TEACHER RESOURCES
TEACHER/CLASSROOM TOOLS
Khan Academy is a free, online educational resource for students, teachers, and parents that offers a wide range of academic subjects:
Content
Includes over 10,000 video lessons, practice exercises, quizzes, and tests for subjects such as math, science, history, literature, and computer science
Personalization
Lessons can auto-adapt to each student, and students receive immediate feedback and support
Tools for teachers
Teachers can assign students courses, units, or skills, and track student progress with reports
Accessibility
Available in more than 40 languages, and accessible on the Khan Academy website or app
Support for parents
Tools for parents to track student progress
Pear Deck Slides help you engage every student in every seat and give formative assessments, no matter what grade or subject you teach. Pear Deck supports an interactive and community-focused classroom that helps students build confidence and comprehension.
Free version
Includes polls, quizzes, and limited access to templates. You can use the free version to create simple activities with question types like text, choice, number, website, draw, and draggable. In Google Slides, Get Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-Ons. (Extensions)
SWANK PROVIDES ACCESS TO OVER
40,000 MOVIES & DOCUMENTARIES
FOR EDUCATORS
This streaming service is easy to use. Click on the image to the left, and log in with your Google Account. There are thousands of pre-loaded movies for teachers to legally incorporate into lesson plans or as a reward or fun activity.
How teachers are using Swank:
Course: ELA
Academic Use: I like using "La Luna" and other Pixar shorts to show elements of story telling and how you can share emotions without words. Typically I would use a short with a character, setting, plot, theme, or beginning middle end story map so that the students can see how storytelling progresses.
Course: Elementary
Academic Use: "Zootopia" It will help students identify literary techniques.