Resources
ABCya!
ABCya provides free online activities and games to help improve elementary students' reading and math skills. All of the content is accessible online and organized by grade level and topic area.
ACS Chemistry for Life (Science)
Free lesson plans aligned to NGSS, student activity sheets, and integrated animations help students understand chemistry in everyday life. (Recommended by TEA)
AnswerGarden
AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it in the classroom as an educational tool or at work as a creative brainstorming tool.
Ascend Math
Ascend Math is personalized online math instruction that provides each student with a unique study path through skill gaps at each level. Individual study plans are prescriptive, adaptive, and automatically assigned.
Ask A Biologist (Science)
Ask A Biologist began in 1997 in the School of Life Sciences as a biology learning resource tool for students, teachers, parents, and life-long learners. (Recommended by TEA)
AskTheScientist.org (Science)
We are a collaboration of people, organizations and scientists interested in answering your questions and giving out correct information about various scientific projects we are involved in. Our goal is to educate and provide information to anyone interested to interact with this site. (Recommended by TEA)
BioInteractive (Science)
Real science, real stories, and real data to engage students in exploring the living world. (Recommended by TEA)
BrainPop
Free during the period of closure: BrainPop is a group of educational websites with over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12, together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music. All materials can be accessed for free by educators and families.
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (Birth to age 5)
For younger students requiring social-emotional and behavioral support, CSEFEL is a comprehensive online resource for teachers and families. The website features user-friendly training materials, videos, and print resources which are available directly from this website to help early care, health, and education providers implement the model for supporting social emotional competence.
Children's Museum Houston (Science)
Search our extensive database for activities and videos to incorporate into your classroom. (Recommended by TEA)
Circle Family Activity Collection
The CIRCLE Family Activity Collection translates child development research into practice by providing a variety of hands-on activities that families can do at home. This collection is organized around seven learning domains: Language & Communication, Reading & Writing, Math, Science, Social & Emotional, Physical Development, and Art & Sensory.
Class Dojo
ClassDojo is a communication app for the classroom. It connects teachers, parents, and students who use it to share photos, videos, and messages through the school day. They use ClassDojo to work together as a team, share in the classroom experience, and bring big ideas to life in their classrooms and homes.
ClassTools
ClassTools provides a tool for teachers to randomly select students to call on during class instruction.
CLI Engage CIRCLE Activity Collection: Family
You’ve heard it before: parents and guardians are children’s first teachers. We say it because it’s true! Many studies have shown that families and teachers working together to support children’s development can lead to better outcomes for children. This collection includes fun, easy activity ideas that families can do together to help support important school readiness skills for children ages 0-6. (Recommended by TEA)
CLI Engage Family Engagement Resources (Pre-K)
CLI’s family engagement resources make the most of procedures you likely already have in place, such as progress monitoring, homework, parent-teacher conferences, and open houses. CLI advocates a new focus for these efforts: supporting families in better understanding children’s development and engaging in fun, developmentally appropriate activities that not only build skills but strengthen the bonds between family members. (Recommended by TEA).
CommonLit (English & Spanish Reading passages)
CommonLit is a nonprofit education technology organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, especially students in Title I schools, graduate with the reading, writing, communication, and problem-solving skills they need to be successful in college and beyond.
Davis Digital
Davis Digital offers comprehensive online Art Education resources, including easy-to-use, intuitive eBooks, ePortfolios, a Curriculum Builder, and more than 30,000 fine art images.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education transforms classrooms, empowers teachers and captivates students by leading the way in providing high quality, dynamic, digital content to school districts large and small, rural and suburban and everything in between.
DMAC Solutions
DMAC Solutions offers a suite of web-based tools developed at the Region 7 Education Service Center. FSISD utilizes this software for data disaggregation, local assessments, student achievement/progress monitoring, and planning.
DOGOnews
DOGOnews is the leading source for current events, news and non-fictional content for ELA, Science and Social Studies. With thousands of news articles and new original content added daily, DOGOnews is the leading online source of current events for students, teachers and schools.
duolingo
Learn a language for free.
Earth Exploration Toolbook (Science)
Developed by teams of scientists and educators, the Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) is a collection of online Earth system science activities. Each activity, or chapter, introduces one or more scientific data sets and analysis tools that enables users to explore some aspect of the Earth system.
Within the context of a case study, each chapter guides users through a step-by-step process in which they access data and use analysis tools to explore real issues and questions in Earth system science. In the course of completing a chapter, users produce and analyze maps, graphs, images, or other data products. The ultimate goal of each activity is to build users' skills and confidence so they can use data to conduct their own investigations of the Earth system.
