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A+ Click Math Challenge
Multi-national
A+ Click is a not-for-profit project that features a collection of illustrated challenging math problems for students in grades one through twelve. The purpose of this project is to help students become problem solvers. The website has a graduated set of over 1900 problems, starting from the very simple to the extremely difficult. The tests also include hundreds of practical problems and brainteasers.
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Animal Diversity Web
United States of America
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.
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Apertus
Hungary
The Apertus Foundation (in Hungarian: Apertus Közalapítvány) is a public foundation in Hungary set up by the government to support the development and introduction of open and distance learning.
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Arcademic Skill Builders
United States of America
Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
Our philosophy is inspired by the intense engagement arcade and video games foster between the player and the game. The Arcademic goal is to make aspects of classroom instruction as effective in creating persistence and involvement as observed in video game players. Our games are a result of blending video game features into instructional research in order to achieve a high rate of student learning through increased time-on-task and engagement. Students must employ strategy under exciting circumstances to make rapid responses while being given immediate feedback on their decisions.
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ARKive
Multi-national
ARKive is a not-for-profit initiative of the charity Wildscreen. With the help of the world's best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, we are creating an awe-inspiring record of life on Earth. Freely accessible to everyone and preserved for the benefit of future generations, ARKive is a truly invaluable resource for conservation, education and public awareness. Educate your pupils using ARKive's many thousands of videos, images and fact files in a wide range of science, ICT, art and English projects. Use the ARKive multimedia materials to engage your class in key biology topics, such as variation and adaptation, habitats or life cycles, or use them as creative inspiration for art and design projects. ARKive's science teaching resources cover many key science subjects, including evolution, classification, adaptation, food chains and conservation. All our photos, video clips and authenticated fact files are free and easy to use in your classroom activities and presentations.
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Blockly Games
United States of America
Blockly Games is a series of educational games that teach programming. It is designed for children who have not had prior experience with computer programming. By the end of these games, players are ready to use conventional text-based languages. Blockly Games is a Google project to encourage tomorrow's programmers. The games are designed to be self-paced and self-teaching. Feel free to use Blockly Games both inside and outside the classroom. All code is open source.
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British Pathé
United Kingdom
The world's finest news and entertainment video film archive. Since the invention of the moving image in the 1890's, British Pathé began recording every aspect of global culture and news, for the cinema. With their unique combination of information and entertainment, British Pathé's documentaries, newsreels, serials and films changed the way the world saw itself forever.
With it's unparalleled collection of historical events and vast catalogue of changing social activity, British Pathé encompasses one of the world's most prodigious and fascinating documents of the modern age. From fashion to warfare and sport to travel, British Pathé is the definitive source for the 20th century in moving images.
All 85,000 newsreels are now searchable and viewable on YouTube. This equates to 3,500 hours of filmed history.
Our YouTube channel includes some of the public's favourite clips, rare and amusing pieces to share and footage related to big days throughout the year.
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Cell Biology Animations by John Kyrk
United States of America
John Kirk, a biologist and artist has produced and made freely available short, easy to navigate animations and interactive diagrams explaining important basic concepts from DNA to photosynthesis. The animations are translated into six languages.
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CELLS alive!
United States of America
CELLS alive! represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. The site has been available continuously and updated annually since May of 1994 and now hosts over 4 million visitors a year.
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Chemical Education Digital Library
United States of America
The Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL) is a storehouse of tested digital resources for education in the chemical sciences. Our aim is to be the place on the Web where you can contribute, share, organize, and use high quality chemistry education materials.
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Chillola.com
Multi-national
Chillola.com is designed to give children all over the world the opportunity to explore
foreign languages, learn about different countries, cultures, and people.
Playful illustrations, real life pictures, native speakers and sounds will capture your
children’s interests and create a fun, and learning environment to build confidence.
Children will be motivated and enjoy learning through games and activities, as they
play along. Children using chillola.com learn for free and enjoy the process!
