Teacher+Tools

 **Teacher Resources ** [|ABCya.com] offers free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web.
 * Classroom **

[|Blackline Masters]More than 60 free printable blackline masters that you can print. Blackline masters are worksheets and templates for teachers and homeschooling parents. They're free to print or photocopy as many as you need.

[|Bulletin Board Hang Ups] So many times we are looking for that perfect quote to use for bulletin boards, etc. These are great ones - and they are also formatted so you can just print them out to use.

[|CK-12]provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally. Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content in multiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles and levels will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of teaching and learning styles.

[|Connected Classrooms]is a new program on Google+ that makes it easier for teachers to connect their students with virtual learning opportunities on Google+.

Dare to Differentiate has examples and templates for many ways to differentiate activities

 [|Dewey Browse]Web Sites Classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for Grades K-12

[|EDSITEment] offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.

[|Educational Technology and Mobile Learning] isa resource of educational web tools and mobile apps for teachers and educators.

[|Edutopia] is dedicated to transforming the learning process by helping educators implement strategies which empower students to think critically, access and analyze information, creatively problem solve, work collaboratively, and communicate with clarity and impact.

[|Exploring Computational Thinking]is a series of lessons for designed to help middle school and high school students explore mathematics and science concepts. Google developed these lessons to use Python. As Google states in their Teacher's Guide Introduction to Python, the reason for using Python is, "A computer program gives students the opportunity to directly apply the algorithms they learn in class and provides them with a tangible reason for using variables rather than specific numbers in math."

[|The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE)] makes it easier to find digital teaching and learning resources created and maintained by the federal government and public and private organizations.

[|Free Technology for Teachers] by Richard Byrne.The purpose of this blog is to share information about free resources that teachers can use in their classrooms.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Graphic Organizers] Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. These can be printed. Has both English and Spanish versions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Gridzzly] is a free tool for designing lined, grid, and graph paper.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|InterdisciplinaryResearch Projects]North Lawndale College Preparatory Charter High School leads students on a journey through a research process that allows them to satisfy their own curiosity, develop their thinking skills, and sharpen their interrelated view of the world. There are lots oftemplates for the various steps of the research project.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|MrNussbaum.com] is a reliable k -8 internet site of concepts, themes, ideas, and fact sets enhanced through interactivity. Dozens of interactive games specifically designed to pinpoint one or several essential concepts taught in elementary years, and dozens of research themes designed to make the process of gathering information interactive and enjoyable are available.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Open Educational Resources](OER): Resource Roundup OER, a part of the global open content movement, are shared teaching, learning, and research resources available under legally recognized open licenses—free for people to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Planbook.com]Develop custom schedules for each class. View and print lessons by day, week, or class. Create class templates for any day of the week .Adjust your lesson schedule with a single click. Allow students to view your plans online. Share your plans with other teachers. Easily re-use lessons from one year to the next.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> [|Poll Everywhere]Poll Everywhere is a simple text message voting application that works well for live audiences.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> [|PrimaryWall] is a web-based sticky note tool designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Quizlet] Create flashcard sets with your own terms and definitions,or choose from millions of flashcard sets created by other users.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Rewordify.com]helps people read more, understand difficult English faster, and learn words in new ways. Teachers use it to save time and increase learning from any English text.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Roobrix]A tool that helps educators avoid grading errors when scoring rubrics.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|RubiStar] is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Shelton LibGuides] Select a tab for academic subject resources.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Classroom Materials Makers]The generators will allow you to make classroom materials by filling out a simple form. The materials are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer. Your creations are exclusive to you. If you would like to keep your creations, save them when you make them. There are generators for hall passes, test modifications, behavior tracking, timelines, and much more.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|The TeachEngineering digital library]provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers engineering content for K12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms. Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|TeAchnology] provides free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students. We feature 46,000+ lesson plans, 10,200 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, and thousands of other great teacher resources. We are the online teacher resource that is designed to help busy Kindergarten through High School teachers.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Tech & Learning] has serves the K-12 education community with practical resources and expert strategies for transforming education through integration of digital technologies.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Thesis Builders]Tools to help students: find a topic, create a good thesis statement, and generate an outline.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Thinkfinity] is the Verizon Foundation’s free online professional learning community, providing access to over 60,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 — aligned to state standards and the common core.Here, educators connect and collaborate through themed groups, blogs and discussions, sharing resources and best practices that support 21st century teaching and learning.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|UsefulCharts] for lesson plans, study help, or quick reference. Are you the type of person who, when flipping through a book or scanning a website, immediately searches for the diagrams or charts because you'd rather absorb the information visually then have to read a bunch of text? If so, then you are probably a visual learner and this website was made especially for you. The goal is to present useful information in the form of study charts so that students, teachers or simply those interested in increasing their general knowledge can absorb the information quickly and visually.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Using Primary Sources on the Web]—this brief guide is designed to provide students and researchers with information to help them evaluate the internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Visible Thinking]is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Visual Bloom's Taxonomy]Bloom's taxonomy with links to better visualize the various levels.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Vocabulary.com] is the easiest, most intelligent way to improve vocabulary. It combines an adaptive learning system (The Challenge) with the world's fastest dictionary (The Dictionary) so that words can be learned quickly and efficiently. There are searchable pre-made vocabulary lists for teachers to use.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|WeAreTeachers]offers inspiration for your lessons and loads of professional development resources for educators.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|3DTOAD.com]is 3D/360 website that allows free access to 3D images of a variety of educational subjects.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Classtools.net]Use pre-made templates to create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Classtools 3D Gallery Generator]enables students to create a virtual 3D gallery of images and videos. Each gallery can have up to ten images and or videos. Below each image or video students can insert captions to provide explanations of the significance of the visuals in their galleries.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|DocsTeach] Find and create interactive learning activities with primary source documents from the National Archives that promote historical thinking skills.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|FindIcons.com] is an icon search engine helps you find free icons. We have the largest searchable free icons database in the world.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Humanline] is an image library of arts, history and science.We license images for both educational and commercial use and all of our content is immediately downloadable and up to the highest technical and legal standards.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Open Culture]brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it.Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">enriching content.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|PBS LearningMedia] is your destination for easy, instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and photos, and even in-depth lesson plans

