Updated: Free Resources for Schools During COVID-19 Outbreak. N - O

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, which is celebrating its hundredth birthday has announced 100 days of professional learning for educators -- for free. The organization is also offering free NCTM membership as well. Each webinar will run on Zoom and be held at 7 p.m. eastern time, leading up to the opening of the NCTM 2020 Annual Meeting in St. Louis, which begins on Oct. 21. The sessions, which are limited to 1,000 participants, feature a variety of speakers and topics geared to all grade levels and interests. The webinars will be recorded and made available the following day. https://www.nctm.org/100-Days-of-Professional-Learning/

National Geographic Explorer Classroom is hosting experts online in live events each day at 2 p.m. Eastern time to allow students and adults to ask questions face-to-face. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/student-experiences/explorer-classroom/

National Geographic Society has released a number of free resources and visuals, including daily Explorer Classrooms live broadcasts (at 2 p.m. Eastern time), to enable young people to hear National Geographic Explorers talk about their expeditions; educator-curated collections of learning activities; and a resource library with lessons, videos and articles.

The National PTA has compiled resources for families, teachers and parent-teacher association leaders on how to survive the home hostage situation. For parents that includes social and emotional support, advice on learning at home and healthy habits suggestions. Educators will find links to tips on teaching from home and supporting their students, tools and how to do "selfcare." PTA folks will find guidance on how to meet the needs of school families and sustain a healthy PTA organization during school closures. https://www.pta.org/home/family-resources/coronavirus-information

The National Constitution Center is launching a free eight-week series of daily live interactive courses on the Constitution for middle school and high school students. They'll be led by NCC President and CEO, Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor and constitutional expert, along with other NCC constitutional scholars and educators. The sessions, delivered via Zoom, will allow students to participate in daily lectures and conversations about the basic principles of the U.S. Constitution. Teachers are also able to sign their students up for virtual "Classroom Exchanges," expanded to go beyond classroom-to-classroom conversations to meet students in remote environments. Teachers who would like to sign up their classes for private remote teaching sessions with scholars can sign up here.

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame has closed, like almost every cultural center in the country. But it has made a bunch of resources available to keep young wranglers occupied at home. Those include puzzlers, word problems, math activities ("how to measure a horse") and a cowkid-oriented story time on its YouTube channel. http://www.cowgirl.net/education/resources/

National Geographic Learning has published free COVID-19 lesson plans and resources for teachers. Included are lessons for K-8 students on the virus, what they can do to protect themselves, and how they can make a difference. Middle school and high school science, social studies and reading lessons go further by providing context to the disease and exploring its impact. The units include a focus on the science of COVID-19 and coronaviruses, a look at how vaccines are developed and comparisons to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The program provides language supports to help English language learners better understand the virus and communicate about it in English. https://exploreinside.ngl.cengage.com/index.php/interdisciplinary-k12-resources/

National University, a mostly online institution, is offering free tuition for California college students who have had their learning disrupted because of the virus. Their courses are offered monthly, and students can sign up for up to three courses over the next three months. The university said it has nearly 2,000 online courses, most of which are asynchronous and available to students anywhere and anytime, and are transferable for credit at colleges across the state. https://www.nu.edu/coronavirusresponse/

The Natural History Museum of Utah is now offering an interactive version of its free online education program, "Research Quest," which allows students to have live sessions with professional educators from the museum while schools are closed. The museum is offering this every school day at 9:30 a.m. Mountain time. Archived versions of each class are also available anytime. A teacher support page explains how to align the materials to their learning standards. https://nhmu.utah.edu/rq-live

Navigate360 is opening up access to its behavioral threat assessment technology free through Aug. 1, 2020. According to the company, by using this program, schools can keep their cases organized and on track when working remotely, while also keeping sensitive student information secure. https://navigate360.com/behavioral-threat-assessment/trial/

NEO is providing sign-up for the free edition of its learning management system, which works for schools with up to 400 students. That version includes class templates, content authoring and accessibility features as well as functionality for discussion forums, doing web conferencing, adding gamification and quizzes, taking attendance, tracking grades, building badges, doing bulk import and export of accounts, syncing class content and more. The program integrates with G Suite, Google Drive and OneDrive and offers mobile apps for iOS, Windows and Android. For the free edition, click the "Free plan" button. https://www.neolms.com/

Nepris, which delivers online talks with industry professionals on a wide array of subjects, is making its virtual industry chats available to everyone, including 9,000 already archived. The talks are available online: https://www.nepris.com/sessions/upcoming.

