The Biodiversity Heritage Library has 150,000 images and sketches available for free
Source: About BHL – Information about the Biodiversity Heritage Library Their Flickr album is probably not the best way to find images, but their Biodiversity Heritage Library Portal has a search feature. The publications are pretty high level, so the site is more of a resource for teachers and high schoolers instead of elementary students.
Reshot is another source of royalty free images you can use in the classroom
Source: Reshot: Uniquely Free Photos I’ve written about Unsplash before, and while their pictures are really nice, they can be overused. There have been times when I’ve seen the same shot on several different websites. Reshot is another source of images. The pictures are released under a very permissive, they can be used for non-commercial…
Create Interactive Fiction online with Borogove
Source: borogove.app/ Interactive fiction (IF) was in its heyday in the 80s. It is a video game written as an interactive story where the player takes parts as the story unfolds. There is still an active community behind current IF, and tools such as borogove.app is an easy way to get started. Writing a program…
Free CC licensed sound effects and music from Gravity Sounds
AT GRAVITY SOUND, WE REGULARLY RELEASE FREE MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS UNDER CC BY 4.0 LICENSE.IT’S JUST ONE WAY THAT GRAVITY SOUND GIVES BACK TO THE INDIE COMMUNITY. Source: Free Music and Sound Effects — Gravity Sound The music and sound effects is released with a Creative Commons license, CC BY 4.0, which allows you…
Epic offers free activity calendars
Source: Monthly Activity Calendars | Epic!: Read Amazing Children’s Books Online – Unlimited Access to the Best Books and Learning Videos For Kids 12 and Under Epic is an online digital library that is free for educators but a paid service for families. Without an account they offer free monthly activity calendars.
Create your own city online for free with Toy Box Metropolis
Source: Toy Box Metropolis by Second Dimension Games Toy Box Metropolis is a simplified version of Simcity that takes place on the floor of a child’s bedroom. At the start, you are given your choice of objectives for the game. You then build roads, buildings, and landmarks in a way that will achieve the goal…
Play around with artificial intelligence in your browser with the Teachable Machine 2.0
People are using AI to explore all kinds of ideas—identifying the roots of bad traffic in Los Angeles, improving recycling rates in Singapore, and even experimenting with dance. Getting started with your own machine learning projects might seem intimidating, but Teachable Machine is a web-based tool that makes it fast, easy, and accessible to everyone. Source: Teachable Machine 2.0 makes AI…
Highlight or remove results from a Google Search with the Google Search Filter add-on
Source: Google Search Filter – Chrome Web Store This is a pretty cool add-on for Google Chrome. With it, you can highlight results from websites you like while hiding results from websites you don’t want to see (I’m looking at you Pinterest…). Once installed, go to google.com and click on the extension in the toolbar….
Story starters and more with this free dungeon creator tool
Source: One Page Dungeon by watabou One Page Dungeon is exactly what the title says, it creates a dungeon map all on one page. The dungeon is created with a random name, subtitle, and various objects placed in the rooms. This tool could be used as a starting point for stories. For example, in picture…