(Recommended by TEA)
EDSITEment (Social Studies)
Driving excellence in humanities education – Lesson Plans and Teacher Guides. (Recommended by TEA)
Eduphoria
Eduphoria! works to empower teachers. Its integrated apps assist in every aspect of the school day, from lesson planning to monitoring student progress, streamlining administrative duties, and providing a collaborative platform for education professionals. Eduphoria! creates tools that seamlessly precipitate a teacher’s success in the classroom.
English Teacher's Free Library (Prestwick House)
Free downloadable lesson plans and resources.
Equatio
Easily create mathematical equations, formulas and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn.
Flashcard Machine
Flashcard Machine is a free service for creating web-based study flashcards that can be shared with others.
Flippity
Flippity easily turns a Google Spreadsheet into a set of online flashcards.
Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)
From 2004 to 2008, a team of teachers at FCRR collected ideas and created Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials.
Frontline (Formerly AESOP)
Absence Management
GoNoodle
GoNoodle’s short desk-side physical activities help teachers manage their classroom and improve student performance.
Goodheart-Wilcox
Today's Goodheart-Willcox (G-W) publishes both print and digital textbooks while also producing online courses and other instructional resources that provide a complete classroom solution. With subject-appropriate titles for middle school, high school, higher education, and professional training, G-W is recognized as a go-to source for career and technical education content.
Great Minds (Math, English, Science, History)
Every day on this site, we’ll offer newly recorded lessons—free to anyone—from Eureka Math (for Grades K–12), our English language arts curriculum Wit & Wisdom® (K–8), and PhD Science™ (3–5). Customized by grade and module, these coherent and complete video lessons, delivered by our experienced teachers, will be viewable on any device.
Guadalupe River Authority Aquatic Resources - Elementary (Science)
Journey Through the Guadalupe River Basin is a curriculum provided free to all 4th grade classrooms in the Guadalupe Basin, including Kendall, Guadalupe, Comal, Hays, Caldwell, Gonzales, Refugio, DeWitt, Calhoun and Victoria counties. Kits are shipped to schools each fall. Kits include: student workbooks, pencils, jump drives, maps. Student workbooks are also available in Spanish. (Recommended by TEA)
Guadalupe River Authority Aquatic Resources - Presentations (Science)
As scheduling allows, GBRA staff will come to classrooms or Nature Centers in the Guadalupe River basin to lead discussions and explorations. (Recommended by TEA)
Guadalupe River Authority Aquatic Resources - Secondary (Science)
Waters to the Sea, Guadalupe River is a GBRA funded rich, interactive, multimedia educational program, produced by the Center for Global Environmental Education at Hamline University. Waters to the Sea explores essential concepts about the Guadalupe River and its watershed, following a unique design that uses regionally specific historical characters, stories, images, and video to educate users. Available only online, Waters to the Sea brings to life the region's environmental history and explores the relationship between human activities and the Guadalupe's waters and ecological resources. This program will enhance social studies and science investigations primarily for grade 7, but there are opportunities for use in grades 6 and 8 as well as Environmental Systems classes at the high school level.
(Recommended by TEA)
Handwriting Without Tears
Handwriting Interactive Teaching Tool (HIIT) Log In for Handwriting Without Tears
iCEV
CEV Multimedia seeks to create innovative solutions and engaging curriculum aimed at providing students with the focus and preparation needed for successful transition from K-12 to postsecondary studies to career success, along with providing necessary training for the life-long learner both internationally and within industry.
iCivics
Our games transform abstract concepts into real-life problems. Young people learn how government works by experiencing it. They step into the role of a judge, a member of Congress, a community activist, even the President of the United States - and do the job they do. Students gain civic knowledge and skills because the learning experience is fun and challenging. They learn without even realizing it. Our games are the centerpiece of a comprehensive digital platform. iCivics offers a range of practical, dynamic, and standards-aligned resources tailored to the needs of classroom teachers. They are free and accessible to all.
Implementing the TEKS Resource System
TEKS Resource System Implemnentaion Guide with Pacing Tools
K5 Math
K5 Math provides an extensive collection of free resources, math games, and hands-on math activities for K- 5. Our math task cards and games are suitable for use in math centers, small group and whole class settings.
Khan Academy (Mathematics, Science, Social Studies)
We’re a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Click on Teacher Tab (Recommended by TEA)
KidLit TV
We’re a diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award-winning filmmakers working together to create fun new ways to reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives. Provides several Read Aloud Videos.
Lakeshore Learning Free Resources
More than 1,000 free resources for the classroom and home.
lead4ward
Serving over 700 districts, lead4ward is an essential partner in supporting the success of our schools. lead4ward anticipates and integrates the changing needs of schools in its work with educators to support all learners in achieving their highest potential.
