Overcoming Obstacles is an award-winning, research-based life skill curriculum that is available to all educators around the world for free, now and forever.
In classrooms, on mobile devices, and at home, BrainPOP engages students through animated movies, learning games, interactive quizzes, primary source activities, concept mapping, and more.
There are lots of fun activities you can do right from your home, backyard, or neighborhood. Try some of these activities on your own or with your family!
Blendspace is a platform used to curate resources. This tool can be used by teachers to create lesson-flow playlists which students can access through a weblink and complete asynchronously.
Jamboard
Find this interactive whiteboard tool in your waffle! Use to do live demonstrations for your students--or use it when recording a video!
Interactive presentation tool which collects formative data in real time. Teachers can anonymously share student work with the class to enhance instruction or guide discussion. Nearpod presentation can be viewed live with teacher as facilitator or be viewed as asynchronously (as homework). Students need a device to interact with the presentation.
PowToonis a video animation software and a presentation animation software. You can easily create a simple animated video and then convert it into an animated presentation.
Preziis a presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there.
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.
Explore some of the tutorials in Microsoft's MakeCode Arcade. These step-by-step guides show how to modify and create simple games using drag-and-drop code blocks.
In classrooms, on mobile devices, and at home, BrainPOP engages students through animated movies, learning games, interactive quizzes, primary source activities, concept mapping, and more.
Edpuzzleis a video manipulation tool. A video can be found on, or uploaded into the site. Questions and prompts can be loaded into specific spots on the video Students answer the questions and the teacher has access to data reporting their responses.
Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Each grid is effectively a message board where teachers can pose a question and their students can post 90-second video responses that appear in a tiled "grid" display.
Kahoot is a game-based classroom response system. Create and play quizzes, discussions or even surveys (which we call Kahoots) using any device with a web browser. The class and students can see the correct response as soon as all students have entered the answers. A chart with the class results is also visible giving way for on-demand teaching opportunities. Teachers can view the complete set of student results after the quiz and use it for formative or summative assessment purposes.
No RedInk is an adaptive online aplication that helps students improve their gramma/writing skills using their personal interests with interactive lessons. NoRedInk allows teachers to provide students extra practice with commas, capitalization, and run-on sentences, while also being able to track whether students have completed assignments and whether they have mastered the topic. You could assign students practice for homework, and either assign practice to the whole class or specify certain assignments only for specific students.
Padletis a free Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where educators can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone from any device
Quizizz is a game based response system that can be played on any device with a web browser. Reports are generated to the teacher, whole class and individual
student data. Quizizz can be teacher led or set for individual work.
SeeSaw is a tool to collect videos, pictures, and documents of student work into a digital portfolio. Teachers can maintain blog updates to inform students and teachers about the work. Teachers can provide feedback to the students related to the work in their portfolio. Parents can be invited to their student’s portfolio to view and comment on the work and see teacher blog updates.
Dreamboxis a K-8 standards aligned math program which personalizes questions for individual students. This adaptive software also sends data reports to teachers which indicate students’ ongoing strengths and needs. Students are provided digital manipulatives and video tutorials to support problem solving.