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Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
France
The Cité des sciences et de l'industrie is the 4th most visited museum in France (approximately 3 million visitors every year). The Cité houses several different activities having as an objective to "make accessible to all visitors new developments in science, technology and industrial know-how, as well as to participate in disseminating these to the regions of France and abroad". The Cité des sciences includes various areas such as: exhibitions, a Cité for children, a Congress centre, several Auditoriums, a Media Library which attracts one million readers per year with its various sections, a Cité des métiers (vocational guidance) on professional life. In order to bring science and technology closer to the people, the Cité des sciences has developed a programme offering a wide range of activities and actions oriented to the field of Education.
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Code.org
United States of America
Launched in 2013, Code.org® is a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, and increasing participation by women and underrepresented students of color. Our vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science. We believe computer science should be part of core curriculum, alongside other courses such as biology, chemistry or algebra. Our courses are available in 45+ languages, used in all 180+ countries. Code.org has developed an elementary school curriculum that allows even the youngest students to explore the limitless world of computing - at no cost for schools. The courses blend online, self-guided and self-paced tutorials with “unplugged” activities that require no computer at all. Each course consists of about 20 lessons that may be implemented as one unit or over the course of a semester. Even kindergarten-aged pre-readers can participate. Our current middle school curriculum focuses on using computer science and programming within the context of middle school math and science - as a tool to teach math and science concepts. In addition, the online courses in our Code Studio platform may be used at all grade levels. Our newest course-in-development, CS Discoveries, will be a year-long computer science course designed for middle school students.
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Contributing to Open Educational Resources & Practices in Less Used Languages
Europe
LangOER (2014 – 2016) is a European network focused on enhancing the linguistic and cultural components of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Open Educational Practices (OEP).
The LangOER network tackles important questions such as: In what ways can less used languages, including regional and minority languages, benefit from Open Educational Practices (OEP)? How can we shape the OER field to better foster linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe? What policies are most conducive for the uptake of quality OERs in less used language communities? The LangOER network addresses these challenges and
specifically targets the needs of three main groups: educators, policy makers and researchers.
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David Rumsey Map Collection
United States of America
The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 30 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1550 to the present. Digitization of the collection began in 1996 and there are now over 68,000 items online, with new additions added regularly. The site is free and open to the public. Here viewers have access not only to high resolution images of maps that are extensively cataloged, but also to a variety of tools that allow to users to compare, analyze, and view items in new and experimental ways.
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Digital Dialects
United State of America
The Digital Dialects website features free to use online games for learning languages. Language resources include games for learning phrases, numbers, useful words, spelling, verb conjugation and alphabets. Games use Macromedia Flash Player.
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DIY
United States of America
DIY is a community where young people become Makers. They discover new Skills, make projects in the real world, and share their work online to inspire and learn from each other. The big idea is that anyone can become anything just by trying. We all learn by doing. Our company and our community strive to make it easier for Makers to build confidence in their own creativity.
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Education Group
Austria
Education Group offers a wide range of services for Austrian teachers, students and schools. For example, it is responsible for the appr. 40 subject portals with more than 80.000 e-content resources and has expert knowledge regarding the in-house production of educational media, providing schools and educators with comprehensive media packages, videos, interactive teaching materials and other digital resources. Some of these resources will be made available to teachers from all over Europe.
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Education Scotland, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Discover curriculum guidance, learning and teaching resources and examples of practice from Education Scotland bringing together a number of organisations and teams whose work contributes to key areas of the agency's remit.
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eLearning, Communication, Open-data (ECO)
Europe
ECO (eLearning, Communication, Open-data) offers a growing number of courses, aimed to spread common knowledge upon a wide assortment of subjects, with a special interest on inclusiveness, accessibility, interculturality and intercreativity values. All courses are based on the innovative sMOOC pedagogical model, where “s” in sMOOC stands for “social” and “seamless”, thus outlining the use of social media as essential tool for the building-up of collective learning. All materials in the courses are based on OER (Open Educational Resources) and available to be shared under a Creative Commons license.
