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WordyKid - LiLoLi Studio
Grades
K to 8
tag(s): game based learning (323), listening (120), phonics (57), speaking (23), spelling (96), vocabulary (260), worksheets (72)
In the Classroom
Have students enter the week's spelling words, complete several short WordyKid game rounds, then write down the three words they still need to practice and explain which spelling pattern caused the difficulty. Assign students to photograph or upload a teacher-prepared vocabulary sheet and turn the words into practice games, then use the resulting rounds as a station activity before a quiz. WordyKid specifically supports worksheets, photos, reading pages, and word lists as source material. Invite English learners to practice a targeted set of classroom vocabulary in English and another supported language, then create a simple bilingual reference sheet showing the word, translation, and an original sentence.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Chalkie - Chalkie AI Ltd
Grades
K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), assessment (142), blended learning (30), presentations (51), remote learning (33), slides (40), Teacher Utilities (233)
In the Classroom
Use Chalkie to create new lessons or to update your current lessons. Easily differentiate materials by adjusting the grade and reading levels you generate. Generate bell-ringers, to-dos, exit tickets, and other quick activities to assess student learning. Use Chalkie as a planning partner to generate a first draft, then review, revise, and adapt the content to fit your students and instructional goals.Edge Features:
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GenType - Labs.Google
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), descriptive writing (41)
In the Classroom
Use GenType to personalize and enhance multimedia projects, newsletters, or written documents. Share it with students to make book reports and research projects more engaging. Generating an alphabet with a prompt requires strong descriptive language; use this feature to give students practice writing descriptive terms. After students create an alphabet, have them share it with a friend and see if they can recreate a similar alphabet without the original prompt. Have students use their alphabets to add interest to websites created using Google Sites, reviewed here or Site123, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Piskel for Kids - Piskel
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): animation (73), creating media (19), creativity (93), images (276)
In the Classroom
Students can post their piskels into a virtual bulletin board such as Stormboard, reviewed here. Create a piskel character depicting the main character of a student's favorite story or display the piskel character in a trading card using Trading Card Creator reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Napkin Slides - Napkin AI
Grades
K to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), presentations (51), visualizations (16)
In the Classroom
Napkin Slides is part of NapkinAI, reviewed here which generates stunning visuals from text. Use both tools to create informative presentations with visuals that enhance student learning. Share Napkin Slides with students to use to create engaging presentations for any subject. Napkin Slides currently only allows users to attach Microsoft documents to a prompt; if using Google products, look for options in each file to download as Word, PowerPoint, or Excel documents.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Online Sticky Notes - Online Notepad
Grades
3 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): organizational skills (92), study aid (175)
In the Classroom
Have students create color-coded sticky notes for facts, questions, vocabulary, and connections while reading a text, then sort their notes before writing a summary. Ask students to build a checklist for a long-term assignment and update each step as they research, draft, revise, and submit their work. Assign students to record one key idea, one supporting detail, and one remaining question after a lesson, then use the notes as an exit ticket or discussion starter.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Bridge Map Templates - Visual Paradigm International Ltd.
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): critical thinking (188), graphic organizers (63), visual thinking (17), vocabulary (260), vocabulary development (112)
In the Classroom
Ask multilingual learners to pair words or phrases in two languages and label the relationship as translation, category, function, or part-to-whole. Students can add images or symbols to support meaning. Invite teams to plan an analogy-based presentation in which each student explains one pair from a shared bridge map. Students can build the final presentation with Microsoft PowerPoint Online, reviewed here. Use an incomplete bridge map as a formative assessment. Ask students to supply missing pairs, identify the relating factor, and explain their reasoning before completing a brief class review with Wayground, formerly Quizizz, reviewed here.Edge Features:
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Vivipod - Vivipod
Grades
K to 12tag(s): assessment (142), blended learning (30), collaboration (142), communication (126), Formative Assessment (48), remote learning (33)
In the Classroom
Use Vivipod in many ways to encourage discussion in any classroom. For example, ask students to share reading responses, math explanations, science observations, and provide quick introductions at the beginning of the year. Use moderation tools as needed when posting responses to ensure that students use proper online etiquette and responses that meet prompt requirements. Because Vivipod is a tool that encourages conversations, use prompts that require students to explain, respond, and react without the need for an in-class discussion. Prompts can require students to respond to a class member's recording or discuss another student's prediction of what might happen during a science experiment.Edge Features:
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Boardous - Boardous
Grades
K to 12tag(s): differentiation (103), Whiteboard (11)
In the Classroom
