Resources for Images and Clip Art for students and teachers
January28
Finding images on the internet for classroom use can be a problem due to reasons such as copyright privileges, inappropriateness, etc.
However, keep in mind that most of the sites listed below do not have built-in filters for images. These image search engines should be used by students well aware of the school’s Acceptable Use Policy.
- Pics4Learning – Very popular site to find free, safe-to-use images for teachers and students.
- Cyclo.ps – Search engine that searches the most popular free image engines around and provides one-stop shopping.
- School Clip Art – Great site for free school clip art.
- Ookaboo – Creative commons (free) site for finding great images for class work.
- Picsearch – Excellent image search engine, if used with a district’s filtering solution.
- Veezzle – Wonderful free stock photo search engine.
- Google Swirl – Innovative way to search for images and see their relationships with each other (use with Google Safe Search enabled).
- Free Photo Bank – Easy way to find creative common images.
- Open Clip Art – Great way to find free clip art.
- Find Icons – Nice site for free icons.
- Wikimedia Commons – Includes free images and media.