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ENSINA RTP
portugal
A collection of educational clips on themes such as History, Art, Civics all in Portuguese.
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Europeana
Europe
Europeana is the trusted source of cultural heritage brought to you by the Europeana Foundation and a large number of European cultural institutions, projects and partners. It provides access to over 47 million digital records of great thematic, media type and language variety.
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European Schoolnet
Europe
European Schoolnet (EUN) is a network of 31 Ministries of Education in Europe and beyond. EUN was created more than 10 years ago with the aim to bring about innovation in teaching and learning to its key stakeholders: Ministries of Education, schools, teachers and researchers. European Schoolnet’s activities are divided among three areas of work:
(1) Policy, research and innovation
(2) Schools services
(3) Learning resource exchange and interoperability
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European Schoolnet Academy
Europe
As primary or secondary school teacher, you can benefit from the online professional development courses that we are offering on the European Schoolnet Academy to learn about innovation in the school and classroom, and enhance your teaching practice. Through our courses, you have the opportunity to see and discuss what is happening in other classrooms and schools across Europe. The courses will provide you with introductions to key pedagogical concepts and ideas that are relevant to developing your teaching practice. These concepts and ideas are then illustrated through examples from everyday classroom practice. At the core of the courses stands the exchange between teaching practitioners and the creation of an online community of professionals who reflect on and exchange about the course topics. Our ambition is to convert the content and expertise that we developed under European Schoolnet's projects and activities in massive online training opportunities for teachers. In the long-term we foresee to offer the infrastructure for online professional development also to Ministries of Education to host their own courses.
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European Space Agency
Multi-national
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe's gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Since ESA was created, more than 30 years ago, one of its most important tasks has been to inform the public about the latest advances and discoveries in the space field, and to develop programmes that will inspire young people to pursue careers in science and technology. The aim of ESA's online resources for educators is to help young Europeans, aged from 6 to 28, to gain and maintain an interest in science and technology, with the long-term objectives of contributing towards the creation of a knowledge-based society and ensuring the existence of a qualified workforce for the Agency that will ensure Europe's continued leadership in space activities.
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Federal Ministry for Education, The Arts and Culture (bm:ukk)
Austria
The Federal Ministry for Education, The Arts and Culture (bm:ukk) promotes information and communication technology (ICT) for schools throughout Austria. In so doing, we promote eLearning by sponsoring national and international activities such as participation on EU projects, teacher training, etc. In fact, one of the most important mandates of the bm:ukk is to provide our experience, our knowledge and our resources to pupils and teachers throughout the EU. We believe this is a central tenet of European educational cooperation.
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Finnish National Board of Education
Finland
The Finnish National Board of Education (FNBE) works with the Ministry of Education to develop educational aims, content and methods for primary, secondary and adult education. The role of FNBE is to ensure the supply of learning resources to all learners and learner groups. Through MELT we will widen the scope of available resources and they will become more easily accessible to educators and learners.
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Freesound
Multi-national
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds.
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Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (FIsme)
The Netherlands
The Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (FIsme) is a research institute of Utrecht University, faculty of Science.
The institute aims to improve the quality of education in mathematics, science and IT. To this end, the institute engages in:
research, expertise development and knowledge sharing in the field of education and pedagogy;
teacher education and Science Education and Communication components in several other study programmes;
continuous professional development and support for science and mathematics teachers and their networks;
the development of teaching materials and student activities (outreach).
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GeoGebra Wiki
Austria
GeoGebraWiki is a free pool of teaching materials created with GeoGebra, a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. Everyone can contribute and upload materials! All contents of this pool may be used free of charge.
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Google CS First
Multi-national
CS First is a free program that increases student access and exposure to computer science (CS) education through after-school, in-school, and summer programs. All clubs are run by teachers and/or community volunteers. Our materials: (1) Are completely free and available online; (2) Are targeted at students in grades 4th-8th (ages 9-14); (3) Can be tailored to fit your schedule and needs; (4) Involve block-based coding using Scratch and are themed to attract students with varied interests.
