Technology in Every Subject
We'd like you to stay outside of the traditional box of teaching inside artificial silos, so although these tools are categorized by subject, we strongly encourage you to integrate and use technology in whatever way you can engage your students - without worrying about which subject box to try and fit it in. The first category, "Teacher Tools and Helps," are tools that a teacher can use to streamline their work; communicate and collaborate with students, parents, and peers; and help them become better educators. The second category, "Tech that can be used across the curriculum," are tools that don't fit neatly into any one subject box. The following categories and subjects included are as follows: “Agriculture Education”, “Art/Theatre”, “Computer Skills”, “Adult Education, FACS, & Interior Design”, “Foreign Languages”, “Health and Physical Education”, “Language Arts”, “Math”, “Music”, “Preschool & Kindergarten”, “Science”, and “Social Studies/History”
Teacher Tools and Helps
- Adobe Acrobat - Create PDF files that can be viewed on any device without losing formatting. Can embed multimedia files into the documents as well.
- AECT - The Association for Educational Communications and Technology
- AirServer - allows your computer to receive and display AirPlay streams from your iOS device or mirroring-enabled computer and record what’s happening in high quality without the need for additional software.
- Annenberg Learner - Teacher resources (i.e.lesson plans, interactives for students, videos, etc.) and professional development.
- Apple Tree - A complete classroom communication tool to help students succeed
- Basecamp - is a web-based project collaboration tool that allows groups of people to share files, meet deadlines, assign tasks, and centralize feedback. (commercial)
- Benylu School - work with your students in a digital elementary school classroom. It allows you to plan lessons, create a class blog, organize schedules, communicate with students and parents, and more all in one place.
- Best Apps for Kids - a website that will give you app ideas for each grade level of kids and the ratings and reviews on each app.
- Big6 - is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information.
- Bing - search engine powered by Microsoft
- Blackboard - a commonly used learning management system (LMS)
- Blendspace - "Blendspace is a free web tool for teachers to collect resources in one place to form a bundled, interactive lesson for students or colleagues.
- Blogger - Google's free blogging platform
- Bloomz - One app for all your teacher communication. With Bloomz, teachers save time by having all the tools they need to communicate with today's parents in one easy-to-use (and free) app.
- BrokenLinkCheck.com - is a free online web-site validator / integrity checker / problem detection tool that can check your web-pages for broken / dead links, validate, find, and report bad hyperlinks if any found. (14A)
- Buck Institute for Education - The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) is a mission-driven nonprofit organization that builds the capacity of teachers to design and facilitate high quality Project Based Learning and the capacity of school and system leaders to set the conditions for teachers to implement great projects with all students. (9A)
- BuzzMob - social media platform to help teachers communicate with parents and teachers through sending messages/reminders, posting assignments, sharing events, and more (Android app available too)
- Canvas from Instructure - Learning Management System
- CBL (Challenge Based Learning) - Classroom Guide
- Childnet International - Childnet’s mission is to work in partnership with others around the world to help make the internet a great and safe place for children.
- ClassDojo - is a digital classroom management tool designed to help teachers improve student behavior and communicate more effectively with parents.
- Collaborize Classroom Library - a free resource where you can create, share and/or download inquiry-based discussions on any topic.
- CommonSense Education - Common Sense is the leading independent nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology.
- Computer Hope - provides free support and online services that allow any user to learn more about their computer and find technical assistance. Some of the services we offer include free help, information, tips, computer history, contact information, dictionary, drivers, and a community of experienced volunteers. (11C)
- Connect All Schools - A number of organizations linking US schools with others around the world are coming together in a new "Connect All Schools" consortium to meet a very specific goal: to connect every school in the US with the world by 2016.
- Connected Learning - A learning approach designed for the demands and opportunities of the digital age: Powerful, Relevant, Engaging
- Corporation for National and Community Service - a government organization that provides service opportunities to communities and schools
- Creative Commons - Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world, and acts as a portal where you can search for OER materials.
- DaCast - Stream videos live. Others can watch in real time.
- DisplayNote - Collaborative work on projected screen.
- Doceri - combines screencasting, desktop control, and an interactive whiteboard all in one app. Click HERE to access the app on iTunes.
- Doodle - Doodle simplifies scheduling meetings with groups of people
- DuckDuckGo - search engine that doesn't track you. Take a tour.
- eBeam - by Luidia - eBeam turns any surface into an interactive whiteboard.
- Edivate - Teacher Professional Development Online
- EdSITEment - lesson plans and resources for lessons in the humanities (art, social studies, language arts, etc.)
- Educreations - Educreations is an exciting app that transforms your iPad into a recordable whiteboard.
- Education.com - worksheets, games, workbooks, activities, lesson plans, exercises, songs, and more for students, parents, and teachers.
- Education World - teacher helps, lesson plans, professional development, printables, and more
- Educreations - Educreations is an exciting app that transforms your iPad into a recordable whiteboard.
- Edutopia - They share evidence- and practitioner-based learning strategies that empower you to improve K-12 education.
- edX - Quality education for everyone, everywhere - enroll in courses from major educational institutions online.
- Edvation - Teacher Professional Development Online
- ERIC - The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education.
- Expeditions Pioneer Program - Expeditions are guided tours of places schools buses can't go. They are comprised of virtual reality panoramas and are led by a guide or teacher. Using a tablet, teachers can guide up to 50 students wearing virtual reality viewers.
- Explain Everything - Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage.
- 5PM - Project Management Software (Commercial)
- 4.0 Schools - 4.0 Schools finds, trains, and invests in passionate people solving the most important challenges in education. They build communities around entrepreneurs and their ventures to help them grow their ideas into successful, sustainable organizations.
