Topic: Social Studies

EyeWitness to History

EyeWitness to History provides teachers and students first-hand accounts of historical events and primary sources.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Subjects include math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. The primary focus is on skill mastery to help learners establish strong foundations.

CK-12

CK-12 is an excellent Open Educational Resource (OER) that is free and easy to use. Digital resources include PLIX interactives and simulations, adaptive practices, study guides, and FlexBook digital textbooks. CK-12 FlexBooks are complete online platforms for assembling, authoring, and distributing standards-aligned, interactive, multi-modal educational content.

Allsides

Allsides provides balanced news to readers by identifying media bias and teaching students to be aware that bias exists.

ISTE’s Learning Keeps Going

A coalition of education organizations led by ISTE has curated free tools, strategies, tips and best practices for teaching online.

EVERFI

EVERFI offers free online courses for grades K-12 on critical skills like social-emotional learning, STEM, health & wellness, financial literacy, career readiness and more. It can be assigned by a teacher and used independently by a student.

CK12

CK-12 provides free courses in Math and Science (and more) for grades 1-12. Courses are highly engaging for students with real time feedback using interactive content and adaptive practice. It can be assigned by a teacher and used independently by a student.