that subconsciously develops the child’s ear, comprehension, and reading skills. They offer a new charming interactive story from Latin America or Spain every month, along with associated games and a Magic Sticker Book where they get to create their own compositions.
What They’re Offering: FabuLingua is offering a free trial period and reduced subscription rates to all new members. Click here from your mobile device to go straight to the app or download them from the App Store or Google Play.

First In Math

What It Is: First in Math is a supplemental, online math program that allows children to practice MATH! More than 200 self-paced, grade-level math games help stimulate curiosity and foster creativity in ways that help children make sense of the numbers, patterns, and shapes they see in the world around them.
What They’re Offering: First In Math is available to School Administrators and Teachers. Learn more here- First In Math
What It Is: These online learning resources for younger students are easily differentiated for students of different ability levels.
What They’re Offering: Adaptive math and ELA courses are always available for free for teachers and students. Sign up here- Freckle

Funexpected Math

What It Is: Funexpected Math is an interactive application for kids aged 3-7 featuring a growing collection of math-related games that teach various types of thinking and improve learning skills. The app provides a fun and engaging way to introduce fundamental math ideas early and ensure kids are comfortable with math.
What They’re Offering: Free desktop version of the Funexpected Math application along with a variety of free printables.

Generation Genius

What It Is: A science teaching resource that brings school science standards to life through fun and educational videos paired with lesson plans, activities, quizzes, reading material, discussion questions, and more.
What It Is: GFletchy offers a large assortment of 3-Act tasks, math progression videos, and innovative ways to engage with students.
What They’re Offering: Always free.
What It Is: Using multimedia Interactive Posters, students can express ideas with ease by combining images, graphics, audio, video, and text on one digital canvas!
What It Is: Math and literacy content for kids in grades K-5, designed to engage kids without support from parents.
What They’re Offering: Free daily content including streaming video lessons, taught by teachers, directed towards kids in grades K-5, for both math and literacy. Also find downloadable activities and STEM resources.

Happy Numbers

What It Is: Happy Numbers helps teachers deliver quality math instruction, monitor progress, and math growth—all remotely. Students can access Happy Numbers from any Internet-enabled device (even a smartphone!).
What It Is: An online K–5 reading program that adapts to the needs of the individual student. It is self-paced, which makes it ideal for at-home practice.
What They’re Offering: Free product trials and samples along with introductory discounts.

Hearbuilder

What it is: HearBuilder, from Super Duper Publications, is an online, research-based, foundational literacy program. It helps students in PreK-Grade 5 strengthen skills in the essential pre-literacy areas of following directions, sequencing, auditory memory and phonological awareness.
What they’re offering: HearBuilder is available free for 60 days. Teachers, parents and therapists can access self-directed activities and short and targeted tasks for students, as well as tools to monitor student progress. HearBuilder is accessible at school or during distance learning.

Highlights for Children!

What It Is: Highlights @ Home is a new, free service for families and teachers that delivers themed content bundles twice a week from the well-known children’s magazine creator, Highlights.

Holiday House

What It Is: Online resources complete with educator guides, lesson plans, and activity sheets.
What They’re Offering: Free access to their wide array of resources to parents and teachers.
What It Is: HOMER is the #1 reading program in Apple’s app store for kids 5 & under. It provides kids with a personalized learn-to-read plan offering thousands of lessons on phonics, sight words, ABCs and more, growing with children from age 2-8. In just 15 minutes a day, HOMER Reading has been proven to increase early reading scores by 74%.
What They’re Offering: HOMER is available for a free 30-day trial, after which a subscription is required.
What It Is: This program is designed to teach elementary-aged kids the computer skills they need. It’s specifically aligned to learning standards in the UK, but the skills apply to students everywhere.
What They’re Offering: iCompute is providing a variety of resources created by their in-house author suitable for children ages 4-11.

iknowit.com

What It Is: iknowit is a site with over 500 common-core aligned activities and math games for students in the elementary grades. The site keeps track of progress, offers graphical hints and explanations, and there are also animated characters to cheer students along.
What They’re Offering: A free 30 day trial with unlimited access and no credit card required.

Inclined2Learn.com

What It Is: A platform for reading comprehension passages and skill assessment in early education and home schooling.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

What It Is: Entirely free digital arts education resources for students of all ages from the nation’s performing arts center.
What They’re Offering: Lesson plans, virtual field trips, articles, activities, and videos—carefully curated for educators, families, and students.
What It Is: A digital Social Studies learning tool for elementary students funded by the Library of Congress.
What They’re Offering: 8 interactive “episodes” designed for children in Kindergarten-5th grade to engage in age appropriate historical inquiry. KidCitizen is always free to use and works on PCs, Macs, tablets, and Chromebooks.

Kids Discover Online

What It Is: This library of science and social studies articles allows differentiation by reading level, so you can use these articles for various age and skill levels.
What They’re Offering: Free access to over 30 units and 200 topics along with subscription plans for at-home, homeschool, and in-school packages.
What It Is: They offer a K-2 literacy program, with a strong focus on phonics and comprehension.
What They’re Offering: They have unlocked all parts of their premium program to be entirely free for teachers.

Land of Tales

What It Is: The Land of Tales’ Movie Books allow young readers to live the magic of their favorite 3D animated tales. The growing Movie Book collection includes classic and original tales, professionally narrated with soothing background music that will enhance children’s listening skills, improve their vocabulary and pronunciation, and foster their imagination and creativity. For younger children, Tales to Watch offer a unique selection of short animated and musical fairy tales.
What They’re Offering: The Movie Books, Tales to Watch, illustrated tales, and children’s novels are available for free at the link above. You can also download on Google Play or the App Store .

Learning Resources

What It Is: Through the Learning Resources website, families with kids as young as 18 months old can discover a wide variety of easy-to-implement, hands-on activities — whether they’re working on their ABCs and 123s, trying to keep up with classwork, or focusing on learning language or reading.
What They’re Offering: 2500+ FREE activities, workbooks, games, and DIY activities by age/grade and subject.
What It Is: LearnToMod allows students to learn coding through the modding of the popular video game, Minecraft. LearnToMod contains hundreds of coding exercises and puzzles for students to solve in the context of their favorite video game.
What They’re Offering: LearnToMod is offering free teacher accounts for its Minecraft Modding software. The free teacher account allows teachers to give students free access to LearnToMod, organize students into classes, and spin up Minecraft servers for their students to code. Students need a paid copy of the game Minecraft in order to get the full experience from LearnToMod, but for students without accounts, there is a free, in-browser Minecraft simulator that students are able to mod.
What It Is: With their #LetsBuildTogether program, LEGO is helping families and fans unite with joyful moments and positive experiences.
What They’re Doing: For families at home they have entertainment and learning content, including daily build challenges and fun LEGO lessons.
What It Is: Literably is a reading assessment for K-8 students that identifies A-Z reading levels, diagnoses skill gaps, screens students for reading difficulties, and monitors progress. Their web and iOS apps record students reading out loud into a device as well as answering several comprehension questions allowing instructors to review the capabilities of their students.
What They’re Offering: Literably offers 10 free assessments per month, plus a 2-week whole-class free trial.
What It Is: MentalUP is a UK-based award-winning scientific-educational application containing cognitive learning games for K-8 learners.
What They’re Offering: Free online subscriptions.
What It Is: MetaCoders is a nationwide, non-profit coding education group that normally teaches after-school programs, camps, and workshops through the United States.
What They’re Offering: MetaCoders is offering daily coding lessons to beginner through intermediate coding students of all ages. Curricula in these lessons cover everything from computer science concepts to thinking like a coder.

Mentoring Minds

What It Is: Mentoring Minds impacts millions of students every day by partnering with principals and teachers across the country to improve student achievement and teach critical thinking. Find educator resources that focus on the 9 traits of Critical Thinking.
What They’re Offering: Free coloring book in English and Spanish , as well as a new animated video series .
What It Is: Mindsets Live Classes and Open Math Challenges help teachers & families keep learning going in math, science, & STEAM with fun and creative real-world problem-solving.
What It Is: This popular differentiated learning site provides instruction across a wide array of elementary subjects. Available for at-home instruction and classroom instruction, online training on effectively using the site is also available.

Musical Explorers

What It Is: A free music curriculum from Carnegie Hall, Musical Explorers is a one-stop shop for all the resources you need to bring cultural diversity to your classroom—through real artists who share authentic music from their cultures.
What They’re Offering: Resources are always free. Learn more here- Musical Explorers

Mystery Science

What It Is: Mystery Science offers digital video mini-lessons for science subjects K-5.
What They’re Offering: Mystery Science is always free, but they’ve put together a special list of lessons grade-by-grade that are perfect for tackling remotely. Find it here.
What It Is: Authentic content turned into learning materials that are classroom-ready for teachers of all subjects and grades.
What They’re Offering: Newsela is making their entire product suite freely available to teachers and districts, and has published free distance learning resources. Access to products and resources are available at the Newsela coronavirus resource center.

ORIGO Education

What It Is: ORIGO Education is offering a collection of free math learning resources to support teachers, parents, and caregivers as they strive to keep students engaged and continually learning. ORIGO at Home features free weekly digital plans for home use. These weekly plans contain activities for each day, along with digitally accessible or downloadable resources, designed for delivery by a parent, caregiver, or remote teacher.
What They’re Offering: Free resources for learning elementary math at home.
What It Is: PebbleGo offers safe, interactive online research resources on topics selected by their teachers for students K-3.
What It Is: Penworthy is dedicated to promoting children’s literacy by helping schools and libraries build collections that circulate and endure.
What They’re Offering: Coloring pages, mazes, word games, simple crafts, and easy-to-follow activity guides are free for teachers to use for children PK-6th grade.
What It Is: Hands-on, minds-on learning can happen anywhere and everywhere. If you’re looking for STEMspiration because of an unexpected homeschooling need, you’re in the midst of an uncommon education experience, or you just want to have some STEM fun, Pitsco has great resources that are always available for free.
What It Is: Get game-based learning in math for kids from first to eighth grade. The site offers lots of how-to articles to make distance learning effective and fun.
What They’re Offering: The basic Prodigy site is always free. Sign up here- Prodigy
What It Is: Puku is a great way to keep kids engaged and learning vocabulary at home, and parents will feel good about giving their kids quality screen time.
What They’re Offering: Puku offers a free 7 day trial; you can also extend the learning with these free corresponding vocabulary activity sheets .

Purple Mash

What It Is: This British company’s site hosts games and creative learning opportunities for elementary level math, spelling, and writing. Teachers can set daily tasks for students, create a blog, and find other ways to communicate.
What They’re Offering: Purple Mash is offering free extended 30 day trials here along with various free resources on their website.

Reading Eggs

What It Is: Serving a wide range of children ages 2-13, Reading Eggs has created a fun, interactive, and award-winning reading program that over 10 million parents trust to help teach their children to read!
What They’re Offering: A free 30-day trial of their program as well as hundreds of free educational printouts on their website.

QuaverMusic

What It Is: QuaverMusic is a world leader in online curriculum development for grades Pre-K to 8.
What They’re Offering: QuaverMusic offers K-8 general music teachers a platform to stay connected to their students, no matter where they are. Along with a free 30-day trial ( learn more here- QuaverMusic ), QuaverMusic offers free resources and a free webinar series to help instructors keep class moving and stay connected to students.
What It Is: ReadingIQ is a comprehensive digital library offering books, magazines, comics, and more for kids from ages 2-12. It’s a smart replacement for library time right now and makes it possible for teachers to monitor what and how much their students are reading.
What They’re Offering: Age of Learning offers a free 30 day trial and discounted annual subscription rate.

Reading Horizons

What It Is: Teachers and parents can keep their child’s reading instruction moving forward with Reading Horizons’ library of virtual webinars and lessons. Past webinars such as Best Practices for Virtual Reading Instruction will be available on-demand on YouTube, as well as upcoming webinars revolving around student progress monitoring in a virtual setting.
What They’re Offering: Resources and their Online Professional Development Course for free!
What It Is: Produced by RedRover, Kind News magazine is a Parent’s Choice Approved Award winning children’s magazine that inspires readers to explore the relationship between people and animals. It includes engaging articles, colorful illustrations, activities, and games to help kids explore the relationship between people and animals and develop knowledge and skills necessary for empathy and kindness.
What They’re Offering: KindNews.org includes free lesson plans, links to past issues, and humane-themed books.

RV AppStudios

What It Is: Kids apps for math, reading, tracing, and more.
What They’re Offering: Downloads of RV AppStudios apps are free!
What It Is: Scholastic created the Scholastic Learn at Home website to provide students with an array of learning journeys that span various content areas. Subscriptions include several learning opportunities per day, including projects based on articles and stories, virtual field trips, reading and geography challenges, and more.
What It Is: Seekadoo is a safe, kid-friendly search engine app for children ages 3-13. Seekadoo’s content database is carefully curated to ensure appropriate material for children and integrated ad-blocking eliminates tracking and monetization of children’s data so their digital footprints remain private.

Seussville.com

What It Is: Welcome to the wonderful world of Dr. Seuss! Seussville includes multiple sections, including one area dedicated to the parents of small ones, full of activities, crafts, and printables. In the Educator section of Seussville, there are resources for supplemental activities for Art, Science, Math, Social Studies, and Language Arts.
What They’re Offering: Resources are always free, and more are being added regularly. Other areas of the site offer children the opportunity to explore Dr. Seuss books and characters, play games, and watch video clips.

Simple Solutions

What It Is: Educational activities that can be done in mere minutes! Topics include reading, science, social studies, study skills, and problem solving.
What They’re Offering: Simple Solutions provides their wide variety of resources at no cost.
What It Is: Smartick is an intelligent, app-based, e-Learning program that teaches children Math and Coding – from the comfort of home – in 15 minutes per day. The program focuses on Math and Coding, but also develops a child’s critical thinking faculties through a series of complex logic and reasoning exercises built into the programs self-generating, adaptive curriculum. The technology developed by Smartick uses self-learning artificial intelligence to regulate and continuously adapt to each child’s individual academic level, curating a curriculum specifically and uniquely designed for each learner.
What They’re Offering: Smartick offers a free trial, after which a subscription is required.

