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OpusClip - OpusClip
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6 to 11
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OpusClip is an AI video-editing tool that turns longer videos into shorter clips for sharing or presenting. It can identify key moments, reframe videos for different screen sizes, add...more
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OpusClip is an AI video-editing tool that turns longer videos into shorter clips for sharing or presenting. It can identify key moments, reframe videos for different screen sizes, add captions, and create short video clips from recorded lessons, student presentations, interviews, or school events. Teachers might use it to create brief review videos, highlight important parts of a guest speaker recording, or help students edit video projects into concise summaries. OpusClip offers a free-forever plan with 60 credits per month, including AI clipping, auto reframing, and AI captions. Free-plan exports include a watermark, cannot be edited after export, and are available for 3 days; new users also receive a 7-day Pro trial.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (342), digital storytelling (177), editing (97)
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Have students record a two- to three-minute book talk that introduces a book, describes its characters or topic, and recommends without revealing the ending. They can use OpusClip to create a short, captioned trailer that can be shared privately with classmates or displayed during independent-reading time. Have small groups record a science investigation or model, such as one that shows erosion, a chemical change, or a simple machine in action. They can use OpusClip to create a short highlight video, then add captions that identify the materials, steps, observations, and conclusion. Have students conduct a longer interview with a classmate, staff member, family member, or community guest connected to a unit of study.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Red, White, and Blue Learning: Seven Resources for Independence Day - Edutopia
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K to 8
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Looking for a way to keep students learning while celebrating Independence Day? This Edutopia article compiles a variety of free, engaging resources to help teachers and families connect...more
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Looking for a way to keep students learning while celebrating Independence Day? This Edutopia article compiles a variety of free, engaging resources to help teachers and families connect the Fourth of July to meaningful educational experiences. Rather than focusing only on holiday celebrations, the curated collection includes hands-on science experiments, history lessons, arts and crafts, educational apps, and multimedia activities that explore the history, traditions, and science behind Independence Day. Although some of the original links have changed over time, the article still offers valuable ideas and inspiration for cross-curricular summer learning or classroom activities that combine history, science, literacy, and creativity.
tag(s): crafts (114), holidays (292), july 4th (19), multimedia (66), preK (328)
In the Classroom
After exploring one of the featured science activities, challenge students to design and build a safe "firework" launcher, create a patriotic-themed engineering project, or investigate the science behind fireworks through a simple experiment. Have students examine historical documents, paintings, or photographs related to the American Revolution and Independence Day. Students can work in groups to identify important details, make inferences, and discuss how these sources help tell the story of America's founding. Build a choice board using several of the article's suggested resources. Include options such as reading a historical article, completing a patriotic craft, exploring a virtual museum, conducting a science investigation, or writing a journal entry from the perspective of someone living during the American Revolution. Students can select activities that match their interests while demonstrating their learning.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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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 (114), holidays (292), july 4th (19), preK (328), STEM (380)
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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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Reviewing Coin Values | The Electric Company Math Activities - PBS LearningMedia
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K to 2
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This PBS LearningMedia activity from The Electric Company helps primary students review the names and values of standard U.S. coins through engaging, standards-aligned practice. Designed...more
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This PBS LearningMedia activity from The Electric Company helps primary students review the names and values of standard U.S. coins through engaging, standards-aligned practice. Designed for early elementary learners, the resource reinforces coin recognition, money vocabulary, and the relationship between different coin values while supporting foundational financial literacy skills. Teachers can use the printable activity for independent practice, small-group instruction, math centers, or a quick review before lessons on counting money and solving real-world money problems.
tag(s): coins (12), game based learning (319), money (114)
In the Classroom
Use the activity as part of a money-themed learning center. Have students complete the worksheet, sort real or plastic coins, and practice matching coins to their values before solving simple money problems. Create a classroom store with inexpensive items labeled with prices. After reviewing coin values with the activity, students can choose the correct coins to "purchase" items and explain their thinking. Place picture cards of different coins around the classroom. Have students search for the coins, record each coin's name and value, and then complete the PBS activity to reinforce what they found.
