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Museum of the Plains Indian - U.S. Department of the Interior
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4 to 12
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Explore the art and material culture of Northern Plains Tribal peoples through the official Museum of the Plains Indian website. Founded in 1941 and located in Browning, Montana, the...more
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Explore the art and material culture of Northern Plains Tribal peoples through the official Museum of the Plains Indian website. Founded in 1941 and located in Browning, Montana, the museum features historic clothing, horse gear, weapons, household implements, baby carriers, toys, and other works associated with peoples including the Blackfeet, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Sioux, Assiniboine, Arapaho, Shoshone, Nez Perce, Flathead, Chippewa, and Cree. The site also links to current and recent exhibitions, including contemporary American Indian art and craft exhibitions that highlight living artists rather than presenting Native cultures only in the past. Additional museum pages provide location, hours, admission information, virtual exhibitions, and collection-related resources.
tag(s): artists (106), montana (34), native americans (168)
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Ask students to compare works or traditions connected with two Northern Plains Tribal peoples and organize similarities and differences using the Venn Diagram Creator by Canva, reviewed here. Assign students to build a short timeline showing changes in Plains Indian art, material culture, or museum interpretation using the Timeline Tool by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here, incorporating both historic collection objects and contemporary exhibitions. Have students write a museum label for a selected object or artwork that includes an accurate description, cultural context, and source attribution, then peer-review labels for respectful language, specificity, and avoidance of generalizations.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Teaching Comics - The Center for Cartoon Studies
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1 to 12
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The Center for Cartoon Studies' Teaching Comics page is a large collection of free resources for using comics, graphic novels, and cartooning in the classroom. Teachers can find short...more
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The Center for Cartoon Studies' Teaching Comics page is a large collection of free resources for using comics, graphic novels, and cartooning in the classroom. Teachers can find short creative exercises, complete lesson plans, study guides, handouts, and resources about visual storytelling, character development, dialogue, sequencing, editing, and literary devices. Many materials are available as printable PDFs, and several list recommended grade levels and Common Core subject connections. The site can support reading, writing, art, media literacy, and social studies lessons by helping students learn how words and images work together to communicate ideas.
tag(s): comics and cartoons (67), literary devices (14), sequencing (22)
In the Classroom
Have students use a simple six-panel template from Comic Strip Templates by Canva, reviewed here to tell a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end. Encourage them to plan how each panel moves the action forward and to use captions, dialogue, and pictures only where they add important information. After reading a chapter or short text, have students create a comic response that shows an important event, a character's change, a conflict, or a theme. Have students add a brief written explanation that describes how their visual choices connect to evidence from the text. They can choose new vocabulary words from a reading, science, or social studies unit and create small comics that show each word in context. Classmates can use the illustrations and dialogue to infer the word's meaning before checking the definition.
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Independence Day Resources for K-12 Homeschoolers - Texas Home Educators
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K to 12
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This ready-to-go collection gathers Independence Day lesson plans, printables, crafts, games, primary-source activities, and historical investigations for homeschool and classroom use....more
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This ready-to-go collection gathers Independence Day lesson plans, printables, crafts, games, primary-source activities, and historical investigations for homeschool and classroom use. Resources are organized into elementary (K-5) and high school (9-12) sections, with each entry listing its grade level, approximate time, cost, and access requirements. Younger learners can explore patriotic symbols through crafts, coloring, puzzles, bingo, and short readings. At the same time, older students can analyze the Declaration of Independence, examine Revolutionary-era perspectives, use an interactive map, and complete discussion or writing activities. Many selections are free, although Education.com, PBS LearningMedia, and Newsela require accounts, and several Teachers Pay Teachers materials cost approximately $4-$10.
