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Teach effectively by creating your own interactive learning experiences-or adopt exemplars made by teachers and Smithsonian experts.

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Smithsonian Learning Lab: Discover, Create, Share

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These Open Texts provide access to grade-leveled and grade-appropriate readings and learning tasks to support the Core by providing a wide range of informational and literary non-fiction texts. These texts have been assessed by teacher teams for text complexity by using both quantitative lexile level and qualitative criteria.

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Grade Band 6-8: Using Informational Texts - Section One

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Section One: Text Selections based on Text Complexity

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A University of Utah Partnership Project for 7th and 8th Grade Math

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A University of Utah Partnership Project for 7th and 8th Grade Math

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6th Grade Math Workbook and Support Materials

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6th Grade Math Workbook and Support Materials

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A University of Utah Partnership Project for 7th and 8th Grade Math

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8th Grade SEEd textbook for the 2020-2021 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. (Added: March 17, 2020)

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7th Grade SEEd textbook for the 2020-2021 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. (Added: March 17, 2020)

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6th Grade SEEd textbook for the 2020-2021 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. (Added: March 17, 2020)

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5th Grade SEEd textbook for the 2020-2021 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. (Added: March 17, 2020)

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4th Grade SEEd textbook for the 2020-2021 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. (Added: March 17, 2020)

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CK-12 offers free high-quality, standards-aligned, open content in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) subjects. By providing these free resources, CK-12 is working toward educational equity for all. CK-12 provides an integrated set of tools for learning including digital textbooks, concept-based learning, SAT prep, and interactive Algebra curriculum (with additional math and science subjects in progress). CK-12 resources are openly licensed using Creative Commons.

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The Khan Academy has a large library of videos covering math, biology, chemistry, physics and even the humanities, finance and history. Khan videos aren’t so much recorded lectures as short 10 minute long tutorials with an instructor narrating explanations and working things out on a board by hand on your computer screen. Check out Khan’s library of videos.

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Why Khan Academy works

Personalized learning

Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning.

Trusted content

Created by experts, Khan Academy's library of trusted, standards-aligned practice and lessons covers math K-12 through early college, grammar, science, history, AP®, SAT®, and more. It's all free for learners and teachers.

Tools to empower teachers

With Khan Academy, teachers can identify gaps in their students' understanding, tailor instruction, and meet the needs of every student.

DISTRICTS

Khan Academy boosts
student learning

In a recent study, students were over twice as likely to meet grade-level standards with Khan Academy. Districts across the country are partnering with us to ensure all their students succeed.

TEACHERS

"I'm finally able to truly differentiate my classroom. This has been priceless for my students' engagement."

DUSTIN FAUTH / 4th grade teacher / Falmouth, MA

We empower teachers to support their entire classroom. 90% of US teachers who have used Khan Academy have found us effective.

LEARNERS AND STUDENTS

You can learn anything.

Build a deep, rock-solid understanding in math, grammar, science, history, SAT®, AP®, and more.

"I come from a poor family. At home it's one room, just a room we live in. When I was a child, I used to fear mathematics. But now, I am in love with mathematics because of Khan Academy."

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Every child deserves the chance to learn.

Across the globe, 617 million children are missing basic math and reading skills. We're a nonprofit delivering the education they need, and we need your help. You can change the course of a child's life.

Key supporters

Supporters of our COVID-19 response

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Khan Academy | Free Online Courses, Lessons & Practice

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Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

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Sponsored by the New York State Education Department, contains OER curriculum modules K-12

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The New York State Education Department discontinued support for the EngageNY.org website on July 7, 2022. The NYSED encourages educators to download any EngageNY content they wish to use in the future from our archive sites below.

All ELA and mathematics curriculum files will be available at the links below, and will remain free and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license.

Archived EngageNY Curriculum Files:

Grades 3-8 ELA and Mathematics Test Materials:
Questions regarding this change may be directed to the EngageNY Help Desk.

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The New York State Education Department discontinued support for the EngageNY.org website on July 7, 2022. The NYSED encourages educators to download any EngageNY content they wish to use in the future from our archive sites below.

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Discover K-12 OER to meet your remote teaching and learning needs.

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Discover K-12 OER to meet your remote teaching and learning needs

ISKME's digital librarians have curated collections of kindergarten through high school resources and full courses to help leverage OER for your students. Whether you are looking for resources your students can complete at home, or dynamic content to inspire your own teaching and learning practice, this hub, organized by grade level, subject, and provider will help you discover the resources you need at your fingertips. Explore the grade level, subject, and provider collections below. Once you click on a collection, you can refine the collections by selecting different fields, such as material types, on the left side of the page, under Filter Resources. If you are interested in accessing OER Commons from your LMS via an LTI integration. Please fill out and submit the form here.

Get started using our OER authoring tool, Open Author. This video walks you through how to author and remix; including how to add and format content, import and attach resources, embed media, add co-Created by ISKME. Licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. authors, check for accessibility, describe your resource, select a license, align to standards, publish, and download.

