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Known widely for its comprehensive study guides for literary works commonly studied in the English classroom, Sparknotes is an absolute essential for studying the all-important humanities subject of literature. Packaged with explanations for characters, themes, motifs, plot points, and many other guides for comprehending major titles, all of its essential content is available with its free access option.

The SEP is an open-access and authoritative database of philosophical terms. Kept up to date by experts in the field, it maintains stringent standards in its publishing practices and continues to add new terms to this date.

JSTOR is one of the most well-known databases for academic articles throughout the world. While a significant portion of its content is behind a paywall, free access is an option for over 8.5 million journal articles, making JSTOR a helpful resource for all kinds of research.

The NYT Learning Network holds contests throughout the school year for teenagers around the world to submit entries, free of charge. It provides writers and journalists a platform to voice their ideas and showcase their writing. Examples of these opportunities include the Editorial, Review, and Summer Reading contests.

PTable is a gorgeous interactive periodic table that offers chemistry learners of all levels with quick and easy access to the properties, electron arrangements, isotopes, and compounds formed with all elements. Despite being funded with donations, PTable also comes with many unexpectedly useful features, including but not limited to dragging elements together to create compounds. It also offers a database of teacher resources to supplement its capabilities.

Khan Academy is an educational resource known throughout the world by teachers and students alike. When you’re confused on a topic, Sal Khan will (almost) always explain it better. With such brilliant quality, Khan Academy has branched out, covering subjects such as AP Economics and Psychology and many more, while still maintaining high standards for its K-12 math curriculum.

MuseScore allows composers of all levels to create, play, and print their custom music compositions as sheet music for free. It is frequently used in schools to let music students play around with composing, but its professional features can make for a steep learning curve for new users.

Kennedy Center Education offers a wide array of resources and experiences that inspire, excite, and empower students and young artists, plus the tools and connections to help educators incorporate the arts into classrooms of all types.

Music and the Brain brings a comprehensive music literacy curriculum, teacher support, and whole-class keyboard instruction to K-12 students as part of their school day.

Forte radically improves online music education with video conferencing features optimized for music lessons and audio quality far superior to existing platforms.

Paul’s Math Notes is a comprehensive database of math notes and practice problems curated by a professor at Lamar University. Covering Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus I, II, III, and Differential Equations, these notes contain great detail and expertise and are an amazing source of reference for any math-related confusions.

Desmos is a powerful online graphing calculator tool that has expanded to offer a variety of other calculators, a middle school math curriculum, classroom activities, and even graphing art competitions. Unlike many physical or other digital graphing calculators, Desmos has an uncluttered and simple user interface and offers its essential services free of charge.

This one is for the little ones! Set in a fantasy game background, this app allows children from grades 1 - 8 to practice their mathematical skills interactively. While maximizing engagement through games, Prodigy also maximizes learning as teachers can supervise and report back on children’s progress.

“For students. By students.” On Brainly, students’ questions are answered by other students, providing leveled and accessible explanations while deepening the understanding of all parties. Furthermore, Brainly serves as a social platform where students can connect via their love for mathematics!

The United Kingdom Mathematics Test is an annual international test designed to stretch students’ problem solving capabilities, not their prior knowledge. Various levels of problem solving questions targeted anywhere from grades 6 to 12 can be found on this website aiming to stretch students and examine their ability to think outside the box.

At Adobe Express you have everything you need to create social media graphics, flyers, logos, posters, advertisements, banners, business cards, and more.

Polyglot Club is a language exchange social network where you can connect with native speakers of your target language to practice different languages online and offline, while you make friends and discover cultures.

Busuu is a global online language learning community of 60 million users worldwide and relies heavily on its users’ efforts to help teach one another. It offers the opportunity to learn while networking with other learners. Beginners can use flashcards to learn new vocabulary, but lessons for advanced learners involve writing and answering questions that native speakers on the site will correct.

Clozemaster is a gamified language learning tool for learning new vocabulary in context. It has more than 100 language pairings available. In this way, the vocabulary you learn via Clozemaster is the most difficult of the most common.

You have now earned an interview for the job of your dreams! Next step? Pramp. Pramp provides ample opportunity to practice interviews in various sectors, technical or not. First, Pramp pairs you with a likewise candidate. Second, you and your peer interview and provide feedback for each other. This process is repeated with multiple people for various perspectives until you are ready to ace your interview!

