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Instant Street View - Nick Nicholaou
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): maps (292), virtual field trips (55)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site on computers for quick use at any time. During current events discussions, share a street view of locations with students to provide context for the area. When discussing famous buildings, or locations, share a street view to provide students with a 360-degree view of the actual area. Find an interesting location and use street view as a starter for a creative writing project. Extend student learning by having students share their stories using a website creator like Hashify, reviewed here. Hashify is a simple website creator that offers options for adding links and images to the site.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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A Teacher's Ultimate Destination for Virtual Field Trips - Education Database Online
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): virtual field trips (55)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of this list of virtual field trips to include with your current teaching units. Visit sites together with your students on your interactive whiteboard or share a link with students to explore on their own. When finished, have students use Thinglink, reviewed here, to modify learning and create an interactive image sharing information learned on their field trip. Include images, videos, and more on their base image. To wrap up your unit, instead of a research report, have students use a multimedia tool like Story Maps, reviewed here, to redefine their learning and create and share a digital story using maps of the location studied.Comments
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A Race of Discovery - Travelbag
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6 to 12tag(s): aviation (36), columbus day (8), explorers (69), Google (35), lewis and clark (17), maps (292), marco polo (6), transportation (47), women (99)
In the Classroom
Share maps from this site on your interactive whiteboard during your study of explorers and previous time periods to help students understand the difference in transportation modes compared to today's options. Before discussing as a class, have students explore these maps on their own then enhance and share their findings with a quick and easy website creator like Carrd, reviewed here. Use this site as a model and have students create their own maps to demonstrate the path of explorers, characters in novels, or historical events using Story Maps, reviewed here. Story Maps is a multimedia tool that can redefine student learning by offering tools for creating interactive maps that include images, videos, and text.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Standardized Test Prep - Scholastic
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): test prep (94)
In the Classroom
Don't wait until just before high stakes testing! Bookmark this site for use throughout the school year as you and your students prepare for any test including standardized testing. Share articles during professional development sessions. Have students create and share their own tips for success during testing with a weekly podcast using Buzzsprout, reviewed here. Ask students to interview teachers, administrators, and fellow students to find the best testing advice.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pikwizard - Pikwizard
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): creative commons (24), images (279)
In the Classroom
Include Pikwizard with your other image resource bookmarks. Use a bookmarking tool like Symbaloo, reviewed here, to curate image resources for you and your students and save to classroom computers and on your class website. Use images for any digital projects. Find and use images from Pikwizard to create infographics using Canva Infographic Creator, reviewed here, to share data and information about landforms, technology, events in history, and more. Create a class account and mark favorite images for students to use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Country of the Week - New York Times
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5 to 12tag(s): countries (83), cross cultural understanding (127), cultures (111)
In the Classroom
This site is an excellent addition to any social studies or geography classroom. Bookmark the site and participate in the weekly activities. Ask students to explore countries more in-depth and then modify their learning by creating infographics using Canva Infographic Creator, reviewed here, to compare what they learned from the New York Times site and their own research. Keep track of countries visited through the interactive quizzes and using Google My Map, reviewed here. Google My Map offers tools for modifying learning by creating custom maps that include uploaded images and videos. Think of it as your virtual field trip around the world during your school year!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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mindmaps - David Richard
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4 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (199), mind map (25)
In the Classroom
Assign students to "map" out a chapter or story. Assign groups to create study guides using this tool. Use this tool for literature activities, research projects, social studies, or science topics. Use this to create family trees or food pyramids in family and consumer science. Have students collaborate (online) to create group mind maps or review charts before tests on a given subject. Have students organize any concepts you study. They can color code concepts to show what they understand, wonder, and question. Have students map out a story, plot line, or plan for the future. Students can also map out a step-by-step process (such as a life cycle or how to solve an equation). Include your mind maps with multimedia projects to create an online book. Book Creator,reviewed here, offers many options for creating digital books including video, images, text, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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That's Your Right - Annenberg Classroom
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5 to 12tag(s): bill of rights (28), branches of government (53), constitution (89), game based learning (139)
In the Classroom
Include this game with any lessons on the Bill of Rights. Challenge students to compete against each other and move up through the different levels of difficulty. Include the site with your other resources on a bookmarking site like SearchTeam, reviewed here. SearchTeam includes the option to add and share notes with bookmarks, add teaching notes for your future use or if sharing with students, ask them to add tips into the comments section. Upon completion of your unit, have students create animated videos using Powtoon, reviewed here, to share their understanding of the Bill of Rights.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids - Vermont Public Radio
Grades
K to 7tag(s): podcasts (60)
In the Classroom
Listen to several podcasts together as a class. Enhance learning by challenging students to reflect on their learning and what they would like to learn more about using a tool such as Flipgrid, reviewed here. Then have students come up with their own questions to be answered and submit them on a tool such as Dotstorming, reviewed here, and then to vote on their 3 favorite questions to submit.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Crossword Hobbyist - Crossword Hobbyist Inc
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): crosswords (21), puzzles (205), vocabulary (314)
In the Classroom
Create a link to puzzles on classroom computers for students to use for vocabulary review. Have students create and share their own crossword puzzles with classmates. Include student-created crossword puzzles into multimedia presentations of research projects. Encourage students to use vocabulary terms in writing and speaking projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Start the New Year Strong: Strategies for Effective Classroom Management - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): classroom management (147), teaching strategies (28), twitterchatarchive (58)
