Teaching & Learning Resources

Desmos for Teachers

Grade-level: K-12. For teachers, there are supports for distance learning using Desmos. Multiple online training opportunities.

Math Equity

The Math Access and Equity Resources During Distance Learning website shares resources for educators and families specific to mathematics support with a focus on equity and access.

San Francisco Unified Mathematics Department

Grade-level: K-5. The math department has created and shared a number of open educational resources including their core curriculum. SFUnified Math Lessons

YouCubed

Grade Level: K-12. The YouCubed website houses resources that inspire math success for all students through growth mindsets and innovative teaching. Their main goal is to inspire, educate and empower teachers of mathematics, transforming the latest research on math learning into accessible and practical forms.

Inside Mathematics

Grade Level: 2-12. A professional resource for teachers, coaches, and administrators passionate about improving students’ mathematics learning and performance. Resources include videos, lessons, problems of the month, and tasks.

Illustrative Mathematics

Grade Level: K-12. Illustrative Mathematics provides free access to a library of tasks and resources, and the latest articles, case studies, and wisdom from our respected curriculum authors.

Achieve the Core

Grade Level: K-12. Math classroom resources include lessons, tasks, assessments, and coherence maps.

Open Middle

Grade Level: K-12. Open middle provides engaging worksheets by grade level that have students investigate a math idea. Students play with numbers, operations, and other math ideas.

NCTM Illuminations

Grade Level: K-12. A project designed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) that offers tasks K-12 that are searchable by Common Core Standard, by name, or by topic. The tasks usually include the description, objectives and standards, materials, assessments and extensions, questions and reflections, and related resources.

A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction

Grade Level: 6-8. Resources and guidance to support Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students to thrive in grades 6-8.

National Science Teaching Association (NSTA)

To support all educators during this difficult time, NSTA is offering a free 30-day membership, providing you with access to more than 12,000 digital professional learning resources and tools. Simply create an account here and start developing your own personalized digital learning experience.

Common Sense Education

48 Different Resource/ Labs for Science

Science Buddies

Teacher Resources - Science Buddies has over 1,200 Project Ideas in all areas of science.

NASA STEM

Resources Includes downloadable storybooks and has companion Educator Guides

Teach Engineering

NGSS hands-on activities featured by grade, focus on the engineering design component of the Next Gen standards, Making sense of phenomena and solving problems while deepening student engagement.

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Education Resources

The NOAA Education Portal is your one-stop shop to connect with learning and teaching resources about the ocean and atmosphere. Discover curricula, lesson plans, and real-time data to bring NOAA science into your classroom.

PBS Learning Media K-12 Interactive

Explore natural phenomena and scientific practices with videos, lesson plans, and interactive tools.

Phet Simulations

Interactive Simulations for Science and Math

Exploratorium - Science Snacks

Exciting science activities based on amazing phenomena. Science Snacks are hands-on, teacher-tested, and use cheap, available materials.

Mystery Science

Starter set of science lessons; mini-lessons and full-lessons organized by grade level.

Zoom

Online communication/collaboration/teaching platform

Google Meet

Online communication, collaboration, & teaching platform

Google Classroom

Virtual Classroom Platform

Nearpod

Teaching Platform

FlipGrid

Empowering Voice through Videos

Epic

Content Library with thousands of online books

EdPuzzle

Build online lessons using existing videos

Thrively

Career Exploration

California State Parks PORTS

California State Parks PORTS Home Learning Programs from across California to access our precious natural resources virtually.

Virtual National Parks

Ready to explore Yellowstone? You don't have to wait for your trip out here. You can start exploring now by virtually touring some of the main attractions around the park.

Great Lakes Now

Great Lakes Now brings along students on a virtual field trip to learn more about the importance of coastal wetlands, the danger of algal blooms and a deep dive into lake sturgeon.

iNaturalist

Contribute to Science. Observe Nature. Every observation can contribute to biodiversity science, from the rarest butterfly to the most common backyard weed

eBird

Every birdwatcher has unique knowledge and experience. eBird gathers this information in the form of checklists of birds, archives it, and freely shares it to power new data-driven approaches to science, conservation and education.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Monterey Bay Aquarium inspires conservation of the ocean. The webcams display life from the ocean.

San Diego Zoo

Bringing Wildlife into your home. We’re Here Together allows you to connect with the animals from the San Diego Zoo.

Farm 360

Virtual Tours of Canadian Farms and Dairies.