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Google Cultural Institute
United States of America
Google has partnered with hundreds of museums, cultural institutions, and archives to host the world's cultural treasures online. With a team of dedicated Googlers, we are building tools that allow the cultural sector to display more of its diverse heritage online, making it accessible to all. Here you can find artworks, landmarks and world heritage sites, as well as digital exhibitions that tell the stories behind the archives of cultural institutions across the globe.
The Google World Wonders Project is a platform which brings world heritage sites of the modern and ancient world online. Using Street View, 3D modeling and other Google technologies, we have made these amazing sites accessible to everyone across the globe. With videos, photos and in-depth information, you can now explore the world wonders from your armchair just as if you were there. We have created classroom material for primary and secondary school history and geography teachers
to download free of charge. These include suggestions of lesson plans, student work sheets and presentations. The material is designed to be flexible, allowing teachers all over the world to use it in various forms and levels of curriculums.
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IAVE Banco do Itens
Portugal
Collection of exercises in Portuguese for cycles 1, 2, and 3 and secondary levels. Topics include mathematics and Portuguese, maths, sciences, economics and geography.
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Il était une histoire
France
"Il était une histoire" aims to give children access to reading. The site's objective consists of providing a 100-book library to children aged 3 to 10, their parents, their teachers, and heir schools. The content of the website is freely available although registering is required to get access to some parts of it.
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Insafe - A European network of Awareness Centres
Europe
Insafe is a European network of Awareness
Centres promoting safe, responsible use of the
Internet and mobile devices to young people.
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Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht GmbH
Germany
FWU is Germany’s leading producer of audiovisual media for schools and other educational organisations. It was founded in 1950 as a non-profit corporation with the 16 German “Länder” (federal states) as shareholders. FWU produces educational video-films, didactic DVDs and learning software on CD-ROMs as well as internet applications. It keeps on stock resources for almost all school subjects and cross-area topics, as well as fictional movies for children and young people. All productions are accompanied by comprehensive handbooks for teachers and educators.
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International Children's Digital Library
United States of America
The ICDL Foundation promotes tolerance and respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children's literature from around the world. We invite you to explore our growing library.
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Israel Board of Education
Israel
The Ministry of Education in Israel, in conjunction with a number of educational organizations, has enabled online availability of learning and instructional materials for all ages and on a variety of topics, for the use of its teachers. In the initial stages (2009) we have uploaded materials (in English), in the fields of science, technology, english instruction, history, culture, holocaust studies and religious studies. The materials include learning objects, such as audio-visual aids, exercises, work sheets and online projects wriiten specially for student use, as well as teacher guides, lesson plans, research articles and other pedagogic aids for the teachers. We believe that the presence and availability to teachers and students of high-quality learning materials on the internet, will accelerate the transformation of teachers to "online" teachers and of the traditional school to more innovative schools.
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Khan Academy
United States of America
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. Students can make use of our extensive video library, practice exercises, and assessments from any computer with access to the web. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.
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KlasCement
Belgium
KlasCement is an educational portal by and for Dutch-speaking teachers (mostly Flanders - Belgium). They are exchanging documents, sites, learning objects, educational software, exercises, photos and videos, experiences, ... for free (with one of the creative commons licenses)! It's possible to announce events and to give comments and stars to every item. You don't have to share anything, but it's highly appreciated if you do so. The database offers thousands of learning objects. KlasCement is a social network of teachers (in spe). All content is moderated by a team of teachers. They have experience in IEEE-LOM metadata, quality control and copyrights. Thanks to the good quality of metadata KlasCement has an efficient search engine. Searching and finding learning objects for your curriculum is easy. As metadata is according to IEEE-LOM we can connect our database to other international database of learning resources. KlasCement also organises events and coordinates some other (international) ICT-projects.
