Embedded Files
Below you will find a list of the various software programs that are available to staff and/or students. Almost all of these programs can be accessed through the SPS Clever Portal (http://clever.com/in/sturgis). This list does not include the many free and building or teacher paid programs that are being used in individual classrooms.
Maker Tools
Maker Tools
3D Printer - All Grades
Using TinkerCad, students can create a myriad of designs to show their learning and creativity. These designs can be sent to the 3D printer to bring their creations to life!
ClassVR - All Grades
ClassVR is a versatile platform using the power of Virtual and Augmented Reality for education and training for the classroom.
NOTE - VR is currently defunct for the 23-24 school year. The technology office is currently in process of buying a new Virtual Reality system.
BeeBots - K-5
Bee-Bot is an exciting robot designed specifically for use by young children. This colorful, easy-to-operate, and friendly little robot is a perfect tool for teaching sequencing, estimation, problem-solving, and just having fun!
Bloxels - All Grades
Bloxels is a hands-on platform for kids to build, collaborate, and tell stories through video game creation. Students can use colored blocks to design their characters and settings to tell their own amazing stories! The game board is scanned using the iPad app to make the creation come to life!
Glowforge (Laser Cutter) - All Grades
Enter a design (from TinkerCad, Google Drawings, or Canva) into the Glowforge to have your designs engraved/cut into a material of your choice!
Little Bits (Avengers Kit, Music Kit, Base Inventor) - 2nd-12th
littleBits are easy-to-use electronic building blocks that snap together with magnets to make learning about circuitry and electronics exciting and engaging. Connect them together to create complex circuits in seconds.
Connect to the littleBits iPad app to view tutorials on specific inventions
Makey Makey -- All Grades
Makey Makey is an invention kit designed to connect everyday objects to computer keys. Using a circuit board, alligator clips, and a USB cable, the toy uses closed loop electrical signals to send the computer either a keyboard stroke or mouse click signal.
There are apps for Plug and Play or students can connect to creations on Scratch.
Osmo [Genius Kit] -- K-3rd
Osmo is magic: fun-filled & Award winning learning games that interact with actual hand held pieces & an iPad, bringing a child's game pieces & actions to life
Contains: Osmo base for iPad, Tangram pieces, numbers tiles, words tiles, stackable storage for each game, & 5 game apps: numbers, Tangram, words, Newton, and masterpiece.
Osmo [Little Genius] -- PreK-1st
Award-winning learning games let your child interact with tangible educational toys and an iPad, bringing their actions to life. A hands-on learning adventure awaits your little genius
Little Genius Starter Kit includes fun preschool learning toys that will transform how your child learns. The 4 educational games in the kit will help your child recognize letters and learn phonics (ABCs), develop pre-drawing skills (Squiggle Magic), identify social-emotional cues, and experiment with clothes and colors (Costume Party), and develop problem-solving skills (Stories).
Osmo [Pizza Kit] -- K-5th+
Children interact with actual hand held pieces on an iPad, bringing a child's game pieces & actions to life
TEACHING: Make pizza for customers, collect payment & make change (dollars/coins), & learn the profitability of your business. Additional game concepts include: Addition, Subtraction, Fractions, mental math, design and communication skills (Pizza Co.).
SKILLS LEARNED: Real-world (business) math, money, addition, subtraction, fractions, fast paced mental math, run & grow a business, social interaction, listening, critical thinking, oberservation, creative problem solving & basic business concepts. Osmo sees and reacts to every real-life move. Geared towards children & love of learning.
Keva Planks -- All Grades
With this small wooden planks, students can create a wide variety of creative projects!
Strawbees -- All Grades
Construction set for hands-on exploration with versatile pieces for making building and idea creation. Pieces include "straws" and a variety of connector pieces.
Note: two sets of Strawbees are available which may not be enough for a class set.
Sphero Minis -- All Grades
Using the Sphero app (Chrome or iPad), students can manually control their Sphero or use coding to move their Sphero in specific ways
K-2
K-2
Accelerated Reader - Grades K-5
Accelerated Reader is a computer program that helps teachers and librarians manage and monitor children's independent reading practice. Your child picks a book at his own level and reads it at his own pace. When finished, your child takes a short quiz on the computer.