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Find tools and resources to maintain effective classroom management strategies. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for sites and information related classroom management. Explore the various tools that are shared.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Using Social Media to Increase Student Engagement - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): social media (32), twitterchatarchive (58)
In the Classroom
Find tools and resources to create lessons that incorporate use of social media. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for sites and information related to social media use in the classroom. Explore the various tools that are shared.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Inflation Calculator - Morgan Friedman
Grades
5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): 1900s (39), 20th century (49), calculators (40), financial literacy (91)
In the Classroom
Although this calculator seems relatively simple, use it for many purposes in your classroom. When reading stories set in different times throughout the 1900's use the calculator to compare costs in the story to 21st-century costs. Use the calculator for student writing projects set in the past to add authenticity to information included. Take student learning a step further and ask them to create an infographic comparing prices, technology, populations, workforce, or other important indicators of two different eras. Canva Infographic Creator, reviewed here, will modify student learning and is a very easy to use tool for creating infographics using their many available templates. Challenge math or economics students to enhance learning and create an inflation calculator based on different sets of statistics using Microsoft Excel or Google Forms. Work together with a history teacher to include those statistics on a history timeline with a tool like Timeline Maker, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Learning with Santa Tracker - Google
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K to 8tag(s): christmas (52), coding (73), cross cultural understanding (127), cultures (111), holidays (137), map skills (80), maps (292)
In the Classroom
Add this site to your tool kit of December teaching resources. Include the games on classroom computers and add to your class website. Replace paper posters and have students share their favorite activities using an on line poster creator like Web Poster Wizard, reviewed here, or PicLits, reviewed here. After practicing coding using the games provided on this site, modify learning by challenging students to create their own game using a tool such as Scratch, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Elementari - Nicole Kang and David Li
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3 to 12tag(s): creative writing (170), digital storytelling (151), writing (364)
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Offer students the option to share their writing using Elementari by adding illustrations and sounds. Elementari allows students the option to upload their own images and sounds before creating a story. From the home page find the upload button at the top of the page. Upload up to 10 5mb images and 10 10mb audio files. Create stories together, as a class, as you move through a unit or topic. Enhance student learning by adding images and ideas your students suggest. Use in a flipped or blended classroom to deliver course information. Assign several student groups a different topic and redefine their learning by having each group create their own version as they learn more about the topic. Challenge gifted students to modify the "standard" class text with the additional material they discover, by going deeper and learning about related topics. In lower grades, create teacher-made digital stories for students to use as a learning tool.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Santa's Village and Tracker - Google
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K to 6tag(s): christmas (52), cross cultural understanding (127), cultures (111), holidays (137), maps (292)
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Share a link to the Santa's Village on your class website and classroom computers. Allow students to explore and try options offered each day. Replace paper and pencil and have students share information from the daily activities on a blog using Edublog, reviewed here. Include images and videos of activities with blog posts. Use the site to introduce a unit on Holidays Around the World and for a final project modify learning and have students use Google My Maps, reviewed here, to create a virtual field trip around the world featuring some of Santa's stops.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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My Case Maker - Bean Creative
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6 to 8tag(s): black history (59), civil rights (121), constitution (89), democracy (15), elections (75), freedom of speech (12), immigrants (22), immigration (61), media literacy (66), politics (102), world war 2 (141)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free materials on this site to encourage debate and discussion within your current civics lessons. Each lesson includes primary sources to use when responding to prompts, ask students to find and share additional primary sources to include with their response to each question. Instead of just creating a list of additional resources, share additional resources using Padlet, reviewed here. Padlet offers features for adding comments, ask students to use this feature to indicate important information found on the document. Enhance learning further by finding and sharing videos that support the topic being discussed. Use EdPuzzle, reviewed here to add comments and question prompts for students. Upon completion of student projects, have them share their thoughts through a podcast featuring students' challenge solutions. Be sure to include a group of students in each podcast featuring various points of view and their backup documentation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask: Creativity Cafe: Recipes for Formative Assessment - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): assessment (118), teaching strategies (28)
In the Classroom
The archive of this teacher-friendly, hands-on webinar will empower and inspire you to use learning technology in the classroom and for professional productivity. As appropriate, specific classroom examples and ideas have been shared. View the session with a few of your teaching colleagues to find and share new ideas. Find additional information and links to tools at the session resource page. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Coding 101 - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): coding (73), computers (102), twitterchatarchive (58)
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Find tools and resources to create lessons that incorporate coding. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for sites and information related to coding. Explore the various tools that are shared.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask: MakeCode: Bring Computational Thinking into Any Classroom - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): coding (73), Computational Thinking (32), critical thinking (116), Microsoft (59)
In the Classroom
The archive of this teacher-friendly, hands-on webinar will empower and inspire you to use learning technology in the classroom and for professional productivity. As appropriate, specific classroom examples and ideas have been shared. View the session with a few of your teaching colleagues to find and share new ideas. Find additional information and links to tools at the session resource page. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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