Resources
VSB Webcat
Vancouver Public Library
Burnaby Public Library
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
Sparklebox
Guided Language Acquisition Design
Abracadabra Reading Program
The Ultimate Lesson Plan Page
Teachers Pay Teachers - Tons of amazing resource created by teachers for teachers!
Create Interactive Online Courses -
From complete courses to quick homework assignments, in the classroom or the boardroom, Versal offers a creative canvas to bring learning to life.
NaNoWriMo's Young Writer's Program
Storybird
Planboard
Share My Lesson
SMARTBoard
Harvey's Home Page
Internet
Learn All About the Internet
ClassTools --> Applications for Education
Russel Tarr has a bunch of examples of Breaking News screens created about historical events like the assassination of President Lincoln. You could also have students create Breaking News screens about major turning points in the plots of their favorite fiction works.
Language Arts
Glass Analysis (Word Lists)
Into the Book (Similar to Reading Power by Adrian Gear)
Storyline Online
Have Fun Teaching
Writing Exercises
ABC Ya (Kindergarten to Grade 5)
Graphic Organizers
Reading A to Z
Writing A to Z
Vocabulary A to Z
K - 3 Teacher Resources
Progressive Phonics
KIDS Media Centre
Learning Planet
Wacky Web Tales
Book Adventure
Using English (ELL)
OWL (ELL)
Owlkids
Enchanted Learning
Learning Pages
ABC Teach
Games to Learn ENGLISH
Fun English Grammar Games
Language Arts Makers
Handwriting and Printing
& Worksheets Maker
Word Search Maker
CrissCross Puzzle Maker
Dyslexia
OpenSource Dyslexia (Open source font created to increase readability for readers with Dyslexia)
55 Digital Tools & Apps - Formative Assessment Success
Math
Free Math Worksheets
Free Math Drills Worksheets
Superkids
National Council of Teachers of Math
Multiplication Table
Purple Math
AAA Math
Math Games and Challenges
Fun Math Lessons
Learn About AREA
Math Playground
Math Worksheet MAKER
The Routty Math Teacher
Dan Meyer's 3-Act Math Tasks
SAMR for Math (Incorporating Tech. in Math)
SAMR Lesson Samples
Math Games from Aboriginal Peoples
Classroom Math - FMNI Support
Classroom Technologies & First Peoples' Principles of Learning
My Favourite No
Nine Simple Math Tricks
KABOOM! GAME
Coding
Google CS First
BootUp PD
Carnegie Learning
Code Avengers
Code Monkey
Code Red Education
Codesters
Kodable
Parallax
Project Lead The Way
ScratchEd
Tynker
UC Davis C-STEM Center
Wonder Workshop
Online Math Tools
Virtual Manipulatives (Does NOT work in Google Chrome!)
Time - Great site that show passage of time! For Kids!
Create a Graph (For kids!)
Social Studies & Science
All About Skeletons (Human & Animal)
Smithsonian for Kids
Environmental Kids Club
Science World
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
Extreme Science
Cool Science for Kids
National Geographic
All About Canada - NatGeo
Canadian Provinces Interactive Game
Learn About Provincial Capital Cities
Canada
More About Canada
Flags of the World
Countries of the World
NatGeo - Earthquakes
Make an Emergency Kit
Biographies
Duckster's Biographies
Mr. Nussbaum's Bios
Turtle Diary Biographies
Gardens of Praise Bios
Music
Virtual Musical Instruments
Search Engines for Kids
Ask Jeeves for Kids
Kids Encyclopedia - Glossopedia
Yahooligans
Google for Kids
Primary Phonics & Readers
Starfall - Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).
Wordway - Word Families & Readers
Alphabet Avenue - This is a brand new website that will be devoted entirely to learning the alphabet.
Little Book Lane - Each reader comes with a pocket chart activity that is ready to print, laminate and use for differentiated instruction. Reader topics include friends, families, school days, critters, holidays and more!
Tar Heel Reader - Books for beginning
readers of all ages.
