* Be sure to check licenses on all individual items as they vary.
Clip art
Photos
- Flickr (Do an Advanced search for CC-licensed photos.)
- Wikimedia Commons
- The Open Photo Project
- Image*After
- morgueFile
- Stock.XCHNG
- NASA
- Library of Congress
Maps
Video and animation
- Wikimedia Commons
- YouTube (After searching, select Filters and Creative Commons.)
- WatchKnow
- NASA’s Earth Observatory (lets you build your own custom animations)
- NextVista.org (library of educational videos by and for students and teachers)
- Internet Archive
- Tree of Life (not all content is open licensed)
- PBS Learning Media (Filter for videos licensed for Stream, Download, and Modify permitted use.)
- Khan Academy (non-YouTube version available here or here)
- Karl Fisch’s algebra movies (downloadable versions here)
- K12 Open Ed movies
Music
- ccMixter
- Wikimedia Commons music
- Internet Archive (not all content is open licensed)
- Partners in Rhyme
- MusOpen
Spoken word
- Spoken Wikipedia
- Library of Congress
- Voice of America
- Internet Archive (not all content is open licensed)
Sound Effects
- The Freesound Project
- Partners in Rhyme
- SoundBible.com Free Sound Clips
- US Fish and Wildlife Service (animal sounds)
Search engines for other open licensed content