𝓐𝓹𝓹𝓼 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓖𝓲𝓯𝓽𝓮𝓭
General Educational Platforms:
General Educational Platforms:
Educandy gives you access to the games your teachers have created on the website via special access codes. Open the app, tap in your code, and play any number of games to practise your learning material.
Grades: 4-8
Apps Supporting Language & Reading:
Apps Supporting Language & Reading:
Epic! is a digital library for kids, where kids can explore their interests and learn with instant, unlimited access to 35,000+ high-quality ebooks, audiobooks, learning videos, and quizzes.
Grades: K-7
Unite for Literacy has developed the platform, publishing tools, and systems-based strategies that support our public and private sector partners to change the literacy landscape of their communities and optimize the future for all their young children. Our projects build home libraries and support families to develop a daily habit of reading, both of which are key factors in growing lifelong readers.
Grades: PreK – 2
Grades: PreK – 2
Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.
Grades: K – 5
Apps Supporting STEM Learning:
Apps Supporting STEM Learning:
Plot functions, create tables, add sliders, animate your graphs, and more.
Grades: 4-12
Build basic math skills in a single player, 2 player challenge mode, or 3 different tournament modes.
Grades K-5
Brilliant creates inspiring, interactive learning experiences for ages 10 through 110.
Grades: All
Apps Supporting History, Geography, & Social Studies:
Apps Supporting History, Geography, & Social Studies:
Your mission is to figure out where you are! GeoGuessr takes you from the most desolate roads in Australia to the busy, bustling streets of New York City. This game is great for building Geographic, Climatic, and Landmark Knowledge!
Grades: 5-12
Tour Creator makes it easy to create immersive, 360 virtual tours right from your computer. Students and teachers can include photos, points of interest, image overlays, boxes with informational text, and “did you know?” points of interest. It can even be used with Google Expeditions.
Grades: All
NatGeo offers a wide assortment of professional learning opportunities for educators engaging with students from pre-K to post-secondary. Our programs and resources range from in-the-field projects to digital resources to online networks to grant opportunities and courses.
Grades: All
Explore.org hosts LIVE streaming videos from all over the world, allowing learners to observe a variety of animals in their natural habitats.
Grades: All
Browse 1,000s of Lesson Plans, Digital Artifacts, Videos, Historical Events, Interactives and Other EDTools.
Grades: All
Apps Supporting Fine Arts:
Apps Supporting Fine Arts:
Brush Ninja is a free and simple application for making animated GIFs.
Grades: All
Apps for Content-Creators:
Apps for Content-Creators:
Both an app and a website, Anchor makes it easy to create high quality podcasts with their free and easy to use creation tools and hosting service.
Features: • A library of sound effects and audio clips• Transitions• Easy sharing• Provides links and embed codes
Grades: All
This app and online mind mapping tool lets you capture, develop and share ideas visually.
Grades: 4-12
Teachers and students can use Deck.Toys to create interactive lessons. A deck is created with paths and activities for learners to follow. Completed Decks integrate into Google Classroom or may be shared to the class via url.
Grades: Teachers create for grades of all ages
Pick any YouTube or self-produced video, add an interactive touch, and push it out to learners. For teachers, Edpuzzle takes advantage of YouTube's full library of educational videos and is a fantastic resource for flipped classroom learning.
Grades: All
Apps for Coding:
Apps for Coding:
Boostrapworld.org consists of curricular modules that integrate computational thinking in algebra, physics and coding. This particular resources facilitates the Hour of Code Program.
Grades: 6-12
Teach computer programming and coding to students with the free CS First curriculum from Google for Education. Students can work independently or in groups. Make sure you have one computer for each student or each student team. Headphones aren’t required, but they help students follow along at their own pace. CS First works best with an internet connection, but you can teach it offline, too.
Grades: 4-9
Hopscotch: Learn to Code Through Creativity is a drag-and-drop programming app for kids to write their own programs plus a community for sharing creations, playing or remixing others' creations, and commenting on and supporting other programmers.
Grades: 5-12
Tinkerblocks is a language-free coding app.
Concepts include: commands, parameters, functions, loops, conditions, types, and how to fix bugs.
