Please also visit my Learning Objects page for a list of repositories offering online content. Several of the sites offer extensive collections of FREE content -- units, modules, multimedia content, and more.

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AEShareNet's Free4Education site: From Australia, "...an online catalogue for discovery of learning materials ... Its unique search engine allows anyone to easily and cost-efficiently search and locate learning materials of interest on the database and find out how and where to acquire these materials. The system constitutes a virtual catalogue of graded learning materials, with information on how to access it and under what conditions. Members are able to promote and license their own materials to a wider audience than ever before, and take out a licence to reproduce, distribute or modify materials offered by other members." 05/12/04

Alice 3D Authoring system: A tool to make it easier for students to learn programming. "The focus of the Alice project is now to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students." 11/20/04

Apple Learning Exchange: "... the best lesson plan/teacher resource database I have seen online. It is very user friendly and allows searches by grade, subject, and even prescribed learning outcomes for virtually every state and province. The lessons are professionally edited and follow a clear - easy to read - template." [from TechTalk, Computer Using Educators of BC, Brian Hodson, publisher] 11/09/01

Applied Computing: A growing library of digital content & learning objects for those who teach applied computing. Starts from the basics and moves on to more advanced material. 06/18/05

Art Teaching Resources National Gallery: if you're teaching Art online, here's a collection of teaching guides, in-depth artist studies, and a teacher exchange of information. 07/22/01

Awesome Library: Organizes the Web with 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. 09/16/00

If you're part of education at any level in British Columbia, Canada, become a member of BCEd Online. "BCEd Online provides leadership in the development and management of online content, including courses and learning objects. It acts as an advocate for learners, teachers and administrators by seeking to inform and influence government policy and programs for online learning. It demonstrates leadership in providing professional development opportunities for educators engaged in online learning activities. It provides a single access point for communication and coordination of activities involving the private sector. Finally, it develops and implements research frameworks and research projects designed to effectively evaluate online learning content and activities." 09/23/05

BCTF Global Education Teaching Resources: There are 18 new lesson plans on the Global Classroom website, for both elementary and secondary grades, as well as a new section on methodologies. The Global Classroom project was launched in 2003 by the BCTF (British Columbia Teachers' Federation) and the Canadian International Development Agency. "This website contains unit plans designed for teachers, by teachers. The units explore the themes of global education across the grades and across the curriculum. The units contain all of the necessary handouts and materials to be easily utilized in the classroom setting and are consistent with the outcomes of the BC Curriculum." 10/30/05

BigChalk (Formerly Homework Central): Lesson Plan Search Engine! "Best study & research collections on the web". Tip: Subscribe to their email newsletter.

BioEdOnline: Biology teachers: Presentations, slide sets, teaching resources, biology news, professional developments, discussions, hot topics, and more. 06/04/06

Brainpop: "...the leading producer of educational animated movies for K-12. The company creates original animated movies to explain concepts in a voice and visual style that is accessible, educational and entertaining for both children and adults. In the K-12 arena, BrainPOP movies demystify Math, Science, Health, Technology and English topics. Through BrainPOP’s online subscription, Teachers use movies to enhance traditional classroom learning and Parents are given a safe and informative resource for their children." 09/20/03

Canada's SchoolNet: Learning Resources, News, & Services "geared to help Canadian educators and students integrate information and communication technologies (ICT) into learning."

Chemistry Resources: Doc Brown's online "Chemistry Clinic". 05/06/07

Civics & Citizenship Education: This week the WWWTools For Education newsletter is featuring the topic of Civics & Citizenship. LOTS of links and information on the topic of civics in several countries. Includes links to collections of resources and classroom resources. A civics glossary. Advocacy links. Civics in the news, including some links dealing with the USA election this week. Resources for Professional Development. 11/05/06

ClassPress: A list of RSS feeds that provide daily postings for subject teachers: today's view shows Art, Design & Technology, English, Geography, History, Maths, Music, Science. 03/29/09

Communication Tools Resources for Teaching Online: 03/28/01

Content On Demand (COD): "... provides professionally designed and produced web-based courses to college and university faculty, giving you the ability to teach courses online immediately—with no additional course-building necessary! COD courses do not require textbooks and are built on Blackboard, eCollege, and WebCT course management systems." 09/01/04

Cradleboard: Buffy St. Marie's site for teachers and students. An amazing collection of First Nations materials for the classroom and lifelong learning; Social Studies curriculum material and lesson plans, and LOTS more! 09/26/03

