20 Educational Resources for new teachers:
1. Teachers Pay
Teachers: This site offers free resources along with paid content–in
fact, sellers are required to offer free materials alongside their
fee-based materials. “There are tons of free materials,” Holden said.
2. Really Good Stuff: This
includes educational materials as well as supplies like furniture, filing
cabinets, and sticky notes.
3. Amazon, eBay, and other sites for
paid content: These sites offer fee-based educational resources and materials.
Materials can be shipped directly and these sites often work best for “physical
products” for the classroom, Holden said.
4. Google: A simple Google
search is great, Holden said, because educators can search through all the
various categories–images, videos, books, and apps. A Google image search can
lead searchers directly to resources and are often linked to Pinterest
accounts. “The great thing about the [Google] ‘videos’ search is that ALL of
the videos are free,” Holden said. Copying the embed code for a video lets
educators paste the video into their websites, blogs, or LMS.
5. Share My Lesson: Free
lesson plans for teachers, organized by grade, subject, and standard. The site
also offers professional learning resources.
6. Scholastic:
Offers resources, tools, teaching strategies, and student activities.
7. Discovery:
Resources organized by grade level and topic, with a “Teacher Picks” resource
category, too.
8. Laura Candler Educational Resources:
The creator is an educator who offers her own resources on the site, but also
curates other content for use.
9. Indiana
University – Bloomington: Resources organized by topics such as
active learning, assessments, and collaboration.
10. TES:
A research page for all grade levels, including whole-school and students with
special needs, organized by topic.
11. Web Anywhere: Teacher resources split into primary and
secondary categories, searchable by subject. This site offers some resources
from the UK.
12. SMART Exchange:
Offers searchable and editable SMART Board activities created by teachers.
13. Read Write Think: Not only
does the site have activities for educators to use with students, but the site
also offers professional development topics
14. National Geographic: This site offers lots of videos, which
often come with companion documents such as writing prompts.
15. ArtsEdge:
This site from The Kennedy Center offers a “lesson finder” to help align
resources to different art topics.
16. Education.com: Searchable
site organized by resource and age/grade.
17. We Are Teachers: This site
offers lessons and materials, tips for grant writing, a blog list, and popular
education topics.
18. Kids.gov: A federal site
for free educational resources.
19. Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence: Another federal site. Though
it retired in 2015, it offers links to other federal resources.
20. Education World: This site
offers news, blogs, teacher materials, and more.
Author: Laura Devaney is
the Director of News for eSchool Media
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