Helpful Resources

- http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com for companies with special offerings of digital resources for teachers

- Link for another list of educational tech

- Link similar to above

- Link for a list of educational tools gathered by UMass Education Dept.

- Link to a Google Sheet with lots of resources

- Link to another spreadsheet with lots of resources listed

- Link to FREE Microsoft Office Products for educators.

Collaborating: Any Google Suite app (docs, sheets, slides, etc.) and Padlet are great for collaboration. Multiple students can get on at once and edit/add/delete anything.

Any Assignment: Chrome add-ons InsertLearning. It's completely free. It turns any webpage into an assignment. Another Chrome add-on (it's actually an add-on to Google Slides) is PearDeck. You can make interactive slides in your Google Slides presentation and collect student answers. They automatically go into a Google Drive that you can view when they are done with the presentation.

Direct Instruction: If you need to teach a topic, Explain EDU is a really great whiteboard app that lets you record yourself talking/writing/etc. Screencastify which is a Chrome add-on. It lets you audio record yourself over an existing Google Slides presentation.

Simulations: PhET PhET is completely free and there is a lot of user content that is available for free (worksheets, quizzes, powerpoints, etc.).iCivics that has a bunch of games that deal with governmental issues.

Literacy: SLO 1!!- Wonderopolis, Tween Tribune, and NewsELA are all really great for finding articles to introduce content to students. Wonderopolis is for the younger students, but is great for ELL students. NewsELA has articles in which the lexile level can be changed they even have some articles in Spanish. Readworks can be organized by lexile level and skill and focuses on both fiction and non-fiction. Commonlit is similar to Readworks except it focuses more on fiction. ReadTheory is free to use and it seems to be a great resource for ELL students.

Review: Quizlet and Quizizz are both great for reviewing content before an exam or to reinforce content. DotStorming can be good for this too.

Creating Content: Educreations, ThingLink, Curator, SparkPage, FlowVella, StoryBird, and VoiceThread are all great for creating content both for you and your students. These would all be great media for a product you are having your students make for a project.

Borrowing Content: Kahn Academy, CK-12, and EdPuzzle are all great for when you need to teach content. GPB has their content split into "chapters" and they have a lot of resources available for each one. IXL is similar to CK-12, but broken up into more sections. National Geographic has a classroom resources site that is full of really great materials that make learning relevant (articles, encyclopedia entries, maps, simulations, activities, etc.). They also have a mapmaker program that is easy to use. Smithsonian Learning Lab has a lot of great resources available for free. Oxford University Press is offering free resources as well

Classroom Management: Help includes ClassDojo, ClassTime, NearPod they actually have a useful webpage page listing how they can help with schools that are shutting down, and Google Classroom. If you need to put out directions for certain assignments, iorad is good for that. Peergrade helps get feedback to students and serves a similar function to an LMS. It appears to link with Google Classroom and https://clever.com/