Curriki ~ Global Education & Learning Community: Curriki stands for (I'm guessing) curriculum wiki. Please join and contribute! Joining is free; the site is full of great resources so it's worth signing up. You can create course materials right there on site, using their Currikulum Builder templates. "Your resource can be viewed, edited, and commented upon by the Curriki member community (if you wish)." "The Curriki Community is comprised of thousands of people like you who want to create and use high-quality educational resources. ...Our mission is to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free!" 02/06/07

The Daybook Project: "A teacher-created searchable database of online lesson plans. You can print out new lessons to use right away!" 11/09/01

Discoveryschool.com's Library of Lesson Plans: K-12 teachers will find lots of goodies here. 04/11/04

Educational Videos ~ How to search Google Educational Videos: "...an amazing trick for finding educational videos on google Video." 03/02/07

EdHelper.com: Many teaching and student resources under a clear Table of Contents, includes a wide variety of subject areas and levels: Math, Reading Comprehension, Themes, Lesson Plans, and Worksheets. 10/24/06

Encyclopedia of Life: "This is the very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth. Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world." Already over a million species pages available. 03/15/08

EduScapes: "Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson have designed this website to share a love of learning with others. As authors and educators, we work with teachers, parents, and children around the world to effectively integrate technology into teaching and learning environments." 01/09/03

English Daily.com: Free Resources for Learning English Online. Useful as a reference site too. Free exercises, idioms, common abbreviations, slang, proverbs and much more. 08/24/06

eLearning Guru: Now this guy has the right attitude; matches mine exactly. "Life is short.
Have fun, learn, and have fun helping others learn. ... this site is jam packed with "how to" articles, templates and calculators in the tool box, dozens of white papers, time saving book summaries and links to the best sites on the net. I'm also hoping this site brings out the personality and humor from its contributors. Why are so many e-learning conferences and sites so boring? After all, we're helping people to learn and grow during a time of an unprecedented revolution in technology. How cool is that? I mean, we're like rock stars or something (just without the groupies, fame, money, and in my case, rhythm). So let's have some fun. Let's get better all the time at how we facilitate learning." You go, Kevin!! 04/29/03

Element K: "...a provider of e-learning solutions and instructor-led courseware for technology and business skills, has just become WebCT's newest content partner. Element K offers more than 2,000 online courses, courseware titles, and online training solutions including collaborative, instructor-facilitated online courses, self-paced tutorials, vLabs® hands-on exercises, and professional certifications." [from WebCT newsletter] 07/29/04

Edinformatics Lesson Plans: This page has a collection of search engines for lesson plans! What a great find. 06/13/01

English-To-Go: Instant Lessons, photocopiable!

Eva Easton's Resources for Educators: Includes materials for teaching & learning both in the classroom and on line.

ExploreLearning: "ExploreLearning offers a catalog of modular, interactive simulations in math and science for teachers and students in grades 6-12. We call these simulations Gizmos. Gizmos are fun, easy to use, and flexible enough to support many different teaching styles and contexts. Our Gizmos are designed as supplemental curriculum materials that support state and national curriculum standards; in addition, Gizmos help teachers bring research-proven instructional strategies to their classrooms." 04/26/04

Free Learning & Teaching Resources: BCcampus has launched a new service to help educators find FREE and OPEN educational resources they can reuse in their courses and customize WITHOUT CHARGE or WITHOUT SEEKING PERMISSION. Read about it here or link directly using the logo on the right. From this site, which requires no accounts or login, you can:

• find new Open Education Sites and search them
• find new Open Textbook sites and search within them
• learn about new Open content initiatives in British Columbia, BC, Canada
• easily see all the Creative Commons content currently available in the BCcampus Shareable Online Learning Resources service
• read and subscribe to the latest Open Content news

Free Resources For Teachers: Site dedicated to links that offer free and almost free curriculum specific resources the web for educators to use in the K-12 classroom.

Fifty Writing Tools: AMAZING SERIES! Author Roy Peter Clark points out "These are TOOLS and not RULES!" He already has 42 of the Tools posted. "Each week I will describe a writing tool that has been useful to me. I have borrowed these tools from writers and editors, from authors of books on writing, and from teachers and writing coaches. Many come from the X-ray reading of texts I admire." 02/04/05

Games: Web games to learn with. K-12 geography, chemistry, vocabulary, animals, history, math, and some quiz games. 02/15/08

Gateway to Educational Materials: Access high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet. 7,000 Lessons Online for Teachers to use!

