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Teacher Resources
Teacher Resources
Apple - https://appleteacher.apple.com
Newsela- https://newsela.com/
Commonsense Media - www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks
Participate - www.participate.com/
Khan Academy - www.khanacademy.org/
Open Textbooks -
https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/open-textbooks
Free Online Text CK-12 - https://www.ck12.org/teacher/
EdWeb - home.edweb.net/
Gale - www.gale.com/
Rubistar-rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
EdTech Portal - http://theedtechportal.com/
Turnitin - https://www.turnitin.com
https://ww2.kqed.org/education/
Parlay - https://parlayideas.com/
Hypothes.is - https://web.hypothes.is/
Pebblego
Britannica
Litebox Learning - https://www.openlightbox.com/content/what-we-do
Discovery Education - https://www.discoveryeducation.com/
Technology is changing the world, and it’s changing our schools and classrooms.
It feels impossible to keep up with everything.
You’re looking for meaningful ways use technology and keep students engaged check out the work that Matt Miller and his team have put together at
Cool ToOls
Cool ToOls
Bouncy Balls helps teachers monitor the noise level in the classroom. Just open the website and set it up where students can see it. When the classroom is quiet, the balls stay settled at the bottom of the screen, but when the noise starts to rise, the balls get more active, giving everyone in the room a visual cue about how noisy they’re getting
Class Charts - This platform helps you sort students into different kinds of seating charts based on behavior, reading levels, gender, or whatever parameters you’d like to set for a given activity. You can also record positive and negative behaviors, awarding points for good choices, and generate reports on individual students and whole classes, so you can see what types of behaviors are a problem for you as a teacher.
Classroomscreen - This tool gives you one screen to project various classroom management tools. The app comes with a collection of widgets for this purpose, including a timer, a traffic light (which can mean whatever you and your students decide it means), a drawing tool, a random name selector, a noise monitor, a QR code widget, and a menu of “work symbols” to indicate what level of talking is okay for the kind of work you’re currently doing.
Websites
Websites
Teachervision - From thousands of worksheets and lesson plans to new FutureFit skills and projects, their content adapts to your individual needs as an educator.
SuperKids - SuperKids provides educational resources for parents, teachers, and kids, including impartial reviews of children's software and websites
CrashCourse - The team at Crash Course believes that high-quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free!
Learning Explorer
Learning Explorer
https://www.learningexplorer.com/
Learning Explorer is a unified lesson planning, lesson delivery, and learning object repository (LOR) platform that makes it easy for preK-12 teachers to discover, build, manage, share and deliver engaging, standards-based curriculum and lessons anytime, anywhere. Ideal for helping address challenges such as curriculum equity, instructional continuity, learning recovery and student engagement
Wonderopolis - is an informational site that helps kids ask and answer interesting questions about the world. Every day, a new "Wonder of the Day" question is posted -- each designed to get kids to think, talk, and find learning moments together in everyday life.
The Kennedy Center - For educators looking to infuse the arts into their educational practices, we’ve developed a robust collection of hundreds of digital learning resources: lessons, articles, performance guides, how-tos and much more.
Jumpstart - Free teaching materials like lesson plans and worksheets.
Noodletools is used to create citations, take notes, create an outline, and organize all research for a project or paper. It can be collaborative so students can work together or can be used alone. Students can keep all research in one place. Teachers and librarians can watch and monitor what the students are doing and make comments to any part of the research process within Noodletools. Students do not have to turn in material to the teacher, the teacher can access the student's work. It coordinates well with Word or Google Docs, and students can upload their completed paper in Google Docs to their project.
PowerNotes unifies the processes for reading and evaluating sources, saving content, organizing, outlining, and formatting citations into a single workflow that efficiently transition into writing. With PowerNotes, students can utilize more library resources more effectively while also providing librarians with additional touch points to provide value throughout the educational process.
SlidesMania provides templates for activities, presentations, and organizational tools for teacher and student use. Templates are free, available for both PowerPoint and Google Slides, and customizable.
FabuLingua is an interactive story app that teaches students Spanish as they interact with the text. Vibrant illustrations engage students as they read the story and practice their Spanish skills.
learning games
learning games
Headed by Brad Sheppard, Sheppard Software hosts hundreds of free, online, educational games for kids. The site organizes its games into categories, which allow students and teachers to easily navigate by subject area and find a suitable game that caters to either an instructional need or a child’s sense of curiosity and thirst of knowledge and challenge.
PBS KIDS creates curriculum-based entertainment. The games site hosts a number of browser-based gaming experiences based on popular literary and media franchises such as The Cat in the Hat, Curious George, Sesame Street, and more. Games are organized by subject-type, which includes math, healthy habits, science, reading, and teamwork.
Created by Greg Nussbaum, a Virginia public school teacher, Mr. Nussbaum boasts over 3,500 content pages with a wide variety of learning games organized by content type and grade level. This site is also optimized for use on a tablet and an interactive whiteboard.
The world-famous National Geographic hosts over 100 fun, engaging, and interactive science, action, adventure, geography, quiz, and puzzle games. For a free game hub, the production quality on games or interactives such as Wildest Weather, On the Trail of Captain John Smith, and The Underground Railroad: Journey to Freedom is truly remarkable.
Under the creative direction of Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Poptropica® is a virtual world in which kids explore and play in complete safety. Every month, millions of kids from around the world are entertained and informed by Poptropica's engaging quests, stories, and games.
Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.
The British counterpart of our PBS, the BBC, offers interactive digital games and activities involving subjects such as literacy, numeracy, history, mathematics, music, and the arts. The games are also categorized into age ranges. The cartoon graphics are very appealing for children, but the content is stellar for teachers and parents that want children to play to learn.
With games and activities that meet curriculum needs for math, science, language arts, and social studies, Primary Games houses over 1,000 game titles. The site includes curriculum guides for teachers to use in conjunction with the games.
This game site offers teacher-created and approved educational computer games for elementary students to learn math and language arts on the web. Featured by The New York Times, Apple, and Fox News, ABCYa.com provides young children well-crafted games and activities.
Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. Arcademic games challenge students to improve their scores through repetitive, timed learning drills that provide immediate feedback.
11. Goosechase
Inspired by scavenger hunts, Goosechase is an online platform that helps you create interactive experiences.
https://www.roxxem.com/
Piazza Lets you upload lectures, assignments, and homework; pose and respond to student questions; and poll students about class content. This tool is better suited for older students as it mimics post-secondary class instructional formats.
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