Grades: K-5
Thinking Games:
Thinking Games:
World of Goo
Immerse yourself in a curious world of living Goo that you can craft into all sorts of physics-based structures. Discover different species of Goo with different abilities to help you explore and solve complicated puzzles.
There is also a sandbox-style global online competition for who can build the tallest towers of Goo.
Grades: All
Cargo-Bot is a straightforward box-moving puzzle game. As you guide your bot through tons of puzzles, it grows increasingly challenging while also teaching programming concepts.
Grades: All
Players can challenge themselves with the 100+ puzzles in the main game (with the goal of ensuring that each train arrives at its appropriate depot). There's also a puzzle editor, color-blind mode, and lots of ways to solve each puzzle.
Grades: All
Educational Websites
Educational Websites
The Ready to Code Collection provides resources and strategies for coding and computational thinking activities that are grounded in research, aligned with library core values, and support broadening participation.
Grade: K-12
The Lab develops prototypes, projects, and services that help make information meaningful and promote quality journalism, storytelling and content on the internet.
Grades: 9-12
NowComment is fast, powerful, and feature-rich: you can sort comments, skim summaries, create assignments, hide comments, reply privately, and much more
Grades: 5 & Up
Elementari Website
Elementari is a K-12 online platform to read, write, code, share, and remix interactive stories using professional illustrations and sounds
Grades: K-5
The NCMA’s free permanent collection spans more than 5,000 years, from ancient Egypt to the present, and its 164-acre Museum Park showcases the connection between art and nature through site-specific works of environmental art. Search over 100 arts-integrated, standards-based lesson plans using the filters below. Each lesson plan includes assessments, resources, related content, and information about the work of art.
Grades: All
Empatico empowers teachers and students to explore the world through experiences that spark curiosity, kindness, and empathy. Empatico combines live video with activities designed to foster meaningful connections among students ages 6-11.
Grades: K-5
Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.
Grades: All
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an award-winning, non-profit news organization that partners with journalists and newsrooms to support in-depth reporting on critical global issues to educate the public, promote solutions, and improve lives. The video below is a quick introduction to our history and mission.
Grades: Upper Elementary & Up
Wakelet is a robust curation and storytelling tool, offering educators and their students a multitude of possible uses. Bookmark, curate, and share your favorite content from across the web. Articles, videos, blogs, tweets, songs and more – bookmark anything you find online in two clicks.
Storyboard That is a group of artists, teachers, developers, and innovators based in historic Boston, MA who are enthusiastic about bringing digital storytelling to everyone, no matter who or where they are. Whether you're in an office or a classroom, communication and critical thinking is something we believe is paramount to success, and we've created resources to help accomplish that.
Grades: 3-12
Merge Cube
Merge Cube
We recently presented Merge Cube's capabilities to the curriculum team and it was a big hit. I know Voss Farms Elementary is already using them (she told me she was able to find the good foam Merge Cubes for $1 apiece and bought a class set! Wowzers!). If you want to try them out, here is a link to a Printable Merge Cube (it may be a bit heavy on the ink, but it's worth it to try one out). Merge Cube is an Augmented Reality tool that lets you view 3d models and interactives in the palm of your hand (or on your table).
The Merge Cubes work with the following apps:
The Merge Cubes work with the following apps:
Merge Explorer - the main app - includes interactive lessons, quizzes, and support for languages other than English - offers in-app purchases
Merge Object Viewer - basic Merge App with a random assortment of modules to view
Merge Cube Co Spaces - Students program 3d applications and games for use with Merge Cube. You can also generate 3d models before you print them out to see what they'll look like.
Mr. Body - Free anatomy app for kids
MyARAquarium - Free simple aquarium
Galactic Explorer - Free simple 3d solar system model
Dig - Free - Similar to Minecraft, but on a Merge Cube
Other Features:
Other Features:
Math with MERGE Cube (I REALLY like his giant Merge Cube)
Works with the Qlone App
If you get a chance to try out Merge Cube, let me know what you think. Maybe we can use some funds next year or request help from your PTA to get some subscriptions. Even free, there's a lot you can do with the cubes.