Sparky Schoolhouse

What It Is: Brought to you the NFPA, find lessons, videos, and games providing kids with information about fire prevention and safety.
What They’re Offering: Sparkly Schoolhouse resources are free and include lesson plans for K-2 and 3-5 .

SplashLearn

What It Is: Curriculum aligned, game-based learning in math for kids from Kindergarten to Grade 5. It is an excellent tool for teachers to assign math practice for remote learning. It also comes with Clever, PowerSchool, and Google rostering capabilities that allow schools and districts to adopt easily.
What They’re Offering: SplashLearn is free for teachers and will remain so even after the COVID-19 crisis is over.

Square Panda

What It Is: The Square Panda Smart Letters playset engages children’s tactile and kinesthetic as well as visual and auditory senses, because neuroscience shows that early readers learn best in a multisensory environment.

Studies Weekly Online

What It Is: A Utah-based educational company that creates customized, standards-based curriculum for Social Studies and Science, founded on integrated learning strategies that increase student knowledge, skills, and dispositions.
What They’re Offering: They are providing Studies Weekly Online to all schools as a free trial online. The online platform includes all student editions, Teacher Editions, lesson plans, English Language Arts integrations, customizable assessments, and pairs with the company’s periodical-based printed materials.
What It Is: An online learning tool which provides personalized math and spelling practice. It adapts questions to each student, using engaging games and rewards for effort and achievement to build their confidence, and is proven to accelerate progress. Teachers can set focused work to consolidate existing knowledge and get real-time feedback on each individual child, making it an ideal home learning tool.

Super Duper Digital Library

What it is: Super Duper Publications has created an online library of its most popular print materials to provide access for teachers and parents doing distance and hybrid/blended learning.
What they’re offering: The Super Duper Digital Library is available at a discounted rate of 199.95 for an annual subscription or $19.95 for a monthly subscription. It provides more than 365 standards-based online resources (with more being added daily) for students PreK-Grade 5. Resources include unique, engaging instructional games, cards, and worksheets to target specific skills, such as basic concepts, literacy, grammar, social skills, critical thinking, sequencing, listening, early skills, articulation, phonemic awareness, memory, motor skills, sensory integration, phonics, reading, and more.

Super Star Online

What It Is: Super Star Online, by Help Me 2 Learn, is a supplemental reading, phonics, and math program featuring a wide variety of songs, interactive activities, and games in an engaging and easy-to-use format. Features include the Super Star Motivational and Data Tracking System.

Super Teacher Worksheets

What It Is: Super Teacher Worksheets has tens of thousands of printable teaching resources for Kindergarten through 5th grade teachers and parents working with Pre-K through 5th grade students. Topics include math, reading, writing, phonics, grammar, spelling, science, and social studies.

Teach Starter

What It Is: Easily download ready-to-use, Common Core aligned teaching resources expertly designed for Pre-K to 6th grade school teachers and their students.
What They’re Offering: Various free instruction packets and resources along with a discounted annual subscription rate.
What It Is: Keep learning going whether your student is at home or in school. Terrapin offers several resources students can use to capture the excitement of robots and coding without leaving home.
What They’re Offering: Free coding robot apps and age-targeted STEM Activity Workbooks.

TheaterWorks Anywhere

What It Is: A digital series that aims to give young people a fun and active way to use their imaginations while learning about the process of creating theater.

Tinkergarten

What It Is: Educational activities designed for learning at various ages and requiring only basic household items.
What They’re Offering: Free DIY activity plans, advice, and a virtual community to help the whole family continue to get outside and learn during this challenging time.

Top Score Writing

What It Is: A nationwide writing curriculum designed for teachers, administrators, and parents. It takes away the stress of finding and developing a curriculum for their students.

Trend Enterprises

What It Is: Printables for home.
What They’re Offering: Free learning activities and DIY projects .

The TV Teacher

What It Is: A program for PreK-1st grade students and those with special needs to learn to write their letters, numbers, and shapes using fun visuals, rhythmic chants, and repetition.
What It Is: Tynker offers a complete online computer coding curriculum for students K-8. Teachers can get free lessons, projects, and more on the site.
What They’re Offering: Create a free account as a student, parent, or teacher with access to a set number of activities, then subscribe for full access.
What It Is: A web-based keyboarding program that teaches students how to type and has unique transdisciplinary Common Core and NGSS aligned content provided through its lessons.

Virtual Field Trips

What It Is: Virtual Field Trips specializes in K-8 social studies, life science, geography, and ancient civilization curriculum content. Their website has online learning videos and quizzes along with a list of the national and state Standards that the videos align with.
What It Is: An easy-to-use platform designed to empower K-8 students to master math content at their own pace.
What It Is: Vooks is a streaming library of ad-free, kid-safe animated read-aloud storybooks, trusted by teachers and enjoyed by millions of children around the world every week. It is an entire library of storybooks, brought to life, to help encourage the love of reading.
What They’re Offering: Vooks has created take-home lesson plans that can be shared with parents and guardians — built to provide children with 20 minutes a day of read-aloud time and activities. Vooks is offering a free one-year membership to all teachers and a one-month membership for parents .

Workout Skills Review & Practice

What It Is: Workout Skills Review & Practice workbooks will guide children through grade appropriate review and practice in English and Math. Available for grades 3-8.
What They’re Offering: School Specialty is providing unrestricted free access to their Workout series designed for grades 3-8 in both reading and math. Broken down into lessons, each Workout provides effective review and practice on grade-level concepts. Download any and all workouts and their matching answer keys.

WriteReader

What It Is: WriteReader increases students’ digital writing skills significantly in only six weeks. Teachers can also remotely provide feedback to students and have them engaged with meaningful writing activities.
What They’re Offering: Free basic level membership with subscription upgrades available.
What It Is: A nonprofit organization dedicated to math achievement for all with activities for achieving math fact proficiency.
What They’re Offering: Membership is always free.

Zaner Bloser

What It Is: Suggestions and practice to strengthen kids’ fundamental literacy skills, ideas to entertain and engage home-bound students, and alternatives to the usual screen time activities.
What They’re Offering: Free downloads and recommended sites.
What It Is: Top-rated math content available via online or paper-based materials that can be used without a device. Zearn also contains extensive distance learning resources created to support educators and parents/caregivers in getting started quickly. Webinars, video tutorials, and step-by-step guides on their Distance Learning Center are also offered through the website.
What They’re Offering: Their entire K-5 math program — including 400 hours of digital lessons with on-screen teachers and supportive remediation — is available for free, thanks to donations from the community.

Online Learning Resources for Grades 6-12

Use these ready-to-implement resources in your virtual classrooms for older learners.

What It Is: AI4ALL Open Learning empowers high school teachers (of all subjects!) to bring AI education to their classrooms through a free, adaptable AI curriculum.
What They’re Offering: The AI4ALL Open Learning curriculum includes ExploreAI (an introduction to AI), Sentiment Analysis + Natural Language Processing, and a special lesson on COVID-19 & AI. Each Unit comes with detailed Unit Plans and Facilitation Guides as well as Online Engagement Strategies for adapting the curriculum to a temporary online classroom setting. Additionally, there are online forums where you can join online discussions of questions posed in the curriculum or create new discussions.
What It Is: Albert is an online practice and assessment resource for core topics in grades 6-12. Teachers can assign modules and track student progress. Albert’s online learning resources include practice questions for a wide variety of AP programs too. It’s best used as a companion to other online teaching methods like web conferencing as it’s meant to review information students have already been learning.
What They’re Offering: Albert offers a free 30-day pilot program.

Arbor Scientific

What It Is: A leading provider of Physics and Physical Science teaching equipment tested and approved by educators recognized for their expertise.
What They’re Offering: Free resources being offered by Arbor Scientific include a collection of video resources created by the best science educators from across the country demonstrating how to teach really cool science concepts in your classroom or remotely, a collection of free questions on basic physics concepts to give to your students by renowned physics teacher Paul Hewitt, and much more!

Areteem Zoom International Math League (ZIML)

What It Is: Zoom International Math League (ZIML) is an educational program to help students expand their mathematical problem solving by practicing every day.
What They’re Offering: ZIML features free Daily Practice Problems (Daily Magic Spells) at varying levels, including full solutions and an archive of past problems. Other practice resources include discussion forums, math competition mock exams, and monthly contests. Teachers can learn more here- (ZIML) .

BBC My World Media Literacy

What It Is: BBC Learning and Microsoft Education, in partnership with BBC World Service, deliver a powerful media literacy initiative for educators and students ages 11 through 14, designed to help students determine fact from fiction in the news.
What They’re Offering: This suite of standards-aligned resources includes 10 lesson plans with curriculum extensions, 10 dynamically produced video segments from BBC World Service, and a professional development introduction video to help educators kick start the use of the My World education element in their classrooms. Access standards-aligned educator resources for FREE in the Microsoft Educator Center , and view complete BBC My World episodes on the My World YouTube channel .

Beast Academy Online

What It Is: A complete web-based math curriculum designed to help students ages 8-13 deepen their understanding of math.

Bio-Rad Explorer

What It Is: Extensive curated collection of resources on various biology, biotechnology, and life science topics and lab techniques.
What They’re Offering: Free online and remote learning resources including videos, editable presentations, case studies, open-access articles and literature, paper activities, and bioinformatics activities.

Carnegie Learning

What It Is: Math lessons, skills practice resources, and at-home learning videos for grade 6-12 students.

Carnegie Speech

What It Is: NativeAccent delivers spoken English skills practice with targeted feedback to students on their computers and mobile devices using advanced speech recognition and A.I. technologies.

ChemMatters Online

What It Is: This is a terrific resource for middle school and high school science teachers. Each issue provides a new collection of articles on chemistry topics that students will find engaging and relatable. The back-issue online library offers interesting downloadable articles on all sorts of chemistry-related topics, while the Teacher’s Guides help you direct your students as they learn from their reading.
What They’re Offering: These online learning resources are always free for everyone. Learn more here- ChemMatters Online

Close Up Foundation

What It Is: A nonprofit, nonpartisan civic education organization that educates and inspires young people to become informed and engaged citizens. Drawing on their issue-centered methodology, nonpartisan approach, and expertise in facilitated discussions, Close Up provides educators with virtual and in-person programs, innovative professional development, and engaging classroom resources.
What They’re Offering: Free classroom resources and on-demand professional development .

The Coding School

What It Is: Software engineers from some of the leading technology companies, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon, are volunteering their time to help students learn how to code while schools are closed.

Create with Code Live

What It Is: Free, interactive virtual classes open to students, teachers, and anyone else interested in learning to code in a fun and engaging manner through game development. The program is aligned to ISTE Standards for computer science education.
What It Is: DeltaMath is a website that allows teachers to assign math practice content to their students from middle school through AP calculus. Students get immediate feedback as they complete the problems.
What They’re Offering: DeltaMath is always free. Check it out here.

Esri GIS for Schools

What It Is: GeoInquiries™ are free, standards-based, online explorations of maps and data about a wide variety of content plus an initial introduction . Any school can also request a free account with logins for teachers and students, so they can create, save, and share content, with free Mapping Hour videos to instruct teachers and parents.
What They’re Offering: Free online content and accounts for schools on an interactive mapping platform. Learn More .

Everydae SAT Prep

What It Is: Everydae is an online SAT math prep program. 10-minute micro lessons match busy schedules. Built by industry experts with 17+ years industry experience.
What It Is: The site offers live streams, trivia battles and Q&A forums where students can connect directly with teachers across 15 different AP subjects within English, STEM, History, and Social Sciences.
What They’re Offering: Free social learning platform for students and teachers.
What It Is: Teaches STEM and STEAM with a game design focus. GameSalad is best suited for 6th grade and up depending on student readiness. Detailed instructions for students and full lesson plans for teachers make a great introduction to coding.

Gleeditions Literary E-ditions

What It Is: For high school-college educators and students, Gleeditions features online e-texts and curated videos of classic favorites, ancient to modern.
What They’re Offering: In addition to a free trial of their Academic Edition, Gleeditions is offering access to popular titles in their Multigenre E-text Collection and Video Library (carefully curated clips/full performances).

Glose Education

What It Is: An inclusive social reading platform where teachers and students can read and learn together.
What They’re Offering: Free collection of over 4,000 classic books.

GSD Network

What It Is: A great resource for engaging students in cross-cultural, “real-world” stories of teens from around the world. Best for grades 7-9 (but can be used grades 10-12 too), they delve deep into the heart of far-flung places to explore local history, culture, and teens creating social change in their communities. Great for social studies (covers many standards) or Language Arts classes (reading and vocab).
What They’re Offering: Two full unit curricular programs (2-3 weeks each) or short stories featured in their E-Magazine (1-2 day activities). Learn more here- GSD Network

HippoCampus

What It Is: Find more than 7,000 videos in 13 subject areas to share with your students. Teachers can set up playlists for their students too.
What They’re Offering: HippoCampus is always free to use. Sign up here- HippoCampus
What It Is: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded iCivics in 2009 to transform the field through innovative, free educational video games and lessons that teach students to be knowledgeable, curious, and engaged in civic life. Today, iCivics is the nation’s largest provider of civic education curriculum, with our resources used by over 113,000 educators and more than 7.1 million students each year nationwide.
What They’re Offering: iCivics is always free to use. Learn more here- iCivics
What It Is: A unique cultural immersion resource for Spanish, French and German language learning for grades 6-12. iCulture offers travel videos, day in the life videos, current news articles, and songs that are all 100% target language, age and school appropriate, and include topics of interest to teens and young adults.

Intelligent Education

What It Is: Provides more than 30 premade courses in a variety of topics taught by expert, credentialed educators for use either as primary or supplemental education. These courses are aimed at high schoolers and up. Topics include biology, history, the arts, and more (even AP calculus!). All are full eight-week courses, but can be viewed as individual lessons.
What They’re Offering: Free services available.

