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.
Quill is a lightweight learning management system integrated with a suite of online apps that teach writing, grammar, and vocabulary skills to students. Students using Quill learn English grammar and vocabulary by fixing sentences, proofreading passages, and collaboratively writing passages. Quill provides learning activities that engage students in the writing process through web applications teaching grammar, vocabulary and writing skills. Teachers have a dashboard that shows them how their students are progressing on the Common Core standards.
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.
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
Epic! Books is a free digital library perfect for elementary through middle school classrooms. Teachers and students can find thousands of ebooks, comics, videos, and more. Plus teachers can assign specific books to students through Google Classroom and require them to do a short pre-made quiz.
Race to Ratify is a game created by iCivics, it puts students into the year 1787 and has them explore core concepts and meet important people that surrounded the Constitutional Ratification debate. It is playable in the web browser or Apple and Android devices. The game is also offered with optional activities and detailed lesson plans.
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.
Code.org features a full K-12 Computer Science curriculum. The curriculum ranges from the principles of coding all the way up to software engineering. Each lesson is fully detailed and includes a teacher guide. Each activity can be shared directly to students through a link or Google Classroom.
INFOhio’s Open Space is their OER network for educators to find and share open educational resources. One of the most helpful features of Open Space is the Collections page that has several curated collections of OER categorized by organizations like iCivics, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, or by subjects like Math, Science, and Social Studies.
Edpuzzle is a video-quiz platform that allows teachers to find (or create!) video quizzes. Students watch a video, and Edpuzzle will pause the video to display a question, then the student continues watching. If you are familiar with PlayPosit, it is the exact same concept