Planetarium

For every amateur astronomer, you can use it to prepare your next observing session, or simply look back on your observing achievements, and share them with your friends.

Nature Conservancy

Experience nature with the conservancy. Watch the Elkhorn Slough Otter Cams.

Dream Big... Read!

MCOE's Bright Futures, Goal 3 language and literacy workgroup contains family resources, community partnerships, county libraries information, and quarterly newsletters to support foundational literacy.

Math Equity

The Math Access and Equity Resources During Distance Learning website shares resources for educators and families specific to mathematics support with a focus on equity and access.

Language & Literacy Website

The Language and Literacy website contains resources and updates for Monterey County.

Monterey County History-Social Science and Civic Education

The Monterey County History-Social Science and Civic Education website shares resources for educators, youth, and community partners to expand equitable content, literacy, inquiry, and civic empowerment in Monterey County and Region 5.

Boston Children’s Museum

Virtual tour and archive of growing and learning activities available from home.

Smithsonian Natural History

The Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile device.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in three iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

Bring the wonder of Air and Space to life through videos, hands on activities, games, and more. We have something for every learner, Our learning resources bring the National Air and Space Museum’s one-of-a-kind collections and world class research to you, anywhere and anytime.

Birthplaces of Music

Birthplaces of Music: A Virtual Field Trip is a fully interactive, virtual field trip through the world of music history. During this trip, you will visit the birthplaces of four of the most popular genres of music in the world today: classical, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, and country.

The Louvre

Visit the museum's exhibition rooms and galleries, contemplate the façades of the Louvre.

The Great Wall of China

Commonly considered a wonder of the world, the Great Wall boasts a history of over 2,000 years and stretches more than 3,000 miles across several provinces of northern China, making it one of the most impressive ancient structures on the planet.

Access Mars

Access Mars lets you explore a 3D replica of the Martian surface, exactly as it was recorded by the Curiosity Rover.

360 Cities

Explored curated sets of photographs from cities around the world.

Ellis Island

A virtual field trip to Ellis island.

VAPA Distance Learning Resources

Google sheet of all visual and performing arts recommended.

Sight Reading Factory

Makes the important skill of sight reading practical and effective.

Kennedy Center

A robust collection of digital learning resources associated with the arts.

Music Theory

Online music theory lessons.

Deep Space Sparkle

Deep Space Sparkle offers art lesson plans and teaching resources that will help you teach art to kids, even if you aren't a great artist.

The Getty

Enhance students' understanding of artists, art history, materials, and techniques with interactive Web pages, online games, activities, and videos.

PBS Learning Media

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

Khan Academy

Online resource for studying 21st-century art as a burgeoning field of practice, research, and publication, making it an incredibly dynamic field of study.

Shakespeare Globe

Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames.

Google Arts and Culture

Google Arts & Culture is an online platform through which the public can view high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world.

Wide Open School

Grade-level: TK-12. A free collection of the best online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense.

Story Online

Grade-level: TK-4. Featuring books on video! Celebrated actors read children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Each book includes activities to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills.

Reading Rockets: Reading Adventure Packs!

Grade-level: TK-3. Packets of hands-on learning centered around fiction and nonfiction books (available at libraries and online sites, i.e.-YouTube). Engagement activities include: art projects, imagination activities,and real world connections. Reading Adventure Packs are also provided Spanish.

Lalio

Grade-level: K-2. Phonics and Reading Comprehension - students work on adaptive exercises in phonics, word recognition, and comprehension.

PBS Learning Media

Grade Level: TK-6. FREE and curated standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for teachers.

PBS-SoCal: Kids Lab

Grade Level: TK-6. Using games, apps, videos, and simple at-home activities, kids can take a journey that builds math and reading skills. This collection is organized around PBS media resources that support children’s development of numeracy and literacy skills. Resources are also provided in Spanish.

Scholastic

Grade Level: TK-8. “Grab-and-go” lessons and unit plans, discussion guides, extension activities, and other ideas to support learning at home. Choose from any subject area, and enjoy learning through discovery and engagement.

Newsela

Grade Level: 6-12. Content on an array of subjects current events, history, science, literature and more and at multiple Lexile reading levels. Requires registration.

Project Gutenberg

Grade Level: 6-12. Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online.

ReadWriteThink

Grade Level: K-12. High quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

New York Times Writing Prompts

Grade Level: 6-12. This website has over 1,000 writing prompts to choose from. Most of the prompts are personal opinion writing but can be adapted for persuasive or argument writing. These prompts may be revised for younger writers.

