Matholia is a site that syncs extremely well with Singapore Math and has a robust set of tools for students to practice bar modeling, geometry, etc…
Matholia
Scientists at the Smithsonian
This site has bios and more dedicated to meeting the scientists who are a part of the Smithsonian Institution. Depending on a particular grade level’s unit of study (ex. SK bat unit, 2nd grade’s rainforests, Middle School’s Earth science…) they could be interesting introductory snippets. There is also contact info for potential distance learning opportunities.
KAHOOT
Chances are, you are already familiar with Kahoot and are actively using it with your class for fun review sessions. If you are unfamiliar, it is a quiz making platform that has an interactive student/teacher interface. There are many ways to personalize it beyond its surface features. It is also worth noting that it is available on all library iPads as an app, which can be useful in groups or as a more mobile option when reviewing for a test.
Foyle Young Poets Contest
Foyle Young Poets is an international contest for 11-year-olds and up, where submissions are entered in late spring. This is a highly regarded and prestigious site where our students may be interested in taking a shot at submitting their poetry.
The Telling Room
Based out of Portland, ME, The Telling Room, is another option for having student submitted work gain a larger audience. It also features information about workshops around the region.
Stone Soup
Stone Soup has been around for a while but it is still one of the top online literary magazines where students can submit their writing or art. Because of the frequency of publication, there is a greater likelihood of one of our young writers or artists being honored.
Will McDonough Writing Contest
The Will McDonough Writing Contest is a great local writing contest centered around sports and sportsmanship, sponsored by the Boston Globe and TD Garden. Place finishers are honored at a Celtics game with a really nice luncheon before a game. They have different categories and in the past, even students who don’t consider themselves “sports enthusiasts” have won based on an original take defining sportsmanship. I have found it to be especially effective in capturing the interest of the otherwise reluctant writer who happens to love sports.
Teaching Tolerance
You are likely already familiar with this fantastic resource but may not have visited their website. There are tons of updated resources that pair well with teaching literature or social studies.
goodreads
You are likely already quite familiar and even active on Good Reads, but you may not have considered it for student use. If even for an added resource to get students excited about new books, it is worth adding here.
The Literacy Shed
The Literacy Shed has a free component that is still a wealth of resources for teaching English, even when you don’t use the paid version. It has videos, posters, printables, etc…
It also contains a great photo library for picture prompts, animation, story starters and more. There is a new feature, The Spelling Shed, that can be a great resource for students to complement any grade level spelling program currently used at different levels.
American Panorama
This site is filled with interactive maps that tell a history of America through social demographics and could therefore be a powerful tool for showing the disparity in advantage across races and cultures.
Smithsonian Learning Lab
This is an interactive resource that allows students to access a giant catalog of sources and images directly from the Smithsonian’s collection.
POWTOON
Powtoon is an interactive presentation format that is vastly more engaging that google slides or powerpoint. The free version still has enough features to allow it to be more visually appealing and engaging than traditional presentations.
EMAZE
Emaze is a super visually appealing platform for creating presentations. Because it contains such a robust catalog of templates and tools, it probably is more powerful in older grades. However, it can be made simple for those who are more comfortable sticking with the basics. For those who wish to pursue extended enrichment opportunities, they can dive into a deep well of features.
Quizizz
Quizizz is similar to Kahoot but with the added bonus of being able to display the quiz questions directly on all student devices. It also has a large library of premade quizzes from teachers and students all around the world.
Quizizz also has an app is on all library iPads so theoretically, a class could borrow them so they all had an iPad in front of them and their laptops could be freed up (or put away) depending on need.
Socrative
Socrative is in the same family of quiz creators and interactive digital learning platforms that help track student understanding in real time. You can set up classes as well so in effect it is a more formalized collection of student data than other quiz platforms like Quizlet or Kahoot.
Watch a video demo below!
FLIPQUIZ
FLIPQUIZ is a resource for making Jeopardy-style games. It doesn’t link you to student responses, in the same way, some of the other platforms like Kahoot or Quizlet do, but it is a good option to have on hand, particularly for students that want to use this as a component to a presented lesson.
Click HERE try out a live demo template
Click HERE for a video overview
EDpuzzle
EDpuzzle is a program that lets you easily create lessons/mini-lessons and quizzes that incorporate video clips that you and/or students can annotate. It is a solid tool for both teacher designed and student created lessons.
Follow Historical Figures on Twitter
@washpapers and @jqadams_MHS are two strong examples of well maintained and updated twitter feeds designed to seem like the historical figures themselves are tweeting.