Learning A-Z
Free Virtual Resources for Educators for the rest of year.
Lit 2 Go
Secondary Free Audiobooks
Loyal Books
Free Audiobooks
Magic Keys
Free Audiobooks
Master Teacher Online Training: Paraprofessionals
McGraw - Hill Connect ED
McGraw-Hill Connect ED is a digital teaching and learning environment that saves students and instructors time while improving performance over a variety of critical outcomes.
Measuring Up Live 2.0: MyQuest: Math, Reading & Science
For Math, Reading & Science: Log in crednetials provided to teachers & students in Grades 1-8 (free licenses until June 30, 2020):
Practice
Build foundational skills for comprehension and assessment success
Provide personalized, differentiated, and adaptive practice to target the TEKS
Use robust, real-time reporting to target instruction
Mee Genius
Free Audiobooks
Mindplay (Reading)
Mindplay is an educational software development company. Our mission: develop, publish, and distribute cost-effective learning tools with clear objectives, inviting graphics, and modern technology to support reading growth and development.
Mystery Science
Free, easy Science for remote learning.
National Education Association: Biology (Science)
Biology Teaching and Learning Resources
National Marine Sanctuaries (Science)
Ocean Guardian programs encourage children to explore their natural surroundings to form a sense of personal connection to the ocean and/or watersheds in which they live. (Recommended by TEA)
National Science Foundation - Biology (Science)
This collection of biology lessons and web resources is aimed at classroom teachers, their students, and students' families. (Recommended by TEA)
National Science Teaching Association (Science)
Freebies for Science Teachers: Books & resources (Recommended by TEA)
nearpod
With nearpod, you can create presentations, download, engage students on any device and instantly access student understanding.
Newsela
Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that’s always relvant: daily news. It’s easy and amazing.
North Plains Groundwater Conservation District (Science)
We know our classroom teachers, daycare providers, and youth leaders are on the front line of the water conservation campaign. We also know you often don’t have the resources you need to teach even some of the important things. That’s why the North Plains Groundwater Conservation District has put together this selection of in-class and take-home resources that are provided to you completely free. (recommended by TEA)
Nueces Delta Preserve Classroom Activities (Science)
At the Nueces Delta Preserve we connect classrooms to nature by providing students with engaging field experiences. Our field experiences are aligned with TEKS for each grade level and offer students a chance to get outside and connect what they are learning in the classroom with real world experiences. (Recommended by TEA)
Open Culture
Secondary Free Audiobooks
PBS Kids Lab
PBS Kids Lab is built on the belief that every new technology is an opportunity for learning. We work closely with researchers and advisers every step of the way, from building curriculum frameworks to ensure that all of our content aligns to state and national standards, to testing early prototypes with kids.
PBS LearningMedia
PBS LearningMedia is the destination for high-quality, trusted digital content and solutions that inspire students and transform learning. Developed in partnership with the WGBH Educational Foundation and supported by public media stations nationwide, PBS LearningMedia engages educators and learners at all levels with content from America’s #1 Educational Media Brand.
Perfection Learning - Projects in Professional Communications
Online access for teachers and students for Perfectionan Learning - Projects in Professional Communications
Plickers
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.
PowToon for Education
Bring your lessons to life by creating a PowToon, awesome animated videos.
Quill (Writing)
Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for elementary, middle, and high school students.
Quizlet
Quizlet’s flashcards, tests, and study games make it fun to learn anything. Creating study sets is easy.
Read Brightly
This site contains video read alouds with diverse books about different topics.
Read Conmigo
Read Conmigo is a bilingual family reading program for elementary students. It includes free children's books along with activities, games, and resources to promote early bilingual reading skills. Parents or teachers can sign up for a free account to access ebooks and other resources. Activities and games can also be downloaded and printed to be used offline.
Read Naturally Live (Free through May 31)
Read Naturally Live is a web-based intervention that applies the research-based Read Naturally Strategy to accelerate reading achievement. Visual and auditory prompts guide students through the motivating steps to develop fluency and phonics skills, support comprehension, and improve vocabulary.
Reading Plus
Reading Plus’ adaptive assessment gives educators a 360-degree view of each student. It provides a data-driven starting point for the personalized instruction and practice students need to become independent readers. Rich data is transformed into a variety of reports that give teachers the information they need for targeted instruction.
ReadTheory
Free Personalized reading comprehension exercises for K-12 and ESL students.
ReadWorks
ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly.
