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Description for this website: Simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with printable handouts for: Poetry | Fiction | Bag of Tricks. ESOL student level: These activities scale well to beginner through advanced level proficiency and can be used with all ages. For more activities: Return to PIZZAZ!

Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.

Zopler is a social network where writers, authors and students can easily collaborate on writing stories together as a group.

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Minecraft: Education Edition is an open world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.

Create an online virtual classroom with any other classroom in not only the country but possibly even the world! A great way to get students to put their brains together regardless of the topic. With the endless possibilities of opinions, the discussion will be extremely satisfying!

Shared Inquiry™ is a way to think critically and extract meaning from reading.

MathBlaster.com is a cool, online math virtual world filled with wacky aliens, cool gadgets, and fun math games for boys and girls. Learn math as you complete missions in outer space in this safe and secure virtual world for kids!

Free website containing kids news articles, kids current events, kids news on science, sports, and more! Great way to bring current events into the classroom and discuss credible sources. Contains comprehension questions, critical thinking challenges and vocabulary lists to push students to learn more about a topic.

Use the Wikipedia FAQ for Schools page as a resource to help teach digital literacy in your classroom! Students are going to use Wikipedia, so they need to be taught how and when it is or is not appropriate, starting in elementary school. Look, even Wikipedia warns against using Wikipedia in many instances! But it also points out what it can be good for, so explore both sides with students.

DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Looking for an educational search engine? Use iSeek to find safe and trustworthy sources when researching on the Internet!

theSkimm makes it easier to be smarter. The Daily Skimm is delivered to your inbox each AM, giving you all the news and info you need to start your day.

Remember the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books? Quandary is an application which offers virtual "quandaries" for students to address. Employing critical thinking skills, they make choices to try and solve the problem. Better yet, they can create their own problem-solving adventures.

Spent is an interactive game created by McKinney that challenges you to think critically in order to manage your money, raise a child and make it through the month getting paid minimum wage after a stretch of unemployment.

StoryKit is a simple app offered by International Children's Digital Library for use on iPads or iPhones. Students can creatively make e-books or e-projects using text editing, images/drawing, and audio recording. They can use it to write individual stories, OR, can use it collaboratively to demonstrate learning within a particular unit in any subject! With images, text, and audio, students can create a virtual art gallery, or an exam study resource. StoryKit could also be used to create e-projects which serve as summative assessments for various subjects/units in the elementary years. Teachers break down the unit into topics, and assign each group of students a topic to create an e-book about. These can then be easily shared with families to demonstrate learning, too!

If you're looking for immediate online study/homework help for free, check out this site and collaborate with other students and teachers! Ask. Answer. Understand. Get real-time study help. Join the world's largest study group.

TouchChatHD is an app that allows diverse learners to learn and communicate more effectively with the people around them.

A free online platform that allows for group discussion and debate.