K-12 Students

As a K-12 Student, use this comprehensive collection of high-quality resources to help you succeed in online education. Search for certified K-12 online courses. Learn about student services, postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO), and online college in the high school (OCHS). Obtain college, career, and financial aid planning resources. Access library data bases to do homework, improve studies, and complete a quick review of subjects. Engage in interactive tools to enhance learning. Use eFolioMinnesota to create and maintain your personal electronic portfolio.

MnLC Hippocampus - free multimedia lessons and course materials.
The HippoCampus offers free multimedia lessons and course materials to help you with your instruction, homework and studies. Subject areas include: Math, Sciences, US History, American Government and Psychology. Hippocampus is created by the National Repository of Online Courses.

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
MERLOT Open Textbooks Project is a strategic alliance of MERLOT and the Student PIRGs to promote the use of open textbooks.

Yellow Ribbon Resource
Minnesota Department of Education's resource page for military children, families, and educators.

MERLOT - Learning Materials
List of open textbooks MERLOT's Open Textbooks Project

Community College Open Textbook Project
Our task is to look at different ways to make free, open textbooks a sustainable resource for faculty and students.

U of M portfolio
ePortfolio is a secure Web site at the University of Minnesota (U of M) for entering, saving, organizing, viewing, and selectively sharing your personal, professional, and educational records.

Minnesota Programs of Study
A program of study resource for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Perkins IV consortia as they design, develop, and implement programs of study.

Minnesota Transfer
Resources about transfer options in Minnesota's public and private colleges and universities.

U of M iTunes U
The access-restricted iTunes U site is for students, faculty, staff, and guests, providing access to audio and video recordings of campus course sessions, faculty lectures, interviews, music, and events.

eFolioMinnesota
eFolio Minnesota is a multimedia electronic portfolio for to all Minnesota residents, including students enrolled in Minnesota schools, educators and others to create a living showcase of education, career and personal achievements.

NROC - National Repository of Online Courses
The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement.

MNKnows
MNKnows is a public portal to Minnesota online library services. Features include the Electronic Library of Minnesota (ELM), statewide library catalogs, Research Project Calculator, digital photographs and documents, and access to live reference assistance.

Distance Learning Calculator
Calculating the costs and benefits of distance learning (courtesy Minnesota Online).

Mn Video Vault
Twin Cities Public Television archive of videos for K12 use; search by subject, grade level and strands. Some have been tagged to the Minnesota State Academic Standards.

AskMN
An online service for information and research help available to all Minnesota residents and students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. AskMN is a cooperative service of Minnesota libraries.

ISEEK
ISEEK.org search for online courses from Minnesota's K-12 public schools

Minnesota Regional Public Library Systems
Information about the regional public library systems from the Minnesota Department of Education.

GPS LifePlan
The GPS LifePlan helps students set goals and design plans that will lead them to the success they desire.

Flat World Knowledge
Free online textbooks.

SAS Curriculum Pathways
Funded by SAS and free to US educators and students (grades 8-14), SAS Curriculum Pathways is designed to enhance student achievement and teacher effectiveness by providing web-based curriculum resources in core disciplines: English, math, science, social studies/history and Spanish.

Academic Earth
Academic Earth is a user-friendly educational portal that gives internet users the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world's leading scholars. Participating universities include MIT, Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, UCLA and Berkley.

Atomic Learning
Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use everyday.

K12@U: Programs for students and educators from the University of Minnesota
K - 12 credit and noncredit programs and learning resources offered to students and educators that are provided or sponsored by the University of Minnesota

The Military Child Education Coalition
The Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) is focused on ensuring quality educational opportunities for all military children affected by mobility, family separation, and transition.

Ready or Not Writing
The Ready or Not Writing Program mission is to increase chances for post-secondary writing success by assessing high school students' college-ready writing skills during their sophomore or junior year. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System support this free program.

University of Minnesota, Crookston - ESL
The ESL program at the University of Minnesota , Crookston (UMC) is a pre-collegiate English program providing English language instruction and related support services to foreign students who are both qualified for and have a desire to study undergraduate classes at UMC.

iCue
iCue provides access to thousands of current and historic videos and other resources incorporated into fun games and activities. iCue users can connect with a community of friends and fellow learners for support, sharing, and discussion through the iCue Friends Network and Discussion Forums.

Step Write Up
Eighth grade students can have their essays reviewed by high school faculty and receive written feedback to develop college level readiness. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System sponsor this free program.

Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory
A resource for academic integrity in the 21st century classroom - for students and for teachers/administrators. Promote academic honesty, reduce plagiarism and cheating.

MnPALS Plus
This is an application that makes it easy for students, faculty and public to search library holdings in the Minnesota PALS consortium.

Pachyderm PachyForge user community
PachyForge is a new, community owned and operated Web site designed to improve communications and promote growth within the Pachyderm open source community.  The site is intended serve both Pachyderm developers and end-users in sharing ideas and supporting one another.

Online Learning Resources
Saint Paul Public Schools Online Learning Resources Page provides links to Web resources geared to give students and educators an efficient way to research online.

Free and open textbooks
This new Web site brings together information on free and open textbooks and course materials in one location. Though the Web site was designed for California's community-college faculty members, it could be a useful resource for anyone trying to find learning materials in the public domain.

