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QR Treasure Hunt Generator - Classtools.net
Grades
4 to 12
tag(s): qr codes (15), study aid (171), game making (58)
In the Classroom
Turn a unit review into a QR treasure hunt by posting codes at learning stations. At each stop, students scan a code, record an answer, and complete a short task before moving on. In the library, have students find a book and use its index or table of contents to answer a question. In geometry, place codes beside classroom objects and ask students to identify shapes, measure dimensions, or explain their reasoning. Use the same approach with art prints, mystery objects, or trees on school grounds by asking students to support each answer with an observation. For a research project, have groups write clues and an answer key, then trade hunts with classmates. A local history hunt could pair each code with an archival photo and ask students what has changed at that location.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Speechnotes - Speechlogger & TTSReader
Grades
K to 12tag(s): multilingual (84), communication (128), writing (301), speech (65)
In the Classroom
Speechnotes is a very versatile tool, for students, parents, and teachers alike. Bypass poor typing skills, dysgraphia, dyslexia, and physical disabilities. Use this tool to create emails, documents, or anything requiring typed text. Use in your writing class so students can get their thoughts into text without having to also think about typing. Be sure they edit their work. Use when you are in a hurry with emails requiring long text. Use for your newsletters or family emails. Share this on your class website and at Back to School Night. Emerging literacy students will enjoy the success they have with their oral language into written word. Improve content and forget about mechanics of writing or typing. Focus in on grammar and mechanics after seeing the recognized mistakes. Include this website on every toolbar and as a favorite on your class web page. ENL/ESL students can speak English, play it back, and correct it until it "sounds right" and expresses their ideas correctly.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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myHomework - myHomeworkapp
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): Teacher Utilities (234), homework (27), organizational skills (93), calendars (37), DAT device agnostic tool (135)
In the Classroom
Share myHomework with students as an excellent way to organize and plan homework assignments. Create a link on your class website for students to access, and discuss using this app during back to school meetings. This site works on computers and has apps for all devices so information is available across platforms.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Milanote - Milanote.com
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): curation (26), graphic organizers (64), organizational skills (93), DAT device agnostic tool (135), creativity (95), collaboration (146), collages (17)
In the Classroom
Use Milanote to organize ideas and resources for upcoming lessons and units. Collaborate with peers using a visual board to organize and brainstorm ideas. Share with students to use when planning collaborative projects, to share resources, or to organize notes. Don't forget to look at all of the templates, not just those found under the education label. Use mood board templates for students to creatively share images and ideas to describe the mood or setting in a novel. Take advantage of the storyboard templates to help students organize an upcoming podcast or video presentation. Use the brainstorming templates as a visual mind map to map out features such as parts of a plant or insect body parts.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
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Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
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Reader's guides - Random House
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1 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Study English - Australia Network
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): grammar (143)
In the Classroom
Use this site with ESL/ELL learners as designed. Share the lessons on your interactive whiteboard or projector. If individual computers are available, have students view the lessons independently (with headsets) and create multimedia projects to demonstrate what they have learned. Have students create an interactive online poster using Genial.ly, reviewed here. Better yet, if students get used to the video and exercise formats, have them produce similar videos teaching a few lessons about their home cultures! Share the videos using a tool such as SchoolTube, reviewed here.Special ed teachers and those seeking combination video/text lessons to use to teach listening/reading comprehension may find these lessons valuable, as well.
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The Fun Theory - Volkswagen & Goodvertising
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): science fairs (22), scientific method (48), psychology (61)
In the Classroom
Are you looking to make learning fun? The Fun Theory collection of videos is a great collection of experiments to teach your class the Scientific Method. Use the videos to identify each step of the process. Share the videos on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Challenge your students to brainstorm their own Fun Theory ideas for school, home, or your community. In art or music class, brainstorm ways that you can use FUN methods to learn techniques. Use bubbl.us, reviewed here to organize your ideas. Host your own Fun Theory competition, and invite community and school board members to vote on their favorite experiment. Spice up your traditional science fair project with a fun and engaging fun theory experiment. Use Animoto, reviewed here or another presentation tool to show your Fun Theory experiment and results. Challenge your colleagues to create their own Fun Theory experiment to better the school environment for your students or staff. For Earth Day, make it a class project to design a Fun Theory way to change human behavior to promote greener practices. Explore these ideas in a psychology class about motivation or as part of a study skills unit so students find ways to motivate themselves for better work habits!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Take a Virtual Field Trip - Google Arts and Culture
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): respiration (10), france (38), magnetism (40), peru (6), africa (162), volcanoes (60), insects (64), first ladies (4), world war 1 (88), archeology (26), medieval (36), ecosystems (117), mexico (66), animals (281), architecture (80), colors (64), presidents (155), dinosaurs (47), molecules (43), california (18), endangered species (28), virtual field trips (154), inventors and inventions (87), amazon (11), italy (30), coral (11), women (197), shakespeare (98), central america (24), aviation (51), south africa (31), railroads (17), adaptations (21), moon (87), chemicals (37), romans (54), machines (17), evolution (85), rainforests (16), martin luther king (42), earth (187), migration (44), earthquakes (51), climate change (115), van gogh (7), fossils (44), flight (33)
In the Classroom
Be sure to take advantage of the guide on this site for taking a virtual field trip. In addition, the guide offers suggestions and lesson plans for making the most of virtual field trips. Use any of the included field trips as an engaging introduction to a range of topics. For example, several field trips take viewers underwater and use these excursions to introduce a unit on ocean animals, climate change, or the oceans worldwide. Use Figjam, reviewed here for students to share notes, questions, and information learned throughout the activity. Instead of assigning a typical research project, ask students to create a virtual field trip using Google My Maps, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Today - Parenting Guides - NBC Universal
Grades
K to 12tag(s): parents (54), parent conferences (21), learning styles (23), social skills (24), preK (354), child development (18)