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Planet Nutshell]is a video production company that has produced dozens of excellent educational videos for teachers and students. They include videos for business, health care, non-profits, and education. The teacher library includes a new Pre-K series.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|School Clip Art]- Doesn't get much better than this for free clip art for students and teachers.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Teachers' Domain]is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|VideoNotes] is a neat tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account and allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|ViewPure] is a way to watch YouTube videos without comments, suggestions, or the 'other' things.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|WatchKnowLearn] has indexed over 20,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|WNET Education]engages the education community through the development and delivery of high-quality and innovative media and services that are designed to enhancelearning, enrich lives, and extendthe impact of public media content.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Yovisto] is a video search engine specialized on educational video content. It is helpful for students or common interested peoples to looking for online lectures and educational video. Yovisto allows searching within videos. Furthermore, there are many other features as, e.g., tagging, adding comments, discussing uploading videos and organizing your videos, etc.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> ** Textbooks ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">[|Affordabook.com] was founded in November of 2006 by Vinnie Thomas with the goal of helping people find the lowest price on books, whether it be textbooks for college students, or novels for the avid reader. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: auto;">[|Flexbooks]CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the “FlexBook™,” CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Go Social Studies Go] is a series of multimedia books about common social studies topics. The site is divided into three main sections; U.S. History, World History, and World Religions. Click to open a book then click to open a chapter in the each of the books. Within each chapter there is a series of pages containing text, pictures, videos, and links to additional resources on your chosen topic.

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Utilities **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|FillAnyPDF] a website where you fill it out, sign, and send forms, all online.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|How to Create a Bibliography in Google Documents]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Online-Convert.com]Need to convert docs to PDFs? How about the reverse? And don’t forget images or videos! This site does it all – from documents, to video, to audio, to images…the conversions are endless but quick! No need to wait on email – it’s done in real time!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Online Utility]Utilities provided :


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Analyze words, sentences, structure or style of any text
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Learn, teach or research English language
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write easily readable texts in English
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Perform math calculations (from simple to complex)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Convert various measurement units
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Convert images from one format into another
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Get keyword suggestions for English language websites
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Perform various backlink (inlink, inbound link) analysis
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Perform Internet searches of best websites, or of best websites in specific categories

