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Create Interactive Designs with Canva Code - Canva
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K to 12
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Canva Code lets you create interactive designs and elements without needing to know how to code. This article shares ideas on how to build both interactive experiences, such as learning...more
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Canva Code lets you create interactive designs and elements without needing to know how to code. This article shares ideas on how to build both interactive experiences, such as learning games and portfolios, and interactive elements, such as quizzes, calculators, and charts. Learn how to create with Canva Code by following the step-by-step instructions or by watching the included YouTube video tutorials. Additional links provide information on how to edit designs and elements, access restrictions, and how to integrate ChatGPT with Canva to create designs and search for content.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (346), coding (111), game based learning (320), interactive stories (23)
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Use Canva Code to create personalized learning activities for your classroom after creating your free account on Canva for Education, reviewed here. Canva for Education accounts offer educators access to many pro features available in Canva. Quickly create and share gamified review activities, countdown timers, escape rooms, and much more by simply entering a prompt that describes what you are building. Learn more about how to use Canva Code at AI-Powered Interactive Activity Creation with Canva Code.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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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 (346), multimedia (68), presentations (46)
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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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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 (346), digital storytelling (179), editing (96)
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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.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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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 (68), preK (330)
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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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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 (346), assessment (140), feedback (17), rubrics (40), Teacher Utilities (222)
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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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Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
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Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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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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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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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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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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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 (111), 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 (346), presentations (46)
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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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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 (283), artificial intelligence (346), brain (59), climate (99), energy (143), ethics (22), insects (65), makerspace (44), space (252), STEM (380), 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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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 (71), artificial intelligence (346), digital storytelling (179), presentations (46), social and emotional learning (204), text to speech (24)
In the Classroom
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:
Includes an education-only area for teachers and students
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be embedded
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Power BI - Microsoft
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Microsoft Power BI is a powerful business intelligence and data visualization platform that enables teachers and students to turn spreadsheets and large datasets into interactive charts,...more
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Microsoft Power BI is a powerful business intelligence and data visualization platform that enables teachers and students to turn spreadsheets and large datasets into interactive charts, dashboards, and reports. Educators can use the platform to analyze classroom data, track student growth, visualize survey results, and create engaging STEM or research projects that emphasize critical thinking and data literacy. Power BI connects with tools such as Excel, Google Analytics, databases, and cloud services, making it useful for real-world data analysis and project-based learning. The platform includes both a free desktop version and online collaboration features, helping students build valuable technology and career-ready skills in data interpretation and digital communication.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (346), charts and graphs (184), data (211), Project Based Learning (29), spreadsheets (23)
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Create classroom data walls or progress dashboards that help students monitor reading growth, assessment scores, attendance, or personal learning goals throughout the school year. Use the platform during media literacy or research projects to teach students how data visualizations influence communication, helping them critically and accurately evaluate graphs, infographics, and digital reports. Have students analyze real-world datasets in math, science, or social studies classes by creating interactive dashboards that display trends, comparisons, and predictions using charts and graphs.Edge Features:
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Classroom Coin Flip - ESL Kids Games
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K to 8
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The Classroom Coin Flip tool on ESL Kids Games is a simple, interactive online resource that adds quick decision-making and game-based engagement to lessons. This digital coin flipper...more
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The Classroom Coin Flip tool on ESL Kids Games is a simple, interactive online resource that adds quick decision-making and game-based engagement to lessons. This digital coin flipper allows teachers to instantly generate a random heads-or-tails result, making it useful for selecting students, forming groups, assigning tasks, or adding an element of chance to classroom activities. As part of a larger collection of free ESL tools and games, it supports both in-person and virtual learning environments by providing an easy, no-prep way to boost participation and keep students engaged.
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tag(s): coins (12), data (211), game based learning (320), probability (133)
In the Classroom
Flip the coin to divide the class into two groups (heads vs. tails). Use the groups for partner reading, collaborative writing, or small-group discussions. Create two tasks for each vocabulary word: heads = define the word, tails = use it in a sentence or act it out. Flip the coin for each turn. During a test review, assign outcomes such as heads = answer a question for points, and tails = challenge another team or complete a bonus task.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pitch - Pitch Software
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4 to 12
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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 (346), digital storytelling (179), presentations (46), slides (39)
In the Classroom
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:
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