Adobe Education Exchange Curations

FREE lessons, projects, activities, and courses

The list below includes some of the most popular curations created by the Adobe for Education team. The curations are generally organized by academic subject or discipline, grade level, project type, or partner. If you have questions about these curations or are interested in creating a Adobe Education Exchange curation for a particular event or institution, reach out to Max Suechting, Adobe Senior Education Curriculum Producer.

Math | Science | Social Science, Social Studies, & History | Humanities | Art and Art History | Curriculum and Course Planning | Digital Media and Media Literacy | Khan Academy | Elementary-focused (K-5) | Middle-school-focused (6-8) | High-School-Focused (9-12)

 

Math Curations

Adobe and Khan Academy Math
This curation supports K-12 math educators with lesson plans and projects for growth mindset, geometry, algebra, precalculus, arithmetic, and word problems using Spark, XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Premiere Rush.

High School Math Classes
This curation supports high school math teachers with lesson plans and projects for conceptual math understanding, visualization, and writing using Illustrator, Spark, Photoshop, XD, and Premiere Rush.

Math Curations For All Ages
These curations support elementary and middle school teachers with lesson plans and projects for visualizing math concepts, demonstrating conceptual understanding, and math writing activities using Spark, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Rush, and XD. The materials in these curations are very similar.

 

Science Curations

Adobe and Khan Academy Science
This curation supports K-12 science educators with lesson plans and projects for topics including ecology, chemistry, sustainability, genetics, human biology, science history, climate change, the scientific method, and physics using Illustrator, Spark, XD, Premiere Rush, and Photoshop.

Science Projects
This curation supports science educators at all age levels and contains lesson plans and projects broken into 4 age-level shelves (elementary, middle school, high school, HED) using products like Spark, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Premiere Rush.

Science Exercises
This curation supports science educators across all grade levels and is broken into five shelves with resources for designing infographics, creating web pages, producing videos, science with Adobe & Khan Academy, and science worksheets. These lesson plans and projects make use of Spark, CC, and Premiere Rush.

Grade-level Science Curations
The grade-level curations below support teachers responsible for science content and feature lesson plans and projects for geology, ecology, astronomy, sustainability, and environmental awareness with Spark, Premiere Rush, Photoshop, XD, Illustrator, and Acrobat. There is some overlap in the materials included in these collections, and some resources included in the elementary (3rd, 4th, & 5th grade) collections may require simple adaptations for classroom use.

 

Social Science, Social Studies, & History Curations

Teaching Civics
This curation supports K-12 social studies & humanities educators resources for civics, online citizenship, sustainability, rhetoric, and current events using Spark and Premiere Rush.

Teaching History
This curation supports K-12 social studies & humanities educators with lesson plans and projects for history, historical thinking, and online literacy using Spark and Portfolio.

Teaching Social Studies
This curation supports K-12 social studies & humanities educators and features lesson plans and projects for civics, online literacy, and primary source analysis using products like Spark, Photoshop, Rush, and Portfolio.

Grade-level Social studies and History Curations
These grade-level social studies and history curations support K-12 teachers and feature lesson plans and projects for topics including history, civics, media literacy, and research skills using Spark, Premiere Rush, Photoshop, Acrobat, XD, and InDesign. The materials in these curations are somewhat similar.

 

Humanities Curations

Khan Humanities
This curation supports K-12 educators teaching either humanities or the social sciences with resources for government, growth mindset, history, storytelling, social studies, and social justice using Spark, Photoshop, and Premiere Rush.

Humanities Classes
This curation supports secondary, middle (6-8), and high school (9-12) humanities and social science educators and features lesson plans and projects for literature, language, music, writing, and storytelling using Spark, Premiere Rush, Portfolio, Photoshop, and InDesign.

Shakespeare
This curation supports primary (K-5) and secondary (6-12) educators with lesson plans and projects for teaching Shakespeare and digital media using products like Spark, Photoshop, Premiere Rush, Audition, and Character Animator.