Amplify (CKLA Digital Resources) -Grades K-5
The Amplify CKLA Hub is a K-5 digital student experience designed to connect students to the high-quality media and apps available within the Amplify CKLA program. Students can access and use these resources independently.
The Intervention Toolkit, a comprehensive resource site, helps teachers identify knowledge gaps, organize and deliver targeted instruction, and monitor individual student progress using materials directly aligned to Amplify CKLA core instruction. The Intervention Toolkit guides you through the intervention process, from assessing and determining need to offering intervention.
Amplify CKLA and ReadWorks have partnered to tailor instruction to meet the specific needs of educators. Together, we have developed high-quality texts and formative assessments to expand and extend students’ knowledge.
The Amplify CKLA Professional Development site offers a wide range of professional resources to meet the unique needs of teachers and instructional leaders across different stages of learning.
The Sound Library features pronunciation guidance for every phoneme. Sound Videos combine modeling, repetition, guided practice, and engaging animation to demonstrate letter formation, pronunciation, and articulation. Sound Songs foster students’ love of language. Incorporate these elements into activities to provide exciting opportunities for students to learn while they listen.
Knowledge Builder videos introduce each domain, activating content knowledge and supporting reading comprehension. Each video has an accompanying guide that includes suggestions for follow-up questions and extension activities.
E-books provide a format that can be used with any classroom technology, such as interactive whiteboards, tablets, laptops, and desktops, while audiobooks provide an accessible audio version of the K-5 Amplify CKLA Student Readers.
BookCreator - Grades K-5
Book Creator allow students to create multimodal digital books! Embedded tools include: drawing, microphone, video, text, speech-to-text, Google Image Search, Canva integration, and more!
BoomLearning - Grades K-5
Boom Cards are digital task cards that are self-grading to allow students instant feedback. They allow students to practice basic skills and gives data to the teacher on their progress.
BrainPop Jr. - Grades K-2
BrainPOP Jr. is a subscription-based educational video, game, and activity site for students in kindergarten through third grade. The main page is divided into math, reading and writing, science, social studies, health, and arts and technology.
BrainPop ELL - All Grades
BrainPOP ELL is a comprehensive English language learning program for students of all ages. It is comprised of short, animated movies as well as games, quizzes, and interactive features. It encompasses the four main language skills: listening, speaking,
reading, and writing.
BreakoutEDU - All Grades
Breakout EDU is an immersive learning games platform. Breakout EDU games consist of a combination of physical and digital puzzle elements that must be solved in a set amount of time. Players of all ages are challenged to open the locked Breakout EDU box using critical thinking, collaboration and creativity.
Canva for Education - All Grades
Canva is a graphic design program that easily allows students to create custom designs or design based on a template.
With Canva for Eduaction, teachers can create Classrooms within Canva to easily view student submitted work.
CK-12 - All Grades
CK-12 is a free website that contains resources for Elementary Math grades 1-5 and science K-5. It also contains Math, Science, and Social Studies resources for grades 6+.
Resources included on the website include a free digital tutor for students, digital textbooks, adaptive practice, simulations, and more!
Discovery Education Streaming - All Grades
The Discovery Education Experience platform engages students in real-world content and multi-modal instruction, supports teachers with intuitive teaching tools, and insures high-quality instruction with cross-curricular strategies.
eSpark - Grades K-5
eSpark personalizes learning for students based on Math and ELA concepts. Students in grades 1-5 start the program by taking a pretest. (Kinder students do not have a pretest). Based on the results of the pretest, students are put into adaptive pathways to learn at their own level and pace. Each activity has a standards-aligned video, a game, and an assessment. Students can complete them in 15 minutes. Teachers can also assign small group skills to assign individual students / group of students a specific skill to focus on.
Currently being piloted at Congress and Wenzel
ESGI - Grades K-1
ESGI is the leading progress monitoring solution for early childhood educators. Teachers guide instruction while saving over 400 hours with one-on-one assessments.
Generation Genius - Grades K-8
Generation Genius is a K-8 teaching resource that brings school science standards to life through fun and educational videos paired with lesson plans, activities, quizzes, reading material and more. Our videos are produced in partnership with the National Science Teaching Association, and aligned to standards in all 50 states.
