Discovery Education has a number of benefits you may want to know about.

🌍 It is rostered through Clever, which means that login for elementary students is pretty simple.

🌍 They have large video libraries for every content area. You can play these from the website or download them to your Google Drive so that you always know where they are.

🌍 Content from Discovery Education is easily assigned to Google Classroom.

Find content by:

• subject area

• state standard

• instructional strategy

Just in case you don't know about Hapara, it's a tool for monitoring and/or guiding what sites students visit while they are in your classrooms. If you want more information about this, let's talk:)

Hapara has made some improvements to how you look at your classes and the students in your classes.

Reorder classes listed on your dashboard. Until recently classes were listed based on some crazy algorithm. Now you can drag them into any order you wish.

Sort students based on which ones are online/offline. With this feature you don't have to waste time seeing online and offline students mingled together. Those who are online will be shown first for easy viewing.

Edpuzzle is a web-based interactive video and formative assessment tool that lets users crop existing online videos and add content (like multiple choice or open ended questions) to target specific learning objectives. 

Teachers can search the extensive library (which has direct searches from YouTube, Khan Academy, TED Talks, NatGeo, Crash Course, etc.) or upload their own videos to customize them with voice-overs, audio comments, embedded assessment questions, and additional resources.

 🔥 How to get started tutorial

 🔥 Example video about Veterans Day

The newest improvement to Google Sites is their addition of collapsible text boxes. 

Normal Text Box

Collapsible Text Box

Teachers could use this to find and assign, via Google Classroom or a website, videos so that kids and parents have math instruction when the teacher isn’t around. Their videos cover all areas of math. One can find videos, worksheets, and explanations of all sorts of math concepts (ie, geometry, decimals, fractions, etc.).

⏩ Videos

📝 Worksheets

📈 Tables & Charts

Classtools.net has approximately two dozen interactive or customizable activities for teachers and students. Below I've got links to just a few:

Make a Fakebook profile for a historical figure, book character, math concept, animal, element from the periodic table, biome, etc.

Generate news headlines (see below) to show understanding of an idea or concept in a couple dozen words or less.

Matching attributes game to help students sort and organize based on themes.