Opportunities to Educate Children
Educational and Learning Resources
This page includes a list of resources that can assist with tutoring.
For extra suggestions, please email us at oec.internal@umich.edu with a link and a brief explanation of the resource!
200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More – Provides more specific resources geared towards certain areas of study (psychology, philosophy, biology, economics, etc). Mostly provides additional links to free videos but also has links to paid online courses as well. Also provides access to many of the other links on this document.
826: Resources for Families – List of home learning and activity resources, food distribution and child care
826: Writing Challenge – Creative writing submissions to DrBlotch@826michigan.org, weekly updates on new writing prompts
9 Free Educational Game Sites for Kids – A list of sites offering online learning games that are a great way to transform study time and stale classroom activities.
95 Resources for Teaching Social and Emotional Learning to Children – A bullying prevention resource with tips, warning signs, prevention resources, and a lot more.
Anti-bias Teaching in Practice - List of resources by the Early childhood Educational Assembly about anti-racist work, teaching about bias, and tools educators can use
Books to read about racism and anti-racist work - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, So You Want to Talk About Race, White Fragility, The Color of Law, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Chegg Learn – A free learning resource that provides students with comprehensive information on a wide range of topics spanning relevant coursework like Chemistry, Economics, Computer Software, Statistics, Accounting, and Physics
Chegg Prep – A free service students can use to find, create, share and study flashcards for any subject -- without a monthly subscription. You can also access a repository of 20M+ already-created flashcards for students to study or use in their own flashcard decks.
Common Sense Media: Online learning supplement resources – Provides list of online resources including instructional tools (Brain Pop, Khan academy, PBS kids, creation games, and online communities to create collaborative learning)
DIY.org – Hundreds of different projects for building different skills
Google: Teach from Home – Specific for teachers converting their classes to online
Google: Learn from Home – Connects to Youtube learning, has an assortment of videos that are for specific age groups, subjects (math, humanities, science and electives) and virtual field trips
Great Minds – Curricula and resources for math, science, english, and history PreK-12. Has free and paid material. Free material requires contact with the consumer team.
Guides to all manufacturing technologies - A collection of technical articles and guides on all manufacturing technologies, written by manufacturing experts, to expand engineering knowledge outside the classroom. They explore the impact of modern engineering on a diverse range of industries, from healthcare to artificial intelligence.
iCivics – Educational games about government
Kahoot – Gamified learning, self-study tab seems to have a lot of pre-made resources/lessons/quizzes
KiwiCo – Known for their STEM DIY subscription boxes, but has recently compiled many free at-home learning resources and projects for parents and kids
NaNoWriMo – 30 day creative writing challenge
Ok Go Sandbox – Math and physics based experiments and art projects
Pen Pals – Online project based learning, students interact with others around the world, free access during pandemic
Prodigy – Parents can set goals and monitor progress
Race Talk in the Early Childhood Classroom - List of resources by the Early childhood Educational Assembly on why it is important to talk about race and how topics surrounding race and racism in early child room classrooms can be discussed
Remote learning with Khan Academy during school closures – Specific resources regarding remote learning for students, parents and teachers
Scholastic – Free 20 days worth of at home learning plans
Scholastic Learn at Home: Projects, books, and games Pre-K to 12 – Free day-by-day learning activities over a 4 week period for grades K-9, includes videos, articles, and activities.
Scratch – Introduction to coding while creating games and stories
Social Emotional Learning Activities – Free lessons, activities, and printables for elementary and middle school students in the following skill areas: Communication, Cooperation, Emotion Regulation, Empathy, Impulse Control, and Social Initiation.
So You Want to Learn About Juneteenth? - An article that further explains the history and significance of Juneteenth
Spreadsheet of 300+ Education Companies that are offering free subscriptions or worksheets – Comprehensive list of free subscriptions to educational resources
The 1619 Project - An initiative that reframes America's history by placing the effects of slavery and contributions of black Americans at the center of our national narrative.
Understanding Bias, Privilege, and Profiling - List of resources by the Early childhood Educational Assembly that can assist educators in addressing how, why, and where biases exist
Understanding Racism and Educational Institutions - List of resources by the Early childhood Educational Assembly that addresses the intersection of racism and education
Virtual Fieldtrips – Provides a wide variety of free virtual field trips including museums, zoos, aquariums, farms, national parks, historical sites and landmarks, and other planets
Virtual Roadtrip Around the USA – Includes a variety of free virtual field trips with links, activities, and games relating to each of the 50 states
What Anti-racist Teachers Do Differently - An article on how to promote anti-racist work in the classroom