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Gradescope - Turnitin
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6 to 12
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Gradescope is an online assessment and grading platform that helps educators manage and evaluate paper-based, digital, and online assignments more efficiently. Teachers can create flexible...more
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Gradescope is an online assessment and grading platform that helps educators manage and evaluate paper-based, digital, and online assignments more efficiently. Teachers can create flexible rubrics, grade one question at a time across an entire class, annotate student work, provide targeted feedback, and view assignment-level statistics to identify learning trends. The platform supports instructor-uploaded and student-uploaded PDF assignments, online questions, bubble sheets, and programming assignments; some question types can also be automatically graded. Gradescope allows multiple instructors, teaching assistants, or graders to work on the same assignment using shared rubrics, helping support consistent and efficient grading. Students can review published scores and feedback, submit regrade requests when enabled, and use the mobile app to scan and upload work. A free account is available, while some advanced tools, including AI-assisted answer grouping, require an institutional license.
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tag(s): artificial intelligence (342), assessment (141), feedback (18), rubrics (40), Teacher Utilities (224)
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Use Gradescope to collect and grade short-answer responses, constructed responses, essays, lab explanations, or problem-solving work. Create a question-by-question rubric that applies consistently across student submissions, then add reusable comments or annotations to identify strengths and next steps. Students can view the published rubric and feedback to better understand how their work was evaluated. Create a short online assignment or upload a paper exit ticket after a lesson. Review results by question to identify skills that may need reteaching, such as citing evidence, solving multi-step problems, using vocabulary accurately, or explaining scientific thinking. Assignment statistics can help teachers spot class-wide trends and plan targeted small-group instruction. After students receive feedback on a writing assignment, math explanation, or project reflection, have them review the rubric and choose one or two areas to improve. Students can submit a revised version through a follow-up assignment and include a brief reflection explaining what they changed and why. This helps shift grading from a final score to part of the learning process.Edge Features:
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Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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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 (71), creativity (93), descriptive writing (45), design (77), graphic design (53), images (273), inferencing (8), problem solving (282), STEM (380)
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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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Maker Ed - The Maker Education Initiative
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K to 12
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Maker Ed fosters student creativity and problem-solving skills through STEM lessons. The site offers professional development, networking opportunities, and resources. In the Resource...more
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Maker Ed fosters student creativity and problem-solving skills through STEM lessons. The site offers professional development, networking opportunities, and resources. In the Resource Library tab, you have access to the Resource Library, Publications, Activities, and Community. The Resource Library showcases and allows you to search through Learning Pathways or Categories. The Learning Pathways teach about Maker Education, while the Categories include learning activities, program design, assessment, and management.
tag(s): makerspace (44), poetry (197), rubrics (40), STEM (380), stories and storytelling (80)
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Students can use Stormboard, reviewed here to post affirmations after engaging in the Math Affirmations: I Am a Mathematician activity. When creating stories from Learning in the Making: Storytelling, students can record their stories using ScreenPal, reviewed here. Students can use Google Drawings, reviewed here to create magnetic poetry after learning about poetry in the lesson titled Learning in the Making: Visual Poetry.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Working Together: Team Roles and Responsibilities Exercise Guide - Make Solutions Inc.
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9 to 12
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Working Together: Team Roles and Responsibilities Exercise Guide is a PDF guide for new teams or teams that have changed. The guide is broken down into 5 parts: Team Initiation ...more
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Working Together: Team Roles and Responsibilities Exercise Guide is a PDF guide for new teams or teams that have changed. The guide is broken down into 5 parts: Team Initiation Exercise, Team Role Discovery, Work Agreements, RACI Matrix, and Role Responsibility Ice Breaker. Each part is further broken down into why, when, how to use the exercise, and next steps.
tag(s): collaboration (137), thinking routines (59)
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As students are forming groups for classroom projects, they can create their own work agreement tailored to their grade level, subject matter, and project rubric. Ask students to use Magic ToDo, reviewed here to organize projects, share tasks, and create a timeline for completion.
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Journal Buddies - Journal Buddies
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1 to 12
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Tired of searching for journal prompts for your students? Journal Buddies has everything you need to get and keep writing going in your classroom from grades first through twelfth....more
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Tired of searching for journal prompts for your students? Journal Buddies has everything you need to get and keep writing going in your classroom from grades first through twelfth. Categories include: Daily Prompt Journals, Even More Prompts, Creative Writing Prompts, Story Starters, and Activities. This site features lots of advertisements; therefore, be careful where you click.