Island Press

What It Is: There’s a climate crisis and education can help fix it. Island Press began with a simple idea: knowledge is power — the power to imagine a better future and find ways for getting us there.
What They’re Offering: Since being founded in 1984, Island Press’ mission has been to provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems. It is in that spirit that they offer more than a dozen important e-books for free.
What It Is: Kialo Edu is a custom version of kialo.com, the world’s largest argument mapping site. It includes unique features, such as the ability to write student feedback.
What They’re Offering: Kialo Edu is always completely free for educators, has no advertisements, and can be integrated into learning management systems.
What It Is: A free platform where students and teachers can discover, create, and remix content to build their own learning journey. The content library contains high-quality digital resources from universities and scientific organizations worldwide … including interactive lab simulations, videos, assessments, and more. With private classes, messaging, and mentorship functions, educators can easily plan and deliver lessons, including teaching lab skills, virtually while connecting their students to a broader scientific community.
What They’re Offering: LabXchange is always free for all users. To support educators in transitioning to online learning, educators can explore remote learning resources and sign up for a free webinar .

Learning.com

What It Is: A hub of opportunities for both parents and educators focused on digital literacy, coding, and computational thinking. Find lesson plans covering a range of digital literacy and computational topics, full access to the EasyCode Foundations (CodeMonkey) curriculum and the EasyCode Pillars Python Suite (Codesters) curriculum, and a list of open source lesson plans.
What They’re Offering: Free resources.
What It Is: Mangahigh is a popular game-based site for math online learning resources. It covers algebra, geometry, statistics, and more.
What They’re Offering: Mangahigh is offering free full access to any school shut down during the outbreak. Learn more here- Mangahigh
What It Is: Microburst Learning creates highly interactive approaches for professional and technical development!
What They’re Offering: Microburst is offering FREE content for distance learning. The free content includes an activity to help students develop their planning and organizing skills as well as the “Why Soft Skills” Lesson.
What It Is: Muzology harnesses the power of music to make math fun and accessible.
What They’re Offering: FREE for teachers and students affected by Covid-19 closures.

National Constitution Center

What It Is: The NCC offers Exchange programs for middle school and high school students. Scholar Exchanges are live virtual conversations where students learn about constitutional issues, while interacting with a constitutional scholar, historian, or judge. Teachers can also sign up for Classroom Exchanges where classes interact directly with classes across the United States to practice civil dialogue skills and learn how the constitutional issues impact them.
What They’re Offering: NCC Classroom Exchanges are always free.

OpenSciEd

What It Is: OpenSciEd offers middle schoolers (grades 6-8) science materials that are aligned to college and career standards.
What They’re Offering: OpenSciEd’s materials for middle schoolers are accessible online at the link above and are customizable to your class’s needs.

Popfizz Computer Science

What It Is: Popfizz CS is a computer science education platform for grades 6-12. Popfizz offers a wide range of online student courses and professional development for educators.

Project Exchange

What It Is: Project Exchange runs a 12-week online cultural exchange program to help middle & high school students around the world broaden their worldview and practice English skills. Students are matched with a partner from a different country and practice English and learn about culture together!
What They’re Offering: Free to participate.
What It Is: An AI writing platform that has a paraphrasing tool and a summarizer . The website is building a full suite of online writing tools to aid any type of writer.
What They’re Offering: All their tools are easily accessible on their website for free.

Read to Lead

What It Is: RTL is a self-directed way that youth can engage in learning. In one episode of game play, youth will read 500 words, spend 20-30 minutes reading, practice reading comprehension, enhance vocabulary, and more!
What They’re Offering: Unlimited free educator and student accounts as well as lesson plans, additional reading passages, and project based lessons.

ScienceMusicVideos

What It Is: An interactive AP Biology course with engaging content and interactive activities in the form of quizzes and flashcards to provide immediate reinforcement of the material. Teachers can assign portions of the course to their students, and track their progress. Or students can work independently and track their own progress!

Science News

What It Is: Science News for Students and the Science News in High Schools Digital Library includes experiments and more than 200 original STEM-related exercises.
What They’re Offering: Free, age-appropriate STEM resources for students from 5th through 12th grades, suitable for learning from home.
What It Is: They use neuroscience and AI to help students learn 2x faster across 400+ free & exam board-specific courses.
What They’re Offering: They offer a free teacher platform that allows teachers to set assignments and monitor students’ progress.
What It Is: Thousands of free study guides, test prep, and video learning resources.
What It Is: Turnitin is your partner in fostering original thinking and supporting authentic learning. Turnitin solutions promote academic integrity, streamline grading, and improve outcomes across disciplines.
What They’re Offering: Turnitin always offers free academic integrity-related classroom resources like the Source Credibility Guide and Paraphrasing Pack, as well as on-demand webinars like Teaching Time Management to 6th – 12th Graders.

UL Xplorlabs

What It Is: UL Xplorlabs is an educational platform designed to encourage middle school students to solve through science. The program showcases the science behind safety engineering through interactive videos, instructional experiences, hands-on classroom activities and creative challenges.
What They’re Offering: UL Xplorlabs resources are always free.
What It Is: An online learning tool for high-stakes exams.
What They’re Offering: A free, full-length PSAT practice exam that familiarizes students with the format and content of the real test. Each question answered will provide the student with a detailed explanation of the answer choices to help students actively learn and retain concepts.

Vernier Software & Technology

What It Is: Resources include free trials to Vernier Video Analysis™ and Pivot Interactives, the Vernier Physics with Video Analysis e-book and extended demo of the LoggerPro software needed to complete the experiments, Scratch coding activities, experiment content and access from ADInstruments and LabArchives, and more than 200 experiments with sample data covering a large range of subjects. With these tools, teachers can help students form a deep understanding of key scientific concepts outside the classroom and laboratory.
What It Is: VidCode is an online coding and computer science curriculum specifically for teens. It teaches JavaScript, web programming, design, and more.
What It Is: SAT and ACT vocabulary prep through story form.
What They’re Offering: An entire freebies section that includes games, vocabulary-boosting short stories, and more.

A Wonder Story

What It Is: A Wonder Story is an app with free online middle-grade chapter books. Readings are interactive, asking kids to solve mysteries and puzzles throughout the story. Immediate feedback and approachable text makes each book easy to read. These books are especially great for struggling readers.
What They’re Offering: Teachers always get A Wonder Story free and families have access to several free options.
What It Is: A course that provides the basic knowledge on the issues, challenges, and opportunities that people face in today’s connected world.
What They’re Offering: Free course of multimedia modules that explains the fundamental concepts of international relations and foreign policy.

World History Digital Education

What It Is: Working together, NCSS and WHDE have created a historical comparison of the Pandemic Flu of 1918, known as The Spanish Flu and Covid-19: Resources for Teaching the Covid-19 Pandemic.
What They’re Offering: A free, three-day learning module is available here .

Zinc Learning Labs

What It Is: Online close reading instruction, leveled authentic texts with comprehension quizzes, and gamified vocabulary for grades 6-12.

These sites have lesson plans and activities ready to go on a variety of subjects for any grade.

3P Learning

What It Is: Their range of software allows you to find, set, and send activities to your students from anywhere — you just need a device and an internet connection.
What They’re Offering: Free trials of their distance teaching software along with increased support to get schools up and running. Free weekly live webinars.

Achieve3000

What It Is : A comprehensive suite of digital solutions that significantly accelerate literacy and deepen learning across the content areas.
What They’re Offering: Achieve3000 Literacy at Home Digital provides access to engaging non-fiction articles at 3 reading levels. Sign up for a free account here . Additionally, they are offering Literacy Printable Packets for students who do not have internet access at home.

Actively Learn

What It Is: Actively Learn works seamlessly with Google Classroom and provides thousands of engaging texts, videos, and simulations across ELA, Social Studies, and the Sciences paired with thoughtful instruction that challenge students and foster deep learning and critical thinking.
What They’re Offering: Actively Learn is always free for teachers.

Anatomy in Clay

What It Is: For over 30 years, the ANATOMY IN CLAY® Learning System has provided the most effective, informative and relevant anatomy education through the power of hands-on learning.
What They’re Offering: Access to free resources and publications.

Aperture Education Back to School Guide

What it is: Aperture Education has created a free Back to School Guide to help teachers support students’ social-emotional learning.
What they’re offering: The free 2020 Back to School Guide contains more than 40 pages of downloadable resources and articles created by experts and SEL professionals to support SEL in the classroom, in the home, and during distance learning.

Arizona Science Center’s Online Learning Platform

What It Is: Arizona Science Center offers more than 175 new online learning resources, including weekly lesson plans, videos, articles and activities. Sari on Science interprets what is happening in the changing environment.
What They’re Offering: Their Blue Crew and educators from the Learning Team offer science content and inspiration on Facebook Live, featuring demonstrations, teaching tips and virtual learning best practices. They also provide professional development for educators every day via Google Hangouts.
What It Is: A passionate group of educators who know that young students with exposure to the arts become more inspired, creative global citizens. The creativity of the next generation will shape the future, and this creativity begins with arts education in K-12 schools.
What They’re Offering: Free Access for teachers to on-demand dance and theatre classes and resources from hundreds of world-renowned instructors like tWitch from The Ellen Show, Tiler Peck from New York City Ballet, Broadway professionals like Warren Carlyle, and more! Artful also has free classes that can be forwarded to students as part of online programs.

Ascend Math

What It Is: K-12 personalized online math instruction that provides each student with a unique study path through skills at each level. Individual study plans are prescriptive, adaptive, and automatically assigned
What It Is: Audible is the world’s largest producer and provider of spoken-word entertainment and audiobooks, enriching the lives of our millions of listeners every day.
What They’re Offering: Audible is offering hundreds of free audiobooks for kids. Learn more here- Audible
What It Is: Banzai is a financial education program that helps students learn the value of a dollar. There are real-life scenarios available in three interactive courses (3rd grade- 12th grade). The program includes tests, games, activities, an entire interactive library, embedded calculators, and more.
What They’re Offering: Banzai meets all state curriculum standards and is completely free to use.

Big Timber Media

What It Is: An eBook hosting platform for schools and libraries.

BIRDBRAIN Technologies

What It Is: Explore robotics and computer science at home! With a robot or virtually.
What They’re Offering: They are developing new classes each week, as well as professional development resources that will focus on remote & hybrid learning.
What It Is: Bookshare is a FREE, federally funded library of 800,000+ accessible ebooks for students with reading barriers such as dyslexia, blindness, and cerebral palsy. The collection includes textbooks, educational materials, bestsellers, young adult, and children’s titles. Students can read on virtually any device in formats including audio, audio + highlighted text, braille, and large font.
What They’re Offering: Bookshare is always free for schools and their qualified students with reading barriers
What It Is: BoomWriter offers a variety of tools, features, and resources that lets teachers conduct fiction, nonfiction, and vocabulary-focused writing assignments. BoomWriter inspires students to write on any subject and integrates easily with existing curriculum. Try it for ELA, Social Studies/History, Science, and even Math.
What It Is: Britannica LaunchPacks Social Studies and Science are now available, for free, to every school across the United States. LaunchPacks support virtual learning, independent study, and remote assessments across topics covered in the K-12 science and social studies curricula.
What They’re Offering: Free, emergency support and virtual-learning classroom resources to every school.

bulb Digital Portfolios

What It Is: A digital portfolio that allows students and educators to shape knowledge and ideas into practical, usable, and shareable work. With bulb, educators can track progress, measure competency, and create dynamic curricula or use one of their templates.

CAPIT Learning

What It Is: A PreK-12 educational company that provides a supplemental, and highly differentiated literacy digital curriculum with demonstrated efficacy.

CCC! Streaming Media

What It Is: CCC! Streaming Media helps students visualize printed text and aids their understanding of complex concepts. The content has been vetted by educators and aligned to Common Core and state standards, and is supplemented with Teacher’s Guides, Student Activities, and Knowledge Checks (quizzes).
What It Is: Century was designed as an intervention tool to identify and remedy gaps in a student’s education. It uses artificial intelligence to tailor the learning experience to the learner, much like an actual teacher in the classroom would.

Challenger Center

What It Is: STEM at Home is a collection of Challenger Center lessons and activities that can be modified and completed at home. Each STEM at Home category includes at least one at-home lesson. These activities require common household items or products that are readily available online.
What They’re Offering: Their free STEM at Home lessons include flipped classroom videos, Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe’s lessons filmed aboard the International Space Station, and hands-on activities.

CharacterStrong

What It Is: Offers a K-12 social-emotional learning and character development curriculum and provides professional development training to help educators weave this work into the fabric of their schools.
What They’re Offering: Free digital resources that can be used for remote instruction, including a virtual toolkit, digital student assemblies, a virtual Whole Child Summit, and a 30 Days of Kindness Journal.
What It Is: This collection of online learning resources covers pretty much every topic. Lessons include reading, activities, videos, and more to engage students. They also have free online textbooks.
What They’re Offering: CK-12 is always free for all users. Teachers can check it out here.
What It Is: Classcraft helps teachers maintain student interest and keep on track to reach their goals with tools that motivate them in a digital environment.
What They’re Offering: Classcraft is supporting educators in response to the coronavirus outbreak by offering free schoolwide licenses until the end of the school year, giving all teachers free access to Premium Quests (their popular tool for turning curriculum into a personalized learning adventure), free PD to help educators keep students motivated, and a free How-to guide on remote learning. Learn more- Classcraft .
What It Is: ClassHook offers quality media clips on every conceivable topic. Pre-curated playlists make it easier to find what you need for the subject at hand.
What It Is: This site offers literary and non-fiction reading passages for grades 3-12. Teachers can assign reading and follow-up questions and track student progress.
What They’re Offering: CommonLit always offers free accounts for teachers to use with their students. Sign up here- CommonLit

Copyright & Creativity

What It Is: A full suite of free, K-12 resources for teaching kids about copyright and fair use. Resources include lesson plans, slides, videos, and infographics.
What They’re Offering: Free lessons and videos, along with teacher support.
What It Is: Crabtree Publishing Company is dedicated to producing high-quality books and educational products for K-9+. Through their website, different selections of their books can be accessed along with free online resources that are included in a Crabtree subscription.

Critical Thinking Co.

