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SciShow Kids YouTube Channel - Hank Green
Grades
3 to 9This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animals (294), moon (73), space (222), sun (71), video (266)
In the Classroom
Flip your classroom and use a video as homework. Have students take notes on the material and write down questions they still have and topics that confuse them. That activity can uncover misconceptions. Show the video to the class, and then discuss the concept at length. For more advanced classes, provide time for students to choose a video to view and research the underlying concept. To share a single video from this site without all the YouTube clutter, use a tool such as View Pure, reviewed here, and create a shortcut to the View Pure page directly on the desktop. Students can create a mini-lesson that can be shared with the class or on a blog, wiki, or your class website.Bioman Biology - Brett Baughman
Grades
5 to 10This site includes advertising.
tag(s): body systems (40), cells (82), classification (22), dna (43), ecology (103), evolution (89), game based learning (205), genetics (80), human body (93), meiosis (8), photosynthesis (21), respiration (11), scientific method (48)
In the Classroom
Introduce this site to your class on an interactive whiteboard or projector to review and reinforce concepts. If you are lucky enough to have access to iPads for your students, you could have the activities downloaded as apps to use for stations or early finishers. Be sure to include this site on your class webpage for students to access both in and outside of class for further practice. Have students create animated movies online using Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed here to demonstrate biology concepts. Use an online flashcard maker, like Cram, reviewed here, to review concepts before quizzes and tests.Changing Planet - NBC Universal Media, LLC
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): arctic (40), climate change (99), diseases (66), glaciers (17), mountains (10), oceans (149), scientific method (48), statistics (121), STEM (297), temperature (34), trees (18), tundra (14), water (102)
In the Classroom
Place the URL to Changing Planet on your classroom website or blog for students to explore the videos on their own. Flip your instruction and assign the videos to your scientists to watch before class. Flipping will maximize classroom time. Encourage budding scientists to investigate climate change. Use this site as a springboard for individual or group projects that connect to our world today. Have students create presentations to share what they learned using a tool such as Powtoon, reviewed here. Build student's background knowledge by watching the videos, and reviewing nonfiction reading strategies with students before reading the transcripts. Use the videos on Changing Planet to help struggling readers with the content on the cue cards. Encourage your scientists to tackle the topic of climate for a science fair experiment or graduation project.KidsCorner - Types of Energy - Apogee
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): coal (6), conservation (102), electricity (61), energy (133), nuclear energy (20), safety (68), solar energy (34)
In the Classroom
Find easy to use information and classroom ideas for your energy unit on this site. Get ideas for Earth Day or any day celebrating energy awareness and conservation. Spend time in class understanding exactly what energy is and ways it is made. Use a variety of objects that students are familiar with to show the difference between potential and kinetic energy (such as a ball or toy car at the top of a track and then release it). Use the Instructors Guides for excellent prompts and ideas to increase energy awareness in your students. Don't forget to discuss energy safety with your students! As a class activity, provide the opportunity for students to create brochures, posters, or videos to promote energy awareness and safety for the school and community using the information they learned! Consider using one of the many presentation/multimedia tools reviewed by TeachersFirst, here.Technology Integration Matrix - Florida Center for Instructional Technology
Grades
K to 12tag(s): rubrics (37)
In the Classroom
Use the matrix to evaluate how you use technology in your classroom. Share with administrators and peers as part of your ongoing professional development. View videos to understand different ways to incorporate technology in your classroom.Freemake Video Converter - Ellora Assets Corporation
Grades
K to 12tag(s): conversions (37), images (263), movies (54), multimedia (53), slides (43), video (266)
In the Classroom
Share with students for use with any multimedia or presentation project. Use this tool to backup videos on your YouTube channel. Bookmark and save this video converter for use as an alternative to Online-Convert, reviewed here. This tool and Online-Convert are both used to download and save videos at home that you wish to show to students, especially if they are blocked at school. If you want to use the video at school, you may need to save the conversion to a USB stick, if a CD drive isn't available.Fotojet - PearlMountain Technology Co., Ltd