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Learn English Kids, British Council
United Kingdom
LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council's website for children around the world who are learning English as a second or foreign language. This site has free resources for children to use at home, either independently or with family members or friends. You can recommend activities from this site to children to do for homework, or during school holidays. You can also recommend the Parents section of LearnEnglish Kids to parents and carers of children.
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LearnEnglish Teens
United Kingdom
LearnEnglish Teens is brought to you by the British Council, the world's English teaching experts. If you want to learn English while having fun, this free website is just for you. LearnEnglish Teens can help improve your English with reading, writing and listening practice, tips for exams, grammar and vocabulary exercises, games and videos.
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Learningpod
United States of America
Learningpod offers 47,000+ of the best practice and assessment questions from partners like Kaplan, Open Course Library, and OpenStax College. We give teachers the ability to mix and match, create their own question sets (we call them "pods"), write original questions, print and assign anywhere.
Our library includes items ranging from K-12 Common Core to university-level courses and test prep for entrance exams. All of this is available at no cost to educators and students..
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LibriVox
Multi-national
LibriVox makes public domain books available as free audio books. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.
(1) LibriVox is a non-commercial, non-profit and ad-free project.
(2) LibriVox donates its recordings to the public domain.
(3) LibriVox is powered by volunteers.
(4) LibriVox maintains a loose and open structure.
(5) LibriVox welcomes all volunteers from across the globe, in all languages.
Explore LibriVox's collection of free audio books for children and young adults in multiple languages.
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Mathlanding
United States of America
It's about teaching; it's about learning; it's about elementary math.
Mathlanding (ML) is designed with the elementary math specialist/coach/mentor and teacher in mind. It's a dynamic resource to help support the professional development needs of elementary educators in building mathematical knowledge and instructional practice. The site is created to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support teaching and learning of elementary mathematics.The Internet is bursting with content and we understand that wading through it can be a time consuming and demanding task. So, we're making it easy to find 'the good stuff', both for the classroom and professional development. Only the best, high quality content has been selected for Mathlanding, including lessons, interactive media, activities, games, articles and more. A team of math content experts have combed the web to select the absolute best resources available to help teach the major foundational math concepts students need to master in the elementary grades. Math topics were selected based on the requirements of the Common Core State Standardsfor Mathematics and the National Council of Teachers of MathematicsFocal Points. Each piece of content was touched with an expert hand and a rigorous process of review and evaluation. Additionally, each resource has been aligned to both the CCSS and NCTM standards.
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Ministerio de Educacion y Cienca
Spain
The Spanish Institute of Training and Networked Resources for Teachers, (ISFRRP) of the Spanish Ministry of Education, is dedicated to enhancing the use of ICT in education prior to University by focusing on two strands: on-line teacher training programmes and development of digital educational content projects for all areas and levels of the curriculum, made freely available through its portal. It participates in EC funded projects such as eTwinning and MELT.
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MisCositas.com
United States of America
MisCositas.com is a free web resource that offers teachers a variety of materials for teaching languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Thai and ESL. This site was originally created by a teacher for other teachers to use in a classroom or computer lab. However, people from all over the world have written in about how they use the site in a variety of settings. Parents have used MisCositas.com for home schooling and for enrichment. Administrators have used the site in after-school clubs and staff development sessions. And anyone interested in learning a language can use the site to enhance their studies.
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NASA Education
United States of America
NASA is taking bold steps at the K'12 grade levels to prepare the next generation of explorers. Building on previous accomplishments, NASA has established a series of innovative programs designed to stimulate student interest in order to motivate higher levels of study in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, subjects. These activities provide unique learning experiences for students, teachers, administrators and families. NASA strives to ensure that underrepresented and underserved students participate in education programs, thereby encouraging more of these students to pursue STEM careers. NASA is also working to develop new digital media methods that will make NASA's exciting discoveries and missions available to K'12 students and educators.
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National Galery of Art
United States of America
As part of the Gallery's free-loan program, individuals and educational institutions can access dozens of lessons & activities and interactives on our website. These programs are intended to foster awareness of the visual arts and make Gallery collections accessible to a broad audience beyond the Gallery's walls.
