Most of the sites are free to use or share without having to worry about Permissions.
ClipArt sites
You
can use the Google
Advanced Image Search to check for licences and only return images
that are covered for reuse or commercial use. To find the Advanced Image Search,
either follow the link above or go to Google, click on the Image tab and enter a
search term. When Google Images has returned the search results, click on the
icon of the cog in the top right and look for Advanced
Search.
At the bottom of the advanced search page, look for Usage
Rightsand
change it to Free
to Use or Share to get Creative Commons licensed images from
sites such as Flickr and more.
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Clipart
and Presentation Object Sites
Clipart ETC: This site provides free clipart
(sample
pictured right) for students and
teachers and comes with complete source information to cite in school projects.
Teachers and students are allowed to use up to 50 clipart pieces in any one,
non-commercial project without any further permission. It has a library of 20
topics full of black and white drawings and photos in a variety of subjects.
Within each topic there are other subdivisions. In math those subdivisions
include: angles, clocks, counting, currency, fractions, geometric patterns,
geometric shapes, geometric solids, geometry, math tools, probability,
thermometers, and trigonometry and analytic geometry.
Presentations ETC: I
really like this site. It contains free colorful backgrounds, templates,
letters, frames, and buttons that can easily be used in ActivInspire flipcharts
and school projects. You are licensed to use up to 50 items in any presentation
without addition permission. There are over 20,000 background slides to choose
from with over 30,000 buttons, letters and photo objects. included.
Clippix ETC: This site provides the teacher and classroom with
a source of photos and pictures for use in projects. The license allows 25 free
photos in any one school project without further permission. Photo libraries
included are in agriculture, American history and government, animals, arts,
business, food, health and beauty, holidays and occasions, home, math, patterns,
textures, and colors, places, plants, school, science, signs and symbols, sports
and recreation, technology and transportation.
Maps
ETC: This site has over 5,000 maps from many different time periods and
areas of the world, including world maps. You may use up to 25 maps in any one
non-commercial school project without further permission. Maps come in JPEG and
GIF formats (best for student websites and classroom presentations) as well as
PDF (best for displays, bulletin boards, printed school reports).
Other
Image and Clipart Sites
Open Clip Art Library: This is an excellent
site. The Open Clipart Library (OCAL) is the Largest Collaboration Community of
clipart. All clipart is released to the
public
domain and may be used in any
project for free and with no restrictions.
Easy Stock Photos: This site contains thousands of free stock
photos, pictures, and information. Photos are arranged in libraries to making
finding a great photo easier. All stock photos, pictures, images, and
information is royalty free and in the public domain.
Welcome to Teacher Files.com: Most of the clip art found at
this site are original creations made onsite while a few were collected from
free and Public Domain collections listed by the Open Source Community under
the
Graphics and Clip Art and
Public Domain categories. They are all free for personal
or educational purposes.
Pics4Learning.com: Pics4Learning is a safe,
free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the
copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web
sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting. The
thousands of photos in this collection are indexed and sorted in order to
maximize their effective use by students in the classroom. The photographers
retain the rights to these photos, but they have graciously allowed their
use.
Clipart
and Animated Gifs
Free School Clipart: Teachers can use these free colorful
clipart images arranged in 80 categories in their classrooms. Students can use
them for homework assignments and websites. They request a link back to their
site giving them credit for the clipart used.
Clipart by Phillip Martin: Over 1,500 colorful, original
cartoon drawings (copyrighted) are available for your non-profit use. The
graphics are related to specific school topics like plants, fairy tales, math,
holidays, certificates, seasons, science, animals and more.
Thousands of Free Clipart Graphics: The graphics are larger
than normal, and arranged in categories. They are free for personal use (no
commercial use allowed). The site would appreciate a return link giving them
credit.
3D
Toads: Fabulous revolving graphics. See dissections, fossils, animal
skeletons and more, rotating up to 360ยบ. This is a new concept in graphics.
Animation Library: This site has over 13,000 animations to
choose from, divided into categories including alphabets, words, web design
elements as well as animated gifs.
Glitter
Text
SparkLee.com: Design beautiful text with this glitter text
generator. See your text by filling out the form, then download the image and
use it in your work.
Text Effect: Choose an effect, type in your text and that is
all there is to it.
Dazzle Junction: Fill in the steps to design glitter text in
words, phrases and short sentences.
Photos
and Short Videos
EduPic Graphical Resource for Educators: This outstanding
photographer, William Vann and a few colleagues, have put together a collection
of work to share with educators and their students without further permission.
All others must ask for permission. His other rights are reserved.
Free Stock Photography: This excellent site is for educational
use and is full of free royalty-free stock photography. It is arranged in
categories for you to explore.
35 Photos of Space: These photos would make an excellent
bulletin board, flipchart photos, or pictures for a report.
Teaching Channel: This is an excellent video site for all
grades and all subject areas.
Sounds
Here
are some sites containing sounds for the classroom. Sometimes titles can be
misleading, so I encourage you to always listen to the sound effects before you
use them with your students.
Simply the Best Free Sounds: This site has free to use WAV and
MP3 sound files in a variety of categories (cartoon, event, humor,
miscellaneous, sound effects).
