ABCmouse Early Learning Academy
- What It Is:This comprehensive program covers a wide variety of subjects for students aged 2-8 (Pre-K through second grade). It offers more than 850 self-guided lessons across 10 levels. A companion program focuses on teaching English as a second language for this age group.
Adventure Academy
- What It Is:This game allows students up to age 13 play games to learn across a range of topics (math, reading, social studies, science, and more), while also creating their own online persona and interacting with others in the game.
Boddle
- What It Is:Boddle is a math platform for 1-6th grade that makes learning fun and personalized. Teachers and parents are able to track student progress remotely and quickly identify learning gaps.
BrainPOP
- What It Is:BrainPop offers in-depth learning on topics across the curriculum for upper elementary and middle school students. Each topic includes videos, quizzes, related reading, and even coding activities. Teachers have access to planning and tracking resources too. They also offer BrainPop Jr., specially designed for younger kids.
Breakout EDU
- What It Is:Breakout EDU uses online games to bring the fun of escape rooms to learning across the elementary curriculum.
edHelper
- What It Is:edHelper is online service that provides printable worksheets to teachers and homeschooling parents.
Elementari
- What It Is:Turn writing assignments into something amazing with the illustrations, animations, and sound effects available. Kids can even write their own choose-your-own-adventure story!
Fabulinga
- What it is:FabuLingua teaches Spanish through interactive stories on mobile phones and tablets. Their unique method is designed to introduce the new language in a way that subconsciously develops the child’s ear, comprehension and reading skills. They offer a new charming interactive story from Latin America or Spain every month, along with associated games and a Magic Sticker Book where they get to create their own compositions.
Freckle
- What It Is:These online learning resources for younger students are easily differentiated for students of different ability levels.
iCompute
- What It Is:This program is designed to teach elementary-aged kids the computer skills they need. It’s specifically aligned to learning standards in the UK, but the skills apply to students everywhere.
Kids Discover Online
- What It Is:This library of science and social studies articles allows differentiation by reading level, so you can use these articles for various age and skill levels.
Legends of Learning
- What is it:Legends of Learning offers 2,000 3rd through 8th grade games and simulations correlated to state standards. Using their various assignment options, teachers can create custom playlists, or have a playlist built for them with a top-rated game.
MobyMax
- What It Is:This popular differentiated learning site provides instruction across a wide array of elementary subjects. Teachers and districts can receive online training on effectively using the site.
Mystery Science
- What It Is:Mystery Science offers digital video mini-lessons for science subjects K-5.
Newsela
- What It Is:Authentic content turned into learning materials that are classroom-ready for teachers of all subjects and grades.
Prodigy
- What It Is:Get game-based learning in math for kids from first to eighth grade. The site offers lots of how-to articles to make your distance learning effective and fun.
Purple Mash
- What It Is:This British company’s site hosts games and creative learning opportunities for elementary level math, spelling, and writing. Teachers can set daily tasks for students, create a blog, and find other ways to communicate.
ReadingIQ
- What It Is:ReadingIQ is a comprehensive digital library offering books, magazines, comics, and more for kids from ages 2-12. It’s a smart replacement for library time right now and makes it possible for teachers to monitor what and how much their students are reading.
Scholastic
- What It Is:Scholastic created the Scholastic Learn at Home website to provide students with approximately 20 days worth of learning journeys that span various content areas. Students get approximately three hours of learning opportunities per day, including projects based on articles and stories, virtual field trips, reading and geography challenges, and more.
Typsey
- What It Is:A web-based keyboarding program that teaches students how to type and has a unique transdisciplinary Common Core and NGSS aligned content provided through its lessons.
Vooks
- What It Is:Vooks is a streaming library of ad-free, kid-safe animated read-aloud storybooks, trusted by teachers and enjoyed by millions of children around the world every week. It is an entire library of storybooks, brought to life, to help encourage the love of reading.
Xtra Math
- What It Is:A nonprofit organization dedicated to math achievement for all with activities for achieving math fact proficiency.
Older Learners
Albert
- What It Is:Albert is an online practice and assessment resource for core topics grades 6-12. Teachers can assign modules and track student progress. Albert’s online learning resources include practice questions for a wide variety of AP programs too. It’s best used as a companion to other online teaching methods like web conferencing since it’s meant to review information students have already been learning.
ChemMatters Online
- What It Is:This is a terrific resource for middle school and high school science teachers. Each issue provides a new collection of articles on chemistry topics that students will find engaging and relatable.
DeltaMath
- What It Is:DeltaMath is a website that allows teachers to assign math practice content to their students from middle school through AP calculus. Students get immediate feedback as they complete the problems.
- What They’re Offering:DeltaMath is always free.