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tag(s): american revolution (99), crafts (109), declaration of independence (27), holidays (291), july 4th (20), maps (221), preK (354), primary sources (183)
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Younger students can sketch and label an American symbol, create a paper flag, sequence events from a short read-aloud, or compare how families and communities celebrate the holiday. Have students place key events from 1776 into the Timeline Tool by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here. Students can develop a review game in Wordwall, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Indian Education - Montana Office of Public Instruction
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K to 12
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Explore a central collection of Montana resources supporting Indian Education for All, American Indian student achievement, tribal relations, and Native language and culture. The Montana...more
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Explore a central collection of Montana resources supporting Indian Education for All, American Indian student achievement, tribal relations, and Native language and culture. The Montana Office of Public Instruction explains the state's constitutional commitment to recognizing and preserving the distinct and unique cultural heritage of American Indians. It provides pathways to curriculum materials, professional learning, tribal resources, language preservation initiatives, and student-support information. The linked Indian Education for All collection includes classroom lessons and resources in art, health, language arts, mathematics, music, science, and social studies, organized by grade level and Montana tribal nation. Educators can also find the Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians, implementation guides, tribal history resources, recorded webinars, professional-development opportunities, and links to additional Indigenous education organizations and materials. The page also links to a YouTube video titled We Are One. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the video.
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tag(s): montana (34), native americans (168)
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Students can locate Montana reservations and tribal communities while studying the geographic resources on the site, then build an annotated map with Google My Maps, reviewed here that connects locations with evidence from OPI or tribal sources. Assign students to explore one contemporary topic from the OPI resources, then write a short, evidence-based response that connects present-day issues to historical or governmental context, rather than treating American Indian cultures only as topics of the past.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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BBC Sound Effects - BBC
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3 to 12
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Bring authentic sounds into student projects with the BBC Sound Effects Archive, a searchable collection of more than 30,000 audio clips. Users can locate sound effects, preview them,...more
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Bring authentic sounds into student projects with the BBC Sound Effects Archive, a searchable collection of more than 30,000 audio clips. Users can locate sound effects, preview them, experiment with sounds in the site's mixer, and use them in personal or educational projects. The collection helps add atmosphere, realism, and historical or environmental context to podcasts, digital stories, videos, dramatic readings, presentations, and other multimedia work. The site requires JavaScript for its interactive features.
tag(s): creative writing (122), digital storytelling (178), multimedia (70), presentations (51), sounds (37)
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Have students add sound to projects while using Google Slides, reviewed here. Students can also use the sound effects while creating a podcast using Buzzsprout, reviewed here. Have students add sound to a digital escape room while using Genially, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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FreeShow - Live Church Solutions
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4 to 12
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FreeShow is free, open-source presentation software that helps you create and display dynamic slideshows featuring text, images, and videos on large screens. Originally developed with...more
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FreeShow is free, open-source presentation software that helps you create and display dynamic slideshows featuring text, images, and videos on large screens. Originally developed with churches and live events in mind, it offers powerful editing tools, customizable templates, and features such as timed slide transitions, multi-screen displays, and remote-control capabilities. Teachers could adapt FreeShow for classroom use by creating visually engaging presentations, displaying student work, or organizing multimedia lessons, especially in settings where presentations need to run smoothly or be controlled from different devices.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (361), multimedia (70), presentations (51)
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Use FreeShow to display a dynamic daily agenda with visuals, timers, and rotating slides for announcements, objectives, and reminders to start the day in an organized and engaging way. Have students perform poems or scripts while FreeShow displays lines, images, or background visuals on a large screen, helping build fluency, expression, and confidence. Create a slideshow with questions, clues, or prompts for a whole-class review game. Use timed slides or transitions to keep energy high while reviewing vocabulary,Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Independence Day Resources for K-12 Homeschoolers - Texas Home Educators
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Looking for a one-stop collection of Independence Day learning activities? This Texas Home Educators guide brings together a wide variety of ready-to-use resources for students in grades...more
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Looking for a one-stop collection of Independence Day learning activities? This Texas Home Educators guide brings together a wide variety of ready-to-use resources for students in grades K-12, including lesson plans, crafts, games, printable activities, primary source investigations, and historical explorations. Organized by grade level, each recommendation includes a brief description, grade range, cost information, and practical teaching tips, making it easy for educators to find age-appropriate activities with minimal preparation. While created with homeschool families in mind, the curated collection also offers classroom teachers plenty of engaging ideas for celebrating Independence Day across history, literacy, art, and civics.