Grades
K to 12tag(s): collages (17), graphic design (49), images (263), posters (43)
In the Classroom
Create cards, posters, or photo collages for any classroom presentation. Share what you created on your website or blog for students to review or for students who were absent. In the younger grades, teachers would be the ones creating the project. Have students create presentations to "introduce" themselves to the class during the first week of school. Link or embed the introduction presentations on your class wiki and have others guess who they are about. Use this tool with your 1:1 art class for students to practice design principles and techniques. Share student projects with parents and others via URL. Be sure to demonstrate HOW to use this tool on your interactive whiteboard or projector.Digital Compass - Common Sense Media
Grades
5 to 9tag(s): digital citizenship (85), internet safety (114)
In the Classroom
This site is perfect to incorporate into any digital citizenship lessons. Complete activities together on your interactive whiteboard while making appropriate and inappropriate choices along the way. Create a link on your class website or blog for use at home. Be sure to share Digital Compass with parents to use as part of their online safety discussions at home. Enhance students' learning and create a simple infographic sharing their findings using Canva Infographic Maker, reviewed here.Khan Academy YouTube Channel - Khan Academy
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): computers (109), equations (119), financial literacy (93), probability (99), STEM (297), test prep (69), video (266)
In the Classroom
Flip your classroom and use a video as homework. Have students take notes about the material and write down questions they still have and topics that confuse them. That activity can uncover misconceptions. Show the video to the class, and then discuss the concept at length. For more advanced classes, provide time for students to choose a video to view and research the underlying concept. Set up a video chat time using one of these YouTube videos and a tool such as Watch Together, reviewed here.Watchkin - Alan Cheney
Grades
K to 12tag(s): internet safety (114), video (266)
In the Classroom
How often do you find great clips and video shorts from YouTube and you cannot show them or are afraid to show them even if you can get them through the school filter? Try using this to show clips or long videos to your class via an interactive whiteboard or projector.New York Film Academy - How to do Stop Animation - New York Film Academy
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): assessment (147), digital storytelling (154), reading comprehension (149)
In the Classroom
Use stop motion animation as a new form of multimedia project for students to demonstrate their knowledge of the content, literature, and creativity. Use puppets, pictures, still photographs of people, Legos, or any other object to tell the story. Using any video recording device, incorporate with captions or sound to tell the story. In language arts, use SMA with retelling, alternate endings, students' writing, or commercials. In content area subjects use to demonstrate understanding of the topic with a digital story. Use as an alternate form of formative or summative assessment. Use as a journal for reflections. Offer as a choice for demonstrating knowledge. Put a link for these directions on your class webpage for students and parents to use at home.Google Takeout Tool - Google
Grades
K to 12tag(s): organizational skills (88)
In the Classroom
The Google Takeout Tool is perfect for use when changing email accounts or using multiple accounts. Archive all desired files then upload to your new account when ready.Interactives & Simulations: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere Education - UCAR Center for Science Education
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): arctic (40), atmosphere (22), carbon dioxide (9), climate (84), climate change (99), hurricanes (32), solar energy (34), sun (71), trees (18)
In the Classroom
Introduce Interactives & Simulations on an interactive whiteboard or projector then allow students to explore on their own. Be sure to provide a link on your class website or blog for students to explore at home. Enhance learning by having students create an annotated image including text boxes and related links to demonstrate information learned from this site. Use a tool such as Image Annotator, reviewed here, for younger students, or Google Drawings, reviewed here. Google Drawings allows you to annotate an image with links to videos, text, websites, and more. Not familiar with Google Drawings? Watch an archived OK2Ask session to learn how to use: OK2Ask Google Drawings, here. Alternatively students could create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as WordItOut, reviewed here.MinuteEarth YouTube Channel - Henry, Alex, and Peter Reich, Emily Elert, Ever Salazar
