Gapminder
Explore world views with Gapminder. The site contains interactive tools and many videos on a broad range of topics.
Google Sky
Google Sky – it’s like Google Earth, except it’s the sky. A fantastic companion for the grade 6 sky science unit!
Word Hippo
Word Hippo is a cute thesaurus/dictionary/word rhyming for younger learners. It asks the question “What’s another word for” at the top of the screen and children can type their sought-after word into the search space. The search at the top of the screen changes based on the tab. When on the Antonyms tab, it will ask “What is an antonym for ___?”
This site could also be useful with older students working on rhyming and poetry in Language Arts class.
Ed Tech Tips, Tricks & Hacks – Vol. 2; Issue 5
This edition of Ed Tech Tips, Tricks & Hacks contains nuggets of wisdom on:
- IMC Dot & Dash Robots!
- Save Items from Shared Drives to your personal Drive
- Phishing Quiz
- Problem-Attic Exam Creation
- Digital Citizenship Scope & Sequence
- Digital Math Manipulatives – Class Playground
- Digital Math Manipulatives – Toy Theater
- STEM Activities for all grades
- 51 Esti-Mysteries
- Catch Plagiarism with Draftback
- Innovative ways to use Plickers
- Buncee – contains a lesson bank!
- Education.com
- SeeSaw
Adobe Spark for Graphics and Video
Adobe Spark is a phenomenal resource for teachers. Spark allows you to quickly and efficiently create a beautiful graphic using a template, your own photos and royalty-free photos. You can also create from scratch to build your own unique images.
Further, Adobe Spark has the capacity to create and edit videos.
Adobe’s privacy policy is not suited to students, so this is not recommended as an application to be used with students.
Ed Tech Tips, Tricks and Hacks – Vol. 2 Issue 4
This edition of Ed Tech Tips, Tricks & Hacks contains nuggets of wisdom on:
- New in IMC – Dash & Dot Coding Robots
- Saving content from shared folders
- Phishing Quiz
- Problem Attic
- Digital Citizenship Scope & Sequence
- Digital Math Manipulatives
- STEM Activities
- Esti-Mysteries
- Catch Plagiarism
- Innovative Ways to use Plickers
- Buncee
- Education.com
- SeeSaw
- HippoCampus – Homework & Study Help
- Problems of the Week – National Council of Mathematics
Google Sky
Google Sky – it’s like Google Earth, except it’s the sky. A fantastic companion for the grade 6 sky science unit!
Silk – Interactive, Generative Art
Silk is a really cool interactive, generative art site. It does not require a login, but has a camera icon in the top left corner for artists to take a photo of their creations.
Beyond art, this site would offer some fun learning about symmetry in math.
Play & Learn – French, Spanish or German
Literacy Center offers a few online games to assist with second language teaching and learning.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Many of the scientific simulations on the PhET site (from the University of Colorado, Boulder) are now able to be utilized on Chromebooks. They are no longer flash-based simulations.
PhET offers simulations from elementary level through to university.
Bomomo
Bomomo is an art site where adults and kids can experiment with art, colours and textures in an animated and engaging way.
Base Ten Blocks at CoolMath
CoolMath – an old, familiar math website has recently launnched a set of virtual manipulatives including a nice interface for base-ten blocks. Becuase they are just rolling this content out now, the number of manipulatives is limited to the base ten blocks, a numberline, patterrn blocks and ten frames. However, CoolMath has been a resource for teachers for many years now, and we can likely expect the virtual manipulative resources to continue to grow!
New! More Math Manipulatives!
As many of us have discussed, there is genuine growth occurring in the creation of online resources that are accessible from a Chromebook. Today I am excited to bring your attention to the Didax library of free online math manipulatives!
This set of tools includes unifix cubes, number lines, rekenreks, base ten blocks, prime factor tiles, algebra tiles and more!
NaNoWriMo for Young People
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, empowering approach to creative writing. The challenge: draft an entire novel in just one month. For 30 wild, exciting, surprising days, you get to lock away your inner editor, let your imagination take over, and just create!
NaNoWriMo only collects first names of student users and birthdates (for the purposes of protection and security) and NEVER asks for last names. Students use a screen (user) name and can upload an avatar to personalize their experience.
Ed Tech Tips, Tricks & Hacks – Vol. 2, Issue 3
This edition of Ed Tech Tips, Tricks & Hacks contains nuggets of wisdom on:
- Michelle’s Blog (You’re on it now!)
- Kami for Differentiation
- My Blueprint – Div 2&3
- Hour of Code
- Edu in 90
- Esti-Mysteries – A Learning Mission
- Planboard
- Plickers
- True Size of – Interactive map projection explorer
- Kialo Edu – Tool for critical thinking and rational debate
- Classroom Screen – Easy digital screen tools
- Wooclap
- ClipArt Tec.
- Meet Generation Z
- Tik Tok Safety