Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills for elementary students. These educational games provide fun and focused repetition practice that enables automaticity and fluency to be achieved quickly. iOS and Android apps are available.
Inklewriter is a creative writing tool where you structure stories with your own interactive plot. Give readers different paths they can choose from, in a choose-your-own adventure style. Write your story on the scraps of paper in the middle of the Inklewriter workbench. When you want to add choices, just click the "Add Option" button, and type in the name of the choice. Each choice has an arrow you can click to follow that path.
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 "Friendship 7" spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United States. Launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida) Launch Complex 14, he completed a successful three-orbit mission around the earth, reaching a maximum altitude (apogee) of approximately 162 statute miles and an orbital velocity of approximately 17,500 miles per hour. Glenn's "Friendship 7" Mercury spacecraft landed approximately 800 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral in the vicinity of Grand Turk Island. His flight on Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962, showed the world that America was a serious contender in the space race with the Soviet Union. It also made Glenn an instant hero.
This site hosted by NASA contains biographical information, photos, and videos about astronaut, former Marine, and former Senator John Glenn, who passed away December 8, 2016.
Google's Santa Tracker has daily activities leading up to Christmas, both educational and entertaining. Dance with the elves, learn other languages, practice your problem-solving skills, and a lot more.
This article from MindShift outlines some tips and techniques for implementing project-based learning in a way that engages students in deep learning and critical inquiry.
Create beautiful slide shows with Kizoa. Add a a variety of music, effects, and transitions to your finished product.
Twisty Noodle has thousands of free coloring pages and handwriting practice worksheets that you can customize and print. They work with top illustrators, artists, and licensed image libraries to offer the most unique selection of coloring pages and handwriting practice worksheets on the internet.
Read Twitter, Facebook, and other social media feeds as a daily newspaper. Paper.li organizes content into an easy-to-read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for different users, groups, lists, or tags. This can be a great way to aggregate updates from people in your general interest or professional learning network, or share your own educational updates with others in a convenient news format.
Illuminations is a math teaching resource, with numerous lessons and online activities that are suitable for any math instructor.
Citation Machine helps students and professional researchers properly credit the information they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources.
Onestopenglish is a community set up for EFL/ESL teachers to share methodologies, resources, lesson plans, and information about teaching conditions in different countries and regions around the world.
Musopen is a collection of public domain music, primarily classical, in both MP3 and sheet music format. Music sheets range from simple instrumental pieces to symphonic arrangements.
Clover is an extension of the Windows Explorer to add multi-tab functionality, similar to Google Chrome browser. After installing Clover, you will be able to open multiple folders within the same window, and you can also add folder bookmarks. Note that the installer is in Chinese, but just click the big button to install and you'll be good to go.