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Reading and writing 11
Storyline Online
Actors read children's picture books aloud, with the book on screen. Run by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
Free to watch
ReadTheory
Adaptive reading-comprehension practice that adjusts the next passage to how a student just did.
Free reading practice
Book Dash
Openly licensed picture books, written and illustrated in a day, that anyone can read or print.
Free to read and print
African Storybook
Open picture books in many African languages, with English and other translations, meant to be read on screen or printed.
Free to read
Unite for Literacy
Short picture books narrated in English and in many other languages, pictured with real photographs.
Free to read
Storynory
A long-running collection of original and traditional stories to listen to, with the text on the page.
Free to listen
Open Library
An Internet Archive project that lends digitised books, including a large children's shelf, with a free account.
Free to borrow
Project Gutenberg
Public-domain books to download or read in the browser, including a long list of children's classics.
Free to download
Poetry Foundation Education
Poems, lesson ideas and recordings chosen for classrooms and for reading with children.
Free to read
Global Storybooks
Open storybooks in dozens of languages, built from the African Storybook collection and related projects.
Free to read
Libby
The public-library app for borrowing e-books and audiobooks with a library card, including plenty of children's titles.
Free with a library card
Maths 10
Bedtime Math
A daily maths story with questions at three difficulty levels, meant to be done together at the end of the day, plus a free app.
Free daily problems
Desmos
A free graphing calculator and a library of classroom activities for algebra, geometry and statistics.
Free graphing calculator
GeoGebra
Interactive geometry, algebra and graphing tools, plus a large set of ready-made classroom activities.
Free to use
NRICH
Rich maths problems and articles from the University of Cambridge, for classrooms and for children who like a puzzle that doesn't give up at once.
Free problems
Youcubed
Tasks, films and advice from Stanford's Youcubed, aimed at building a more open, less fearful way of learning maths.
Free tasks
Toy Theater
Simple on-screen manipulatives and short games for early maths, art and literacy, useful on an interactive board or a tablet.
Free to use
Maths Is Fun
Plain, illustrated explanations of maths ideas, from fractions to early calculus, with practice questions on many pages.
Free to read
Estimation 180
A bank of estimation challenges, each a photograph and a question, designed for a short daily classroom routine.
Free tasks
Open Middle
Problems with a closed end and an open middle: many ways to reach a right answer, sorted by grade and standard.
Free problems
Which One Doesn't Belong
Sets of four pictures or numbers in which any one can be the odd one out, if you can say why. Built for talk, not for a single right answer.
Free prompts
Science and nature 10
NASA Space Place
NASA's site of games, crafts and plain-language articles about space and Earth, written for children and the adults helping them.
Free to use
NASA Kids' Club
Short games and pictures from NASA for younger children, with a light introduction to missions and spacecraft.
Free to use
NASA Kids, Earth
NASA Science's children's pages about Earth and climate, which now gather what used to live on Climate Kids.
Free to use
PhET Interactive Simulations
Free, research-based simulations of science and maths ideas, from the University of Colorado Boulder, that you can run in a browser.
Free simulations
Exploratorium Science Snacks
A catalogue of short, well-explained hands-on experiments, each with a list of ordinary materials.
Free activities
Journey North
A citizen-science project that tracks migrations and seasons, with classroom investigations children can join.
Free to join
Zooniverse
Real research projects that anyone can help with, from spotting animals in camera traps to classifying galaxies. Some are designed with schools in mind.
Free to take part
NOAA Education
The U.S. weather and ocean agency's education pages: classroom resources, data and explanations of climate, oceans and forecasts.
Free resources
National Park Service, kids
Games, Junior Ranger ideas and park stories from the U.S. National Park Service.
Free to use
EPA, students
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's pages for students and teachers, on air, water, waste and the living world.
Free resources
Coding and computing 13
Code.org
A nonprofit that runs full computer-science courses from the first years of school upward, plus the Hour of Code / Hour of AI puzzles.
Free courses
Scratch
MIT's visual programming language and community, where children snap blocks together to make games, stories and animations, then share them.
