Some APPS may seem familiar...they are also listed as website resources on other pages within this website. Using the "app" within Chrome allows a connection to the tool in a faster way, better connected to Google classroom and in some cases a single sign-on using your gmail account.
Google
Google Keep - Quickly capture what's on your mind and share those thoughts with friends and family. Speak a voice memo on the go and have it automatically transcribed. Grab a photo of a poster, receipt or document and easily organize or find it later in search. iOS and Andriod App as well...all devices connect to the same account in real time.
Google Docs - Create and edit documents Docs keeps everything and everyone on the same page. Add artichokes to a shared shopping list, or put the finishing touches on your business plan from the lobby before the meeting, right from your mobile device.
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Google Drawings - Create shapes and diagrams Add some color to your documents, presentations, and websites with easy to create charts and diagrams.
Google Photos - Store, search, and share a lifetime of photos Automatically organized and searchable by the people, places, and things in them, your photos are always easy to find and share. Store an unlimited amount of photos and videos at high quality for free, and access them anywhere.
Google Sheets - Create and edit spreadsheets Sheets is more than just columns and rows. Track your fitness plan, do fancy financial calculations with your team, or manage your fantasy league stats.
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Google Forms - Create online forms and surveys Collect RSVPs, run a survey, or quickly create a team roster with a simple online form. Then check out the results, neatly organized in a spreadsheet. Get answers to your questions Create simple or in-depth online surveys. Share them from a link, embed them on your website, or even right inside an email.
Google Slides - Create and edit presentations Slides is good for shiny 6-pagers or 600 page snoozefests. Not only does it have everything you need to pull together an awesome presentation, but you’ll never have to hit “save” again.
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All Content Resources
EDpuzzle empowers teachers to make any video your lesson. Crop a video, explain it with your own voice and embed quizzes at any time If you use videos in the classroom, EDpuzzle is a must have. Take any video from YouTube, Khan Academy, Learn Zillion, etc. make it perfect for your classroom and more engaging for your students. Make any video a true lesson by making it to the point, personal and effective, plus get all the data about your students so you know if they truly understand the lesson.
Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students to independently document what they are learning at school. FEATURES: Easily Capture Student Learning in Any Form∙ Students can use photos, videos, drawings, text notes, links to show what they know. ∙ When students add to their Seesaw journal, content is uploaded, organized by student, and immediately accessible to teachers from any device.
PowerPoint Online - Create, edit and share PowerPoint presentations. Work with others on shared projects, in real-time. Office Online combines the most common Office features and real-time co-authoring capabilities so teams at school and home can collaborate on shared documents, presentations and spreadsheets. Office Online also works with the Office applications installed on your desktop, so you can choose how you want to work. (You can sign in with a personal Microsoft account to use all of your PPT resources on a Chromebook.)
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Socrative Teacher Chrome app engage, assess and personalize your class with Socrative! Educators can initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races all with their Socrative Teacher app. Socrative will instantly grade, aggregate and provide visuals of results to help you identify opportunities for further instruction. Save time and visualize student understanding when it matters, now!
Nearpod - An all-in-one solution for the use of mobile devices and computers in education Nearpod is a must have application for teachers and schools that have access to a set of mobile devices and/or computers for their classes.
PowToon lets you create awesome presentations and animated videos
Flip your classroom and be the class star! PowToon is great for teachers and students. Over 10,000 teachers and students are Joining PowToon every month to engage Students attention and animate difficult topics. MyHomework Student Planner - A digital student planner that helps students stay organized. myHomework is a digital student planner that lets you easily track your classes, homework, tests and projects so you never forget an assignment again!
myHomework is available on multiple platforms, so you can always know what's due wherever you are. You can find the myHomework app on the iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows 8, Kindle Fire and the Web. |
Socrative Student Chrome App students share their understanding by answering formative assessment questions in a variety of formats: quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races. Once students launch the Socrative Student App, they'll be prompted to join the teacher's room via the teacher's unique code. No student accounts necessary!
Padlet - The easiest way to create and collaborate in the world Padlet is the easiest way to create and collaborate in the world. It works like a sheet of paper where you can put anything (images, videos, documents, text) anywhere, from any device (pcs, tablets, phones), together with anyone.
VoiceNoteII_ - Typing with your voice and speech recognition. Simple and functional notepad.
Title: VoiceNote II - Speech to text. Easy typing. He writes what you say. Current version: voiceNote II (2-nd generation). LucidPress - Now anyone can create stunning visual content for print, mobile or web. Make brochures, newsletters, magazines, reports, and more.
