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KidLit TV - Julie Gribble
Grades
1 to 6tag(s): authors (114), book lists (161), literacy (124), podcasts (165)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the many features of this site to educate parents on literacy and motivate students to enjoy reading. Share podcasts and book trailers on your class website to recommend books your students may enjoy. Use the podcasts as an example, then have cooperative learning groups create podcasts as book talks for books they enjoy. Use a site such as podOmatic, reviewed here, for student podcasts.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Project Zero's Thinking Routines Toolbox - Project Zero Harvard Graduate School of Education
Grades
K to 12tag(s): critical thinking (180), professional development (319), thinking routines (36), thinking skills (116)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site and frequently visit as you prepare lesson plans to enhance student learning and understanding of content. This site provides excellent information for professional development, either personally or with peers. Consider exploring one topic monthly throughout the school year to explore and integrate it into classroom routines.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Woo! Kids Activities - woojr.com
Grades
K to 6This site includes advertising.
tag(s): holidays (280), Juneteenth (32), poetry (195), preK (322), substitutes (25), worksheets (71)
In the Classroom
Use Woo! as a starting point for lesson ideas and activities, then go beyond worksheets to challenge your students. Ask your students to create their own templates and review materials using Google Documents. Incorporate game-play into your lessons using Bamboozle, reviewed here. Baamboozle is a quick and easy game creation tool that creates multiple types of games for two teams. Incorporate questions into videos using playposit, reviewed here. Students and teachers can comment and add responses directly into this video resource.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Great Expectations - National Braille Press
Grades
K to 5tag(s): adaptations (19), preK (322), reading comprehension (146), stories and storytelling (76)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free lesson plans when reading stories to your class. These books and activities are not only good to use with visually impaired students; any student will love the different activities. These activities will help ENL/ESL students understand some of the language employed in the books. In your regular or inclusive classroom, you may want to consider making centers for a featured book using some of the activities listed here. Challenge older students to use the ideas developed for these books with their favorite childhood book for a younger sibling or "buddy."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cloud Stop Motion - ZuLogic Ltd
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (166), movies (52)
In the Classroom
Incorporate Cloud Stop Motion in your classroom tech arsenal to engage students in creative storytelling within any content area. When creating a video, it is always important to create a storyboard to organize and plan the entire episode. Find a variety of storyboard options at ReadWriteThink, reviewed here. Ask students to reenact a scene from a play, illustrate a math strategy, or demonstrate how molecular concepts and interactions work. Find many more examples and instructions on creating stop motion animations from the New York Film Academy, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Nonfiction Text Features: Books and Lesson Ideas - Minds in Bloom
Grades
K to 6This site includes advertising.
tag(s): reading comprehension (146), reading strategies (93)
In the Classroom
Use this blog post as a starting point for ideas to use when teaching with nonfiction text. Create a book list using Padlet, reviewed here sharing ideas for nonfiction books with your students. Organize them into categories using the "stream" option. Ask students to share their comments and short book reviews as a way to share reading materials with classmates. Enhance learning further using nonfiction materials and lesson ideas found at ReadWriteThink, reviewed here. Type in "nonfiction" using the keyword search at ReadWriteThink to find printable materials such as a nonfiction pyramid, a lesson plan using guided inquiry to learn about nonfiction, and use of the THIEVES strategy as a guide to previewing nonfiction reading materials. Extend learning further by asking students to incorporate nonfiction text features within their writing. Share student work using Edublogs, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Civil War Read-Alouds - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 6In the Classroom
These read-alouds are perfect during February celebrations of Presidents Day and Black History Month but could be used any time. If your social studies curriculum includes the CIvil War or you simply want to connect the interrelated topics of Lincoln, slavery, and the Civil War, this is a great place to start.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Review Game Zone - reviewgamezone.com
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): atmosphere (25), drugs and alcohol (29), financial literacy (90), game based learning (305), grammar (139), human body (98), literature (214), medicine (52), painting (49), photography (136), poetry (195), space (248), spanish (112), spelling (93), weather (175)
In the Classroom
