Online Resources
Reading & Literacy Resources
| Websites | Phonemic Awareness | Phonics | Fluency | Vocabulary | Comprehension | Teaching Resource |
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| 826 Digital Hundreds of writing resources that are engaging, aligned to CCSS, relevant and free. |
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Achieve The Core |
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| Actively Learn Gr4-12 reading platform for the web where students can highlight, annotate, and discuss text as they read. |
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| American Rhetoric Teaching a famous speech? American Rhetoric houses 100 famous speeches complete with transcripts and audio. |
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| Authors Everywhere A Youtube Channel created and run by children's book writers and illustrators offering read-alouds, book talks, and activities. |
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| Bookopolis A kid-friendly social network and book discovery tool designed to ignite a love of reading in elementary and middle school students. It’s kind of like Goodreads made just for kids. |
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| Common Lit Free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12. A collection of ready-to-print, leveled passages that allow you to tailor lessons, assign online reading, and track progress. |
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| Core Knowledge A comprehensive Preschool–Grade 8 program for teaching skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA®) also builds students’ knowledge and vocabulary in literature, history, geography, and science. |
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| Dogo News Current event articles covering news, science, social studies, world events, environment, sports, and more. |
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| EPIC Books Digital library, learning videos, quizzes. |
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| ESL Games World Listening memory games, board-style games, games-show style games, and more. |
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| Flannel Board Fun YouTube Playlist of Flannel Board stories and songs. |
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| Flocabulary A library of songs, videos and activities for K-12 online learning. |
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| Fly Leaf Publishing Decodable books and learning activities. |
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| Foundational Skills Boost FREE digital resources based on Amplify CKLA- provides instruction, teacher led small group activities, and reading practice. |
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| Freckle Accelerate learning for every student with differentiated practice aligned to ELA and math standards. |
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| Google Lit Trips Using Google Earth to create immersive 3D literary field trips where students virtually become traveling companions with characters in stories commonly taught in grades kindergarten through high school. |
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| Hand2Mind 1,000 downloadable and educational printable worksheets created from teacher-developed lessons. Instructional videos too! |
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| Huey the Bookbot Fun and easy AI that asks a few questions and then recommends books for kids based on their age, reading ability and interests. |
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| InsideStory Flashcards Digital flashcards with words, high-quality photographs, an example sentence, and a brief description. |
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| Intervention Central Academic interventions for reading, with sight words and more. |
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| Into The Book Multimedia package designed to improve elementary students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum. |
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| Just Books Read Aloud Over 1000 children's books read out loud. |
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| Key Strategies for Vocabulary Development Google Drive folder with tons of resources. |
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| Khan Academy Free educational support for grades 2+. |
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| Khan Academy Kids Fun and free educational program for PK-2. |
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| KidLit TV Website offering read-alouds, craft activities, and more. |
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| Learn Out Loud A platform that has free audio and video titles of literature in contemporary, classics, literary history, drama, poetry, and short stories to name a few. |
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| Learn Zillion Full free curriculum with ELA Guidebooks. |
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| Mel.org
Free access to online full-text books and provides a useful interlibrary loan system. |
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Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Resources |
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| Ms. M's Free Library Another teacher's extensive library of books, organized by topic. |
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| No Red Ink Library of over 500 standards-aligned grammar and writing topics. |
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| Neuhaus Academy Neuhaus Academy offers simple, powerful reading tutorials on specific words chosen to expand your vocabulary and enhance your overall reading ability. |
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| Newsela Leveled and standards aligned real-world content. |
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| Open eBooks Open eBooks is a library containing thousands of popular and award-winning titles that are free for children from in-need communities. These eBooks can be read without checkouts or holds. |
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| Phonics + StuffResources for learning and teaching phonics. |
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| Podcasts to support literacy cross curricular Creative ideas to build knowledge across content areas. |
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| Poets.org This site has an extensive collection of over 5,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form. Users can search by title or first line of the poem. |
