FLB Educator Resources

Ice breaker ideas

A useful science resource about many ocean habitats and the adaptions fish have to survive there. Design your fish to thrive in the habitat & have the computer check its survival rate.

This is a wonderful Video conferencing site which works across many types of devices. There is no sign up or login required. Just start a room and share the link to invite others. You can have five video participates at once. You can watch videos together from YouTube and other sites. There is a collaborative notepad, text chat, file sharing and you can even share your screen with other 'room mates.' You can sign in for free to customize rooms and schedule sessions. A great resource for staff meetings, training and distance teaching.

Students "run" a coffee shop. They must purchase inventory according to their budget, then determine the recipe & cost of the coffee. At the end of the day, they receive results of how much profit/loss they experienced as well as feed back on how well their coffee was liked.

Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 from Chronicling America (The Library of Congress). Great for research & examining primary sources for any subject area.

Create an ebook from a group of webpages. Send to Kindle, iPad/iPod, or download as an epub (for Nooks and other readers).

Get a new math problem emailed to you every day. There are three levels of questions - wee ones, little kids and big kids. Use it with your students or with your own children at home!

A collaborate real-time whiteboard. Just share the link to invite others to the board. Upload images, draw and discuss your work using the chat bar. No plug-ins or sign-in required!

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) was created by the University of South Florida and consists of videos demonstrating samples of how teachers have utilized varying levels of technology integration (entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) within five key learning environments.

Mix up fairytale stories and add your own text. Change characters, setting, events, point of view, etc.

A great site for finding sound clips to play and download.

An interesting music maker. Adjust the strings and change the notes and choose between three instrument sounds.

Find paintings from all over the world by their geographical location with this great Google maps mashup.

A great tool to make dot to dot pictures by tracing the outline of an uploaded image and print.

A beautiful site where you can search and share pieces of fine art from all over the world and in lots of styles and mediums. There is also an app to view art on the go.

Over 10,000 free clip art images/icons

A nice collection of maths games and other resources to teach students about money.

Teach your students to how find the best results on Google. (Beginning, intermediate and advanced levels)

A great site with some flash based, age specific games and resource for topics across the science curriculum.