PRINT: Download your content as a high-quality PDF or JPG that’s perfect for printing. DIGITAL: Publish your work as a PNG or sleek digital document. Everything is optimized for viewing on a computer, tablet, or smartphone. TEMPLATES FOR DIGITAL & PRINT: - Newsletters - Brochures - Flyers - Reports - Posters - Presentations- Social media -Graphics - Blog images - Digital banners - Or create your own! |
English Language Arts
NewsELA - Read closely. Think critically. Be worldly. Newsela publishes daily news articles from leading publications like The Washington Post, Scientific American, and The Guardian at 5 reading levels from grades 2 – 12 to drive gains in literacy.
Flashcard Stash - Flashcard Stash allows educators to create interactive flashcards and helps students learn with engaging quizzes and games. The site is built on a dictionary, so it will add synonyms, audio pronunciation, contextual twitter examples, and contextual sentence examples from real news sources to the flashcards accordingly. Other features include: choose your own theme, create, copy, and share lists, over 200,000 English words and phrases, and a learning mode that calculates the optimal time to study. Educators can create classes and share lists of flashcards with their students.
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Google News - Search thousands of news stories Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests.
Collabrify Writer - Designed for grades 1-7, Collabrify Writer is an easy to learn, easy to use, “collabrified,” multimedia authoring app. Students can work together, synchronously, in real-time, to co-create documents that include text, pictures, and video. Teachers can use Writer to create reflective assessments with Question/Response items and to create “interactive readers” with multimedia content where scaffolding prompts are interspersed throughout the content. Use Writer and the other apps in the Collabrify Suite to “collabrify” your classroom!
No Red Ink - An adaptive learning tool that helps students improve their grammar and writing skills. NoRedInk helps millions of students improve their grammar and writing skills. Our engine generates personalized content based on students’ interests, adapts to their abilities with instant feedback, and provides actionable performance data to teachers, schools, and districts around the world.
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iStorybooks - FREE STORY BOOKS WITH FUN PICTURES, TEXT & AUDIO FOR YOUR LITTLE ONES. Free Interactive Children's Books for the new generation!
Free books that read itself to your little ones! Yes the books include text and audio. We publish a new book every 2 weeks. Kids can enjoy these books on their own or you can read to them. Currently 45 free books available. SAS Writing Navigator - SAS Curriculum Pathways has many resources (over 1200) available, but this one app take educator directly to the writing navigator. Educators will need to sign up for an account to use the app. (You can see the app work as a teacher account as well as a student account.) Beware there is sooooo much in the SAS platform you can easily get lost....great resources, but plan time wisely.
Free from SAS Curriculum Pathways, Writing Navigator is a suite of tools that provides guidance and support throughout the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, and publishing. |
Social Science
DOGO News - Over 3,500 articles for ELA, Science and Social Studies and new ones added daily - Over 2,000 ready-to-use assignments/work sheets for Comprehension, Critical Thinking & Vocab in Context - Post assignments to Google Classroom or DOGO class page - Sign-in with Google, CLEVER or Office365 accounts - Share articles to Google Classroom or DOGO class page - Integrated with Google Classroom - Vocab list and games
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World Data Atlas - Key statistics, data and visualizations about the world and world's countries and regions at your fingertips. World Data Atlas is your ultimate source on world's statistics. Browse key statistics by country and region, find relevant data and visualization and export them into Excel, PowerPoint and PDF all at your fingertips.
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Science
Science Game - You can learn science the old way through books and boring lectures or learn SMART - in your own way, at your own pace, in your own time. Like a musical instrument, Science is best learnt by doing, trying out and making mistakes.
Chemmix Lab Diagrams - Chemix is a sketching tool for schools that helps both students and teachers prepare diagrams of experiment setups for science classes, especially chemistry. A set of most common apparatus (beakers, test tubes, heater, stand etc.) is included, with multiple variations. Container items can also contain liquids of varying colors.
Little Alchemy - A simple but addictive game. Start with four basic items and use them to find dinosaurs, unicorns and spaceships!
Explore what you can create just by mixing simple elements. Start with four basic items and use them to find dinosaurs, unicorns and spaceships! |
Useful Periodic Table - A periodic table can be useful for those in physics, chemistry, or any of the sciences and engineering disciplines. This is a periodic table of the elements that has all the elements and most of their respective properties collected and stored in one easy to use and simple to find location. Contained within this periodic table is a unit converter that will convert some of the scientific dimensions. Also, containing links to wikipedia for further literature on that element that you wish to know. Great for students because of the elements quiz contained within.
