Teacher Tools
Lesson Planning Tools
Kidcasts: Black Voices - This playlist features black storytellers, authors, poets and activists, musicians and leaders.
Newsela - Updated daily, Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform that features current, high-interest articles on everything from current events to myths and legends and from literature to science.
Defined Stem - Resources from GWAEA, includes performance tasks, curricular units and standards. Login with your school google account.
ReadWriteThink - Classroom resources - content arranged by topic and by grade level.
Story Nory - Storybooks that have text and can be read aloud.
Eduplace - Houghton Mifflin's website for textbook support materials.
Learner - Professional development and classroom resources for teachers of all grade levels.
CK12 - a library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real world applications
Khan Academy primarily known for science and math, has thousands of free online lessons, games and resources for all subjects
Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge features lessons and material on using art to teach various subjects
National Geographic offers lesson in geography, social studies and science
Open Educational Resources Commons is a curated digital library of free openly-licensed educational resources
Historypin connecting you to your local community history
Educreations - Create and organize your lessons online
Ask Eric - includes documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
National Council for Open Education - provides quick and easy access to over 40,000 educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet site
Tes BlendSpace Blended learning lessons made easy
EDPuzzle Add open ended or multiple choice questions to any video, website will grade multiple choices questions for you.
Nearpod - A platform to create interactive lessons.
LearnZillion - Flexible openly-licensed curricula
Quickdraw - is a fun vocabulary builder that is a lot like the game win, lose, or draw
Freckle - provides adaptive practices for ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Science
Baamboozled - a curated library of educational games played through the bamboozled platform
Listenwise - students can listen and read the text, answer questions, learn key vocabulary words, and explore graphic organizers that go along with the content; recommended grades 4-12
Communication Tools
Kidblog - Limited access, no email required blog.
Primary Pad - It's like having an interactive whiteboard at individual computers - does not require sign in.
Seesaw - Student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication
Padlet- Create a wall for students comments.
Poll Everywhere - Create your own live interactive poll.
Kahoot - a great polling web-based site, one for teachers to create and another for students to join with a code.
Degreed - We help you find and track books, articles, courses, and more. You can add anything to Degreed, and it all goes into your learning profile so you can showcase everything you learn.
ClassDojo - A Classroom learning community
Live Binders - select web pages, upload docs and .pdfs into one single "binder" and share online
Roobrix - Rubric creation website
Flipgrid - Share videos and ask for commentary
Pear Deck - Integrates google slides and provides the ability to add assessment
Class Hub - Classroom management tool, share and lock screens, send messages, view screens
Classroom Screen - all of your favorite times, noise levels, directions, and whiteboard into one location
My Simple Show - create short videos quickly and easily
Class Hook - takes video clips from the student's favorite TV shows and creates teachable moments that are tied back to the content standards
Answer Garden - A creative one word or phrase formative assessment that is presented in a format similar to a Wordle.
Socrative - Create your own formative assessment or quiz and get results in real time.
Fun Tools
Go Noodle! - Free brain breaks!
Philologus - Philologus allows you to create customized interactive versions of popular games suitable for use during lessons.
Bouncy Balls - interactive noise monitor