- Freedcamp - is the first completely free alternative to Basecamp. Freedcamp offers an app store where you can install To-Do's, Discussions, Milestones, Time Tracking, and Calendar for free! Project management has never been this sweet.
- Freeze HD - YouTube Channel that features new startup campaigns
- Future is Now, The - YouTube Channel that features new startup campaigns
- GanttProject - GanttProject is a cross-platform desktop tool for project scheduling and management. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX, it is free...
- GitHub Classroom - has many applications in the classroom and can make coding classes easier to manage. Teachers can push starter code to students so that they all start with the same framework.
- GoReact - a presentation tool that allows for better feedback and assessment of presentations.
- Google Advanced Search - the world's most used search engine in advanced search mode.
- Google Classroom - Google Classroom is your mission control for class. Create classes, distribute assignments, send feedback, and see everything in one place.
- Google Search Help Center
- Google Tasks - Tasks adds a to-do list to Gmail. After adding the lab, click the Tasks link above the chat box on the left-hand-side of the page.
- International Society for Technology in Education - ISTE
- Iris Center - resources that specifically help educators learn more about how to understand and teach those students that are struggling in the classroom due to a disability or cultural diversity
- Jobs for the Future - Jobs for the Future is a national nonprofit that works to ensure educational and economic opportunity for all. Check out their YouTube Channel.
- Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Kathy is an internationally respected educational technologist. This is where she shares her knowledge and resources!
- Kaizena - easily provide constructive feedback through written comments, voice recordings, or videos instantly on students work.
- Knewton - is an adaptive instructional site that simplifies lessons, and tracks progress for each student.
- Kidblog - safe and simple blogs for students. Students can connect in a safe environment controlled by the teacher. Teachers can sign up for free.
- Knewton - is an adaptive instructional site that simplifies lessons, and tracks progress for each student.
- KQED Teach - provides a series of free, self-paced courses to help K-12 educators develop media skills necessary to bring media production and communication to their learning environments.
- Learn & Serve America - a government organization that supports project based learning
- M.I.T. OpenCourseWare - A huge repository of free, open-source learning and access to M.I.T.'s courses.
- MobyMax - interactive personalized learning program that finds and fixes learning gaps. It can also be used to help gifted students progress at their speed and level.
- Monday (formerly Dapulse) - a management tool that focuses on people, success, and getting things done
- My Homework - teachers are able to create assignments, exams, special events, in a digital platform, which is made available to all students with a click of a button.
- Name Picker Ninja - this is name generator that can be used to select students or groups during class randomly.
- Nearpod - teacher technology for finding, creating, and assigning lessons for students.
- OMBEA - allows presenters to get group feedback from students during a powerpoint presentation. Students must download the response app on their devices to join the discussion.
- OpenCourseWare Consortium - is a free and open digital publication of high quality college and university level educational materials
- (OER) Open Education Resources - a website I put together to train teachers in Lebanon and Jordan about OER.
- O*NET OnLine Help - Tools & Technology Search - The Tools & Technology Search enables you to explore O*NET-SOC occupations using machines, equipment, tools, or software. The Tools & Technology (T2) database contains over 43,000 examples of tools and technology for over 600 occupations.
- The Owl Teacher - teaching tips and resources for Elementary Educators
- Pear Deck - create engaging interactive lessons that students can join and be apart of on their own devices.
- Quad Blogging - A website that connects student writers with a global audience.
- Quizizz - find or create fun quizzes for your students.
- R Statistical Software - an open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing. This is a great source to use for analyzing and reporting student scores.
- Rubistar - online rubric creator
- Schoology - learning management system
- ShareMyLesson - free website that gives educators access to lesson plans and activities
- Socrative - app for classroom engagement. Create student quizzes and receive instant results.
- SuiteDash - is a web-based project management tool. 30 day free trial with no credit card required. (commercial)
- SWIS - The SWIS Suite is a reliable, confidential, web-based information system to collect, summarize, and use student behavior data for decision making.
- SWIVL - a robot that allows your tablet or smartphone to record you as you move around
- TeacherLINK - Teacher resource website for the Adele & Dale Young Education Technology Center at USU
- Teamwork - Project management software (commercial)
- TED - Ideas Worth Spreading
- Taiga.io - Open Source, full featured project management platform for startups and agile developers & designers
- Tell About This - IOS app that provides students with visual prompts and voice to encourage them to share their thoughts about a variety of topics through video.
- UCET - the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology
- UKnowKids - uKnowKids Makes Parenting Easier, and Keeps Kids Safe Online and on the Mobile Phone. Created by parents to help parents, uKnowKids is protecting kids in more than 50 countries around the world.
- Weebly - easily create your own free websites
- Wikipedia - a huge online encyclopedia - built socially
- Wix - easily create your own free websites
- WordPress - WordPress.com allows you to build any kind of site you want: business site, blog, portfolio, the sky is the limit!
- Welcome to the Future - YouTube Channel that features new startups in technology
- Yahoo - search engine
Across Curriculum Tech
- Adobe Spark Video - Story creation tool
- Animoto - Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account for use in the classroom.
- AlternativeTo - is a site that gives you other alternatives to common software
- AppAppeal - Find the best apps to fit your company's needs with our expert reviews and comparisons. AppAppeal uncovers the hottest up-and-coming business applications, as well guiding you through the most popular web and mobile-based business apps around.
- AppCrawlr - An app discovery site for iOS and Android apps
- Apps in Education Blog - One of the hardest things with using the iPad in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. They list some of the apps they've found under each of the Key Learning Areas.