Free to use
ScratchJr
A younger sibling of Scratch for early readers: picture blocks on a tablet, used to make characters move and tell short stories.
Free app
CS Unplugged
Computer science taught with cards, string and pencil, not a screen, from the University of Canterbury.
Free activities
Blockly Games
A small set of puzzle games from Google that introduce block programming, ending with a simple JavaScript step.
Free to play
MakeCode Arcade
Microsoft MakeCode's browser editor for making retro-style games with blocks or JavaScript, then playing them on the web or a device.
Free to use
Raspberry Pi projects
Step-by-step projects from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, for the Pi, for the web, and for other kits, written for beginners upwards.
Free projects
MIT App Inventor
A block-based tool for making Android (and some iOS) apps in a browser, used in many school and club projects.
Free to use
Code Club
A worldwide network of free coding clubs for 9- to 13-year-olds, with project guides that anyone can follow at home too.
Free projects
Hour of AI
The current home of what used to be the Hour of Code: one-hour activities that introduce computing and, now, AI ideas. Still run with Code.org.
Free one-hour activities
Teachable Machine
A browser tool from Google that lets you train a simple image, sound or pose model with a webcam or microphone, then export it.
Free to use
Be Internet Awesome
Google's Interland game and curriculum about staying safer, kinder and more sceptical online.
Free game and lessons
Bootstrap
A curriculum that teaches algebra through programming (and data science, in later modules), aimed at school classrooms.
Free curriculum
Arts and music 4
Chrome Music Lab
A set of tiny, joyful experiments for playing with sound, rhythm and melody in a browser, from Google.
Free to play
Tate Kids
Games, things to make, and a look at art from the Tate collections, written for children.
Free to use
Google Arts & Culture
High-resolution tours of museums, artworks and historic sites, with experiments and stories that work well on a sofa as well as in class.
Free to use
Make Beliefs Comix
A simple comic-strip maker in the browser, used in classrooms for writing, language learning and just telling a joke in four panels.
Free to use
History and the world 9
BBC Bitesize
The BBC's free study site for UK schools, covering almost every subject from early primary through GCSEs and Nationals, with short explainers and activities.
Free to use
CBBC Newsround
A daily news service written and presented for children, from the BBC, including the week's harder stories handled with care.
Free to watch
Google Earth
A globe you can fly around, with Voyager guided tours of cities, nature and history. Works in a browser or as an app.
Free to use
Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government
A clear, official introduction to how the U.S. government works, written in three age bands: 4–8, 9–13 and 14+.
Free to use
Mission US
Free historical role-playing games in which you take a character through a moment in U.S. history, made for classrooms and for home.
Free games
U.S. National Archives, education
Primary sources, lesson plans and document-analysis sheets from the U.S. National Archives.
Free resources
Statistics in Schools
Classroom activities from the U.S. Census Bureau that use real population data, for maths, geography and social studies.
Free activities
ABC Behind the News
An Australian news programme and site for school-age children, explaining the week's events in short, clear films.
Free to watch
CBC Kids News
News written for Canadian children, with videos and articles on current events.
Free to watch
Shows and video 3
PBS KIDS
Games, videos and activities starring the public-television children's programmes, with a free website and apps.
Free games and videos
TED-Ed
Short, animated lessons on almost any curiosity, with questions and, often, a chance to go deeper. Free to watch.
Free to watch
CBeebies
The BBC's channel and site for preschool children, with programmes, games and songs, free to use in the UK and, for many titles, beyond.
Free to watch
Typing and study skills 3
TypingClub
A popular, lesson-by-lesson typing tutor that you can start without an account. The title on the site calls the basic course free.
Free typing course
Freerice
Multiple-choice questions (vocabulary, maths and more) where each right answer contributes rice through the World Food Programme.
Free to play
Quill
Free, sentence-level writing practice (grammar, combining sentences, proofs) from a nonprofit, designed for classrooms.
Free practice
For parents and teachers 11
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
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
Edutopia
Articles and short films about classroom practice, from the George Lucas Educational Foundation, aimed at teachers and school leaders.
Free to read
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