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| Poetry 4 Kids You will find lots of funny poems and poetry books for children, classic children’s poetry, games, contests, poetry lessons and activities, journals, plus rhyming dictionary, funny poetry podcasts, videos, and lots more. |
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| Reading Rockets A wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons and activities. |
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| Read Theory K-12 online reading comprehension program that assesses reading ability and builds reading comprehension by providing texts for students to read at a "just right" level. |
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| Read Works Research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages. |
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| Read Write Think Classroom resources, research-based strategies, aligned to standards. |
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| Reading Bear Teach beginning readers vocabulary and concepts while systematically introducing all the main phonetic patterns of written English. |
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| Reading Resources Ready to print resources for many learners. |
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| RGR/Phonics Suite Comprehensive set of tools to diagnose, group, and teach students in foundation reading skills. |
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| RGR/Heart Words |
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| Readlee Free online tool that has students read aloud to the computer, and then generates a report for you on the student's reading progress. |
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| Reading Vine Free website with a large collection of reading passages and sets, across grade levels and subjects, for students to get personalized reading skills practice. |
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| Rewordify This tool will change the words to a more simplified text. |
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| Simon Teen An online community for anyone that loves young adult fiction! You can read YA books for FREE! |
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| Smithsonian Learning Lab |
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| Smithsonian Tween Tribune |
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| Spanish Children's Stories Well-known children's stories translated into Spanish and spoken by a native Spanish speaker. Great for kids... and adults too! Read along in Spanish or English. |
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| Spelling City Spelling City offers more than 35 interactive vocabulary, spelling, phonics, writing, and language arts activities. |
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| Spelling Training Type your words into the site or pick one of the predefined lists, then choose an activity: Spelling test, practice, or one of the games. |
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| Storyline Online Well-known actors reading children’s books |
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| Story Place A pre-school library that has books in English and Spanish. |
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| Storynory Online stories and audio books. |
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| Storytime From Space Many children's books about space, earth, engineering and other science related stories are read from space! |
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| Teach Your Monster To Read |
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| Text Project A variety of strategies and tools, including support texts for reading instruction. |
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| Time For Kids The website has several areas that are free and do not need a subscription to the weekly magazine. |
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| TN Best for All |
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| TN Foundational Skills |
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| Text Project |
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| Unite For Literacy |
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| Verbal Workout Free interactive pre/post vocabulary quizzes for popular books. |
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| Vocabulary.com Quizzes give four potential meanings for a vocabulary word, and students select the one they think fits. |
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| Vooks A kid-safe, ad-free streaming library of read-aloud animated storybooks. |
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| What Should I Read Next? Enter a book you like and the site will analyze a huge database of real readers' favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next. |
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| Whooo's Reading Engage elementary and middle school students in independent reading, while easily monitoring their comprehension. |
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| Wordstool Free online tool to create and share vocabulary exercises with students. |
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| WorldBook Online for Kids Resources to learn and read about various topics and people. |
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| Youngzine This site is updated weekly with news articles aimed at upper elementary through high school students. |
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Last updated: February 2023
Writing Resources
826 Digital - Find writing prompts, lessons, projects and more for every grade level.
Analyze My Writing - an online text content and readability analyzer
Book Creator - Create and publish books. Combine text, images, audio and video to create an interactive story.
BoomWriter - Creative writing and gamification come together to provide children a unique approach to writing stories as well as getting published.
Citeitin - Easy to use citation generator for your references.
Graphic Organizers - Reading/Writing graphic organizers to use.
Hemingway App - Make your writing bold and clear.
Little Bird Tales - a digital storytelling and lesson creation site intended primarily for kids in Pre K - 6th grade.
My Storybook - My Storybook allows students to engage in literacy in a creative and fun way and provides educators with the ability to tie multiple subjects together through the art of story telling.
National Writing Project - Resources for teaching writing.
Penzu - Your private, 100% customizable online journal.
Pobble - a Picture a Day story starter with additional resources.
Scholastic Story Starters - A great tool that students will enjoy using to create short, creative fiction stories.