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NeoK12
United States of America
NeoK12 brings the best free online educational videos from all over the Internet for K-12 kids and teachers. NeoK12 also offers Web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching.
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Nobel Prize Games
Sweden
You don't have to be a genius to understand the work of the Nobel Laureates. These games and simulations, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire you while you're having FUN!
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ORTHOLUD Exercices en ligne pour apprendre le français
France
ORTHOLUD offers online games and exercises to learn French.
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PBS LearningMedia
United States of America
PBS LearningMedia (formerly Teachers' Domain) offers teachers more than 100,000 videos, images, interactives, lesson plans and articles drawn from critically acclaimed PBS programs such as NOVA, FRONTLINE, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, and SID THE SCIENCE KID, and from expert content contributors like The National Archives and NASA.
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PEPIT - Des exercices éducatifs pour tous!
Belgium
PEPIT offers a collection of French and mathematics exercises for kids aged 4 to 12.
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PhET Interactive Science Simulations
United States of America
PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. We believe that our research-based approach- incorporating findings from prior research and our own testing- enables students to make connections between real-life phenomena and the underlying science, deepening their understanding and appreciation of the physical world.
To help students visually comprehend concepts, PhET simulations animate what is invisible to the eye through the use of graphics and intuitive controls such as click-and-drag manipulation, sliders and radio buttons. In order to further encourage quantitative exploration, the simulations also offer measurement instruments including rulers, stop-watches, voltmeters and thermometers. As the user manipulates these interactive tools, responses are immediately animated thus effectively illustrating cause-and-effect relationships as well as multiple linked representations (motion of the objects, graphs, number readouts, etc.)
To ensure educational effectiveness and usability, all of the simulations are extensively tested and evaluated. These tests include student interviews in addition to actual utilization of the simulations in a variety of settings, including lectures, group work, homework and lab work. Our rating system indicates what level of testing has been completed on each simulation.
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PHOTODENTRO - Greek National Aggregator of Educational Content
Greece
The Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus" (CTI) was founded in 1985 as a non-profit private legal entity. Since 1992 CTI has been supervised by the Ministry of Education (MoE) as a financially, administratively, and scientifically independent institution. In 2011, it was a strategic decision of the Ministry of Education to establish CTI as its technological pillar, supporting ICT in education, and as the publishing body of Greek textbooks and electronic educational materials (law 3966/2011).
CTI is now responsible for developing and maintaining digital educational resources and content-based services for schools, including digital learning repositories and learning platforms; administrating the Greek School Network, the largest user network in Greece; organizing and running the state programs for teachers training in ICT; publishing all Greek school textbooks; and supporting the organization and operation of the electronic infrastructure of the Greek MoE and all associated educational units.
CTI has longstanding experience in the pedagogical use of educational technology in schools. Among others, CTI has implemented and coordinated the large-scale action for the digital educational content and content-based services for schools in the context of the “Digital School” national initiative for K-12 education in Greece (2010-2015), that included the design and development of the “Photodentro” Hellenic National Educational Repository Infrastructure for K-12 Education (an ecosystem of OER repositories and the Greek National Aggregator for Educational Content at photodentro.edu.gr), the creation of interactive e-textbooks, and the development of the e-me Digital Educational Platform for pupils and teachers (“e-me” platform). CTI has also participated in more than 250 European projects.
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Photojournal, NASA
United States of America
NASA's Jet Propulsion Research Laboratory (JPL) makes available publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs. JPL is continuously pushing the outer edge of space exploration and continues to encounter new and exciting discoveries around Earth, the solar system and beyond. There is always something wonderful happening at JPL and we would like to share these amazing events with you.
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Picdrome
United States of America
Picdrome.com is a growing Public Domain digital photography collection, free of copyright and licensed under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. All images are free to download for personal, educational and commercial use, without restriction. Whether you are a designer, photo editor, student or blogger, we are offering completely free photographs.