Netop is offering free trials of two programs. Netop Remote Control on Demand helps the district team provide direct assistance to teachers and other education staff via screensharing and mouse, touchscreen and keyboard control. Vision for Chromebooks lets the teacher monitor students while giving online instruction or during scheduled work times, limit them to specific websites, share the screen with students so they can present their work and provide remote troubleshooting. The trials will be valid through Jun. 30, 2020.

NetSupport Manager is making its remote support tools free for three months for schools, covering up to 200 devices. The software enables IT support personnel to provide secure remote support to users running Microsoft Windows, Apple iOS and Google Chrome or Android. https://www.netsupportmanager.com/usa-nsm-offer/

The New York Times Company and Verizon have opened free access to NYTimes.com to all high schoolers and their teachers, to help keep students "educated, informed and connected." From Apr. 6 to Jul. 6, 2020, students and teachers will be able to access Times journalism online. To sign up, teachers or administrators need a consolidated list of student emails. https://www.nytimes.com/initiative/highschoolaccess

Newsela is providing free access to its collections, including those for English language arts, social studies, science and social-emotional learning, through the 2019-2020 school year. Newsela is an instructional content platform that combines leveled content with integrated formative assessments, culled from sources that include the National Geographic, NASA, Biography.com, Encyclopedia Britannica, the Washington Post and many others. Access can be by individual teacher for the class or district administrator for the whole district. https://newsela.com/about/distance-learning/

News-O-Matic is making access to its daily newspaper for students available free through Jun. 30, 2020. Each day the company publishes five original articles, written at a variety of reading levels for grades K-8. Every story is translated by native speakers from English into Spanish, French and Arabic. The texts--at all levels and languages--are read out loud. In addition, teachers have access to a special dashboard to track students' reading progress, change reading levels and check quizzes to assess comprehension for each article. https://newsomatic.org/#get-free-access

Newspaper Archive is offering free access for K-12 educators to its newspaper archives, to help students with research projects. The archives include newspapers dated from 1607 to 2020 from every state and from around the world. To set up an account, contact customer service. https://newspaperarchive.com/contactus/

NoRedInk has expanded what's available free among its writing tools for educators and their students to include the company's premium services too. For the rest of the current school year, the program will provide free access to hundreds of practice writing topics; the "Premium Guided Drafts" suite, which scaffolds the writing process for students as they craft essays; "Quick Writes," a "lightweight" way to get students writing regularly; a progress tracking service to help teachers assign curriculum and track student growth by state and national standards; "Premium" tutorials; and "Premium" SAT/ACT passages for big-test practice. https://www.noredink.com/

NOVA is streaming weekly "NOVA marathons," to provide educational and entertaining content for families at home. There are also free education resources available for each, including teaching tips, discussion questions and background essays. The sessions consist of multiple programs organized under content collections, covering space and the universe, the planets, black holes, Apollo,what the universe is made of, life beyond Earth and the fabric of the cosmos. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/nova-marathons-space-universe/

NOVA is also streaming free virtual field trips on Wednesday, which let students interact with researchers and ask questions in real-time. These begin at 10 a.m. Pacific time through YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/c/NOVAEducation

Numerade is offering its asynchronous teaching platform and video library of 200,000 STEM lessons free. With the platform teachers can record lessons, take virtual attendance and conduct video Q&A with students. https://www.numerade.com/office-hours/welcome/

NutriStudents K-12 has made a free set of "COVID-19 Emergency Menus" available to help child nutrition programs meet students' meal needs while schools are closed. The menus and their recipes include cold and hot meals covering multiple five-day weeks. They comply with guidelines for the Summer Food Service Program and the Seamless Summer Option. All the menus comply with USDA nutritional and meal-pattern guidelines and include compliance reports. https://nutristudentsk-12.com/covid-19-mda/