Slick Write - a free application that makes it easy to check your writing for grammar errors, potential stylistic mistakes, and other features of interest.
Story Jumper - Become a published author! Create your story in their free online platform. You can also pay to have it printed.
Write About - a platform to connect students to a community of writers and an authentic audience to develop growth through the entire writing process.
Write & Improve - a FREE tool that helps every learner to improve their English writing.
Writer Igniter - Click the shuffle button to get a randomly generated prompt. Then start writing!
Write Reader - Get students writing and creating in minutes. Optimized for emergent and struggling writers.
Writing Sparks - Writing Sparks offers timed writing prompts to share with your students.
Writing Videos - YouTube playlist with 27 TED-Ed videos on writing skills and topics.
Math Resources
| Websites | Number Sense Routines | Math Concepts K-5 | Math Concepts 6-8 |
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| 99Math Transform your math classes with 99math! Empower your students to achieve fact fluency, meet curriculum standards, and develop a passion for math. |
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| A+ Math Flashcards Practice math problems with flashcards or create and print flashcards for your class. |
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| Access Maths Access Maths is a website created to share and store maths resources and maths games for maths teachers. |
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| Achieve the Core Math Fluency The activities are designed to support students’ progress toward the grade-level numeracy and fluency. |
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| Focus by Grade Level K-8 standards focus by grade level |
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| Aplus Math Interactive math resources for teachers, parents, and students featuring free math worksheets, math games, math flashcards, and more. |
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| Art of Problem Solving AoPS Online offers free educational resources for motivated students in grades 5–12. Books, classes and other online resources, students develop the skills they need to become successful, creative problem solvers. |
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| Berkeley Everett Free resources, activities and templates for teachers to use. |
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| Big Ideas Math Game Closet Printable activities to use with your MS students. Spanish and English. |
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| Boddle Learning Boddle is a FREE adaptive 3D game for K-6 students that makes math engaging and interactive through gameplay. |
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| Build Math Minds Free resources for early numeracy learning. |
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| Ck-12 Videos, practice and interactive games for math support. |
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| MSU's CMP3 Resources Curriculum resources, instructional videos |
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| Delta Math Unlimited practice with instant feedback. |
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| Desmos Interactive math activities and graphing calculators. |
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Dr.Nikki Newton-math running records |
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| Econ Ed Link A new CEE resource, Math in the Real World, brings together the expertise of math teachers and economics teachers to create interdisciplinary lessons that teach important personal finance and economic concepts in the context of math lessons. |
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| Edulastic Vetted standards-aligned question bank, instant data to drive instruction |
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| Embarc Math Resources (videos, lesson plans, Google Slides) for grades K-8. |
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| Equatico
Easily create mathematical equations, formulas and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn. Equatio makes math digital, helping teachers and students at all levels create math expressions quickly and easily. |
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| Ferris Math Stations Wakelet Tons of resources for various station options. |
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| Ferris Math Tech Tools Wakelet Virtual math manipulatives and more |
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| Next Gen Financial Literacy Full curriculum for MS & HS |
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| More Financial Literacy Resources A Google Sheet of more sites for support. |
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| Freckle Differentiated practice aligned to math and ELA standards |
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| Geogebra Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more. |
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| Graham Fletcher Features a blog, 3-Acts Lessons for K-HS, progression videos, and ideas for effectively implementing the CCSS for Mathematics. |
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| Illuminations
Lessons and interactives searchable by NCTM’s Principles and Standards and by the Common Core State Standards. Over 700 lesson plans Over 50 activities; these are virtual manipulatives, apps, and games. |
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| Illustrative Mathematics - Units, resources, centers, and more. |
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| Illustrative Mathematics: Math Talk Slides K-5 |
