Table 2: OER Resources to support Instruction
| https://www.oercommons.org/ | OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network |
| https://www.ck12.org/student/ | This site has been around for years because it meets the needs of K-12 teachers. In addition to the usual assortment of OER content, teachers will find full lesson plans that are easily incorporated into classrooms. |
| https://www.edmodo.com/ | With over 650 million resources shared on Edmodo already, you can find your next lesson plan in minutes. Or, connect with educators and curriculum writers to build your professional learning community. |
| https://academy.act.org/ | ACT Academy provides free resources for students that are unique to their learning gaps. Access the best resources from top publishers, all in one place, and accurately aligned to standards. |
| http://gooru.org/welcome/ | -Create or customize any course with collections of open learning resources and assessments to use with their class. -Use Navigator during the school day for daily classroom activities to bring supplemental materials. -Utilize live assessments to continuously check the understanding of all their students. Monitor their students’ progress and differentiate their instruction. -Access personalized suggestions of resources to meet each student’s needs. |
| https://www.curriki.org/ | The Curriki Library hosts thousands of standards-aligned lessons so you don’t have to start from scratch. Members are invited to align their own resources and collections with our easy to use alignment tool. |
| https://www.amazoninspire.com/ | Your destination for K-12 educational resources – Amazon Inspire is an open collaboration service that helps teachers to easily discover, gather, and share quality educational content with their community. |
| https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm | The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers. |
| https://www.oeconsortium.org/ | The Open Education Consortium (OEC) is a non-profit, global, members-based network of open education institutions and organizations. OEC represents its members and provides advocacy and leadership around advancement of open education globally. OEC works with its members to build capacity to find, reuse, create and share Open Educational Resources (OER), develop open policy, create sustainable open education models, and enable international collaboration and innovation. |
| https://www.khanacademy.org/ | Kahn Academy (or KA) provides video lectures on topics from science and math, and some on subjects in the humanities and economics. Many lectures have accompanying interactive activities and practice questions. The collection is searchable and browsable by general area and sub-topic. |
| https://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ | Use the ITunes U app to access courses from colleges and universities. Materials include books, lectures, videos, and more. Users need to have an iTunes Store account to access content. |
| http://ed.ted.com/ | Educational videos that can be “flipped” (or tailored) for a lesson plan. Many videos include assessments, links to additional resources, and discussion starters. |
| https://www.loc.gov/collections/ | Gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials; documents U.S. history and culture |
| http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/materials | Find OER for teaching many world languages |
| https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive | Offers “multimedia resources, including apps, animations, videos, interactives, and virtual labs” on biology, chemistry of life, ecology, environment, evolution, genetics, and scientific process. |
| http://chemcollective.org/ | The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests. Teachers can use our content for pre-labs, for alternatives to textbook homework, and for in-class activities for individuals or teams. Students can review and learn chemistry concepts using our virtual labs, simulations, and tutorials. The ChemCollective is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon who are interested in using, assessing, and creating engaging online activities for chemistry education. |
| https://learn.concord.org/resources/grade-level/higher-education | Many interactive resources for Biology, Chemistry, Earth & Space Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics. |
| http://www.eol.org/ | “The Encyclopedia of Life brings together information about all life on Earth—one web page for each species. But EOL is much more than 1.9 million species pages. It’s an incredible resource for text, images, video, sounds, maps, classifications and more, all freely available online.” |
| https://www.uen.org/oer/ | Utah has geared up to begin providing teachers, students, and parents with materials to support the Utah Core Standards, instruction, and teaching. Created by groups of content and teaching experts, including university faculty, district and school specialists, teachers, and USBE staff. |
| https://learninglab.si.edu/ | The Smithsonian Learning Lab puts the treasures of the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex within reach. The Lab is a free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources, creating content with online tools, and sharing in the Smithsonian’s expansive community of knowledge and learning. |
| https://greatminds.org/about/mission | A group of education leaders founded the non-profit Great Minds in 2008 to define and encourage content-rich comprehensive education for all American schoolchildren. In pursuit of that mission, Great Minds brings schoolteachers together in collaboration with scholars to craft exemplary instructional materials and share them with the field. Great Minds’ Eureka Math curriculum has won accolades at the state and national levels, and is the only comprehensive math curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards at every grade. |
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