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ThemeSpark - David Hunter
Grades
K to 12
tag(s): assessment (139), professional development (303), rubrics (38), Teacher Utilities (205)
In the Classroom
Use ThemeSpark for all of your lesson planning. Copy and paste current lesson plans to Theme Spark to match to standards. Collaborate with peers to create and develop standards-based lessons for your entire curriculum. This is perfect for when you need to have a sub, and for those teachers who must have a week of lesson plans on their desk for an administrator.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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PenPal Schools - Joe Troyen
Grades
2 to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (273), collaboration (110), cross cultural understanding (177), DAT device agnostic tool (127)
In the Classroom
Help students create thoughtful responses and commentsby researching the provided topic by using the Venn Diagram Creator by Canva, reviewed here to compare and contrast information to discuss. Learn more about the countries in your group using Google My Maps, reviewed here to create a collaborative map of each country and add information about landmarks, large cities, and places of cultural importance.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Wright Brothers - Who Were Wilbur & Orville? - Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
Grades
K to 12tag(s): aviation (50), flight (32), wright brothers (17)
In the Classroom
What a perfect addition to a lesson about the Wright brothers or a science unit about aviation (physics and more)! Have students work in cooperative learning groups and research a specific topic found at this site. Enhance learning by having students use Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about one of the Wright brothers or as a spectator viewing one of the first flying machines. Be sure to take advantage of the free experiments and activities available on the site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sign Generator - Ryland Sanders
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): graphic design (49), images (263), photography (134), posters (44)
In the Classroom
Create signs to include with multimedia projects. Customize a sign for use on your interactive whiteboard with directions for seat work or to introduce students presenting projects to the class. Have students use the images to give short story summaries using only four to six words. Create a set of class rules using one of the templates, and then print and post them on a bulletin board.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ClassDojo Big Ideas, Big Conversations - Class Dojo
Grades
K to 8tag(s): brain (59), emotions (63), empathy (48), learning styles (21), social and emotional learning (164), social skills (23)
In the Classroom
You may want to start your school year by sharing the three-part Empathy video series. Each video is five minutes and has a discussion guide. As a follow-up, use the Ripples of Kindness activity in small groups. Share younger students' observations on a whiteboard or poster. Older students can share their observations using a tool like Stickies.io, reviewed here. Stickies.io allows participants to add comments. Share other videos with a projector or on an interactive whiteboard to introduce a video each week and explore the discussion questions together. These videos could be very useful when preparing and motivating students for upcoming standardized testing or at the beginning of a school year to set a tone that everyone can learn. Include a link to videos on your class web page for parents to discuss at home with their student, and be sure to send home the take-home questions with topics to talk about.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office - United States Patent and Trademark Office
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): crafts (109), digital citizenship (104), inventors and inventions (87), sound (74), sports (87), STEM (354)
In the Classroom
Begin by showing the video Extraordinary Innovations on the USPTO site using a projector or interactive whiteboard. Have students work in teams to design a simple prototype or sketch an invention idea, explaining what problem it solves and how it might be patented. They can make the prototypes digitally with an online tool such as Delightex, reviewed here or Tinkercad, reviewed here. Organize an "Innovation Fair" where students present their invention ideas or research projects, complete with mock patent applications and inventor trading cards they design themselves.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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eLearning Infographics - e-Learning Industry LLC
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): digital storytelling (163), infographics (69), professional development (303)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the infographics on this site for both classroom use and professional development. Introduce a topic by sharing the Infographic and allowing time for students (or peers) to identify various items that they notice about the chart. Allow time to think-pair-share and list questions for further understanding. Choose a new infographic each week and use links for each image to embed on your website or share via social media. Make curriculum content more real with infographics that students can relate to. Consider creating Infographics of material students are learning in class for better understanding and connection with other topics and the world around them. You and students can create a simple infographic sharing information and/or findings using Snappa, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fun Science Demos - Dr. George Mehler & Jared Hottenstein
