App/Web Tool Name |
Description |
Usage
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Discovery education has interactive digital textbooks, engaging standards-aligned content, comprehensive professional development, virtual experiences, and learning communities. Some school districts have full access. |
Lesson Plans with videos and SOS Strategies | |
Teens Health has doctor-reviewed info to help you be your best in body and mind. Get facts and advice on nutrition, moods, sex, infections, body image, and more. Articles have a "read to you option" as well as teacher lessons. |
Articles and Lesson Plans | |
SHAPE America provides programs and resources to support health and physical educators at every level, and work to make a positive impact on school health and physical education through our state and national advocacy efforts.
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National Standards, Lesson Plans and Research | |
Build a lesson around any TED-Ed Original, TED Talk or YouTube video. |
Lesson Builder | |
Schoology is a learning management system. Manage your classroom, create and submit assignments, participate in interactive discussions, perform assessments, collaborate with your peers, and much more!
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Classroom tests, quizzes, distribution of class materials | |
Edmodo allows the discussion to continue even after that school bell rings. Teachers and students can share content and use the app as a conduit for new information or notifications, submitting assignments and receiving grades in the process. The ability for teachers to post assignments, messages, polls and quizzes, while providing access to relevant resources and calendars, is simply invaluable.
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Classroom tests, quizzes, distribution of class materials
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Used to organize notes, documents, classroom libraries. OneNote can be a digital binder that also has collaborative spaces for student groups. Share resources with colleagues. This needs a Microsoft account just like OneDrive. |
Student binder, organization, completion of class materials. Collaboration
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Notability
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Use Notability for iPad to organize note/documents and other classroom materials. Notability is used for students to keep and organize a digital binder. Notability for iPad can also be used to annotate PDF documents, such as student assignments and PDF forms.
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Student binder, organization, completion of class materials on iPad (PDF) |
The OneDrive app for iOS lets you easily work with your personal and work files when you're on the go. Quickly open and save OneDrive files in Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Easily find photos thanks to automatic tagging. Get notifications when a shared document is edited. Share albums of your favorite photos and videos. Highlight, annotate, and sign PDF files in your OneDrive. Access your most important files offline. |
File storage and organization. Shared documents and collaboration. | |
Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology. This interactive site includes videos, audio prompts, graphics, and games in a blended format that will be very familiar to most kids.
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Teaching through videos and games | |
Newsela starts with interesting articles about tons of topics—each available at 5 reading levels. Assessments are included with the articles to help readers engage with the content. As students read and take quizzes, the Newsela app adjusts the reading level to keep articles challenging and engaging. Plus, students can keep track of their improvement over time automatically.
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Current event articles with quizzes. | |
EDpuzzle is an easy and effective way to deliver videos in the classroom. Video is no longer a passive experience, with EDpuzzle video comes to life with audio-notes and questions. An interactive and unique experience for your students. Make any video your lesson by inserting questions for students to answer as the video plays.
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Video delivery with checkpoint questions. | |
Quizizz is a game-based classroom response system you can play on any device with a web browser! Create and play quizzes in a variety of formats. Build your quizzes or use public ones. Let students answer at their own pace and watch their data appear! The part is you can download a spreadsheet to get detailed data to help you understand what your students still need help with!
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Game-based classroom response | |
Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything. Start learning today with flashcards, games and learning tools — all for free. You can also create “flashcards” for any class and then play Quizlet Live with your class. Quizlet Live is an in-class, team-based learning game. Students work together to correctly match a Quizlet set's terms and definitions. The first team to match 12 in a row wins!
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Flashcards (review), games and learning tools. | |
GIMKIT | Made by students for teachers. A great thing about Gimkit's gameplay is that students answer questions multiple times. This gives us lots of data to analyze and give back to you. A 10-minute Gimkit with 30 students on average gives more than 1,500 data points. | Gameplay |
Assess and track mastery of state and Common Core standards. Know what your students know in real-time. Pin and upload resources aligned to standards. Share resources in a curriculum map and in student playlists. Share and discover common assessments in a global professional learning community. Save time with instant grading tools: tablet, mobile device, web browser, and GradeCam™ bubblesheet scanning. MasteryConnect Teacher App allows teachers to launch and deliver assessments with an iPad or iPhone. Teachers can instantly view student results, sort by mastery levels, and edit their scores. MC Student allows students to take assignments, tests, quizzes, and common formative assessments using an iPod, iPad, or iPhone.
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Common Core standards assessment | |
QR Code Reader app (there are several)
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Scan a QR code or barcode simply open the app, point the camera at the code, and you're done! |
QR Reader |
QR code generator Online Link |
There are many QR code generator websites out there, but I feel as though this has been the most user friendly and versatile.
