123 Homeschool for ME
https://www.123homeschool4me.com/home-school-free-printables/Free printable worksheets and educational activities to help making learning fun. Resources arranged by grade or subject.
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Free worksheets and activities
Teachers
Active History
https://www.activehistory.co.uk/Amazing resources for history teachers by the British educator Russell Tarr including interactive simulations, quizzes, games that can easily be used for online learning.
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1 month free trial because of school closures upon request (contact form)
Actively Learn
https://www.activelylearn.com/post/remote-learningActively Learn is a web-based reading platform that helps students read deeply and think critically, with thousands of texts and associated instruction in ELA, Science, and Social Studies.
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Free
Age of Learning
https://www.ageoflearning.com/schoolsAge of Learning provides schools closed due to the coronavirus with free home access for all affected schools to leading digital education programs ABCmouse, Adventure Academy, and ReadingIQ. Programs serve students in preschool / pre-k, elementary school, and middle school.
Students can gain free access only through a teacher or district-created account.
All Kids Network
https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/We offer FREE educational resources, worksheets, writing prompts, themed coloring pages, craft and snack ideas for parents, teachers & caregivers.
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FREE educational resources
AMAZE JR.
https://amaze.org/jr/Little kids have big questions. amaze jr. brings parents age-appropriate sex ed resources about talking to kids ages 4-9 and fun videos to share with your children.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
https://americanarchive.orgThe American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70 years.
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Access to thousands of historic public television and radio programs.
American Chemistry Society
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/articles-by-topic.htmlThe American Chemical Society has ChemMatters magazines, targeted for high schoolers, available online. In addition to chemistry, there are articles that are biographies of chemists, and historical articles.
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Free All The Time
American Panorama
https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/Digital Atlas of America uses online GIS to explore and visualize data. Incredible interactive maps of major events, political movements, and cultural shifts throughout history help students deeply understand concepts in history, economics, government, and more.
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Free
Arcademics
https://www.arcademics.com/Boost student engagement & fact fluency with our free multiplayer educational games, math games, language arts games, and more!
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Always Free.
Ardor Math
https://www.ardoreducation.comMath practice system. Web, iOS, Android. Teacher dashboard and student practice app.
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We are giving 7th and 8th grade teachers who work in school affected by the coronavirus free Unlimited subscriptions. Just email us and we will set you up. contact@ardoreducation.com
Artusi
www.artusi.xyzArtusi is a suite of digital workbooks to help students learn the fundamental skills of music theory faster, better, and more accurately than before so they can spend more time pursuing the creative mission of music making and music study.
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All Artusi online services are free to affected schools, universities, and other institutions until June 30. Email support@artusi.xyz to be added.
Asecend Math
https://ascendmath.com/coronavirus-offer/Ascend Math is a K to 12 math instructional resource Ascend Math offers award winning math instruction that provides an individual study plan for each student. Ascend Math’s study plans are unique to each student, prescriptive, adaptive, and automatically assigned. Teachers also have the ability to assign standards to an entire class or grade to meet pacing guidelines.
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Free Service Offered: Now until the end of April for schools new to Ascend Math.
Beanstalk
https://beanstalk.co/Beanstalk Interactive, a Denver-based interactive educational pre-school children’s content company, announced today that it will be offering free membership during the Coronavirus outbreak.
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Free membership!
Belouga
https://belouga.org/Belouga is a digital platform providing K-2,3-5,6-8,9-12 teachers and students with a personalized learning journey through connection, communication and collaboration with peers around the world.
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Always Free.
Better Chinese
https://www.betterchinese.com/pages/coronavirusBetter Chinese is a leading publisher of Mandarin curricula for students from pre-kindergarten to college. Better Chinese materials have been officially adopted by nine states in the United States and are used in 1400+ schools worldwide.
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BetterChinese is offering free online access for schools and individual learners, K through College.
Big History Project
https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhpliveHarness the curiosity and creativity of your middle and high school students with a supercharged social studies curriculum that gets beyond facts. Big History Project is a free, online social studies course that emphasizes skill development as students draw mind-blowing connections between past, present and future. What can you expect to see? Amazing gains in student writing and critical thinking.
