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.