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Project Gutenberg
United States of America
Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. We carry high quality ebooks: All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers. No fee or registration is required, but if you find Project Gutenberg useful, we kindly ask you to donate a small amount so we can buy and digitize more books.
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Quality Network for a European Learning Resource Exchange (Unilearning)
Europe
eQNet is a three-year (September 2009-2012) Comenius Multilateral Network funded under the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning programme. The project is coordinated by European Schoolnet and involves 9 Ministries of Education or agencies nominated to act on their behalf. The primary aim of eQNet is to improve the quality of educational resources in LRE and provide a forum for joint reflection and co-operation. As a pan-European service, the LRE particularly seeks to identify resources that ‘travel well’ across national borders and can be used in a cultural and linguistic context different from the one in which they were created. eQNet has established a network consisting of policy makers and practitioners (teachers) who are developing and applying ‘travel well’ quality criteria.
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Raspberry Pi Foundation
United Kingdom
The Raspberry Pi Foundation works to put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world, so they are capable of understanding and shaping our increasingly digital world, able to solve the problems that matter to them, and equipped for the jobs of the future. We provide low-cost, high-performance computers that people use to learn, solve problems and have fun. We provide outreach and education to help more people access computing and digital making. We develop free resources to help people learn about computing and how to make things with computers, and train educators who can guide other people to learn.
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Reading Bear
United States of America
Reading Bear is a fun way to learn to read. We teach over 1,200 vocabulary items. Our 50 presentations cover all the main phonics rules. All free and nonprofit!
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Recursos Educativos Digitais para o Ensino da Geografia
Portugal
GEORED provides digital educational resources for teaching geography.
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Richard Byrne Ed Tech Tips
United States of America
Practical EdTech Tips are created by Richard Byrne, a former high school social studies teacher best known for developing the blog http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ with the aim of sharing information about free resources that teachers can use in their classrooms.
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Schools Portal - Portuguese Ministry of Education
Portugal
The Schools Portal is run by the Portuguese Ministry of Education and holds, among other sections, a repository of educational resources. Some of these were created by teachers, while others have been commercially produced. Among the latter, registered users have access to about 1,500,000 scanned pages of newspapers and magazines from 1910 to today, as well as a significant number of videoclips produced by two of the major Portuguese TV channels. These can only be used by registered users as well.
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Science Education Resource Center (SERC)
United States of America
The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) an office of Carleton College, works to improve education through projects that support educators. Although our work has a particular emphasis on undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education, we work with educators across a broad range of disciplines and at all educational levels. An office of Carleton College, our work is funded primarily through National Science Foundation grants. The office has special expertise in effective pedagogies, geoscience education, community organization, workshop leadership, digital libraries, website development and program and website evaluation.
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Scientix
Europe
Scientix – the community for science education in Europe – was created to facilitate regular dissemination and sharing of know-how and best practices in science education across the European Union. Scientix is open for teachers, researchers, policy makers, parents and anyone interested in science education.
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Scoilnet
Ireland
Be ready for class with the most up-to-date, engaging resources handpicked by Irish teachers.
Search through our 11,000+ resources. Refine your results according to subject, level or resource type. Best of all, add your own resources and share with other teachers.
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SENnet
Europe
SENnet connects, informs and supports those using technology to improve access to learning for young people with special educational needs. SENnet is funded by the European Commission, runs from December 2011 to November 2014, and is co-ordinated by European Schoolnet.
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Shodor, USA
United States of America
Established in Durham, NC in 1994, Shodor is a nonprofit organization serving students and educators by providing materials and instruction relating to computational science (scientific, interactive computing).
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Skolverket: The Swedish National Agency for Education
Sweden
The Swedish National Agency for Education is the central administrative authority for the Swedish public school system for children, young people and adults, as well as for preschool activities and child care for school children. The Agency supports, follows up and evaluates the work of municipalities and schools with the purpose of improving quality and the result of activities to ensure that all pupils have access to equal education. The Agency has the overall responsibility to support ICT development in schools: in-service training; access to digital learning resources; infrastructure and standards; safer use of Internet; school portal; cooperation - both national and international.
