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return to subject listingExplore Learning Ecosystem Resources - Explore Learning
Grades
4 to 10tag(s): animals (281), coral (10), ecosystems (73), food chains (17), ponds (3), population (47)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the many free resources shared on this site for teaching about ecosystems. Ask students to create infographics sharing information they learn. Canva, reviewed here, offers free resources for creating infographics. Have students create animated videos sharing information about ecosystems using Powtoon, reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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California Chaparral Institute - The Chaparral Institute
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): animal homes (56), animals (281), biomes (113), habitats (87)
In the Classroom
Include this site with your other resources for teaching about biomes and habitats. Before introducing this site, find out what students already know about chaparrals using a virtual bulletin board like Webnotes, reviewed here, to record student responses. Instead of sharing a list of links with students, consider using a bookmarking tool like Symbaloo, reviewed here, to organize and share information through one easy-to-use link. At the end of your biome unit ask students to create a multimedia presentation using Sway, reviewed here. Sway offers tools to easily create professsional looking presentations including images, videos, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Taiga Biome - borealbiome
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4 to 12In the Classroom
This site contains basic information to use as an introduction to taiga biomes. Include it when sharing other resources with your class. Consider using a bookmarking tool like Paply, reviewed here, to consolidate and share resources in one place. As you and your students progress throughout your biome unit, use a video response tool like Flip, reviewed here, to share student ideas and information learned. Instead of assigning a written or oral presentation at the end of your unit, ask students to create an animated video using Clipchamp, reviewed here. Clipchamp offers easy tools to create animated explainer videos.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Temperate Rainforest Facts - temperate-rainforest-facts.com
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): biomes (113), habitats (87), rainforests (18)
In the Classroom
Include this site with your other resources when teaching about biomes and habitats. Instead of asking students to take notes or create flashcards, learn vocabulary using online games like Baamboozle, reviewed here. Baamboozle allows you to quickly create games for teams of two and automatically keeps score during gameplay. Upon completion of your unit consider having students create online books using a tool like Book Creator, reviewed here. Book Creator includes many features to create interactive books including adding video, text, audio, and images.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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What Eats? - whateats.com
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animals (281), food chains (17)
In the Classroom
When introducing your animal unit, add an extension to your Internet browser like Sticky Notes, reviewed here, to project and share student's ideas as you begin discussing animals and food webs. Edit, add, or delete notes as needed as you move throughout your unit. Add a link to What Eats? on classroom computers. As students learn about specific animals or food webs, ask them to create interactive images usingGoogle Drawings, reviewed here. Google Drawings allows you to annotate an image with links to videos, text, websites, and more. Not familiar with Google Drawings? Watch an archived OK2Ask session to learn how to use: OK2Ask Google Drawings, here. Have younger students use a tool like WriteReader, reviewed here, to create an online storybook sharing information learned. WriteReader includes tools for sharing student writing along with correct spelling underneath. For older students, try a story creation tool like Odysey, reviewed here, to add additional information including map locations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Encyclopedic Entries - National Geographic
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3 to 12tag(s): continents (32), ecology (100), environment (240), oceans (147), space (213), weather (164)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the information on this site for use throughout the school year. Consider choosing an entry each week to share with students and explore further. Use a bookmarking site like Symbaloo, reviewed here, to share other links on the same topic. Ask students to locate information on Google Maps and create a story to tell about their topic using a site like Heganoo, reviewed here. Heganoo allows you to create interactive maps including images, videos, and more to tell a story.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Academic Word Finder - Achieve the Core
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4 to 12tag(s): multilingual (66), parts of speech (40), vocabulary (237), vocabulary development (90)
In the Classroom
Use the Academic Word Finder to introduce difficult portions of text before reading. Display the results on your interactive whiteboard or with a projector to review with students. This site is perfect for use with special needs or ENL/ESL students to break down difficult content into smaller, understandable portions. Use this site to identify vocabulary words then create online games for student practice. Bamboozle, reviewed here, offers several options for creating games for two teams. Use the Word Finder to choose vocabulary to include when creating interactive lessons for students. MoocNote, reviewed here, includes tools for creating interactive video lessons with embedded documents and quizzes.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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yellkey - Delta Lab
