Subject Specific Technology Resources

ABCya - Educational games to support literacy. 

Sight Word Games - Games for phonological awareness, letter recognition, phonics, high-frequency word knowledge, and vocabulary.

EPIC Books - Thousands of free ebooks for students.

Starfall - Early literacy games.

Tumblebooks - Library of online books.  (FMPSD has an account)

ReadWriteThink - Hundreds of reading and writing lessons.

Reading Bear - Phonetic awareness and practice.

Newsela - Leveled news stories for students.

Book Creator - Create your own digital book online.

Science of Reading Decodable Book Generator - Teachers can use this to generate decodable stories for their class with AI. 

Literacy Planet - An online English literacy platform that is curriculum-aligned and covers the five key literacy strands: phonics, sight words, spelling, reading comprehension, and grammar.  

NYT: Picture Prompts - Accessible, image-driven prompts for creative writing projects. 

Literacy Planet - Free or paid resource similar to Reading Eggs.

BeanBeanBean - Vocabulary building game that donates to charity based on the number of times played.

Learn With Google Arts & Culture - Lesson plans to align with arts and culture.

The Learning Network Picture Prompts - Picture prompts from the NY Times

The Math Learning Centre - Online Manipulatives

SplashLearn - K to 5 games to review math skills

Knowledgehook - Math activities that align with the Alberta Curriculum.

Boddle - Interactive math app that can be used on various devices.

Khan Academy. Math lessons and practice online.

IXL Math - Math practice aligned to the Alberta curriculum.

i-Ready Learning Games — Numeracy videos to help with lots of different skills.

99Math - Free math games to master fact fluency.

XtraMath - Math fact fluency

Prodigy - Practice math skills while playing adaptive learning games.

Crash Course - Educational videos

Mathigon - Free tools, courses and manipulatives to make online learning more interactive and engaging.

Would You Rather Math - A great way to engage students in math-based conversations, and how to have students use math to justify their ideas.

Math Talks for Slides - A Google Site filled with ready-to-use slides that can be used for daily math meetings.

Estimation180 - Estimation tasks that make mathematical reasoning accessible and enjoyable to students.

Visual Patterns - Explore patterns with your students and watch their tendencies to see patterns morph into powerful algebraic thinking and reasoning.

Mathigon - Math Manipulative tools, courses, and online learning to help make math more interactive and engaging. 

Steve Wyborney - Awesome math resources for teachers. We highly recommend Splat! and Estimysteries.

Number Talks - Various websites supporting class number talks.

Let's Talk Science - Bring critical thinking and curiosity to life in your K-12 classroom with our library of curriculum-aligned, bilingual, and ready-to-use resources. 

Inside Education - Alberta resource to support teachers and inspire students to better understand the science, technology, and issues related to our environment and natural resources.

Alberta Science Network - Alberta resource that aims to bring science to life for kids through hands-on activities and provide educators with tools and resources to get kids excited about science.

Mystery Science - Lessons and activities that support science.  Free trials are available.

NASA Science - Space Place - Space and earth science resources.

National Geographic Kids - Facts about animals, science, history and geography, along with fun competitions, games and more

cK-12 - Free interactive textbooks.

Bill Nye - Home Demos - Science experiments to do at home or in the classroom.

Crash Course - Educational videos

Smithsonian Science Education Center - Authentic, inquiry-based K-12 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teaching and learning.

Science Buddies - Hands-on Science Resources for Home and School

EarthCubs - Interactive resources, stories, and games for climate, sustainability, and environmental learning for students ages 3 to 11. 

CS in SF - K-8 computer science resources.

Science Friday - Free STEM activities, lessons, and resources for all learners.

NASA Climate Kids - Resources on weather, climate, atmosphere, water, energy, plants and animals.

TIME for Kids - Nurtures today’s learners and tomorrow’s leaders with authentic news and the critical-thinking skills that shape active global citizens.

CBC News Kids -  Real news for real kids. Your trusted daily source for the news, pop culture and sports stories that Canadian kids want to know!

The Canadian Encyclopedia - History, politics, arts, science & more: the Canadian Encyclopedia is your reference on Canada

DOGO News - A kid-friendly news source for current events.

Crash Course - Educational videos

Voices into Action - Explore social justice issues - both past and current.  Geared towards secondary students.

Social Studies Literacy Connections - Organized by grade and unit.

Social Studies Critical Challenges - Specific K-12 critical thinking lessons that engage students in thinking critically about various components of the Alberta Social Studies curriculum.

Historica Canada - Free resources in English and French that you can use to explore, learn, reflect on our history, and consider what it means to be Canadian. 

Meet the Helpers - Help children learn about important community helpers in a calm and fun environment, so when an emergency strikes, children will understand who to look for and how to help.

Canada's History - From the makers of Highlights magazine.

Bank of Canada - Have fun learning about the economy and financial system with these kid-friendly activities and games.

Geography Games - A curated collection of geography games.

Quizlet - Flashcards, but in 8 different learning modes.

Gimkit -Students answer questions on their own device at their own pace. Throughout a Kit, each student will get exposure to the questions multiple times to ensure mastery.

Quizizz - More individually paced quiz game.

Quizalize - Yet another online quiz game.

Kahoot! - Online quiz game.

Blooket - Using various game modes to review materials.

Knowt - Designed to help you study from 1 million flashcards with a helpful AI assistant.

Socrative - Create exit tickets.

Flippety - Create flashcards, Jeopardy-style games and much more, all through Sheets

Plickers -A student response tool that uses an iOS or Android app to read paper response sheets.  No student devices? No Problem.

Ziplet - Digital exit tickets.

Jeopardy Labs - Crate Jeopardy games online

Flipp - Personalized learning using the power of video. Create a group, post a topic and students respond by making short videos. 

Popplet - Kid-friendly min map creator.

Pear Deck - Integrate with Google Slides for interactive presentations.

Flipgrid - Students can express their ideas asynchronously in short video, text, and audio messages.

Piktochart - Infographic templates and/or create your own.

Lucidchart - Mind maps and flowcharts.

Explain Everything - An interactive whiteboard that allows you to record audio, video and add text or annotations then share or embed.  

Edpuzzle -  Crop videos and add quizzes and assessments right into the video. Show only what you want to show and check for understanding on fly. 

PlayPosit - Create and share interactive video lessons. Create questions and pause the video to receive student feedback. Real-time monitoring of student progress is available. 

ANTON - A learning app for schools for Language Arts, Math, Science, Physics, Social Studies, Music, Spanish, French, etc. for students in ECDP through Grade 8. 

Sketch Metademolab - Bring children's drawings to life by animating their characters to move around. 

BeanBeanBean - A fun quiz-style game that for each question you get right, the organization donates beans to charity. Available for math, language arts, social studies, science, and general knowledge. 

Google Arts & Culture - An online platform of high-resolution images and videos of artwork and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations from all over the world.