Education Subject Guide: Classroom Resources

This site provides links to the 46 U.S. states and territories that have adopted the Common Core State Standards. Each link provides detailed information about each state's current academic standards in multiple subject areas.

Edpuzzle is an easy-to-use platform that allows users to find video lessons created by other teachers, or create their own. Edpuzzle also allows users to embed questions into videos for students to answer, and provides users with analytics based on student activity and responses. This makes Edpuzzle an ideal lesson plan resource for asynchronous instruction.

A partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities, EDSITEment offers free K-12 humanities education materials in the subject areas of history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture.

Education Week is an independent news organization that publishes news, opinion articles, teaching resources, and other relevant and practical information for K-12 educators.

Edutopia provides a wide range of videos and other materials on best instruction practices, including assessment, project-based learning, social and emotional learning, technology integration, and other topics.

Khan Academy provides free practice exercises, instructional videos, and personalized learning dashboards that cover a wide range of content areas and empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) provides independent research and analysis to inform policy supporting high-quality early education for all young children. Notable projects include: the only national report on state-funded preschool programs with detailed information on enrollment, funding, teacher qualifications, and other policies; the first report to describe and analyze state-by-state "Head Start" enrollment, funding, quality, and duration.

Organized by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the Illuminations project provides free access to standards-based resources for teaching and learning mathematics, including over 700 lesson plans and over 50 interactive activities.

PBS Learning Media provides interactive, standards-aligned lesson plans and teaching materials for a range of subject areas. These free resources are organized by different grade levels and aligned to distinct state academic standards. Many resources are also regularly updated to incorporate current events and real world developments.

From the University of Colorado Boulder, PhET provides fun, free, interactive and research-based science and mathematics simulations that can be integrated into instruction. PhET also provides lesson plan examples that correspond with their interactive simulations and games.

From the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Share My Lesson database contains over 400,000 teacher-created instructional resources for all grades.

Conducted by Stanford University faculty and staff, the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) provides free teaching and assessment materials for history, civics and information literacy instruction. Each history lesson revolves around a central historical question and features a set of primary source documents designed for groups of students with a range of reading skills.

Sorted by different subject areas, Teachflix includes a wide range of free educational videos geared for all different grade levels (elementary, middle, and high school)