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Teachers are always on the lookout for new inspiration and new ideas, but who s got time to plow through the
zillions of resources on the internet? Well, good news! We’ve done the research for you and here are 30 of our
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top sources for free teacher resources including lesson plans and activities created by fellow professional
educators (marked with an asterisk). Happy hunting!
1. Amazon Inspire*
Amazon Inspire is an open collaboration service that allows K-12 teachers to easily discover, gather, and share
quality educational content with their community.
Sample Lessons: Career Spotlight: Kite Designer, Global Warming Integer Project, The Life Cycle of a Snowman
and more.
2. Arts Edge
Sponsored by the Kennedy Center, Arts Edge provides arts-centered, standards-based resources for K-12.
Sample Lessons: Animal Habitats, Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution, Creating Comic Strips
3. Common Lit
Free collection of reading passages in all literary and non- ction genres for grades 3-12. Passages come with
text-dependent questions which help you track student progress.
Sample Lessons: Life Isn’t Fair- Deal With It, Who Was Anne Frank, Witchcraft in Salem and more.
4. Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media is a nonpro t dedicated to providing educators and students with resources to harness
the power of technology for learning and life. Free lessons K-12
Sample Lessons: My Writing, My Peer and Me, The Three Billy Goats STEM Challenge, The Ants Go Marching
and more.
5. Discovery Ed
Discovery Education offers a broad range of free classroom resources that complement and extend learning
beyond the bell. In addition, DEN Educators is an online community that provides teacher-to-teacher shared
ideas and resources.
Sample Lessons: Weather Maps, Understanding Probability, Understanding Stereotypes and more.
6. Education World
Education World is a complete online resource for teachers, administrators and school staff to nd high-quality
and in-depth original content. They offer more than 1,000 free lessons.
Sample Lessons: Wacky Weather, What Would Oprah Say?, Changes in Habitat and more.
7. Ever
Ever offers free digital courses that are interactive and standards-based. The focus is on real-world learning,
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Sample Lessons: FutureSmart – Middle School Financial Education, The Compassion Project, and Mental
Wellness Basics.
8. Jumpstart
Jumpstart offers free teaching materials (activities, worksheets, lesson plans) for K-5 teachers that have been
designed by experts or tried and found useful by other teachers.
Sample Lessons: What a Wonderful World, Art of Recycling, Power Up math activity and more.
9. Library of Congress
The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively
use primary sources from the Library’s vast digital collections in their teaching.
Sample Lessons: Alexander Hamilton primary source set, Baseball Across a Changing Nation, Using Primary
Sources and more.
10. Literacy Design Collaborative*
LDC is a national community of educators which provides literacy-rich assignments and courses (organized by
collection) across content areas.
Collections include: K-6 Civics Collection (19 modules), National Writing Project, NBCT Authors and more.
11. NASA
Search hundreds of resources by subject, grade level, type and keyword. These lesson plans and teaching
materials support K-12 STEM curriculum.
Sample Lessons: Moon Munchies, Bubble Rocket, Mars activities and more.
12. National Gallery of Art
According to their website, the mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the USA in a national role by
preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible
museum and scholarly standards.
Sample Lessons: Elements of Art: Shape, Rousseau in the Jungle, Gordon Parks Photography and more.
13. National Geographic
Bring National Geographic to your classroom through lesson plans, maps and reference resource.
Sample lessons: Wild Horses of the Outer Banks, El Nino, Traces of Ancient Rome in the Modern World.
14. National Women’s History Museum
The mission of the National Women’s History Museum is to tell the stories of women who transformed the
history of our nation in pursuit of a a world “where women’s history inspires all people to have equal respect for
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everyone’s experiences and accomplishments and to see there are no obstacles to achieving their dreams.” In
addition to lesson plans, resources include National History Day projects, Virtual Field Trips , and The Suffrage
Resource Center.
Sample Lessons: Songs of Protest, African American Activists, Little Rock Nine and more.
15. New York Times
Articles and questions, writing prompts and lesson plans that coordinate with The New York Times Learning
Network for teens.
Sample Lessons: Analyzing the Elements of Art: Five Ways to Think About Space, When School Gets Real:
Teachers Connect Classroom Lessons to Current Events, Ten Ways to Teach Argument Writing and more.
16. Newsela
Newsela is a database of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. War
and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different
formats by reading level.