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Always Free.
Biology Simulations
www.biologysimulations.comSimulations and virtual labs for biology topics including evolution, ecology, and cellular energetics.
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All materials are free
BiteScis
https://bitescis.org/BiteScis integrates current scientific research into NGSS-aligned lessons aimed at introductory high school level courses. Most lesson are easily modified for remote learning.
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Lesson plans and all corresponding materials are always free.
BlocksCAD builds math and computer science skills by using a specialized 3D CAD (computer-aided drafting) software. A block-based coding platform allows students to create and manipulate 3D objects while using geometry and computational thinking skills.
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We’d like to support teachers by offering anyone in a closed school the chance to have access to BlocksCAD for Education Premium for free until the end of the school year.
Boddle Learning
https://www.boddlelearning.com/Boddle is a math platform for 1-6th grade that makes learning fun and personalized. Teachers are able to track student progress remotely and quickly identify learning gaps.
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Boddle is currently being offered at no cost to educators that are dealing with school closures. Add #remote next to school name on sign-up page.
This site has wonderful and engaging content in nearly every content area PK-12. Whether you are a parent or teacher, you now have access to a free account!
Brainpop Jr.
https://jr.brainpop.com/Notes:
Free accounts available to parents and teachers due to COVID-19 school closures
Britannica
http://bit.ly/freebritannicaBritannica has made available COVID-19 emergency resources to every school in the U.S. Get free access to Britannica LaunchPacks, for social studies and science, being leveraged by schools across the world who are grappling with shutdowns, conducting virtual lessons, and working to minimize the impact on students, families, and staff.
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Britannica LaunchPacks, for social studies and science.
Bunk History
https://www.bunkhistory.org/Digital archive of a variety of media produced about current events, public history and government. Bunk shows connection both spatially and across historic eras.
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Free
Campus Difusion
https://www.difusion.com/campus/Free resources for Spanish teachers and activities
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With a free account, students and teachers can access 100% of videos, online activities, proyectable materials for the classroom, and sample units and audios of all books
CanFigureIt Geometry
https://www.canfigureit.com/Created by teachers, this highly interactive tool provides an easy-to-use workspace where students can practice proofs while exercising their deductive reasoning muscles.
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Always Free.
Canopy LAB
https://canopylab.com/A research-based social elearning platform for developing competencies through individualized and adaptive learning experiences. It is designed with an integrated social network structure to enhance collaborative learning and built on strong Nordic learning principles.
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Completely free for 6 months, including onboarding and customer service. Details here: https://canopylab.com/detailed-overview-of-our-free-offerings-to-all-educational-institutions/
CaroneLearning
https://caronelearning.com/covid-19/K-2,3-5,6-8,9-12 Health and Physical Education courses
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Health and PE courses online for a variety of grade levels.
CHALK Academy
https://chalkacademy.com/Chinese learning activities, including printables
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Always Free.
CheckMath
http://www.checkmath.eu/Step by Step Checking
Upload your steps to any math problem and CheckMath tells you where you made the mistake.
Choices Program’s Teaching with the News
https://www.choices.edu/teaching-with-the-news/Teaching with the News: Free lessons connect your classroom to headlines in the news.
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Many two or three-day free lessons on breaking news stories.
Chrome Music Lab
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
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Free
CICI English
www.cicied.comOnline class and resource provider
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Free daily reading comprehension fiction and nonfiction worksheet for students in G2-7
Cignition
https://hubs.ly/H0nB_l10Cignition is providing all families free access to our game-based math program, FogStone Isle, a free 1-on-1 online tutoring session with a certified math teacher, and a deeply discounted month of at-home online math tutoring and support.
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FogStone Isle Game-Based Math Program, Free 1-on-1 Online Tutoring Session
CircleTime Fun
https://circletimefun.com/Learn and bond with your 0 – 6 year old. Follow and interact with an expert instructor.