Children, Youth and Family Consortium
This site is a bridge to a wide range of information and resources about children and families. It connects research, teaching, policy and community practice.

LEO: Literacy Education Online
Find help with organizing research papers, the writing process, using online sources, grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, citing sources, plagiarism, business writing, resumes and other topics. Produced by the Write Place of St. Cloud State University.

MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching
MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.

Minnesota Center for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence-Project Lead the Way
Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is a national program aimed at middle and high school students. PLTW's classroom instruction, generally one-third theory and two-thirds application, gives students meaningful, hands-on experience in problem-solving, teamwork, and project-based learning.

Connexions
Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create & collaborate, instructors build & share collections, and learners find & explore content.

Study Guides and Strategies
Since 1996 the Study Guides and Strategies web site has been researched, authored, maintained and supported by Joe Landsberger as an international, learner-centric, educational public service.

Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM)
Search ELM for magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, eBooks, and information from reference sources - available to Minnesota residents at no charge!

MyMilitary Education
Search MyMilitaryEducation.org for Military Education Benefits, Getting Ready for College, Military Family Resources, MN Dept. of Veterans Affairs - Higher Education Veterans Programs Regional Coordinator contact information and much more.

LOREC Learning Object Repository Education Consortium
LOREC is a Minnesota State Colleges and Universities collaborative with Minnesota K-12, and the University of Minnesota. This is a K-20 project focused on dialogue and developing a framework support online learning through the use of shared learning objects.

Supporting Military Families in Minnesota
Resources for National Guard and Reserve soldiers and their families, friends, co-workers, and community leaders.

High School Math
Dynamic and interactive high school math tools and resources: general, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and trigonometry, Source: Jefferson County Schools.

The Orange Grove
Orange Grove Text Plus (OGT+) is a joint initiative of the University Press of Florida and The Orange Grove, Florida's Digital Repository. The goal of this partnership is to reduce the cost of books to students by offering texts that are affordable, accessible, and adaptable to reader preferences.

Learn More Minnesota
Practical, doable ideas, with links to interactive tools or resources, to help children succeed in school and get on the path to college.

Edutopia.org - What Works in Public Education
An in-depth and interactive resource, Edutopia.org offers practical, hands-on advice, real-world examples, lively contributions from practitioners, and invaluable tips and tools.

Le Mill
Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open educational resources; offered in a variety of languages.

Ask Minnesota
Online reference help from librarians.

Thinkfinity
Thinkfinity, funded by the Verizon Foundation, offers free educational resources to students, teachers, and parents. Features include educational supplements to curriculum, interactive exercises, and downloadable materials.

Slideshare
Slideshare is a presentation sharing website where users can upload, view and share presentation files including faculty and student presentation on education, business and technology.

GreatSchools
GreatSchools' purpose is to improve K-12 education by inspiring parents to get involved. GreatSchools.net profiles more than 90,000 public elementary, middle and high schools in the United States including charter, magnet, year-round schools, and some continuation and alternative schools.

Assignment Calculator
The interactive Research Project Calculator offers students a simple and comprehensive five-step model for navigating the research process; preparing students to conduct academic research and make life decisions- whether defending a thesis related to the causes of civil war or selecting a new car.

Edheads
Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards. Includes crash scene investigation, brain stimulation, the odd machine, weather and simple machines.

Google Scholar
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Free Google tools and services
Top 8 Free Google Tools and Services for Students

Wikibooks
Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Subjects include: natural and social sciences, computing, business, humanities, etc.

21st Century Skills
Serve as a catalyst to position 21st century skills at the center of US K-12 education by building collaborative partnerships among education, business, community and government leaders.

Find Reading Levels
Find reading levels of a book by typing in the title. Also get author and book information, lesson plans, discussion guides, etc.

Partners in Learning
A global initiative designed to actively increase access to technology; improve its use in learning; help schools gain better access to technology, foster innovative approaches to pedagogy and teacher professional development.

99 iPod Touch apps for education
Education apps for iPod Touch: for elementary, middle and high school levels.

Kerpoof
KerPoof is a free online multimedia software that allows children to explore their creativity by drawing, making animated movies, writing and illustrating stories, producing pictures and cards and more.

Zefty money management
This site teaches students about responsible spending and saving is difficult. Zefty functions like a bank account but there's no real money involved. Parents or teachers can set up and account for each student and specify how much allowance they get and how often.

Braingle
Site has over 20,000 brain teasers, riddles, logic problems, quizzes and mind puzzles submitted and ranked by users like you. A useful teaching tool for all educators.

SecretBuilders
SecretBuilders is a virtual world for children 5 to 14 years old where children will explore virtual lands, undertake quests, play games, maintain a home, nurture a pet, and interact with their friends. Three features of the site: children learn, create and publish.

Kinetic City
Kinetic City is a collection of science experiments, games and projects for everyone. Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

PBS Kids
Collection of interactive whiteboard games for educators on PBS KIDS. Students will enjoy participating in these collaborative, fun and engaging experiences, while exploring curriculum from trusted programs, all are age-appropriate and vetted by educators.

Estimator
This site from the Oswego School District in NY state allows for estimation of numbers and fractions on a number with 7 different levels of difficulty. This site can be used with a Smart Board.