Omni Calculator is continuing to make its thousand-plus free calculators available. Each one is targeted to help students and others handle any type of equation or conversion imaginable. As a home-schooling parent told us, each "is equipped with tips and detailed explanations of concepts to various scientific phenomena. They are fun, they are helpful and they can teach you a lot more than 2+2." https://www.omnicalculator.com/

OneLogin is offering OneLogin Trusted Experience Platform for free to educators. That consists of single sign-on, multi-factor authentication and certificate-based authentication, to help secure virtual experiences for users. https://www.onelogin.com/lp/promo-edu-virtual-learning

Open Future Institute has launched the "COVID-19 QUESTion Project," a stand-alone program to support educators as they strengthen the social-emotional wellbeing of their students. The organization said its teacher resources include online lesson plans and activities intended to help students process their changing experience, empower them with the self-reliance and strengthen their sense of purpose in life and their connections with others. https://openfutureinstitute.org/covid-19-question-project/

Open Up Resources (OUR) and Kiddom have teamed up to offer free access to Open Up math curriculum for grades 6-8 within Kiddom's digital platform, through Aug. 1, 2020. Additional resources include the "No-Nonsense Distance Learning Resource Guide," weekly webinars to support teachers and districts, professional learning materials to aid with distance learning and peer-to-peer communications with the OUR education community. https://teach.kiddom.co/covid-support/

OpenSciEd, already available for free to teachers in face-to-face instruction, is promoting the use of functionality that works for online teaching. In particular, the organization's simulations allow students to explore scientific concepts. Teachers are also sharing how they're adapting the materials for online instruction through social sites, using the hashtag #OpenSciEd #Remote. https://www.openscied.org/openscied-approach/

OpenStax is reminding educators and families that its 38 open source (read: free) digital textbooks in core college and Advanced Placement subjects are available. On top of that, the nonprofit said that it would offer free access to its online homework offerings (which normally have a low-cost attached to them). That covers ROVER for math subjects and TUTOR, a beta program that provides online courseware and learning tools needed to complete a course; coverage includes physics, biology, and introduction to sociology. Also, 28 "allies" that have worked with OpenStax to develop homework and courseware that accompany its textbooks have made their offerings free. Those are listed on this OpenStax article. Finally, OpenStax has compiled lists of resource for each of its subjects, which it is documenting through its blog.

OpusYou is delivering a series of live, online music performances, along with free access to its online media library to enable K-12 music teachers and students to continue their musical experiences from home. https://opusyou.com/contact

ORIGO Education is providing weekly digital content plans for home use with K-5 students. The plans include activities for each day, along with digitally accessible or downloadable resources, designed for delivery by a caregiver or remote teacher. These resources complement the mathematical concepts and skills students are learning at their grade levels. https://www.origoeducation.com/athome/

Osmo has released a new, free projector app to help teachers project their real-word notes onto a virtual blackboard. However, the tech requires an "Osmo Base," into which the teacher's iOS tablet or phone sits. Then as he or she does something on the table in front of the set-up, the program scans the activity and displays it on the screen for students to see. Those lessons can also be recorded and shared through Airplay, Skype, Google Meet and other conferencing tools. The company said it would give out 100 base units for free to schools in need. They need to submit their request online and await response from the company.

OurPact has made its family screen-time management solution free for three months, to help parents manage their children's technology usage. Parents can redeem their promotion through OurPact's mobile iOS or Android parent apps or by signing up for an account on the website. https://ourpact.com/

Outschool has opened up its online classrooms to deliver remote courses to K-12 students ages three to 18, affected by school closures. The classes are being made available free through donations for families who can't afford to pay for the service. There are some 10,000 classes available in the company's catalog, and each consists of small-group video chats created and taught by vetted teachers. https://blog.outschool.com/free-online-classes-for-public-school-students-affected-by-closures/

OverDrive Education is offering free access to the Sora Remote Reading Book Bundle, a collection of 200-plus simultaneous-use digital titles from publishers, including Abrams, Britannica, Bellwether Media, Live Oa, and Orca. The collection also includes classics in the public domain. (Emma and Call of the Wild, anyone?) The books are in digital text and audio formats. Access is available until Jun. 30, 2020. https://company.overdrive.com/2020/03/17/sora-reading-app-extends-no-cost-ebooks-and-audiobooks-to-remote-learners/

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