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This article suggest activities to review (Br. revise) vocabulary. Each is a communicative activity using groups or pairs, and requires only minimal tools. K-adult -- can be adapted to any level.

A nice visual by K. Ritter of the various software applications that will help you with different types of tasks. A nice summary of tech tools, mainly of high school students and adult learners.

Teach your kids some code. But it would help to have a project in mind before starting so that it can be used for some practical purpose before they get bored. Different levels/ages of kids can use different code lessons. K-12/adult

A database of 14,000+ worksheets for use in the ESL classroom. Many of these will be useful for your classes, K-12 and adult.

This blog has a series of lessons using different media to help kids experiment with painting. Have students write about their work and the process afterwards. Appropriate for K-5, but lessons are adaptable to adults, who also have fun making art.

This web resource is for teachers of high beginning and intermediate writing courses and intermediate ESL learners. The resource provides 8 units that 1) teach about paragraph structure and paragraph elements: topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence 2) introduce transition words and coherence in a paragraph 3) provide the opportunity to learn about and practice basic writing skills such as making an outline and staying on topic. Clear explanations are supported by examples; therefore, teacher can use this resource for class preparation, and ESL learners can use it as additional material to learn about paragraph writing. Practice activities provided by the website are not interactive; however, most of the assessment tasks have answer keys. In addition, each unit provides lesson in a PDF format that can be used by a teacher as a handout. -- From Lena Shvidko For ESL K-12 learners, but would be useful for adults as well. Focuses on the paragraph, rather than the essay, so makes a good beginning set of lessons.

"The following are some of the best free tools available online that can help teachers create quizzes." This blog links to some 16 online quiz makers with very short descriptions of each. For college/adults and K-12 also. Some sites have pre-made tests in such subject areas as history, geography, and grammar. Most allow different types of quizzes and some have games as well.

This article has a list of great sites for the K-6 audience (many adaptable to 7-12 and adult). All of them are free and no registration is required. Some are very low tech.

This site links to a course design rubric for online and hybrid courses, promulgated by the California State University consortium. The site also links to K-12 and Secondary standards.

The activities include hyperlinking documents, a gallery walk with QR codes, sharing documents and pictures related to readings, connecting with other classes around the world, etc. Has ideas for kindergartners as well as teens and adults. Drawing and maps projects as well.

"The Smithsonian's History Explorer is packed with lesson plans, interactive media, and reference pages for teachers and students. Using the search tools teachers can find lesson plans for every K-12 grade aligned to national standards for U.S. History. Teachers can search for lesson plans and other materials by grade level, resource type, historical era, and cross-curricular connections. " This material is useful for any online teacher around the world as a history source.

This site has some amazing links for all the content areas: sciences, lanugage arts (lit trips), maths, and social studies, including U.S. History Tours, using Google Maps and Google Earth. For multiple grades.

"Today the lecture system is the preferred teaching style used by 89% of science professors. Indeed, lecture is a comfortable format for many instructors and a non-threatening one for students. It is low cost, easy to control, and an excellent method for organizing course content. However, many of us are becoming more aware that during lecture students are not actively engaged with the topic, they don�t seem to listen for very long, and their retention of concepts is minimal. Studies show that students are not attentive 40% of the time they are in class and that although attention is high for the first 15 minutes, it declines rapidly until the final 10 minutes of class. " K. Timberlake makes a good case for student-centered strategies, such as group work, and mini-lectures, peer presentations, and formative assessment.

"Many students are struggling with writing assignments, and spend huge amounts of time trying to squeeze words on paper. Even if it's not the case and students just want to improve their writing skills, some writing help services for students may be worth checking out. Includes tutoring services, skill-building exercises, and services for K-12.

Discussion of the man who founded the concept of evolution.

" I'm building up a collection of instructional posts to help you to use the apps." Instructional guide to using the many different elements in Google Apps (GSuite), such as Sheets, Drive, Docs, and Slides. Good for teachers and upper level students.

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This is a huge list of options for formative assessments with explanations of how to use them and why.

A library of books and periodical for many different ages, for people with print disabilities. Free to educators, students, and schools.

"Discover, purchase, and share educational apps, books, and videos easily with Google Play for Education - a new online destination just for schools." "Browse content by grade, subject, or standard; purchase with school PO (no credit card required); distribute apps via cloud." "This page also shows how to set up tables to allow use of content and to find approved apps."

This page includes both old and new versions of Bloom, and offers a small selection of appropriate verbs to use while setting objectives. Very useful while creating lesson plans and developing curriculum. The cognitive emphasis in Bloom's taxonomy is heartening, but beware of using the pyramid in an overly rigid way. It's all too easy to get stuck on the lower levels of "knowing": remembering or factual information, while never quite getting to the higher levels of creativity. Is Bloom appropriate for language acquisition?