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| Illustrative Mathematics: Math Talk Slides 6-8 |
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| Inside Mathematics Problems of the month, tasks, lessons, videos |
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| Johnnie's Math Page The best math for kids and their teachers. Hundreds of math tools, activities and games. |
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| K-5 Math Fluency Centers Skill-based centers |
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| Kaplinsky, Robert Lessons and resources K-12 |
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| Kentucky Mathematics Quality products intended to engage learners, allowing them to make sense of mathematics and develop problem solving skills. |
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| Khan Academy |
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| Khan Academy Kids Check out the Quick Start Guide for help getting set up. |
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| Knowledgehook An interactive math assessment tool for kids in grades 3 through 12. The practice tests and assessments are called Gameshows, which students join from their own device. |
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| Lesson Ideas/Templates Sort by content area and grade level. Hundreds of great resources. |
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| Math At Home
This collection of activities, organized by mathematical content, uses familiar routines that can be used by students, families, and teachers in a variety of settings. |
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| Math Learning Center Apps Free apps for iOS. |
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| Math Collective Files for a variety of different math supports. |
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| Math Playground Model math word problems and view step by step solutions |
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| Math Playground Games Math concepts and problem solving |
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| Math Reps for Jamboard Math concepts and problem solving. |
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| Math Reps on Nearpod Sheet of pre-created Nearpod activiites. |
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| Math Skills Database - Quantile Search the database for specific CCSSs. The database contains targeted, free resources appropriately matched to students by Quantile measure and math content. |
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| Math Talk for Slides Ready to use Google Slides. |
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| Math Tasks by grade level Visualizations of math concepts; patterns that are foundational to Elementary Math |
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| Math Tasks/Resources Tons of math resources in this Google Doc. |
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| MathTV a free library of instructional videos, covering math problems from basic math through calculus, to instructors and students of mathematics. |
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| Math Visuals Visualizations of math concepts; patterns that are foundational to Elementary Math |
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| Math Whiteboard Collaborative whiteboard designed specifically for teaching and learning math. |
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| Math Assessment Project Tasks, lessons, assessments, and professional development modules aligned to the CCSS. |
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| Mathigon Free tools, courses and manipulatives. |
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| Matific Math games and worksheets |
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| MMMath Mania FREE no prep/low prep math games and activities to help alleviate math anxiety AND help your students love math. |
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| National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Tools, lessons, games, professional development, conferences and workshops, and much more. |
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| Number Talk Resources |
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| Open Middle A website about math problems-Open middle problems generally require a higher Depth of Knowledge |
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| NRich Maths Free curriculum-linked resources to develop mathematical reasoning and problem solving skills. |
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| Phet Simulations Interactive simulations for science and math. |
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| Same or Different A routine that provides students opportunities to construct arguments when comparing objects, such as numbers or shapes |
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| School Yourself Interactive lessons that provide smart recommendations for learning. |
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| Tools 4 Teachers Supplemental lessons. |
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| Teacher Cafe Strengthen mental math and number sense skills |
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| Virtual Nerd Over 1,500 video lessons for grades 6-12. |
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| Visnos Interactive Math
Free interactive math activities covering topics including addition and subtraction facts, angles, measurement using a protractor, telling the time, multiplication and division, and more. |
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| Which One Doesn't Belong A website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles. |