Region 18
Region 18 ESC Remote Learning Resources for Parents and teachers
Remote Learning Resources for Parents and Teachers
SAVVAS REALIZE (FORMERLY PEARSON REALIZE)
SAVVAS REALIZE (Formerly PEARSON REALIZE™) is the online destination for standards-aligned content, flexible class management tools, and embedded assessments that deliver rich data instantly to teachers.
Scholastic Learn at Home
Even when schools are closed, you can keep the learning going with these special cross-curricular journeys. Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers. Just find your grade level and let the learning begin!
Smilebox
Slideshow maker, invitation maker, greeting cards maker, flyer maker and collage maker for all of life's meaningful occasions—big and small.
Spellingcity.com
Spellingcity.com is dedicated to helping students, teachers, parent-teachers, and school systems. It is an efficient game-based study of literacy skills using any word list.
STEMscopes
Accelerate Learning, in conjunction with Rice University, has created STEMscopes, a digital science solution for Pre-K through 12th grade students.
Story Cove
Free Audiobooks
Story Jumper
Free Audiobooks
Story Nory
Free Audiobooks
Story Time from Space
Story Time from Space is a project of the Global Space Education Foundation. They send children’s books to the International Space Station. While in space, astronauts videotape themselves reading these books to the children of Earth. These videos are edited and placed on this Story Time From Space website- look under the heading “Story Time Videos”.
Storyboard That
Students will be eager to work on narrative arcs, timelines, and themes like never before with Storyboard That. The many graphic organizer templates, wide selection of scenes, and versatile characters make it easy for students to show what they know enjoyably.
Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervention (STARI)
STARI is a literature-focused, Tier II intervention for students in grades 6-9 who read two or more years below grade level.The program focuses on reading fluency, decoding, stamina, and basic comprehension, as well as deeper comprehension skills, such as perspective-taking and critical thinking. Teachers and parents can sign up for an account online and download reading materials for free.
Tagxedo
Tagxedo turns words into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
TeacherTube
TeacherTube is an online community for sharing instructional videos.
TEEAC Provider Resources (Science)
The Texas Environmental Education Advisory Committee (TEEAC) coordinates with other state regional and local agencies that are charged with the development of environmental education materials. TEEAC cooperates with a network of providers of environmental education professional development, including universities, state agencies, museums, and nature centers. This network of TEEAC Providers helps ensure that teacher professional development offered by formal and nonformal providers is educationally sound and consistent with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). (Recommended by TEA)
TEKS Guide by TEA (K-8 ELAR)
Welcome to the TEKS Guide, BETA, for reading language arts. The purpose of the TEKS Guide is to help teachers understand each student expectation in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and to provide valuable resources to support instruction.
TEKS Resource System
The TEKS Resource System is a curriculum management system developed by the Texas education Service Centers. The system includes a curriculum framework for grades K-12 in all foundational academic subject areas (English Language Arts and Reading, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies) aligned to both the Texas Essential knowledge and Skills (TEKS) statements, as well as the Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) objectives.
Texas A&M Tree Trails (Science)
The project creates an education trail focused on trees. Students actively participate in selecting trees, mapping and identifying those trees, and then immersing themselves in related topics like tree structure and function, benefits of trees, tree health, history of famous trees, and ultimately producing and participating in a service learning experience.
Tree Trails serves schools in the digital age with a high-tech online, easy-to-use, educationally sound project that gets kids outside and active in the environment. Tree Trails includes 10 lesson modules and provides a research-based instructional approach that integrates language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, technology and state testing measures, STAAR/TEKS, with online and outdoor activities to create learning forests at schools.
Tree Trails curriculum materials and resources were developed by Texas A&M Forest Service in cooperation with Texas Urban Forestry Council and was supported by grants from the USDA Forest Service and Keep America Beautiful. (Recommended by TEA)
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
The Texas Education Agency is the state agency that oversees primary and secondary public education in the state of Texas.
Texas Gateway
Texas Gateway delivers TEA-approved classroom-ready instructional resources and PD training opportunities for teachers across the state.
Texas Law-Related Education
The Law-Related Education (LRE) Department of the State Bar of Texas serves as a catalyst to advance law related and civic education programs throughout the state through curriculum development and educator training. Working with the legal community, public and private school districts, universities, and Regional Educational Service Centers, the department administers numerous programs designed to improve the administration of justice and promote civic education and participation.