Accessible Books (SET - BC)
Internet Picture Dictionary
Indigenous Resources for Professional Learning (NEW!)
UBC Project - Facilitating Discussions of Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom
Anishinaabe Art
Anishinaabe Video (Art)
Knowledge Keepers Discussion Guide
Infusing Indigenous Perspectives
VSB Webcat
Vancouver Public Library
Burnaby Public Library
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
Sparklebox
Guided Language Acquisition Design
Abracadabra Reading Program
The Ultimate Lesson Plan Page
Teachers Pay Teachers - Tons of amazing resource created by teachers for teachers!
Create Interactive Online Courses -
From complete courses to quick homework assignments, in the classroom or the boardroom, Versal offers a creative canvas to bring learning to life.
NaNoWriMo's Young Writer's Program
Storybird
Planboard
Share My Lesson
SMARTBoard
Harvey's Home Page
Internet
Learn All About the Internet
ClassTools --> Applications for Education
Russel Tarr has a bunch of examples of Breaking News screens created about historical events like the assassination of President Lincoln. You could also have students create Breaking News screens about major turning points in the plots of their favorite fiction works.
Language Arts
Glass Analysis (Word Lists)
Into the Book (Similar to Reading Power by Adrian Gear)
Storyline Online
Have Fun Teaching
Writing Exercises
ABC Ya (Kindergarten to Grade 5)
Graphic Organizers
Reading A to Z
Writing A to Z
Vocabulary A to Z
K - 3 Teacher Resources
Progressive Phonics
KIDS Media Centre
Learning Planet
Wacky Web Tales
Book Adventure
Using English (ELL)
OWL (ELL)
Owlkids
Enchanted Learning
Learning Pages
ABC Teach
Games to Learn ENGLISH
Fun English Grammar Games
Language Arts Makers
Handwriting and Printing
& Worksheets Maker
Word Search Maker
CrissCross Puzzle Maker
Dyslexia
OpenSource Dyslexia (Open source font created to increase readability for readers with Dyslexia)
55 Digital Tools & Apps - Formative Assessment Success
- AnswerGarden– A tool for online brainstorming or polling, educators can use this real time tool to see student feedback on questions.
- Animoto – Gives students the ability to make a short, 30-second share video of what they learned in a given lesson.
- AudioNote– A combination of a voice recorder and notepad that captures both audio and notes for student collaboration.
- Backchannel Chat – Similar to TodaysMeet, this site offers a teacher-moderated version of Twitter. An extension of the in-the-moment conversation might be to capture the chat, create a tag cloud and see what surfaces as a focus of the conversation.
- Chatzy – Use Chatzy like you would TodaysMeet, to support backchannel conversations in a private setting. These live chats make great companions to classroom discussion, provide exit tickets, or keep a discussion going after the class is over.
- ClassKick – This app allows teachers to post assignments for students so both the teacher and peers can provide feedback on the assignment. Students can monitor their progress and work.
- Coggle– A mind mapping tool designed to understand student thinking.
- Conceptboard– This software facilitates team collaboration in a visual format – similar to mind mapping, but using visual and textual inputs. Compatible on tablets and PCs, Conceptboard can work from multiple devices.
- Educreations Interactive Whiteboard – A whiteboard app that provides students the tool to share understanding and comprehension.
- ExitTicket – This app offers teachers the opportunity to poll, test, or survey what students know in quizzes called tickets. This tool is best for gathering simple feedback about what students know and don’t know, and is useful for pre-assessment as well as an exit ticket.
- Five Card Flickr– Designed to foster visual thinking, this tool uses the tag feature from photos in Flickr.
- ForAllRubrics– This software is free for all teachers and allows you to import, create and score rubrics on your iPad, tablet or smartphone. You can collect data offline with no internet access, compute scores automatically and print or save the rubrics as a PDF or spreadsheet.
- Formative Feedback for Learning– An iPad app that is designed to foster and encourage communication between students and teachers. Through a conference setting it uses icons to prompt discussions.