tag(s): civics (141), declaration of independence (27), holidays (291), july 4th (20), primary sources (183)
In the Classroom
Create a choice board using several of the featured resources. Students can choose activities such as completing a patriotic craft, exploring a primary source, solving a history puzzle, reading an informational article, or creating a flag-themed art project to demonstrate their learning. Set up classroom stations featuring different Independence Day topics, including the Declaration of Independence, patriotic symbols, the American Revolution, and Fourth of July traditions. Have students rotate through the stations, completing short activities and recording new facts at each stop. Patriotic STEM and Art Challenge. Invite students to reflect on what freedom means to their family. They can interview a family member, write a personal reflection, or create a digital poster with Adobe Express for Education,reviewed here connecting their family's traditions with the values celebrated on Independence Day.
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15 Festive July 4th Crafts & Activities - ABCDee Learning
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K to 2
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ABCDee Learning's "15 Festive July Fourth Crafts & Activities" is a collection of hands-on patriotic projects, printable learning activities, and simple science experiments designed...more
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ABCDee Learning's "15 Festive July Fourth Crafts & Activities" is a collection of hands-on patriotic projects, printable learning activities, and simple science experiments designed for young learners. The site includes step-by-step directions for crafts such as salt-painted fireworks, flag art, popsicle stick stars, and fingerprint keepsakes, along with engaging STEM activities like fireworks in a jar, magic milk, and fizzy science experiments. Many activities also incorporate early literacy and math skills through free printables, color-by-code pages, patterns, tracing, and beginning sounds, making this a useful resource for summer programs, holiday-themed classroom centers, or family learning events.
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tag(s): crafts (109), holidays (291), july 4th (20), preK (354), STEM (389)
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Set up rotating stations featuring the site's printable activities, including color-by-code pages, patterns, beginning sounds, and counting games. Students can practice literacy and math skills while working independently or with partners. After creating a patriotic craft, have students write a short paragraph explaining the meaning of American symbols such as the flag, stars, stripes, or fireworks. Display the finished projects as a classroom bulletin board celebrating Independence Day. Have students create one of the featured fireworks art projects, then participate in a gallery walk. As they view classmates' work, they leave positive feedback and discuss the art techniques, colors, patterns, and shapes used to represent fireworks.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Soar - Teaching Ideas
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K to 5
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Soar from Teaching Ideas pairs an imaginative animated short film with classroom activities for students ages 5-11. The story follows a young inventor who helps a tiny pilot repair...more
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Soar from Teaching Ideas pairs an imaginative animated short film with classroom activities for students ages 5-11. The story follows a young inventor who helps a tiny pilot repair her flying machine, introducing themes of perseverance, creativity, problem-solving, and cooperation. Teachers can use the suggested questions and activities to strengthen prediction, inference, descriptive writing, storytelling, design, and STEM skills across several subject areas.
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tag(s): animation (73), creativity (95), descriptive writing (40), design (76), graphic design (57), images (276), inferencing (9), problem solving (286), STEM (389)
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Students can use Storyboard That, reviewed here to create their own storyboard of the animation. Use Kidrex, reviewed here to learn more about aviation. Students can use Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed hereto create a movie trailer about an invention or inventor.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Chrome Music Lab - Google Labs
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K to 12
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Chrome Music Lab is a free collection of interactive music experiments created by Google that helps students explore rhythm, melody, harmony, sound waves, and music composition through...more
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Chrome Music Lab is a free collection of interactive music experiments created by Google that helps students explore rhythm, melody, harmony, sound waves, and music composition through hands-on play. Using colorful, easy-to-use tools such as Song Maker, Rhythm, Melody Maker, Kandinsky, and Voice Spinner, students can create and share original music directly in a web browser without downloads or logins. The site encourages creativity, collaboration, and experimentation while supporting music education, STEAM learning, coding connections, and creative expression across grade levels and subject areas.