Gimkit - All Grades
Gimkit is a quiz learning game for students and teachers, created and maintained by students. After signing up, you begin by creating "kits" (live learning games) to create quizzes. Create from scratch, import an existing quiz from Quizlet or a CSV file, or copy quizzes from the Gimkit gallery to modify for your use.
Once you've set up a free Gimkit account, click here to gain access to the premium Gimkit account.
Imagine Learning - Grades K-5
Imagine Learning is an adaptive literacy program for Pre K through sixth grade students. Through playing games and completing short lessons, students improve foundational skills, and teachers and administrators receive reports on student progress.
iReady - Grades K-5 (Math only)
i‑Ready is a comprehensive assessment and instruction program that empowers educators with the resources they need to help all students succeed. ... Enables educators to confidently determine each student's on-grade level proficiency based on state and national standards.
LightSpeed Relay / Classroom Relay - All Grades
Lightspeed Relay (aka Classroom Relay) is a tool for teachers to monitor and manage students' internet usage during school hours. Classes are synced through Google Classroom. Teachers can set up "web access" to block specific websites, lock screens, disable browsing, and send links directly to students.
This tool can be access at https://classroom.relay.school/
MathSeeds - Grades K-1
Mathseeds is a comprehensive online mathematics program for children aged 3-9. It offers a huge range of carefully structured lessons and activities that build mathematical skills over a broad range of number, shape and measurement topics.
MobyMax - Grades K-8
MobyMax is a standards-aligned K–8 learning platform for math, literacy, science, and social studies equipped with adaptive tests, test-prep lessons, interactive whiteboard activities, and motivational tools. MobyMax also features specific state test-prep activities. Unique features include multiple single sign-on (SSO) login options, teachers' ability to assign badges for performance, student goal-setting, student-teacher messaging, and teacher-initiated class contests. The site also has a Wall feature where teachers can post class messages, assignments, events, and polls.
Mystery Science - Grades K-5
Mystery Science provides a large number of ready-made science lessons, on subjects from biology to astronomy to geology. Teachers select the lesson they would like to use and simply hit “play.” Each lesson is organized around a key question (e.g. “What happens when plates move along a fault?”) The lesson starts with a short introductory video, laying out the lesson’s key question. The video is followed by discussion questions for the class. Finally, the lesson ends with a hands-on activity designed to help students find the answer to the key question. Each activity comes with instructions and a list of materials needed.
Pear Deck - All Grades
Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Teachers create presentations using their Google Drive account. Students log into the presentation with unique access codes and interact with questions while teachers monitor student and whole-class progress.
PinkCatStudio - Grades K-5
PinkCatStudio makes interactive games, math and language activities, and classroom management products. There are many tools (such as attendance and group randimizor) and games based on standards that can be assigned to individuals/groups or played as a whole class on the interactive projector.
Click here for more information on PinkCatStudio and learn how to be reimbursed for the tool.
Raz-Kids - Grades K-2 (Congress/Wenzel)
Raz-Kids is an award-winning teaching product that provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. With hundreds of eBooks offered at 29 different levels of reading difficulty, it's easy to put the right content in every student's hands.
Kids access their leveled text through an interactive learning portal designed to keep them motivated and engaged. Every eBook is available in online and mobile formats, and allows students to listen to, read at their own pace, and record themselves reading. Students then take a corresponding eQuiz complete with an extended answer response to test comprehension and determine future instruction needs. Once a child has read ten or more of the leveled eBooks and passed each of the corresponding eQuizzes, they advance on to the next reading level where they have access to lengthier and more difficult text.
Reading A-Z - Grades K-2 (Congress/Wenzel)
Reading A-Z is a website that offers comprehensive implementation resources for differentiated offline reading instruction. There are over a thousand texts spanning 29 reading levels and multiple genres, and touching on a variety of school subjects.
Read Naturally - Grades K-5 (Wenzel/Eastwood)
Read Naturally's research-based reading interventions have helped millions of students become fluent readers and make solid gains in comprehension and vocabulary.
Read&Write - All grades
Read and Write is a text-to-speech program that provides visual and auditory feedback of text. ... Hear web pages and documents read aloud to improve reading comprehension, with choice of natural voices. Understand unfamiliar words with text and picture dictionaries. Develop writing skills with word-prediction.