- AppShopper - An app discovery site for iOS and Macintosh
- AppSliced - An app discovery site for Apple products. Receive personalized app recommendations.
- Brainly - Social site for students to ask questions they need help answering
- CK-12.org - Thousands of free, interactive textbooks for K-12 education
- Cache Makers - website for the local Maker Movement
- CoolToolsForSchools - Lenva Shearing has worked hard to put together a wiki listing of web-based tools categorized by task. It's an extensive listing with hundreds of tools. Click into a task category, and you'll find tools linked and listed, each with a brief description of what it does!
- Digital Citizenship: Are you a digital citizen? - A free Weebly website all about digital citizenship.
- Digizen.org - is a site focused on being a digital citizen
- Edmodo - is an educational website that takes the ideas of a social network and refines them and makes it appropriate for a classroom. Using Edmodo, students and teachers can reach out to one another and connect by sharing ideas, problems, and helpful tips.
- Edmodo Spotlight - highlights the latest in tech apps being used by teachers in the Edmodo community.
- EdPuzzle - EDpuzzle is a site that allows users to select a video and customize it by editing, cropping, recording audio, and adding questions to make an engaging presentation or lesson.
- Edshelf - Find the right educational tools for your needs. A socially-curated discovery engine of websites, mobile apps, desktop programs, and electronic products for teaching and learning.
- Excel - Microsoft's commercial spreadsheet software with statistical analysis functions built into it.
- Excel in Exams - Excel in Exams YouTube channel! Boost your motivation and fast-track your learning. Acquire study techniques that result in less wasted time and more free time. And be better prepared for exams than ever before using techniques practiced by elite athletes.
- Formative - is a formative assessment tool. Transform your content in seconds and go paperless. Create incredible online assessments, classwork or homework.
- Fresh Grade - is an assessment tool which allows teachers and students to upload content (pictures, videos, audio, notes, etc) to a student portfolio.
- GCFLearnFree - GCFLearnFree.org offers 125 tutorials, including more than 1,100 lessons, videos, and interactives, completely free.
- GlassCubes - Simplify team collaboration. Share files, manage projects and communicate with each other. All from a single, secure online workspace. (commercial)
- Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides - are productivity apps that let you create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store them in your Google Drive online — all for free.
- Google Drive - Cloud storage from Google (where docs, sheets, slides, forms, etc. are kept)
- Google Forms - allows you to create a free survey, and data returned gets put into a google spreadsheet (10A)
- Google Hangouts - Google's face to face communications tool that also lets you share screens with others in the hangout.
- Google Scholar - is an online, freely accessible search engine that lets users look for both physical and digital copies of articles. It searches a wide variety of sources, including academic publishers, universities, and preprint depositories looking for: Peer-reviewed articles. Theses.
- Google Search Education - With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.
- Google Sheets - Googles free collaborative spreadsheet software (Google account required)
- Google Translate - Google Translate is a free multilingual statistical machine translation service provided by Google to translate text, speech, images, sites, or real-time video from one language into another. For Android and iOS!
- Google Voice - Google gives you your own phone number - free calls within the U.S.
- Google VR - A platform for high quality, mobile virtual reality
- GradeCam - Print scanning forms on plain paper. Scan results from you webcam or device camera.
- Graphite.org - Teacher reviewed apps for education. A great resource!
- Kahoot - A Kahoot is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers, students, business-people and social users, they are asked in real-time, to an unlimited number of “players”, creating a social, fun and game-like learning environment. Currently, there are 3 types of Kahoot: Quiz, discussion, or survey.
- KHAN Academy - Missions boost math learning with balance of focus, freedom to explore.
- KickStarter - Interested to know what new technology is coming down the pipe? This is the place where they get funded.
- KinderTown - KinderTown transforms mobile devices into powerful teaching tools by finding and organizing the best educational apps for kids ages 3-8 years old. Their mission is to improve early childhood education by empowering parents with the tools to be better teachers.
- LibreOffice - Free alternative to Microsoft Office Suite
- Lynda.com - world class video training on almost every technology software you can name. You can view a list of topics here.
- Microsoft Project - is a widely accepted project management application (commercial)
- Netiquette Home Page - This is a very comprehensive website that includes a link to the online edition of Netiquette by Virginia Shea. It also includes a netiquette quiz and mailing list subscription.
- NetSafe Utah - provides online videos and resources for kids, teens, parents and educators, including Internet Safety information that Utah schools need to meet the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requirements.
- Newseum - One great feature of this site is the "Today's Front Pages." Each day, the site posts 825 newspaper front pages from all over the world.
- OpenOffice - Apache OpenOffice is an office suite that is free and open source - similar to Microsoft Office.
- OpenStudy - Why study alone? Make the world your study group! This social network allows you to get help from other students worldwide.
- OSMO - iPad software and hardware that let's you handle physical objects while it watches and guides you.
- Padlet - Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily.
- Parable of the Polygons - Dynamic interactive helps classrooms explore topics of bias, diversity.
- Participate Learning - Participate Learning empowers teachers to improve student outcomes by helping them find and share free vetted educational resources to take advantage of the preponderance of broadband and internet-connected devices in their classrooms.
- Pinterest - a social media site where you can pin images you find on the internet to your own Pinterest boards. A great search tool!
- Plickers - Print plicker answer cards from your printer. Assess answers with your device's camera.
- PowToon - PowToon is Web-based animation software that allows you to quickly and easily create animated presentations with your students by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs.
- PowerUp WHAT WORKS - PowerUp what works is a free online learning community designed to help your school use technology and evidence-based practices to improve teaching and learning. The video above comes from their YouTube channel.