tag(s): coding (111), musical instruments (63), summer (54)
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Have students use Song Maker to compose a short melody that represents the mood or theme of a story, poem, or historical event studied in class. Students can explain how tempo, rhythm, and pitch connect to the topic. Challenge students to design background music or sound effects for a digital story, podcast, reader's theater, or coding project. Students can use Chrome Music Lab creations to enhance multimedia presentations and cross-curricular STEAM activities. Use the Rhythm and Beat experiments during math lessons to reinforce skills in fractions, patterns, sequencing, and counting. Students can create rhythmic patterns that demonstrate equivalent fractions or repeated sequences.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science Fridays - Science Fridays
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Science Fridays offers free STEM activities, lessons, and resources. Lessons can be sorted by Grade Level, Duration, Subject, and STEM practices. Some examples of lessons featured on...more
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Science Fridays offers free STEM activities, lessons, and resources. Lessons can be sorted by Grade Level, Duration, Subject, and STEM practices. Some examples of lessons featured on the site include: Can Skulls Reveal the Secret History of Dog Breeds?, Mission Cosmic Crops: Combat Hunger With Space Technology, AI For Kids: A Chatbox Exploration, and How Do You Search For Life In The Universe? Use Clues From Microbes! Each lesson includes the Grade level, Minutes, Subject, STEM Practices, and Activity Type. Most lessons include either a video or podcast. Lessons are aligned to the Next Generation Standards and are also available in Spanish.
tag(s): animals (281), artificial intelligence (361), brain (59), climate (100), energy (136), ethics (21), insects (64), makerspace (42), space (249), STEM (389), volcanoes (60)
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When learning about ants in How Do Ants Crown A Queen? students can use Turbo Timeline Generator, reviewed here to share the steps that ants take to crown a queen. In Train Your Brain To Manage Stress, students can create an infographic using Infographics Presentation Templates, reviewed here to share ways to manage stress. When learning about using a chatboat in AI For Kids: A Chatbox Exploration, students can use Timeline Infographic Templates by Venngage, reviewed here to compare and contrast chatbot output from the different chatpots used.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Norman Rockwell Imagining Freedom: A Virtual Field Trip - Norman Rockwell Museum
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Imagining Freedom offers an immersive virtual field trip experience that explores the power of imagery in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. This resource guides viewers...more
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Imagining Freedom offers an immersive virtual field trip experience that explores the power of imagery in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. This resource guides viewers through an interactive gallery of historical and contemporary artworks. After signing up for free access, you can explore a 360-degree digital environment featuring over 250 artworks, including original paintings, studies, and behind-the-scenes photographs. It includes eight thematic galleries where you can zoom in on high-resolution images to view fine details or access layers of embedded content, such as audio, video, historical documents, and artist statements. This experience includes ready-to-use, standards-aligned lesson plans that focus on artistic process, social studies, and storytelling. Educators can use activities in each lesson with one or all of the selected works of art.
tag(s): civil rights (232), racism (85), virtual field trips (154)
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Use this virtual tour and the included activities in a social studies or art history lesson on the Civil Rights Movement. Start the activity by having students explore the Imagining Freedom exhibit independently or in pairs, and direct them to select one artwork that resonates with their understanding of justice. After their virtual visit, students can use ClassTools Image Annotator, reviewed here to pinpoint specific symbols or techniques within their chosen piece and explain how those elements contribute to the overall message of freedom. To extend learning, have students research the geographical locations mentioned in the exhibit and create an interactive map using Google My Maps, reviewed here to help students connect historical art to the physical places where history unfolded.
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Krikey AI - Krikey Inc.