Share a link to review games on your class website for student practice at home. Include a link to games on classroom computers for use as a center. Create your own games to personalize review materials for students. Due to a large number of advertisements on the site, you may want to share this site on your interactive whiteboard with younger students before assigning for independent use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Presentation Tube - Dr. Alaa Sadik
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Be sure that your teaching style fits the use of Presentation Tube before using in the classroom. Easily create presentations for students to access. Be sure to play with the software before using to create your first real product. Provide links to presentations on your wiki, blog, site, or other courseware site. Time is always short in the classroom, and sometimes it's hard to make time for oral presentations. Have the students use Presentation Tube to report out their research, and you and their peers can watch it and grade it any time. Or, have students post their Presentation Tube to your web page or TeacherTube and they can view, and peer evaluate the projects. You may want to create your own rubric with student input for this. See a selection of rubric makers "http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/rubrics/create-rubrics.cfm " here on TeachersFirst. Another idea would be to have students create a Presentation Tube for the results of their research, and then pause and comment during an oral presentation to the class. Students with speech difficulties or challenges with English fluency will appreciate the opportunity to prerecord their presentations without an audience. High school students can also narrate a portfolio slide show for Art school applications or a show of accomplishments for college applications. Students can package book reviews or author reports to be shared in the media center. In primary grades, have students narrate their portion of a whole-class slide show, then share it with parents and grandparents by url. They can practice oral reading as they share their story slides.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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MakerBot in Education - MakerBot Industries, LLC
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): crafts (110), creativity (87), drawing (57), makerspace (39), modeling (8), robotics (30)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a resource for materials and information about 3D printing. Take advantage of the downloadable materials when trying to find funding for a 3D printer. Once you receive your 3D printer, find many ideas and downloads at Sketchfab, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Building STEAM Skills with Hands-On Activity Collections - Cody Caltharp & Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Art
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K to 12tag(s): design (76), engineering (141), flight (33), insects (63), patterns (79), plants (142), sculpture (17), STEM (367)
In the Classroom
Save activities from this site to use as hands-on STEAM lessons throughout the year. Introduce the Smithsonian collection resources on an interactive whiteboard or projector and explore the included items together. Flip your classroom and include a link to museum resources for students to explore before your lessons, and have them create online stickies sharing their thoughts on collection pieces using lino, reviewed here. Instead of having students complete written responses during your lesson, ask them to respond to questions using a video response tool like Gravity, reviewed here. Gravity offers users the opportunity to submit video responses to questions and add comments to other users' responses. At the end of your STEAM activities ask students to create a multimedia presentation sharing their activities and reflecting upon learning opportunities provided. Use a tool like Sway, reviewed here, or Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education , reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Headliner - SpareMin
Grades
K to 12tag(s): communication (122), editing (90), multimedia (62), social media (61)
In the Classroom
Use Headliners to create and share videos in multiple ways. Set the stage for upcoming lessons by creating a video from an upcoming text, post the video on your class website for students to view before reading. Include the transcription feature when sharing videos of student discussions or classroom activities (with appropriate parental permission, of course). Promote your classroom podcast using the Audio Wizard to share a short preview of an upcoming podcast. As an alternative to a research report, use the Find My Content feature and have students redefine their technology use by creating a multimedia video filled with images and video based on their research.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cite This For Me - RefME Ltd. (2015)
Grades
8 to 12In the Classroom
Share with students as a resource for saving and organizing web material. The Webclipper feature allows students to highlight the key information from a page so that a few days down the road they're not wondering why they bookmarked a web page. The bibliography tools help students properly format their Works Cited pages. Use this tool to help keep your students (or even yourself) organized! Make sure you teach plagiarism lessons about paraphrasing and proper citation of sources, so students use this tool properly!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Zotero - Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): citations (34), curation (25), evaluating sources (45), note taking (35), primary sources (133), Research (86)
In the Classroom
