Resources

 

Backchanneling and Polling

  • Answer Garden
    • Answer Garden is an online tool that allows users to create interactive word clouds
  • Backchannel Chat
    • Provides a chatroom-like environment for participants to communicate and ask questions during presentations or lectures
  • Chatzy
    • Online chat platform that allows users to create private chat rooms for group discussions
  • Flinga
    • A collaborative whiteboard app that enables users to draw, sketch, and write on a shared canvas. It can be used for brainstorming, group projects, and visual presentations
  • Google Forms
    • A versatile survey and data collection tool. It allows users to create customized forms with various question types and collect responses in a structured manner
  • Google Jamboard
    • Digital whiteboard app that enables users to collaborate in real-time. It provides tools for drawing, writing, adding images, and sticky notes
  • Mentimeter
    • An interactive presentation tool that allows presenters to engage with their audience through live polls, quizzes, word clouds, and more
  • Padlet
    • a virtual bulletin board where users can post text, images, videos, and documents
  • Poll Everywhere
    • A real-time polling app that enables presenters to gather live feedback from their audience
  • Slido
    • An audience engagement platform that allows presenters to collect and prioritize audience questions, conduct live polls, and facilitate discussions
  • Socrative
    • A classroom response system that enables teachers to create quizzes, polls, and educational games
  • Tricider
    •  A collaborative decision-making tool that allows users to propose ideas, gather feedback, and vote on the best solutions
  • Wooclap
    • An interactive learning platform that enables teachers to create engaging quizzes, polls, and interactive presentations
  • YoTeachApp
    • A classroom response system that allows teachers to create quizzes, conduct live polls, and facilitate discussions

Presentation

  • Adobe Spark
  • A creative suite that includes tools for creating web pages, videos, and graphics. It provides templates and intuitive features for designing visually appealing presentations, social media posts, and digital stories.
  • Beautiful
  • App that allows users to create stunning presentations and slideshows
  • Book Creator
  • An app that enables users to create and publish interactive digital books
  • Buncee
  • A multimedia presentation tool that allows users to create interactive slides with text, images, videos, audio, and animations
  • Canva
  • A graphic design platform that offers a wide range of templates, design elements, and customization options.
  • Circly
  • A presentation app that focuses on circular design elements
  • Classroomscreen
  • Versatile teacher tool that provides a customizable virtual classroom interface. It offers widgets for timers, random name selection, noise level monitoring, background images, and more
  • Flipgrid
  • A video discussion platform that allows teachers to create "grids" where students can share video responses
  • Flipsnack
  • An online tool for creating interactive flipbooks and digital magazines
  • Genial.ly
  • Genial.ly is an interactive content creation platform that enables users to design visually appealing presentations, infographics, quizzes, and interactive maps
  • Google Slides
  • Google Slides is a web-based presentation tool that allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on presentations online
  • Nearpod
  • Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool that enables teachers to create engaging multimedia lessons
  • Pear Deck
  • Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool that integrates with Google Slides. It allows teachers to create interactive slides with embedded questions, quizzes, and discussions. Students can participate and respond in real-time, promoting active learning and formative assessment.
  • PowToon
  • A digital animation tool that enables users to create animated presentations, explainer videos, and engaging storytelling content
  • Prezi
  • A presentation software that utilizes a zooming user interface to create dynamic and non-linear presentations
  • SlideDog
  • A presentation software that allows users to seamlessly combine different types of media into a single presentation
  • Slides Carnival
  • A collection of free presentation templates for Google Slides and PowerPoin
  • Slides Mania
  • Provides a wide range of free presentation templates for Google Slides and PowerPoint
  • Slides.go
  • An online presentation tool that allows users to create and share presentations
  • Visme
  • A visual content creation platform that offers tools for creating presentations, infographics, reports, and interactive visual content

Visual Arts

General (Not Grade Specific)

Grades: K-8

Grades: 9-12

Performing Arts

General (Not Grade Specific)