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3 to 12
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Krikey AI is a browser-based AI animation and storytelling platform that allows students and teachers to create animated videos, talking avatars, digital stories, and presentations...more
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Krikey AI is a browser-based AI animation and storytelling platform that allows students and teachers to create animated videos, talking avatars, digital stories, and presentations using text prompts, voiceovers, and customizable 3D characters. The platform includes tools for AI animation, text-to-speech, motion capture-style animation, and video editing, making it useful for creative storytelling, presentations, language learning, and multimedia projects. Students can practice skills such as scriptwriting, communication, creativity, storytelling, digital media production, presentation design, and visual literacy while creating engaging animated content without advanced animation experience.
tag(s): animation (73), artificial intelligence (361), digital storytelling (178), presentations (51), social and emotional learning (235), text to speech (25)
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Incorporate SEL and communication activities by asking students to create animated public service announcements about empathy, bullying prevention, digital citizenship, or teamwork. Use the platform for multimedia project-based learning by allowing students to create animated book trailers, persuasive commercials, or classroom presentations that integrate writing, speaking, creativity, and digital media production. Use Krikey AI for world language practice by having students create short animated conversations in another language using text-to-speech and character dialogue tools.Edge Features:
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Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
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Pitch - Pitch Software
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Pitch is a modern, web-based presentation tool designed to help teachers and students quickly and collaboratively create visually engaging slide decks. It combines professionally designed...more
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Pitch is a modern, web-based presentation tool designed to help teachers and students quickly and collaboratively create visually engaging slide decks. It combines professionally designed templates, AI-assisted slide creation, and real-time collaboration features, enabling users to build, edit, and share presentations with ease. Educators can use Pitch to streamline lesson presentations, support student group projects, and encourage creative storytelling. At the same time, its sharing links and analytics tools make it easy to present, provide feedback, and track engagement.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (361), digital storytelling (178), presentations (51), slides (40)
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Have students design a presentation that follows a story's setting, combining maps, images, and descriptions of key locations. They can explain how each setting influences the plot or characters, connecting geography to literature. Ask students to identify a theme in a text and create a presentation using images, brief text, and possibly embedded videos to explain how the theme develops throughout the story, and then create a slide deck analyzing a character from a class novel. Each slide can focus on traits, motivations, key events, and text evidence, helping reinforce characterization skills.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
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Flip Education - Flip Education
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Flip Education offers a free, standards-aligned active-learning curriculum for 19 subjects and all grade levels from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Browse by grade level or search...more
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Flip Education offers a free, standards-aligned active-learning curriculum for 19 subjects and all grade levels from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Browse by grade level or search units and topics to find available content. Choose a topic and an activity to access unit plans that include learning objectives, vocabulary, and active-learning ideas. Free plans also include the ability to create up to 5 free missions, each with additional materials, including a structured lesson with timed phases, teacher instructions, student activity steps, and printable materials.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (361), commoncore (63), Teacher Utilities (234)
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Use the free features available from Flip Education to supplement your current planning resources and provide fresh ideas for classroom instruction, or as a resource when planning for a substitute. Extend the learning activities available by using an AI tool such as Magic School, reviewed here, to differentiate instruction, create rubrics for assessing student projects, or generate original texts to accompany the materials.
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Tinkering Projects - Exploratorium
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3 to 12
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Exploratorium's Tinkering Projects features a rich collection of free, hands-on STEAM activities that encourage students to explore science, engineering, art, and design through creative...more
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Exploratorium's Tinkering Projects features a rich collection of free, hands-on STEAM activities that encourage students to explore science, engineering, art, and design through creative problem-solving. Browse dozens of open-ended projects such as creating balancing sculptures, animating everyday objects, building chain reactions, designing marble machines, experimenting with light and shadow, and bringing stories to life. Each project includes step-by-step instructions, a materials list, facilitation tips, and, when appropriate, downloadable PDF handouts to support classroom or makerspace use. Activities promote inquiry, collaboration, and learning by doing, making them easy to adapt for a variety of grade levels and learning environments.
tag(s): animation (73), creativity (95), images (276), inquiry (42), makerspace (42), STEM (389)
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When participating in the Bring a Book to Life lesson, students can use Scratch, reviewed here to code their animations. Students can use Stop Motion with Google Slides, reviewed here during the Making Faces lesson. Students can post their pictures from the Light Painting lesson on a virtual bulletin board such as Lino, reviewed here.