Everydae SAT Prep
- What It Is:Everydae is an online SAT math prep program. 10-minute micro lessons match busy schedules. Built by industry experts with 17+ years industry experience.
iCivics
- What It Is:S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded iCivics in 2009 to transform the field through innovative, free educational video games and lessons that teach students to be knowledgeable, curious, and engaged in civic life. Today, iCivics is the nation’s largest provider of civic education curriculum, with our resources used by over 113,000 educators and more than 7.1 million students each year nationwide.
- iCivics is always free to use.
Kialo
- What It Is:Kialo Edu is a custom version of kialo.com, the world’s largest argument mapping site. It includes unique features, such as the ability to write student feedback.
- What They’re Offering:Kialo Edu is always completely free for educators, has no advertisements, and can be integrated into learning management systems.
LabXchange
- What It Is:A free platform where students and teachers can discover, create, and remix content to build their own learning journey. The content library contains high-quality digital resources from universities and scientific organizations worldwide … including interactive lab simulations, videos, assessments, and more. With private classes, messaging, and mentorship functions, educators can easily plan and deliver lessons, including teaching lab skills, virtually while connecting their students to a broader scientific community.
- LabXchange is always free for all users.
Vocabbett
- What It Is:SAT and ACT vocabulary prep through story form.
K-12 Online Learning Resources
Actively Learn
- What It Is:Actively Learn works seamlessly with Google Classroom and provides thousands of engaging texts, videos, and simulations across ELA, Social Studies, and the Sciences paired with thoughtful instruction that challenge students and foster deep learning and critical thinking.
Banzai
- What It Is:Banzai is a financial education program that helps students learn the value of a dollar. There are real-life scenarios available in three interactive courses (3rd grade- 12th grade). The program includes tests, games, activities, an entire interactive library, embedded calculators, and more.
- Banzai meets all state curriculum standards and is completely free to use.
CK-12
- What It Is: This collection of online learning resources covers pretty much every topic. Lessons include reading, activities, videos, and more to engage students. They also have free online textbooks.
- CK-12 is always free for all users.
ClassHook
- What It Is:ClassHook offers quality media clips on every conceivable topic. Pre-curated playlists make it easier to find what you need for the subject at hand.
- Basic access is always free.
Curriki
- What It Is:Curriki provides teacher-vetted, open-resource lesson plans and materials on a wide array of subjects. It’s a good place to find online learning resources for students to use at home.
- Curriki is always free to use.
Free Math App
- What It Is:This no-frills site requires students to show their work on math problems, step-by-step. When it’s time to grade, you can take a look at their work to see exactly where things went wrong and correct problems quickly.
- As the title says, this site is always free for teachers and students.
InferCabulary
- What It Is:InferCabulary is a web-based, research-backed, device-agnostic, K-12, fun, game-based, visual approach for teaching nuanced vocabulary that simultaneously improves students’ critical thinking skills. InferCabulary is the opposite of rote memorization of definitions—they mimic the act of avid readership, so students deeply learn words and improve comprehension.
Izzit
- What It Is:Watch a video on a subject, then use the teacher guide for discussion, take a quiz, or use the other online learning resources provided.
- Izzit’s online courses are free.
Kahoot!
- What It Is: Do you Kahoot? Teachers have loved this fun online quiz game platform for years.
- Kahoot! Basic is free for educators and students.
Khan Academy
- What It Is: Khan Academy is well-known for providing an incredibly wide range of lessons for students at every level. Chances are you’ll find at least some of what you need for your virtual classroom here.
- Khan Academy is always free for all users.
MusicFirst
- What It Is:This is the only online learning management system for teaching music at all age levels. Band practice might be off the table for now, but students can still work on theory, notation, sight-reading and more.
NoRedInk
- What It Is:NoRedInk builds stronger writers through interest-based curriculum, adaptive exercises, and actionable data.
- Their site is always free.
PenPal Schools
- What It Is:Schools that have already closed for weeks note that students quickly become lonely outside the classroom. PenPal Schools not only lets you engage your own students, but those from around the world, on a wide variety of subjects.
- What They’re Offering:PenPal Schools is free.
ReadTheory
- What It Is:ReadTheory’s offers a vast library of reading comprehension content that fosters improvement by automatically meeting learners at their own, individual ability levels. Find passages and prompts for students to answer.
- ReadTheory is always free.
ReadWorks
- What It Is:Access thousands of high-quality, free K-12 articles, and create online assignments with them.
ST Math
- What It Is:ST Math uses the Spatial-Temporal patented approach, manipulating objects in space and time. The program starts by teaching the foundational concepts visually, then connects the ideas to the symbols, language, and robust discourse.
Studycat
- What It Is:Studycat enables safe and convenient home learning of foreign languages, literacy, and critical thinking via an online app.
Twig Education
- What It Is:Twig offers a variety of tools including twig Science tools for elementary school students, twig Secondary for grades 6-12, and free grade-level packets for distance learning.