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tag(s): creative writing (125), descriptive writing (45), journals (26)
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Use Seesaw, reviewed here for students to write journals and save their work in a digital portfolio. Instead of using text journals, offer students the option to use Online Voice Recorder, reviewed here to create audio journal entries. Engage students in the journal writing process by asking them to vote on their favorite monthly prompts using Google Forms, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Power of Believing That You Can Improve - TED
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9 to 12
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In her TED Talk, Carol Dweck shares the power of yet and a growth mindset in her 10-minute YouTube video titled The Power of Believing That You Can Improve. The ...more
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In her TED Talk, Carol Dweck shares the power of yet and a growth mindset in her 10-minute YouTube video titled The Power of Believing That You Can Improve. The video begins by explaining the power of yet, then continues with examples of fixed versus growth mindsets and shares how our brains function outside our comfort zones. The video continues by redefining how we praise children and how a growth mindset can help close the achievement gap. If your district blocks YouTube, the video may not be viewable.
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tag(s): critical thinking (189), learning styles (23), social and emotional learning (205), thinking routines (59), thinking skills (136)
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Students can use Google Keep, reviewed here to take notes while watching the video. After watching the video, ask students to create infographics using Mind Map Generator, reviewed here on information comparing fixed and growth mindsets. As an extension, use Cartoon Comic Maker, reviewed here to create engaging stories illustrating fixed and growth mindsets.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cooperative Learning Job Placards - Dr. Spencer Kagan
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K to 12
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Cooperative Learning Job Placards is a PDF guide that includes visuals to help students understand their jobs in cooperative learning. The jobs outlined are: Group Leader, Materials...more
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Cooperative Learning Job Placards is a PDF guide that includes visuals to help students understand their jobs in cooperative learning. The jobs outlined are: Group Leader, Materials Manager, Encourager, Timekeeper, and Data Collector. There are small foldable visuals, paper-size visuals, and sentence stems for each job. In addition, there is a Number Line that can be placed at each group for the teacher to take away points for disruptive behavior. The last two pages of the PDF include 12 key roles with job responsibilities.
tag(s): collaboration (137), thinking routines (59)
In the Classroom
Ask students to create their own visuals for the four jobs using Visme AI Presentation Creator, reviewed here. Use Google Forms, reviewed here for students to reflect on their job productivity and preference for the future. After participating in cooperative learning projects, have students reflect upon how their groups' success (or not) and suggest additional roles or guidelines for future projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Team roles: Belbin's 9 roles to build a balanced team - Asana
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6 to 12
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Team Roles: Belbin's 9 Roles to Build a Balanced Team is an article that outlines Dr. Meredith Belbin's team role theory, which includes three categories and nine different roles to...more
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Team Roles: Belbin's 9 Roles to Build a Balanced Team is an article that outlines Dr. Meredith Belbin's team role theory, which includes three categories and nine different roles to help teams be balanced and productive. The three categories are: Action-Oriented, Thought-Oriented, and People-Oriented. The nine different roles fall into the three categories that Dr. Belbin has created. The article continues with giving a short description, examples, and the key contributions of each role.
tag(s): collaboration (137), teaching strategies (81), thinking routines (59), thinking skills (136)
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Students can view the roles and explain which role they see themselves as. Use Google Slides, reviewed here, to ask students to write a simple definition and visual to match each of the roles. As an extension activity, ask students to create a blog post outlining the different team roles using Paste It, reviewed here. JustPaste.It is a simple, ad-free online tool that lets you quickly share text and images with others, no account required.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Gold Fever and the Bechtler Mint - PBS LearningMedia
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4 to 8
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Gold Fever and the Bechtler Mint is an engaging historical video resource that explores America's first gold rush in North Carolina during the early 1800s and the creation of Christopher...more
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Gold Fever and the Bechtler Mint is an engaging historical video resource that explores America's first gold rush in North Carolina during the early 1800s and the creation of Christopher Bechtler's private mint. Through documentary footage, expert interviews, historical reenactments, and clips showing how gold coins were handmade, students gain insight into early American economics, westward expansion, mining history, and entrepreneurship. Teachers can use the video to support lessons in U.S. history, economics, geography, and STEM while helping students connect historical events to real-world innovation and trade.