Writing-focused Curations for All Ages
The curations below include resources for K-12 and HED educators teaching creative writing, nonfiction writing, script writing, literary studies, and fundamental writing skills with Spark, InDesign, Rush, and Photoshop. There is some overlap in the materials included in these collections.

Grade-level Writing Curations
The six grade-level curations below support primary and secondary (K-8) educators and feature resources for creative writing, growth mindset development, grammar and vocabulary, and persuasive writing using Spark, Acrobat, Premiere Rush, Character Animator, and Photoshop. The materials in these curations are somewhat similar.

Reading-focused Curations
The four curations listed below were created to support K-12 educators teaching reading fluency, reading comprehension, and grammar fundamentals using Spark, Acrobat, Rush, and more. There is some overlap in the materials included in these collections.

 

Art and Art History Curations

These three curations support secondary (6-12) and higher education instructors with shelves for for visual art, digital art, photography, creative design, and film-making, using Premiere Rush, Spark, Photoshop, and Acrobat. The materials in these three curations are very similar.

 

Curriculum and Course Planning Curations

Rubric Planning Resources
This curation brings together resources for primary and secondary (K-12) educators with resources that include examples of high-quality rubrics for self-evaluation, grading, and peer feedback.

Student Portfolios
This curation includes materials for educators across grade levels with resources well-suited for creating various kinds of portfolios (including career, art, writing, research, and public-facing web portfolios) using Spark, Portfolio, and XD.

Curriculum Planning Resources
This curation collects resources for educators at all levels including lesson plans and projects for current events, social justice, women’s history, digital media, infographics, materials creation, digital publishing, and media and online literacy with Spark, Illustrator, XD, and Premiere Rush.

Teach Creativity with Adobe and Khan Academy
This curation includes lesson plans and projects for primary and secondary (K-12) educators teaching science, math, humanities and social science, and storytelling using Spark, Illustrator, Premiere Rush, and Photoshop.

Social Justice
This curation supports educators across all grade levels (K-12 and HED) with resources for teaching social justice in the humanities and social sciences using Spark, XD, Illustrator, and Premiere Rush.

Creative Campus
This curation supports HED educators at institutions participating in Adobe’s Creative Campus program with resources for humanities, social science, STEM, digital media, art, and design using Photoshop, XD, Spark, Premiere Rush, Acrobat, and Portfolio.

Creative Teaching Curations
These creativity-focused curations focus on cultivating creative thinking, problem-solving, storytelling, and expression using products like Spark, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Rush. The materials in these curations are very similar.

 

Digital Media and Media Literacy

Adobe and Khan Academy Storytelling & Cross-Curricula Activities
This curation supports K-12 educators interested in incorporating storytelling into their curriculum with lesson plans and projects for storytelling, digital media, UX / UI design, growth mindset, and career preparation using products like Spark, Premiere Rush, Photoshop, and Adobe XD.

Digital Media Curations
The three digital media and media literacy curations below support educators across all age levels with resources for teaching UI/UX design, graphic design, video production, civic responsibility and online literacy, and media analysis using XD, Photoshop, Premiere Rush and Pro, and Spark. There is some overlap in the materials included in these curations.

 

Distance Learning Curations
Distance learning hub
This collection supports educators across all age levels with resources suited for distance learning, including lesson plans and projects with simple adaptations for remote, hybrid, in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous learning. It includes sections with resources for K-12 teachers, higher education, teaching social justice, Adobe + Khan Academy, and paperless teaching, using Spark, Premiere Rush, Illustrator, XD, and Photoshop.

Higher education distance learning resources
This curation focuses specifically on supporting higher education educators with resources well suited for distance learning, including with adaptations for remote, hybrid, in-person, synchronous, or asynchronous learning.

K-12 distance learning resources
This curation focuses specifically on supporting K-12 educators with resources well suited for distance learning, including with adaptations for remote, hybrid, in-person, synchronous, or asynchronous learning. It includes sections for humanities, social science, math, digital media, and social justice lessons, using Spark, XD, Premiere Rush, and Illustrator.