Reading Eggs - Grades K-2
We created Reading Eggs as a unique online world where children learn to read. It supports each child’s learning by offering individual, one-on-one lessons that allow children to progress at their own rate.
Seesaw - Grades K-3
Seesaw is a simple way for teachers and students to record and share what's happening in the classroom. Seesaw gives students a place to document their learning, be creative and learn how to use technology. Each student gets their own journal and will add things to it, like photos, videos, drawings, or notes.
3-5
3-5
Accelerated Reader - Grades K-5
Accelerated Reader is a computer program that helps teachers and librarians manage and monitor children's independent reading practice. Your child picks a book at his own level and reads it at his own pace. When finished, your child takes a short quiz on the computer.
Amplify (CKLA Digital Resources) - Grades K-5
The Amplify CKLA Hub is a K-5 digital student experience designed to connect students to the high-quality media and apps available within the Amplify CKLA program. Students can access and use these resources independently.
The Intervention Toolkit, a comprehensive resource site, helps teachers identify knowledge gaps, organize and deliver targeted instruction, and monitor individual student progress using materials directly aligned to Amplify CKLA core instruction. The Intervention Toolkit guides you through the intervention process, from assessing and determining need to offering intervention.
Amplify CKLA and ReadWorks have partnered to tailor instruction to meet the specific needs of educators. Together, we have developed high-quality texts and formative assessments to expand and extend students’ knowledge.
The Amplify CKLA Professional Development site offers a wide range of professional resources to meet the unique needs of teachers and instructional leaders across different stages of learning.
The Sound Library features pronunciation guidance for every phoneme. Sound Videos combine modeling, repetition, guided practice, and engaging animation to demonstrate letter formation, pronunciation, and articulation. Sound Songs foster students’ love of language. Incorporate these elements into activities to provide exciting opportunities for students to learn while they listen.
Knowledge Builder videos introduce each domain, activating content knowledge and supporting reading comprehension. Each video has an accompanying guide that includes suggestions for follow-up questions and extension activities.
E-books provide a format that can be used with any classroom technology, such as interactive whiteboards, tablets, laptops, and desktops, while audiobooks provide an accessible audio version of the K-5 Amplify CKLA Student Readers.
BookCreator - Grades K-5
Book Creator allow students to create multimodal digital books! Embedded tools include: drawing, microphone, video, text, speech-to-text, Google Image Search, Canva integration, and more!
BoomLearning - Grades K-5
Boom Cards are digital task cards that are self-grading to allow students instant feedback. They allow students to practice basic skills and gives data to the teacher on their progress.
BrainPop - Grades 3-8
BrainPop is a group of educational websites with over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12 (ages 6 to 17), together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.
BrainPop ELL - All Grades
BrainPOP ELL is a comprehensive English language learning program for students of all ages. It is comprised of short, animated movies as well as games, quizzes, and interactive features. It encompasses the four main language skills: listening, speaking,
reading, and writing.
BreakoutEDU - All Grades
Breakout EDU is an immersive learning games platform. Breakout EDU games consist of a combination of physical and digital puzzle elements that must be solved in a set amount of time. Players of all ages are challenged to open the locked Breakout EDU box using critical thinking, collaboration and creativity.
Canva for Education - All Grades
Canva is a graphic design program that easily allows students to create custom designs or design based on a template.
With Canva for Eduaction, teachers can create Classrooms within Canva to easily view student submitted work.
CK-12 - All Grades
CK-12 is a free website that contains resources for Elementary Math grades 1-5 and science K-5. It also contains Math, Science, and Social Studies resources for grades 6+.
Resources included on the website include a free digital tutor for students, digital textbooks, adaptive practice, simulations, and more!
Discovery Education Streaming - All Grades
The Discovery Education Experience platform engages students in real-world content and multi-modal instruction, supports teachers with intuitive teaching tools, and insures high-quality instruction with cross-curricular strategies.
eSpark - Grades K-5
eSpark personalizes learning for students based on Math and ELA concepts. Students in grades 1-5 start the program by taking a pretest. (Kinder students do not have a pretest). Based on the results of the pretest, students are put into adaptive pathways to learn at their own level and pace. Each activity has a standards-aligned video, a game, and an assessment. Students can complete them in 15 minutes. Teachers can also assign small group skills to assign individual students / group of students a specific skill to focus on.