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After viewing the video, have students create a timeline of important events using MyLens, reviewed here that connects to the North Carolina Gold Rush and the Bechtler Mint. Students can include key people, discoveries, inventions, and economic impacts using paper timelines or digital tools. Organize a classroom gold rush simulation where students mine for hidden objects or tokens and trade them for classroom currency. Students can discuss supply and demand, fairness, and the effects of gold on local economies and communities. Ask students to design their own coin inspired by the Bechtler Mint. Students can sketch symbols, slogans, and images that represent their classroom, state, or community, and explain how they chose the symbols.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Coins for Candy - RoomRecess
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K to 3
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Coins for Candy is a free interactive math game that helps students practice counting money by using pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to purchase virtual candy items. Students...more
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Coins for Candy is a free interactive math game that helps students practice counting money by using pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to purchase virtual candy items. Students can choose from multiple difficulty levels while building important real-world math skills such as coin recognition, adding money amounts, and making accurate coin combinations. The game provides immediate feedback and tracks accuracy, making it a fun and engaging option for math centers, whole-group review, intervention support, or independent practice on classroom devices and interactive whiteboards.
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Use the game as a math center activity for students to practice identifying coins and counting money amounts, independently or with partners. Students can track their scores and challenge themselves to improve their accuracy over time. Pair the activity with a classroom store or pretend shopping experience. After practicing online, students can use real or plastic coins to buy classroom items, snacks, or school supplies while applying the same counting strategies. Use the game as an enrichment or intervention activity during small-group instruction. Teachers can differentiate by assigning specific coin combinations, timed challenges, or higher-value totals for advanced learners while providing support for students still mastering coin recognition.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Radom Coin Flip! - Online Stopwatch
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K to 8
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Flip a Coin is a simple, free, classroom-friendly tool that allows students and teachers to flip one or multiple coins to generate random outcomes virtually. The site is easy to ...more
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Flip a Coin is a simple, free, classroom-friendly tool that allows students and teachers to flip one or multiple coins to generate random outcomes virtually. The site is easy to use and works well for quick decision-making activities, probability lessons, classroom games, brain breaks, and participation strategies. Teachers can use the tool to introduce concepts such as chance, prediction, fairness, and data collection while keeping students actively engaged. Because it runs directly in a browser with no download required, it is especially useful for interactive whiteboards, whole-group instruction, centers, and online learning activities.
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tag(s): data (211), probability (133)
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Use the virtual coin flip during a probability lesson by having students predict outcomes before flipping the coin 20 to 50 times. Students can record results in a tally chart, create a bar graph using LiveGap Charts, reviewed here, and discuss the likelihood of heads versus tails. During ELA instruction, assign heads and tails to different writing prompts, character choices, or vocabulary challenges. Students can flip the coin to determine which task they will complete, adding an element of surprise and engagement. Incorporate the tool into classroom management or SEL activities by using coin flips to select brain breaks, discussion starters, teamwork challenges, or cooperative learning roles in a fair and interactive way.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Improv Encyclopedia
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9 to 12
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Improv Encyclopedia is a collection of games, exercises, and resources for improvisation theatre, along with icebreakers and warm-ups. The Improv Games encyclopedia consists of over...more
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Improv Encyclopedia is a collection of games, exercises, and resources for improvisation theatre, along with icebreakers and warm-ups. The Improv Games encyclopedia consists of over 500 improv drama and theater games and exercises organized into 30 categories. Categories include: Characters, Replay, SingSong, and Verbal Twist. Games can be searched for individually and are organized alphabetically. Some examples are: Alliteration, Human Knots, Mirror, Stunt Doubles, and many more. Each game contains a description and variation.
