Great app that contains early levels that help build number sense through pictorial and digit representations, as well as leveled multiplication concepts.
Motion Math: Wings
Matholia
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…
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Hot Wheels Speedometry
Hot Wheels Speedometry is a potentially fun physics/math integration that could be worth a look. There are different potential applications for various grade levels.
Simple Machines
These (Simple Machines by Discovery Kids, and Simple Machines) are a couple of possibilities for granting students from elementary to middle school a new experience for added lessons in force and movement.
Build Your Reef
This is a SUPER cool app that allows students the chance to build and care for their own virtual ocean world. It is on all the JK iPads and is both simple to use for our early learners, as well as robust enough to allow our learners to grow with it to build even more!
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.
Nat Geo For Kids
Still a solid resource for science and social studies, National Geographic for Kids has an ever-updating site that contains interactive resources.
“Animal Cams” From Zoos Around The World
Here is a collection of live video from the zoo habitat for the following animals:
Panda Cam
Penguin Cam
Giraffe Cam
Panda Cam
Penguin Cam
Giraffe Cam
Virtual Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History has compiled a huge collection of their exhibits into 360-degree tours.
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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