Grammar Quizzes: Over 170 interactive quizzes. Well categorized and indexed. Check out the Guide to Grammar And Writing on which all the quizzes are based. All quizzes are preceded by links to the section of the grammar guide specific to the quiz content. 11/20/01

Grammar Slammer: This might be the only reference tool your students need. "Nearly 900 pages" of helpers complete with examples and inter-linked keywords. "The help file that goes beyond a grammar checker. Use it as you would any help file." 08/07/01

Grammar & Writing Guide: Excellent and extensive. 04/10/01

Greek Gods in Flash: An amazing amount of work has gone into creating this wonderful site for teaching/learning about the Greek Gods. You may not be teaching that, but if you're working with Flash you'll appreciate this site. 02/09/04

History Education - Trends and Issues 2007: If you teach history, this page from wwwTools for Education will no doubt be a useful source of resources. 04/01/07

Images Canada: If you need some Canadian image content, check this site. "The images on the Images Canada website are contributed by a number of different partners. ...the partners give you permission to reproduce their images for non-commercial purposes as long as you abide by the terms and conditions of the pre-authorized license." 03/25/05

Interactive HUMAN BODY: This was fun and, oh, I also learned a lot too. Great use of technology for learning. 03/12/05

Interactive learning activities

Interactive learning activities: Another site 05/10/01

Internet Archives: Extensive archives of existing internet audio, moving images, texts, and software. "The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public....an 'Internet library,' with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.... The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet - a new medium with major historical significance - and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past. Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, we are working to preserve a record for generations to come." 06/11/05.

K-12 Study Canada: New site. "Our goal is to provide K-12 teachers and students with a wealth of resources for teaching and learning about Canada. Explore our workshops, loan-kits, lessons and links." 10/01/03

Language training: This site is an interactive, visuals/sounds demonstration of various phonetic sounds in US English or Spanish. Fascinating, as well as a good teaching tool. The videos illustrate how the sounds is made inside the mouth, as well as what they look and sound like to somebody watching the speaker. 12/02/02

Learning & Teaching using ICT (Information Communication Technology): Material for Primary & Secondary school teachers. A rich site of resources, lesson plans, ideas for using communication technologies in the classroom. "Develop your teaching practice using ICT. Here are all the materials you will need to teach a wide range of subject topics using ICT, from planning and preparation to evaluation. Whether you are new to ICT or more experienced, these materials can be used by all teaching professionals." 03/22/06

Learning Page: [K-12] "A huge collection of professionally produced instructional material for you to download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets and much more can be found on the site." 03/02/02

Learning Through the Arts: This fascinating concept & site is really worth visiting. "We combine the arts with all academic subjects, and our students learn the interconnectedness of all things." ~ We teach math through visual art, language through song, science through dance, and social studies through storytelling. We combine learning with creative expression to develop the whole child." ~ "Learning Through the Arts™ (LTTA) is an international educational initiative dedicated to changing the way the core curriculum is taught and learned in public schools." The site includes lesson plans and other teacher resources, a student zone and a discussion zone. 12/16/02

Lessons as Unit Studies: This site is targeted at Homeschoolers, but the unit studies could be useful for any teacher. Note the studies about the Canadian Provinces. There are American content units too. 12/05/02

LittleClickers: They call their site "safe, fun internet explorations for children". It seems to suit their description. Lots of resources, both educational and fun. 04/08/04

MIT OpenCourseWare: Highlights for High School: Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School. By now most educators know that MIT has opened its courses to public access. Now they've added content for high school teachers/students. Check out their resources for the maths/sciences (calculus, biology, physics), their hands-on learning labs (chemistry, physics). Explore their section on writing: essays, technical writing, rhetoric, short stories, web design. 02/12/08

National Film Board of Canada: "We're opening our vaults! We have 70 years worth of groundbreaking documentaries and cutting-edge animated films and we're putting them on beta.NFB.ca as fast as we can. These films are accessible to all Canadians and free of charge for home viewing. So far, you can watch over 300 films, trailers and clips; new releases and forgotten gems — available in three speeds (56k, 356k and 1000k)...We're adding new films, clips and trailers every week - so visit often. To keep posted on all the latest news, subscribe to our weekly newsletter, read our RSS feed or check out our blog." 08/06/08

National Library of Canada: An online digital library. 05/10/01

Novel Guides: Covers a good list of novels studied in schools. 04/20/01

NYPL Digital Gallery "provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. NYPL provides free and open access to its Digital Gallery and images may be freely downloaded for personal, research and study purposes only."

OER Commons - Open Educational Resources: "Welcome to a worldwide learning network — OER Commons: Resources, or OER, offer new ways to engage with free-to-use learning content." "...open network of shared resources and practices, from K through college, from algebra to zoology -- it's all free to use." 02/19/07

OLogy: from the American Museum of Natural History, this is a very kid-friendly site created to encourage and explore their fascination with "Why?" questions and with How Things Work. "OLogy means "the study of." And here...you can study and explore many cool OLogies." Arachnology, Astronomy, Geology, Archaeology, Paleontology, Genetics, and many more. 08/11/02

Open Office training materials ~ Free! from Colin Charles at bytebot.net. 02/26/04

Open School - Community Learning Network: This BC-based site features K-12 and educator professional development resources and links. The "For Kids Only" section includes activity centres, colouring books, games, storytelling, and songs.

OpenLearn at Open University: (Britain)From a BBC News article: "The OU is making its educational resources available free on the net for anyone in the world to use. It aims to make 5,000 hours' worth of material available by April 2008 - not only for learners, but for educators to adapt and use for their own purposes." Open University says, "Open content provides the opportunity for access to high-quality learning materials which would not otherwise be available and affordable to many groups within both the developed and developing worlds...We want to lead the learning revolution, experimenting with new models of content and technologies. OpenLearn is a huge step towards this aim. The philosophy of open access and sharing knowledge - a cornerstone of this project - matches the founding principles of the Open University." 10/29/06

Pearson Adult Learning Centre (PALC): Brad Hyde, webmaster, posts new links every week for teachers and students -- teacher lessons, teacher writing samples, java quizzes for students, job/career resources for students, GED resources, tips for writers, and much more. K-12 for Adult Learners. 11/30/02

Pearson Learning Group: "We are dedicated to publishing dynamic educational resources for PreK-12 and beyond to prepare students for a lifetime of learning." 04/10/02

Publisher Test Banks Available in Respondus Format: Pearson Education is partnering with Respondus to distribute Respondus-formatted test banks through the Respondus Test Bank Network. The partnership will include test banks from Pearson Prentice Hall, Pearson Longman, Pearson Addison-Wesley, Pearson Allyn & Bacon, and Pearson Benjamin Cummings. Test bank search is here. 07/10/04

After you download a test bank, the "Exam Wizard" in Respondus makes it easy for an instructor to create exams from publisher test banks or from an existing set of Respondus files. 07/10/04

Scholar.com - academic social bookmarking: "Blackboard Scholar® is a social bookmarking service customized for education. It provides an exciting new way for students and instructors to find educationally valuable resources on the Web. Using the knowledge and power of our network of educational users, Scholar makes it easier for instructors and students to find relevant resources on the Internet for courses and research. Furthermore, by storing and sharing associated information with each resource such as tags, disciplines, other users who have tagged and more, Scholar allows users to evaluate the resources and find the most relevant and reliable. And it is directly integrated within the Blackboard Learning System(TM) - Enterprise, Vista, and CE Licenses, providing easy access right within the course environment." 02/19/07

Scholastic.com: "Click for thousands of lesson plans, classroom activities, and other award-winning resources." Teaching resources include 10,000+ Teaching Ideas, Lesson Plans, Teaching Strategies, Timesaving Tools, Planning Calendar, Printables, New Teachers, Early Childhood Today, Free Programs & Giveaways. There's also a big list of Student Resources.

ScienceDirect: "The world's best resource for research journals, abstract databases and reference works." Over 1700 journals online, and millions of peer-reviewed articles. 12/27/02

Science: Extreme Science

Scirus, the search engine for science: focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content. Searches over 150 million science-specific Web pages. 12/20/03

Software source: Edu.com: Check out these prices for educators/students!!!

SparkNotes.com: An ENORMOUS list of study guides and notes for many academic areas.

Tall Ship Voyage: "This web site has been created to allow schoolchildren and homeschoolers to 'come aboard' the tall ship Picton Castle as she embarks on her third voyage around the world. The Picton Castle is the only tall ship currently engaged in a global circumnavigation. She left her home port of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada on June 9, 2003 and will return to Lunenburg in May of 2004, after having traveled 37,000 miles, and visited 50 ports in 22 countries." Complete with" fully developed, multi-lesson units designed to expand on our experiences aboard a working tall ship sailing the globe, and individual lesson plans that enhance particular events." 07/25/03

Teacher and Curriculum Resources: Resources by subject for elementary, middle, and high school.