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code: homefun1
ClassHook
http://www.blog.classhook.com/2020/03/06/support-for-schools-impacted-by-coronavirus-covid-19/Easily find educational videos from TV shows and movies to use in your lessons.
Notes:
Is your school closed or planning to close due to the coronavirus (COVID-19)? We’d like to support your school during this challenging time with access to ClassHook Premium.
ClassKick
https://classkick.com/school-closingsThe best virtual learning platform for students and teachers. See students’ thinking and support where they need it most!
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FREE Classkick Pro School, for any school in need due to covid-19 related closings.
ClassMaster
https://classmaster.org/ClassMaster takes your existing paper or computer-based teaching resources and makes them digital. These resources can be assigned to pupils, groups or classes and completed on any device, in school or at home. Marking and scoring are automatic and pupils performance can be tracked over time.
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Free access to all ClassMaster features for the rest of the 19/20 academic year for any teachers affected by COVID-19.
Classroom Cereal
https://www.classroomcereal.com/Grammar practice in free, printable short stories.
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Always free
Classroom Secrets
https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/Club OASIS
social.oasismatters.comA free online STE(A)M club for kids!
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We always free. We offer free STE(A)M classes, projects, and teaching resources for families and educators.
Club SciKidz MD
http://www.clubscikidzmd.com/blog/Daily free science or cooking experiment to do at home.
Notes:
Each day we will be posting a daily activity for parents and kids to do at home, mostly using things the already have at home. We’ll also include videos and other resources to extend the experiment.
CMU CS Academy
https://academy.cs.cmu.edu/splashWe provide a free, online, interactive textbook for high school and middle school teachers to use to teach computer science in their classrooms
Codecraft Works
Https://www.codecraftworks.comAre you looking for online activities for self-paced learning? Codecraftworks is perfect for home-school CS learning and provides a great way to integrate CS into your #coronavirus planning.
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Explore a community of projects, create something you love with code, gain experience in professional programming languages, and share your portfolio of digital projects
Codesters
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVs2GIZcfOsC-_SMuWpLzHHg4e5NoBIhoe-QL4Au52SQvmfA/viewformWith many schools temporarily closing due to the coronavirus outbreak we recognize the enormity of issues currently facing school communities. Codesters is offering free, 30 day unlimited use of our Python learn-to-code platform to any school that is planning for a temporary closure.
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Codesters Python Part I Curriculum
Cognetic Technologies
www.vortals.appVortals, the world’s only creation platform that allows students to design, create and publish immersive education projects while developing vital future skills.
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Free Access Through to 30 June 2020.
Collisons Chemistry
https://www.playmadagames.com/Collisions is a system of digital games, grounded in the rules of chemistry, that can be used to introduce, teach, and review key concepts in chemistry.
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Always free.
CommonLit
https://www.commonlit.org/Reading passages for grades 3-5,6-8,9-12, with reading comprehension and discussion questions. Also has highlighting and notes tools embedded on its passages, as well as most passages have a read aloud function. Once students are signed up on here you can track which students have completed the assignments, and what they are having trouble on. Can easily link to Google Classroom.
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Always free!
Conjugemos
https://conjuguemos.com/“Use without account” option has vocabulary, grammar, listening activities and games in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Korean, and Latin.
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“Use without account” option has vocabulary, grammar, listening activities and games in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Korean, and Latin.
CountryReports
https://www.CountryReports.orgCountryReports, online database on culture, countries and travel.
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Access to entire online database on culture, countries and travel.
CreositySpace
https://www.creosityspace.com/spring2020.htmlCreositySpace is a unique inquiry-based, learner-directed science curriculum that connects ALL K-2,3-5 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?”
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CreositySpace is providing lessons from our Contagion Crushers, Water Watchers and Conscientious Chemists units at no cost to help support teachers—parents and guardians, too—to keep all kids engaged in science.