What It Is: The Critical Thinking Co. publishes award-winning PreK-12+ educational textbooks, activity books, e-books, and apps that help children become better problem-solvers. The approach is unique: help kids develop foundational reasoning & critical thinking skills while learning the core subjects (reading, writing, math, science, and social studies).
What It Is: Curriki provides teacher-vetted, open-resource lesson plans and materials on a wide array of subjects. It’s a good place to find online learning resources for students to use at home.
What They’re Offering: Curriki is always free to use. Sign up here- Curriki
What It Is: Davis creates superior art curricula, engaging studio lessons, and valuable advocacy and classroom resources to power Art Educators. The digital platform is filled with a comprehensive collection of art lessons, studio experiences, and valuable resources for grades K-12. Davis Digital programs and resources are perfectly suited for teacher-guided, at-home learning, or self-guided exploration.
What They’re Offering: Davis is offering FREE Open Access to the Davis Digital Platform for art educators in North America. Teachers may access all of the eBooks as well as the library of 25,000 fine art images. Additionally, for those that require it, Davis is offering use of generic student accounts that will allow students to access the content from any computer or tablet with an Internet connection.

Discovery Education

What It Is: Discovery Education provides online textbooks, multimedia content, and professional development support for virtual classrooms and teachers. Daily DE offers supplemental learning activities, including virtual field trips and lessons, for both educators and parents that will update daily to align with a new educational theme.

EdTech Impact

What It Is: EdTech Impact is a global search engine for finding the best education technology on the market, and the DfE recommended database has it so that all resources that are free are easily accessible for schools and parents alike.
What They’re Offering: EdTech Impact is updating their database of edu-resources daily, and have added a huge range of filters and options, such as ‘duration of free access’, ‘subject’, and ‘category’, and have links to data privacy policies as standard.

Education Perfect

What It Is: EP Classroom provides a wide range of customizable online learning experiences.
What They’re Offering: Education Perfect offers a 14 day free trial and variable pricing depending on subject matter requirements.
What It Is: NASA resources, online learning tools, engineering design, coding, virtual field trips and more!
What They’re Offering: All free to access at home.
What It Is: Designed for unlimited discovery and unmatched safety, Epic is the leading digital learning playground for kids. With tens of thousands of high-quality books, audiobooks and videos from the world’s best publishers, Epic reaches more than 20 million kids. No inappropriate content, ads or in-app purchases.
What They’re Offering: Epic is always free for educators and provides a 30 day free trial for parents.
What It Is: EVERFI offers courses for K-12 on real-world topics like mental health, financial planning, career readiness, and more.
What They’re Offering: These courses are always free for educators and students. Learn more here- EVERFI

ExploreLearning

What It Is: Innovative math and science online solutions that are fun to use and really work. Gizmos, Reflex, and Science4Us are used in classrooms in every state and over 50 countries worldwide.

Extreme Earth

What It Is: Teaches facts about the planet using an interactive virtual globe built on CesiumJS.
What They’re Offering: Free to view.

Flinn Scientific

What It Is: Flinn Scientific has compiled many of their free activities, videos and other resources into one location for teachers to navigate through to help them as they teach science to students at home.
What They’re Offering: Free online resources.

Flocabulary

What It is: Hip-hop videos and instructional activities that promote literacy and spark creativity.
What It Is: Follett offers over 1,000 PreK-12 titles in science, social studies, language arts, math, and more. AV2 World Languages features high-interest titles in 10 different languages with full audio support. Parents and students will find these resources interactive, easy to use and a great way for students to independently explore a new topic.

Free Math App

What It Is: This no-frills site requires students to show their work on math problems, step-by-step. When it’s time to grade, you can take a look at their work to see exactly where things went wrong and correct problems quickly.
What They’re Offering: As the title says, this site is always free for teachers and students. Check it out here.

Free Spirit Publishing

What It Is: Free Spirit Publishing offers social and emotional learning resources for educators and parents to help support children’s mental health and well-being.
What They’re Offering: Always free activities, reproducible forms, PLC/Book Study Guides, and leader’s guides from select titles, as well as access to on-demand professional development webinars and more than 1,000 articles with tips and tools for educators, counselors, and parents on the Free Spirit Publishing Blog.
What It Is: Interdisciplinary, curriculum-aligned resources to support online learning from Pre-K through undergraduate; Live and on-demand training materials to help optimize existing resources; Professional development eBooks to help transition to and strengthen virtual learning and Authoritative Gale resources on health-related topics and global issues.
What It Is: Turn learning into a game when you create online quizzes and learning experiences. Use their extensive question bank, plus upload your own as needed.
What They’re Offering: Gamilab is always free for everyone. Sign up here- Gamilab

GCFLearnFree.org

What It Is: This program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office and email, to reading, math, and more. Over 200 topics, 7,000 lessons, 1,000 videos, and 50 interactives and games, completely free.
What They’re Offering: Free resources for students, parents, and teachers.

George Washington’s Mount Vernon

What It Is: Digital Resources from George Washington’s Mount Vernon that can be incorporated into new online classroom settings.
What They’re Offering: Primary and secondary sources, videos, games, quizzes, activities, and lessons that can be completed independently or as a group.

Get More Math

What It Is: A math practice program for concept mastery and retention.
What They’re Offering: Free, unlimited trial usage for schools until July 2021.

The Great Courses

What It Is: An educational streaming video on-demand company. Courses that can be consumed via phone, laptop, TV, etc.
What They’re Offering: They are offering free content during COVID-19 with courses ranging from math, history, languages and more.

GreasePaint Script House

What It Is: Original, fully-customizable musicals that not only enhance Reading and Communication skills, but also employ Arts Integration and Social Emotional Learning to encourage strong character development both onstage and off.

Guilford Press

What It Is: As a leading publisher of psychology, parenting, and education titles, Guilford Press is committed to offering support through their numerous online resources.
What They’re Offering: A wide range of helpful free content, including audio, print, and video resources from their books, plus tips, resources, and blog posts from Guilford authors.
What It Is: A website loaded with standards-aligned lessons, games, and activities that will keep K-8 students engaged while learning from home.r.

H2O For Life

What It Is: Explore a variety of engaging lesson plans for students at every grade level. From science to math to music, students gain awareness for water in their community.

Health World

What It Is: Online health and safety programming for elementary and middle schools.
What They’re Offering: Programs for free to help support teachers online learning.

Healthy Relationships Curriculum

What It Is: A highly adaptable program that teaches challenging life skills to school students with various special needs. The full program offers 39 lessons, 65 videos, visual components, and role plays around the topics of hygiene, social skills, relationships development, and health that can be implemented both virtually and face-to-face.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What It Is: Learning activities, lessons, downloadables, and videos for Grade K–12 kids
What They’re Offering: Always free!

Illustrative Mathematics

What It Is: Illustrative Mathematics has developed middle school and high school mathematics instructional materials available as open educational resources (OER) and free for anyone to access.
What They’re Offering: As students shift to at-home learning, Illustrative Mathematics has developed a set of learning at home materials, including grades 6-8 math, 9-12 math, and K-12 math tasks.

InferCabulary

What It Is: InferCabulary is a web-based, research-backed, device-agnostic, K-12, fun, game-based, visual approach for teaching nuanced vocabulary that simultaneously improves students’ critical thinking skills. InferCabulary is the opposite of rote memorization of definitions — they mimic the act of avid readership so students deeply learn words and improve comprehension.
What It Is: inquirED believes in inquiry for all, and offers inquiry-based curriculum and professional development to help schools and districts make the shift to an inquiry-based model.
What They’re Offering: inquirED has created Together When Apart — a free inquiry-based distance learning curriculum.
What It Is: An online database of thousands of academic resources and activities, providing enrichment and learning strategies to K-12 students. Resources include all core subject areas, including Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies/History.
What They’re Offering: Completely free to parents and K-12 students and teachers. To access the free version of InSync visit the site and click on Sign Up at the top of the screen. Then choose the Student or Parent role and enter FREE as your Sign Up Code and you’re on your way.

Islamic Networks Group (ING)

What It Is: For over 25 years, ING has supplemented education about Muslims and their faith, as well as studies on peoples of other religious and cultural backgrounds, in the context of social studies and world history content standards.
What They’re Offering: Their free back to school toolkit provides teachers, administrators and parents with valuable resources including guest speakers via webinar, lesson plans, and recorded webinars for creating a diverse and welcoming community and fostering safe and inclusive classrooms.
What It Is: Watch a video on a subject, then use the teacher guide for discussion, take a quiz, or use the other online learning resources provided.
What They’re Offering: izzit’s online courses are free. Teachers can sign up for a free account here .
What It Is: Do you Kahoot! Teachers have loved this fun online quiz game platform for years. Here’s why we’re into it.
What They’re Offering: Kahoot! Basic is free for educators and students, but they’re also currently offering their Premium distance learning tools for free. Learn more here- Kahoot!
What It Is: Kami is a PDF and document annotation app for schools. Think of it like digital pen and paper for interacting with your students.
What They’re Offering: Kami is offering free access to schools. Contact them here.

Khan Academy

What It Is: Khan Academy is well-known for providing an incredibly wide range of lessons for students at every level. Chances are you’ll find at least some of what you need for your virtual classroom here.
What They’re Offering: Khan Academy is always free for all users. Sign up here- Khan Academy

Knowledge Unlimited

What It Is: A weekly current events-based program. It presents engaging and important stories from around the world in a newsmagazine format.
What It Is: An online core supplement for grades 1-12 that was designed to be used in classrooms to help teachers with increasing responsibilities and numbers of students.
What It Is: Kognity has turned traditional textbooks into interactive online experiences with videos, animations, and automatically-corrected assessments.
What They’re Offering: Kognity is offering a variety of resources to schools. Contact them here.

Kuder Galaxy and Kuder Navigator

What It Is: Galaxy and Navigator are award-winning online career awareness, exploration, and planning systems for students in grades Pre-K through 12.
What They’re Offering: Through https://www.kuder.com/success-at-home/ they are offering free system access for students; free downloads including lesson plans and activity sheets; and free and discounted professional development courses for teachers, school counselors, and parents.

Lead4Change

What It Is: Based on the best-selling book, Taking People With You by Yum! Brands Co-Founder, Former Chairman and CEO David Novak, Lead4Change empowers students to act, serve, and make big things happen.
What They’re Offering: Access is free and includes ready to use lessons, videos and resources

Learning Ally

What It Is: Equitable access to the largest library of “human-read” audiobooks, including curriculum-aligned literature, fiction and nonfiction, and STEM textbooks. Multi-sensory reading accommodation is ideal for remote learning from any device.
What They’re Offering: To keep students with reading deficits engaged in reading and learning, sign up for free access to The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution .

Learning Keeps Going

What It Is: Learning Keeps Going is a diverse group of education organizations brought together by the ISTE/EdSurge team to curate, create, and deliver high-quality tools, resources, and support for educators and parents. They’ve gathered over 600 free, vetted resources and expert-sourced tools in one place that can be easily filtered by grade level, accessibility, languages, and areas of interest to match your needs.
What They’re Offering: Free tech and resources for teachers and leaders.

Legends of Learning

What is it: Legends of Learning offers 2,000 3rd through 8th grade games and simulations correlated to state standards. Using their various assignment options, teachers can create custom playlists, or have a playlist built for them with a top-rated game.
What They’re Offering: In addition to all of its free games, Legends is providing its premium custom assessments, scheduling features, data/analytics, and training/support for all schools affected by closures for free for the rest of the year. Visit their site , with links at the top for both schools and parents.

Lerner eBooks

What It Is: At the Lerner Bookshelf, they’ve set up two collections of eBooks (Grades PreK-5 and Grades 6-12) that allow for unlimited simultaneous access by every student in a school. They also offer reading book lists, videos, educational downloads, information on authors who are available for virtual visits, and more.

Lexile Word Lists

What It Is: Lexile WordLists, based on the top science, math, social studies, and ELA textbook programs in grades 1-12, were created to address vocabulary gaps and prepare students for the academic words they will encounter in their learning.
What They’re Offering: Free access to this online tool on the Lexile and Quantile Hub to help learners build a strong vocabulary foundation.
What It Is: Listenwise teaches students to be better listeners using podcasts, comprehension questions, and quizzes.
What It Is: A very robust Distance Learning Essentials web page for people to gather free information and content.
What They’re Offering: 17,000 free eBooks to assist schools with Distance Learning.
What It Is: MAD-learn’s web-based mobile app development tool is a holistic set of modules for students to experience the software development lifecycle firsthand.
What It Is: Mathchops helps students build core skills for standardized tests through adaptive games. Teachers can view high-level stats for their students, see individual questions, and create/assign quizzes. Games are automatically created for students based on previous answers. All questions have explanations and are graded automatically.
What They’re Offering: Free resources!
What It Is: Merge developed the award-winning Merge Cube, Headset, Miniverse, and EDU Platform. Their product ecosystem is an all-in-one, curriculum-aligned AR/VR solution for classrooms, libraries, STEM labs, and makerspaces. These hands-on digital learning tools accelerate understanding, deepen engagement, and let you do the impossible.
What They’re Offering: Merge has created a remote learning resource center where students can print and build their own paper Merge Cube, then download free Merge EDU apps for hands-on augmented reality experiences. Even younger students can complete activities with accessibility features like Immersive Reader. With over 10 different languages, students from all over the world can continue learning wherever they are.
What It Is: Free digital educational resources platform that connects educators and students through Real and Digital play.
What They’re Offering: Over 150 free toolkits ready to use in your classroom.

Mosa Mack Science

What It Is: NGSS based science lessons for 4th-8th graders that can easily be done from home.
What It Is: This is the only online learning management system for teaching music at all age levels. Band practice might be off the table for now, but students can still work on theory, notation, sight-reading and more.
What It Is: Differentiated, high-interest lessons; weekly current events to connect your child to the world; skill‑based education games for fun, independent practice; symbol communication tools to promote self-expression; and even resources for social-emotional well‑being.
What They’re Offering: Current users get free access to their solutions, and they have now extended the invitation to any teacher, parent, specialist, or caregiver.
What It Is: The NASA STEM Engagement site offers STEM resources, activities, lesson plans, virtual field trips, and more! Also check out NASA Home and City to find out how space travel impacts your daily life.
What They’re Offering: Explore the Hubble Telescope and listen to astronauts share their stories. All for free!
What It Is: A collection of FREE, easy-to-deploy digital options to help keep the learning going. Nasco Educate.com has lesson plans and webinars across all core subject areas. STEM Fuse offers lesson plans from the STEM Fuse IT Exploration curriculum.
What They’re Offering: All resources are free.

National Geographic

What It Is: Collections of activities that have been curated for educators, parents, and caregivers to implement with K–12 learners. Separated by grades and subjects, there’s something for everyone.
What They’re Offering: The resources are free and they invite you to join their Educator Community to ask questions, share resources, and connect.
What It Is: Choose from a wide range of prepared interactive lessons for all grade levels, or create your own if you can’t find what you need. Assess students on the spot and get real-time feedback from them too.
What They’re Offering: Teachers can sign up for a free account and start creating interactive lessons for distance learning environments in minutes!

News-O-Matic

What It Is: News-O-Matic features five daily news stories specifically for kids, written at a variety of reading levels from grades K through 8. Every story is translated by native speakers from English into Spanish, French, and Arabic. And all these texts, at all levels and languages, are read out loud so kids can listen along. Teachers have access to a special dashboard to track students’ reading progress, change their reading levels, and see students’ answers to comprehension questions for each article.

Next Generation Scientific Storylines

What It Is: Science materials for elementary, middle and high schoolers that contain “storylines”, or series of lessons that provide a coherent path toward building a disciplinary core idea and crosscutting concepts, piece by piece, anchored in students’ own questions.
What They’re Offering: NextGenStorylines offers materials for middle schoolers that are accessible online and customizable for educators and students.

Nomad Press

What It Is: A large collection of free resources perfect for 2nd-9th grade that model critical and creative thinking to promote the development of problem-solving skills as readers discover patterns and connections through intellectual inquiry.
What They’re Offering: Download free resources, activities, and teacher guides at The Learning Center .
What It Is: NoRedInk builds stronger writers through interest-based curriculum, adaptive exercises, and actionable data.
What They’re Offering: Their site is always free.

Open Middle

What It Is: A series of free math problems with “open middle” solutions.
What They’re Offering: Free worksheets for grades K-12.
What It Is: K-12 music education platform providing interactive online music resources.
What They’re Offering: Free 30-day trial to schools and music teachers nationwide focused on music learning and appreciation. Registered users can access videos and worksheets about how music is made and performed through a historical and educational lens.
What It Is: PBLWorks, the leading provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has created a resource site to provide teachers with ideas, examples, and tools to facilitate PBL remotely.
What They’re Offering: Resources to address teachers’ most frequently-cited requests, including: projects that can be adapted for remote learning across the grade levels, technology solutions for collaboration and connection, and ideas for how families can support their PBL students.

PBLWorks ebook, This Teachable Moment

What it is: PBLWorks, the leading provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has created a free eBook to support high-quality Project Based Learning at home.
What they’re offering: This Teachable Moment, a free downloadable eBook offers a primer on Project Based Learning (PBL) and 21 easy implemented, “follow the recipe” PBL projects, informed by educational research and designed for children of all ages. Projects such as creating a cooking show focused on family recipes and the history behind them, or creating a plan for a new school that meets our new reality, engage children in real-world issues and activities that matter to them while also teaching concepts like literacy, math and more.

PBLWorks Project Designer

What it is: PBLWorks, the leading provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has created first-of-its kind Project Designer, an interactive tool to give teachers a shortcut to creating quality PBL units for in-person or distance learning.
What they’re offering: The Project Designer is an interactive online project planner with a library of 72 Gold Standard PBL units. It leads teachers step-by-step through adapting one of the 72 projects in the library or creating their own to meet the needs of their students. Teachers can access the Project Designer for a one-time fee of $49.99.

PBS Learning Media

What It Is: This site uses curated PBS videos along with lesson plans, interactive materials, and more to cover lots of subjects in an engaging fashion.
What They’re Offering: PBS Learning Media is always free for teachers. Sign up here- PBS Learning Media

PCS Edventures

What It Is: PCS Edventures instills a passion in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Arts in students grades K-12 and is providing teachers and families with educational resources that can be used in any learning environment.
What They’re Offering: 3D Coding & Design Free Trial where students dive into the world of video game development & Free STEM + STEAM activities that can easily be downloaded and printed.

Penguin Educator

What It Is: Resources from Penguin for librarians, teachers, and readers!
What They’re Offering: FREE educator and discussion guides, downloadable activities, and more!

PenPal Schools

What It Is: Schools that have transitioned to remote learning note that students quickly become lonely outside the classroom. PenPal Schools not only lets you engage your own students, but those from around the world, on a wide variety of subjects.
What They’re Offering: PenPal Schools is free. Learn how to sign up here- PenPal Schools

Perfection Learning

What It Is: Perfection Next is a digital learning platform offering access to our entire catalog of digital resources including AMSCO Advanced Placement, Language Arts, Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies, and World Languages.

PhET Interactive Simulations

What It Is: A collection of over 150 free math and science simulations, along with over 2,000+ sim-based lessons, for actively engaging students in STEM learning. Simulations are available in 80+ languages.
What They’re Offering: PhET is always free for all users.
What It Is: A web-app that gives teachers and students a unique way to create stories, demonstrate learning, and enhance writing assignments – in any subject – through digital comics. Users can explore topics in Math, Science, Social Studies, History, English, Art, or any other subject. They can also choose images from popular content, books and movies like The Hunger Games or The Outsiders , plus other topics like the solar system, black history, or the environment – all Common Core aligned.
What They’re Offering: All-access for free for 30 days during the COVID-19 crisis. Learn more here- Pixton EDU .
What It Is: Quill offers a set of diagnostic assessments and independent practice activities that focus on grammar, sentence construction, and other writing and literacy skills. All the while, Quill provides teachers with free, in-depth data reports on student performance.

Random House

What It Is: Random House offers lesson plans to teachers for books for elementary school, middle school, and high school students.
What They’re Offering: Discussion guides, activities, and more available for FREE to download.

Reading Assistant Plus

What It Is: An online guided reading tool that “listens” while a student reads a selection aloud, detects when they falter, and provides immediate intervention in the form of correct pronunciation.
What It Is: Teachers and parents can keep their child’s reading instruction moving forward with Reading Horizons’ library of virtual webinars and lessons.

Reading Plus

What It Is: Free printable skill-building packages help develop reading comprehension in essential comprehension skills, which include close reading, main idea and themes, interaction of ideas, use of language, structure, point of view, imaging scaffolds, reasoning and rhetoric, and comparative reading.
What They’re Offering: Free packages that include worksheets, writing prompts, and graphic organizers.
What It Is: Readorium helps students learn nonfiction reading strategies as they build rich background knowledge in science at school or at home.
What It Is: ReadTheory offers a vast library of reading comprehension content that fosters improvement by automatically meeting learners at their own, individual ability levels. Find passages and prompts for students to answer.
What They’re Offering: ReadTheory is always free.
What It Is: Access thousands of high-quality, free K-12 articles, and create online assignments with them.
What They’re Offering: Free content, curriculum, and tools to power teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th Grade.

Red Nose Day

What It Is: Help students in Grades 2-5 build empathy, while practicing core ELA and math skills, using our Everyday Heroes classroom routines and downloadable lessons tied to key teaching moments throughout the year — 100th Day of School, National Reading Month, and April Fool’s Day. Educational videos help students understand how poverty impacts children around the world, and how Red Nose Day helps.
What They’re Offering: Resources are always free.

Rising New York Road Runners

What It Is: Designed to develop movement skills in kids of all ages and abilities. They believe in the power of physical activity to keep families physically and mentally strong whether in school or at home.
What They’re Offering: Fun activities for children that keep space and social distancing in mind.
What It Is: RoboKind’s virtual coding course will help districts provide elementary and middle school students with engaging computer science content during this unexpected period of school closures.

Rosen Publishing Group

What It Is: Whether students are learning to read or reading to learn, they can easily access hundreds of age-appropriate books across various topics and content areas with a simple login and selection by using their Epointplus digital delivery.
What They’re Offering: Free access to 2,000 fiction and nonfiction curated eBooks for independent reading and to enhance instruction. Register here .
What It Is: Rozzy Learning has engaging lesson plans and other resources for science, social studies, math, and STEM for K-8th grade.

Sadlier School

What It Is: Online printable resources for math, ELA, grammar, and more.
What They’re Offering: Free resources for parents, teachers, and students. K–12 English Language Arts and K–8 Math. Learn more here- Sadlier School .

School Specialty Webinars

What It Is: Educational webinars developed by resident subject matter experts to help families engage students while they’re at home. Providing activity ideas to support skill development in Art, Physical Education, STEM, Language Development, Math, and more.
What They’re Offering: Free access to on-demand webinars to support family engagement and skill development at home.

Science Buddies

What It Is: A hands-on STEM education nonprofit with a library of over 1500 STEM activities, science projects, and STEM lesson plans. Students do not need to register or input any private information to access and it is 100% free to everyone.
What They’re Offering: In addition to all of their usual free offerings, Science Buddies is adding daily to its STEM activities focusing on video and written instructions for fun hands-on experiments that can be done with things already around the house.
What It Is: Seterra offers online geography quizzes. You can also create your own custom quizzes.
What They’re Offering: Seterra is free to use. Schools affected by COVID-19/coronavirus can get 6 months of Seterra bonus features for free. Find out how.

Slido for Education

What It Is: This brand-new virtual classroom platform integrates PowerPoint, Zoom video webinars, and Slido quizzes into one streamlined package.

SMART Learning Suite

What It Is: SMART Learning Suite is a virtual classroom platform that easily integrates everything you already have on Google Drive or in Microsoft documents. You can add videos and other online resources as needed.

Smithsonian Learning Lab

What It Is: Teachers have access to millions of digital resources from across the Smithsonian’s museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more.
What They’re Offering: Free to use.

Space Foundation Discovery Center

What It Is: The Space Foundation Discovery Center is a space museum in Colorado Springs that combines the worlds of STEM and space to educate Guests in-person and online.
What They’re Offering: Free STEM and space themed educational resources and videos for everyone, including teachers and parents. Includes free professional lesson plans featuring Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang.
What It Is: ST Math uses the Spatial-Temporal patented approach, manipulating objects in space and time. The program starts by teaching the foundational concepts visually, then connects the ideas to the symbols, language, and robust discourse.
What They’re Offering: ST Math is currently free for parents, schools, and districts through the end of the year. They have also created a variety of free resources for ST Math, learning at home, and addressing learning loss. Learn more here .

stemConnect

What It Is: A classroom resource to connect students with experts in industry and academia from Florida focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
What They’re Offering: A free video library of recorded presentations led by Florida-based experts who talk about the applications of STEM in various high-tech careers.

STEM Minds Virtual STEM Camps!

What It Is: Join their expert staff in learning about awesome topics like 3D design, video game design, coding, and more all from home. Their staff deliver lessons virtually and are available live to help provide targeted guidance and assistance to students as they work through awesome activities and projects.
What It Is: Studycat enables safe and convenient home learning of foreign languages, literacy, and critical thinking via an online app.
What They’re Offering: Join their Studycat club for free and gain access to over 100 worksheets to download and enjoy. Use the filters to find worksheets by language, skills and topic.

Study Island

What It Is: Study Island provides standards-based practice, test preparation, and formative assessments in grades K-12. Students get feedback to guide their learning and educators get immediate data to determine who needs intervention and who is ready to move on.
What It Is: A K-12 publishing company that creates science and social studies curriculum to enable educators to improve their ability to engage students in a diverse classroom.

TeachingBooks

What It Is: Enjoy 172,555 resources tied to children’s and young adult books. Find read-alouds, virtual story times, reader’s advisories, interview, and more.
What They’re Offering: Currently free and available to share with students.
What It Is: Established by musician and activist Steven Van Zandt, TeachRock provides teachers across the country with a unique and effective way to engage at-risk students across disciplines.
What They’re Offering: Multidimensional curriculum free for teachers.

Twig Education

What It Is: Twig offers a variety of tools including twig Science tools for elementary school students, twig Secondary for grades 6-12, and free grade-level packets for distance learning.
What They’re Offering: Free resources. Click here for specific details .
What It Is: Typing.com is a one-stop shop for students to learn to type. They can progress at their own pace while tracking accuracy and speed.
What They’re Offering: Free keyboarding curriculum, coding fundamentals, and computer literacy resources. Teachers and students can sign up here-Typing and here-Typing.com .

Tyto Online

What It Is: With Tyto Online, students solve authentic science problems as they learn, using a video game to power their experience. ‘Tyto Online’ is NGSS-aligned, covering life science and some Earth and space science.
What It Is: Udemy is a global marketplace for learning and instruction. By connecting students all over the world to the best instructors, Udemy is helping individuals reach their goals and pursue their dreams.
What They’re Offering: Find free coding for students here- Udemy .

Virtual School Day by Varsity Tutors

What It Is: Provides students with 20 hours of free live, online instruction each week. Each class is led by an expert tutor with experience in the course topic, as well as familiarity with virtual instruction. Classes refresh weekly, with age-appropriate options for grades K-12.
What They’re Offering: The resources are totally free. Just sign up so they can manage class sizes! Additional classes are available at varying prices.

Voces Digital

What It Is: These online learning resources are specifically for those who teach French, Spanish, and ESL. Students get audio and video, interactive writing and speaking exercises, and more.

The White House Historical Association

What It Is: The Rubenstein Center for White House History offers a wide variety of educational resources for learners of all ages. Content includes classroom resource packets, reading lists, virtual tours of the White House, short educational videos, historical essays, and a digital library of White House and presidential images.
What They’re Offering: Free to all.
What It Is: Students and families can access news stories about the world, politics, United States, science, sports, and more. Xyza also recently launched www.newsicle.co where students try and answer one news-related trivia quiz every weekday.
What They’re Offering: Completely free and unlimited access to 1000+ Xyza: News for Kids articles.

Online Learning Resources Google Classroom

These sites allow you to follow your existing lesson plans by creating your own online learning resources. Some also provide the platforms you need to host virtual interactive multimedia classrooms.

What It Is: A library of free, standards-aligned, autogradable assignments
What They’re Offering: Free access!
What It Is: With Bloomz, teachers and schools save time by having all the tools they need to communicate with today’s parents and students in one easy-to-use (and free) app.
What It is: An educational video company with a streaming platform for teachers. Boclips has been created as a safe, easy way for teachers to use video with their students. It comes with the largest library of short-form educational videos, as well as ready-made lesson planning resources, without the dangers of open video platforms.
What They’re Offering: In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Boclips has put together a toolkit of remote learning resources for teachers whose schools have closed. This includes videos from their library, strategy sheets, video integration ideas, resources on differentiated instruction, and training videos. Teachers can access these resources by filling in this form .

Book Creator

What It Is: Book Creator is an easy-to-use tool that helps you create fun and engaging online books. They have lots of suggestions for how you can create and use books with students at any level .
What They’re Offering: Teachers always receive one free library with 40 shareable books when they sign up . Schools impacted by COVID-19/coronavirus can also receive free access to the collaborative tools. Learn more here- Book Creator

Boolean Girl

What It Is: Non-profit organization Boolean Girl’s mission is to teach kids and teens how to code, build, invent, and animate. They help narrow the gender gap in STEM fields through education and consistent, hands-on exposure to computer science and engineering during the elementary and middle school years.
What They’re Offering: Free Full-STEM Ahead classes. These are live instructor-led virtual classes and events. Each class is age-appropriately tailored for ages 8 to 18.
What It Is: This online learning resources platform gives teachers the ability to create online lessons, boards for students to share their thoughts and work, and collaborative learning spaces. It provides teachers the ability to easily communicate with kids and parents, too.
What They’re Offering: Buncee offers a free 30 day trial. Click here to learn more- Buncee

Capti Voice

What It Is: Capti Voice is an online text-to-speech platform. They provide remote assessment, accommodation, and reading support for students with disabilities.
What They’re Offering: Free, basic-level individual accounts are available here- Capti Voice .
What It Is: Not using ClassDojo yet? Now’s the time to start! This school communication tool makes it easy to stay in touch and track student progress too.
What They’re Offering: ClassDojo is always free for teachers. Sign up here- Classdojo
What It Is: Used by over 57,000 classrooms and 2 million parents/teachers across the U.S., Classtag is a free communication platform for schools that’s designed to boost parental engagement. Teachers can message parents directly (via SMS or web) and even translate their messages if English is the parent’s second language.
What They’re Offering: Free to use

Conover Academy

What It Is: Life Skills Academy by Conover is an online video library designed to be used outside the classroom so parents or guardians can help learners with disabilities learn how to function independently at home, work, or in the community. Based on the concept of video modeling, users watch someone do the desired behavior and then do it themselves.
What It Is: This platform helps teachers create and share online lessons using their easy tools. The ability to offer differentiated paths within the same lesson is a nice feature.
What They’re Offering: This site is always free, but requires teachers and students to have Google or Microsoft accounts. Learn more here- Deck Toys .
What It Is: Communicate with students, share documents and assignments, and provide collaborative space with this platform. EdModo also offers good resources for helping you understand how to make distance learning work for your students.
What They’re Offering: EdModo is always free for teachers, parents, and students. Sign up here- Edmodo
What It Is: This site lets teachers create interactive online lessons using a video clip of the teacher’s choosing. It provides accountability and tracking for student progress, too.
What They’re Offering: Basic plans are always free, and they also offer additional instructional resources across a wide array of topics here- EdPuzzle .
What It Is: EduGuide saves schools time and money by efficiently multiplying their student support system, building self-motivation that keeps students learning, even when they are remote. EduGuide provides a simple way for every student to both be mentored by a caring adult and learn to mentor their peers on key social-emotional SEL habits that boost student success.
What It Is: Edulastic is an online K-12 assessment tool. It allows teachers to make their own assessments and assignments or choose from over 35,000 pre-made assessments.
What They’re Offering: Edulastic always offers Free-Forever Teacher accounts.
What It Is: Teachers can access a collection of learning paths from some of the most well-known thought leaders in education covering topics such as Understanding by Design, Habits of Mind, Social Emotional Learning, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Personalized Learning, and Growth Mindset.

Explain Everything Whiteboard

What It Is: Create interactive lessons and collaborative spaces for your virtual classroom with these real-time tools.
What They’re Offering: Schools can get free extended access. Contact them here.
What It Is: Students and teachers record short videos to document and share their learning on a subject. It’s kind of like social media for learning, and it’s a great way to stay in touch.
What They’re Offering: FlipGrid is always free for educators with a Google or Microsoft account. Sign up here- Flipgrid

Fuel Education

What It Is: Fuel Education provides innovative digital curricula, technology, instruction, and support enabling you to create a learning environment that is just right for your students.
What They’re Offering: Complimentary services and access to online learning tools.
What It Is: Genially offers interactive visual communication tools to create presentations, interactive images, infographics, and more.
What They’re Offering: Many of their premium templates and resources are now available for free, for everyone. Learn more about their offerings here .

Google Classroom

What It Is: Many teachers have already started using this readily-available resource for their classrooms. These tools are going to become even more valuable as schools convert to distance learning. There’s a lot to explore here, but most of it is easy to use, so don’t be afraid to dive in.
What They’re Offering: Google Classroom is always free, but if it’s new to you, we recommend this quick overview guide .
What It Is: Get the most out of Google Classroom and other Google tools with this platform. They offer webinars and other resources to help teachers create and manage the best virtual classrooms.

Impero back:drop

What It Is: A cloud-based solution from Impero Software to help schools manage and record student safety and health information, from first aid to COVID-19 symptom tracking, to more complex mental health issues. Impero back:drop gives districts a way to keep track of and communicate about potential concerns safely and securely and eliminates the need for paper-based reporting systems.
What They’re Offering: Impero has made Impero back:drop free indefinitely, helping schools fill a critical need for staying on top of student mental and physical concerns during the pandemic and beyond.

Insight ADVANCE

What It Is: ADVANCEfeedback helps teachers, instructional coaches, and school and university leaders connect on a deeper level than off-the-shelf video conferencing tools by using secure video for self-reflection, peer feedback, and instructional coaching.
What They’re Offering: To help strengthen support to teachers, coaches, and school leaders in this time of need, Insight ADVANCE is providing its ADVANCEfeedback video coaching tool, powered by the Vonage Video API, free of charge.
What It Is: A collaborative online image and video editor with a cloud storage Workspace. Teachers can make video lessons to send to students for remote learning, students can work together on a group project, and classrooms can share multimedia projects with each other.
What It Is: A web and mobile app that provides private student to teacher feedback to a group/class question, so teachers can understand how their students are doing and offer support, with optional anonymity features. It’s available on any device.
What They’re Offering: Loop is always free for teachers.

ManagedMethods

What It Is: A G Suite and Office 365 data security and student safety platform that gives K-12 IT full visibility and control into the data being stored. The platform monitors G Suite, Office 365, and email apps 24/7/365 for cybersecurity threats and student safety risks, to help keep sensitive data secure and students safe.
What They’re Offering: K-12 school districts can use the platform for 30 days to help IT teams and districts protect students and staff online. Click here to learn more- ManagedMethods

Merit Software

What It Is: Merit makes online, interactive, skill-building tutorials for reading comprehension and writing skills. The programs, which are commonly used by secondary and higher-ed students, are great for special needs, at-risk, or English language learners.
What They’re Offering: The Merit site has free, full-working demos, pricing, and implementation ideas.

MeTEOR Education

What It Is: The library includes virtual education best practice videos, performance tasks for students at home and in traditional classrooms, and other resources for teachers and leaders making the adjustment to virtual education.
What They’re Offering: The MeTEOR Connect library of student and teacher resources is available to educators free of charge.

Mobile Guardian

What It Is: Mobile Guardian is a mobile device management software providing remote Classroom Management Tools and premium Web-Filtering. Teachers can monitor what students are doing in lessons on their Chromebooks in real-time from their Mobile Guardian dashboard. They can also view how students spent their time during class. Web-filtering allows schools to secure devices that are now going home, as well as facilitate an academic environment.
What They’re Offering: Schools can apply for a grant to help cover subscription costs here- Mobile Guardian .

Numerade.com

What It Is: A platform that allows teachers to record and run asynchronous classes with virtual “attendance” and video Q&A for students. Numerade also features the World’s largest library of STEM video lessons with over 200,000 step-by-step solutions to popular textbook problems.
What They’re Offering: Numerade’s asynchronous “Office Hours” platform and their collection of 200,000 video lessons are available to students and teachers for free.
What It Is: Projector App helps teachers project their real word notes onto a professional-looking, virtual blackboard.
What It Is: It’s hard to hold class discussions with no class, right? That’s where this site comes in. It provokes and encourages thoughtful conversations among students online.
What They’re Offering: Parlay could be free for your school. Existing paid users can get a code to make their accounts free until then too. Learn more here- Parlay
What It Is: Pronto is a communications hub that connects people via chat and video. It’s one option for hosting a virtual classroom.
What They’re Offering: Pronto is free for educators at this time. Request your free access here.

Promethean ClassFlow

What It Is: A cloud-based lesson delivery software service that energizes students with polling, timed assessments, interactive lessons, activities, and millions of immersive resources from educators around the world. ClassFlow is certified by iKeepSafe as compliant with federal and state requirements for handling protected personal information, including student data, and is safely used by over 4.5 million students worldwide.

Renzulli Learning

What It Is: Renzulli Learning is an interactive online system that provides student-driven independent enrichment opportunities and project-based learning, and also enables teachers to easily differentiate instruction, increasing student engagement, and academic performance. Renzulli Learning supports strength-based personalized learning in all subjects for students in grades Pre-K through 12.
What They’re Offering: Renzulli is offering a free 90 day trial along with special pricing of $5 per student for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year.
What It Is: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy. Its award-winning AI-powered software safeguards children and their mental wellbeing when using their mobile devices, without sacrificing their privacy. The app provides an intelligent safeguarding keyboard and wellbeing tools that respond in real-time to help children make better decisions online, identify when they are under threat or distress, and prevent messages from being sent that could harm them and others.
What It Is: Free K-12 Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies resources! Create effective classwork and assignments that have been proven to increase performance. All content is designed to engage and challenge students at their own level./li>
What It Is: Keep your music students practicing at home with this online music classroom. You can track student progress, and they’ll get instant feedback from the online tools.
What It Is: More than just a computer, classroom, STEM kits, or a project — SmartLabs are a comprehensive and immersive solution.
What It Is: Start.me enables teachers to create an easy start hub for their classroom. This start hub makes it easy for students to access all their educational resources and tools.
What They’re Offering: The basic version is already free, but teachers can also apply for one year of free access to the Pro version of start.me.
What It Is: StudyBee is a grading and student feedback system that extends Google Classroom functionality, with the ability to link assignments to custom or standardized educational objectives from the US.
What It Is: A collaborative presentation tool used for all grade levels that works perfectly for the remote classroom.
What It Is: An online bookmarker for educators. Committed to making personalized learning and educational technology easily accessible for everyone, everywhere.
What It Is: Companies across the world use Webex to keep their teams in contact remotely. They offer lots of tools that are ideal for taking your classes online.
What It Is: Rather than fighting smartphones, Wooclap turns them into an exceptional learning tool. Wooclap is a free tool to help maintain interactivity and effective pedagogy. Their goal is to capture the attention of students to improve their learning whether they’re in the classroom or at home taking an online course.
What It Is: Project your lessons in group settings with Zoom. You can even record the sessions for students who need to review later. This video and audio conferencing tool has a chat functionality where students can ask questions as you teach.

These sites assist with continuing professional development and curriculum for teachers.

What It Is: Live and recorded webinars prepared by content experts on a range of topics including tips for teaching and learning remotely, proficiency and performance, sustaining research, and strategies for assessment.
What They’re Offering: Free support for teachers.

Better Lesson

What It Is: Collaborative virtual learning experiences that address the most pressing needs in K-12 education.

Edmentum Courses

What It Is: Edmentum can help your district ensure teachers can continue teaching virtually using their standards-aligned curriculum through their Edmentum Capacity Assistance Program (E-CAP).
What They’re Offering: Two Free Edmentum Courses.

E. L. Achieve

What It Is: ELL Curriculum for educators. Their professional development addresses two key areas: Systematic ELD for dedicated language instruction and Constructing Meaning for explicit language instruction for content learning.
What They’re Offering: Free upcoming webinars for K-12.

Imagine Learning: Distance Learning Toolkit

What It Is: Imagine Learning’s Distance Learning Toolkit site offers practical tips and information for educators and parents navigating the new world of distance learning.
What They’re Offering: A free collection of practical distance learning tips — presented via videos, articles, and webinars — for educators and parents.

IMB AI Education

What It Is: An immersive, interactive professional learning suite of online and in-person experiences crafted by and for educators to guide you through AI’s foundational concepts and K-12 classroom connections.
What They’re Offering: A free online toolkit .

Illuminate Education

What It Is: Professional learning resources for teachers on remote learning, including webinars and how-to articles, all available online.
What They’re Offering: Free for educators.
What It Is: Nomadic is a digital learning pioneer launching a Remote Work Boot Camp to help newly remote folks get better equipped to face our current working reality.
What It Is: Live webinars, advice, learning solutions, and experienced help from Outschool, the top-rated provider of interactive online classes for students ages 3-18.
What They’re Offering: Learn to teach online. Sign up for a free webinar taught by highly qualified K-12 educators with years of online teaching experience.
What It Is: PBLWorks is hosting a free webinar series on how to facilitate Gold Standard Project Based Learning online.
What They’re Offering: All webinars will be presented live and recorded versions will be made available for free upon request.

ResilientEducator

What It Is: The platform strategy of Resilient Educator is rooted in support of building resilience in educators and advancing trauma-informed strategies throughout schools and communities.
What They’re Offering: Free resources for teaching online.

SHARE Professional Learning

What It Is: SHARE is a Source for Help, Advancement, and Renewal for Educators. There is no one-size-fits all solution to teacher burnout, but the most sturdy support for those in need comes from fellow educators—both those in one’s local educational community and in the profession at large.
What They’re Offering: Take our free, 90-minute course “Teaching Through the Coronavirus Pandemic.” This course discusses stresses specifically caused by responses to COVID-19, such as quarantine and social distancing. It also provides strategies to help teachers and their students remain strong during the pandemic.

STEMscopes

What It Is: Live and recorded webinars led by science and STEM education experts on a range of topics including inquiry, creating a STEM campus, STEM inclusion for English learners, and assessment.
What They’re Offering: Access to free upcoming live and recorded sessions. Click here- STEMscopes to learn more.

Studer Education

What It Is: Studer Education is a leading service provider focused on improving organizational outcomes.
What They’re Offering: They have put together a collection of leadership tools and resources curated by expert leaders who have faced crises before.
What It Is: Teq offers a series of webinars for Remote learning. This includes SMART Learning Suite Online, Google, and Microsoft Teams.
What They’re Offering: Individual educators can sign up for a FREE Basic account with access to select PD sessions or purchase PD certification tracks.

Vista Higher Learning

What It Is: Vista Higher Learning offers a number of valuable resources to help K-16 language educators during this time of great uncertainty and change. Find webinars from fellow educators on how to transition to remote teaching, content that parents or educators can use at home, and free 90-day Teacher Access to all online VHL products.
What They’re Offering: Free resources and education.

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In the modern world, it is impossible to imagine a society without the various digital resources. The transition to a digital economy imposes new requirements for modern hardware and software. It is especially relevant in the field of training competitive personnel for the new economy. The positioning and opportunities of Russia in the global economic market depend on skilled professionals.

Competencies, which were in demand a few years ago and seemed promising—such as, for example, computer literacy—have now become basic. In an ever-changing world, it is important to timely start training of future specialists for the digital economy, because retraining and training will require a lot of time. In this case, there is a need for teaching staff who would be able to train young professionals. The quality of training of future employees, and, consequently, the country’s transition rate to full digitalization depends on schoolteachers. In order to prepare future employees, teachers need to master the new competencies dictated by modern society and the labor market. Thus, there is a need for comprehensive retraining and professional development of schoolteachers #CSOC1120.

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3 AR/VR resources that nurture student curiosity

Incorporating ar and vr into instruction lets educators promote 21st century skills such as researching and digital literacy.

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As a Technology Explorations teacher for my district, I’m tasked with finding and incorporating the latest technology resources into classrooms effectively and engagingly. One of my biggest goals as a technology instructor is to teach my students skills and provide them with tools that I feel will best stoke their curiosity and prepare them for the world outside of the classroom. While there’s so much cool technology now available, there’s one I’m particularly enthralled with: augmented and virtual reality.

In case you missed it, according to Microsoft , augmented reality (AR) adds digital elements on top of the real world and oftentimes has limited ability to interact. Virtual reality (VR) is an immersive experience that transports the user to a new reality where they don’t see the real world around them, usually with the help of a headset or some such device. I particularly love using these types of resources with upper elementary students. Why? I find that these tech savvy students are particularly drawn to innovative digital content.

As AR and VR usage has become more widespread through universal features such as filters, digital map tools, and gaming, I have tried to incorporate them in my classroom. I’ve tested a few different resources, but these are my top three favorites:

Edge at Hudson Yards

I recently took my students to New York City with the new Reach for the Sky Virtual Reality Experience from Discovery Education and the Edge at Hudson Yards. It was a massive hit with my third-grade students! With headsets and browsers, my students got to see what it feels like to walk out into the New York City skyline and float above the bustling streets from 1,131 ft in the air.

I used the tour as the baseline for a lesson in my 3 rd grade Technology Explorations class and created a question guide to go along with it, functioning as a scavenger hunt in a sense as students used the elements of the tour to find the answers. The activity required them to watch the introduction video embedded within the virtual tour, analyze the information included in the weather feature, and make observations about their environment while flying the drone. The accompanying educator guide also provided me with helpful information, including some fun project-based learning ideas that really engaged the kids.

Students were captivated by the immersive nature of the experience. It kept them engaged for the 45-minute class period. As any educator can tell you, that is no easy feat! This virtual reality experience was a great alternative to static research, instead allowing the students to see how it would feel to look out over the New York skyline. Another great resource from Discovery Education is the Sandbox AR app – it really helps build student curiosity and skills in AR/VR!

Civilisations AR

The BBC AR brings to life art from around the world. The Civilisations AR is a companion to the BCC TV series by the same name, but it can be used independently. With the iOS or Android app, students explore incredible artifacts and famous locations like an Egyptian mummy, Rodin’s The Kiss from the National Museum of Wales, notable sculptures, and many pieces of priceless artwork.

I loved using this tool in a science class. For example, we investigated the mummy from the Torquay Museum and talked about the scientific process behind mummification. This naturally lent itself to a cross-curricular discussion about the ‘why’ behind mummification and the cultural significance of the process. My students loved getting to see the real-world connections behind scientific processes and how humans have used science for millennia to make incredible things like art.

Another AR tool I have utilized with students is Makr. I learned about the Makr app during a session with Apple at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo & Conference earlier this year. This app gives students the opportunity to create scenes that overlay characters and objects on top of the real world. Its implementation requires the use of spatial reasoning and world building, and really empowers students to make anything an AR/VR experience.

I also incorporated sequential storytelling when I used this app with fifth grade, as they had to use the characters available through the app to play out a fairytale, such as the three little pigs. My students loved how they could build things themselves and explore pretty much anywhere.

Overall, I have found that my AR lessons have led to tremendous engagement. Incorporating AR and VR into my technology classes has allowed me to promote 21st century skills such as researching and digital literacy while making learning fun for students and relevant to life outside of the classroom.

If you’re feeling nervous or unsure about AR/VR, my advice is to dive right in! Many resources out there are free– like the content from Discovery Education, Google, Verizon, Microsoft, and more–while others have free aspects. This gives you, as an educator, space to play around and room to even fail into success. My kids love AR/VR, and I know yours will, too!

Every year that I have been teaching, I have found more resources and tools with a greater depth of ability when it comes to teaching augmented and virtual reality, and I am excited to see how it continues to grow.

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Eight Digital Education Resources From the Smithsonian

The newly launched #SmithsonianEdu campaign highlights 1.7 million online tools geared specifically toward students and teachers

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As efforts to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus crisis ramp up, schools across the United States—including those in New York City, Washington, D.C., and dozens of states —have closed their doors, leading students, teachers and caregivers alike to seek out online educational tools. To help support this search, the Smithsonian Institution has launched a central portal highlighting an array of distance learning resources, from STEM webcasts to American history podcasts and comprehensive lesson plans . Offerings range from low- or no-tech (interviewing family members for oral history projects ) to high-tech (diving into an interactive exploration module ).

“The Smithsonian should have a prominent place in every classroom and home in America,” says Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch in a statement . “Whether during the course of everyday learning or in a crisis like this, parents, teachers and students can rely on the Smithsonian’s wealth of expertise and knowledge that is available for free at the click of a mouse.”

Each of the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, galleries, research centers and the National Zoo has its own webpage dedicated to educational resources. To help readers sort through the 1.7 million multimedia experiences available, Smithsonian magazine has curated the following list of eight online tools. Per the statement, residents of the nation’s capital can access resources specifically tailored to D.C. Public Schools’ curriculum; those further afield can use the Smithsonian Affiliate network’s distance learning portal to find offerings organized by specific state. In the coming days and weeks, Smithsonian staff will continue to expand the Institution’s digital presence, adding webcasts and organizing resources so that educators across the country can quickly identify the most relevant offerings.

Follow along with the #SmithsonianEdu hashtag, and browse the roundup below for a taste of the many tools available.

Smithsonian Open Access

Last month, the Smithsonian released 2.8 million high-resolution images from its collections into the public domain . These two- and three-dimensional artifacts, specimens and datasets—including a saxophone owned by jazz musician Charlie Parker, the Apollo 11 command module and a “ creeping baby doll patent model ”—are free for anyone to “use, transform and distribute,” making them ideal candidates for educators and students in search of creative projects.

Examples of out-of-the-box applications abound: Ahead of the campaign’s launch, artist Amy Karle sculpted nine 3-D printed models of the National Museum of Natural History’s triceratops, introducing small changes in each one in the “ spirit of bioengineering .” Students mentored through Portland-based non-profit the N.M. Bodecker Foundation released music that adds a “contemporary pop culture twist” to the stories of prominent historical figures.

The Smithsonian Learning Lab ’s open access hub outlines additional ideas for students and educators: “You could include a CCO resource in an e-book,” the page suggests, “or make it part of your new artwork, and you could sell those creations.”

Because of Her Story

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Because of Her Story campaign works to “create, disseminate, and amplify the historical record of the accomplishments of American women”—a mission that holds particular resonance during Women’s History Month. The main portal offers resources on such diverse topics as “ American Women Athletes ,” “ Entertaining Women on Stage and Screen ,” and “ American Women Photographers ;” through Smithsonian Learning Lab, students can explore the lives of five trailblazing women , including Muslim American athlete Ibtihaj Muhammad and disability rights activist Kitty Cone.

3-D Digitization

The Smithsonian’s 3-D digitization portal features interactive models from a pantheon of fields. Users can browse collections of blue-and-white ceramics , numismatic specimens (also known as coins), and presidential portraits , among others. Twenty of these 3-D models are included in the new open access campaign and available for use in art projects or educational programs.

For those hoping to 3-D print miniature models of these artifacts, check out Smithsonian magazine’s November 2019 guide , which features historical background on various digitized offerings, tips for printing specific models and more.

Native Knowledge 360 Degrees (NK360°)

The National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Knowledge 360 Degrees (NK360°) initiative strives to change how Native American history is taught by “ introducing and elevating indigenous perspectives and voices .” As the campaign’s website notes, “Most Americans have only been exposed to part of the story, as told from a single perspective through the lenses of popular media and textbooks.”

NK360°’s curriculum builds on a framework of ten “ Essential Understandings ” outlined on the portal and in a free PDF publication . Lesson plans and learning experiences available through the initiative include a website dedicated to the “ code talkers ” active during World War I and World War II, a teacher’s guide on the Chaski messengers of the Inka Empire, and an online lesson based on the question “ Is a treaty intended to be forever? ”

“Smithsonian Science How”

The National Museum of Natural History’s “ Smithsonian Science How ” series invites students to participate in “free, interactive, live video webcasts” with Smithsonian experts. Participants can submit questions for researchers or interact with the webcast via live polls. Paired with “complementary teaching resources” and “aligned with national science standards,” the 30-minute sessions air regularly during the school year. Currently, the next “Science How ” webcasts are scheduled for April 9 (“ Exploring Minerals and Gems with Geologist Gabriela Farfan ”) and May 14 (“ What Makes Fish so Fishy? featuring Ichthyologist Adela Roa-Varón ”).

If these livestreams won’t work with your schedule, check out the museum’s archive of more than 50 webcasts covering such topics as mummy science , demystifying microbes and mineral transformations . And remember to visit the museum’s education page for additional content ranging from hands-on activities to posters and worksheets, science literacy resources, and subject guides.

America’s Presidents

The National Portrait Gallery’s America’s Presidents portal is a digital companion to the museum’s physical collection of presidential portraits. Users can browse portraits dating from 1789 to 2017, access 3-D models of presidential likenesses, and engage with educational collections created by curators and teachers around the country. Selected lesson plans include “ Lyndon Johnson’s Legacy ,” “ Lincoln and Photography: A Closer Look ,” and “ Looking at ‘America's Presidents’: Four Presidents through Portraiture .”

In other National Portrait Gallery news, every Friday at 11 a.m., students and educators can tune in via the museum’s Facebook page for Open Studio lessons with artist Jill Galloway. Storytime for children ages 3 and up will be livestreamed on Facebook Wednesdays at 11 a.m.

Additional examples of digital cultural resources from around the Institution include the Smithsonian American Art Museum ’s “ Meet the Artist ” video series; the NPG’s “ Portrait Spotlights ”; and the National Museum of Asian Art’s expansive Educator Resources , which take the form of curriculum guides , teaching posters , lesson plans and even Pinterest boards . Aspiring art historians can develop their analytical skills by comparing two James MacNeill Whistler portraits of British shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland, taking a closer look at Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu’s Waves at Matsushima , or investigating the relationship between works of art and religious beliefs.

“STEM in 30”

The National Air and Space Museum ’s “ STEM in 30 ” show is released online monthly. The 30-minute interactive webcast features discussions with curators, astronauts and scholars on topics including bees and aerospace , spy planes , World War II , and air traffic control . Students can engage with the program by participating in live polls and submitting questions for “mission debrief” question-and answer-sessions. An archive of more than 50 episodes —from “ Your Ticket to Space: Commercial Spaceflight ” to “ The Science of Safety ” —is available for streaming at any time.

Alternative Air and Space Museum educational resources include How Things Fly , a website that examines the four forces of flight; a geography quiz ; and a lecture archive .

History Explorer

The National Museum of American History’s History Explorer tool allows educators to search a broad database of resources, including lessons and activities , museum artifacts , books and interactive experiences . Those interested in World War II can peruse “ Japanese American Incarceration: The Diary of Stanley Hayami ” or “ Women in World War II ,” while those searching for more high-tech options can explore the multimedia-heavy “ American Enterprise: Market Revolution 1820s-1850s ” and “ American Enterprise: Tough Business Decisions ” modules. The museum also has two original podcast series—“ History Explorer ” and “ Prototype Online: Inventive Voices ”—both of which offer accompanying activity or teacher guides.

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40 Facts About Elektrostal

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Modified & Updated: 01 Jun 2024

Reviewed by Jessica Corbett

Elektrostal is a vibrant city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia. With a rich history, stunning architecture, and a thriving community, Elektrostal is a city that has much to offer. Whether you are a history buff, nature enthusiast, or simply curious about different cultures, Elektrostal is sure to captivate you.

This article will provide you with 40 fascinating facts about Elektrostal, giving you a better understanding of why this city is worth exploring. From its origins as an industrial hub to its modern-day charm, we will delve into the various aspects that make Elektrostal a unique and must-visit destination.

So, join us as we uncover the hidden treasures of Elektrostal and discover what makes this city a true gem in the heart of Russia.

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Elektrostal, known as the “Motor City of Russia,” is a vibrant and growing city with a rich industrial history, offering diverse cultural experiences and a strong commitment to environmental sustainability.
With its convenient location near Moscow, Elektrostal provides a picturesque landscape, vibrant nightlife, and a range of recreational activities, making it an ideal destination for residents and visitors alike.

Known as the “Motor City of Russia.”

Elektrostal, a city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia, earned the nickname “Motor City” due to its significant involvement in the automotive industry.

Home to the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Elektrostal is renowned for its metallurgical plant, which has been producing high-quality steel and alloys since its establishment in 1916.

Boasts a rich industrial heritage.

Elektrostal has a long history of industrial development, contributing to the growth and progress of the region.

Founded in 1916.

The city of Elektrostal was founded in 1916 as a result of the construction of the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Located approximately 50 kilometers east of Moscow.

Elektrostal is situated in close proximity to the Russian capital, making it easily accessible for both residents and visitors.

Known for its vibrant cultural scene.

Elektrostal is home to several cultural institutions, including museums, theaters, and art galleries that showcase the city’s rich artistic heritage.

A popular destination for nature lovers.

Surrounded by picturesque landscapes and forests, Elektrostal offers ample opportunities for outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, and birdwatching.

Hosts the annual Elektrostal City Day celebrations.

Every year, Elektrostal organizes festive events and activities to celebrate its founding, bringing together residents and visitors in a spirit of unity and joy.

Has a population of approximately 160,000 people.

Elektrostal is home to a diverse and vibrant community of around 160,000 residents, contributing to its dynamic atmosphere.

Boasts excellent education facilities.

The city is known for its well-established educational institutions, providing quality education to students of all ages.

A center for scientific research and innovation.

Elektrostal serves as an important hub for scientific research, particularly in the fields of metallurgy , materials science, and engineering.

Surrounded by picturesque lakes.

The city is blessed with numerous beautiful lakes , offering scenic views and recreational opportunities for locals and visitors alike.

Well-connected transportation system.

Elektrostal benefits from an efficient transportation network, including highways, railways, and public transportation options, ensuring convenient travel within and beyond the city.

Famous for its traditional Russian cuisine.

Food enthusiasts can indulge in authentic Russian dishes at numerous restaurants and cafes scattered throughout Elektrostal.

Home to notable architectural landmarks.

Elektrostal boasts impressive architecture, including the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the Elektrostal Palace of Culture.

Offers a wide range of recreational facilities.

Residents and visitors can enjoy various recreational activities, such as sports complexes, swimming pools, and fitness centers, enhancing the overall quality of life.

Provides a high standard of healthcare.

Elektrostal is equipped with modern medical facilities, ensuring residents have access to quality healthcare services.

Home to the Elektrostal History Museum.

The Elektrostal History Museum showcases the city’s fascinating past through exhibitions and displays.

A hub for sports enthusiasts.

Elektrostal is passionate about sports, with numerous stadiums, arenas, and sports clubs offering opportunities for athletes and spectators.

Celebrates diverse cultural festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal hosts a variety of cultural festivals, celebrating different ethnicities, traditions, and art forms.

Electric power played a significant role in its early development.

Elektrostal owes its name and initial growth to the establishment of electric power stations and the utilization of electricity in the industrial sector.

Boasts a thriving economy.

The city’s strong industrial base, coupled with its strategic location near Moscow, has contributed to Elektrostal’s prosperous economic status.

Houses the Elektrostal Drama Theater.

The Elektrostal Drama Theater is a cultural centerpiece, attracting theater enthusiasts from far and wide.

Popular destination for winter sports.

Elektrostal’s proximity to ski resorts and winter sport facilities makes it a favorite destination for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter activities.

Promotes environmental sustainability.

Elektrostal prioritizes environmental protection and sustainability, implementing initiatives to reduce pollution and preserve natural resources.

Home to renowned educational institutions.

Elektrostal is known for its prestigious schools and universities, offering a wide range of academic programs to students.

Committed to cultural preservation.

The city values its cultural heritage and takes active steps to preserve and promote traditional customs, crafts, and arts.

Hosts an annual International Film Festival.

The Elektrostal International Film Festival attracts filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts from around the world, showcasing a diverse range of films.

Encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.

Elektrostal supports aspiring entrepreneurs and fosters a culture of innovation, providing opportunities for startups and business development .

Offers a range of housing options.

Elektrostal provides diverse housing options, including apartments, houses, and residential complexes, catering to different lifestyles and budgets.

Home to notable sports teams.

Elektrostal is proud of its sports legacy , with several successful sports teams competing at regional and national levels.

Boasts a vibrant nightlife scene.

Residents and visitors can enjoy a lively nightlife in Elektrostal, with numerous bars, clubs, and entertainment venues.

Promotes cultural exchange and international relations.

Elektrostal actively engages in international partnerships, cultural exchanges, and diplomatic collaborations to foster global connections.

Surrounded by beautiful nature reserves.

Nearby nature reserves, such as the Barybino Forest and Luchinskoye Lake, offer opportunities for nature enthusiasts to explore and appreciate the region’s biodiversity.

Commemorates historical events.

The city pays tribute to significant historical events through memorials, monuments, and exhibitions, ensuring the preservation of collective memory.

Promotes sports and youth development.

Elektrostal invests in sports infrastructure and programs to encourage youth participation, health, and physical fitness.

Hosts annual cultural and artistic festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal celebrates its cultural diversity through festivals dedicated to music, dance, art, and theater.

Provides a picturesque landscape for photography enthusiasts.

The city’s scenic beauty, architectural landmarks, and natural surroundings make it a paradise for photographers.

Connects to Moscow via a direct train line.

The convenient train connection between Elektrostal and Moscow makes commuting between the two cities effortless.

A city with a bright future.

Elektrostal continues to grow and develop, aiming to become a model city in terms of infrastructure, sustainability, and quality of life for its residents.

In conclusion, Elektrostal is a fascinating city with a rich history and a vibrant present. From its origins as a center of steel production to its modern-day status as a hub for education and industry, Elektrostal has plenty to offer both residents and visitors. With its beautiful parks, cultural attractions, and proximity to Moscow, there is no shortage of things to see and do in this dynamic city. Whether you’re interested in exploring its historical landmarks, enjoying outdoor activities, or immersing yourself in the local culture, Elektrostal has something for everyone. So, next time you find yourself in the Moscow region, don’t miss the opportunity to discover the hidden gems of Elektrostal.

Q: What is the population of Elektrostal?

A: As of the latest data, the population of Elektrostal is approximately XXXX.

Q: How far is Elektrostal from Moscow?

A: Elektrostal is located approximately XX kilometers away from Moscow.

Q: Are there any famous landmarks in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to several notable landmarks, including XXXX and XXXX.

Q: What industries are prominent in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal is known for its steel production industry and is also a center for engineering and manufacturing.

Q: Are there any universities or educational institutions in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to XXXX University and several other educational institutions.

Q: What are some popular outdoor activities in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal offers several outdoor activities, such as hiking, cycling, and picnicking in its beautiful parks.

Q: Is Elektrostal well-connected in terms of transportation?

A: Yes, Elektrostal has good transportation links, including trains and buses, making it easily accessible from nearby cities.

Q: Are there any annual events or festivals in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal hosts various events and festivals throughout the year, including XXXX and XXXX.

Elektrostal's fascinating history, vibrant culture, and promising future make it a city worth exploring. For more captivating facts about cities around the world, discover the unique characteristics that define each city . Uncover the hidden gems of Moscow Oblast through our in-depth look at Kolomna. Lastly, dive into the rich industrial heritage of Teesside, a thriving industrial center with its own story to tell.

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What teams make up the Information Security Office?

The Information Security Office consists of three teams: Security Operations and Engineering, Identity and Access Management, and the Contracts Office.

Nowell Arnold is our deputy chief information security officer (CISO) and leads our Security Operations and Engineering team . This team runs Multi-factor Authentication (Duo), our endpoint protection tools (CrowdStrike), and vulnerability management tools. They perform third-party risk assessments for our vendors and review firewall rules and email protection technologies in collaboration with other Northwestern IT colleagues.

In addition to running the prevention systems, anytime there is a threat indicator from any of the intelligence sources, this team conducts a meticulous investigation and determines the implications of the threat. This is no small task.

Over 60,000 computers throughout the enterprise generate millions of emails, data packets, and network connections.

The team collects all this data and creates detection rules to look for threats and take action as needed. This comprehensive approach ensures the thoroughness of our data protection. In any given month, about 100 million malicious emails are blocked, 53 million threats are blocked by the border firewalls, and 1,000 endpoint threats are investigated.

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, led by Myndi Brown, associate director, plays a crucial role that goes beyond being “the NetID people." This team maintains the primary identity system that generates our NetIDs and Wildcard data and the authentication and authorization systems (WebSSO). They also control and maintain the flow of NetIDs into other systems, including integration with NUFinancials, myHR, CAESAR, and distributed directory systems throughout schools and units at Northwestern. The IAM team ensures that one identity—NetID and NetID password—can be used in various systems and services across the enterprise.

The IAM team also builds and maintains community-facing applications, such as the Northwestern Online People Directory and all the other directory systems. Their work is integral to the smooth functioning of Northwestern’s operations. Our IAM program is a critical aspect of the University’s security posture, as identity compromise and credential theft are leading forms of attack in all industries, including higher education.

The Contracts Office is responsible for reviewing and handling negotiations for all technology agreements on behalf of the University. They coordinate with other areas of the institution, such as privacy compliance, insurance, and the Office of General Counsel, and then coordinate with third-party risk reviews. Finally, the contract is packaged and sent to the person authorized to sign on behalf of the University. For IT-related contacts, that is Sean Reynolds, Northwestern IT's vice president and chief information officer. Most people do not realize that every technology software and hardware-as-a-service comes with some sort of agreement. There is purchasing going on all the time by different units, and all those agreements and contracts must run through the Contracts Office. On average, the team reviews more than 100 contracts annually.

What are the biggest cybersecurity challenges facing higher education?

Our biggest threats are like those facing every other industry: identity compromises (primarily from responses to phishing attempts), sensitive data exfiltration, and ransomware.

The things that make higher education amazing also make it challenging to protect. Anyone who has worked in a corporate environment knows it is a very locked-down structure. In higher education, such unilateral restrictions can place an undue burden on education and research. We must balance appropriate protections and risk mitigation with keeping our environment as open as possible to enable teaching, learning, research, and academic collaboration.

Most higher education organizations, us included, used to operate as a castle protected by a moat. You are either on the outside of the castle or the inside. Once inside, you have access to all the rooms within the castle. Nevertheless, we are moving to an airport model—you can get to the parking garage and baggage claim without too many security checks. But if you want to get to the gates, you must go through the security check. If you are on an international flight, you may need to go through additional security checks, etc. Keeping as many areas as possible open while understanding where we need to adjust to meet enhanced security requirements and appropriately protect our community is a balance.

For example, we recently changed the University People Directory to require NetID authentication. Placing it behind WebSSO prevents bad actors from easily accessing email addresses and other data for impersonation attempts and as phishing targets. Similarly, we are enhancing Multi-factor Authentication on all our systems and services to further protect the University from unauthorized access to sensitive information.

What measures are in place to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access or breaches?

Northwestern is a member of several cybersecurity communities. We participate in OmniSOC, a research and education security operations center, REN-ISAC, a cybersecurity information sharing network for higher education and research institutions, and the FBI’s InfraGuard program. Participation in these networks helps keep us apprised of emerging threats and trends impacting our community.

Northwestern IT also operates several defensive layers of technology to prevent security incidents.

We receive regular feeds from Palo Alto, our firewall vendor, providing us with a list of suspicious websites and IP addresses that have been analyzed and determined to be suspicious.
Our email defense system analyzes messages for malicious links or attachments and quarantines them if they are suspicious.
Our vulnerability management system lets us know our weaknesses in our environment and helps us develop mitigations.
Our endpoint detection and response tool goes beyond traditional anti-virus services to provide dynamic analysis of files and system activity to protect against fast-paced and evolving cyberattacks.

We also have our Northwestern community as a layer of protection – so-called “zero-day” attacks or vulnerabilities occur where our defensive systems may not fully protect us. When such an event is identified in the cybersecurity community, we look across our systems and reach out to the campus Technology Leaders to assess our exposure University-wide. We evaluate the severity level, build rules and detections, and investigate if there are indicators of compromise. We also work with our technology partners across campus to implement appropriate mitigations.

Still, even with all our safeguards, it’s important that we’re prepared to respond to an incident. In the event of a security incident on campus, we follow procedures outlined in the Incident Response Protocol , which are in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements and University policy to address instances of unauthorized access to or disclosure of University Information.

What is your favorite place on campus?

My favorite place on campus is not that unique—the rocks on the southeast corner of the Lakefill. I enjoy sitting on the rocks, listening to the water, watching the planes go by, and hearing the campus sounds. You see the Chicago skyline, and to the east and south, you see the lake; behind you is the lagoon and the Global Hub and Tech. It is a great vantage point to see the growth of the campus and why we are here.

ISO By the Numbers

Below are some statistics from the ISO mentioned in this article.

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At the AbSciCon conference held from May 6-10, 2024 in Providence, RI, NASA SCoPE (SMD Community of Practice for Engagement) left a lasting impression with its engaging activities centered around gaming. The NASA SCoPE exhibit hall booth was a vibrant hub featuring three digital game consoles, where nearly 150 of the 900 conference attendees, had the opportunity to learn about NASA Science Activation, the NASA SCoPE project, and avenues for proposing funded projects for educational outreach. The booth provided a dynamic environment for networking and exploring the exciting prospects within NASA's educational outreach initiatives.

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