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This terrific site from Russell Stannard showcases award-winning screencasts to help teachers and students integrate technology into learning. Featured education technology videos include Google, Moodle, Quizlet, Camtasia, and Snagit, among others. Sections devoted to online teaching and Zoom are particularly relevant. Free.

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Epic is the leading digital reading platform—built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world’s best publishers—that safely fuels curiosity and reading confidence for kids 12 and under.

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Enhances the Multicultural Collection

Searchable; thousands of digital books from the public domain; includes both fiction and nonfiction

Read modern translations of Shakespeare’s plays online, for free.

Educational Site:  History- Science- Biography- Geography

Playing fun educational games, kids learn to read with phonics, build skills in math, language, social studies, science and much more. UN: pittsburg, PW: panthers

Free online EBSCO resources brought to you by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. EBSCO offers Explora which provides a safe, trustworthy environment for students to look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects or homework.

Oklahoma Humanities magazine fosters conversation and new perspectives through articles, interviews, and beautiful color images. From public policy issues to cultural heritage, you'll find an engaging forum for new ideas and productive civil discourse.

This site lots of reading and math resources.

Full online curriculum for Pre-K through Kindergarten.

*Reading  *Math  *Science  *Art/Colors  *Music

The Step-by-Step Learning Path presents the full ABCmouse.com curriculum in a carefully designed program of more than 450 lessons in six levels. As your child completes each lesson, he or she is guided to the next one and is motivated to continue learning by ABCmouse.com’s Tickets and Rewards System.

Free educational videos.

Great websites. Check them out.

Searchable; includes photographs, artwork, cartoons, documents and pictures of artifacts.

Searchable; includes maps, portraits, historical newspapers, music, videos and writings of famous Americans like Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine; also includes quiz games and crossword puzzles•

Created by Yale University; searchable; includes documents from ancient times through the 21st century; extensive list of collections of American, as well as international, documents.

Created by the National Archives (see); includes links to thousands of primary source documents, images, maps, charts, graphs, audio and video from the time of the American Revolution to the Contemporary U.S.

Searchable; includes the following collections: American Memory, Prints and Photographs, Historic Newspapers, Sound Recordings, Maps, Manuscripts, Performing Arts, Film and Veterans History; note that not all of the content is available online.

Searchable; rich resource of primary documents; includes Teachers’ Resources section with lesson plans, tips on using primary sources and information about school tours and professional development.

Quicklyst helps you take beautiful outline-style notes that help you structure your ideas.
You can use Quicklyst on an iPad, iPhone, Kindle, or Android device.

This remarkable nonprofit offers a wide variety of pre-K to college-level courses, from 3rd grade math and high school biology to U.S. history and macroeconomics. Khan for Educators provides guidance, how-to videos, and tips to help teachers implement Khan Academy with students. Free.

Inspire a lifetime of learning and discovery with our free, fun educational program for children ages two to six.

Open Educational Resources-OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.

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This collection offers a variety of lesson plans and resources for educators to use to introduce children ages 5-8 to creative coding by challenging them to create their own stories, games, and animations with the PBS KIDS ScratchJr tablet app.

Animation & Drawing by Do Ink is the fun, creative way to make animations on your iPad. The app was designed to be easy for beginners and young animators, but with powerful tools for creating advanced animations.

With Green Screen by Do Ink, you can tell a story, explain an idea, and express yourself in truly creative and unique ways.

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150+ STEM-rich, fun projects that can be done at home.

The well-organized site from San Francisco’s Exploratorium investigates everything from skateboard engineering to cookie subduction (i.e., using an Oreo cookie to demonstrate what happens when continental and oceanic plates shift) It is heavily science focused and follows the scientific method closely. Upper elementary and up.

Science Friday partners with educators and scientists to create free STEM activities, lessons, and resources for all learners.

MakerEd has compiled an archive of activities with a robust pedagogical and curricular foundation. It is easy to search and use, but dense with academic language. Elementary teachers and parents.

To support learning at home during COVID-19 school closures, the MakeCode team is offering daily live streaming tutorial sessions.

Microsoft’s MakeCode program includes both physical computing with the Micro Bit and virtual coding and app development. Easy to use with limitless possibilities, it’s a great block coding interface. It even has Minecraft coding! Upper elementary through middle school.

Users have access to various coding-related courses and languages, from computer science to JavaScript to web development. No need to get overwhelmed by the choices, as Codecademy furnishes a nine-question “quiz” that reveals your underlying strengths and which learning paths might be best for you. Free basic plan.

No list would be complete without this perennial favorite. Now in partnership with Harvard Graduate School of Education, the site includes an archive of activities for Scratch that includes 323 math activities, 302 visual arts ones, plus examples and stories to help build classroom community and support curricular content. Elementary through middle school.

While not technically a web tool, this free download allows students to create, alter, and run engineering simulations. Students can change gravity, add gears, planes, ropes, and wheels to see how they will interact —even add drag and friction! This is a very fun tool all around, but especially when thinking about simple machines. It would fit really well with adventure or chain reaction novels. Middle school and up.

This archive of experiments is a rabbit hole of awesome fun things. Curated into collections, the experiments are easy to use and share, require little to no equipment, and are deeply entertaining with a firm curricular foundation. I particularly recommend the Arts and Culture collection. Middle school and up.

Coursera~Build Skills with Online Courses from Top Institution

Top resource for more than 5,000 high-quality courses from expert institutions such as Yale, Google, and University of London. A detailed search filter helps users home in on the courses they need to advance their school or work career. Take courses for free or pay to earn a certificate.

Open Culture curates an extensive set of free learning resources from across the globe, including courses, lectures from leading academics, free audiobooks, movies, ebooks, and digital textbooks. The K-12 education section provides video tutorials, apps, books, and websites for K-12 learning. Free. 

Offering 130,000 online courses, Udemy is perhaps the world’s largest purveyor of online video courses. With categories as diverse as IT/software, photography, engineering, and humanities, there is something for any interested learner. Ratings for each course help users decide which ones to purchase. Bonus for educators - earn money by teaching on Udemy. A 24/7 Instructor Support team guides teachers in their course creation.

Sophia offers online college courses for credit, as well as training courses and continuing education for mental health, IT careers, and nursing. Sophia guarantees credits will transfer to its 37 Partner Network members, while noting that many other colleges and institutions also award credit on a case-by- case basis. $79/month for full access, with free trials available.

Techsmith, maker of screen capture software and solutions, provides tutorials and guides for its products, including Camtasia, Snagit, Knowmia, and more. How-to videos dedicated to remote education supply step-by-step instruction, ideal for online teaching. Free.