Click on the buttons below to explore RESOURCES THAT ENGAGE your students and help to make concepts CLICK!
Visible Thinking: Looking for information on how to use routines and protocols to help you help your students make their thinking visible? Explore this site to find all you need--and more!
Classroom Screen: Online website that will give you a whiteboard, graph "paper", timers, clock, and more. So much here. User friendly. Bookmark this one.
Seesaw: Student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication--lots of amazing features for students to share their voice! Seesaw curates a library of ready-made interactive lessons to explore or inspire you to make your own.
Padlet: online bulletin board; use to pose open-ended questions, brainstorm, answer questions, share quotes from text, pose document-based questions using primary sources, write to explain math problems.
Pear Deck: Pear Deck works to make any slide presentation (Google Slides OR PowerPoint) interactive with collaboration, writing, response to questions, and more. It works with any slide presentation program you're used to. In fact, you can even import your old PowerPoint, Google Slides, and PDFs to turn them into powerful interactive Pear Decks right from your Google Drive. Gives the quiet kids in the classroom a voice too! Use in real time in classroom, or student-paced. Embed links, videos. Also, Newsela and Pear Deck have partnered and offer excellent slide decks for students to read articles and respond.
Quizlet is a free website providing learning tools for students to practice vocabulary and key learning concepts. Easily create flashcards, provide a link to students , or print off flashcards and quizzes for hands-on practice too. In order to use online assessment, teaachers pay $25 per year.
Quizizz is a game-based classroom response system and offers students a fun way to review, create their own games, exit tickets, review, and more. Keeps students (and adults) engaged!
Wizer Create online, interactive learning experiences or visible thinking activities that can be easily distributed and graded online.
Kahoot! is a game-based classroom response system and educational platform. Use it with your students to introduce new concepts and find out what students already know, exit ticket questions, review quizzes, and more. Kahoot! initiates peer-led discussions, with students left on the edge of their seats. Warning: it could get noisy with this action-packed game!
Gimkit is a game-based response system and educational platform. Students compete and are able to use gaming techniques such as blocking opponents, earn "cash" to buy game-time upgrades & power-ups to assist them in their quest to better position themselves in the game. Students (and teachers) love this one! A fun time and questions are delivered to each student individually--they can check answers if they are incorrect and questions may be presented several times throughout a game (depending on time and number of questions) which means it is an excellent review tool. Can be played remotely!
Socrative is a cloud-based student response system. It allows teachers to create tests, quizzes, and polls. Tests are immediately scored, and responses available to download. Easy to analyze data and review with full class. Tag questions with Common Core learning strands available. Fun review opportunities with Space Race (or bikes, or bears, oh my!)
GoFormative is an educator-created site. Its goal is to provide teachers with an immediate opportunity to assess student growth and differentiate learning through real-time feedback. Teachers create or upload an assignment and indicate where/how students are to answer. Options for answering include: multiple choice, numeric, text, drawing or taking a picture. Create different classes easily with different class access codes. Instantly check comprehension. Watch the video, and then click the button to go to the site, should you desire.
Plickers Use Plickers for quick, engaging assessment. All students able to participate, it's fun, and interactive. Keep students interested by mixing up your formative assessment and quick checks.
Stile Education a learning platform that provides teachers with one place to create lessons, share when ready (schedule the release of lessons in advance) and combine all learning tools in one place from multiple choice to true and false to graphing to mind mapping to sharing videos and images and even to have a real-time class discussion!
Thinglink: Thinglink is a fun, interactive site where you, or your students, can make images interactive by adding information or narratives to the images. You can even add video links, and more. Use it as part of a lesson, have students add information to an image, or for student presentations. Teachers in my building last year used it in Social Studies to have students research information about a country, and add that information to the map showing locations, and more. Embed the code or share links in blogs or websites. Here's one the class created together on the Aztecs.
Dotstorming is a site that allows you, and others, to add tags, write a brief explanation or share and idea, and then, invited individuals can "vote" on their favorite contributions. Lots of fun applications with this.
FreeRice is a site that allows students to answer questions ranging from foreign languages to math to literature and grammar, and more! As correct answers are selected a "rice" bowl begins to fill with actual donations that you are helping the site donate. The site is underwritten by advertisers so that it is a free site for students/adults to use. Create a group and invite your students (and even parents) to play.
AnswerGarden AnswerGarden is a minimalist-oriented feedback tool that allows you to gather feedback in real time. Use it for student participation, brainstorming, exit tickets, and quick assessments for the status of the class.
Jeopardy Create a Jeopardy game with this website. Note: create only 3 games for free--choose wisely or upgrade.
Popplet In the classroom, Popplet can be used to create a mind-map. Easy to use, and you can add pictures, too. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images. They can link information to show relationships between ideas.
ClassTools.net has a variety of tools for a variety of needs. Check out their Connect Fours for Review! Check out the grammar review I recently made for students to play: