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Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to load and run. Teachers control the questions and games on their laptop, while students respond and interact through their smartphones/laptops. Run it as an app or on any web browser

With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them.

With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them.

Easy to use classroom blog. Students can respond to your blog posts or create their own blog posts. They can also be put into groups for book discussions, projects, etc!

Ten Tips for Teaching Students how to Research and Filter Information

Blog with descriptions of great search engines for young students

BBC News School Report gives 11-16 year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience. It is a collaborative project run by BBC News and BBC Learning. Using lesson plans and materials from this website, and with support from BBC staff and partners, teachers help students develop their journalistic skills to become School Reporters.

This is a very powerful video that will help students prepare for assessment and PARRC testing. Help students with the 12 powerful words found on every assessment test.

Site where you can upload videos or link to YouTube, etc and students can comment on the video, thus allowing you to provide high-quality feedback

Fun way to teaching how to divide fractions. This is for students in grades 4 and up.

15 lesson plans courtesy of Google designed to make students better online researchers. They're organized by difficulty and meant to help students (and everyone) become better online searchers.

Free online common-core aligned math video games for students

Student Responsible Use Guidelines for Technology 

Meeting the common core with Flocabulary. This is fun esoecially for upper elementary, middle, and high school students.

This site is like a Facebook for your classroom plus so much more! Create posts that can include assignments, projects, quizzes, polls, and more! It even grades quizzes or assignments for you and you can set deadlines for your students!