Go paperless with your teaching
This curation supports educators who want to transform worksheets, papers, printed assignments, digital reading, and accessible reading and PDFs using products like Acrobat and Acrobat Pro.

 

Khan Academy Curations

Adobe and Khan Academy Full Curriculum
This curation supports K-12 educators with lesson plans and projects for science, math, humanities and social science, and storytelling using Spark, Illustrator, Premiere Rush, and Photoshop. Other Khan + Adobe curations are accessible via each of the subject area shelves.

Adobe and Khan Academy Math
This curation supports K-12 math educators with lesson plans and projects for geometry, algebra, precalculus, arithmetic, growth mindset, and word problems using Spark, XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Premiere Rush.

Adobe and Khan Academy Humanities
This curation supports K-12 humanities & social science educators with lesson plans and projects for government, growth mindset, history, storytelling, social studies, and social justice using Spark, Photoshop, and Premiere Rush.

Adobe and Khan Academy Science
This curation supports K-12 science educators with lesson plans and projects for ecology, chemistry, sustainability, genetics, human biology, science history, climate change, the scientific method, and physics using Illustrator, Spark, XD, Premiere Rush, and Photoshop.

Adobe and Khan Academy Storytelling & Cross-Curricular Activities
This curation supports K-12 educators interested in incorporating storytelling into their curriculum with lesson plans and projects for storytelling, digital media, UX / UI design, growth mindset, and career preparation using Spark, Premiere Rush, Photoshop, and Adobe XD.

 

Elementary-focused (K-5) Curations

The grade-level curations below support primary educators and feature resources for creative writing, growth mindset development, grammar and vocabulary, and persuasive writing using Spark, Acrobat, Premiere Rush, Character Animator, and Photoshop. The materials in these curations are somewhat similar.

The grade-level curations below support teachers responsible for science content and feature lesson plans and projects for geology, ecology, astronomy, sustainability, and environmental awareness with Spark, Premiere Rush, Photoshop, XD, Illustrator, and Acrobat. There is some overlap in the materials included in these collections, and some resources included may require simple adaptations for classroom use.

These grade-level social studies and history curations support K-12 teachers and feature lesson plans and projects for topics including history, civics, media literacy, and research skills using Spark, Premiere Rush, Photoshop, Acrobat, XD, and InDesign. The materials in these curations are somewhat similar.

 

Early Secondary / Middle-school-focused (6-8) Curations

The grade-level ELA curations below support primary educators and feature resources for creative writing, growth mindset development, grammar and vocabulary, and persuasive writing using Spark, Acrobat, Premiere Rush, Character Animator, and Photoshop. The materials in these curations are somewhat similar.

The grade-level science curations below support teachers responsible for science content and feature lesson plans and projects for geology, ecology, astronomy, sustainability, and environmental awareness with Spark, Premiere Rush, Photoshop, XD, Illustrator, and Acrobat. There is some overlap in the materials included in these collections, and some resources may require simple adaptations for classroom use.

These grade-level social studies and history curations support K-12 teachers and feature lesson plans and projects for topics including history, civics, media literacy, and research skills using Spark, Premiere Rush, Photoshop, Acrobat, XD, and InDesign. The materials in these curations are somewhat similar.

 

Late Secondary / High-School-Focused (9-12) Curations
High School Math Classes
This curation supports high school math teachers with lesson plans and projects for conceptual math understanding, visualization, and writing using Illustrator, Spark, Photoshop, XD, and Premiere Rush.
High School Science Classes
This curation supports teachers responsible for science content and features lesson plans and projects for geology, ecology, astronomy, sustainability, and environmental awareness with Spark, Premiere Rush, Photoshop, XD, Illustrator, and Acrobat. There is some overlap in the materials included in these collections, and some resources included in the elementary (3rd, 4th, & 5th grade) collections may require simple adaptations for classroom use.