Curriculum Associates
https://www.curriculumassociates.com/supporting-students-away-from-schoolWhile we hope that extended school closings are never necessary, contingency plans to support our students away from school are a wise investment. But how can we keep our students learning if we need to close our schools for an extended period of time? i-Ready® and Ready® can play a valuable role in keeping the learning going, even when the classroom isn’t available
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Free printable K-2,3-5,6-8 Reading and Math activity packs (available in English and Spanish) and guidance for teachers and families to support learning at home
Curriki
https://www.curriki.org/Curriki revolutionized the way digital learning content is distributed and shared. For over 10 years we have made the best curriculum, lessons and on-demand content free, open, and accessible to all.
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Always Free
Data Classroom
https://about.dataclassroom.com/blog/flatten-the-curveDataClassroom is a web app that allows students in grades 6-8,9-12 to make pro-quality graphs (line, bar, box plots, dot plots, etc.) in seconds and do basic statistical analysis where all the math is explained with visuals. They have a few datasets available on coronavirus including this activity that uses data from the 1918 influenza pandemic to illustrate why schools are closing in an attempt to flatten the curve: https://about.dataclassroom.com/blog/flatten-the-curve
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Register a free password anytime. Start a free 90-day trial to create classes with student accounts. Company CEO Aaron Reedy says that teachers can email him directly to extend a trial longer than 90-days and he will be happy to personally take care of it.
Defined Learning
https://www.definedstem.com/elearning-projects/Our hands-on projects are based on situations in STEM careers to help learners discover their passions and choose a pathway to a promising future.
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A free real-world project at every grade-band.
DeltaMath
https://deltamath.com/overviewDelta Math is a free website for teachers and students covering a wide range of math content from middle school through AP Calculus.
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Always Free
Desmos
teacher.desmos.comGreat online program for math. It provides teachers with a dashboard where you can see student work in real time.
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always free
Did You Know That?! ASL
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwzFvhWOBTnUK5JXX5PHONAAlways educational videos in American Sign Language.
Notes:
During the closings, more ASL videos will be added with the addition of comprehension questions and other resources will be added to help ASL teachers.
Digital Learning Academy
https://schools.digitalmediaacademy.org/teachers/#signupteachersAn online learning platform with 32 STE(A)M courses that come with lesson plans, instructions, online materials, quizzes, worksheets, and more.
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Educators will receive full access to all of these courses at no cost during this global health crisis. Please visit the link below, and shoot an email to george@digitalmediaacademy.org so that I can manually provide the content.
Digital Theatre Plus
https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/educationThree million students, at over 2,000 academic institutions, in 80+ countries have unlimited access to some of the world’s finest productions, unique backstage insights, practitioner interviews and written analysis.
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Free during this time
Discovery Education
https://www.discoveryeducation.com/coronavirus-response/Discovery Education Experience is an online K-2,3-5,6-8,9-12 service combining curated curriculum resources with on-demand teaching strategies. Its standards-aligned content is assignable and meets the varying needs of diverse student populations in a safe and secure environment.
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Discovery Education Experience
Discovery K12
http://discoveryk12.com/dk12/Discovery K12 provides a complete online curriculum for pre-k to 12th grade. All main subjects are covered, plus extra curriculum courses.
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All of the curriculum if free to use and it is available worldwide.
Ditch That Textbook
https://ditchthattextbook.com/elearning-activities/It’s easy to feel anxious, overwhelmed and frustrated if you’re asked to create elearning activities and teach remotely because of a school closure.
We’ve got you covered.
In this post, you’ll find 50 elearning activities, templates and tutorials. They’ll help you create elearning activities that lend themselves to powerful learning when students are away from school.
Doodles Academy
http://www.doodles-academy.orgDoodles Academy is a free art curriculum that is available virtually. It provides art projects that offer authentic art experiences for students — every student makes their own artistic decisions and walks away from the project with an artwork unique to them. Each project includes video tutorials and thorough lesson plans so that anyone can feel comfortable teaching art, regardless of their background or experience level.
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art curriculum, virtually available, with lesson plans and video demos
Dr. Roger’s Math Neighborhood
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbQoCpvYRYRkRRvsObOPHaA?reload=9This is a free online video series with detailed solutions to more than a thousand publicly-released College Board SAT Math, Subject Test Math Level 1, and Subject Test Math Level 2 problems.