Grades
K to 8tag(s): earth (193), electricity (60), energy (138), engineering (138), heat (13), human body (97), life cycles (22), magnetism (36), matter (50), minerals (14), moon (86), recycling (45), rocks (44), solar system (122), sound (74), space (242), STEM (354), sun (85), water (104)
In the Classroom
Flip your classroom and use a video as homework. Have students take notes on the material and write down questions they still have and topics that confuse them. Or, use a tool like playposit,reviewed here, for students to pause videos and ask or answer questions right on the video. These activities can uncover misconceptions. Show the video to the class, and then discuss the concept at length. To share a single video from this site without all the YouTube clutter, View Pure, reviewed here, and create a shortcut to the View Pure page directly on the desktop. For more advanced classes, provide time for students to choose a video to view and research the underlying concept.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Plants Map - Bill Blevins
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): communities (38), maps (222), plants (140)
In the Classroom
Share Plants Map on your interactive whiteboard or projector to locate and discover different kinds of plants. Click the map to find species near you. If you are lucky enough to have a school garden, Plants Map is the perfect site for planning, documenting, and sharing your garden with your students and community.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
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Products can be shared by URL
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Girls Garage (Project H) - Project H Design - Emily Pilloton
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): architecture (81), creativity (84), design (76), gifted (63), STEM (354)
In the Classroom
Share Project H with students as a resource for group projects or enrichment. The ideas on Project H are perfect when considering ideas for math, science, or art Fairs. Create a link on your class website for students to use at home. After completing a project, have students take a photo. Then, show them how to embed media transforming their work by uploading it to Google Drawings, reviewed here. Students can then annotate the photo with text boxes, related links, and video to explain the process of how they created their product.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Compound Interest - Andy Brunning
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): chemicals (36), climate change (116), diseases (60), halloween (46), medicine (55), molecules (41), periodic table (49)
In the Classroom
Bookmark Compound Interest as an excellent resource for chemistry classes throughout the year. Share infographics on your interactive whiteboard or projector to introduce a new teaching unit or lesson. Use any of the 10 included Halloween infographics to incorporate holidays like Halloween into your chemistry lessons. Ask students to visit the Infographics Index to find a topic of interest as a starting point for a research project. Ask students to share their research as part of a multimedia project using Canva Edu, reviewed here to create original infographics, presentations, and videos.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Classroom Freebies - Charity Preston
Grades
K to 8tag(s): back to school (52), book reports (26), classroom management (125), commoncore (61), posters (44), preK (317), substitutes (25), worksheets (70)
In the Classroom
Bookmark Classroom Freebies as an excellent resource for teaching materials throughout the school year. Take advantage of the free printables for use on bulletin boards, for classroom management, and centers. Choose materials from the site to use in substitute folders. Be sure to share this site with your fellow teachers! You might consider finding snow day and vacation day activities to post on your class website for parent and student use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Adobe Creative Cloud Express - Adobe
Grades
K to 12tag(s): blogs (73), communication (120), creative writing (126), design (76), digital storytelling (163), microblogging (14), posters (44)
In the Classroom
Possible uses are only limited by your imagination! Create your own flyer, poster, business card, etc. for parents and students where they can learn a little you and what is happening in your classroom. Enhance or extend student learning (depending on the project requirement) by having students create a visual to accompany books read in class, tell about social studies events, or display images for different science terms. Flip your classroom using Adobe Express presentations. Adobe Express is perfect to use for presentations, digital storytelling, or a gift (think Mother's Day) in any subject!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Highbrow - Artem Zavyalov & Jane Limanskaya
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): 20th century (169), architecture (81), authors (113), business (50), differentiation (87), endangered species (28), equations (132), financial literacy (93), greeks (45), human body (97), inventors and inventions (87), logic (163), medicine (55), mental math (18), numbers (120), photography (134), poetry (195), psychology (61), short stories (18), surrealism (2), weather (173), women (186)
In the Classroom