CommonLit to MCOE Language Arts Resources

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.

BrainPOP ELL

Animated video lessons and content are designed to promote English language learning.

Literacy Instruction for ELLs

Colorín Colorado provides free research-based information and activities for teachers and families.

Unite for Literacy

A colorful collection of books that can be read aloud in both English and Spanish. Practice fluency by reading with the text, talk about what is seen on the pages, or discuss learning.

What’s Going On In This Picture

Engage in a weekly What’s Going On In This Picture interactive discussions, which bring a global audience together to “notice and wonder” about images and ideas. Can be used for writing.

Flipgrid

A social learning platform that allows learners to reflect upon, discuss and showcase what they are learning, making, reading, solving, experiencing, and playing.

Lily Wong Fillmore

An Open Letter from Lily Wong Fillmore on School Closures Related to COVID-19.

U.S. Census Bureau

Grade-level: PK-12. New activities designed specifically for the 2019-2020 school year spotlight the 2020 Census and the importance of making sure everyone is counted, especially children. The decennial count impacts the federal funds that communities receive for special education, classroom technology, teacher training, after-school programs, school lunch assistance, and more. Use activities for pre-K through 12th grade today to help your students, school, and community.

The Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Citizenship Project

Grade-level: K-12. Professional learning and resources to help educators and school administrators successfully implement California’s History-Social Science Framework.

California History-Social Science Project

Grade-level: K-12. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality history instruction, with a special focus on meeting the needs of English learners, native speakers with low literacy, and students from economically disadvantaged communities. Each week during the crisis, we'll announce a new resource, strategy, or good idea, using #CHSSPLive on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We'll also post schedule updates and access information here on the #CHSSPLive page.

Teaching Tolerance

Grade-level: K-12. These robust, ready-to-use lessons offer breadth and depth, spanning essential social justice topics and reinforcing critical social emotional learning skills.

Teaching California

Grade-level: K-12. Inquiry sets include curated collections of primary sources, teacher and student notes, activities, and other tools that will help guide you through a research-based approach to improving student reading, writing, and critical thinking.

California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI)

Grade-level: K-12. The environment can provide depth to the study of history-social science, including the influence of geography on human settlements, the availability and conservation of natural resources, and the location of trade routes. The EEI Curriculum contains 45 history-social science units that teach select standards to mastery while increasing environmental literacy. Password: TeachEEI

iCivics

Grade-level: 5-12. iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship.

CrashCourse

Grade-level: 9-12. From courses like U.S. and world history, Crash Course has you covered with an awesome variety of AP high school curriculum topics.

Khan Academy

Grade-level: 9-12. You can learn anything. Expert-created content and resources for every course and level. Always free.

Zinn Education Project

Grade-level: PK-12+. The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country.

Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)

Grade-level: 5-12. SHEG seeks to improve education by conducting research, working with school districts, and reaching directly into classrooms with free materials for teachers and students. SHEG’s Reading Like a Historian curriculum and Beyond the Bubble assessments have been downloaded more than 9 million times. SHEG's current work focuses on how young people evaluate online content. SHEG has created a Civic Online Reasoning curriculum to help students develop the skills needed to navigate our current digital landscape.

National Geographic

The National Geographic Society uses the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world.

State Health Framework

The California Health Framework website contains the framework, professional learning opportunities, and resources for educators and administrators.

The California Healthy Kids Resources Center

The California Healthy Kids Resources Center provides access to educational resources that can be borrowed at no cost. You can find free resources on their site.

LAUSD Wellness Programs

Los Angeles Unified School District provides their Blueprint for Wellness Policy on their Wellness Programs website.

Alliance for a Healthier Generation (Take Action Page)

Information on creating healthy school environments and implementing your Local School Wellness Policy (LSWP).

Lesson Building Template

This is a Google Doc template for teachers to plan instruction.

A Guide to Messaging About Role of Student Health in Supporting Academic Achievement

PDF of slides detailing impact of healthy eating and physical activity on academic achievement from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL). CASEL supports educators and policy leaders and enhances the experiences and outcomes for all PreK-12 students.

TREVOR Project (Lifeguard Workshop and Resources)

Founded in 1998, the Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25. The Lifeguard Workshop video is a learning tool specifically designed for you to help young people: Identify the challenges faces by LGBTQ people, recognize the warning signs of suicide, and respond to someone whom may be in crisis.