Share these top 10 Open & Free Educational Resource sites with your students: they are a great compliment to classroom instruction, and they can give students the opportunity to study personal interests in depth!
- Curriki – Thousands of open educational resources for all subjects and grade levels for students to use in for personal pursuits or as support materials to what they are learning in class.
- eThemes – “provides free, fast access to over 2,500 collections of websites, on topics ranging from Aerodynamics to Zebras and everything in between!”
- FactMonster – Check facts quickly, and enjoy free access to encyclopedia, dictionaries, atlases, almanacs and more!
- Finding Dulcinea – this website is a wonderful curated collection of best-of-web sites for kids with many excellent resources for elementary, middle and high school students. Upperclassmen especially should check out these guides for Applying to College!
- Illuminations: Resources for Teaching Math - Filled with activities, lessons and links to math websites and study guides, this is a great resource for students looking to increase their math skills at any level.
- Internet Public Library – An extensive online public library, this is a great research tool for students. The library also hosts collections devoted to kids and teens.
- Khan Academy – Thousands of videos that provide a full course on instruction in a variety of topics, from social studies to statistics.
- Learning Science – A fabulous site for science learners of all ages. This website contains an array of science websites and interactive simulations for students and teachers.
- Open Learning Initiative – Carnegie Melon University is offering free courses in French, Physics through this initiative. Students may take an entire course, or access relevant topics for help in their own studies.
- Shmoop – Free, student-friendly and jargon-free study guides in subjects ranging from Shakespeare to Economics and everything in between.
- Thinkfinity Student Resources – A project of the Verizon Foundation, this website contains loads of interactive lessons, simulations and more, all easily searchable by grade level and subject area.
- Wolfram MathWorld – This excellent, free resource from Wolfram can answer any question you have about mathematics, from arithmetic to linear algebra and beyond.
Hey, students! What open & free educational resources do you use? Let us know!
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This is a great list of resources! Another to add to the list would be Shodor. Shodor is a non-profit in Durham, North Carolina that focuses on computational science education. Shodor has a variety of online resources, one such resource being Interactivate. Interactivate is a set of free, online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. It’s comprised of activities, lessons, and discussions for grades 3- 12. Visit http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/ for more info!