Teacher Resources
TECH TOOLS TO ENHANCE TEACHING & LEARNING
A Wakelet list of websites to enhance teaching & learning.
The comprehensive reading platform that powers new interactions between students, teachers and text.
Albert is a learning companion built on a simple idea: Students learn best by doing.
AMERICAN ARCHIVE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING
Discover historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America. Watch and listen.
Ancient History Encyclopedia is one of the world’s most-read history publications with over 25 million annual readers & their mission is to engage people with cultural heritage and improve history education worldwide.
It takes just minutes to create a video and bring your lessons to life. Post/embed video elsewhere or download them for in-class presentations!
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Best of History Web Sites contains links to over 1200 quality history-related web sites which are categorized by time period. Links to K-12 lesson plans, teacher guides, activities and more are included.
Buncee is a creation and communication tool that empowers student voice and choice. Create media-rich projects, lessons, and much more. It's the one stop creation shop for student engagement!
CHRONICLING AMERICA - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Create free and fabulous designs, flyers, videos, presentations, etc using Canva!
Log in once and Classlink gives you access to all your apps and files from any device.
Interactive courses that teaches programming
The Dalers Read initiative is designed to support our community of readers in Farmingdale.
DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Discover more than 41,000,000 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students
A resource of educational web tools and mobile apps for teachers and educators.
FINDING DULCINEA "LIBRARIAN OF THE INTERNET"
Finding Dulcinea website complies credible and high quality sites. Users can browse by topics and/or search keywords.
FARMINGDALE SCHOOLS STAFF RESOURCES
A variety of resources provided by the district.
Create play and share fun learning games for any subject, for all ages, for free!
With a library of over 3,800 instructional videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice. Khan Academy's goal is to change education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere!
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, maps, and manuscripts in its collections.
Your 3 ring binders for the web!
Explore our nation's history through our documents, photos and records.
NEW YORK TIMES LEARNING NETWORK
New York Times Learning Network includes educational news, lesson plans, crossword puzzles, and issues in depth which lists topics according to subject. This site is primarily for grades 6-12.
Newsela is an educational website with high-interest news and nonfiction articles at five levels of complexity for grades 2-12 using a proprietary, rapid text-leveling process. By combining relevant and interesting nonfiction content with standards-aligned assessments, Newsela gives educators the primary solution to dramatically improve students’ literacy skills for the 21st century.
Create an on line post it board for free with Padlet!
Prezis make presentations stand out and get remembered!
Millions of Smithsonian digital images, recordings, texts, and videos in history, art and culture, and the sciences.
Make music & podcasts online - A collaborative tool for the modern classroom
Simple tools help you build books in minutes. Let the art inspire and surprise you as you write. Readers will encourage you along the way.
Digital storyboard creator
A free social bookmarking service in the cloud.
Teacher.org is a website for teachers, by teachers.
Teachertube is an online community for sharing educationally focused instructional videos.
TeachingBooks.net an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children`s and young adult books.
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VITAL: Video in Teaching and Learning is a free web-based tool for all NY State educators, students and their parents. Register at http://vital.thirteen.org
Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-learn online app anyone can use to create and print 3D models.
Voicethread is a “powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos.”
Search over 19,000 resources about 193 countries between 8000BCE and 2000.