looking for academic resources to supplement your scholar’s education?
We’ve organized the resources into the following categories: Core Subject Resources, Test Resources, Additional Resources, and Homework Tips.
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CILC Community of Learning (K-6) Connect live with field specialists from renowned museums, zoos, science centers, historic sites, aquariums, and more to chat about topics in art, literacy, STEM, and history. This live educational series airs at 1:00 PM ET. Can’t make it? Catch up on CILC’s YouTube channel and access free activities here!
CK-12 (K-12) CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to high quality educational materials for K-12 students all over the world. We offer free high-quality, standards-aligned, open content in the STEM subjects.
Dad’s Worksheets (K-6) Dad's Worksheets offers a growing collection of over 9,000 printable math worksheets, online math games, puzzles, and tools such as calculators, converters, and timers. All of these are completely FREE.
edHelper (K-6) edHelper is an online service that provides printable worksheets to teachers and homeschooling parents. edHelper is providing daily free workbook pages for grades K-6. Click to see the offering today! Feel free to call Homework Hotline’s teachers for help with these!
Education.com (K-5) While this site has a premium option, many worksheets and activities for any core subject are accessible with a free, quick account creation.
Great Schools (K-5) Great Schools provides free printable or electronic worksheets covering reading, math, science, and writing for students in grades K-5.
IXL (PK-12) IXL provides a comprehensive K-12 curriculum and has several online activities that are graded as students go, giving them immediate feedback on their understanding. You do not have to create an account to complete these activities. Simply click learning or scroll down on the home page and select the grade level and subject of activity you want to complete.
Junior Achievement (K-12) Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee prepares and inspires young people to be financially literate, career ready, and entrepreneurially minded. Virtual resources for students and families include lessons about economics, budgets, and business plans, as well as career exploration. Student resources are organized by grade level for students in Grades K-12.
Khan Academy (K-12) Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. They tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. Their math missions guide learners from kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps. Khan Academy is always free. You can sign up as a learner, teacher, or parent; or you can click “explore” to go straight to resources.
MathWorksheets.com (K-6) New math workbooks are generated each week to make learning in the classroom fun. Word problems are emphasized for a deeper understanding of how math works, along with reinforcing basic math facts. The enrichment math pages will easily complement your existing math program and can be used every week to build the children's math skills and problem-solving strategies.
Reading 360 (K-2) is an initiative of the state of Tennessee to help support literacy development. It includes book series for grades K-2, free. Grab the instructions here and the books here.
Readworks - ReadWorks is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis and student achievement gap. Driven by the scientific study of reading, ReadWorks creates proven high-quality content, teacher guidance, and integrated tools that improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Readworks requires a free login for teachers. Teachers can create classrooms and assign lessons to the entire class or individual students. Students do not have to have login credentials.
Storyline Online (Elem) “Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading. Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.
Virtual Nerd: Video lessons covering middle grades math through algebra 2.
Xtra Math (K-12) Xtra Math is a nonprofit organization dedicated to math achievement for all with activities for achieving math fact proficiency. Membership is always free.
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Nashville’s Vision for Holistic Youth Development - Nashville’s Vision for Holistic Youth Development (the Vision) is a youth outcomes framework that guides us to create a community where young people can develop the skills they need to thrive in school, their future careers, and in their life as a whole. The “holistic” approach considers all the skills people need to be successful – not just academic skills such as reading and writing, but social and emotional skills as well.
Nashville Symphony – Provided by the Nashville Symphony, this site includes lesson plans and additional resources for music learning. They will be posting weekly lessons, and have begun with Meet the String Family.
TN DOE YouTube – The Tennessee Department of Education secured a partnership with the state’s PBS stations to deliver daily instructional content for Tennessee students during COVID-19 school closures. This partnership will provide all students with access to daily learning opportunities right in their own homes. Starting April 6, Tennessee’s six PBS stations—WNPT Nashville, East Tennessee PBS, WCTE Upper Cumberland, WKNO Memphis, West TN PBS, and Chattanooga WTCI—will deliver two hours of programming with high-quality instructional content from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST. Four hours of content will also be streamed overnight, which viewers can watch live or record. You can find more information here.
FristKids – Provided by the Frist Art Museum, this site is perfect for students interested in knowing more about art. They have several videos, and each video has an art project you can make at home.
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TN DOE YouTube – The Tennessee Department of Education secured a partnership with the state’s PBS stations to deliver daily instructional content for Tennessee students during COVID-19 school closures. This partnership will provide all students with access to daily learning opportunities right in their own homes. Starting April 6, Tennessee’s six PBS stations—WNPT Nashville, East Tennessee PBS, WCTE Upper Cumberland, WKNO Memphis, West TN PBS, and Chattanooga WTCI—will deliver two hours of programming with high-quality instructional content from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST. Four hours of content will also be streamed overnight, which viewers can watch live or record. You can find more information here.