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The Poem Farm - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Grades
K to 8In the Classroom
Use this site on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) as inspiration for lessons in poetry writing. Share it on your teacher web page for enrichment. Have students create their own poems using this site as inspiration then augment classroom technology use by having them create podcasts of a poetry reading. Use a site such as podOmatic, reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Write - Krish Dholakiya
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): process writing (34), writers workshop (30), writing (308)
In the Classroom
If you have students who struggle with putting words down due to distractions or other reasons, Write is a good option for developing stamina. This tool allows writers to just write without worrying about content, grammar, or spelling. Stress that the editing process allows writers to go back and rework basic thoughts. If you do journals in content areas such as math or science, Write is a perfect tool to strongly encourage students to get their thoughts down in a short amount time. Have students save their work to include with their final writing projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Most Dangerous Writing Prompt App - Manuel Ebert
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): creative writing (124), journals (22), writing (308)
In the Classroom
The creator of this app states that it "is designed to shut down your inner editor and get you into a state of flow." Share the app with students to use as a non-threatening way to practice putting their thoughts down without worrying about grammar, spelling, or being graded. Use the app as part of brainstorming sessions before beginning writing projects. Instead of using paper and pencil for journal writing, use this site as students become more comfortable with non-stop typing for a set amount of time (or number of words).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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English With Jennifer - Jennifer Lebedev
Grades
2 to 8tag(s): grammar (139), vocabulary development (102), writing (308)
In the Classroom
Visit Jennifer's Blog to find ideas about how to use these lessons in the classroom and to find additional support. Jennifer frequently updates the offerings. Share these videos on your interactive whiteboard or projector. FLIP your classroom and have students view the videos at home and discuss the next day in class. (This is a great option if YouTube is blocked in your school.) Use the videos to introduce a grammar or punctuation point you would like to make, and assign others in the series for homework. Look at the "Word of the Day" each morning when you begin your ESL/ELL lesson. Use the slang offerings in a similar manner. Be sure to provide this link on your class website for students (and their families) to access at home for additional English practice.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Airtable - Emmett Nicholas, Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad
Grades
K to 12tag(s): bookmarks (34), collaboration (115), curation (25), DAT device agnostic tool (129)
In the Classroom
Use Airtable to collaborate on lessons with other teachers, both local and across the world. Share with students to use when collaborating on projects or to create study guides. Use the provided templates to catalog your books or share study guides with students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Daily 5 Technology - Jennifer Lambrecht
Grades
K to 5tag(s): listening (117), literacy (124), reading comprehension (146), reading strategies (93), vocabulary development (102), word study (58), writing (308)
In the Classroom
Incorporating technology for students into the classroom is necessary to meet state standards. Let this blog guide you and make it easier. Although the creator of this site is a 1st grade teacher, many of the technology ideas and tools she mentions are appropriate for older students and other grades as well. This especially pertains to the QR Code and iPad Creating, and Skype/FaceTime sections of this blog. Mentioned are several iPad apps this blogger is currently using with her students. One ingenious idea is to use Skype or FaceTime for your Read to Someone component. Primary teachers may be interested in Literactive, reviewed here, and Teach Your Monster to Read, reviewed here, that she has students use on her Chrome Books. So if you are thinking of, or just beginning to use technology in your class, take a look at this blog for an easy start or as a guide for new ideas to add.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Daily 5s with Technology - Kelsey Hoffman
Grades
K to 3tag(s): listening (117), literacy (124), reading comprehension (146), reading strategies (93), sight words (22), vocabulary development (102), word study (58), writing (308)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this Prezi lesson plan for reference when implementing technology for students into the Daily 5 routines. Download the apps to student iPads in your classroom. Post a list, with the links to download, on your web page or blog for parents to download to their student's iPads at home. If you are interested in using Prezi in your classroom you will find a review of it here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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FreeTechBooks - FreeTechBooks
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): book lists (161), STEM (367)
In the Classroom
In a middle or high school program dig deeply into math, science, or engineering. Find materials to supplement in-depth studies. Challenge gifted or advanced students. Use this as a way to check the validity of your source, whether it is a textbook or another Internet resource. Challenge students to write their own ebooks on their topic of interest in groups collaboratively or individually. Have students use a tool such as 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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Happier - Nataly Kogan
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): emotions (71), mental health (60), psychology (60), social and emotional learning (196)
In the Classroom
With testing, social pressure, and the desire to do well use Happier in class to reinforce social-emotional learning (SEL) by celebrating the small steps and successes on which students should be focusing. Teach students to identify positives along the way, no matter what the test or situation's outcome. Consider asking what did you learn from the situation? Identify categories that encompass all of the student's lives and focus on finding happy moments in all areas. Be sure to use this yourself! Find the positives in every facet of your day building happiness day by day. Psychology and Sociology classes can use this as an experiment about happiness, collecting student or family data through the year.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ClassMarker - ClassMarker Pty Ltd.