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K to 12tag(s): browser (6), internet safety (113)
In the Classroom
Use yellkey whenever long links to sites need sharing. Share in emails or other correspondence keeping in mind that the shortened URL is only available for the specified period. This shorter address is much easier for students to type into their own computers/BYODs, use it to create web addresses that are easy for students to use during class sessions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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X (formerly Twitter) Chat: Using Tech Tools to Generate Ideas in the Classroom - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): twitter (19), twitterchatarchive (173)
In the Classroom
Share this chat with your colleagues looking for tech tools to generate ideas in the classroom. Explore the various tools that are shared.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Empatico - The KIND Foundation
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2 to 5tag(s): climate (80), collaboration (87), commoncore (75), communication (136), cross cultural understanding (157), cultures (132), family (53), globe (12), maps (207), weather (164)
In the Classroom
Enroll your classroom and collaborate with others. Expand upon the activities included with Empatico to dig further into the topic of your activity. If you typically have students write in paper journals, try an online blog using a simple blogging tool like edublogs, reviewed here. edublog offers tools for creating class and individual blogs. Enhance your Empatico project with Flip, reviewed here. Create a video question for students in both classrooms in your Flip, then ask students to share their video response with their peers. Instead of a written report at the end of your sessions, have students create an original video using Adobe Creative Cloud Express Video Maker, reviewed here, to share information and new perspectives gained through your Empatico activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Disaster Fact Sheets - FEMA
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K to 6tag(s): disasters (36), earthquakes (44), fire safety (16), floods (10), heat (15), hurricanes (35), snow (16), tornadoes (15), tsunamis (15), weather (164)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for use during your weather unit as an introduction to types of severe weather. One of the fact sheets discusses home fires and is perfect to include with Red Ribbon Week activities. After sharing disaster facts with students, ask students to create word clouds using vocabulary terms related to any specific type of disaster. Improve student learning by using a site like Word It Out, reviewed here, to easily create custom word clouds. Upon completion of your unit, ask students to create a book sharing their tips and advice for dealing with disasters. Reshape and redefine learning by using an interactive book creation tool like Book Creator, reviewed here. Book Creator offers tools for making online books that include images, videos, audio, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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America's Rainforests - Prince William Network
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4 to 12tag(s): biomes (113), rainforests (18)
In the Classroom
Include this site with your teaching materials on the rainforests. After learning about America's Rainforests, have students find and map rainforests around the world. Have students create maps sharing this information using Zeemaps, reviewed here. Zeemaps allows students to create audio recordings AND choose various locations on a map where they find rainforests. Use Zeemaps to modify technology use by creating animated maps featuring various location stops that can feature text, video, and audio. As a final project, have students create a Symbaloo Learning Path (reviewed here). This site allows users to personalize a learning activity featuring videos, games, quizzes, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Rainforest Lesson Plan - The Wild Classroom
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K to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): biomes (113), habitats (87), rainforests (18), scientists (62)
In the Classroom
Include this site as part of your teaching resources for the rainforest biome. Instead of creating a folder on student computers with links to various resources, consider using a bookmarking site like Symbaloo, reviewed here, to gather all of your favorite sites into one easy to use place for students. Instead of taking notes into a notebook as students gather information about the rainforest, have them write blogs sharing facts, images, and discussion of conservation efforts. Replace paper pen by asking students to write blogs sharing information learned using a tool like Edublog, reviewed here. Edublog offers tools for creating class and individual blogs. As a way to enhance student understanding, challenge students to complete a culminating project for your biome unit by creating and sharing custom maps using Google My Maps,reviewed here, to send visitors on a virtual field trip of rainforests across the globe. With Google My Maps students can embed images and videos on pointers and shapes for any given location.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CutePDF - Acro Software Inc.
