See also:
Subject Areas for sites geared to specific topics
- Annenberg Media - Learner.org
Nice selection of free educational materials in streaming format. Includes ready-to-view lessons and interactive activities.
- Bernie Poole's EdIndex of Resources for Teachers and Students
Lots of links, mainly for teachers, organized by subject. Incudes lesson plans, courseware, electronic field trip, online workships, reference tools, and more. With free online tutorials in MS Office.
- Blue Web'N: a library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web
Tutorials, projects, lesson plans, and other resources, neatly categorized by subject and grade level. Includes annotated lists of links in each area.
- Catholic Educator's Resource Center
Lesson plans, articles, and links for Catholic educators.
- Curriki
"Free curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12."
- Discovery Education: Lesson Plan Library
Divided into areas by grade level and subject.
- The Educator's Network
Lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics, bulletin board ("forum"), and other miscellaneous tools. "Our new network will consist of 30+ teacher sites, including a new portal page at TeacherPlanet.com."
- The Educator's Reference Desk
"2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses."
- ERIC
"ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text."
- FactCheckED.org
"FactCheckEd.org is an educational resource for high school teachers and students. It’s designed to help students learn to cut through the fog of misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages they’re bombarded with every day." Includes complete lesson plans for teachers.
- FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
"Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government" can be browsed by subject or searched directly. Primary documents, educator's guides, lesson plans, and more.
- The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education, GEM provides access to thousands of lesson plans and other materials for teachers. Searches can be defined by subjects, grades, and whether the material is free or not.
- iLumina Digital Library
"iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. ... These resources range in type from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses."
- The Learning Page
From the Library of Congress. Lesson plans, activities, links, workshops, and more. (Note: may crash older/slower computers or browsers.)
- MarcoPolo - Internet Content for the Classroom
"MarcoPolo provides the highest quality standards-based Internet content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students throughout the United States."
- McRel Lesson Plans
"Links to selected lesson plans and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning, including activities developed at McREL for specific benchmarks..."
- MERLOT
"MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments."
- National Archives: Teachers and Students
This is "the National Archives' gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students." Includes activities, lesson plans, national archives links, and more.
- NY Times Learning Network
News, information, lesson plans, links, and other resources from the NY Times. For more great stuff, check out NY Times - College Times ,which is full of info for uppper-level courses and general interest.
- New York Virtual Learning System
"Resources that classroom teachers can use to support preK-12 standards-based instruction, such as sample tasks, learning experiences and lesson plans."
- OER Commons
"OER Commons is a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K-12 through college, from algebra to zoology, open to everyone."
- PBS Teachers
Thousands of lesson plans and activities. Includes a search which allows you to match specific state or national standards.
- Sites For Teachers
Annotated links to pages with lesson plans, handouts, and other resources for teachers.
- Teachers' Domain
"High-quality multimedia resources from public television, correlations to national and state curriculum standards, media-rich lesson plans, customizable resource folders..." Requires free registration.
- Teachers Network.org
"Teachers Network is a nationwide, non-profit education organization that identifies and connects innovative teachers exemplifying professionalism and creativity within public school systems." Includes links, lesson plans, online courses, and more.
- Teachers.Net
Resources, articles, chat boards, lesson plans, links, and more for teachers. Also includes The Teacher's Net Gazette, an online magazine for teachers.
- TeacherServe
"TeacherServe®, is an interactive curriculum enrichment service offering teachers practical help in planning courses and presenting rigorous subject matter to students.".
- Teachnology
"We provide free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students." Lesson plans, worksheets, links, rubric generators, graphic organizers, more.
- Thinkfinity NY
"Thinkfinity is the merger of two highly acclaimed Verizon Foundation programs: MarcoPolo and the Verizon Literacy Network. ... Its objective is to provide the highest quality content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students throughout the United States."