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QR Generator |
| Collaboration Apps |
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Backchannel Chat provides safe and secure real time discussion tools that have been designed for educational use. Teachers have full control of the discussion - they can remove messages, lock the room, and prevent students from contributing.
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Collaborative Discussion | |
TodaysMeet is the premier backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners. The backchannel is the conversation that goes on alongside the primary activity, presentation, or discussion. Students can join from home or even from other schools to make the classroom community even bigger. TodaysMeet gives everyone the floor and lets even the quietest students express themselves.
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Collaborative Discussion | |
Padlet is a digital canvas to create projects that are easy to share and collaborate on. Teachers can put the task at the top of the Padlet and students will post responses. The responses can be in the form of text, picture or document. There is also a comment feature that allows you or students to comment on the posts that makes this digital canvas even more interactive. |
Collaborative projects, responses, and ability to comment. | |
Post-It Plus
| The Post-it® Plus App brings the simplicity of the Post-it® Note to your smartphone and tablet. Whether you use Post-it® Notes for collaboration or for personal note taking, the Post-it® Plus App helps you keep that momentum going. Simply capture analog notes with the camera, or create new notes right on your device for those important reminders. Arrange, refine and organize notes and ideas on your board anyway you see fit. Then share your organized board with friends and co-workers, or export to your favorite applications and cloud services—including PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, Dropbox and plenty more. |
Virtual Post-It Collaborative |
Lino is an online stickies service that offers stickies and canvases. You can post, see and peel off stickies on canvases freely. Stickies posted from this iPhone/iPad App can be accessed with PC browsers. lino is an ideal tool to share your ideas and to have a discussion with your friends and colleagues. You can create or configure a group from PC browsers. With iPhone/iPad App, you can post, see, move and peel off stickies. |
Virtual Post-It Collaborative discussion | |
Socrative is your classroom app for fun, effective classroom engagement. No matter where or how you teach, Socrative allows you to instantly connect with students as learning happens. Quickly assess students with prepared activities or on-the-fly questions to get immediate insight into student understanding. Then use auto-populated results to determine the best instructional approach to most effectively drive learning.
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Collaborative activities, questions and checks for understanding. | |
| Gaming Apps |
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Create a fun learning game in minutes – we call these ‘kahoots’. You can make a series of multiple choice questions. The format and number of questions are entirely up to you. Add videos, images and diagrams to your questions to amplify engagement. There are hundreds of already created kahoots that you can search from and use! Players answer on their own devices, while the questions are displayed on a shared screen to unite the lesson.
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Gaming quiz | |
A scavenger hunt for the masses. Each GooseChase game has a list of missions for participants to complete. You can create your mission list using our bank of 100+ tested missions or by designing your own from scratch. Missions have a name, description, point value and an optional link or photo to provide extra information. With real-time activity feeds and rankings, you’re able to see everything as it happens. Find an awesome photo or video a participant took? Give it bonus points! Another team took too long to submit the answer? Dock a few points or delete it entirely. You can also set how long the game will run and whether there’s a password to join. LIMITATIONS – 5 teams only for free.
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Gaming missions | |
| Classroom Management |
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Wheel Decide is a free online spinner tool that allows you to create your own digital wheels for decision making, prize giveaways, raffles, games, and more. This is a great tool to use for a random name picker to call on students in class.
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Decision making or prize wheel. |
Team Shake provides a technological and environmentally friendly way to choose teams for board games, sporting events, tournaments, school projects or anytime groups are required. The newest release brings many new features including full iPad support, balancing teams based on skill or gender, importing users from a file, enabling video output, and sharing teams via facebook or email. |
Student random selector
Group set up | |
Apple Classroom
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Apple Classroom helps with classroom management with iPads. With Classroom, you can easily launch the same app on every student device at the same time or launch a different app for each group of students. Students can be locked into a specific app, therefore helping focus students.
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Classroom Management Tool |
ClassDojo isn’t your typical classroom-management platform. Whereas others concern themselves with gold stars and charts, this app lets teachers emphasize positive feedback, allowing you to elaborate on the behavior of your students with comments such as “working hard” or “participating.” You can even send parents public and private messages regarding their child’s progress, and if they desire to do so, they can view their child’s feedback in real-time. No school newsletter required. |
Classroom Management Tool | |
| Presentation, Project and Video Apps |
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Keynote
| Keynote
is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile
device. Its presentations are complete with animated charts and
cinematic transitions — as simple as touching and tapping. |
Presentation |
Prezi, the presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring your ideas to life and make you a great presenter. This is an online software that can be taken anywhere. The Prezi Viewer App allows you to practice and present this anywhere.
