Strategies from K-12 schools, districts, and programs that are dramatically improving the learning process.

You can create a "wall" that has a topic or heading. Then, students (without logging in) can respond to your question or collaborate on the page. Students can type a response, add an image, or even upload video. This works great for a debate prompt or a topic that can have many sides. It could also be a page on which students collaborate to find information for a research project/assignment.

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.

Access your bookmarks and online favorites with Symbaloo. A free social bookmarking service in the cloud. This could be used as a navigation starting point for a research project or as a place to host the links used in your class. A fun assignment for students would be to curate resources on their own Symbaloo when doing a research assignment or even as a novel response (if you were this character, what online resources would you utilize at this point in the novel).

Symbaloo is a bookmarking tool, which enables students and teachers to organize and share the best of the web. This is especially a great way for teachers to organize all of their resources in one place. The tool is very easy to use. To get started you simply add tiles. Next, attach the URL address to your website- title it and categorize by color. These can also be created to use with units of study… the ideas are endless

ifaketext is a place where you can generate fake iphone text message screenshots and send and share them. This could be used for character analysis (have one character "text" another character at certain points in a story/novel. It could also be used as a fun way to initiate a lesson or present bell work.

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PowToon is an online presentation software tool that allows you to create free, cool, and awesome animated video explainers as an alternative to using powerpoint.It has an edu version that allows teachers/students to create videos for free.

Search over 250,000 free photos, illustrations, and vector graphics or share your own pictures as public domain on Pixabay. No need to sign in. Be sure to scroll past the "sponsored" images to get images without watermarks.

Free, research-based K-6 reading comprehension lesson plans and non-fiction reading passages & question sets. Common Core aligned (use correlation guide to align with IN standards). Higher lexile passages with novel companion sets (6th grade LA)

Watch YouTube videos without comments, ads, related videos, or any other distractions. Copy and paste a YouTube link into the box and it immediately provides a safe version of the video (with a link that will last even when you navigate out of ViewPure). No sign-up necessary. Have students search for "Purified" videos on YouTube using the search bar.

This site has current (updated daily) articles that can be transformed into a number of different Lexiles-DIFFERENTIATION. Many of the articles have quizzes that are available online (with free registration) or in print form.