Tune into find out what the internet has to offer in FREE RESOURCES! This fast-paced webinar shares the vast landscape of free, high-quality online resources designed for teachers and students.
The Visual Vocabulary website is perfect for English learners at various levels. With simple definitions and images for a wide range of words, Visual Vocabulary makes it easy for students to associate meanings with pictures, reinforcing comprehension.
NOVA's website both features and supports the acclaimed science television series of the same name. Videos, articles, and interactives are available on topics including Ancient Worlds, Body+Brain, Evolution, Military+Espionage, Nature, Physics+Math, Planet Earth, Space+Flight, and Tech+Engineering.
RhymeZone is an online tool designed to assist writers, poets, and language enthusiasts in finding rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, and related words. The website offers a wide range of features, including advanced rhyme search, near rhymes, descriptive words, and even the ability to match consonants or unscramble anagrams. Page contains ads.
If you are a traveler of the USA, try out this web activity just for funzies. You will color-code each state using the website’s coding system. Just click on each state and select the option that reflects that particular state’s status as it pertains to you. You gain points for different levels, and your total score is calculated at the top of your map.
Lummi offers free stock photos and royalty-free images. These AI creations come with alt text descriptions, and you can search for them by color, orientation, and more. The best part is that you are not required to provide attribution (although it is appreciated).
If you are looking for classroom-safe playlists and use Spotify for your music service, middle school teacher, Josie Bensko (@maniacsinthemid) creates and shares classroom-safe playlists. You just have to check out the Pump Ups, March Madness, and the 90’s Babies Spotify playlists here.
IconsMania This website is a branch of the ever-popular SlidesMania. Just knowing that it’s from Paula at SlidesMania should make you stop reading now and just immediately bookmark it. If you need a little more nudging, IconsMania gives you access to a collection of free, fully editable icons and illustrations.
Dinosaur Database filled with pictures and facts. It was assembled by hundreds of paleontologists over the last twenty years.
Found on the Google Trends website, check out 2024! It is heartwarming, full of hope and inspiration. You might need a tissue!
Songfacts.com is a comprehensive website dedicated to providing interesting facts, stories, and trivia about popular songs and musicians. The site offers a wide range of content for music enthusiasts, including:
Song Meanings
Music Trivia
Artist Information
Song Facts
Themed Song Lists
Teachflix.org provides classroom videos to use in class TODAY -- crowdsourced from educators like you. 🌎 Have some time for a quick virtual field trip? 👀 Looking for a video to add to a lesson? 👂Want to have your class listen to a fun read aloud? Choose content based on what you teach!
Want to liven up your presentations and lectures? Use some eye-catching letters! This website has tons of cool lettering options! suncatcherstudio.com
Use GenType to make an alphabet out of anything. It’s powered by Google’s Imagen 2 model. It creates custom letters and fonts through advanced generative image techniques, allowing users to explore and design unique typographic styles. Perfect for the creative type.
Check out Raphael AI to create stunning AI-generated images in seconds, with unlimited generations and no login required. Above is my example: armadillo taking a nap by some cactus.
Have you chosen your word for 2025? Essentially, THe one word challenge involves choosing a specific word to guide you throughout the year as you make decisions, pursue goals, and try to become the human being you want to be. It’s part compass, part motivator, and part mirror. Check out this blog to help you.
What are attendance questions? Attendance questions are a community building classroom routine where instead of calling students’ names and having them respond “here”, you ask students a daily question to get to know them and their personal interests.
How does the routine work? Once the bell rings, students find their seats and take out their homework and any materials for that day. I announce the daily attendance question. Then, I call out students’ names alphabetically and they respond quickly with their answer.
Ex: If the question was “Ketchup or mustard?”, I would call the name, “Ashley”, and they would respond, “Ketchup”, and so on and so forth.
If students don’t wish to participate for that particular question, they can say “pass” or “I don’t know”. The routine takes about 2-4 minutes total (depending on class size/discussion).
What do you do with their responses? Students respond verbally. I don’t have them write them down or submit them electronically. I don’t officially “do” anything with their responses or even keep track of them. It is just a great way to start each class and I get to hear every single student’s voice before the class period officially begins.
Cajun Potato Soup
Looking for a hearty soup for the cold weather. Try out this recipe found by our own Katie Treat
Homemade Face Masks for six different skin condition including the recipes, benefits, and the how to use.
If you like Logic Grid Puzzles or interested in learning how to tackle them, this might be the website for you! For more puzzles, read Lori's blog posted today!