Glassdoor provides a 360 view of most companies by including not only numerical but anecdotal data. It provides company reviews, interview and employment experiences, job listings and salary reports. Furthermore, it includes commentary on work environment and culture. If you would like to thoroughly research a company, Glassdoor is the concrete first step.

The best feature of CakeResume is how personalized it can be based on your profession, area of expertise and the roles you are interested in. Based on these answers, CakeResume provides the optimal design options which cut down massively from the time the daunting task of resume making takes. While the templates are limited, users can customize them to any extent, making CakeResume one of the best CV-making apps.

LibGen provides free access to a wide range of journal articles, textbooks, and other forms of media that are mostly otherwise behind a paywall. The ability to download free textbooks is especially helpful to students at locations where resource access is lacking. To prevent downloading unwanted viruses, it is best to avoid torrenting; rather, download files directly from the site.

Yale Young Global Scholars is a selective two-week summer program hosted by Yale University. Attracting students from around the world, the program prides itself on inclusivity. Need-based financial aid of up to 100% tuition is available.

Official SAT Practice by Khan Academy was created in collaboration with the College Board and assists students in practicing for the SAT on a scheduled basis. 8 full-length official practice tests are available for open digital access on the website.

Paul Andersen’s videos on Bozeman Science are already widely used by science teachers across a variety of curriculums. Aligned largely to the Advanced Placement system, his videos are incredibly concise and well-produced.

BBC Bitesize provides short-form and digestible science content for all levels. For advanced learners, articles are catered for the GCSE system, but the concepts discussed can be useful for high schoolers around the world.

Mimo’s user-friendly interface caters to the needs of beginner coders with little to no experience. It takes learners through the fundamentals of languages of Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL and uses a gamified system to incentivize daily practice.

While Udacity is a great starting place for coding, it is also a hub for all those who want to upgrade their prior knowledge to the next level. Udacity’s most attractive feature is its variety, hosting lessons on a multitude of languages to develop artificial intelligence. More advanced classes are on the pricier side, however most beginner’s courses are free and accessible!

Project Euler, named after the famous mathematician Euler himself, is a platform of coding challenges of various levels. The challenges are designed to expose the users to new concepts which will be beneficial in solving other problems, and encourage users to combine their knowledge in mathematics and coding in any language. Euler invites people from all ages who want to sharpen their problem solving skills to indulge in their challenge.

Though it markets its paid tutoring and resources, the PrepScholar Blog is a useful source of gratuitous advice on the (US) college admissions process. Frequently posting articles and guides on extracurricular activities, standardized tests, course selection, and many other topics, the blog is an essential source of information for any student looking to apply to a university in the US.

The Odin Project is for anyone who wants to delve into the world of coding in the 21st century. Equipped with instructions on multiple languages and organized to guide beginners, the Odin Project is the best self-taught web development platform in the market. First, get your basics down, and then explore whether it is with Ruby or JavaScript!

Fiveable is a global community of Advanced Placement students which offers virtual study groups and well-curated study guides and content for every single AP exam administered by the College Board. Also providing help for students with many different aspects of the US college admissions process, its services are completely free of charge.

Coursera’s online courses, largely administered by world-renowned universities and companies, cover all fields of study and allow for many flexible aspects in learning. Its courses vary from simple lecture series to full professional degrees. Though many courses require payment, a large number of high-quality classes are offered free of charge and some paid programs allow for free viewing of content (“auditing”), though without graded assignments.

The most popular global video platform, YouTube has long hosted a substantial community of learners and teachers. With nearly all video content is available free of charge, it is a go-to resource for a student’s questions on any topic.

Crash Course is a long-established online course database that extensively covers a wide range of subjects, from astronomy to philosophy to law, history, and science. Their videos are of very high quality, though it is important to note that their content is not specifically aligned with any major high school curriculum.

Edx is a database of courses provided by universities, private companies and even international organizations. From skill-learning such as coding to academic learning such as topology, Edx provides courses for any and all interests. While certification is priced, most courses are available for free.

RemNote is a note-taking application, available on mobile, as a web app, and on desktop, that allows users to create spaced-repetition flashcards within a hierarchic text structure. This functionality takes full advantage of the forgetting curve to optimize memory retention for notes that would otherwise exist in plain text. All of the essentials come with the free version of the app.

The Duolingo platform, which offers both a website and an app for learning languages, is free with 20 language courses available. Drills are used to teach languages, and they include elements of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The software keeps track of which questions the students have trouble with and the faults they consistently commit.