Texas Memorial Museum (Science)
Texas Memorial Museum offers a variety of educational resources for learners of all ages. (Recommended by TEA)
Texas Nature Trackers (Science)
Texas Nature Trackers (TNT), part of the Wildlife Diversity Program, tracks the status of wild populations of plants and animals throughout Texas. (Recommended by TEA)
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (Science)
Texas Parks & Wildlife online classroom resources (Recommended by TEA)
Texas Water Development Board (Science)
The TWDB Kids Web site serves as the gateway to the agency's K-12 conservation education resources. The web site also features visualization, interactive games, and other activities to help students learn about key concepts: (Recommended by TEA)
Water Cycles
Watersheds
Water Use
Surface Water and Groundwater
Water Treatment
Water Conservation
Texas Wildlife Association
Hello Educators! With school closures and students stuck at home, we wanted to pass along some options for digital learning. Share these programs with parents or incorporate them into your online lessons and homework. Free Digital Learning Options.
The Fable Cottage
Fairy tale videos and audio available in English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian. They replaced the antiquated fairy tale language with modern language, and injected an extra helping of vocabulary to expose learners to new words and phrases.
The Indianapolis Public Library
Listed are more than 100 video read alongs from old classics like Where the Wild Things Are to newer favorites like Little Jumbo. Your child will have enough stories to get them through the longest doctor’s appointment wait, oil change, or holiday dinner with too many adults! In addition, this listening library is available every day for returning to old favorites. “Read it again!” has never been easier!
The Physics Classroom (Science)
Curriculum Coner, Laboratories, Science Reasoning Center, and Teacher Toolkits (Recommended by TEA).
Townsend Press
Access Code for free access until June 19, 2020:
31GJ-A9G1-FF8E-NUV5
Want to become a stronger reader? You’ve come to the right place! More than a million students and tens of thousands educators have used our Learning Center to develop the language skills needed for success in the classroom and the workplace. Our interactive assignments will strengthen your reading, vocabulary, and grammar skills. With practice, you will increase your reading comprehension, improve your performance on standardized tests, and enhance your ability to express yourself.
TweenTribune
Free K-12 Resource: Daily AP news articles, Lexile® leveled for K-12, Self-scoring quizzes customized by Lexile® level, Critical thinking questions, Student commenting, Espanol AP articles, Weekly lesson plans, Weekly video, Weekend "Monday Morning Ready" newsletter as prep for the week ahead
TxEIS
TxEIS offers a state-sponsored student information system, as well as a complete range of Business applications, designed exclusively for Texas local education agencies (LEAs).
Tynker (Coding)
Tynker fuels creativity in thousands of schools and powers the imagination of 60 million kids worldwide.
With 40+ award-winning block & text-based courses and over 3,700 learning modules, there's a learning path for every kid no matter their age or level.
Understanding Science (Science)
We've assembled a variety of resources to help you increase student understanding of nature and process of science. To improve your own content knowledge, explore Understanding Science 101 and our resource library. To prepare yourself with lesson plans, teaching tips, and pedagogical strategies, visit a Teacher's Lounge or explore the all-level resources. (Recommended by TEA)
Unite for Literacy
Free Audiobooks
Unite For Literacy (UfL)
Unite for LIteracy (UfL) is a website dedicated to the idea of “Book Abundance, where all children have access to books that celebrate their cultures and honor their home languages.” UfL contains more than 100 books that can be read or listened to anytime and anywhere an Internet connection is available.
Available in many languages.
University Interscholastic League (UIL)
The UIL exists to provide educational extracurricular academic, athletic, and music contests.
Virtual Math Manipulatives
Free Virtual Math Manipulatives by Didax.
Vocabulary Power Plus (Prestwick House)
Free vocabulary practice.
Vocabulary Roots (Prestwick House)
Free practice of vocabulary roots.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Teachers use code VSCFree90 for access to free vocaulary resources.
Watershed Education (Science)
Watershed Protection’s Youth Education program provides school outreach, field trips, curriculum and service learning opportunities to encourage informed decision-making about choices that impact Austin’s water quality. (Recommended by TEA)
Westcave Preserve (Science)
he Children in Nature Collaborative of Austin (CiNCA) offers free memberships to all K-12 teachers. CiNCA is a mighty force for good, catalyzing 30+ member nonprofits, environmental educators, health professionals and business leaders who work together to connect children with the outdoors. Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center leads CiNCA because we believe forming such strategic alliances always yields the best possible results.
Joining CiNCA is a wonderful way to connect with other members in the community who are doing great work to get kids outside more often. This is a great way to share and seek resources collectively, collaborate more effectively and streamline programmatic efforts.
(Recommended by TEA)
World Book
World Book is providing all of our valued educators with access to additional Pre-K to grade 12 learning resources through April 30, 2020.
Zaner-Bloser Handwriting K-5
Zaner-Bloser Handwriting K-5 Teacher Portal