All Subject Resources

All-Subject Resources
also check our "Learning with Videos" page

Wonder of the Day

Wonderopolis posts a “Wonder of the Day” each day, including a video on topics such as Do Hummingbirds Really Hum and Why Do You Sneeze, just to name a few. Without teaching or planning, parents and students can explore a new topic, just for the fun of learning. This can lead to discussion, writing prompts, activities or further research on the topic. The whole experience can be done in five minutes, or extended into a day of learning.

The No Excuse List

The folks over at "No Excuse List"" have created a fabulous list of links titled: The best place on the web to learn anything, free.
They have provided links to a wide variety on learning resources all over the web

Open Culture

200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More This is part of the free online sharing initiative for teachers and other creators to share what they have found and created freely on the internet with an "open" rather than "copyright" focus.

Math and Language Arts K-8

MobyMax is a free online resources that provide, "Personalized Learning includes 27 complete subjects covering all grades between kindergarten and eighth grade. Judges awarded us two 2017 CODiE awards for best personalized learning and best early learning software in recognition of the depth and quality of our curriculum. The paid version includes Skill Checker and Benchmarker, our new Pinpoint Assessments.

Free movies and books

Hoopla is a service provided by many libraries. Spokane County Library has a subscription to Hoopla. Users create an account using a library card and PIN number. Users can use 10 resources per month including movies, TV shows, and audio books. Users of iOS devices and download resources and use them offline with an installed app. "Enjoy hoopla remotely, wherever you have an internet connection, or in our libraries, using the Digital Library link. You can download the hoopla app and watch on the go, wherever you might be." (SCLD)

FREE Resources

At Only Passionate Curiosity, the author maintains a list of FREE homeschooling and alternative education links and websites.

Teach With Movies provides lesson plans and movie recommendations for using film in class. They offer worksheets to go with movies . Discussion questions, background information, internet links and more are available, all for free. According to their website, they are: "the premiere site on the Internet showing teachers how to create lesson plans using movies and film. Thousands of teachers use movies in their classes to teach social studies, English, Science, Health, and the Arts."

Movie Sheets for the Classroom
"Movie Sheets contains one of the largest databases of classroom movie worksheets on the net. These worksheets are based on films that teachers have viewed then subsequently created film guides for. These film sheets have been tested within the classroom. Showing videos and the occasional Hollywood film in the classroom is an innovative way to demonstrate concepts and expose common misconceptions while providing a thought provoking change of pace for students." (from the website)

Critical thinking skills

Have you ever wanted a cheat-sheet of critical thinking questions and approaches while discussing a topic or book with students? Attached is just such a tool from Edudemic. It might help to save a copy to glance at during book club or tea time poetry sessions.

Free Technology 4 Teachers
One of my favorite resources for all things having to do with educational technology is the Freetech4teachers website created and curated by educator Richard Byrne. His knowledge is vast and practical. Stop by and search his site for just about any educational technology question you have. He also maintains Android4Schools.com, PracticalEdTech.com and iPadApps4School.com.

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Libraries of Hope
The Libraries of Hope site has created an exhaustive list of living books and enrichment resources for learning using the Charlotte Mason approach, arranged by topic and three levels of learning: elementary, middle school and high school. A homeschooling grandma, the author, "personally selected and previewed the thousands of books and other resources you will find linked in the online library." Families can search by category, including American History, World History, Biography, Nature and "other". The author also includes a "Mother's University" for the ongoing education and edification of teaching parents. Almost everything on the site is free, and much of it is taken from older books. More modern books, films and activities are recommended as well. Families can also follow a 12 month rotation. This is a treasure trove of resources.

Study Guides and tutoring available at Course Hero

Study resources, flash cards, and literature study guides are only a few of the offerings at Course Hero. Study guides for novels and inforgraphics about different novels are also available at Course Hero.

Quick One-Stop Resource
The folks over at NeoK12 have put together what they call, "...the best collection of educational videos, quizzes, games, diagrams and puzzles that kids love. All videos, lessons and games have bee screened by K-12 teachers. They are arranged by subject matter and topic. THough there are many more fabulous resources out there, this is a great place to go to when you have little to no planning time and need a quick, reviewed, resource.

