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General Resources for Teachers
1. Teachers Pay Teachers
From this resource, you can buy lesson plans, assignments, and activities for all subjects and grade levels. You can also create your own original content and sell it on this website. There are free resources as well. You simply need to filter your search by free.
2. Canva
From this resource, you can create an educator account which gives you access to the pro version for free! You can create all types of presentations, invitations, and search for presentations that are all ready created on content. For example, there is a premade presentation on area and perimeter.
3. Common Literature
From this resource, you can find informational texts on a variety of topics. It is not just for literature. You will need to create an educator account. You can search by topic, genre, and grade level. It provides related media to the text, discussion questions, and assessment questions. The website also translates the texts. They provide paired texts for an article as well. If you want students to read different articles on the same topic and do a jigsaw, this is extremely helpful.
4. Edutopia
This is a free resource for educators that focuses on instructional strategies. It is a K-12 resource site. You can search by topic and grade level. There are video resources as well.
5. PBS Learning Media
SCETV and PBS have free videos, interactives, and lesson plans for all grades and subject levels. You can search by grade level or subject.
6. TedEd
From this resource, you can find videos, Ted Talks, and discussion questions. You can search by subject and grade level.
7. Flip
Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a free web and mobile app from Microsoft where educators create safe, online groups for students to express their ideas asynchronously in short video, text, and audio messages.
8. Khan Academy
Khan Academy provides free educational content in the form of instructional videos and practice exercises covering different subjects including math, chemistry, physics, science, arts, humanities and many more.
9. Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips
Discovery education offers virtual field trips for all subjects. You can search by subject. They have past recordings and live field trips.
10. Angela Drake
Ms. Drake has Oculus (Virtual Reality) googles. You can reach out to her about the many options there are for all subjects. She has a full class set.
11. NewsELA
This resource provides articles on many topics. You can search by grade level. You can access this through your Clever login.
12. We Are Teachers
The website offers ideas and resources for high school teaching practice. You can search by topics and grade levels. This is more for general practice ideas than specific content. It also offers free printables.
13. Education News
Education news, analysis, and opinion about curriculum, textbooks and other content materials used in teaching. This source has free webinars available on multiple topics.
14. Question Well (Thank You Mr. Rich)
Just input some reading, and the AI will write Essential Questions, Learning Objectives, and aligned multiple choice questions, which you can then export to your favorite tool.
15. Quizalize
Create a quiz in seconds. Engage your class with fun TEKS-aligned quizzes. Get instant data and help students help them achieve the very best in their SLOs.
16. LauraandAzzo Blog
Their mission is to prevent teacher burnout. It is for ELA teachers primarily, but there are some helpful resources for all.
17. General Engagement Activities/Ideas Links
18. General Links/Ideas for Taking Students Outdoors