For parents and teachers
Reviews, lesson libraries and tips for the grown-ups choosing and sitting with the rest of this list.
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Common Sense Media
Independent reviews of films, apps, games and books, with age guidance written for parents and a separate education arm for schools.
Free reviews
Common Sense Education
Reviews of classroom tools, and a digital-citizenship curriculum, from the same organisation as Common Sense Media.
Free reviews and lessons
Vroom
Tiny, practical tips that turn everyday moments with babies and young children into brain-building back-and-forth. The site calls the tips free.
Free tips
PBS LearningMedia
A large, free-to-use library of classroom videos and lessons drawn from public-television programmes, for many subjects and ages.
Free lessons
PBS KIDS for Parents
Advice, activities and programme guides for the grown-ups sitting with PBS KIDS, organised by age and by topic.
OER Commons
A public library of open educational resources: lessons, textbooks and activities that teachers can use and adapt.
Free to use
CK-12
Free, adaptable digital textbooks and practice (FlexBooks) for maths and science, used by teachers and by students working on their own.
Free textbooks
ReadWriteThink
Lesson plans, printouts and interactive writing tools from the National Council of Teachers of English, free to use.
Free lessons
BBC Teach
Classroom videos and support from the BBC, organised for teachers in UK schools and useful to families following a similar curriculum.
Free videos
Colorín Colorado
A bilingual site of advice and strategies for families and teachers of children learning English.
Free advice
Understood
Plain, careful guidance for families of children who learn or think differently, including ADHD and dyslexia.
Free guidance
NAEYC
The U.S. early-childhood association's articles and position statements, useful when you want more than a tip sheet.
Edutopia
Articles and short films about classroom practice, from the George Lucas Educational Foundation, aimed at teachers and school leaders.
Free to read
ZERO TO THREE
Research-based advice on babies and toddlers, for parents and for the people who work with them.
Outschool
A marketplace of live online classes for children, covering a very wide range of subjects. Teachers set their own prices; the site's own title states ages 3–18.
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Other subjects
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