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K to 12tag(s): conversions (36), Microsoft (84), worksheets (70)
In the Classroom
Download CutePDF onto your computer to save Microsoft documents to PDF. Saving as a PDF offers flexibility when sharing documents with others. Save student work as a PDF to share with parents. Use PDF to Flipbook Converter, reviewed here, to turn their PDFs into an online book; there is even a page-turning effect! This is a helpful utility for students entering contests or completing applications offered only in PDF form.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Memo Notepad - memonotepad.com
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K to 12tag(s): note taking (34)
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Use Memo Notepad as a handy way to create lists and reminders and access on any device. Share this site with older students to use when working on collaborative projects to share notes and ideas. Share with students who struggle with penmanship to use as an alternative to traditional notebooks for notetaking. Create a class account and have students use it for notetaking. When finished, all students will have access to the entire class's notes.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Get More Out of Google - HackCollege
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K to 12tag(s): Google (46), search engines (50), search strategies (23)
In the Classroom
Embed this valuable infographic on your class website for quick reference at any time. Have students brainstorm additional smart search ideas on a collaborative bulletin board like Pinside, reviewed here. Pinside offers you the ability to add notes and sort items into groups. Instead of just using this site for reference, take lessons further and have groups of students create quizzes to reinforce understanding of safe Internet searching. Use a tool like Triventy, reviewed here, a quiz creation tool featuring many options to make collaborative quizzes. As a final project, have students use a video creation tool like Clipchamp, reviewed here, to demonstrate tips and tricks for Internet searches.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Email This - Bharani Muthukumaraswamy
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K to 12tag(s): bookmarks (47)
In the Classroom
How often do you see something online and can't find it later? Email This helps avoid this problem by making it quick and easy to send to your email inbox. If you teach older students with their own email accounts, send information to them for use with research projects or share for them to add to their own browser for use at any time. Because this site removes ads, it is perfect for use when sharing information with students who may be distracted by web page add-ons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kami - Kami, Ltd
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): collaboration (87), editing (89)
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Use Kami on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector to share and highlight information on documents during lessons. Ask students to use this site to highlight information. For example, in short stories have students highlight foreshadowing events, character clues, or descriptive phrases. Have students use the document to create an annotated image of the excerpt from the story using Google Drawings, reviewed here. Google Drawings allows you to annotate an image with links to videos, text, websites, and more to provide details explaining the original document. Not familiar with Google Drawings? Watch an archived OK2Ask session to learn how to use: OK2Ask Google Drawings, here. Google Drawings can be used for a variety of assignments in any classroom that is integrating technology as an enhancement, modification, or transformation. With Google Drawings you can add narration, links to text, videos, and images to provide details explaining the original document.Edge Features:
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Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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Great collaboration tool for students to edit and submit PDFs or scanned documents for grading!Ladisha, VA, Grades: 9 - 12
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Dictionary.com - Dictionary.com, LLC
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): DAT device agnostic tool (143), dictionaries (48), game based learning (171), thesaurus (22), word choice (14)
In the Classroom
Use this online dictionary instead of printed dictionaries and thesauruses in the classroom. Be sure to share a link to this site on your class website. Display the word of the day on your interactive whiteboard as a lesson starter during writing or language arts lessons. Ask students to include featured words during writing activities using Google Documents, then highlight each time the word is used. Take it a "tech" step further and have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as WordItOut, reviewed here. Dive even deeper and have students or groups of students create daily video presentations featuring their choice for word of the day (or week) using a tool like Powtoon, reviewed here. Share their videos on a site such as TeacherTube, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Temperate Forest - Kids Do Ecology
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4 to 8tag(s): animals (281), biomes (113), habitats (87), plants (145)
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Include this site with your other biome resources. Share a link on classroom computers and your class website. View information from the site together on an interactive whiteboard or projector highlighting important information. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as WordItOut, reviewed here. At the conclusion of your biome unit, have students make an interactive multimedia poster using Visme, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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