Several classroom resources are available for free to any Ohio district, building, teacher, student or family.
INFOhio.org has acquired many resources that would normally come at a cost to an individual district. In addition to providing access to instructional resources, there is a large set of teacher tools and PD opportunities as well. Here are just a few teacher tools and student tools:
- INFOhio Pinterest Board for Academic Vocabulary
- GoAskAchieve and http://r4s.infohio.org/ Research Support Tools
- Webinar - Using the C3 Model To Lead Inquiry In Social Studies
- Explora Secondary Schools Learn more about your favorite subject. Read magazines, newspapers, biographies, primary sources, country information. Find images for class projects and learn vocabulary. Translate articles into more than 30 languages.
- Science Online Science, math, and technology information articles, images, diagrams, videos, current events, experiments, biographies, and more. Hear text read aloud.
- BookFlix Listen and read. Storybooks, e-books, videos, games, and more. PreK-3.
OERCommons.org is a digital library of lesson plans, eTexts, primary source documents, labs, data sets, games and activities that is searchable by grade level, standard, content area or resource type. Each resource includes the type of Creative Commons lisc. (use guidance) that is associated with the resource.
Here are a few resource searches that might be of interest:
- Measurement and Data Resources
- Poetry - April is National Poetry Month
- Women’s History - April is Also Women’s History Month
- There are 841 K-12 Units of Study
- Explore all of the curated collections
OER's Achievethecore.org offers ELA and Math mini-assessments, text sets, rich math tasks, lesson plans and PD opportunities for free. A few hidden gems on this site:
- Anthology Alignment Project grades 6-11
- Math Task Library All Grades
Share the great work going on in your classroom, building or district using the ODE hashtag #OhioLovesTeachers , the Ohio Standards Advocate hashtag #MyOhioStory and OFT's hashtag #OFTnow.