45 MORE Go-To Education Resources Alternate Route Candidates Love

Last month, we shared 45 of our candidates’ favorite online resources for teaching. The blog post received a great response, which tells us our community is curious and loves exploring resources. 

Luckily, our candidates gave us so many websites that we were able to gather 45 more online education resources for our community. We are thankful to our Alternate Route candidates for sharing the websites that help make them better educators and hope other educators find them useful as well. 

See below for 45 more online resources our candidates highly recommend! 

THE ARTS

Art 21
“Art 21 provides high-quality content about contemporary artists and their practices. This is recommended for older students.”
-Deniz O.

COMPUTER SCIENCE 

Code.org
“This site is great for teaching students computer code or web design. It provides lessons that give students a great foundation for either subject, syncs with Google Classroom and tracks the progress of the students, which is very helpful.”
-David S.

DIGITAL LEARNING 

Moving Your Course Online 
“This site is helpful in many ways, but this page explains the best methods to transfer your class to virtual learning by subject. With the possibilities of being online in the fall, I found this site to alleviate some stress because it provides advice, videos and techniques to make classes successful. It is geared toward college classes but the information transfers to K-12 classes well.”
-Jessica B. 

ASSISTments
“The site benefits during this distance-learning time are vital to teachers and students. It is easy to use to create assignments and post them on Google Classroom.”
-Max J.

Lesson Planet 
“Lesson Planet is a site for K-12 teachers that contains lessons for all content areas and resources for remote learning. Lesson Planet has lessons, teaching strategies and activities for teachers to implement in the classroom. It also has resources for accommodations and social-emotional learning. Lesson Planet provides apps for language-and-conversation building for students who struggle with communication skills. It has a number of resources that are beneficial for both general education and special education teachers.”
-Melissa A.

The Ultimate Guide to Online Teaching
“The site is a guide to get students engaged in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic that has hit the globe.”
-Chioma E.

ELEMENTARY 

Flip Grid
“This website is a great source for elementary teachers. Teachers create their grid and can upload the videos of their lessons every day. Moreover, it is a user-friendly website and students can present their projects and record their responses.”
-Asifa A.

ScreenCastify
“I have found it helpful in providing remote resources for my class during the school shutdown.”
-Andrew H.

ELL/ESL

TESOL
“Although I have no experience of teaching ELL, I find this website useful for those who do. TESOL has stratagems that make the teacher connect with the students by, for example, establishing a common understanding and respect. Teachers need to consider the schema that ELLs bring in the classroom and to link the instruction to the students’ personal and cultural experiences.”
-Gehrs B.

Using English
“Using English provides hundreds of ESL lessons, reverence materials and assessments (classified by age group and type) for free to educators.”
-Gustavo G. 

ESL Video 
“This website offers videos on many different topics for all levels of ESL students, as well as the transcript of each video, quizzes and printable lessons. The site provides conversation classes with students from around the world, is user-friendly and free.”
-Meghan P.

GENERAL EDUCATION  

American String Teachers Association - Teaching Resources
“ASTA has a tremendous amount of benefits, from a fully designed practical curriculum for all grade levels to repertoire suggestions and an open forum to ask questions of experts. This is an online treasure trove!”
-Benjamin R. 

Brilliant Mindfulness
“My teaching position focuses on behavioral and social-emotional learning and growth. This website provides educators and students with mindfulness techniques and strategies that can be incorporated into the classroom. Mindfulness is quickly becoming a major focus in education. These strategies, amongst others, provide ways for students to take a safe and refreshing brain break or techniques to help them reset in order to be more engaged in the classroom.”
-Travis H.

Ed.Ted
“This site offers amazing lessons that are clear and engaging for students. They also have videos that go alongside the lessons that students find entertaining. My students’ favorite lesson I did was History vs. Andrew Jackson, which I built around their video and lesson questions.”
-Sheree A. 

Education World 
“This website provides information for various educational roles, such as teachers and administrators. There is also opportunity for professional development.”
-Brieana S.

Flocabulary
“Flocabulary has music videos tailored to specific concepts from all subjects. A fellow teacher at my school uses it for every new history topic, and I have used it in my chemistry class to highlight physical and chemical changes. Students readily engage with musical material and get excited. This is a paid service, $10/month, if individual.”
-Leslie P. 

Google Education
“Free training and resources teachers can use, especially helpful for teachers who already use Google Classroom.”
-Syed H.

Help Teaching 
“When we type the topic in the search engine, it shows questions with grade level and common-core standards. You can pick similar questions or same grade-level questions. This site is helpful in identifying common-core standards for each question.”
-Snehalatha T. 

New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning 
“This website is great for exploratory labs and vigor for students. I found this website helpful when making projects for the students.”
-Kyra J. 

Overcoming Obstacles
“This is a free resource! It includes a life-skills curriculum that provides teachers with hundreds of lessons for students of all ages the skills necessary for success.”
-Janell D. 

Share My Lesson
“This website has well-planned-out lessons for each subject. A reason why I love this site is because it offers all different grade levels. When working with all different levels of high schoolers, I find it hard to differentiate. Using this site allows me to focus on each different student and understand his or her strengths and weaknesses.”
-Kassidy G. 

IES WWC Clearinghouse
“This website has a lot of ways to help teachers better themselves through behavior and subject area. While it can be overwhelming with long lists of different links, there are many useful resources.”
-Louis B. 