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Discover K-12 OER to meet your remote teaching and learning needs ISKME's digital librarians have curated collections of kindergarten through high school resources and full courses to help leverage OER for your students.

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OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

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Open Author helps you build and publish Open Educational Resources for you and for the benefit of educators and learners everywhere.

Learn more about creating OER

Groups provides a flexible environment to organize, create, share, and discuss resources with others in your network. Collaborate with group members, tag and add resources to shared folders, create your own collections, all within a public or private group.

Groups

Search through collections curated by our digital librarians

Collections

Common Core resources organized for your needs

Common Core

Hubs

A Custom Resource Center

Projects, districts, states, and initiatives make use of Hubs to bring groups of educators together to create, organize, and share OER collections that meet their common goals. Explore Hubs

Microsites

Custom Digital Libraries

Microsites are custom, flexible sites that include all the features available on OER Commons. Microsites allow your users to search resource collections using a custom taxonomy at a unique URL. Contact Us

Our award-winning OER Professional Learning programs support instructors and curriculum specialists to gain the necessary skills required to find, adapt, and evaluate high quality open materials.

In-person and virtual OER workshops help focus instructors to develop a "commons" mindset, to experience the benefits of open processes using the platform's tools, collaborative features, and workflows. This can include using Open Author for creating, remixing, and publishing shared curriculum.

Learn More

How to Search OER Commons

View all How-to videos

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OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.

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COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO FINDING, EVALUATING AND USING OER

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COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO FINDING, EVALUATING AND USING OER

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State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)

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OER are teaching and learning materials that are free and may be used, reused, mixed, and otherwise customized to meet specific needs. Free materials available for students, teachers, schools or districts which are not openly licensed do not have the same level of permitted uses such as adaptation, retention, or wide scale distribution.

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NHPBS and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for teachers like you.

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

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Several sites offer music published under Creative Commons’ flexible copyright licenses.

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Legal Music For Videos - Creative Commons

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Many musicians choose to release their songs under Creative Commons licenses, which give you the legal right to do things like use their music in your videos. What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons is a system that allows you to legally use “some rights reserved” music, movies, images, and other content — all for free.…

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FINDING and USING CREATIVE COMMONS VIDEO on YouTube

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FINDING and USING CREATIVE COMMONS VIDEO on YouTube

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How To FIND And USE Creative Commons Videos On YouTube (without copyright claims)

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a collection of 65,758,929 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute AUDIO, VIDEO and IMAGES

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From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

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Arts & Culture Resources Film Music Photography

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Arts & Culture Resources Film Music Photography

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Film

Music

Photography

deviantART is an online community dedicated to showcasing art as prints, videos and literature. CC license options are built into deviantArt's UI, allowing users to set the permissions they want their works to carry. Naturally, different users choose different options for their works, including All Rights Reserved.

Fotopedia is a breathtaking application for the iPhone and iPad. The app builds on the concept of a coffee table book, updating and enhancing the browsing experience for the web. This project is possible thanks to Creative Commons, as over 18,000 of the pictures in Fotopedia Heritage book are under one of the CC licenses. The pictures come from all around the world; as individual photographers and organizations license their high quality photos under Creative Commons, the book will only grow as a community contributed and shareable resource.

'Click and Flick' is a National Library of Australia (NLA) initiative to open their online pictorial gateway, PictureAustralia, to contributions from the Australian public. PictureAustralia encourages people to make their material available on the archive under the CC licenses, as part of two dedicated Flickr image pools.

A comprehensive online guide to Slovene culture, Culture.si covers contemporary art, culture, and heritage in Slovenia. Over 2,300 articles in English and the fastest growing independent free image bank (currently over 1,500 images) are offered for reuse under Creative Commons licenses.

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Arts & Culture Resources - Creative Commons

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Film Music Photography DeviantART deviantART is an online community dedicated to showcasing art as prints, videos and literature. CC license options are built into deviantArt's UI, allowing users to set the permissions they want their works to carry. Naturally, different users choose different options for their works, including All Rights Reserved.

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When you take a photo, make music or shoot a video it’s yours, you own it. You also own the copyright. Which means you decide how it is used and who can use it and if it can be copied and shared (or remixed). Creative Commons is a set of licenses that enable lawful collaboration to do things like copy, share and remix. Creative Commons is a way to give permission to everyone to freely reuse your creative works. Hundreds of sites use these licenses: Wikipedia, YouTube, Archive.org, Vimeo, Soundcloud, Flickr, Bandcamp, Boundless, Jamendo, TED, Musopen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Free Music Archive, Freesound.

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WHY OER MATTERS: OER (Open Educational Resources) Introduction II

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WHY OER MATTERS: OER (Open Educational Resources) Introduction II

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This video was created by Brendan Walsh (New Jersey) for a 2012 video competition (http://whyopenedmatters.org/index.html) to explain why OER Matters.

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OER (Open Educational Resources) Introduction II

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Brief, video introduction to OER

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The Council of Chief State School Officers

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This overview was produced by OER Commons as an introduction to the use of OER in the K-12 ecosystem, including a brief overview of best practices.