Depending on school computer settings, you may need to have tech support install the program for you. Use Zotero to collect and organize classroom resources. Share with older students as a resource for gathering and citing information. Demonstrate how to use the site on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector, including showing the quick-start video. One of the advanced features of the site is the creation of groups. Share this with students who may be capable of using the feature to collaborate with others.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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USA Gold - Scholastic and USA Gold Pencils
Grades
K to 6tag(s): narrative (16), poetry (195), vocabulary development (102)
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Share this site with an interactive whiteboard or projector, then provide resources at a learning center for poetry writing. Encourage students to submit entries to contests when available! Have students or groups brainstorm ideas for poems using Padlet, reviewed here. The Padlet application creates free online bulletin boards. After creating poetry, have students create a word cloud of their poem using a tool such as Word It Out, reviewed here. Create a class poetry book using Ourboox, reviewed here. Ourboox creates beautiful page-flipping digital books in minutes, and you can embed video, music, animation, games, maps and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Netboard - netboard.me
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4 to 12tag(s): bookmarks (34), bulletin boards (13), collaboration (115), communication (122), curation (25), images (268)
In the Classroom
Use Netboard to curate and collect resources for any subject. Create a new board to share with students for each unit, for example, when teaching a unit on fantasy in literature share resources to examples of fantasy writing, student examples of writing, images to inspire fantasy writing, and more. Have students create a Netboard to accompany any research project and ask them to include a link to all resources they used as part of their research.Edge Features:
Includes an education-only area for teachers and students
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
Includes teacher tools for registering and/or monitoring students
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Halloween Activities for Virtual Learning - What I Have Learned
Grades
1 to 6This site includes advertising.
tag(s): halloween (46), holidays (280), remote learning (32)
In the Classroom
Whether teaching in person in a classroom, using flipped learning, or remote learning (distance learning), you are sure to find the perfect holiday activity to engage your students in any subject. If you are teaching in a classroom, you may want to set up stations for students to rotate through and learn from and enjoy several activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Humy - Humy.ai
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4 to 12tag(s): american revolution (92), art history (104), artificial intelligence (315), authors (114), black history (131), chat (39), civil rights (220), civil war (135), environment (252), great depression (32), greeks (45), presidents (151), religions (119), renaissance (38), space (248), Teacher Utilities (216), women (189), world war 1 (86), world war 2 (168)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free account provided by Humy to generate conversations on your interactive whiteboard with historical figures to introduce new lessons and units and engage students in upcoming activities. For example, before reading The Giver by Lois Lowry, select her name from the Humies to have a conversation to learn about her inspiration for writing the book and allow students to ask questions about her writing style and how she developed her storytelling skills. Use the chat conversations as a starting point for research projects on historical figures or periods. Ask students to share their projects by creating websites with Google Sites, reviewed here or by using Google My Maps, reviewed here to create an interactive story based on locations on the map.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ImageQuiz (Beta) - Simon @ ImageQuiz
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
Create an ImageQuiz to review any topic such as items in world language, places on a map, rock formations, cell diagram, etc. Share a link to the ImageQuiz on your class website for students to use for review at home. Have students create ImageQuizzes for review on any subject.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Future Me - Write a Letter to the Future - Matt Sly and Jay Patrikios
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): back to school (53), creativity (87), digital storytelling (166), letter writing (18), Teacher Utilities (216)
In the Classroom
Future Me is a wonderful tool to use at the beginning of the school year. Ask students to send themselves (or you) a "future" email with what they would like to learn this year, subjects they do and don't like, and goals for the school year. Send and share the emails on a date near the end of the year to see how they have changed. High school seniors may want to write a letter to themselves four years in the future with their goals for college and the future. Share with parents, and ask them to write a letter to their student for future delivery. Have students write an email to you describing what they know about any topic or person before beginning a unit, have the email delivered upon completion of the unit as a reminder of how much learning has occurred. Have middle schoolers write emails with summer goals before summer break and have set them for delivery in September so students can see whether their summer was as productive as they had hoped. What a great way to teach goal-setting!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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