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tag(s): acting (17), back to school (56), classroom management (144), collaboration (137), firstday (28), game based learning (319), humor (24)
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Ask students to use Free Comic Strip Maker by Adobe, reviewed here to create a comic illustrating their Improv Game. Practice improv using Clipchamp, reviewed here to record themselves trying one of the games from the site and then reflecting on their actions. Create a book of students' favorite improv games using Book Creator, reviewed here to share with other classrooms or your school's drama department.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pick a Mystery Box Powerpoint Template and Tutorial - How to Mark
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K to 12
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Pick a Mystery Box PowerPoint Template and Tutorial is a YouTube video that shares step-by-step how to use PowerPoint to create hyperlinks within a presentation, transitions, and animations...more
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Pick a Mystery Box PowerPoint Template and Tutorial is a YouTube video that shares step-by-step how to use PowerPoint to create hyperlinks within a presentation, transitions, and animations to a mystery box. If your district blocks YouTube, you will not be able to watch it. There is a template, but you must create an account to download it.
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tag(s): teaching strategies (81), tutorials (52)
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Have students create their own mystery boxes using Microsoft PowerPoint Online, reviewed here to share a mystery animal, mystery historical event, or mystery literary theme. Create a mystery box presentation to engage students when introducing a new unit, and reveal one increasingly specific clue per slide, with a guess-prompt slide before the big reveal. Add these students' Mystery Boxes into a virtual bulletin board such as Padlet, reviewed here. Have students use FlexClip, reviewed here to create their own Mystery Box tutorial.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 (110), musical instruments (63), summer (53)
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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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PresenterMedia - Eclipse Digital Imaging
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3 to 12
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PresenterMedia is a multimedia resource that offers customizable PowerPoint templates, animated clipart, graphics, video backgrounds, music, and ready-made slide designs for creating...more
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PresenterMedia is a multimedia resource that offers customizable PowerPoint templates, animated clipart, graphics, video backgrounds, music, and ready-made slide designs for creating engaging presentations. Its online tools allow users to personalize many visuals by changing text, colors, images, and other design elements. PresenterMedia also includes an AI Presentation Maker that can generate a slide deck from a topic, including an outline, slide layouts, text, and suggested images. Teachers can use the site to add visual interest to lessons, create classroom materials, or model effective presentation design, while students can use downloaded resources in PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, and other projects. A paid subscription provides full access to the media library, customization tools, downloads, and AI presentation features.
tag(s): animation (71), artificial intelligence (342), presentations (44)
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Have students choose a new vocabulary word and create one slide with a definition, synonym, or antonym, a visual, and a sentence that shows the word in context. They can use an animated graphic or video background sparingly to help communicate the word's meaning. Small groups can create a short slide deck that explains a scientific process, such as the water cycle, photosynthesis, erosion, or a food chain. Students use visuals and animations to show the sequence of steps, then add captions that explain each stage in clear, accurate language. After reading a novel or short story, have students create a book trailer or character profile using presentation templates, graphics, and background media. They can include key setting details, character traits, conflict, theme, and a recommendation without giving away the ending.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Manager, Facilitator, Motivator, Advocate: Setting Up Group Roles That Really Work - edutopia
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Edutopia's Manager, Facilitator, Motivator, Advocate: Setting Up Group Roles That Really Work is an article for middle and high school teachers looking to use collaborative learning...more
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Edutopia's Manager, Facilitator, Motivator, Advocate: Setting Up Group Roles That Really Work is an article for middle and high school teachers looking to use collaborative learning in their classroom. The article begins by explaining how the roles of Project Manager, Facilitator, Motivator, and Advocate will prepare students for the work world. Each of these roles empowers students to take responsibility, practice skills, and contribute to a positive, collaborative culture. Collectively, the roles increase team autonomy and decrease student reliance on the teacher. The article continues by defining each of the roles and setting up these roles in the classroom.
tag(s): collaboration (137), professional development (296), teaching strategies (81), thinking routines (59)
In the Classroom
Use this article to implement collaborative learning activities in your classroom. Students can use Adobe Express for Education, reviewed here to create visuals explaining each of the four roles or use Comic Strip Templates by Canva, reviewed here to create a short comic outlining each of the roles. After working in collaborative groups, students can complete a self-reflection using Google Forms, reviewed here as to their feelings/preferences about each of the roles.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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