3D Solar System - This is a 3D solar system simulation application, which gives you the approximate location of the planets in the solar system at different time, and some information about each one of them.
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Science and Math Calculator list - Online calculators and equations at ajdesigner.com. Formulas are related to the following subjects:- Math, - Physics, - Science, - Engineering, - Fluid Mechanics, - Health, - Education, - Finance, - Investment, - Fluid Mechanics ****APP was just removed 5/10/17. Calculators still available at .http://www.ajdesigner.com/
Full Screen Weather - The ultimate weather tracking tool, Full Screen Weather enables anyone in the world to quickly zoom in on the Google Maps interface to view the most granular data available from Weather Underground’s unmatched network of over 21,000 personal weather stations before zooming out and scrolling across the world to view the weather conditions affecting friends and family.
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Mathematics
Plotly is an online, free, graphing and spreadsheet tool that can be used for scientific-quality graphing - Line graphs, bar charts, heatmaps, histograms, box plots and more - Import data from files, Dropbox, and Google Drive. - Analyze data with fits, functions, stats, and more. - Collaborate by sharing projects with your team. - Share graphs online, in presentations, or to social media sites.
Number Rack - The number rack facilitates the natural development of children's number sense. Rows of move able, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. The Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children’s number sense. Rows of move able, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies.
Math Jong - Finally there is a game that makes learning math skills fun for kids, and it's interesting for adults, too! Begin with Mathjong Basic and learn the fundamentals, and then there are four more levels after that, each more challenging than the last.
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Number Pieces - The number pieces app helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. Student use the pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
Learn to count money - This pirate themed educational app teaches kids how to count money in a fun, interactive way. This action pack app comes with “Put Money On Map" which teaches children how to count money by dragging the correct amount onto the treasure map. Also, if your child is just learning about counting money, our app has an “Intro to Money” section that displays each coin and bill while pronouncing each word.
Fluency Tutor - Great for time-stretched teachers, Fluency Tutor for Google makes reading aloud more fun and satisfying for students who need extra support. It’s a big help for struggling and reluctant readers, as well as students learning English as a second language. Easy to use with a sleek new look, Fluency Tutor for Google lets students record themselves reading and share with the teacher - away from the pressures of reading aloud in the classroom environment.
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Desmos - Beautiful, powerful, free math exploration! Brought to you by desmos.com Explore math with Desmos! Plot functions, create tables, add sliders, animate your graphs, and more -- all for free.
Roger's Math Whiteboard - After watching many math teachers struggle with various touchscreen technologies as an embedded math tutor, I decided to create this whiteboard app to suit their specific needs. It is designed to work with whatever touch/stylus input, is available. Thus, it should work well on a Touchscreen, Interactive Whiteboard, Smartboard, Smart Podium, or even with a good mouse. 1. PowerPoint content can be imported, (Detailed instructions provided within the program). 2. Draw on each page/image using various tools, (pen, eraser, line, etc...), sizes, and colors. 3. Insert various pages into the document including Blank White, Graph Paper, Coordinate Plane, Screenshots, 3D Templates etc.... 4. Insert many math symbols not found on a regular keyboard. 5. Quickly undo things if you make a mistake. 6. Copy & paste sections of the board to the next page if you run out of space. 7. Draw/fill a rectangle or ellipse over an area you select. 8. Quickly identify things with the digital equivalent of a pointer. 9. Clearly show how graphs are drawn with a special Dot tool.
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Electives
Sumo Paint - Full featured painting and image editing application. Sumo Paint is a full featured painting and image editing application featuring an active art community of over 500 000 registered members and over 2 000 000 images. (The closest thing to Photoshop I have used online!) The app has the web's most versatile collection of image editing features blurring the line between desktop applications like Photoshop or Gimp.
Drumbit - A drum machine that allows you to create and save rhythm patterns. With drumbit you can choose from various drum kits, create, save and edit your rhythm patterns and record it as audio files. Current features include: - up to 4 different patterns; - 14 drum kits; - 7 room effects - 6 demos - save patterns in a file; - records and saves as a WAV file; - copy/paste between patterns; - swing factor; - volume control of each track; - allows to change the pitch of the sample; - left-right distribution through (panning); - filters: compressor, low-pass, high-pass; - startup default settings.
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