Highbrow is perfect for differentiated learning. Allow students to choose their own topic and sign up for a course. When complete, choose another topic and start a new course. Modify classroom technology by having students create commercials for finished courses using Powtoon, reviewed here, and share them using a tool such as TeacherTube, reviewed here. Challenge students to create a course after a unit of study as a final assessment. Be sure to include this site on your class webpage for students to access both in and outside of class for personal use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Blended Learning Implementation Guide - John Bailey, Scott Ellis, Carri Schneider, & Tom Vander Ark
Grades
K to 12tag(s): professional development (303)
In the Classroom
Print and share this guide as an excellent resource when implementing blended learning in your classroom or school. Be sure to save a link to the online version to access the videos linked within the guide. Use the guide as part of your professional development sessions. Discuss and work with different portions of the guide throughout the year as you learn about blended learning. Consider using this guide as a book study with your peers for one year, then implementing blended learning the following year.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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GoToQuiz - gotoquiz.com
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): assessment (139), quiz (61), quizzes (88)
In the Classroom
Create a Go To Quiz as a tool for checking prior knowledge or making a quick assessment. Have students answer exit questions or see what students remember from the previous day using Go To Quiz. Use for formative assessment to identify misconceptions that students may have at the start of a unit. ESL/ELL and world language teachers could use this for vocabulary practice. Have students create quizzes with characteristics of story characters for classmates to see which character they are most like.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Maker Camp - Maker Media, Inc
Grades
K to 8tag(s): crafts (109), energy (138), magnetism (36), origami (14), solar energy (35)
In the Classroom
Use Maker Camp as an excellent resource for finding hands-on learning activities for your classroom. Share this site with students who love to tinker! Be sure to provide a link on your classroom website for parents to use when looking for at-home activities. If you teach an after school program, search Maker Camp to find activities for many different topics.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Flock - Cookies Riva FZC
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): chat (40), communication (120), microblogging (14), polls and surveys (41)
In the Classroom
Teachers can use the chat feature to communicate with parents or students. Collaborate with other educators on lesson plans and activities. Create groups of students during group projects for collaboration. Attach the directions to the chat and monitor the conversation by including yourself in the group and promoting good digital citizenship. Use the poll feature to check for understanding or use the chat as an exit ticket.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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Voxer - Tom Katis
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): chat (40), communication (120), DAT device agnostic tool (127), listening (102), microblogging (14), multilingual (77), social media (61), speaking (22), speech (66)
In the Classroom
Extend classroom technology use by using Voxer with early readers in your Daily 5 literacy structure for oral reading and listening to others read. Archive students' reading fluency at the beginning of the year, making comparisons throughout the year. Send the Voxer sample readings to parents via email so they can hear the progress and your comments, too. Use Voxer with any language learning students, both ENL/ESL and world languages. Students can practice speaking and listening in their new language. Connect with another class in a country speaking the language your students are learning for rich, real-world discussions. Create small groups to discuss anything from current events, to how to complete a math problem, to contributions for group research projects. Middle and high school teachers can use Voxer for communication between classes posting a question about the reading they are doing, an equation in math, or a lab in science. Collaborate with another classroom across the state or in another country allowing students to discuss with other students not in their school. Reluctant writers could use this tool to brainstorm their thoughts for a writing piece. With students under 13 consider setting up a class account using a global login. Students would need to give their first name when contributing so you will know who is speaking.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
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Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
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The Sled Dogs of the Arctic Circle - PBS Learning Media
Grades
4 to 8In the Classroom
Watch the video together with a projector or on an interactive whiteboard as part of your lessons on the Iditarod. Have students create an annotated image featuring race information with included text boxes, video, and related links using a tool such as Thinglink, reviewed here. Create a class wiki as you learn about sled dogs and the Iditarod. Not comfortable with wikis? Check out the TeachersFirst Wiki Walk-Through.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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