- ProjectLibre - is a Java-based project management solution that gives Microsoft Project a run for its money. Offering a UI similar enough to ease the transition from Microsoft's market leader, ProjectLibre packs in calendars, resource tracking, task management, and cost-tracking tools. (open-source - free)
- Redbooth - is easy-to-use online project management software for creating high-performing teams. (commercial)
- Redmine - Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform (open-source)
- Remind - Remind is a free multi-device platform that allows you to message groups or individuals.
- The Right Question Institute makes it possible for all people to learn to ask better questions and participate more effectively in key decisions.
- Screencast-O-Matic - Screencast-O-Matic is a great choice for teachers creating flipped videos on a laptop or desktop computer. This software is downloaded to your device and allows you to capture and record whatever is happening on your computer screen. Teachers turning PowerPoint presentations into flipped videos will love how easy it is to use.
- Seesaw - Student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication. For iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Chromebooks and Computers with Chrome or Firefox
- ShowMe - With this iPad app teachers can demonstrate math problems or text annotation by writing on their screen and recording their voice. These video creations are saved to a link and can be viewed on any web browser.
- Skype - Skype is part of Microsoft. You can make video and audio calls, exchange chat messages and do much more using Skype's software on your computer, or mobile devices.
- TEDEd - Join hundreds of thousands of other teachers creating interactive online lessons around TED talks or YouTube Videos.
- TEDEd Clubs - Have your students their own local TED talks.
- VicoVR - An innovative full-body 3D virtual reality gaming system that is highly compatible.
- Voxer - Voxer is like a social network walkie-talkie, a push-to-talk application.
- w3schools.com - learn html, javascript, server side database programming, website building, and XML for free.
- Wolfram. | Alpha - is an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and generate reports.
- XMind - open source, free mind-mapping software
- YouTube - The ultimate video collection. You can post your videos there too!
- YouTube Education - YouTube filtered to just educational content
- ZSpace - The Virtual Reality Learning Experience
Art/ Theatre
- Adobe Illustrator – graphic design software
- Arcanum, The - Apprentice to an art master to level up your skills
- The Art Career Project - explore careers in art and the top art programs in the country.
- Artcyclopedia - an encyclopedia of famous artists
- ArtsEdge - ArtsEdge (the National Arts and Education Network) supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience.
- Artsonia - world’s largest student art museum. Use the app to upload your students’ artwork to Artsonia.
- Artstor Digital Library - image database of artwork, historic photos, and more from the world’s leading museums.
- Art Swipe - Art Swipe is loosely based on the "exquisite corpses" created by early 20th century surrealist artists who would write or draw on a folded sheet of paper. Each participant would then pass the folded paper to the next participant for a further contribution. The result is a collective collage, an image made up of parts connected by chance.
- Astropad - turn your iPad into a graphics tablet. Really cool app, but a bit pricey.
- Autodesk Sketchbook - Android App allows users to paint or draw.
- Autodraw - Google’s Autodraw takes your clumsy scribbles and replaces them with drawings done by professional artists.
- Blender - is a free, open-source 3D drawing, rendering, and animation program.
- GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) - GIMP is a free, open source alternative to Photoshop.
- Google Art Project - The Google Art Project is a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art institutions to enable people to discover and view artworks online in extraordinary detail in a VR (virtual reality) environment.
- Google Cultural Institute - discover artworks, collections, and stories from all around the world like never before.
- The Interaction of Color - This revolutionary new digital edition will transform the way color is taught and understood among teachers, students, designers, artists, and anyone interested in learning how to perceive and use color.
- KinderArt - art lesson plans by elementary school teachers
- Kids Doodle – painting app for young children. Also available for android.
- Scribble - a pen that lets you point to any color around you, and it will match and draw in that color.
- Shakespeare in Bits - iPad app - Romeo & Juliet - in full multi-media magnificence from the comfort of your iPad. Other Shakespeare plays are also available in the App Store.
- SketchUp - is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D for applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and mechanical engineering, lm, and video game design.
- Smarthistory - videos and essays of the study of art and cultural heritage.
- StageAgent - website that provides resources for theater artists.
- Theatre on a Shoestring - this website is a collection of resources that will help you get started putting on a theatre production on a budget.
- Tilt Brush by Google - Tilt Brush lets you paint in 3d space with virtual reality
- Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12
- Wordplay Shakespeare - WordPlay™ Shakespeare eBooks lets you see the performance and read the text on the same page. Add in a built in dictionary, a modern translation, word search, and social media (see below), and suddenly, reading Shakespeare becomes more intuitive, more fun, and far more enjoyable.
Adult Education, FACS, & Interior Design
- Banzai - free online financial literacy program for students and educators
- Budget Tracker - budget your finances and know where your money is going.
- Econedlink - a resource database for economics teachers which provides economic and financial education for students from K-12.
- Floor Planner - online interior design tool for designing floor plans.
- Fooducate - allows you to track your food, activity, sleep, and mood. It also allows you to scan items in the store to learn nutrition facts and get recipes.
- GoodBudget - an online budget tracker that uses the envelope system without having to carry around paper envelopes.
- Home Design 3D - learn and and practice the art of interior design through designing and remodeling a house. Available on multiple platforms for varying prices.
- HomeStyler - design the floorplan and interior design of your dream home in 3D
- Joy of Clothes - create your own personal model to clothe according to your body type, hair and face.
- Mint - Mint helps you to manage your personal finances all in one place.
- MyFridgeFood - enter the ingredients you have at your house and this site will come up with the recipes to try.
- Pattern Jam - allows you to design and create quilts online.
