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5 Online Tools That Help You Align Lessons to Common Core Standards

Teaching Objects is an online lesson planner that enables you to pull materials from your Google Drive and YouTube accounts into your lesson plans.

Alchemy SmartBinder is a free service for creating, organizing, and sharing lessons. With an Alchemy SmartBinder account teachers can create lessons that include text, images, videos, audio files, and web links.

List of Websites Where You Can Watch Spanish Videos with Spanish Subtitles or Transcripts Online for Free

Classtools.net provides free, customisable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites. There is no signup, no passwords, no charges...This is very cool for anyone who teaches online or has a class website.

ABCya Animate from ABCya (disclosure, an advertiser here)allows students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames.

Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies.

Draw Island is a free online tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. Draw Island offers you your choice of four canvas sizes on which you can draw.

Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills. Many of the kindergarten and first grade activities are equipped with sound to enhance understanding. Fun children's Holiday activities are available in grade level sections!

Whether you’re teaching elapsed time or just helping students monitor their pacing and stamina, the timer built into the clock that comes with the iPad (or one of the many comparable options (11)) is a great addition to your classroom.

Glogster EDU is a Web 2.0 global education platform that allows students to easily upload pre-existing materials such as photos, videos, text and audio combine them into new forms according to their personal taste to create interactive online multimedia posters. It brings digital storytelling to life in a multidimensional experience by infusing all types of media into the process. These activities also encourage students to be independent, inventive problem solvers and lifelong learners by: Giving them diverse options for acquiring information and knowledge; Providing them with options for demonstrating what they know; Tapping into their interests, offering appropriate challenges and increasing motivation.

Basically, what happens (is there is) a real-world problem that’s presented to the students, and they go through a process to solve this,” he said. “In this case, the 4K teacher at Vesper needed help teaching her kids what they can expect to see in kindergarten.”

The children used several ways to prepare their short and sweet presentations, including ways posters can be made by hand and online, using an educational program called Glogster.“They used Twitter to communicate with another kindergarten class in Texas, and we talked about our similarities and differences,” Novinska said. “It’s kind of the new way of having pen pals.”

A modern source of Spanish in a form that you enjoy using

Dictionaries and a verb conjugation tool or book

40+ Ways to Innovative Teaching Using Glogster EDU in the Classroom

Create more than 30 chart types. Anything from bubble charts and treemaps to simple pie charts.

Infogr.am has a built-in spreadsheet for easy data editing. You can also import your XLS, XLSX and CSV file.

But since federal legislation requires students with learning disabilities be educated in the same manner (and often the same classrooms) as other children, there has been a need for modifications and tools to assist special needs students in meeting their educational goals.