Sample Texts: Giving Great Speeches, The Human Heart as a Work of Art, Helping Endangered Lemurs Hang On
and more.
17. NSTA
National Science Teachers Association promotes excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for
all. This site gives teachers access to NSTA magazine and resources like lesson plans.
Sample Lessons: 14 writing strategies, The Greenhouse Effect, Toothbrush Design: Is There a Better Bristle? and
more.
18. PBS Learning Media
Free, standards-aligned PK-12 instructional resources including lesson plans, videos, inter-actives and more.
Sample Lessons: What Happens When a Language Dies?, The Origami Revolution, The Spread of Disease and
more.
19. ReadWriteThink
Sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, ReadWriteThink provides educators with access to
the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
Sample Lessons: Color Poems-Using the Five Sense to Guide Pre-Writing, Teaching About Story Structure Using
Fairy Tales, A Blast From the Past With Nuclear Chemistry and more.
20. Scholastic Teachers
Free teaching resources by grade including the categories Lessons and Ideas, Books and Authors, Top Teaching
blog, Teacher’s Tool Kit and Student Activities.
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Sample Lessons: Ideas for starting the school day in Daily Starters, children’s book Discussion Guides, and
educational Videos.
21. Share My Lesson*
Associated with AFT, Share My Lesson houses over 420,000 free lesson plans and activities including curated
collections for early childhood through high school. Lessons are organized by grade and topic.
Sample Lessons: Who Wants to be a Millionaire Stories, Coordinates and Straight Line Graphs, The Effect of the
Population Explosion
22. Smithsonian’s History Explorer
Smithsonian’s History Explorer was developed by the National Museum of American History in partnership with
the Verizon Foundation to offer hundreds of free, innovative online resources for teaching and learning K-12
American history.
Sample Lessons: The Suffragist, Winning WWII, Many Voices, One Nation and more.
23. Storyline Online
This award-winning children’s literacy website streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s
books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
Sample books: Arnie the Doughnut, Enemy Pie, My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother and more.
24. Teacher.org*
Teacher.org offers a wide range of free teacher tools and resources including standards-aligned cross curricular
lessons which have been created by K-12 teachers from all over the United States.
Sample Lessons: Chinese New Year, Camou age and Environment, Menus to Save the Earth and more.
25. Teacher Created Resources*
Free standards-aligned lessons and interactive whiteboard activities products created by teachers for teachers.
Sample Lessons: A Tale of Two Towns, Making Decisions with Probability, Translating Confucius and more.
26. Teacher Vision
For more than 15 years, Teacher Vision has equipped a community of over one million educators with certi ed,
expertly curated teaching resources designed to help their students succeed.
Sample Lessons: Polar Powers: Animal Adaptations, Star Chart: Autumn Sky, The Rights of Bike Riders and
more.
27. Teachers Pay Teachers
Claiming to be the world’s most popular marketplace for teachers, TPT not only provides thousands of
resources, it allows teacher to share their knowledge with their colleagues and make money doing it.
resources, it allows teacher to share their knowledge with their colleagues and make money doing it.
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Sample Lessons: Hopscotch Coding, Gumball Sight Words, Money I Have, Who Has Game and more.
28. Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance provides free resources that emphasize social justice and anti-bias to K-12 educators.
Sample Lessons: Lessons from Goldilocks, Singing for Peace, Making Cents of Privilege and more.
29. TES (Times Educational Supplement) *
TES is a British website that houses over 700K free resources for K-12 teachers. Made by teachers for teachers.
Sample Lessons: Toy Store Money Problems, Persuasive Writing Travel Brochures, Tissues and Organs and
more.
30. USA.gov
USA.gov provides a wide variety of American government lesson plans, activities and worksheets- free for your
classroom.
Sample Lessons: Explaining Taxes to Kids, How a Bill Becomes a Law, Field Trip to the Money Factory and more.
31. WeAreTeachers
In addition to lesson plans and classroom ideas, our very own website has thousands of resources including free
printables, career advice for teachers, life and well-being, and deals for teachers.
Sample Lessons: Recycling Lesson Plans, 12 Cause and Effect Lesson Plans You’ll Love, 10 Fairy Tale Lesson Plans
and more.
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4. Common Sense Media

10. Literacy Design Collaborative*

12. National Gallery of Art

13. National Geographic

14. National Women’s History Museum

15. New York Times

18. PBS Learning Media

20. Scholastic Teachers

21. Share My Lesson*

22. Smithsonian’s History Explorer

23. Storyline Online

25. Teacher Created Resources*

26. Teacher Vision

27. Teachers Pay Teachers

28. Teaching Tolerance

29. TES (Times Educational Supplement) *

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