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Presentation | |
iMovie
| Using your iPad, it’s never been easier to make it in the movies. Just choose your clips, then add titles, music, and effects. iMovie even supports 4K video for stunning cinema-quality films. |
Movie Creator |
Flipgrid | Teachers spark discussion by posting topics and questions to a class, school, professional learning community, or the world. Students record, upload, view, react, and respond to each other’s short videos. |
Video discussion |
Clips | Videos made easy
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Video Creation |
No accounts required to use this app, no social sharing features, it's perfect for young children and classroom use. PicCollage Kids also offers hundreds of awesome free backgrounds, fun stickers and fonts. You can easily create amazing collages and send them by email or text messages. |
Visual and text one pagers. | |
Piktochart | Select from various free templates and create infographics, posters, presentations, and reports. |
Posters, reports, presentation |
Haiku Deck is the easiest way to create an amazing presentation on the web, iPad, or iPhone. A smart app that makes beautiful slideshows in no time and makes your iPad a more productive too. You can choose from a variety of fonts, pictures and layouts. |
Presentation | |
Smore is a website that helps users create online flyers. Kids have to register to use Smore by entering their first and last name, e-mail address, and a password. You can add text, photos, and audio from your personal files or imported from the web. Each Smore generates a specific like to make sharing easy.
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Flyers, Newsletters | |
| Communication Apps |
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Remind (formerly known as Remind 101) makes it easy for teachers to communicate with students and their parents beyond the classroom. You can make class announcements, group chats, or contact individuals privately through the app. Your messages can even be translated into over 70 languages, making it possible to communicate with parents who are non-native English speakers. |
Communication Tool | |
myHomework is a digital student planner app where students can manage their school life online.
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Communication Tool | |
Professors and college students are increasingly turning to the messaging tool to stay in touch beyond school hours. Not only are some instructors hosting text-based “office hours” on the platform, they are even pushing important reminders through the app to their students, just in case. |
Communication Tool |
| Project Apps |
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The App is an easy to use comic creator and a self-publishing tool that lets you to create your own storyboards, photo comics, or class projects! If you have an idea, you can instantly create visually dazzling content on the go. Get started quickly by choosing from many templates and inbuilt cartoon characters and other assets.
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Comic Creator | |
Create memes and posters in the classic meme styles. Use your own images or choose from popular templates. New features include “fake news” and “Quote” meme styles. |
Meme Creation | |
Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. Some features: add text, choosing from over 50 fonts; add photos and images from your iPad's photo library, from the web, or use the iPad's camera, resize, rotate and position content as you like with guidelines and snap positioning; add video and music, and even record your voice; use the pen tool to draw and annotate your book; choose from portrait, landscape or square book sizes; add super powers to your books with comic templates, stickers and styles; a quick tap and you're reading your book in iBooks!
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Storybook | |
Students respond to your polls online or through the app. Use multiple poll types, including multiple-choice and word cloud, throughout your lesson to identify gaps in understanding. Anonymous polling creates a safe space for reluctant students to respond openly. Hear from the entire class simultaneously.
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Feedback | |
AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it in the classroom to get brief feedback or use for creative brainstorming. When logged in as the “admin” for your answer garden, you can delete responses. All responses are anonymous. Tutorial Link
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Brainstorming or feedback | |
A great tool for brainstorming in the classroom. Drag your notes on the iPad into any ordered hierarchy you want. Assign colors to give additional meaning or priority. The iPad canvas also serves as a drawing board. Draw, erase or zoom in for tighter control. Everything is then captured for later. Think – “virtual mind map”
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Brainstorming | |
With ThingLink, teachers and students can easily enhance images and videos with additional notes, photos, audio, video and other multimedia content. Students acquire visual presentation skills and communicate through digital storytelling across grade levels, on any device.
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Visual Presentation through Digital Storytelling | |
Access your bookmarks and online favorites with Symbaloo. A free social bookmarking service in the cloud. This would be a great tool for organizing online sites that you need your students to visit often or for a particular unit/lesson. This way they can access them all in one place. This can also be used as a project based learning tool.
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Organizational Tool for Units, Lessons, Projects | |
ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. |
White Board Tutorials | |
Texting Story
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This app allows student to pick two characters to create conversations in a new way. |
Dialogue through text |
The Episode app is a mobile storytelling network and platform. Episode features interactive Hollywood-caliber stories built from the ground up for mobile, not the passive entertainment of TV and movies. In Episode, your choices decide the path of your story. Great role-play app.