Fantasy Map Generator
This is a map making resource where students can create their own fantasy world. It is one way to incorporate coding into a project where you want students to create a utopia/distopia and establish a government or teach about the flow of a planet’s resources. However, students can also just edit within the map and options menus without coding if it makes more sense for your lesson. To take it a step further, students can first generate and re-name a map here, and then import it into another mapping program to mark up, or even beyond that, bring it into coSpaces to get a “virtual view”.
Click HERE for a few additional helpful resources you can adapt from a project some of our students used to create their own.
Google Tour Builder
Google Tour Builder continues to become more powerful in its ability to create interactive maps and presentations, blending a multimedia map-making platform within Google Earth. Virtual reality is at the forefront of some of the biggest additions to the latest version. NOTE: The Tour Builder platform will be discontinued and merged into Google Arts and Culture in June 2021
Google Earth (With New Features Including VR)
While Google Earth has been around for a while now, the recent updates are really eye-popping. The possibilities with which you can use Google Tour Builder alone make it a very powerful tool in teaching social studies and geography. New 360 degree images also allow for the incorporation of virtual reality experiences for students.
NewseumED
The Newseum has a really robust education branch that contains a huge volume of maps, primary sources and more. It also is a fantastic resource for teaching students about how to evaluate news and quality of information.
Tiki-Toki Digital Timelines
This site is a powerful way to help students gain perspective of time and space. There are multiple views that you can toggle between and many students can collaborate to create a master timeline
Click HERE to check out a timeline created by 4th graders during their study of explorers.
ThingLink
ThingLink is another option for independent student projects, or unit wrap-ups for students to show what they have learned. Click HERE to examine the picture below to see how one could embed info into an animated gif. There are unlimited possibilities for using this platform either in teaching, student learning, assessment, and lesson enhancement.
Tinybop
Tinybop is another app that allows students of a variety of ages to construct a course filled with ramps, gears, and pulleys to traverse through a scene.
NASA Spacecraft 3D
This app by NASA (featuring work from the California Institute of Technology) has some great augmented reality 3D images of our solar system and the machines we use to explore it.
Water Cycle App
There are tons of apps that support teaching lower school science. This app (also a site) centers on the watershed and contains a number of interactive models to show students.
Teachers Try Science
A free subscription to this site gets you a nice collection of materials, particularly good if you looking for a collection of videos showing quick science experiments that support your lesson.
Wonderville
A free account in Wonderville still allows science teachers access to a large catalog of videos, interactive posters and more.
Virtual Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History has compiled a huge collection of their exhibits into 360-degree tours.
Virtual Field Trips Through VR
360Cities is a free catalog of 360 Photos and Videos from around the world. THOUSANDS of pictures that students can immerse themselves in with or without VR headsets. Check out a few of the many ancient Greek sites the 5th graders could explore. Best of all, this resource can be paired with CoSpaces as the images are free for the students to use.
CoSpaces
CoSpaces could actually live anywhere on this menu as it is more a platform where
can create a 3-D world embedding any content they wish. One particularly powerful possibility is having students create a virtual museum, either collectively or individually.
can create a 3-D world embedding any content they wish. One particularly powerful possibility is having students create a virtual museum, either collectively or individually. 
Students wishing to code may do so as it can use drag and drop for the non-coder, block-based coding for the novice coder, and java for the advanced coder. As a cherry on top, students can explore their world, museum, etc… using a virtual reality headset.
Wonderopolis
Wonderopolis is a great site for students to explore independently, or as a class “warm-up” as it rotates a new thought-provoking question a day. There is a ton of information, videos, etc… on a huge range of topics.
Graphic Organizer Generator
This site, has templates at the ready for creating graphic organizers that could be a good fit for a particular assignment or help a particular student gather their thoughts before writing.
Biblionasium
Unlike Epic, Biblionasium does not have a catalog of the actual e-readers, however it is a fantastic digital bookshelf that manages student reading logs for you. The best part is, the students can recommend books to each other, you could recommend them to the whole class, or add titles to a specific student’s bookshelf.
Book Creator: iPad
Book Creator has been a familiar resource for a few years now, but constant updates to the program have now really begun to unleash possibilities. The online platform allows our students to really tap into the ease with which they can create e-books and organize them on a digital bookshelf. It could even be a viable alternative to websites for housing and publishing their research projects.
Book Creator has also added a major update this Fall; the ability to embed content from
other sites and applications!
Explore some samples of ways our students have used Book Creator below!
EPIC
This resource, Epic, is a digital library of over 30,000 books, free to educators where students can keep a bookshelf of fiction and nonfiction. Excellent extra option for research resources, as well as for igniting an interest in pleasure reading. I am happy to set this up for you and your class if you are interested in using it.
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