Lesson Tools
- Online Lesson Plan Template - A lesson plan template you can use when wanting to create detailed lessons online for students to follow. (Finished Example)
- EdPuzzle -- Use nearly any video from YouTube, Khan Academy, TeacherTube, and more. Divide the video into sections, add in your own narrative if you would like, and put in questions to check for understanding. Highly engaging for students. There is a free version for teachers and students.
- Quizizz -- Fun game-based, student-paced formative assessment quiz-like program
- StoryBird -- This impressive creative writing-centered site offers an easy-to-use tool to help kids make picture books, longer books, or poems. There are also over 300+ grade-leveled lesson, quizzes and writing prompts. Additionally, with Storybird, writers/students can share items with other users and get feedback or choose not to. Colorful illustrations featuring items ranging from animals to mermaids can help spark their imagination, along with story suggestions offered by the site through writing challenges, in case kids can't think of an idea.
- NewseumED -- NewseumED.org offers free resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential to civic life. Learn how to authenticate, analyze and evaluate information from a variety of sources and put current events in historical context through standards-aligned lesson plans, videos, primary sources, virtual classes and programs.
- Which One Doesn't Belong? -- A website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong. Enjoy!