- SmartDraw - easy and powerful flowchart, floor plan, and diagram maker
- The Stock Market Game - An online simulation of the global capital markets that engages students grades 4-12 in the world of economics, investing and personal finance and that has prepared 15 million students for financially independent futures.
- Sweet Home 3D - free interior design application that helps draw house plans, arrange furniture, and more.
- Wall Street Survivor - learn how to buy and sell stock on a fake stock market by playing the site’s Stock Market Game.
- We Teach FACS - Family and Consumer Sciences lessons, resources, and more
Computer Skills
- CS for All Teachers - teacher help for teaching computer science
- Codecademy - Terrific hands-on coding practice with live feedback.
- CodeSpark Academy - a simple coding game for children ages 4-9 that allows for students to learn coding skills and have a lot of fun in the process.
- Code.org - kids can learn the basics of computer science and how to code. Code.org offers interactive games that include coding to teach students basic coding skills.
- Digital Citizenship: Are you a digital citizen? - A free Weebly website all about digital citizenship.
- Digital Passport - a program created by Common Sense Education to teach 3rd-5th graders about online safety and technology usage.
- EarSketch - Learn to code by making music.
- Jeroo - classroom-tested program that teachings basics of coding and computer programming
- Rapid Typing - With Rapid Typing 5 you have complete control over the content of what the student is typing, and can even get statistical data for each student.
- Scratch - students can program their own interactive stories, games, and animations through using Scratch.
- Tinkercad - an entirely free web-based beginner's CAD program.
- Twine - open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
- TyperShark - turn learning to type into a fun interactive game.
- Typing Club – offers free lessons for students to learn, practice, and improve their keyboarding skills
Foreign Language
- DuoLingo - Duolingo is an excellent, free language learning site. How can it be free? It's free because as you learn, you are helping translate the internet into other languages, providing more resources to peoples around the world!
- Creating French Culture - treasures from the National Library of France
- DuoLingo - Duolingo is an excellent, free language learning site. How can it be free? It's free because as you learn, you are helping translate the internet into other languages, providing more resources to peoples around the world!
- English for Students - This site provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics.
- La Dictee d’Archibald - french dictation website
- Reverso Context - get relevant translation in context with real-life example of words and expressions used in the language.
- Signing Savvy - A dictionary for American Sign Language to help grow your ASL vocabulary.
- Speak & Translate - app that translates voice and text for free.
Health and Physical Education
- AboutKidsHealth - trusted answers from the hospital for sick children
- Blastoff - practice healthy eating by playing this fun, interactive game by the USDA
- Coach’s Eye - Sports video analysis app.
- ChooseMyPlate.gov – information, facts, tools, recipes, tips, interactives, and more about being healthy.
- Daily Water App - IOS app that counts how many glasses of water you drink and reminds you when you need to drink more.
- Go Noodle - dance and other videos that get kids up and moving in a fun way to activate their bodies and brains. Perfect for brain breaks!
- Health Line - The body maps this site gives you access to allows you to break down the human body virtually.
- Healthy Kids - a kid-friendly website to help keep your kids healthy
- iMuscle2 - great app for exploring the muscles you use when moving and exercising.
- Journey 2050 - Journey 2050 takes students on a virtual simulation that explores world food sustainability.
- KidsHealth - KidsHealth is a fun way for students to learn about the body, learn how to be healthy, etc. It provides many different areas of health for kids to explore.
- MapMyFitness – MapMyFitness provides advanced fitness tracking technology, a workout database, nutritional data, calorie calculators, and more than 160 million of the best running, cycling, and walking routes around the world.
- Mouse Party - see how different drugs affect the brains of mice in this fun animated and interactive manipulative.
- MyFitnessPal – fast, easy to use calorie counter app.
- PE Central - lessons, assessments, ideas, and more for P.E. teachers.
Language Arts
- Book Creator - allows students to create and publish their own stories.
- Booktrack - helps students engage and comprehend reading through the use of pairing certain tones and music with matching text parts.
- BoomWriter - The best group writing tool on the web. Read, write, share and assess with this site dedicated to collaborating with others on writing project.
- Brainzy - math and reading program
- Build and Teach - simple website with interactive reading applications and games.
- EasyBib - free bibliography generator
- Epic! - Is an online library that offers thousands of popular books for students K-5 completely free of charge
- iBooks Author – create books for iPad and Mac
- Imagine Learning - interactive language and literacy software program.Great for ESL and Special Education students.
- Goodreads – online book community
- Kidsreads - is a great, kid-friendly website that allows students to browse through books by category and age to find books that they will be interested in reading. Check out also Teenreads for the older students.
- Little Bird Tales - a website and App for Apple devices where students can create their own stories.
- Loyal Books - Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads
- Mendeley - website that allows you to organize, read, and annotate documents and research all in one place.
- MLA International Bibliography – online research tool
- MyStoryBook - a fun website for creating storybooks
- My Story Dice - free app that provides creative brainstorming and storytelling tools. Also available for IOS and Android.
- MyStoryMaker - It is a free tool that enables people of all ages to bring their stories to life.
- National Novel Writing - writer of all ages can sign up for free and motivate one another.
- Noun Project - Icons for everything to create flashcards or worksheets at ease
- Open Library – internet archive library that offers access to almost any book
- Phonics Genius - this app has over 6,000 unique words grouped by phonetic sounds to help teach your students phonemic awareness.
- Purdue OWL – This site helps give students guidance and examples of proper formatting in writing, they have MLA, APA and even help with citations.