- GoFormative – This online, all-student response system provides teachers the opportunity to assign activities to students, receive the results in real time, and then provide immediate feedback to students.
- Google Forms– A Google Drive app that allows you to create documents that students can collaborate on in real time using smartphones, tablets and laptops.
- GoSoapBox – Free for less than 30 students, this all student response system works with the BYOD model, so no charge for a clicker. One of the most intriguing features for me is the Confusion Meter.
- iBrainstorm– An iPad app that allows students to collaborate on projects using a stylus or their finger on screen.
- Jot – Use like individual whiteboards to express ideas and understanding.
- Kahoot – A game-based classroom response system, where teachers can create quizzes using Internet content.
- Lino – A virtual corkboard of sticky-notes so students can provide questions or comments on their learning. These can be used like exit tickets or during the course of a lesson.
- Mentimeter– Allows you to use mobile phones or tablets to vote on any question a teacher asks, increasing student engagement.
- Naiku – Teachers can easily and quickly create quizzes that students can answer using their mobile device. Great for checking for understanding before and after a lesson.
- Nearpod – This tool is nice in that you can not only gather evidence of student learning like an all student response system but you can also create differentiated lessons based on the data you collected. The basic version (30 students or less) is free.
- Obsurvey – Create surveys, polls and questionnaires quickly and easily.
- Padlet– Provides an essentially blank canvas for students to create and design collaborative projects. Great for brainstorming.
- Pear Deck – Plan and build interactive presentations that students can participate via their smart device. Limited free usage and it offers unique question types.
- Pick Me!– An easy to use app for the iPod, iPad and iPhone that facilitates random student selection. Can be organized by class for convenience.
- PingPong – Another backchannel tool that helps maintain student interest by providing a place where students can pose questions, take notes, make comments about instructional content, and share resources during and outside of class.
- Plickers – Allows teachers to collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Perfect for the one-device classroom.
- PollDaddy– Quick and easy way to create online polls, quizzes and questions. Students can use smartphones, tablets, and computers to provide their answers and information can be culled for reports.
- Poll Everywhere – Teachers can create a feedback poll or ask questions. Students respond in various ways and teachers see the results in real-time. As Steven indicates, with open-ended questions you can capture data and spin up tag clouds to aggregate response. You should note that Poll Everywhere has a limit to the number of users. Mentimeter (which we’ve listed below) does not which makes it a little more functional.
- ProProfs – Build and test knowledge with quick quizzes, polls and surveys.
- RabbleBrowser– An iPad app that allows a leader to facilitate a collaborative browsing experience.
- Remind – A free tool that allows teachers to text students and stay in touch with parents. A great ‘check for understanding’ tool that’s easy to use.
- Quia – Teachers can create games, quizzes, surveys and more, and access a database of existing quizzes from other educators.
- QuickVoice Recorder– Another free voice recording app for the iPhone or iPad that allows you to record classes, discussions or other project audio files. You can sync your recordings to your computer easily for use in presentations.
- Quizlet – Create flashcards, tests, quizzes and study games that are engaging and accessible online and via a mobile device.
- Random Name/Word Picker– This tool allows the teacher to input a class list and facilitates random name picking. You can also add a list of keywords and use the tool to have the class prompt a student to guess the word by providing definitions.
- Scattervox – Unique polling tool that makes each question 2-dimensional by having respondents use quadrants for their response, thus creating a scatter plot.
- ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard – Another whiteboard tool students and teachers can use to check understanding.
- SMART Response VE(for SMARTboards) – A cloud-based software that enables students to respond to planned and spontaneous questions and take quizzes using any of their favorite Internet-enabled devices, from anywhere.
- Socrative – Engaging exercises and games that engage students using smartphones, laptops and tablets.
- Tagul – This word cloud generator has an added feature that allows the user to make each word an active link to connect to a website you determine.
- Tagxedo – A tag cloud generator that allows you to examine student consensus and facilitate dialogue.
- ThinkBinder– A collaboration tool that allows students to ask questions and discuss topics in a group, share, create and work together on almost any project.
