Education (Lesson Planning Resources): Media

Provides videos about teaching all school levels. Also includes videos directed toward high school and college students on many academic subjects.

Stock footage and millions of stock photo images created from one of the largest royalty-free archival footage collections in the world.

To provide the public with a vast collection of documentaries spanning across every genre out there.

"The George Lucas Educational Foundation is dedicated to improving the K-12 learning process by documenting, disseminating, and advocating for innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives."

Explore’s growing library consists of more than 250 original films and 30,000 photographs from around the world. We

A national preserve of documentary films about American roots cultures streamed with essays about the traditions and film-making. The site includes transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites.

NASA Quest is dedicated to bringing NASA people and science to classrooms through the internet.

This site gives users access to a diverse collection of historic movies, documentaries and other films from the National Archives via Google Video (video.google.com/nara.html) as well as the National Archives web site (www.archives.gov).

An open-access online digital library and collaborative network of disciplinary and grade-level focused education providers.

Streaming Video

Next Vista For Learning provides a library of free videos made by and for teachers and students everywhere.

Math and Science Resources

The place for students and teachers to share videos online

"Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- on the Internet and TV -- of inspiring and effective teaching practices in America's schools."

45,200 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments. Some restrictions, use streaming.

Offers a wide selection of music curated by WFMU (a freeform radio station). Since it is curated, all of the music has been selected by someone familiar with the genre associated. Use the advanced search to filter by use.

Some items may be subject to Copyright.

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

Free public domain audiobooks

Online songs with lyrics and music for children

Free cultural & educational media on the web

Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum – to students of all ages.

We offer thousands of children's songs, lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions.

Science Updates are 60-second radio programs presenting current science research, as well as responses to questions phoned in to our Science Update hotline (1-800-WHY-ISIT).

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

NPR delivers breaking national and world news. Also top stories from business, politics, health, science, technology, music, ...

LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 20000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.

iTunes U gives you free access to some of the world's best thinking—lectures from MIT, labs from Stanford, films from the MOMA, and more.