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Educator Online Resources
Math Teachers - Problem-based lessons that foster students' curiosity. Created by Graham Fletcher, he has different lessons broken down standards. It's an engaging way to allow for student lead learning. He has graphic organizers to help students with their thinking and videos to help answer any question the teacher may have. If you do have a question, he is quick to respond and help any way he can.
Free for teachers- great for differentiation within the classroom. Very motivating and fun for the kids. Videos and some games can be played with a whole group for introduction or review of lessons. Can have lessons set up for use at home.
Lots of tasks, lessons, assessments, and alignment to help students better understand. Just be aware this is aligned to Common Core and a lot of our standards are still similar to Common Core, but always double-check with your standards for alignment. Helpful for Math and ELA teaches.
Lots of resources to help students, past assessments, and a ton of other items. Linked to a doc with several web-pages.
ACT Resources
Statistics in Schools - Educate your students about the value and everyday use of statistics. The Statistics in Schools program provides resources for teaching and learning with real life data. Explore the site for standards-aligned, classroom-ready activities. Classroom Resources - Math, History, State facts, English, Geography, Sociology, warm up activities, and fun facts.
Census Burearu
ClassDojo connects teachers with students and parents to build amazing classroom communities
**There is a free basic version. The Premium version does come at a cost.
Classroom management tool for grades 6-12. He uses it in his classroom to help motivate students to complete assignments as well as keep their volume low while working in groups using the volume meter. You can create quests and can use it with or without computers. Worth checking out!
Classroom Cereal is a series of free, printable short stories that double as grammar exercises. The original short stories are published monthly and in five parts. Each part of the story contains five grammatical errors. Enjoy the story and find the errors. It's simple and nourishing, much like a certain grain-based breakfast food.
**There is a free basic version. The Premium version comes at a cost.
Laurens created this tool to utilize the digiboard in their classroom to help students focus on their work.
This is a great activity to help the student develop reading comprehension skills.
Cloze Reading
This website offers a ton of passages and AIR-like questions (Part A & B). You can also sort your results by grade level, Lexile level, genre, theme, standard, or literary device. The passages start at a 3rd-grade level and go through 12th.
FREE - Middle and High School - Teaching Genetics with Dragons - engages students in exploring heredity, genetics, and the protein-to-trait relationship by breeding and studying virtual dragons.
Transforming education with technology from Eric Curts - I believe he is a former ELA and Math teacher - he has a TON of resources around using Google suits and how to apply it in every classroom. He also has recorded webinars if you are more of an auditory learner.
Math - Online state calculator - The best part is the teacher side, you can use it in grades 2 - 12, lessons are already created or you can create your own. You can instantly see students' results, for immediate reteach. Several different activities for students to learn different concepts (not just a calculator).
Desmos
It has all the state released test questions, plus tons of others, it allows kids to experience testing very similar to how they will be assessed on AIR and EOC. What I love most about it, is it can grade for you, plus it breaks the data down to help you know what your kiddos need to be successful.
You can have students watch a video and stop it along the way and force them to answer questions. If the student gets the question wrong you can have them watch that section again until they answer correctly, plus on the teacher end, you can monitor how they responded each time to assess their progress.
Free online learning community, lots of different content covered depending on the presenter. Plus you can earn FREE CEU hours for watching/ participating in a video. I've attended a lot of these and always leave having learned something new.
Free for teachers at the basic level - can level your students and they are given placement tests periodically to move students up. Lessons are retaught in a different way when students are not grasping the concept. Progress reports and questions answered correctly and incorrectly are logged. Can be used at home using the school code.
**There is a monthly cost after the free trial
Digital flipbook maker for stunning magazines, create, share and embed online magazines, transforming your PDFs into online flipping books - Basic plan is Free can do a lot with it.
Game show classroom: Comparing Kahoot!, Quizizz, Quizlet Live, and GimKit. - The following is from Ditch that Textbook: It gives a breakdown of each of the applications, how and when is the best way to use them with your students.
Game Show Classroom
**This comes at a cost after the free trial
This is a great way to allow the student to discover and learn math and science concepts through discovery. Students can manipulate the items on the screen to help them determine the solution. It allows for the kids to take a pretest over the material and then an assessment at the end.
20 ways to ditch that textbook k-2. If you’re looking for tons of great resources for primary students then you have hit the jackpot. Here are more than 20 ready to use templates to use in your classroom.
If you have not yet tried this with your students, it is a must - the kids LOVE it - you can create your own questions or use questions already created. It is an interactive game of questions and points.
This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place. Each image has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and online tools and applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Lino is a sticky note and photo sharing platform (FREE) - a great way to create conversation in your classroom. Create a board, share it with the students; and allow them to ask questions and answer each other questions. This can be done anonymously or with student identifier.
Classroom Challenges are lessons that support teachers in formative assessment. There are 100 lessons in total, 20 at each grade from 6 to 8 and 40 for ‘Career and College Readiness’ at High School Grades 9 and above. Some lessons are focused on developing math concepts, others on solving non-routine problems.
Over the past 5 years, this blog has seen nearly 3.1 million views. The most popular strategies from the blog all have one thing in common: They include downloadable resources and strategies which can be immediately used in the classroom. They are also free!
Learners Edge put out their top 10 new tech tips - these resources can be used in PreK - 12 classrooms. There are ideas for Google and Microsoft schools. It gives a brief description of the tech and how you may apply it in your classroom.
