Open-Source Tools
TOOLS
Unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and beautiful reports that inspire smarter decisions.
Easy to use platform that allows you to code a virtual robot using either Block-based coding or a custom developed Text-based Python interface.
Desmos is a free graphing and teaching tool for math available on the web as well as on iOS and Android. In addition to plotting equations, classroom activities are available to help students learn about a variety of math concepts.
Design beautiful and powerful native apps on Thunkable without coding. Publish your app on Android, iOS, and the Web. Incubated at Google and MIT, backed by YCombinator.
PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. These tests include student interviews and observation of simulation use in classrooms.
Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. Explore music and its connections to science, math, art, and more.
Tinkercad is a free web app that equips designers and engineers with the foundational skills for innovation: 3D design, electronics, and coding.
Tinkercad also has an Arduino simulator program for learning basic circuitry, sensors, and microcontroller programming. Plenty of lessons and tutorials.
Various online apps to visually explore fractions, geometry, time, money, numbers, patterns, and vocabulary.
p5.js is a JavaScript library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, and anyone else!
DeltaMath allows teachers to mix and match problem-sets, control rigor, vary due dates, and, with PLUS, create tests and problems of their own.
Create beautiful designs with your team. Use Canva's drag-and-drop feature and layouts to design, share and print business cards, logos, presentations and more.
Lucidpress is the brand templating platform anyone can master. With a powerfully intuitive editor, it's never been easier to impress your audience and create.
Tynker is the world's leading K-12 creative coding platform, enabling students of all ages to learn to code at home, school, and on the go.
The Top Coding Education Platform for Schools. Online IDE Built for Education. Write, run, & debug code in any web browser, no account or downloads needed.
RESOURCES
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.
National Geographic Educational Resources
National Geographic is proud to offer a wide assortment of professional learning opportunities for educators engaging with students from pre-K to post-secondary. Our programs and resources range from in-the-field projects to digital resources to online networks to grant opportunities and courses.
Ready to have some fun with TGR Foundation’s Design Challenges?! These family-friendly activities will unlock your creativity to explore, design, and test solutions for real-world problems. The challenges use everyday household items but you can switch them out with similar items you have at home.
Data Nuggets are free classroom activities, co-designed by scientists and teachers, designed to bring contemporary research and authentic data into the classroom.
CK-12 science offers high school courses in biology, chemistry, and physics, and middle school courses in earth science, life science, and physical science.
Real science, real stories, and real data to engage students in exploring the living world.
A storyline is a coherent sequence of lessons, in which each step is driven by students' questions that arise from their interactions with phenomena.
Science Snacks are hands-on, teacher-tested activities that bring explorations of natural phenomena into the classroom and home.
Browse our library for downloadable, hands-on, teacher-tested projects and activities that use everyday materials to make STEM affordable, accessible, and fun for everyone.