Teacher's Hub: K-12 Curriculum Resources for Classroom Teachers & Homeschool Parents. 01/18/05

Teachers' Lounge: Lesson plan resources. A wiki site. Rob Lucas, author, explains: "...my first year of teaching, I spent many late nights planning lessons for the following day. During those nights, a single thought gnawed at me: Thousands of other teachers across the country were doing just as I was, and thousands more had done so every year for decades. Yet there was no way for me to fully benefit from the experience of all those who had come before. I’ve created this website to change that....any registered user...can post lesson plans, links, handouts, PowerPoint presentations—virtually anything! And you don’t even have to know HTML. Editing a page is as easy as using a word processor. My vision is that over time, we can develop an extensive library of creative, finely-tuned, engaging, exciting lessons." 11/26/06

TeacherExpress: "...a great clearing house of online resources that a teacher might need across the whole curriculum." [TheFord News] 11/22/03

TeacherList: "The Teacher List is a daily listserv and web-archive of one useful website each day. (A listserv is an online or email newsletter sent to a group of subscribers.) Edmonton teacher and technology coordinator, Pete MacKay, provides this free service as a hobby. The basic philosophy is that teachers are busy enough without having to absorb massive amounts of information. By writing about only one site per day, teachers can decide quickly whether or not that day's site is of use to them." 01/18/05

TEACHERS pay TEACHERS.COM: "...the world's first marketplace, launched in April of 2006, where smart educators can buy and sell original course materials. The time has finally arrived for the power of the internet to meet the power of our best educational minds." It's not just an exchange site; there are tools to help you find material and there's a "...7-Part Evaluation Process? Or, how will potential buyers know if they can trust that materials for sale are good?" 07/24/06

Teacher's.TV: "With over 2000 videos available online, the Teachers TV website is an invaluable resource for any busy education professional. Watch videos when you want and download great resources including lesson plans, worksheets and more. ...Our programmes cover every subject in the curriculum, all key stages and every professional role – from teaching assistant to headteacher. You can watch us on digital cable and satellite and programmes are also available anytime, on-demand and for free on this website. We have 15-minute CPD offerings packed with useful information, exciting pupil programmes for use in class, and a daily education news summary. ...award-winning documentaries on everything from global citizenship to education practice in other countries. Regular specialist hours cater to new teachers, governors and other specialist audiences, and core curriculum hours cover primary and secondary maths, English, science and ICT."

TeacherTube: Like YouTube, only it's all educational videos. Also includes Groups and TeacherTube Blogs, Lesson plan videos, student lesson videos, teacher-made videos. 01/20/08

TeacherVision.com: "Our goal is to provide you with lesson plans, resources, and materials that make your professional life easier." Site has newsletters, resources for professional development, classroom management, teacher tools, subject area pages, a lesson planning center. 10/18/01

Teaching and Learning on the Web: A site of nearly a thousand "examples of how the web is being used as a medium for learning.This searchable collection includes sites that range from courses delivered entirely via the web to courses that offer specific activities related to a class assignment or perhaps courses that offer class support materials via the web. This site does not include resource collections, lists of links, commercial products, or online schools.... just examples that are connected to specific courses or learning activities. 07/29/01

TEEM (Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia): An educational software evaluation service. "Our teacher-written evaluations highlight effective classroom practice, enabling you to spend your eLearning credits wisely." 06/03/03

Timesavers for Teachers.com "specializes in often-used, teacher-created, classroom management forms, practical teacher tools, report card comments, worksheets and teacher resources used by teachers of all grades on a regular basis." 09/09/06

UsingEnglish.com: This site is very rich with English Language and ESL resources! "...designed to have something for everyone with an interest in English including language teachers, students, learners and academics. Browse our Glossary of Terms, join our busy forums, download our free language software, read our articles and teacher handouts, and find useful links and information on English here." 11/10/04

Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics: Lots of online math activities here for all levels of K-12. From Utah State University. 11/12/02

Virtual Teacher Centre: Provides materials to support teaching and learning in all curriculum areas at the primary and secondary levels by subject and key stage. 01/03/01

Worksheets: Teachers will appreciate this huge list of items to explore -- it's worth a click to see what's there. 07/02/07

World Lecture Hall: From the Center for Instructional Technologies, a unit of the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment, at The University of Texas at Austin. "Free online course materials from around the world." 10/23/05