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Free all the time. No ads, now or ever. No paid product endorsements.
DreamBox Learning Math
www.dreambox.com/at-homeAward winning K-2,3-5,6-8 online math program that looks at how a student is solving problems to adjust accordingly and build a unique learning path for them.
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90 day free trial of DreamBox. Sign up by April 30th.
DreamScape
https://www.squigglepark.com/dreamscape/Engaging reading game for grades K-2,3-5,6-8 that combines strategy, engagement, and imaginative reading passages to create a fun, curriculum-aligned literacy game.
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Always free
Dylexia Academy
https://dyslexia-academy.learnworlds.com/Notes:
I have set all the best resources section to free to help as many schools as possible with new and updated resources being added all the time.
Non-Fiction Read Alouds for PreK-2,3-5,6-8,9-12th Graders
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Read Alouds w/Reading Tips
Ecree
https://www.ecree.com/Ecree provides unlimited, real-time, human quality feedback on the elements of foundational academy writing: argumentation, organization and analysis. Ecree provides the equivalent impact of an expert writing tutor.
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Free access to software
Workbooks
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Free Math Workbooks
Education Galaxy
https://educationgalaxy.com/Education Galaxy provides award-winning online assessment for students to help prepare them for state testing. Education Galaxy is built 100% to your state standards and provides a highly-engaging and amazingly effective way for students to master all their state standards. Education Galaxy is a great tier 1 solution for practice, instruction, and assessment.
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We are offering free services to any school who doesn’t have our program and is experiencing a closure. It will be valid for the remainder of the school year and into the summer.
Enable My Child
www.enablemychild.com/schoolsEnable My Child is a HIPAA compliant tetetherapy platform made for schools. In these challenging times, we’re providing free access to our platform.
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Enable My Child is a HIPAA compliant tetetherapy platform made for schools. In these challenging times, we’re providing free access to our platform.
Epic!
https://www.getepic.com/Free online library of books and audiobooks
eSpark differentiates instruction in reading and math with activities kids love.
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Teachers can sign up for a free account of eSpark to use through the end of this year at https://www.esparklearning.com/. eSpark can be used at home and is a great way for students to continue to independently learn math and reading standards at a level that’s right for them, even if they’re not in the classroom.
EVERFI’s no-cost digital resources cover topics such as social emotional laerning, STEM, financial literacy, career readiness, and health & wellness. Our student-driven, standards-aligned resources have assessments embedded into them, enabling teachers to see measurable outcomes from student work in real-time. Teachers can create an account and set up their classes in less than 5 minutes.
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EVERFI resources are and always will be free for teachers to use.
ExloreLearning Reflex
https://www.reflexmath.com/trialAdaptive and individualized for grades 2-6, Reflex is the most effective system for mastering basic math facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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Free 30-day trial. Schools impacted by COVID-19 may receive extended pilots for support during this time.
ExploreLearning Gizmos
https://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=Controller.dspFreeAccount&_ga=2.32190458.558305376.1569190470-443864285.1556293744Gizmos are online simulations that excite curiosity and invite interaction. We’ve got over 400 Gizmos in our library covering topics and concepts in math and science for grades 3-5,6-8,9-12. Gizmos help students dig deeper into subjects and really understand challenging concepts.
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Gizmos free accounts feature 30+ free Gizmos after your full-access trial is completed. Schools impacted by COVID-19 may receive extended pilots for support during this time.
ExploreLearning Science4Us
https://www.science4us.com/trial/Science4Us covers Inquiry, Physical Science, Life Science and Earth & Space Science with lessons specifically designed for K-2 students. The sessions have 1000’s of online and offline activities that can be completed in as little as ten minutes, and teach students using videos, interaction, poems, songs, and digital notebooks.
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Free 30-day trial. Schools impacted by COVID-19 may receive extended pilots for support during this time.