**Some components may come at a cost.
This resource has lessons in all content areas and charts students progress. You can become a part of a competition and then you will have access to the whole program.
National Science Foundation - lesson plans, conferences and professional development information, curriculum ideas, general support articles.
National Science Foundation
Lots of resources - Open educational resources are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.
A great resource to manipulate PDFs for a variety of purposes. I have used it to divide pages with a PDF, combine pages from a PDF and reorganize pages in a PDF.
We inspire learners to be curious and to use the tools of history to become change-makers. Our resources come in all shapes and sizes, just like those of us looking to learn. Our programming is aligned to Ohio's Learning Standards, Historical Thinking Skills, and 21st Century Learning.
Physical Education teachers - Free for teachers - Networking site - lesson plans, ideas, videos, discussion boards, and much more
**This resource comes at a cost after the free 30 day trial.
Peergrade is a free online platform to facilitate peer feedback sessions with students. Students review each other's work while peer grade anonymously assigns students to work and gives insight to teachers. Students learn to think critically and take ownership of their learning. You can get 3 months of Peergrade Pro free - sign up for a free 30-day trial then use the code Cult (thanks to the cult of pedagogy podcast)
This is an interactive simulation for Elem to High School - it is for Math and Science contents. The simulations are very user-friendly and allow kids to have a great visual to understand tough concepts in a concrete way.
**Comes at a cost after the free trial.
A lot of non-fiction and multicultural book choices. Teachers can set goals for student achievement for reading time and number of books. Can be logged into at home as well. A lot of the books offered are books AR Tests can be taken on.
**There is a free version. Upgrades come at a cost.
Enhance students learning with various tools, games, and flashcards. The basic version is free for teachers.
I like this website for ideas on lesson plans and support for ELA teachers and learners. There are articles and sample lesson plans available.
Can be used k - 12 in all content areas - you can assign students articles based on content, interest, and level - the program is designed to increase comprehension.
Math - Problem Based learning - Lesson plans created based on CC standards. Great way to introduce or reinforce a lesson. Allows students to learn a concept based on real-world application. You will be surprised at how well the students do with their modeling and reasoning skills (Mathematical Practice - Modeling and Reasoning 20% of AIR assessment)
Christina Tondevold is a former elementary math teacher that taught very traditionally until she realized it wasn't working for her kiddos anymore. I follow her on Twitter and Facebook. She will offer free training and shares her ideas. I have never paid for her information, she is quick to answer questions and truly cares about the development of early learning math skills.
These are FREE colorful templates to enhance your Google Slides and PowerPoint presentations.
Looking for inspiration for a science fair project? Science Buddies has over 1,200 Project Ideas in all areas of science. The Topic Selection Wizard tool can help you find a project you will enjoy! Lots of health, STEM, Science, and Engineering lessons, works with Google Classroom too.
Provides technology integration support for schools for instructional and administrative purposes, including a wide variety of resources, activities, services, and professional development.
Online lessons and assessments lots of historical photos to enrich students understanding.
Math resource - Very powerful, highly interactive number sense strategy that can be used at any grade level, a good way to find out how the kids are thinking - downloadable PowerPoint math lessons - created by Steve Wyborney - video to help understand how to use with kids.
This is a free site where teachers can share or use a Hyperdoc already created. This is a wonderful place to find new ideas. If you click on the Take one - type in your keyword and see what resources come up. (this is a Google concept)
Have you ever gone to your bookmarked webpages on your computer only to realize this wasn't the computer you bookmarked them to? Symbaloo helps with that. You can bookmark your pages to this then it is wherever you are. I use this every day, it's the first thing I log in to because my email link is saved on here. You can create your own webmixes or search for others. It truly is my favorite webpage!!! Webmixes are the tabs across the top and you can organize them to whatever best suits you and you can share them. So if you are covering a certain topic and want to share only those resources with the kids you can.
Several resources within this one - world-famous art museums - Ohio art museums -nature and parks - natural history and science - design, fashion, and crafts - apps - cultural, sport, and entertainment - history and geography - unusual, odd and weird categories. Lots to see.
This is one of those resources I wish I had discovered it when I was still in the classroom. My twitter consists of mostly educational resources, it is a great way to connect with other educators.
**There is a free version. Upgrades come at a cost.
Trello’s boards, lists, and cards enable you to organize and prioritize your projects in a fun, flexible, and rewarding way.
Create your own custom word search worksheets! A variety of options are available including font size, font style, lowercase or uppercase letters, grid shape, word placement, and more.
**There is a free 7 day trial then there is a small cost.
Vooks brings children's books to life with animated illustrations, read-a-long text and narrated story. The ad-free platform features a variety titles that have been engaging students all across the world. Whether being used as part of the lesson or to wind class down, Vooks is a fun and versatile tool for the classroom.
This is a FREE K-5 math resource-based website with Engage NY curriculum - can be used with the whole group, small group, and independent learning, plus data reports are available to monitor student progress.
This is a Math webpage created by Jo Boaler - if you go to the Tasks and More she has a ton of tasks broken down based on grade level and skill you want to have students, master. Ideas and Impact are about the philosophies on how to help kids with math.
**The Starter version is free. There is a Pro version that comes at a cost.
You can create your own binder to store resources or just look at others.
Has a TON of resources for every grade/ content area. You need to just click on the link and see for yourself all it has to offer.