Currently being piloted at Congress and Wenzel
Generation Genius - Grades K-8
Generation Genius is a K-8 teaching resource that brings school science standards to life through fun and educational videos paired with lesson plans, activities, quizzes, reading material and more. Our videos are produced in partnership with the National Science Teaching Association, and aligned to standards in all 50 states.
Gimkit - All Grades
Gimkit is a quiz learning game for students and teachers, created and maintained by students. After signing up, you begin by creating "kits" (live learning games) to create quizzes. Create from scratch, import an existing quiz from Quizlet or a CSV file, or copy quizzes from the Gimkit gallery to modify for your use.
Once you've set up a free Gimkit account, click here to gain access to the premium Gimkit account.
Imagine Learning - Grades K-5
Imagine Learning is an adaptive literacy program for Pre K through sixth grade students. Through playing games and completing short lessons, students improve foundational skills, and teachers and administrators receive reports on student progress.
iReady - Grades K-5 (Math only)
i‑Ready is a comprehensive assessment and instruction program that empowers educators with the resources they need to help all students succeed. ... Enables educators to confidently determine each student's on-grade level proficiency based on state and national standards.
LightSpeed Relay / Classroom Relay - All Grades
Lightspeed Relay (aka Classroom Relay) is a tool for teachers to monitor and manage students' internet usage during school hours. Classes are synced through Google Classroom. Teachers can set up "web access" to block specific websites, lock screens, disable browsing, and send links directly to students.
This tool can be access at https://classroom.relay.school/
MobyMax - Grades K-8
MobyMax is a standards-aligned K–8 learning platform for math, literacy, science, and social studies equipped with adaptive tests, test-prep lessons, interactive whiteboard activities, and motivational tools. MobyMax also features specific state test-prep activities. Unique features include multiple single sign-on (SSO) login options, teachers' ability to assign badges for performance, student goal-setting, student-teacher messaging, and teacher-initiated class contests. The site also has a Wall feature where teachers can post class messages, assignments, events, and polls.
MyOn - Grades 3-8
Renaissance myON® Reader is a student-centered, personalized literacy environment that gives students access to more than 6,000 enhanced digital books. Titles are dynamically matched to each individual student's interests, grade and Lexile® reading level.
Mystery Science - Grades K-5
Mystery Science provides a large number of ready-made science lessons, on subjects from biology to astronomy to geology. Teachers select the lesson they would like to use and simply hit “play.” Each lesson is organized around a key question (e.g. “What happens when plates move along a fault?”) The lesson starts with a short introductory video, laying out the lesson’s key question. The video is followed by discussion questions for the class. Finally, the lesson ends with a hands-on activity designed to help students find the answer to the key question. Each activity comes with instructions and a list of materials needed.
Pear Deck - All Grades
Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Teachers create presentations using their Google Drive account. Students log into the presentation with unique access codes and interact with questions while teachers monitor student and whole-class progress.
PinkCatStudio - Grades K-5
PinkCatStudio makes interactive games, math and language activities, and classroom management products. There are many tools (such as attendance and group randimizor) and games based on standards that can be assigned to individuals/groups or played as a whole class on the interactive projector.
Click here for more information on PinkCatStudio and learn how to be reimbursed for the tool.
Read Naturally - Grades K-5 (Wenzel/Eastwood)
Read Naturally's research-based reading interventions have helped millions of students become fluent readers and make solid gains in comprehension and vocabulary.
Read&Write - All grades
Read and Write is a text-to-speech program that provides visual and auditory feedback of text. ... Hear web pages and documents read aloud to improve reading comprehension, with choice of natural voices. Understand unfamiliar words with text and picture dictionaries. Develop writing skills with word-prediction.
Seesaw - Grades K-3
Seesaw is a simple way for teachers and students to record and share what's happening in the classroom. Seesaw gives students a place to document their learning, be creative and learn how to use technology. Each student gets their own journal and will add things to it, like photos, videos, drawings, or notes.
