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A tool allowing each student to privately give instant feedback about their understanding of an assignment or question in real time to their teacher.

Use Online Quiz Creator to create quizzes and tests for icebreakers, pre-assessment, assessment, or review. This app can be accessed on computers, smartphones, or tablets. It includes various types of quiz questions, for example, multiple choice or image choice. Students can also utilize this app to make their own quizzes to present to the class during presentations. Online Quiz Creator makes learning fun for students!

GeoGebra is both online and an app you can download for your phone or computer. It is great for any math teacher or student. With GeoGebra, you can graph functions and shapes and so much more. It's good for students because it gives them tangible examples of the confusing functions that they just stare at during class. You can also create groups for your students to use so it can become a group effort on projects or students can take the lesson home with them.

Always trying to work smarter, I make Google Forms do the data analysis for me. By creating an adaptive form, I am able to quickly, efficiently, and impressively record student data. The results are easily translatable into flexible grouping options, formative instruction materials, and of course, good old fashioned tests. Combine Forms with the output google spreadsheet, with conditional formatting, and Flubaroo, and you're working smarter than you've ever done before!

With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

Inquiry-oriented lesson tool allowing students to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate different online resources.

Teach your students vital information literacy skills with this website.

Scholastic MATH promotes students to use articles and other forms of media that are reliable and academically focused.

Turn your ideas into impactful social graphics, web stories and animated videos-in minutes. It's free, start now on the web or in the app store.

Instagrok is a great tool to use with students who are learning how to conduct online research. Students and teachers can access this application on any device. Teachers can create free student accounts and their own dashboard to assign tasks, provide search guidelines, and monitor student progress. To access all of the dashboard features, there is a relatively affordable yearly subscription. Through customized searches, students are able to read and assess information, take notes, create concept maps, and cite sources. Instagrok can also help students to collaborate on group projects and develop critical reading skills while collecting information for papers and assignments.

Join over 3 million students, teachers, and parents using our free math game for Grades 1 - 8. Prodigy is a strategic math game that helps develop critical thinking, decision making, and math skills for younger students.

Make remote design work Online brainstorming, synthesis and collaboration. Here, I am using the platform in order to have students critically engage in an information/media literacy lesson aimed at evaluating the credibility/validity of independent and group research.

Engaging videos to supplement or be used for a lesson. Teachers can create leassons or take from lessons done by other contributors. The videos promote criticaal thinking skills on more levels than one!

Discovery Education's Puzzlemaker provides teachers, students, and parents, the tools necessary to create crossword, puzzles, word search puzzles, mazes and more online!

Mindomo is a visually appealing and collaborative tool allowing students to create minds maps, concept maps, and outlines. Students become skilled at brainstorming questioning, analyzing, synthesizing, problem solving, etc, helping improve student's critical thinking skills.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Create a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

Create and publish online surveys in minutes, and view results graphically and in real time. SurveyMonkey provides free online questionnaire and survey software to collaborate with students or colleagues.

BrainPop offers a variety of activities for students to work together in pairs or groups on any device. To implement critical thinking in a lesson, teachers can use games, concept mapping, videos, and quizzes. One of the many aspects of Brainpop is that it provides resources for any subject, grade, or skill level. The educator section for teachers offers activities and lesson plan ideas that align with Common Core, national, and state standards. For example, BrainPop provides a detailed lesson plan for the Quandary Game (https://educators.brainpop.com/lesson-plan/quandary-problem-solving/?bp-topic=critical-reasoning). During the various episodes of the game, students use their problem-solving skills to assess issues and find solutions for each challenge. Through critical thinking, students learn how to put themselves in another's shoes by viewing a situation from a character's point of view.

In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.