LANGUAGE ARTS

Epic!
“I believe this is a great site because I am also looking for fun ways to get my students excited about reading and writing. Epic! is a beneficial platform to incorporate in the classroom as a listening center. It is a digital library of children's books in English and other languages. All in all, this is a great platform to use in the classroom!”
-Meghan P.

IXL
“It groups ELA into subsections - writing, grammar, reading, vocabulary - and separates into even more specific areas. The site also has a diagnostic tool that allows teachers to group students based on levels such as reading, writing and grammar.”
-Charles S. 

No Red Ink
“No Red Ink helps students practice their grammar and writing skills through a variety of interactive activities. Fun activities and even those that let the students incorporate their favorite stars, athletes or superheroes, which help keep the kids more engaged.”
-Michelle N.

Reading A-Z
“For a fee, this site provides a variety of resources for educators and students. There are online and printable books in a variety of languages for all level readers. The site also provides lesson plans, worksheets and assessments that educators can align with their instructions.”
-Melody M. 

MATH

Algebra Based Physics Course from NJCTL
“This website provides material I used in class, including the class material and sample questions. Each question has a link to a one-minute video explaining the answer. The New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning has a grant to create and distribute this material for free and also has material in other subject areas.”
-Martin K

Happy Numbers 
“This is a math site that is instructional yet engaging. There is a pre-test at the beginning to assess where students are and the lessons are catered to build them up. You can always customize time and assign lessons on your own. There is a weekly and daily report of students who have played and for how long along with their progress. My students really enjoy playing this and I enjoy that I have easy data that is calculated for me already.”
-Daniela S. 

i-Ready
“i-Ready is a private math resource site that we use to give diagnostic tests and students participate in math activities. These activities are enriching and as a teacher, I can give standards for children to complete or they can follow their own paths.”
-Louis B.

Illustrative Mathematics 
“Illustrative Mathematics provides the platform for teachers to develop lessons that ensure the critical thinking and engagement of students by challenging them with different performance tasks. It helps teachers to create a world where learners know, use and enjoy mathematics through curriculum development, professional learning and administrative guidance.”
-Simi J.

MatchFishTank
“I love this site for math resources and activities. It has a free K-12 curriculum with guides to approach foundational skills. There are also instructional routines and teacher tools. It is easy to follow and you can create classes and assign the students or printout assessment resources.”
-Margaret M. 

Moby Max
“Through Moby Max, you can give students a math-placement test and the results of the placement tests show what level they are on. Moby Max then suggests the assignments are based on their levels, will show the students grade level based on performance and gives student progress. The assignments help encourage the students to improve, and you can set specific goals for the assignments given.”
-Kamal R.

PHYSICAL HEALTH AND HEALTH EDUCATION

The Health Teacher
“I like to start with ‘do now’ assignments for all my classes, and there are ideas for this on this site. Also, there are many activities and assignment ideas that I can use and borrow from.”
-Matthew A. 

Go Noodle 
“Great ways to get students moving and practice mindfulness in fun ways.”
-Julia H. 

SCIENCE 

American Chemical Society-Students and Educators
“I often use ChemMatters, ACS's award-winning high school chemistry magazine to assign reading articles to my students. Students can explore chemistry through fun games and experiments. They also offer student opportunities and scholarships like the Chemistry Olympiad competition and Project SEED scholarship program.”
-Kananke L.

Design Squad
“Design Squad is used to power the mind of students to think critically and creatively while serving as an active member of the greater scientific community. The website provides students with the ability to present ideas and create designs. It also allows students to build off of other students’ ideas and designs around the globe. The site is accompanied with challenge videos to help spark the creative spirits, and helps provide an interactive break or addition to any content area.”
-Colleen M. 

Mosa Mack Science
“This is a great site for fun science-education videos aligned with CCSS and Next Generation Science Standards. Mosa Mack Science Detective is a web-based series of animated science mysteries and corresponding inquiry-based curriculum activities. The pre-library beta version, which includes three episodes and curriculum supplements like discussion guides, hands-on activities, vocabulary cards and engineering challenges, is available for free or with a yearly license.”
-Jyoti G.

Science News for Students 
“Science news for students has an abundance of scientific articles that also align with the Next Generation Science Standards. The main goal of having students complete work from this website is to teach our students to be accountable, especially when we do topics such as biomes and global warming.”
-Davine A. 

Understanding Evolution
“This one is a little more specific because it tailors to a specific unit of biology, evolution. It is great because again it provides teaching resources and strategies but also provides current news having to do with evolution. For example, right now, there are links to the evolution of COVID-19.”
-Sarah M.

WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

BBC France
“This site has mini lesson videos that are free. You can download and print activities for the 24 units of Ma France, that have a grammar and vocabulary component.”
-Micol V.

Grahnforlang.com
“It provides useful resources for world language teachers and leaders.”
-Jiwon L. 

Key Principles of Language Learning 
“The website is very interesting because it gives a few guiding principles that can help students learn a second language.”
-Naima O. 

Le Monde
“I often use the site to introduce my students to French news and talk about current events and culture.”
-Cristina P.

PBS Kids
“This website helps teach young children Spanish with Salsa episodes, games and activities.”
-Vickiana N.

Spanish Teachers in the US Facebook Group
“This group has MANY resources for Spanish teachers (and other languages if the teachers can adapt them). The group has about 12,000 members who share ideas, materials and advice for being better educators.”
-Jessica S. 

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