- Reading Comprehension Prep – app that improves reading comprehension
- Reading Rockets - reading resources, books, topics, help for struggling readers, and more
- ReadTheory is a K-12 online reading comprehension program that present assessments to students at a "just right" level.
- ReadWorks - a nonprofit library of curated nonfiction and literary articles
- readwritethink - their mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
- RhymeZone - find rhymes, synonyms, adjectives, and more!
- Scribus - Free, open source desktop publishing program for Mac/Win.
- Sight Words - help teach your students sight words, phonemic awareness, and counting with flashcards and lesson plans on this site.
- Storybird - Storybird is a unique language arts tool. We use illustrations to inspire students to write stories: picture books for K-5,longform chapter books for Grades 5-9, and poetry for everything in-between.
- Story Creator - easy story book maker for kids.
- StoryboardThat - free digital storyboard creator
- Story Jumper - allows students to create and publish their own illustrated stories.
- StoryKit - Create an electronic storybook for free with the StoryKit app for IOS.
- Storyline Online - children’s books read by famous actors and actresses
- Storyo - an amazing visual storyteller app for documenting unforgettable moments.
- Tika Tok - A digital classroom publishing studio for students to write and illustrate their own digital and printed books.
- Utah Compose - Utah Compose is a web-based writing program designed to help students in grades 3-12 in Utah improve writing through practice, immediate feedback, and guided instructional support.
- UtellStory - a multimedia storytelling and sharing community.Tell stories with audio, image, video and words.
- Victorian Web - Literature, history and culture from the Victorian Age
- Virtual Middle School Library - articles, tools, other resources for middle school students, teachers, and parents
- Vocabulary Spelling City - learn spelling and vocabulary words through games using any word list. There is also an IOS app.
- WattPad - free online community for readers and writers
- Whooo’s Reading - an online tool that encourages students to pick up the ability to think critically through reading.
- Wixie - online authoring, publishing, and creativity platform for students
- Wordplay Shakespeare - WordPlay™ Shakespeare eBooks lets you see the performance and read the text on the same page. Add in a built in dictionary, a modern translation, word search, and social media (see below), and suddenly, reading Shakespeare becomes more intuitive, more fun, and far more enjoyable.
- World’s Worst Pet – vocabulary app that aligns with common core and exposes students to over 1000 Tier 2 words at 6 different levels.
- Writer - great app for writing books, stories, poems, reports, novels, and more. The Writer app allows you to quickly create color-coded notes and stories, make recordings, and take photos.
- Writing Prompts - daily writing prompts and other writing prompt ideas
- Youth Voices - A social network for student writing
Math
- Amplify Fractions - a new approach to learning fractions
- Brainzy - math and reading program
- BuzzMath - middle school math practice.
- ChartGo - create graphs and charts online for free.
- Cignition - students design their own virtual worlds through highly engaging and challenging math games
- Codecademy - Terrific hands-on coding practice with live feedback
- Contraption Maker - Solve problems, puzzles, brain teasers while creating wacky machines.
- Coolmath.com - offers algebra and pre-calculus practice and tools
- Create A Graph on Kids’ Zone – allows teachers and students to easily create graphs of almost any kind.
- Desmos - awesome graphing calculator and math activities.
- Derivative Calculator - calculate derivative online with steps and graphing (or check out the Integral Calculator that calculate integrals online)
- Dragon Shapes: Geometry Challenge - a set of interactive puzzles that teaches kids early geometry concepts while touching on some important Common Core math standards
- Dreambox - online adaptive K-8 math program to raise student math skills.
- Gear Up University - over 100 videos that teach kids how to use Siemens Solid Edge CAD/CAM software.
- Geoboard - an iOS app that allows students make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more.
- Geogebra - the graphing calculator for functions, geometry, algebra, calculus, statistics, and 3D math.
- Illuminations - math interactives and lessons for teachers and students.
- Kid Zone Create-a-Graph - an easy, online graph builder - it's free.
- Mathalicious - real-world lessons for teachers that will challenge middle and high school students that address common core standards.
- Math Fight App - IOS app that allows two students to both practice their math facts together in a fun, competitive way.
- Math 4 Children - math games, quizzes, worksheets and more for kids pre-K to 7th grade
- Math Learning Center - math curriculum, resources, practice, and more
- Math is Fun - math lessons, games, puzzles, worksheets, and more.
- Math Playground – math games and practice for kids
- Math-Play.com – free online math games
- Math Playground – math games and practice for kids
- Math Vocabulary Cards - iOS app that helps students deepen their conceptual understanding of key math terms.
- Math Worksheets 4 Kids - provides thousands of worksheets for kids K-8 to practice math.
- Mental Math Cards - app that provides tips, fast practice, and timed challenges to help improve arithmetic skills.
- Minecraft - Use the world’s most popular video game as a tool for learning. Also look at Minecraft in education.
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - At the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, you’ll find activities for every area of math at every grade level. Manipulatives allow students to visually examine, explore and develop concepts.
- Number Pieces - this IOS app helps students learn and gain a deeper understanding of place value.
- Pattern Shapes - a drag and drop digital version of the classic elementary school mainstay, pattern blocks.
- PhET - sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
- Photomath - camera calculator to help with solving math problems
- Prodigy Math Game - it is a good tool for building fluency in math.
- Physics Games - this site offers many physics based games that students can use to experiment with physics.
- RealWorldMath.org - a collection of free math activities that work with Google Earth.
- Reflex Math - math fact fluency practice
- Smart Skies - Math learning by using a simulation for being an air flight controller - basic algebra
- Splash Math - a complete K-5 Math learning program
- Stat Trek - Teach yourself statistics
- ST Math - game-based visual math instruction software.
