Just like INFOhio’s Open Space, eMedia is Utah’s repository for Open Educational Resources. Search by subject area, grade level, resource type, and more! This website is a great place to find fully-detailed lessons or engaging activities.
Goosechase EDU is a platform for scavenger hunts. Keep your students on their feet, quite literally, and encourage active learning every day! Take the learning off-site too, for field trips, outdoor education or virtual classrooms. Get started with 250+ Goosechase Experience templates that are ready to run.
Read Theory is a powerful educational tool that offers online reading activities for all age and ability levels. The custom web application adapts to students’ individual ability levels and presents them with thousands of skill building exercises that suit their needs. Read Theory also has dozens of printable reading worksheets spanning all grade levels free of charge
The Pear Deck Content Orchard is a growing searchable library of hundreds of Pear Deck lessons. Many of which feature content from partner organizations like Newsela, Everfi, Canva, PBS Newshour, and more! Simply find one you like and use it in Google Slides or PowerPoint.
The California Academy of Sciences operates an excellent resource website for Science Teachers. Search or filter through hundreds of detailed lesson plans and other activities that thoughtfully bring science to life.
TeacherTube is a great alternative to YouTube for the Classroom. Find thousands of teacher-made videos on any subject area. With an account, you can share videos directly to your Google Classroom
Lumio is the new name for SMART Notebook. This platform allows teachers to find, upload, or create interactive lessons that can be displayed on an Interactive Touch Screen or on students’ devices. The Lumio Library includes thousands of premade activities that can be edited to fit a teacher’s exact needs. In the free version of Lumio, teachers are limited to 50MB of storage, but get unlimited student access and a variety of instructional tools. You need to log in to Lumio in order to view the Library
Google Earth has a lot of cool features, but one particularly useful for teachers is “Voyager.” Look for the pirate ship wheel in the menu, then explore premade virtual field trips such as a tour of the Underground Railroad or Geometry found around the world. Another great feature is called “Projects” that allows students to create and share their own virtual field trips in Google Earth.
Google Arts & Culture is an enormous website with thousands of images, videos, virtual field trips, games, and other educational resources. They also have a dedicated section for teachers to explore lesson plans and other activities that can be immediately integrated into their class.
Empatico is a free tool that connects classrooms around the world. It combines live video chats with activities designed to foster meaningful connections among students. Empatico provides virtual exchange activity plans that are designed to spark empathy, curiosity, and creativity through joyful student interactions, as well as supporting resources for educators to create meaningful experiences.