Middle School
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Active Textbook — Active Textbook is an interesting service that you can use to turn your PDFs into multimedia documents. The basic idea behind the service is that you can upload PDFs and add pictures, links, and videos that are displayed when students read your PDF through the Active Textbook viewer. While reading your PDF through Active Textbook students can highlight, draw, and add comments to the document.
Addictomatic — Instantly organizes the latest "buzz" on any topic
Animoto — Turn your photos, video clips, and music into stunning video masterpieces to share with everyone. Fast, free, and shockingly easy!
Braingle — Over 20,000 brain teasers, riddles, logic problems, quizzes and mind puzzles
Bubbl.us — Brainstorm and create webs online
Cacoo — Create graphic organizers to help organize your thoughts and ideas
Cacoo — Create online diagrams and graphic organizers
Catchup Math — Perfect for individualized instruction. Our diagnostic/prescriptive lessons cover Grades 6-7 Math, Algebra Readiness, Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1 and 2, Geometry, and Graduation Exam Prep and are teacher-customizable (e.g., for Integrated Math).
Clipgenerator — Use the Clipgenerator to compile online videos quickly, easily and free of charge. Clipgenerator can be used to compile professional slide shows from your own photos, texts and your favourite music
Close Read Strategy — Found throughout the standards is the ability for students to read closely to identify the key details from the text. This 2 minute identifies a strategy to consider.
Cool Tools for Schools — Find the right digital tool for ANY project
Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Video — A brief video explaining DOK and how it relates to the Common Core State Standards
Desmos — Graph functions, plot tables of data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and more – for free!
Dictionary — The world's most comprehensive Dictionary, Thesaurus, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one
Digital Public Library — A link to thousands of primary sources.
Dipity — Create AMAZING timelines!
Docs Teach — Historical documents from the National Archives
East of the Web — Read and submit short stories, interactive stories, and games
Empressr — Create presentations with cool transitions
Encyclopedia — Encyclopedia.com has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.
English Companion — Target Audience ELA Grades 6-12. This site provides a teacher created resources and discussion on a myriad of topics. The motto for the site is Where English Teachers go to help other English Teachers. The site is very well organized and provides rich discussion and resource you can use in your classroom today. You must apply for membership because this site is not only about what you can use, but also what can you contribute to the field. There are different levels of accessibility for a cost, but check it out and see if this site worth your time!
Fact Monster — Online almanac, encyclopedia, dictionary, and homework help
Flash Card Machine — Create, study and share online flash cards
Flash Card Maker — Create flash cards to study online
Free Rice — Improve your vocabulary and for each answer you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
FreeSFX — Download free sound effects for your videos
GeoGebra — Interactive geometry, algebra, statistics, and calculus software
Glogster — Create stunning digital posters
Great Books to Read — Recommended books from Read Aloud America
Illuminations — A library of 108 online activities that help to make math come alive in the classroom or at home
Kids Post — News and current events
Lit2Go — Free MP3 stories and poems
Middle School Math Strategies — What great math teachers do differently.
Pete's Power Point Station — A website with already developed Powerpoint Presentation
Prezi — Create a zooming and moving presentation cooler than Power Point
Reflection & Comprehension Questions — Reflection and Comprehension Questions for Maturing Readers
Scholastic News — News and current events
Spelling Wizard — Create a word scramble or a word search to help memorize your spelling words
Spotlight Method — Excellent exit activity to provide teacher with immediate feedback on the lesson.
Storybird — Write and collaborate online to create your own digital storybook
Study Stack — Create flash cards to study online
Tagxedo — Create word cloud illustrations
Teaching Channel — A video library targeting PD and improving instruction.
The Khan Academy — With a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 240 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
Timeline Creator — Sites allows students to easily create timelines.
Toondoo — Create digital comic strips/books
Unsplash — Unsplash is a Tumblr-hosted site that adds ten new, free, high-resolution images every ten days. A good place to find public domain images.
Visuwords — Online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
Wacky Web Tales — Create funny tales ... just like MadLibs
Wauconda School District 118 Writer's Style Handbook — Improve your writing and address issues such as uniformity in format, the writing process, common writing errors, and use of additional resources are addressed.
Woordle — Create word cloud illustrations
Wordia — A dictionary with videos
Wordle — Create word cloud illustrations
World Wonders — Virtually explore and navigate a neighborhood through panoramic street-level images. With advancements in our camera technologies we can now go off the beaten track to photograph some of the most significant places in the world so that anyone, anywhere can explore them.
Writer's Help Desk — Get help with your grammar and writing
Yummy Math — Target Audience Math Teachers Grades 4-9. This site is well represented with CCSS from elementary and middle school grades, less so with high school. Most CCSS tags with 5-7 in the front offered multiple alternative activities for that same standard. The high school level standards all begin with letters; these activities are far fewer in number and not all CCSS have been addressed yet, but it appears they are expanding. The sample activities I viewed were mostly acceptable, but could use a few minor tweaks to clean them up. I would say this is worth the $15 a year for a teacher to be able to get the excel and word documents, solutions, and tips that allow a teacher to customize these activities. This site is beneficial for a teacher that would use the activities and is not stuck in a text book assignment/worksheet mindset.