Exploring Nature Educational Resource
www.exploringnature.org¬¬ExploringNature.org is a science education website with more than 6,000 pages of illustrated Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, Biology, Anatomy, Ecology resources for K-2,3-5,6-8,9-12. Subscribers can access science content, activities, investigations, posters, diagrams, worksheets, testing and Next Generation Science Standard integration. Our science store also sells picture books, posters, flip charts, science kits, and downloadable bundles.
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Most resources can be accessed without a subscription, but email for a FREE 30-day trial any time as well.
Facing History
https://www.facinghistory.org/Collection of educator resources includes a wide range of flexible, multimedia materials, from primary sources and streaming videos to teaching strategies, lesson plans, and full units. There are resources that will support students’ learning, whether you are teaching a complex moment in history or addressing today’s breaking news.
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All resources free with creation of online account
Facts4Me
www.facts4me.comA safe research site for elementary-level readers
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They are offering — free 24/7 access to our site to ANYONE who may find it helpful.
www.facts4me.com
USERNAME: read (case sensitive)
PASSWORD: read (case sensitive)
Expiration date: 04/04/2020
FeedbackFruits
https://feedbackfruits.com/homeFeedbackFruits Interactive Video tool allows teachers to ask questions or start discussions at any point of a video that they upload in the tool within the LMS. The video can be self-recorded or found on platforms such as Youtube and Vimeo. The students can interact with each other and work in groups within the tool.
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The Interactive Tool is available for the higher institutions in need during the COVID-19 outbreak. You can request it here: feedbackfruits.com/covid
Fiveable
https://app.fiveable.me/We have free resources for AP students including live reviews, live trivia, and study guides!
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Always free.
Fluency & Fitness
https://fluencyandfitness.com/register/school-closures/Fluency & Fitness® provides educational brain breaks to help students review essential literacy and math skills, while getting in some exercise. Find over 900 videos to help your child keep learning at home and burn off some extra energy. Our site is best used for ages 4-8.
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We are offering our subscription website FREE for parents to use at home during the school closures.
FluentKey helps language teachers make listening fun and meaningful by turning real-life videos into an interactive game. They have hundreds of authentic videos in Chinese, English, French, and Spanish. You can play FluentKey Live with your students in real time or create assignments for them to complete on their own time. Made by language teachers for language teachers
Notes:
FluentKey Pro for one month using the code StaySafe on fluentkey.com/plans
Freckle
https://www.freckle.com/Notes:
Freckle.com has a free level access where students in K-2,3-5,6-8 can access Freckle for free.
Fun Based Learning
FunBasedLearning.comFormer math & science teacher makes story tutorials and fun games to teach the hard concepts. Can you pick the right (x,y) coordinate for Whack-A-Mole? Fly a dragon to get gems with y=mx+b? Or balance chemical equations? Used by teachers since 1995, 60 million pageviews.
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Algebra coordinate plane graphing (x,y) y=mx+b, balancing chemical equations, chemical elements and symbols. Math, science, chemistry.
Geopolaris
http://www.geopolarised.com/We’ve got a Human Geography textbook and assignments ready to go that we’re offering up for teachers to help get them through the next couple weeks. Teachers will have to contact us through this email to identify which units they need.
Notes:
We’ve got a Human Geography textbook and assignments ready to go that we’re offering up for teachers to help get them through the next couple weeks. Teachers will have to contact us through this email to identify which units they need.
Great Minds Knowledge on the Go
https://gm.greatminds.org/en-us/knowledgeonthegoOur teachers and teacher–writers know it’s important for students to build knowledge every day, even when schools are closed. That’s why we are providing knowledge-building resources here—written materials for math (Grades K–12) and daily instructional videos for English language arts (Grades K–8), math (Grades K-12), and science (Grades 3–5). We will post new video lessons and update our content daily.
Heifer International
https://www.heifer.org/what-you-can-do/get-involved/schools/home-school-activities.htmlFREE resources (downloadable books, mazes, word searches, and more) from Heifer International’s school programs — with topics in social studies (geography, economics), science, language arts.
Mango Languages – Mango Classroom
https://mangolanguages.com/find-mango/Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology. Every self-paced language course introduces the learner to cultural insights and grammatical nuances specific to their language of choice, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind.