Netflix Academy
This collection of resources, (with no legal ties to Netflix) is a bit inaptly named as it houses links to video offerings from Amazon, Hulu, youTube, along with Netflix. At this time, in late 2014, the offerings are a bit thin, but growing. They seem to be carefully culled to be appropriate for the whole family. I expect, as this is a new site, that the offerings will continue to grow over time. As with the site just below, these providers change their offerings very often, and no list on the internet is able to keep up with it perfectly, so expect to find some dead links.

GVS Free Courses
Georgia Virtual School has made a variety of its online courses available through open educational resources and teacher created materials. Complete courses are hosted there which require the instructor to lead discussions and evaluate work with the rubrics supplied. Science courses require offline suggested labs. Lots of technology pieces such as videos and interactive activities are imbedded in the courses. Also, printable offline assignments are included. TESTS and answer keys ARE NOT included.

Homeschooling with Netflix

A Facebook group called "Homeschooling with Netflix" has provided a PDF document with an extensive list of videos, listed by academic topic . It can be saved to your computer or printed out. For regular updates, anyone can join the Facebook page, but the administrators review and approve new members to make sure they are not spammers.. Netflix is constantly changing their offerings, so any listing of their movies can be out of date very quickly.

Worksheets Works

WorksheetWorks is a site created for and by parents and teachers to provide a wide variety of worksheets to supplement any unit. Parents and teachers can customize worksheets to fit their needs.

Easy Peasy

Easy Peasy is one mom's Herculean effort to create a homeschool website that had all of her children's assignments online, "... so that they can work independently and so that I have the assignments saved for their younger siblings. Grade levels and courses include 180 days of homeschool lessons and assignments. It covers reading, writing, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, math, history/social studies/geography, science, Bible, computer, music, art, PE/health, and logic. This is designed for Christian homeschoolers, but many of the materials/links are secular. It uses only free materials found on the internet." (www.easypeasy.com) While most educators will pick and choose from her offerings, it is an amazing collection...and meaty too. Every course is laid out will daily assignments, all materials are online, and it is all FREE!

Books and Movies

Here is Paula's Archive...an organized list of literature books and movies linked to history and science topics and different curriculum.

Mr. Nussbaum !

MrNussbaum.com aims to create an indispensable learning atmosphere for kids in grades K-8, that successfully blends fun with learning. When students associate fun with learning, anything is possible in terms of skill-building and achievement. These learning games that reinforce skills, challenge students to improve their skills and involve them in role-playing. This site is designed to help make the learning of elementary concepts interactive in all subjects.

Find movie clips by theme

Movieclips allows users to find and preview movie clips by theme, to enhance lessons. Users can also search by actor, director, genre etc...but the theme search is most relevant to educators.

Watch and chat about videos online

Watch2gether allows users to post and watch a YouTube video while conducting a web-based chat about it at the same time. After selecting the video to present, a chat column shows up on the right side of your window. By sending the URL assigned to the chat room, users can invite others to the chat to discuss it in real time. Students can turn in a screenshot of the chat to demonstrate their participation,

Free digital learning activities

"PowerMyLearning is a free, web-based K-12 learning platform designed for students, educators, and parents. With PowerMyLearning, you can easily find and use over 1,600 of the best free digital learning activities from across the web to propel student achievement in all major subjects including math, English, science, social studies, and more. This site houses 1,600+ thoroughly vetted academic games, interactive simulations, and videos. A free account grants access to a world of smart and engaging resources. Easy-to-find activities are tagged by subject, grade, and Common Core Standards"

Flashcards and study tool

Quizlet provides an easy to use site where students can upload their own flash cards or use sets created by other users. Games, practice tests, spelling mode, and an audio tool provide a nice range of options for both students and teachers. A paid account allows for uploading photos.

Studyblue is another open-source generated set of flash cards. In both systems, users can create their own sets or use sets created by other users. A video shows how it works. A smartphone app makes is great for studying on the go.

TED Ed Lessons

"Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform.".(from TED ED) Videos are arranged by subject and collection.