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| Would You Rather Math Students look at two pictures with a mathematical question -reason and justify their answers. |
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| Youcubed Tasks and ideas to help explain concepts to students that grow their math mindset. |
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| Zearn Students explore math through pictures, visual models, and real-life examples— and it’s free. |
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Social Studies Resources
| Websites | Description |
| 5 Clue Challenge | Short videos where you will get 5 clues to guess a location, animal, or person. |
| 60 Second Civics | 60-Second Civics is a daily podcast that provides a quick and convenient way for listeners to learn about our nation’s government, the Constitution, and our history. |
| Actively Learn | Actively Learn is a web-based reading platform where students can highlight, annotate, and discuss texts as they read. Teachers can assign texts to students solo and in groups so that whole classes can read, annotate, and interact around texts at their level. Most titles also have discussion questions. |
| AllSides | AllSides for Schools equips educators with tools to build news literacy skills in the classroom. Teachers can use our balanced news, bias resources, and dialogue opportunities to instill the civic readiness students need to participate in our democratic society and build resilient communities. |
| American Panorama | A historical atlas of the US for the 21st century that includes interactive maps. |
| Case Maker | Geared for 6th through 8th grade classrooms, Case Maker features twenty pre-made civics challenges that teachers can share with their students, or customize and annotate specifically for your needs. |
| Consensus | Free online search tool that uses AI to analyze your research question and return key findings from hundreds of millions of peer-reviewed scientific papers. |
| CNN Student News | CNN 10 is a feature of the CNN website where middle and high school students can get news in 10-minute video segments. On the CNN 10 homepage or YouTube page, students will find the video of the day followed by recent videos. |
| Design Your Town | Google Slides template where students create a town on a grid. Excellent project for map skills and math coordinates. |
| DocsTeach | The online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives. |
| DogoNews |
Empowering literacy, reading fluency and global awareness through current events and books. |
| Dollar Street |
Dollar Street is a website with over 30,000 photos and 10,000 videos from more than 200 homes in about 50 countries to help everyone understand how people really live, beyond the stereotypes and clichés. |
| Echoes & Reflections | Echoes & Reflections is dedicated to reshaping the way that teachers and students understand, process, and navigate the world through the events of the Holocaust. |
| EDSITEment | EDSITEment offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials in the subject areas of history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture. |
| Felt | Free online tool for creating and sharing maps with loads of useful features including pins, routes, markers, clipping, data layers, polygons, text, notes, links, images, videos, sharing, and more. Lots of great ways for students to use this to create maps and show their understanding of content. |
| Google Expeditions |
Although Expeditions is no longer a VR experience, hundreds of these virtual tours are now available as interactive virtual field trips in Google Arts and Culture, with content for any subject area. |
| Histography | “Histography" is interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history. The site draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new recorded events. |
| History Maps | Free website that illustrates the history of the world with animated maps, pictures, videos, and detailed explanations. |
| MapChart | Free online tool to make a map of the World, Europe, United States, and more, color code countries or states on the map, fill in the legend and download as an image file. |
| iCivics | iCivics engages students in meaningful civic learning. We provide teachers well-written, inventive, and free resources that enhance their practice and inspire their classrooms. |
| Mapping History | Interactive animated maps covering American History, European History, Latin American History, and African History. |
| Map Puzzle |
Online interactive map game where you drag and drop countries or states onto a world map to fit them into their correct locations like puzzle pieces. |
| Metroverse |
Interactive site from Harvard to visualize economic data and learn about cities. |
| National Council for the Social Studies | National Council for the Social Studies is the largest professional association in the country devoted solely to social studies education. NCSS engages and supports educators in strengthening and advocating social studies. |
| Newsela | Leveled and standards aligned real-world content. |
| NewseumED |
Browse 1,000s of Lesson Plans, Classes, Digital Artifacts, Historical Events, and other NewseumED learning tools. |
| Open Geography |
Collection of free, open curriculum and resources for anybody who is interested in our geographic world, including etextbooks, online resources, and more. |
| PBS Learning Media | Free collection of curated, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lessons plans, and more across all subject areas and grade levels. |