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Create, assign, and practice tests easily with this resource! Create and manage your tests as well as view activity reports about those who have taken the test. Use this resource as a way to practice material and improve students' scores in preparation for an actual test. Use this resource to practice involved questions that like those found on the state tests. Practicing with various question formats builds confidence and improves performance. Create quizzes and tests that students must pass before moving on to other content or other harder tests. Use these as progress steps along the way to help students learn the content as they progress through a unit. Learning support teachers may want to work together with small groups to create their own "practice" quizzes before major tests.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Timer-Tab - brillout.com
Grades
K to 12tag(s): classroom management (136), counting (66), time (94)
In the Classroom
There are many uses for this practical online tool. At the beginning of the school year, display on your interactive whiteboard or projector to time or countdown any classroom activity. That will get the students in the habit of checking how much time they have left. Use this tool for students to practice speeches, or to limit time for a quiz or spelling test. Use the countdown feature for timing the rotations from center to center. Use the timer for reading fluency exercises or physical education warm-ups. Employ the count-down as a clever classroom management tool on your computer screen when you want the class to settle down for directions or to transition to the next subject. Students may even want to use this tool for themselves. Have a timer tab open in your web browser as you display web sites on a projector or web based activities on an interactive whiteboard so students know how much more time they have to read the site or complete the activity. Have kindergarten students practice counting along with the watch!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Literary Devices - literarydevices.net
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): dictionaries (49), literary devices (13)
In the Classroom
Writing and English teachers will want to bookmark this site for use throughout the school year! Share different devices with a projector or interactive whiteboard to help define and understand their use. Introduce a few terms each week for students to explore and find in their reading materials and to use in their writing. Have students create an online or printed comic using different literary devices. First, have students create a rough draft of their comic using Canva Comic Strip Templates, reviewed here. Then, have students create a comic strip online using Make Beliefs Comix, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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edX - Anant Agarwal
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): aeronautics (11), architecture (83), artificial intelligence (315), china (79), circuits (20), civil rights (220), computers (114), electricity (63), engineering (141), environment (252), evolution (85), folktales (35), greeks (45), magnetism (38), medicine (52), nutrition (137), poetry (195), psychology (60), religions (119), shakespeare (98), solar energy (35), speech (66), statistics (126), terrorism (41)
In the Classroom
Share with students on your interactive whiteboard and take the demo course together. This is perfect for use with gifted and advanced students as an option for college-level courses and enrichment. Allow gifted students to enroll in courses that interest them or that provide enrichment beyond classroom content. Share with others in your building, as a resource for professional development. Explore topics yourself to find new, engaging ones to round out your expertise. Allow students to enroll in a course that aligns with their career goals as an exploratory opportunity in that field.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Grammar Lookup - Kamran Khan
Grades
K to 12tag(s): editing (90), grammar (139), proofreading (17), spelling (93), writing (308)
In the Classroom
Include Grammar Lookup with other options for students to use when editing and revising work. Have students copy and paste writing projects into the text editor for a final check for spelling and grammar mistakes after making their last revisions. Continued use of this tool helps students correct writing on their own after seeing common errors in their writing. Never send out a newsletter or post to your web page with spelling or grammar errors again! Use Grammar Lookup to spell check and suggest corrections for any published writing projects. Reinforce learning by asking students to share before and after of written projects. Along with submitting a rough draft and final draft, ask students to take a screenshot of text copied into Grammar Lookup along with the highlighted errors. Insert this screenshot into the rough draft as an image using Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Modify learning and ask students to use their screenshot with highlighted errors to create a annotate an image using Image Annotator, reviewed here. Add text, image examples, and voice recordings to create a short presentation highlighting grammar mistakes and suggestions for corrections.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Coggle - coggle.it
Grades
2 to 12tag(s): brainstorming (19), charts and graphs (180), collaboration (115), graphic organizers (57), mind map (33)
In the Classroom
Coggle's ease of use makes it easy to focus on the process of creating a mind map, rather than learning how to use the program or playing with its features to make it pretty. Have your class create organizers together, such as in a brainstorming session on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Assign students to "map" out a chapter or story. Assign groups to create study guides using this tool. Use this site for literature activities, research projects, social studies, or science topics. Use this site to create family trees or food pyramids in family and consumer science. Have students collaborate (online) to create group mind maps or review charts before tests on a given subject. Have students organize any concepts you study; color-code concepts to show what they understand, wonder, and question; map out a story, plot line, or plan for the future; map out a step-by-step process (life cycle).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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WordTwist - PuzzleBaron
Grades
3 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): game based learning (305), spelling (93), vocabulary (251)
In the Classroom
Create accounts for your students and let them compete against each other for points. Read tips for safely managing email registrations. Display this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector to create words as a class. Challenge students to create lists of new words they learn from WordTwist.Comments
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Sports Resources - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
This collection includes resources for all grades. Each review includes several classroom use ideas. These are excellent tools to use to study science, math, and more! Save (or bookmark) this list for students to use to review tough concepts. Explore the activities suggested.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Multilingual Resources - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): multilingual (82), spanish (112)
In the Classroom
Find new tools and strategies to use with your multilingual students. Share this list on your class website for families to use at home. This list includes resources for elementary and secondary students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Classic Books - Library of Congress
Grades
K to 12tag(s): book lists (161), independent reading (83), literature (214)
In the Classroom
Share the classics on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Challenge your tech-savvy or gifted students to bring a classic to life by using Book Creator, reviewed here. Share this public domain collection on your class website, blog, or wiki as a good place to find classics (FREE). Create a learning station on your classroom computers using these books.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Next Vista for Learning - Rushton Hurley
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): africa (162), asia (138), careers (185), computers (114), europe (83), literature (214), musical instruments (59), musical notation (34), north america (15), parts of speech (40), poetry (195), shakespeare (98), south america (80), speech (66)
In the Classroom
Explore the various topics to share with your students. In the math section, share the "How to Show Your Work" video on your projector or interactive whiteboard. There are useful videos in all sections, offered at a variety of levels. Bookmark and save this site for student- and teacher-created videos throughout the year. Challenge students to create a video to submit for one of the site's contests; who knows, they may win!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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