- StudyJams - math and science study helps, videos, songs, games, and more
- Sumdog - engaging adaptive learning for Math and Language Arts
- Super Maths World - interactive HD resources for classroom smart boards
- TryEngineering - Lots of engineering simulations and games
- Volumize - free app that uses photos to model surface area and volume of real-life objects to estimate the volume.
- XP Math – math games that align with common core standards
- Xtra Math - program that helps students practice accuracy and speed doing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- Zearn - lesson plans and and online math teaching software
Music
- GarageBand – a whole music creation studio for Macs
- MuseScore - MuseScore is a leading software to create, play and print sheet music. It is free and open source music notation software that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Musical Me! - fun IOS app that teaches kids notes, rhythm, and pitch.
- New York Philharmonic Kidzone – games and interactives that teach music concepts
- Noteflight - Online Music Notation Software
- Smule - singing app available on apple and android devices.
- Songfacts - Songfacts is a searchable database of song information where you can find out the stories behind the songs, get the lyrics, and watch the videos.
- Soundation Studio – create music on the web
- Soundtrap – make music online
- UJam - the website allows students to record compositions of their own
- Virtual Piano – play the piano online
Science
- Algodoo - Free Mac/Win 2D drawing application where objects have physical properties
- Alien Earths - Build Your Own Solar System - Test Out Gravity
- AlienRescue - Alien Rescue is an online problem-based 3D immersive learning environment for sixth grade science.
- Anatomy Arcade – bring human anatomy to life through game, interactives, and videos.
- Animal Habitats for Kids - learn about different habitats and the animals that live there
- Ask a Scientist - NASA lets students ask their astrobiologists, astronomers, astrophysicists, geologists, lunar scientists, physicists, and space scientists questions.
- BioDigital Human - Explore every bit of the human body in this powerful, interactive 3D tour
- Blender - is a free, open-source 3D drawing, rendering, and animation program.
- The Body VR - virtual reality simulation of the human body
- Brain It On! - challenging physics puzzles and games for your brain.
- Celestia - The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
- Celestia Motherload - another site where Celestia fans create add-ons for the Celestia simulation application.
- CELLS alive! - explore, study, and play with cells, microbes, and the immune system
- Citizen Science - Comical narrative game shows intersection of ecology and social issues
- Climate Kids - NASA’s website for teaching kids about climate and taking care of our planet.
- Curiosity Machine - Hands-on science projects. Build engineering design challenges using household objects, with the help of scientists and engineers.
- Dino Walk - this app will show you who inhabited the planet in respective time periods and tell you all about them.
- Discovery Kids - games, videos, and activities that teach about science, animals, space, and more.
- DIY Nano (iOS) - The DIY Nano app allows families to experience and learn about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology at home or on the go! The app provides free, easy to use, hands-on activities at your fingertips.
- Easy Science for Kids - provides free online resources such as articles, worksheets,, interactive quizzes, coloring activities, science experiment ideas, videos, and more.
- Earth Day Network - Every year, the Earth Day Network sponsors and links to activities students can participate in that focus on climate change, earth science, biology, and more.
- Earth.NullSchool - a visualization of global weather conditions and ocean surface temperatures and more.
- Edheads - Realistic, appealing simulations deliver superb science content
- Encyclopedia of Minerals - app that provides pictures and detailed information about 900 types of minerals.
- esri – free online world mapping tools, facts, and activities
- Froguts – virtual frog dissection
- Gear Up University - over 100 videos that teach kids how to use Siemens Solid Edge CAD/CAM software.
- Geo Walk - A few hundred geographic hotspots put on a globe to teach your students about geography right in your classroom.
- Gizmos - online simulations that power inquiry and understanding
- Globe (NASA) - Participate with scientists and students the world over gathering and sharing climate data.
- Google Science Fair - Students compete worldwide each year, submitting their science projects.
- iBiome- Wetland - Come explore the wetland habitat and all the amazing species within. Challenge kids to make plants and animals flourish by learning and following laws of nature. Try also the brainpop jr. lesson that follows this app.
- Inquiry in Action - teach physical science and chemistry concepts using inquiry-based approach.
- Kid Weather - Power packed with real time weather conditions, forecasts, science and fun facts about the weather, plus it is interactive making it fun for the kids. This includes math and science with S.T.E.M in mind to make parents and teachers happy as well.
- Lawrence Hall of Science: 24/7 Science - First class site for science games and investigations
- Learn.Genetics - genetic science learning center
- Lego Mindstorms - Educational hardware/software kits for constructing and designing robotics. Purchased kits range from focusing on preschool students through middle school.
- Lifeboat to Mars - Fantastic ecosystem sim makes learning biology fun
- Molecular Workbench - Regularly updated resource features great simulations and modules
- MolView - web-based data visualization platform. Visualize and manipulate virtual molecules.
- MoonConection.com - resources, information, and tools about the moon
- NASA Education Express - Both a blog and a mailing list from NASA and STEM associates about workshops, internships, fellowships, applications for grants or collaborations, promotions for student and educator opportunities, online professional development and more!
- NASA’s Eyes - immersive apps for Macs and PCs that explore our solar system, the universe, various spacecraft and more.
- NASA Solar System Exploration - interactive exploration of the planets in our solar system.
- NASA Space Place - Explore earth and space! Facts, information, games, interactives about space for students.
- National Center for Biotechnology Information - The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
- National Geographic Kids - Learn about animals through videos, facts, games, and more.
- NOVA - In addition to its weekly television broadcast, NOVA extends its award-winning science reporting both online and in classrooms, producing an extensive list of resources and original content—including short-form videos, science and education blogs—available on our website, pbs.org/nova.