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): atmosphere (22), earth (184), moon (73), oceans (149), planets (113), plants (146), video (266), weather (160)
In the Classroom
Share videos on an interactive whiteboard, projector, or as a link on your class website or blog. To share a single video from this site without all the YouTube clutter, use a tool such as Clipchamp, reviewed here. Have students create an annotated image including text boxes and related links using a tool such as Thinglink, reviewed here, to share information learned from videos. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create videos about your curriculum topics and share them on a site such as TeacherTube, reviewed here. Some video tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): Adobe Creative Cloud Express Video Maker, FlexClip, Powtoon, and Renderforest.Earthquakes - PBS
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): earthquakes (46), forces (37)
In the Classroom
Incorporate these lessons and activities into your learning unit about earthquakes. Use a teacher utility tool like Actively Learn, reviewed here, to build interactive lessons with text and video while receiving real-time assessments as students complete activities. Enhance learning by asking students to create and share the information learned about earthquakes or earthquake preparedness on an informational web page using a tool like Webnode, reviewed here, or Jimdo, reviewed here.SurveyPlanet - SurveyPlanet, LLC
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): assessment (147), polls and surveys (49), quiz (67), quizzes (90)
In the Classroom
Use SurveyPlanet for daily quiz questions as a formative assessment or to check for understanding of a previous lesson. Use as an anticipatory guide for introducing new content. Use to check for understanding after a lecture or demonstration. Use a class account to have student groups alternate to create a new poll for the next day. Older students may want to include polls on their student blogs to increase reader engagement. Have students create polls for after a project presentation. Use polls to generate data for math class (graphing), during elections, or for critical thinking activities dealing with the interpretation of statistics. Engage students using "real" data from a survey of issues and current events that matter to them. Use it to serve as a class voting device. Students can use their mobile devices to answer the survey. However, it is best to create them on a laptop or desktop.Creative Educator - Tech4Learning
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (129), creativity (86), Teacher Utilities (198)
In the Classroom
Creative Educator, designed for teachers, helps you move past stale worksheets to get inspired! Be sure to look at this site to help you discover ways to integrate technology and creativity into lessons. Work with a partner to make the lessons fit in your situation. Share at staff meetings and offer new ideas. Look for ways to bring a new focus to your gifted students. Give as a resource to students, so they can choose a multimedia product to share the content knowledge they are learning. Once you and your students are familiar with the site use Padlet, reviewed here, to list out student interests. Then use Nearpod, reviewed here to assign lessons to groups with the same or similar interests. Older students, once they have determined their interests, can select their projects/lessons. After several selections, ask older students to choose the topic they were most interested in, find resources to learn more about the topic, then extend their learning by presenting their findings using a multimedia tool such as (click on the tool name to access the review): Canva Infographic Maker, Marq (formerly Lucidpress), Powtoon, and FlexClip.VideoLink - Safe YouTube Videos - Wessam El Mahdy
Grades
K to 12tag(s): adhd (28), classroom management (120), internet safety (114), Special Needs (53), video (266)
In the Classroom
Share "distraction-free" videos on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Removing distractions and having confidence in removing any offensive content makes for a better learning experience. Use this tool to limit distractions for your ADD/ADHD, Autistic, unfocused Gifted, and other special needs students. Less distraction = better learning experience for all.energy4me - energy4me
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1 to 12tag(s): careers (156), energy (133), engineering (129), fossil fuels (10), oil (22), STEM (297)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free lesson plans (and interactives, of course). Use this site as the starting point for individual or group projects. Share videos from the site as part of your career unit. Be sure to provide a link to interactives on classroom computers and your class web page for students to explore on their own.The Teacher Toolkit - The Region 13 Educator Certification Program (ECP)
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K to 12tag(s): back to school (55), classroom management (120), reading strategies (96), Teacher Utilities (198)