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Free Explainer Video Maker - Canva
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K to 12
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Canva for Education's, reviewed here, Explainer Video Maker allows students and teachers to create engaging explainer videos using ready-made templates,...more
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Canva for Education's, reviewed here, Explainer Video Maker allows students and teachers to create engaging explainer videos using ready-made templates, drag-and-drop tools, animations, graphics, music, and voiceovers. Teachers can use it to introduce new topics, model thinking, or have students demonstrate understanding through short videos. The platform is beginner-friendly and supports creativity, storytelling, and visual communication, making it a strong fit for project-based learning, presentations, and cross-subject digital storytelling. Students can work individually or collaboratively, and share projects via link or embedded for easy presentation or classroom sharing.
tag(s): animation (73), collaboration (146), digital storytelling (178), presentations (51), Project Based Learning (32)
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Have students create short videos explaining a concept they've learned (such as a math strategy, a scientific process, or a historical event). Ask students to choose a vocabulary word or key concept and create a short animated explanation. Use Canva's Explainer Video Maker to design a short video to raise awareness about a social issue, community topic, or school initiative.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Digital Jigsaw Puzzles - Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
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The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives blog post on puzzles offers a collection of interactive digital jigsaw puzzles created from images in the Smithsonian's open-access collections....more
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The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives blog post on puzzles offers a collection of interactive digital jigsaw puzzles created from images in the Smithsonian's open-access collections. These puzzles allow users to explore historical photographs and artifacts in an engaging, hands-on way while also learning about the stories behind each image. The puzzles are typically customizable in difficulty, making them accessible to a range of learners and playable directly within the blog. This resource provides teachers with a creative way to incorporate primary sources, visual literacy, and historical inquiry into classroom activities while promoting problem-solving and engagement.
tag(s): artists (106), enrichment (21), puzzles (177)
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After completing a puzzle, students use the See-Think-Wonder strategy to record observations, inferences, and questions about the image, helping build critical thinking and visual literacy skills. Have students analyze the completed puzzle image as a primary source by identifying details, context clues, and possible perspectives. Then have them write a short paragraph explaining what the image reveals about a specific time period or topic. Have students write a narrative, diary entry, or short story inspired by the completed puzzle image.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Canva GIF Maker - Canva
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3 to 12
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Canva's GIF Maker offers a step-by-step guide to making a GIF. All you need is an image or video, and then apply transitions, animations, filters, and frames to bring your ...more
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Canva's GIF Maker offers a step-by-step guide to making a GIF. All you need is an image or video, and then apply transitions, animations, filters, and frames to bring your GIF to life. Although creating an account allows you to edit your GIF, you do not need to have a Canva account to create one. Canva's GIF possibilities are endless!
tag(s): animation (73), creativity (95)
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Students can create GIFs regarding historical events and post them to Padlet reviewed here. Have students create a GIF to show a character's emotions. Use GIFs for creative writing projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Scroobly - TensorFlow
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3 to 8
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Scroobly is a creative, browser-based tool that allows students to turn simple drawings into animated characters using their device's camera and artificial intelligence. By tracking...more
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Scroobly is a creative, browser-based tool that allows students to turn simple drawings into animated characters using their device's camera and artificial intelligence. By tracking facial expressions and body movements in real time, the platform brings doodles to life, making it easy for users to create short animations without any coding or design experience. Begin by clicking the start button and allowing Scroobly to access your device's camera. Select an animation option from the toolbar below your image, and select record. Scroobly will record your movements within the animation for up to 15 seconds. Options for saving include exporting as a GIF, a PNG sequence, or a Doodle file. This interactive and highly engaging tool is especially useful for encouraging storytelling, speaking practice, and creative expression, as students can design their own characters and record quick animated clips that respond to their movements.
tag(s): animation (73), artificial intelligence (361), digital storytelling (178), drawing (58)
In the Classroom
Have students create a simple drawn character and use Scroobly to introduce themselves or a fictional character. Assign vocabulary words and have students create characters that act out or explain the meaning of each word. Students can animate a character from a different perspective (for example, the antagonist or a side character) and explain events from that viewpoint, strengthening comprehension and critical thinking.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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