Videos, Podcasts, Quizzes!
Learn how anything works. It's all here from health, science, home/garden, auto, tech, money, lifestyle, enterainment, adventure, animals and more!

This site offers a way to maintain a balance with the use of technology while working with students at home and school. It includes information on:

Getting good information

Managing family tech

Explaining news and media coverage to kids

Online games

Media literacy lessons

With Mentimeter you have lots of options. One great option is to create interactive quizzes that will make your classroom fun. What better way to get students excited about learning than to introduce a fun interactive game or quiz to the classroom? Create some friendly rivalry between students and create a sense of community by using an interactive quiz. Switch up standard teaching techniques and wake up students with some interactive games.

Mentimeter allows you to build interactive presentations with the easy-to-use online editor. Add questions, polls, quizzes, slides, images, gifs and more to your presentation to create fun and engaging presentations.

Your audience uses their smartphones to connect to the presentation where they can answer questions. Visualize their responses in real-time to create a fun and interactive experience.

Once your Mentimeter presentation is over, share and export your results for further analysis and even compare data over time to measure the progress of your audience.'

It is important to know your learners, and for learner's to know themselves if they are to learn successfully. Knowing what your multiple intelligences are can greatly help students do their best learning!

Having a variety of inventories makes it easier to revisit this each year without having to do the same inventory over and over.

This includes online and printable inventories, and some tips for using MI in the classroom.

This test takes about 12 minutes and will tell you your Myers Briggs personality type.
(Introverted or extroverted etc)

Explore careers for your personality type and personalities more prominent in different areas of the world.

Find fun online games for kids featuring PBS KIDS characters. Students can find printables, coloring pages, online games and more.

Paper by WeTransfer is a digital sketchbook full of powerful tools to create beautiful illustrations. Begin with a brief tutorial and get started drawing. There are no buttons, and the emphasis on touch features makes for an intuitive design. Sketches are stored in sketchbooks that sit neatly on a shelf. Once your book is full, you can start a new one. Share your creations via Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, or email, or save them to your camera roll. Paper is completely free, including the additional tools (mixer, color, write, outline, and sketch), which formerly were in-app purchases. Creating can be done with your finger, but you can also purchase Paper's aptly named stylus, Pencil.

"Pear Deck was founded by educators on a mission to help teachers engage every student, every day. With solutions rooted in active learning and formative assessment, we make it easy for you to connect with learners of every age and ability. When that happens, more students participate and learn, classroom community improves, and you'll know you're making a difference."

Watch the video to see how Pear Deck works!

The Free Version includes the ability to:
Design brilliant lessons with interactive questions, polls, quizzes, formative assessments

Work seamlessly with powerful classroom tools from Google and Microsoft

Ready-to-teach templates designed by educators

Support flexible work with Student Paced mode

Teach vocabulary with Flashcard Factory*

Part 1: What is a Podcast?
Part 2: The Importance of 21st Century Skills in Schools
Part 3: Choosing a Topic
Part 4: Retrieving Information – An Important Skill for Inquiry Learning
Part 5: Scripting Using Google Docs
Part 6: Recording Using Audacity

Podcasting is a powerful way for students to share their voice with the world. Along the way, they learn to communicate, engage in critical thinking, and go through the design process as they ultimately publish their work to an authentic audience.
This site offers 20 creative ideas for podcasts you can do with your students.

"Free self-paced quizzes to review, assess, and engage—in class and at home."

This is a great formative assessment tool that makes learning and reviewing feel like a game.

This tool is great for students when working individually (compared to Kahoot! and Quizlet where the class plays together). Kids could do them at a station, centre or even for homework.

Turn your assessment into a game!

Anyone can use Quizlet to study and learn content created by other users, or to create your own custom study sets. You can also share sets with friends, classmates or your students.

The best way to get started on Quizlet as a student or a teacher is to search for sets made by other Quizlet users. Students and teachers create new study sets all the time, so it's quite likely that you'll be able to find what you're looking for.

This is a great tool for formative assessment. Students can work in groups and compare answers and learn from one another.

With Scratch students will creates stories, games and animations, It will draw students of all types into coding and lay a foundation for future learning.

ScratchJr is an app that is available through Apple (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id895485086?ign-mpt=uo%3D4) or Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.scratchjr.android).

With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games.

By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn.

This site has 12 social media-inspired Google Slides templates to create mock versions of social media sites.

Start with a Book: summer reading and learning -- books and activities in science, social studies, arts and literature.
There are 3 ways to enjoy this site:
- Choose a topic to explore: Do you know any young detectives, artists, or inventors? Or children fascinated by dinosaurs, planes, bugs, birds, the night sky, or music? You'll find 24 topics to dive into for a summer full of learning!
- Find great kids’ books: Reading with kids sparks curiosity and conversation. We’ve carefully matched each topic with a wide range of awesome fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic novels to encourage more summer reading.
- Keep the adventure going! Browse our curated collection of topic-related activities, ideas for writing, educational apps, and websites for inquisitive kids — to build background knowledge and deepen summer learning.

A wealth of ideas to help you learn to study.

Included: general tips, skill guides, test taking, skills by subject.

Check out these sites to find ideas for using movies to engage kids with STEM from DailyStem.com

Swift Playgrounds is an iPad app designed for kids in which they have fun solving interactive puzzles.