Washington OER Hub

Washington's platform for sharing K-12 open educational resources - providing equitable
access to standards-aligned, high-quality instructional materials.

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Featured Content

May heritage month

Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month in May!

Jewish American Heritage Month is a time to discover, explore, and celebrate the vibrant and varied American Jewish experience from the dawn of our nation to the present day.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month recognizes the contributions and influence of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States.

Here are a few resources on the Washington OER Hub you may find helpful:

9 Ideas for Teaching Jewish American Heritage Month (K-12) | Anti-Defamation League

Pyramid of Hate Lesson (9-12) | Holocaust Center for Humanity

Sol LeWitt’s Concepts and Structures (9-12) | National Gallery of Art

Teaching & Learning Best Practices for the Holocaust and Other Genocides | Holocaust Center for Humanity

Asian American & Pacific Islander Perspectives within Humanities Education (6-12) | Edsitement

Injustice at Home: The Japanese-American Experience of the Word War II Era (7-12)| KSPS Public Television and Washington educators

Island Soundscape: Musics of Hawai'i, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea (3-5)| Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Learning Collections

These collections provide a curated selection of Washington developed resources as well as links to external organizations providing quality online educational materials.
Click a link below to search by Content Area/Practice or Audience (Families, Youngest Learners, Students with Disabilities, Multilingual/English Learners, etc.)

Groups

These working groups contain resources created by OSPI in partnership with Washington educators,
OSPI grantees or collaborators, or Washington districts/schools (select a hyerlink below).

These groups and their resources are managed and curated by districts or schools.

About

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Open Educational Resources (OER) Project raises OER awareness and provides support for school districts adapting, developing, and implementing openly-licensed instructional materials.

Our Washington OER Hub is an online library of free, high-quality, K-12 OER created by and curated for Washington educators. All these materials are aligned with Washington State learning standards and may be downloaded, adapted, and shared to better serve all students.

New to the Washington OER Hub?

Visit the Washington OER Group for "getting started" resources including a Washington OER Hub User Guide. Join the Washington OER group to become a member of the Washington OER hub. You will receive periodic updates on Washington OER and have the ability to create a user profile that lets you review, save, and curate resources under the "My Items" menu

What’s here?

The collection of openly licensed educational resources on the Washington OER Hub include unit or robust lesson level supplemental instructional materials, lists of currently available full-course OER, educator guidance documents, and professional learning materials. Users can search for materials by content area, grade, or learning standard, or browse through curated learning collections organized by content area or target audience.

The Washington OER Hub regularly adds content and resources. OSPI also collaborates with our Washington Educational Service Districts, Washington state and national non-profit educational organizations, Washington state teachers, and other state agencies to generate standards-based resources.

Are materials vetted?

All resources in the OSPI curated Learning Collections are closely reviewed to ensure that they:

  • Explicitly address Washington Learning Standards, development guidelines, or benchmarks.

  • Include clear learning objectives and goals.
  • Display accurate and relevant content.
  • Support sound teaching practice.
  • Cultivate student interest and engagement.
  • Provide developmentally and culturally appropriate content.

Learning Collections

The Washington OER Hub contains free, high-quality, K-12 resources and materials for Washington educators in the following areas:

  • Arts
  • Career Technical Ed
  • Educational Technology
  • English Language Arts
  • Health and Physical Education
  • Integrated Subjects
  • Mathematics
  • Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship
  • Science
  • Social Studies
  • Social Emotional Learning
  • World Languages

Grades

PreK, Kindergarten, Elementary, Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, and High School

 

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OSPI OER Grantee Resource Showcase

May 19, 2023, 2:08 p.m.

May 24, 3-5 pm (pacific)

Explore free and adaptable resources in financial literacy, health, PE, science, social studies, special education, and world languages. WA educators receive 2 clock hours. 

Register for webinar today!