- TitanPad – This unique tool for collaborative work offers 8 colors to choose from so that each contributor may use a different color. You can easily imagine group work, be it peer review or peer editing for starters, can be made interactive.
- TodaysMeet– This online collaboration tool allows educators to create a “room” in which students can share ideas, answers and thoughts to lectures and lessons. Educators can view student responses in real time for evidence of learning.
- Verso – Described as a feedback tool, this app allows teachers to set up learning using a URL. Space is provided for directions. Students download the app and input their responses to the assignment. They can then post their comments and respond to the comments of others. The teacher can group responses and check engagement levels.
- VoiceThread– Allows you to create and share conversations on documents, diagrams, videos, pictures or almost anything. This facilitates collaborative student discussion and work.
- Vocaroo– A free service that allows users to create audio recordings without the need for software. You can easily embed the recording into slide shows, presentations, or websites. Great for collaborative group work and presentations.
- Wordables – The Word Cloud Guessing Game. This app allows you to elicit evidence of learning or determine background knowledge about a topic. These word clouds are pictures composed of a cloud of smaller words that form a clue to the topic.
- Wordle – Generates tag clouds from any entered text to help aggregate responses and facilitate discussion.
- WordSalad – This app generates word clouds from the text you provide, and they can be exported and shared.
- XMind– A mind mapping software for use on computers and laptops.
- Yacapaca! – Allows teachers to create and assign quizzes with ease.
Math
Free Math Worksheets
Free Math Drills Worksheets
Superkids
National Council of Teachers of Math
Multiplication Table
Purple Math
AAA Math
Math Games and Challenges
Fun Math Lessons
Learn About AREA
Math Playground
Math Worksheet MAKER
The Routty Math Teacher
Dan Meyer's 3-Act Math Tasks
SAMR for Math (Incorporating Tech. in Math)
SAMR Lesson Samples
Math Games from Aboriginal Peoples
Classroom Math - FMNI Support
Classroom Technologies & First Peoples' Principles of Learning
My Favourite No
Nine Simple Math Tricks
KABOOM! GAME
Coding
Google CS First
BootUp PD
Carnegie Learning
Code Avengers
Code Monkey
Code Red Education
Codesters
Kodable
Parallax
Project Lead The Way
ScratchEd
Tynker
UC Davis C-STEM Center
Wonder Workshop
Online Math Tools
Virtual Manipulatives (Does NOT work in Google Chrome!)
Time - Great site that show passage of time! For Kids!
Create a Graph (For kids!)
Social Studies & Science
All About Skeletons (Human & Animal)
Smithsonian for Kids
Environmental Kids Club
Science World
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
Extreme Science
Cool Science for Kids
National Geographic
All About Canada - NatGeo
Canadian Provinces Interactive Game
Learn About Provincial Capital Cities
Canada
More About Canada
Flags of the World
Countries of the World
NatGeo - Earthquakes
Make an Emergency Kit
Biographies
Duckster's Biographies
Mr. Nussbaum's Bios
Turtle Diary Biographies
Gardens of Praise Bios
Music
Virtual Musical Instruments
Search Engines for Kids
Ask Jeeves for Kids
Kids Encyclopedia - Glossopedia
Yahooligans
Google for Kids
Primary Phonics & Readers
Starfall - Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).
Wordway - Word Families & Readers
Alphabet Avenue - This is a brand new website that will be devoted entirely to learning the alphabet.
Little Book Lane - Each reader comes with a pocket chart activity that is ready to print, laminate and use for differentiated instruction. Reader topics include friends, families, school days, critters, holidays and more!
Tar Heel Reader - Books for beginning
readers of all ages.
Accessible Books (SET - BC)
Internet Picture Dictionary
Indigenous Resources for Professional Learning (NEW!)
UBC Project - Facilitating Discussions of Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom
Anishinaabe Art
Anishinaabe Video (Art)
Knowledge Keepers Discussion Guide
Infusing Indigenous Perspectives