In the Classroom
Share the Parent Toolkit with parents as an excellent resource for up to date information on education and parenting. Create a link to the appropriate grade level information on your class webpage to help parents understand developmental guidelines for their student. Share this site with colleagues during professional development to gain further understanding of academic and social grade level benchmarks.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Romantic Circles
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): literature (215)
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Isabel Allende
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): literature (215), authors (116)
In the Classroom
This site is perfect for literature circles! There are many books from which to choose and each one has a summary and excerpt. After reading some of the summaries, have student literature groups choose the book they want to read and present to the class. For the presentations, give the students a choice of multimedia tools using a resource such as Genially, reviewed here. Students can choose to present their book using interactive images, infographics, charts, and more; they can insert maps, surveys, video, and audio.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Mississippi Writers & Musicians - Mississippi Writers and Musicians
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): acting (16), biographies (102), authors (116), artists (106)
In the Classroom
Give students a list of fun facts (e.g., "Won a Grammy," "Wrote a bestselling novel") and a list of names from the site. Students can use the website to match each fact with the correct person. Each student selects one writer, musician, artist, or actor from the site and creates a trading card that includes their photo, a brief biography, a notable achievement, and a quote or fun fact. Have them use paper or a template from Canva, reviewed here. Have students research one person from the site and write an imagined interview, with 5-7 questions and answers. They can role-play the interview in pairs or write it as a dialogue script.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Odyssey - CartoDB
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): interactive stories (23), digital storytelling (177), images (274), maps (222), gamified learning (61)
In the Classroom
Most storytellers will find a bit of a learning curve to working with Odyssey, click on the three bars on the left top of the home page to find the Quick Start Guide tutorial for using the site. Share this site with tech-savvy students so they can be experts and help others become familiar with using the site. Use Odyssey for creating map-based stories based on works of literature, important events in history, or mapping scientific discoveries. Odyssey is perfect for use with gifted students when creating multimedia presentations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Natural Reader - Natural Soft Limited
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): study aid (171), Special Needs (46), learning disability (20), learning styles (23), text to speech (24), writers workshop (28), dyslexia (11), artificial intelligence (371), DAT device agnostic tool (135), listening (120)
In the Classroom
Bring Natural Reader into any classroom to support students in many different ways. Use this resource as a helpful tool to increase reading comprehension, support English language learners, and help students with dyslexia and other special needs. Upload tests, worksheets, and other assessment documents to support students who have materials read to them. Share NaturalReader with parents and students for use at home. Clone your voice to include it as a personalization option and a means for engaging students. Ask students to clone their voices and upload presentations to rehearse for speeches.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ranger Rick - National Wildlife Federation
Grades
K to 7This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animal homes (55), animals (281), scientists (72), game based learning (294), independent reading (85), guided reading (30)
In the Classroom
In the Animals sections, elementary students can conduct research on different kinds of animals including their place in the animal kingdom. At computer stations/centers have students look at the sets of animal pictures and identify common characteristics that are found for each set of animals to determine why they are categorized into each part of the animal kingdom. Use the interactive games as a center at an interactive whiteboard/projector. The games are fast and simple and can be used as a lesson opener to engage and capture the students attention.As a culminating activitiy, challenge students to write an adventure story where Ranger Rick and his animal friends have to get our of a sticky situation. Use a tool such as Canva Comic Strip Templates, reviewed here, for a nontech rough and final draft. If you're new to using technology with your students, or teach younger students augment techology use with ToonyTool, reviewed here, for their final drafts. To modify tech use in your class and for more experienced, older students try Make Beliefs Comix, reviewed here.
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MakerSpace Resources - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): creativity (95), engineering (136), STEM (387), circuits (19), musical instruments (63), robotics (29), coding (111), makerspace (41)
In the Classroom
Use these resources for your digital MakerSpace. Find tools for all grades. There are also a few sites that have more information for educators just learning about MakerSpace. Some of these resources are ideal for individual devices.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Do Now Activity Generator - Yourway Learning
Grades
K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (371), thinking skills (137), assessment (144), Formative Assessment (52), Teacher Utilities (234), questioning (37), teaching strategies (94), classroom management (155)
In the Classroom
Use this activity generator to create quick Do Now activities (or entrance tickets) as schema activators that set the tone for your daily lessons. These brief, focused tasks set the tone for learning and provide valuable formative assessment data. Take advantage of digital whiteboard tools such as Figjam, reviewed here and Whiteboard.chat, reviewed here to have students share their ideas. At the end of your lesson, use Project Zero Thinking Routines, reviewed here such as I used to think, Now I think to extend learning and encourage critical thinking skills.Edge Features:
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Storyberries - Jade Maitre
Grades
K to 5tag(s): short stories (17), poetry (195), book lists (168), stories and storytelling (82)
In the Classroom
Bookmark Storyberries as an excellent resource for short read alouds or as a source for stories relating to many different emotions and themes. Share a link on your class website or newsletter for parents to use at home. Use this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector as you read aloud for students to follow along; occasionally stop and allow students to read portions of the book. Use this site as a resource for additional reading materials in the classroom by creating a link on classroom computers. Share Storyberries on your classroom website or in your Google Classroom for parent and student use at home during distant learning or extended absences.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Thoreau, Walden, and the Environment
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9 to 12tag(s): literature (215), thoreau (3), environment (248)
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Jim Henson - Univ. of Mississippi
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): biographies (102), movies (51)
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Bookmark this site for your student's papers and projects on Jim Henson, the creator of the muppets.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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