Grades: K-5

Grades: 5-8

Grades:9-12

  • AudioNodes
    • Fairly advanced but, great for teaching concepts of modular sythesis (fun too)
  • io-808
    • Perfect free, online replica of the vintage TR-808 drum machine. Great for teaching beat divisions as well as drum programming. Beats are downladable as audio files.
  • Musicaa
    • Interactive practice and tutorials
  • MusicTheory.net
    • Solid, interactive music theory tutorial.
  • Mutopia
    • Free sheet music and midi files of public domain material
  • Soundation
    • Free online DAW
  • Viktor NV-1
    • Fully programmable online synthesizer

Grades:K-12

  • Health Teacher
    • HealthTeacher was originally developed in 1999 by health educators and health professionals with the goal of providing a comprehensive online resource that would make it easy to teach good health habits to children.
  • Nutrition.gov
    • Providing easy, online access to government information on food and human nutrition for consumers.
  • PE Central
    • PE Central is a web site that provides information about developmentatally appropriate physical education practices and programs.
  • Sports Illustrated for Kids
    • SIKIDS.COM is the online counterpart to Sports Illustrated For Kids magazine. We aim to create a fun, safe environment for kids, filled with some of the best news, games, and interactive features on the internet.

Grades:4-8

    • Cool web quests and curricular ideas/ Excellent lesson on copyright
  • edHelper
    • Reading lessons based on thematic units
  • Graphic Organizers
    • Tons of printable graphic organizers for pre-writing

Grades:9-12

Grades:K-3

  • Enchanted Learning
    • Enchanted Learning, LLC produces K-12 educational material that is published online. We have 30,000 pages on our website covering a wide range of topics.
  • Funbrain
    • The Playground helps parents introduce their preschoolers to the Internet and teaches them how to manipulate the mouse and keyboard.
  • PBS Kids
  • Storybooks
    • Lil' Fingers is a storybook site for toddlers with educational games, storybooks and printable coloring pages.

Grades:K-8

  • AAAMath
  • Allmath
  • MathCounts
    • MATHCOUNTS is a national enrichment, club and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement

Grades:K-12

  • Cool Math
    • Coolmath was designed for the frustrated, the confused, the bored students of the world who hate math.
  • edhelper
    • Math Worksheets and math Printables

Grades:9-12

  • Mathletics
    • Mathletics is the next generation of helping students to learn and enjoy math by improving their skills.

Grades:K-8

  • BrainPOP
    • BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement.

Grades:6-8

  • The Science Spot
    • Welcome to the Science Spot website, a resource for middle school teachers and students!

Grades:K-12

  • Social Studies Lesson Plans
    • Lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful.
  • Today in Black History
    • African American history resources.
  • Women's History
    • The National Women's History Project, founded in 1980, is an educational nonprofit organization. Our mission is to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational materials and programs.

General (Not Grade Specific)

Grades: 5-8

Grades: 9-12

  • CMU-CS Academy
    • Online, graphics-based computer science curriculum taught in Python provided by Carnegie Mellon University
  • Code.org
    • Curriculum for k-12 computer science (includes AP curriculums)
  • Earsketch (Georgia Tech)
    • Learn Python and/or Javascript coding with music
  • LearnPython.org
    • Free interactive Python tutorials
  • MakeCode Arcade
    • Microsoft coding environment made for gaming concepts
  • MIT App Inventor
    • Online block-coding environment to create Android apps
  • Thunkable
    • Online block coding environment to create iOS apps

Grades:K-12

  • Epals
    • Meet teachers and students from faraway places
  • Keyboard Help
    • How to accent letters in Word
  • Spanish Lesson Exersizes
    • Interactive workbook of introductory Spanish language exercises, based on the pictorial contextualization of fundamental vocabulary and language points.
  • Transparent.com
    • Word of the Day, games, tests

Grades:K-12