Varina High School Diigo

visualizes current global wind patterns.

Help your students improve their grammar and writing skills Create assignments and quizzes without doing any grading Target Common Core skills using your students' interests Provide students with unlimited help whenever they need it Track growth using our color-coded heat maps"

Have you been looking for an easy way to have students put in their ideas and outlines into a visually appealing format? Text 2 Mind Map provides students with a visual representation of their brainstorming activity. This free, online, tool would be great for pre-writing activities, vocabulary instruction, foreign language acquisition, or whenever you introduce a new concept that revolves around a particular subject area.

"GRASPS can be an important tool for framing assessment. GRASPS is an acronym that helps to ensure that the task the teacher is assigning is authentic and real world. This GRASPS "checklist" can also be applied when you are designing a Henrico 21 lesson plan."

"A nuclear weapons effects simulator for Google Earth." It has data for Hiroshima and Nagasaki and data on the effects of most of the bombs in international arsenals. This is perfect for lessons about the Cold War and The War on Terrorism.

This is another alternative to Socrative or ActivEngage.

"This is a virtual place for folks interested in learning to "operationalize TPACK" (Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge) using curriculum-based learning activity types.

You can embed ANY of these into a website or use the Snipping tool. These are just some of the most popular tools.

Mathalicious lessons ask real questions in open-ended ways that require students to make sense of problems and empower students to develop their own strategies for solving them. Students must support and justify their own methods and conclusions, and evaluate the validity of others' arguments. Lessons prompt students to model their findings in a variety of ways: numerically, graphically, algebraically and verbally. Ask your Specialist about this resource.

Directions for teaching students how to create wikis--hands on activities to get kids familiar.

These are the behind the scenes instructions for using the paid version of VoiceThread. If you would like to use Voicethread to post lessons and do discussions, see the ITRT for your license.

Teachers can have students create 15 second movies via Instragram. #tag it with a common class tag and video themselves reflecting on the content or over-arching question for the unit. (Requires students to use phones to video, teacher will need Instagram account and dropbox.com account to post the videos or have students use their own accounts if they have them)

A Mural.ly and Padlet alternative.

How did you think this compared as far as ease of use and potential classroom implementation?

Statistics first?

"Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. In his talk, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think. (Filmed at TEDxNYED.)"

RealTime Board---Let's you spread out with a never-ending whiteboard

A free business presentation software animated video maker and PowerPoint alternative.

"1455 free maths diagnostic questions to identify student misconceptions. Join 462 other teachers in sharing questions and creating quizzes."