6-8
6-8
BrainPop - Grades 3-8
BrainPop is a group of educational websites with over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12 (ages 6 to 17), together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.
BrainPop ELL - All Grades
BrainPOP ELL is a comprehensive English language learning program for students of all ages. It is comprised of short, animated movies as well as games, quizzes, and interactive features. It encompasses the four main language skills: listening, speaking,
reading, and writing.
BreakoutEDU - All Grades
Breakout EDU is an immersive learning games platform. Breakout EDU games consist of a combination of physical and digital puzzle elements that must be solved in a set amount of time. Players of all ages are challenged to open the locked Breakout EDU box using critical thinking, collaboration and creativity.
Canva for Education - All Grades
Canva is a graphic design program that easily allows students to create custom designs or design based on a template.
With Canva for Eduaction, teachers can create Classrooms within Canva to easily view student submitted work.
CK-12 - All Grades
CK-12 is a free website that contains resources primarily for Math, Science, Social Studies. (There are limited resources for other subjects such as English, Health, and Technology).
Resources included on the website include a free digital tutor for students, digital textbooks, adaptive practice, simulations, and more!
Discovery Education Streaming - All Grades
The Discovery Education Experience platform engages students in real-world content and multi-modal instruction, supports teachers with intuitive teaching tools, and insures high-quality instruction with cross-curricular strategies.
Generation Genius - Grades K-8
Generation Genius is a K-8 teaching resource that brings school science standards to life through fun and educational videos paired with lesson plans, activities, quizzes, reading material and more. Our videos are produced in partnership with the National Science Teaching Association, and aligned to standards in all 50 states.
Gimkit - All Grades
Gimkit is a quiz learning game for students and teachers, created and maintained by students. After signing up, you begin by creating "kits" (live learning games) to create quizzes. Create from scratch, import an existing quiz from Quizlet or a CSV file, or copy quizzes from the Gimkit gallery to modify for your use.
Once you've set up a free Gimkit account, click here to gain access to the premium Gimkit account.
Gizmos - Grades 6-8
ExploreLearning Gizmos is the world's largest library of interactive online simulations for math and science education in grades 3-12. Over 500 Gizmos gives everyone something to graph, measure, and compare. Even predict and prove. ... Start using Gizmos in your classroom today!
LightSpeed Relay / Classroom Relay - All Grades
Lightspeed Relay (aka Classroom Relay) is a tool for teachers to monitor and manage students' internet usage during school hours. Classes are synced through Google Classroom. Teachers can set up "web access" to block specific websites, lock screens, disable browsing, and send links directly to students.
This tool can be access at https://classroom.relay.school/
MobyMax - Grades K-8
MobyMax is a standards-aligned K–8 learning platform for math, literacy, science, and social studies equipped with adaptive tests, test-prep lessons, interactive whiteboard activities, and motivational tools. MobyMax also features specific state test-prep activities. Unique features include multiple single sign-on (SSO) login options, teachers' ability to assign badges for performance, student goal-setting, student-teacher messaging, and teacher-initiated class contests. The site also has a Wall feature where teachers can post class messages, assignments, events, and polls.
MyOn - Grades 3-8
Renaissance myON® Reader is a student-centered, personalized literacy environment that gives students access to more than 6,000 enhanced digital books. Titles are dynamically matched to each individual student's interests, grade and Lexile® reading level.
NewsELA - Grades 6-12
Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform that features high-interest articles on everything from current events to myths and legends and from literature to science. Users can choose a free account (which just features news and current events) or paid subscriptions that include daily news story updates and subject-specific products for ELA, social studies, science, and SEL. Content is updated daily, with stories from a wide range of sources (from the Associated Press to Scientific American to the Washington Post) in English and also often in Spanish. Topics run the gamut from pop culture to roller derby and Minecraft, and they touch on subjects that encourage cross-curricular reading, such as DNA testing, global women's rights, living conditions in Syria, and travel to Mars. All articles are available in five Lexile levels, ranging (roughly) from third to 12th grade. Each leveled text features a quiz tailored to that particular article plus a writing prompt that asks students to write and respond to what they've read.
Pear Deck - All Grades
Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Teachers create presentations using their Google Drive account. Students log into the presentation with unique access codes and interact with questions while teachers monitor student and whole-class progress.
