Creative Ways to Present Information or Have Students Demonstrate Understanding
Assorted Foldables – From Home School Share, a collection of downloadable and printable foldables in many different designs
Creately – Create diagrams from a variety of templates or from scratch
Edpuzzle – Make any video your lesson and make it work for your unique classroom
Educreations allows students or teachers to create instructional videos to share using an iPad or web browser
TikaTok – a tool from Pearson for students to create and publish digital or printed books
ThingLink - annotate images with links
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods – lots of ways to have students show what they know
Rubrics - Assorted rubrics from University of Wisconsin Stout; more rubrics that can be customized for your needs are available from Rubistar. Or try QuickRubric.
Great tools from Read Write Think for creative assignments:
Public domain clip art for teachers and students is available at WPClipart. Other clip art from Open Clip Art, Clkr and EduPic Graphical Resource.
Free Worksheet Sources
Student Handouts – various worksheets, handouts and forms for printing
The Teachers Corner – daily writing prompts, various types of customizable puzzle worksheets and lesson plans
Worksheet Works – Create a wide variety of customizable worksheet including graphic organizers, puzzles, calendars and graph paper.
Printable Paper – A wide variety of printable lined, graph and other specialty papers
Teachers Pay Teachers - free and paid items available
Activities to Keep Students Busy:
Jeopardy Flash Game creator from SuperTeacherTools (I use this all the time and find it easier than PowerPoint jeopardy)
Picture Bingo Creator from ESL Activities
Content Resources
BBC Schools classroom resources – similar to PBS, they have some great digital tools and animations
PBS Learning Media – digital learning resources for all topics
Shmoop – learning guides, study tools and more across most content areas
Great Ways to Teach Any Days NY Times (from the NY Times website)
Google Tools and Integrations
Share to Google Classroom - a Google Chrome plugin for getting all your students on the same webpage instantly
How to Enable Automatic Grading in Google Forms - a video from Richard Byrne of Free Tech for Teachers
How to create a Jeopardy Game in Google Sheets - from Free Tech for Teachers
Lesson Plan Tool for Docs - Add on for Google Docs that allows lesson plan creation with searchable standards
Assorted Foldables – From Home School Share, a collection of downloadable and printable foldables in many different designs
Creately – Create diagrams from a variety of templates or from scratch
Edpuzzle – Make any video your lesson and make it work for your unique classroom
Educreations allows students or teachers to create instructional videos to share using an iPad or web browser
TikaTok – a tool from Pearson for students to create and publish digital or printed books
ThingLink - annotate images with links
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods – lots of ways to have students show what they know
Rubrics - Assorted rubrics from University of Wisconsin Stout; more rubrics that can be customized for your needs are available from Rubistar. Or try QuickRubric.
Great tools from Read Write Think for creative assignments:
- Interactive Venn Diagram – Create diagrams with 2 or 3 circles and add items. Can be saved to add to later and emailed as PDFs for those without printers.
- Trading Card Creator
- Comic Strip Creator
- Book Cover Creator
- Printing Press – create brochures, newspapers and posters to print
- Persuasion Map - for planning persuasive writing
Public domain clip art for teachers and students is available at WPClipart. Other clip art from Open Clip Art, Clkr and EduPic Graphical Resource.
Free Worksheet Sources
Student Handouts – various worksheets, handouts and forms for printing
The Teachers Corner – daily writing prompts, various types of customizable puzzle worksheets and lesson plans
Worksheet Works – Create a wide variety of customizable worksheet including graphic organizers, puzzles, calendars and graph paper.
Printable Paper – A wide variety of printable lined, graph and other specialty papers
Teachers Pay Teachers - free and paid items available
Activities to Keep Students Busy:
- My Dreams Matter coloring pages
- Printable Logic Puzzles
- Word Finds to print and copy, on a variety of topics, appropriate for middle and high school students
Jeopardy Flash Game creator from SuperTeacherTools (I use this all the time and find it easier than PowerPoint jeopardy)
Picture Bingo Creator from ESL Activities
Content Resources
BBC Schools classroom resources – similar to PBS, they have some great digital tools and animations
PBS Learning Media – digital learning resources for all topics
Shmoop – learning guides, study tools and more across most content areas
Great Ways to Teach Any Days NY Times (from the NY Times website)
Google Tools and Integrations
Share to Google Classroom - a Google Chrome plugin for getting all your students on the same webpage instantly
How to Enable Automatic Grading in Google Forms - a video from Richard Byrne of Free Tech for Teachers
How to create a Jeopardy Game in Google Sheets - from Free Tech for Teachers
Lesson Plan Tool for Docs - Add on for Google Docs that allows lesson plan creation with searchable standards