General
You need it? They have it. A huge directory of homework resources by subject as well as project ideas and help with writing.
For almost 20 years, the GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office and email, to reading, math, and more—GCFLearnFree.org offers more than 200 topics, including more than 2,000 lessons, more than 1,000 videos, and more than 50 interactive games, completely free.
Civics
Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
Choose a grade level then look around for information on how the U.S. government works.
The Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics sponsors the Annenberg Classroom website, which offers extensive resources focused on civics education, including lesson plans, videos, and discussion boards.
The brainchild of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, this interactive website aims to teach students civics and to inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. The site provides information resources and games for students, as well as teaching resources for an engaging civics curriculum for adults who work with children.
The National Archive Teacher Resources include civic education and history primary and secondary sources, lesson plans, and professional development workshops and activities.
The award-winning ProCon.org website promotes critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting the pro and con arguments to controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, freely accessible way.
The Harry Potter Alliance turns fans into heroes. We use the power of story and popular culture to make activism accessible and sustainable.
English
Enjoy digital books, images, videos and more from libraries, artists, authors and others from your community and around the world.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online.
Discover inspiring cultural heritage from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
Digital Public Library of America
Discover 40,784,749 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1.8 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
FeedBooks was established in 2004 with the vision to provide an extensive library of books in digital format for free on the Internet.
DailyLit lets you read literary classics and great new fiction in short installments that you can pick up and put down anytime.
Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads
We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you’re looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes, and our quiz system features over 340 quizzes.
The aim of this site is to bring the public domain books featured on sites like Project Gutenberg into easily readable HTML version.
Free public domain audiobooks-Read by volunteers from around the world.
Legamus! (Latin: let’s read together!) makes free audio books from texts that are in the Public Domain in Europe.
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.
Geography
Information about the United Nations, global issues, and information about UN member countries/states.
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Flags of the World (FOTW), founded in 1994, is the Internet’s largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags)
Google Earth-powered tours explore how stories and geography connect.
History
Library of Congress Collection
Historic photograph collections of United State’s history.
This site contains thousands of individual pages covering all aspects of U.S. History.
Civil War related websites for kids.
Get primary source documents for American history.
Mr. Dowling’s History Passport
Links to information on counties, culture and history.
Math
The World of Math online.
GregTangMath strives to provide unparalleled math lessons for students as well as professional development for in-service teachers. Games, puzzles, and other resources, like free downloads, worksheets/word problems, math centers.
This site, from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), features complete lesson plans, mobile games for students, interactive activities, and brain teasers.
Free online math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, and more!
Science
The Exploratorium Science Museum
The Exploratorium has a web site of over 15,000 web pages exploring science, art, and technology including science experiments and activities.
Thousands of pages of resources on astronomy, planets, comets, astronauts and new discoveries of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.