Read&Write - All grades
Read and Write is a text-to-speech program that provides visual and auditory feedback of text. ... Hear web pages and documents read aloud to improve reading comprehension, with choice of natural voices. Understand unfamiliar words with text and picture dictionaries. Develop writing skills with word-prediction.
WeVideo - select classes
WeVideo is a cloud-based editing platform that allows users of all skill levels the opportunity to create professional-style videos, podcasts and more.
9-12
9-12
BrainPop ELL - All Grades
BrainPOP ELL is a comprehensive English language learning program for students of all ages. It is comprised of short, animated movies as well as games, quizzes, and interactive features. It encompasses the four main language skills: listening, speaking,
reading, and writing.
BreakoutEDU - All Grades
Breakout EDU is an immersive learning games platform. Breakout EDU games consist of a combination of physical and digital puzzle elements that must be solved in a set amount of time. Players of all ages are challenged to open the locked Breakout EDU box using critical thinking, collaboration and creativity.
Log-in information
email: amilton@sturgisps.org
password: T3@cher!
Canva for Education - All Grades
Canva is a graphic design program that easily allows students to create custom designs or design based on a template.
With Canva for Eduaction, teachers can create Classrooms within Canva to easily view student submitted work.
CK-12 - All Grades
CK-12 is a free website that contains resources primarily for Math, Science, Social Studies. (There are limited resources for other subjects such as English, Health, and Technology).
Resources included on the website include a free digital tutor for students, digital textbooks, adaptive practice, simulations, and more!
Discovery Education Streaming - All Grades
The Discovery Education Experience platform engages students in real-world content and multi-modal instruction, supports teachers with intuitive teaching tools, and insures high-quality instruction with cross-curricular strategies.
Gimkit - All Grades
Gimkit is a quiz learning game for students and teachers, created and maintained by students. After signing up, you begin by creating "kits" (live learning games) to create quizzes. Create from scratch, import an existing quiz from Quizlet or a CSV file, or copy quizzes from the Gimkit gallery to modify for your use.
Once you've set up a free Gimkit account, click here to gain access to the premium Gimkit account.
LightSpeed Relay / Classroom Relay - All Grades
Lightspeed Relay (aka Classroom Relay) is a tool for teachers to monitor and manage students' internet usage during school hours. Classes are synced through Google Classroom. Teachers can set up "web access" to block specific websites, lock screens, disable browsing, and send links directly to students.
This tool can be access at https://classroom.relay.school/
NewsELA - Grades 6-12
Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform that features high-interest articles on everything from current events to myths and legends and from literature to science. Users can choose a free account (which just features news and current events) or paid subscriptions that include daily news story updates and subject-specific products for ELA, social studies, science, and SEL. Content is updated daily, with stories from a wide range of sources (from the Associated Press to Scientific American to the Washington Post) in English and also often in Spanish. Topics run the gamut from pop culture to roller derby and Minecraft, and they touch on subjects that encourage cross-curricular reading, such as DNA testing, global women's rights, living conditions in Syria, and travel to Mars. All articles are available in five Lexile levels, ranging (roughly) from third to 12th grade. Each leveled text features a quiz tailored to that particular article plus a writing prompt that asks students to write and respond to what they've read.
Pear Deck - All Grades
Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Teachers create presentations using their Google Drive account. Students log into the presentation with unique access codes and interact with questions while teachers monitor student and whole-class progress.
Performance Matters - Currently HS Only
In this assessment platform, teachers can analyze student performance data to inform future classroom instruction or personalize learning for students.
At the HS level, all summative assessments will be given through Performance Matters.
Read&Write - All grades
Read and Write is a text-to-speech program that provides visual and auditory feedback of text. ... Hear web pages and documents read aloud to improve reading comprehension, with choice of natural voices. Understand unfamiliar words with text and picture dictionaries. Develop writing skills with word-prediction.
Schoology - Currently HS Only
Schoology is a Learning Management System (LMS) that connects to Performance Matters and Schoology. At the HS level, this tool will be replacing Google Classroom in the 2023-24 school year.
WeVideo - select classes
WeVideo is a cloud-based editing platform that allows users of all skill levels the opportunity to create professional-style videos, podcasts and more.
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