Use Boardous for small-group work or to assist individual students. If you provide virtual office hours, Boardous is a helpful tool for conducting online learning sessions via video chat and for using the included tools to support learning. Send an invitation code to absent students to review an annotated board created during a lesson, or to meet live and review information they missed. Boardous is also helpful for virtual parent-teacher conferences and for sharing information as you discuss your student's progress.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ArcGIS StoryMaps - Esri
Grades
K to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (182), multimedia (71), presentations (51)
In the Classroom
Have students explore a teacher-selected public StoryMap about a place, event, ecosystem, or historical topic. As they move through the map, they can record three new facts, one important image or map detail, and one question they still have. They can share their findings in a class discussion or exit ticket. Have students explore a public StoryMap about a historical location, changing community, environmental issue, or migration route. They compare the past and present by creating a Venn diagram with 2 and 3 Interactive Venn Diagrams by Class Tools, reviewed here, or a short written response using details from the StoryMap. Assign small groups different sections of one public StoryMap or different StoryMaps about the same topic. Each group can become an expert on its section, then teach classmates using a brief summary, a map detail, and one discussion question.Edge Features:
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FreeShow - Live Church Solutions
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), multimedia (71), presentations (51)
In the Classroom
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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Song Maker - Google Creative Lab, Use All Five, and Yotam Mann
Grades
K to 12tag(s): creativity (93), digital storytelling (182), musical instruments (63), songs (50)
In the Classroom
When students are done creating their songs, use a virtual bulletin board such as Lino, reviewed here to share songs. Students can use Adobe Express for Education, reviewed here to record themselves singing their songs. Students can use Magic School, reviewed here to create lyrics to their song.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Chrome Music Lab - Google Labs
Grades
K to 12tag(s): coding (110), musical instruments (63), summer (53)
In the Classroom
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
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): animation (73), artificial intelligence (358), presentations (51)
In the Classroom
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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Krikey AI - Krikey Inc.
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3 to 12tag(s): animation (73), artificial intelligence (358), digital storytelling (182), presentations (51), social and emotional learning (221), 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:
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Pitch - Pitch Software
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), digital storytelling (182), presentations (51), slides (40)
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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MiriCanvas - MIRI D.I.H.
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), posters (44), presentations (51), social media (64), worksheets (72)
In the Classroom
Students can design a presentation to explain a concept, theme, or research topic, using templates and images to support their understanding and communication skills. Use MiriCanvas to create digital book covers or character profiles that include visuals and descriptive text to demonstrate comprehension of a novel or story. Students can create visually engaging posters or infographics to summarize a story, topic, or unit, helping them organize key ideas and present information clearly.Edge Features:
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Google Data Studio - Google
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), charts and graphs (183), data (214), spreadsheets (23)
In the Classroom
Create collaborative social studies or science inquiry projects in which groups gather research data and design dashboards to explain topics such as weather patterns, population growth, or environmental changes. Teachers can build classroom management or assessment dashboards that display formative assessment trends, attendance, participation, or benchmark growth to guide small-group instruction and enrichment activities. Use Google Data Studio during math lessons to help students interpret real-world data. Students can compare statistics, analyze class averages, or track progress on fluency and goal-setting activities through visual reports.Edge Features:
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Overleaf - Overleaf
Grades
K to 12tag(s): collaboration (142), editing (98), presentations (51)
In the Classroom
Use Overleaf to support a range of K-12 classroom tasks where clear formatting, structure, and collaboration matter. Create and share assignment or note templates that students can open and edit as their own copies, helping standardize formatting and save setup time. Students can work individually or with one partner to draft reports, lab write-ups, or math-heavy documents, using the live preview to check their work as they go. Because everything runs in a browser, it works well alongside tools like Google Docs for drafting ideas first, then moving polished content into Overleaf for final formatting, or Google Sheets to track project links and submissions for simple organization.Edge Features:
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VEED - VEED
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), digital storytelling (182), editing (98)
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Students can create short video summaries of a story or informational text, adding captions and visuals to highlight key ideas and practice summarizing skills. Students can design a digital storytelling project where they narrate an original story or personal narrative, using video clips, images, and voiceovers to bring their writing to life. Students can record and reflect on their learning by creating video journals that explain what they learned, the challenges they faced, and their goals for improvement.Edge Features:
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