| Seterra | Become a geography expert and have fun at the same time! Seterra is an entertaining and educational geography game that gives you access to over 400 customizable quizzes. Seterra will challenge you with quizzes about countries, capitals, flags, oceans, lakes and more! |
| TeachFlix | Collection of vetted educational videos for use with your students, with categories including math, music and art, science, history, English language arts, physical education, read alouds, computer science, SEL, world language, virtual field trips, digital citizenship, and more. |
| The Learning Network | Free features like writing prompts, contests, discussion forums and lesson plans, the site provides fresh opportunities daily for teenagers to both learn more about what’s happening in the news and raise their voices in response to it. |
| Tiki-Toki Timeline Maker |
Create beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the web. The perfect timeline maker for history timelines and school projects. |
| Timeline JS | TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. |
| Wordstool | Free online tool to create and share vocabulary exercises with students. |
| World History Encyclopedia | Online collection of thousands of world history resources including articles, videos, maps, primary source materials, quizzes, and more. |
| Youngzine | Many educators have remarked that Youngzine is a great resource and a perfect complement to academic material. Relating to current events not only makes students more aware of what's going on but also helps them absorb concepts better. Youngzine's news articles are FREE for all educators. |
| Zoom In! | Zoom In is a free, Web-based platform that helps students build literacy and historical thinking skills through “deep dives” into primary and secondary sources. |
Science Resources
| Brilliant |
Brilliant is free for educators and their students (up to 8 classrooms) including 70+ interactive courses for math, science, and 1000's of Daily Challenges. |
| Design Squad Global | Design Squad Global is a site for middle school students to explore engineering and design, with videos, interactive games, design activities, and more. |
| Foldable Science Templates | Pre-made templates for many different science topics. |
| Kide Science | Story-based STEAM lesson plans for ages 3 through 8. Free version allows one free lesson plan each week. |
| OLogy |
Free kids science website from the American Museum of Natural History. Resources include online games, reading passages, hands-on activities, and educational videos. |
| Periodic Table | An interactive periodic table. |
| TeachFlix | Collection of vetted educational videos for use with your students. |
| The Physics Classroom | Physics simulations, tutorials and more. |
Google Chrome Extensions
| Extension | Description |
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| AdBlock | Easy-to-use adblockers that blocks video and web advertising. |
| Bitmoji | With this extension, you can directly insert Bitmojis into Gmail, click and drag to resize them, and copy and paste them almost anywhere. |
| Buffer | Buffer is the best way to share great content to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn from anywhere on the web, with just one click. Schedule your posts ahead of time. |
| Canvas Quiz Printer |
This extension will allow you to print a Canvas quiz. Just navigate to the quiz in Canvas and press the extension to download it. |
| Chrome Remote Desktop | Allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook. |
| Clipboard History Pro | Save the history of copied text, manage history, and enable instant paste. |
| Colorzilla | Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator |
| Equatio |
Easily create mathematical equations, formulas and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn. |
| Giphy | Search and discover the best GIPHY GIFs and Stickers right in your browser |
| Google Keep | Extension that allows you to save and organize webpages, images, text, to-do lists to review later. |
| Grammarly | Contextual spelling and grammar checker for Gmail and Google Suite. |
| Link Clump | Lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time. |
| One Tab | Turn all your open tabs into a neat list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once. |
| Print Friendly |
Create PDFs from web articles, but choose what you want to include! Print, email or create PDF. |
| Record for Slides |
Record videos and automatically load them into the slide you are on. Use the video icon in the upper right to add video into your slide. |
| Remote for Slides | Control Google Slides on any device. |
| Save to Google Drive | This extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. |
| Sir Links-A-Lot |
A must-have for those who share out Google Docs. Templates ~ Force a copy ~ Preview ~ PDF with just a click check this out! |
| Tab Wrangler |
Automatically closes inactive tabs and makes it easy to get them back. Too many tabs? Do you have a tab addiction? Tab Wrangler closes tabs that haven't been used recently. |
Whiteboard Apps
Formative Assessment
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| Blooket | Blooket is a gamified learning platform where educators host quiz games through a set of questions, and students respond using their own devices. | |
| Classcraft | Classcraft is a game that integrates with everyday classroom activities, encouraging positive behavior, teamwork and collaboration. The Quick Review tool helps teachers create formative assessments within the platform. | |
| Classkick | Classkick is an app and web-based instructional tool. Teachers love Classkick because it allows them to take their classroom paperless, see students working in real-time, and support students with immediate feedback. | |