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|QR codes--Quick Response Codes]Everything you wanted to know and more about using QR Codes in education. A QR Code is a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Try this simpler one as well:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The New York Times ran an article listing several services that will generate QR Codes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Screenr]Need screen capture software? Try this great website! It gives you five minutes of recordable screen capture with audio to download or save in your FREE account. If you want to show students how to do something using software or any other ideas you can think of, this would be a great tool, not only for teachers, but students as well!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|SideVibe] is a web based teaching tool which replaces the old-fashioned handouts by putting the worksheet on your screen. Neither you nor your students need to print anything because all the learning, testing and homeworking can be done online. The worksheets or task sheets are created by the teacher and they are attached to the web page you choose for your students to explore or read. The teacher can choose from the three types of activity vibes or a discussion vibe. The students register with the teacher's code (provided by the site) and are automatically listed in the teacher's account. After the students do the task, you assess their work online and send them feedback - without printing a single strip of paper.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Wolfram|Alpha for Eductors]Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Gather information on a general topic, research specific topics, make lesson plans, search lesson plans, create visual aids for presentations/lessons, show steps to math problems, and much more


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Electronic Field Trips] are the result of partnerships between Ball State University and museums, national parks, and historic sites across the country. Since most students are unable to take advantage of the immeasurable content in faraway museums, our program uses technology to make those resources available to a large, national audience. We do many EFTs each year, each with a unique topic geared toward different grade levels.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Internet Field Trip]highlights several Web sites which have been selected and evaluated by teachers and educators. The selected sites all serve to enrich the study of a specific curriculum theme or topic, in the areas of language arts, math, science, social studies, children's literature, and K–2.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Internet 4 Classrooms]("i4c"), a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and virtual field trips.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|NASA Quest Challenges]are Web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes. The solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Thinkport Interactive Media] Explore a new world on your computer. Our interactives provide rich multimedia content including interactive stories, maps, games, timelines, audio, and much more. Educators can also find primary resource documents, as well as ideas and activities for classroom use. So forget the road map, grab a mouse and begin a journey of your own!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Tramline] virtual field trips were developed with the goal of making the best use of the web in the classroom. These annotated trips take students to some of the best web sites on each trip subject. We have a Trailhead (Intro) and Teacher's Resource that set the stage for most of our trips. The TourMaker field trips format makes learning fun, and makes using the Internet in the classroom simple, efficient and focused. You will find virtual field trips on science, literature, social studies, and other topics.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Virtual field trips]sponsored by SimpleK12 challenge and expose students to new types of technology. It is a great way to spark their interest and motivate their learning in a specific content area. Virtual field trips can offer students more opportunities because you can take them to places they wouldn't normally be able to go to otherwise - like inside a volcano or ocean floor! In addition, virtual field trips may even boost students' reading comprehension skills and will expose them to different cultures and environments.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Virtual Field Trips] through Utah Education Network. Find field trips in CTE, fine arts, science, language arts, foreign languages, health and PE, math, social studies, and much more.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Virtual Inca Trail]! The real Inca Trail is a walking route that leads through the mountains above the Urubamba river, following (at least partly) the course of an old Inca roadway leading to the city of Machu Picchu.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Virtual Museum.CA] is your definitive online resource for Canada's museums and their collections. It's a unique space featuring over 600 virtual exhibits, nearly 1 million images, and a wealth of engaging multimedia content.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: auto;">Web 2.0 Tools ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Cool Web 2.0 Tools for Schools A web site that has literally hundreds of Web 2.0 tools, many of them presentation tools, and lots of them free. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> ** Whiteboard Resources ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|AWW] A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Promethean Planet]The world's largest interactive whiteboard community. Created by teachers, for teachers, Promethean Planet is a unique teaching, sharing and support community—your place to connect, create, and change the classroom ! Create your own login.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Scrawlar] is a free online whiteboard and document sharing space. Scrawlar works in the web browser on iPads, Android tablets, Chromebooks, and laptops. The drawing tools could be great to use during mathematics lessons in which you want students to demonstrate how to solve a problem and share it with you.

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