Notes:
Parents may have free access to Mango through their local library or another local organization. Mango makes it easy to find libraries that offer free access–simply provide your zip code to find your library. Once you select your local library, you will be redirected to their website to log in with your library card. Accessible through desktop and mobile apps, and has offline availability. Note: Contact your local library if you do not yet have a library card, or are not sure if you have one. Libraries are working harder than ever to provide online resource access to patrons during this time. Some libraries offer eCard sign-up through their website for accessing online resources.
Mystery Science
https://mysteryscience.com/school-closure-planningTo help all these teachers during school closures, we at Mystery Science just finished going through all our lessons, pulling the easiest ones to do from home, and putting them all up for free on a page to make it easy. No signup required, no student login—we just want to help.
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Free Access
Prodigies – Music
https://prodigiesmusic.com/Prodigies is a colorful music curriculum for kids 1-12 that will teach your kids how to play their first instrument, how to sing in tune & how to understand the language of music!
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21 Days Free
Reading Eggs
https://www.3plearning.com/distance-teaching/Reading Eggspress
https://www.3plearning.com/distance-teaching/Readiwriter Spelling
https://www.3plearning.com/distance-teaching/Shurley English
https://www.shurley.com/The Shurley English program for grades K-2,3-5,6-8 provides a clear, logical, and concrete approach to language arts. Schools and teachers can register their classes for free, caregivers have access to a 3-day free trial.
Notes:
The Shurley English Digital Edition will be offered to teachers and students for free. This offer includes complete video instruction for each lesson through our Shurley English Digital Assistant: SEDA. No code required.
An online writing tool that you can access for FREE to help mitigate any gaps in your writing instruction and practice. It’s called Revision Assistant and offers almost 200 writing prompts that can be used in grades 6-8,9-12. As your students write, they can get immediate automated feedback which will help them revise and improve.
Notes:
We have a 60-day absolutely free trial that you can access here: https://go.turnitin.com/l/45292/2018-08-07/bgyfwq.
Tyto Online
https://www.tytoonline.com/Next Generation Science video game focused on middle school where students directly engage in science phenomena as they solve problems.
Notes:
Free 60-day trial; if we need to extend longer for teachers impacted by COVID-19 school services, we’ll make sure it’s available throughout this school year.
Unlock Math
http://www.unlockmath.com/UnLock Math offers online math curriculum for grades 6-8,9-12.
Notes:
Anyone who signs up for our 14 day free trial due to school closures and emails us at matthew@unlockmath.com will have their trial extended to 3 weeks (possibly longer depending on circumstances). Families are free to sign up as many children as needed.
Unsilence
https://www.unsilence.org/Through storytelling, the arts, and serious games, Unsilence creates highly-interactive, research-based learning experiences that help communities learn about social injustice, human rights, and genocide. Our experiences help learners bridge perspectives, break down ingrained stigmas, and build collective empathy and understanding. Unsilence is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Notes:
Unsilence’s online interactive features are FREE to use and include choose-your-own-pathway stories, webquests, human rights poetry and stories, interactive exhibitions, and companion education resources.
Walkabouts
http://info.activedinc.com/covidActivEd, Inc. offers Walkabouts, web-based lessons for pre-K to second-grade students that integrate movement with language arts, math, and reading content and correlate to your state’s standards.
Notes:
To support your efforts to keep your students moving and learning outside of school due to closures related to COVID-19, we have decided to make the Walkabouts platform temporarily available at no cost to any classrooms impacted by school closures and remote learning needs.
Yabla Languages
www.yabla.com/freeFree extended trials to last to end of school year.
Notes:
Online language learning resource. Students work from home.
Zinc Reading Labs
https://www.zinclearninglabs.comZinc has a suite of online literacy tools for 6th-12th grade students. They offer differentiated authentic articles, vocabulary games, and close reading instruction. Their Reading Sprints are great for self-paced long-term assignments.
Notes:
Zinc is offering free use for all students and
teachers impacted by coronavirus closures. Licenses will go through
July 2020.