| Deck.Toys | Deck.Toys is an online classroom platform that allows you to teach and engage students interactively. Your lessons become Learning Paths for Lesson Adventures! | |
| Desmos | Browse the collections of free, engaging, and customizable activities that’ll help you invite, celebrate, and develop your students’ thinking. Students will share their ideas using card sorts, sketches, images, multiple choice responses, and a large and growing list of other components. | |
| Flip | Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a free app from Microsoft where educators can create safe groups for students to engage in curriculum using short video, text, and audio messages. | |
| Formative | Formative is a web- and app-based interactive student response and assessment tool that's compatible with almost any device. Teachers can then select from a library of user-created content, or they can upload or create assignments on their own that let students type, record audio and video, enter numbers, draw, upload an image, answer multiple-choice questions, and more. | |
| GimKit | Students answer questions on their own device at their own pace. Throughout a Kit, each student will get exposure to the questions multiple times to ensure mastery. Students earn in-game cash by answering questions correctly. An incorrect answer will cost you! Students can reinvest their money by purchasing upgrades & power-ups. With millions of combinations, students can make purchases that suit their strengths. | |
| GoConqur |
Our unique free learning platform, GoConqr (formerly ExamTime), gives you the tools to achieve success. Create, Discover and Share learning resources today. Looking to get better results for SAT, AP, GED test or to optimize your college prep? Top students use online tools to succeed. Find out how Mind Maps, Flashcards, Quizzes, Slides and Notes can help you learn. |
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| Google Forms | With Google Forms, you can create surveys or quizzes right in your mobile or web browser—no special software required. You get instant results as they come in. | |
| Kahoot | Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. | |
| Knoword |
Knoword is the game-based learning platform that makes teaching easier and learning vocabulary almost too fun for words. |
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| LiveWorksheets | LiveWorksheets allows you to transform your traditional printable worksheets and classwork (doc, pdf, jpgs) and turn them into interactive online exercises with automatic grading, making them... live! | |
| Nearpod |
Real-time insights into student understanding through interactive lessons, interactive videos, gamification, and activities — all in a single platform. |
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| Oodlu | Oodlu is a fun and engaging gamified platform. Create or select questions and students answer the questions in a game. The teacher is able to monitor student progress. | |
| Plickers |
Plickers is a free engaging educational tool used to assess their students and collect instant results in the classroom. Students answer questions by holding up unique cards, so there's no need for student devices or accounts, and sessions can even be taken offline if no internet connection is available. |
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| Problem-Attic | Use Problem-Attic for differentiated instruction, blended/self-paced learning, warm-ups and exit tickets, flash cards, games, slideshows, even problem-of-the-day calendars. Choose from many high quality questions including state released test questions in all grades and subjects. | |
| QuizWhizzer | QuizWhizzer is a tool designed to improve the classroom experience through gamification, without diminishing learning. It adds friendly competition to self-paced quiz games. It’s a race to the finish, where you progress by answering the questions! | |
| Quizalize | Epic whole class quiz games, smart quizzes with built in personalisation, and instant mastery data that helps you address learning loss in every student. | |
| Quizizz | Quizizz is a learning platform that offers multiple tools to make a classroom fun, engaging, and interactive! As a teacher, you can create gamified Quizzes and Lessons, conduct formative assessments, host live activities or assign them as homework, tap into detailed performance reports, and so much more! | |
| Quizlet | Help every student confidently learn anything. With free study sets, study modes and in-class games like Quizlet Live, you can instantly create a more engaged classroom. | |
| Socrative | Effortlessly assess and engage your students while visualizing learning progress in real-time with instant results. Launch a quiz, receive exit tickets, or ask a quick question for immediate feedback. | |
| Teacher Made | Transform your existing Google Slides, Docs, and other PDFs into interactive activities in minutes. Or construct digital activities from scratch. | |
| Thinkio |
Thinkio is a simple tool to help teachers share, view and mark interactive worksheets in online lessons. |
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| Wizer | Create beautiful interactive online worksheets that can be shared to any LMS. Add video, audio, images and a variety of question types. Save time with automatic checking & grading, or review one by one to give more personal feedback. | |
| Wooclap | You interact with your students in 3 simple steps: ask the question, let them answer it, and view the results in real time. No need to create an account or download an application! Easily integrates with Canvas LMS | |
| Wordwall | Wordwall.net allows teachers to create interactive games and printed materials for their students. Teachers simply enter the content they want and we automate the rest. |
Holiday Resources