Curriculum Resources for PK-12

Search by subject, grade level, or Michigan standards.

A national community of educators and leaders who support K-12 open education.

Free NGSS-aligned science curriculum for elementary through high school, includes many types of materials including lassons, handouts, webinars, videos, standards alignments, etc.

A handbook for educators and curriculum designers who wish to apply active learning tools and strategies in teaching.

The State of New York used federal funds to develop K-12 curriculum resources aligned to the common core. These open educational resources are also free for other states to use.
At the Common Core Library page, you can use the check boxes in the left column to "drill down" to resources at specific grade levels for specific subjects.

Free teacher developed resources for K-12, including online textbooks, short concept readings, simulations, quizzes, real world applications, and more. Especially strong in STEM content.

This includes preschool through college level materials, so be sure to use the Grade Levels menu to find OER for your grade level.

Free high school texts for multiple subjects, including texts for AP classes.

"HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge."

Resources from the Public Broadcasting System can be searched by subject and grade level. You can also browse by numerous national standards to find resources related to a standard.

Free online science textbooks for grades 4-12 and math textbooks for grades 10-12. The interactive practice part of this site is subscription based.

Search by subject and grade level to find curriculum resources created by federal museums.

A project to bring free open textbooks to Michigan K-12 students. At this site you can learn about the project, about using open texts, and you can download the currently available free social studies texts, which include:
My Self and Others (KIndergarten)
Families and Schools (1st grade)
Community Studies (2nd grade)
Michigan Studies (3rd grade)
United States Studies (4th grade)
United States History (5th grade)
World Geography (6th grade)
Ancient World History (7th grade)
United States History (8th grade)
United States History (high school)
World History (high school)
Civic Life (high school)
Economics and You (high school)

Many interactive resources for Biology, Chemistry, Earth & Space Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics.

Includes ebooks for use in classrooms, as well as books about Waldorf education.

The free section of TeachersPayTeachers offers downloadable curriculum materials that teacher colleagues are offering for free.

Open access textbooks that are free to download and available for purchase in inexpensive print form. These include free teaching tools such as labs, videos, and datasets. Texts include: Statistics, Statistics with Randomization and Simulation, Statistics for the Life and Biomedical Sciences, Advanced High School Statistics. Also, College Algebra + Trigonometry (Precalculus).

Includes grades 3-12 Science, grades 6-12 English Language Arts, grades 7-12 Mathematics. Aligned to Utah state standards.

Science instructional materials designed and aligned to the Framework and NGSS. First available units are for middle school science.

A high school curriculum where "students will learn about spatial analysis, temporal analysis, and text interpretation, through their own data collection and analysis project." Developed at UCLA with a National Science Foundation grant. You can review the curriculum and also “test drive” the technology via our sandbox on a limited, 2-week trial basis, but actual classroom implementation requires training and technical support, both of which are currently only offered to IDS partners on a fee-for-service basis.

This is a very innovative type of open ed resource that could be used as a text or as supplementary material. See this instructor page for a helpful explanation of the site.

Interpersonal speaking activities for K-16 language instructors, includes resources for Arabic, Basque, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, & Spanish, as well as activities that can be adapted for any language.

An interactive, multimodal, multicultural, open access ebook for teaching and learning key topics in United States Government and Civic Life. Suitable for 8th- 12th grade.

This companion to Building Democracy for All features more than 100 learning activities that promote awareness of, and critical thinking about, the role that all types of media -- online and in print -- play in our lives and in our politics. Upper elementary thru high school.

An Open, Common Core PreK-12 Curriculum on Peregrine Falcons

6th through 12th grade open access curriculum from St. Vrain Valley Schools.

This video of a 2017 keynote presentation at Lansing Community Colleges is excellent. Dr. Cable Green is the Director of Open Education at Creative Commons. Don't let the initial focus on community colleges deter you, later in the talk he discusses how open education materials are being used in K-12.

"The U.S. Department of Education supports states, school districts and educators using openly licensed educational materials to transform teaching and learning."