Needs Images, Clipart or Sounds

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 theGraphics 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 360º. 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

US Fish and Wildlife Service National Digital Library: All kinds of photos are available. Simply, do a search for the animal you are looking for. I always give credit to the photographer and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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).

National Park Service Sound Gallery: Full gallery containing free to download and use animal sounds and photos. However, remember to please give credit to the photographer.

Weather Sound Effects: This contains Public Domain weather sounds from MEDIACollege.com