Good Resources

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