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TeacherLED
United Kingdom
This site is designed to provide teachers with access to free high quality teaching resources for use on Interactive Whiteboards. In line with the title of this site all of the resources on it are designed to help the teacher lead the lesson. They do not attempt to provide any instruction. Their purpose is to allow the teacher to explain, demonstrate and provide examples to further the students’ understanding of the lesson. By not circumventing the teacher’s role, as many resources do, they allow the teacher to provide as much instruction and examples as he/she deems necessary at an appropriate pace.
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TeachingEnglish
United Kingdom
TeachingEnglish, created by the British Council, provides lesson plans, activities, stories & poems, songs and CLIL activities for teachers of young learners and teenagers.
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TED’s Youth and Education Initiative
United States of America
TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything we do supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos , to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, to celebrating innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week.
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That Quiz
Multi-national
That Quiz is: A free service for teachers who want to replace paper tests with online testing.
An online grade book providing fast analysis of class and individual student progress.
An exchange for teachers to share the resources they create.
A skills site for students, especially useful for math practice and testing.
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Universe by Aurélien Barrau
France
Aurélien Barrau's introduction to cosmology (lecture).
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University of Ljubljana
Slovenia
The University of Ljubljana (UL) participates in the ASPECT project on behalf of the Slovenian Ministry of Education. Two groups are involved in the project: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, and Faculty of Computer and Information Science. Both faculties work in the field of computer-based education and learning, and are also active developers of educational materials for schools. The didactic materials are focused mostly on mathematics, natural sciences, and computer science. Their activities are supported by excellent cooperation with several national schools and enriched with cooperation within international networks like CoLoS (Conceptual Learning of Science) and HSci (Hands on Science).
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University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
Ever been confused by all the letters and squiggles used by scientists? Experts in physics and chemistry from The University of Nottingham will unravel some of those mysteries in these popular short videos. Many of the videos have Portuguese translations.
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Un jour, une actu
France
1JOUR1ACTU proposes complete thematic dossiers on topics such as Sciences, Culture, History, Sport, the Earth, etc.
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Various small collections of learning resources and assets
Multi-national
This set contains small collections of learning resources and assets from various providers.
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Various small collections of mobile learning apps
Multi-national
This set contains small collections of mobile learning apps from various providers.
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Vous, Nous, Ils
France
VousNousIls, in partnership with CASDEN and digital book publisher, Ligaran, is providing 140 free ebooks for teachers to discover or rediscover the greatest classics of French (and foreign) literature.
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Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Europe, United States of America, and Japan
Conceived by Mathematica creator and scientist Stephen Wolfram as a way to bring computational exploration to the widest possible audience, the Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, and a remarkable range of other fields. From elementary education to front-line research, topics span an ever-growing array of categories. Some Demonstrations can be used to enliven a classroom or visualize complex concepts, while others shed new light on cutting-edge ideas from academic and industrial work-groups. Each is reviewed and edited by experts for content, clarity, presentation, quality, and reliability. Its daily growing collection of interactive illustrations is created by Mathematica users from around the world who participate by contributing innovative Demonstrations.
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Xarxa Telemàtica Educativa de Catalunya
Spain
XTEC stands for "Xarxa Telemàtica Educativa de Catalunya", or Online Catalan Educational Network which covers all ICT aspects in Education in Catalonia. It is represented by its three portals/websites: XTEC, EDU365 and EDU3. XTEC is a portal for teachers, with teaching resources, tutorials, tools training courses and administrative procedures. EDU365 is a portal for students and families, with lots of applications, mini didactic units faqs and online tools, such as a word processor, web mail service, personal storage or a scientific calculator. EDU3 is the product of an agreement with the Catalan Public Television TV3, whereby all educational materials produced by TV3 are catalogued and can be streamed or downloaded by teachers. XTEC supports the LRE as part of its policy of cataloguing materials and disseminating them more widely to all teachers.
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