- NOVA Labs - awesome hands-on instructional and interactive science labs.
- NOVA Nature - vivid multimedia reveals human's impact on earth
- Open-Source R - R is open-source, free statistical analysis software. R includes virtually every data manipulation, statistical model, and chart that the modern data scientist could ever need. You can easily find, download and use cutting-edge community-reviewed methods in statistics and predictive modeling from leading researchers in data science, free of charge.
- Outland - the app for creating an atmosphere of space journey right in your classroom.
- PhET - sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
- Physics Classroom, The - Solid simulations and practice problems boost understanding
- Planet Earth HD – interactive book app for kids
- Planets for Kids – Free Astronomy Network for Kids
- PLOS - (Public Library of Science) a nonprofit publisher, innovator, and advocacy organization
- San Diego Zoo Live Cams - Live video feed of many different animals at the San Diego Zoo.
- Science Buddies - hands on science resources for home and school
- Science Journal - is a tool for doing science with your Android smartphone. You can use the sensors in your phone or connect to external sensors to conduct experiments on the world around you. Organize your ideas into projects, make predictions, take notes and collect data in multiple trials, then annotate and explore your results. It's the lab notebook you always have with you.
- SciLab - Scilab is widely used in high schools and universities to help model mathematical or scientific data. Scilab can be used as a tool for teaching and learning mathematics.
- SketchUp - is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D for applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and mechanical engineering, lm, and video game design.
- Skyenimals - animal website for kids with facts, games, links, activities, and more
- Solar System Scope - online model and virtual tour of the solar system
- Solar Walk - 3D solar system model app. Also check out Solar Walk 2, a journey through time and space.
- Solid Edge – teaches students 3D design and engineering process
- Star Tracker – stargazing and sky map app
- Star Walk 2 - this app not only allows you to stargaze, but also teaches you about planets, comets, satellites, and more. For a paid version without ads, click here.
- Star Walk for Kids - Cartoon-style interface and friendly voice of the narrator effortlessly guide you through the night sky.
- Stellarium - is a free open source planetarium for your computer
- StudyJams - math and science study helps, videos, songs, games, and more
- TryEngineering - Lots of engineering simulations and games
- USGS Water Science School - pictures, data, manipulatives, maps, and more all about water.
- Utah Habitats, Plants, and Animals - resources on Utah’s varied habitats and ecosystems.
- WeatherBug – free weather app that tracks current weather anywhere in the world, Doppler radar, hurricanes, traffic conditions, and more
- Weather Wiz Kids - a website especially for children to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. Also provides tools to help explain different types of weather to children.
- Web Weather for Kids - This is a website that has all kinds of resources about weather and activities one could use in the classroom to show these.
- Wildscreen Arkive - Explore the Largest World Encyclopaedia Online
- Wolf Quest - is a 3D wildlife simulation video game about gray wolves and the ecology of Yellowstone National Park.
- The World Wide Telescope - The WorldWide Telescope is a Web visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.
- Zydeco - a system integrating mobile device and cloud and technologies for middle school science inquiry
Social Studies/History
- American History for Kids - history website made for kids
- Barefoot World Atlas - interactive 3D globe that not only shows regions of the world, but also teaches about those places using facts, drawings, music, puzzles, games, and more.
- Best of History Websites - Best of History Web Sites, created by EdTechTeacher Inc, is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
- Civil Right Virtual Field Trip - this site goes through a virtual field trip of important locations during the Civil Rights Movement.
- CultureGrams - CultureGrams™ is a leading reference for concise and reliable cultural information on the countries of the world.
- DebateGraph - offers users a powerful way to graph out parts of a debate to help them deliberate, and make decision about complex issues.
- DocsTeach - Teaching History Using Primary Sources
- eSchoolToday - learn about natural disasters, the environment, social issues and more.
- Freeciv - is a free, open source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization
- FreeCol - is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation.
- Google Cultural Institute - discover artworks, collections, and stories from all around the world like never before.
- History.com - Watch full episodes and videos, and read interesting articles about history. Also has a great tab, “This Day In History” that tells something from history that happened on everyday of the year.
- HistoryNet - videos, galleries, information, and more about American history
- History’s Heroes - a site dedicated to heroes from history
- iCivics - this website combines a database of teaching aids, like lesson plans, and primary source documents for research. Teach civics using their provided lesson plans, games and other resources.
- KidsVotingUSA - this website helps teach kids the importance of voting
- Library of Congress - main website for the U.S. Library of Congress. It provides great resources for teachers and classrooms, especially Digital Collections and a Teachers Page.
- Mission US - immerses students in U.S. history through interactive games. Fight in the Revolutionary War or survive during the Great Depression.
- myHistro – watch, read, and create map and timeline creations.
- National Archives - collection of U.S. records, documents, and materials.
- NMNH Virtual Tour - amazing 3D virtual tours of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
- OLogy! - A science website for kids from the American Museum of Natural History.
- On This Day - website that allows you to search any date and see what historical events occurred, famous births/deaths, fun facts about that day, big news, and so much more.
- Primary Source Sets from the Library of Congress - History as told from the primary source.
- Scribble Maps – online map creator
- Timeline – easily create a timeline of related events.
- Timemaps - free interactive history atlas. Great for showing changing country borders throughout history.
- Timetoast - create simple timelines
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum – history, podcast, survivors, interviews, and more about the Holocaust.
- Utah History to Go - all the tools and lesson plans you need to teach Utah History
- The World Factbook - The World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, marshals facts on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world.
- World Geography Games - play these fun games to help learn about the world in a fun and memorable way.