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Story creation | |
TechSmith Capture brings powerful screen recording technology to your mobile devices. You can easily record apps and other content for video demos, presentations, and tutorials. The possibilities are endless. |
Mobile Device Screen Recording | |
| Website Creators (includes Blog) |
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Create your website: • Use the intuitive drag-and-drop builder designed specifically for touchscreen • Upload images directly from your photo library, select from a wide range of text, media and design elements • Customize your site with the same free, responsive themes offered on Weebly desktop |
Website Creator | |
Wix App is a website creator which enables users to create, manage and market their businesses anytime and anywhere. Wix App is an interface that streamlines the day-to-day mobile management that businesses need to operate ecommerce, marketing, customer service and communications with global customers and visitors. Business owners use Wix OS to manage their mobile sites, their contacts and their Wix Stores. |
Website Creator | |
Text translation: Translate between 103 languages by typing Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly (32 languages) |
Language Translator | |
The app of the world's most popular and powerful dictionary translation website. It grants you quick access to our extensive dictionaries and forum discussions. |
Dictionary and translation | |
| Content Specific |
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Learn about diseases and outbreaks in an engaging way. See how CDC's Disease Detectives save lives around the world. Post your scores on Facebook or Twitter and challenge your friends to play!
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Disease Detective Game | |
My Plate is available on Apple devices. It is a user-friendly way to track your food and exercise on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. MyPlate makes tracking calories and getting the proper nutrition easy.
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Nutrition Tracking | |
MyFitnessPal is a smartphone app and website that tracks diet and exercise to determine optimal caloric intake and nutrients for the users' goals and uses gamification elements to motivate users. |
Nutrition, Exercise and Water Tracking | |
Track your calories, macros, exercise, sleep, hunger, and mood. Get motivation from the most supportive community in the world. |
Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep, Water Tracking | |
First Aid by Amercian Red Cross
| The official American Red Cross First Aid app puts expert advice for everyday emergencies in your hand. Get the app and be prepared for what life brings. With videos, interactive quizzes and simple step-by-step advice it’s never been easier to know first aid. |
First Aid, Safety and Rescue Breathing |
Headspace: Meditation |
Headspace is a digital service that provides guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training. Its content can be accessed online, or via their mobile apps. |
Meditation |
Free recipe app for home cooks. Create a meal plan, grocery list and more from your favorite recipes. Organize your recipe collection and take it anywhere. |
Recipes with Nutrition Information |
Resource that has apps/web tools broken down by purpose.
Rockingham County School District in VA
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Autodesk Sketchbook
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Digital painting, drawing, and sketching software used for coloring, comic and manga art, industrial design, and concept design. |
Art |
Bamboo Paper
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Turn your iPad into a paper notebook and capture your ideas everywhere, anytime. Taking notes, sketching, and drawing is as straightforward and simple as using real pen and paper. |
Art |
ArtRage
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The most advanced simulation of real paint on your iPad, taking full advantage of the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil! Get creative on a digital canvas with smearing, blending oils, delicate watercolor, and much more! |
Art |
Pixelmator
| Pixelmator takes full advantage of the latest Mac features and technologies, giving you speedy, powerful tools that let you touch up and enhance images, draw or paint, apply dazzling effects, or create advanced compositions with ease. Once your images are ready, save them to popular image formats, share them via email or social networks, print them, or instantly add them to your Photos library. |
Art |
Tayasui Sketches
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Sketches is the most realistic, versatile and user-friendly sketching app designed for a mobile device. This exhaustive artist's toolbox helps users create dazzling sketches, cheerful paintings and smashing illustrations on the go. |
Art |
Zen Brush
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Zen Brush is an app that allows you to easily enjoy the feeling of using an ink brush to write or to paint. It allows anyone to easily perform fluent strokes while not compromising on the fascinating texture of a real ink brush. |
Art |
Adobe Draw/Line/Sketch
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Create beautiful, scalable vector designs on your iPad |
Art |
A collection of unique and engaging digital activities, which are free for you and your students. You can create your own lessons, card matching activities or polygraphs (Guess who game for math graphs). Desmos is an online tool that gives students an opportunity for feedback from the teacher and peers and an opportunity to go back and revise their work.
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MATH (primarily), but could be adapted for any class. | |
With over 5,000 skills in math and English language arts, students can find comprehensive, standards-aligned content for all grade levels. Interactive questions and virtual rewards create an engaging learning environment that motivates students to master skills and explore new topics.
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MATH & ELA | |
Mathspace is the first computer based system that allows students to complete full worked solutions to math problems online and receive instant feedback and help at every step. Students can request specific, relevant hints and videos to help at any points they get stuck. Every step entered guides the next hint, the next question, the next topic, for a truly personalized curriculum.
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MATH | |
GrafNCalc83
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GraphNCalc83 is a modern version of the classic graphing calculator.
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MATH |
Adapted from East Irondequoit Central School District Document Created by Nicole Johnson.
Revision 3 - November 19, 2019 - J. Dipzinski and C. Hopple
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