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K-5 but can use for EL/ Sped Students or those that are not on grade level.

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Educational Games, Worksheets, and More for Kids

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From your hobby to your career, your class notes to your final exam, your mood board to your runway show, padlets help you organize your life.

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Over 1000 curriculum aligned science games for elementary and middle school students within the Legends of Learning adventure. Legends of Learning is always free for teachers and students in school.

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Legends of Learning | Math and Science Games

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Math and science games for grades K-8 that increase engagement and test scores. Curriculum aligned. Backed by Research. Teacher Reviewed. Fun for Students.

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Reading Comprehension

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EdPuzzle is the perfect tool for allowing students to watch and engage with videos while the teacher gathers data throughout the lesson. As teachers dabble into the flipped classroom philosophy, EdPuzzle is the perfect enhancement tool for videos to be watched at home instead of eating up valuable class time.

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With Vocabulary.com, vocabulary improvement does not have to take up valuable class time or be divorced from your curriculum. What are you teaching? Start with one of our thousands of pre-made lists for the most commonly taught literary texts — or easily make your own using our VocabGrabber.

Assign a list to your class, and we’ll automatically create a personalized learning program that will work with each student individually until they master the words they struggle with. Use our dashboards to track your classes’ progress or drill down to assess individual student needs.

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Track your child's practice and development as they build essential math skills in Prodigy Game’s animated fantasy world.

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Supports students in grades 2-6, RTI, Title I and Students with disabilities

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Reflex : Math fact fluency - Problem Solved!

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Adaptive and individualized, Reflex is the most effective system for mastering basic facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division for grades 2+.

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Reflex : The math fact fluency system that really works ... and that students absolutely love.

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A comprehensive collection of specific links and multimedia resources for middle school common core social studies curriculum.

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A comprehensive collection of specific links and multimedia resources for middle school common core social studies curriculum.

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis.

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Experience a new way to learn through the Vizitech USA's Rock Stars Augmented Reality (AR) App. ... These insights and more are available inside this new Rock Stars AR app for your delight. To continue the learning fun, search for additional AR apps by Vizitech USA!

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‎Experience a new way to learn through the Vizitech USA's Rock Stars Augmented Reality (AR) App. This app displays the wonders of learning with AR as it brings your textbooks and worksheets to life! Explore new dimensions in education in an experiential format that creates new possibilities for gre...

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Social Studies Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE)

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Engaging animated learning videos, games, quizzes, and activities to encourage kids on their unique learning path.   Grades: pre K–8

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This is a free intervention tool designed to fill gaps in students’ mental calculation skills and empower them with number fluency. Students can earn ninja belts of different colors for their skill level.  Grades: 2–8:Cost: Free

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Two users play a game in which each player tries to connect four game pieces in a row (like game Connect Four). The players answer math questions to connect the pieces. Teacher chooses how much time each player has to answer, the level of difficulty, and the type of math problem.  Grades: 2–8: Cost: Free.

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Figure This! is a site designed to encourage families to practice math together. It includes fun and engaging math games and high-quality challenges. It even offers challenges in Spanish. Grades 6–8: Cost: Free

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Figure This! Math Challenges for Families - Challenge Index

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Home · Take a Challenge · Challenge Index · Math Index · Contact Us · About Technical Requirements · Printing the Challenges · Family Corner · Teacher Corner PowerPoint Presentation · Contact Us!

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We are all familiar with motivational posters. They typically have a black background, one large image at the top, then a word or short phrase in large type below it, and finally a short inspirational sentence at the bottom. These motivational posters have been around for decades, and most likely can still be found in the classrooms, libraries, and offices of your schools.

However, beyond just providing some encouragement to students, motivational posters can actually be used as a fun and educational activity. With some simple technology tools, students can create and share their own motivational posters. These creations can be used to show students learning and understanding of any concept being taught in your subject.

See below for some free templates, directions on how students can create the posters, and ideas for how this activity can be used in your class.

Ideas for Use

Students could create motivational-style posters for many educational activities. Some ideas include:

Vocabulary terms for any subject

Content area concepts

Characters from a story

People from history

Events from history

Foreign language terms

Actual motivational posters

Free "Motivational Poster" Templates

For this particular activity, Google Drawings is an excellent match. Drawings makes it easy to find and add an image, edit the text, change colors, and finally download or share the creations.

To make this even easier, I have created two free templates you and your students can use. Simply click on the links below to get your own editable copies of these templates.

1) Horizontal "Motivational Poster" Template - Google Drawing link

2) Vertical "Motivational Poster" Template - Google Drawing link

Tutorial Video (8 minutes)

Below is a short tutorial video on how to use the templates to create motivational posters.

After you have made a copy of the template, you can edit the poster as follows:

1) Main Text

First, you will want to type in the main word the poster will address.

Simply double-click on the textbox that has "MAIN WORD" and edit the text as needed.

For stylistic purposes, you may want to put a space in between each letter to stretch out the word a biy.

If needed, you can change the font size or font face as normal.

2) Sentence Text

Below the main text of your poster is a spot for the sentence that goes along with the main text.

Just like before, simply double-click on the textbox and change "Your sentence about the main word." to the sentence you want.

3) Image
Next you will want to replace the template image with a picture of your choosing.

Click on the image and then click the "Replace image" button in the top toolbar.

You can now select the image in one of several ways:

Upload - Upload an image that you have saved on your computer

Take a snapshot - Use your webcam to take a picture

By URL - Paste in the web address to an image

Your albums - Choose a picture from your Google Photos albums

Google Drive - Pick an image saved on your Google Drive

Search - Use Google to search for an image

The image you choose will be automatically resized and cropped to fit into the space from the original image.

If you need to make any adjustments to the cropping or resizing, simply double-click on the image.

You can now click and drag in the center of the image to move it.

Or you can click and drag the corners to resize as needed.

Click off of the image when done.

4) Colors

Based on the image you have chosen, you may want to change the color scheme for the poster. Traditionally for a motivational poster, you would change the border color of the image and the text color of your main word.

To change the border color of the image, click on the image, then use the "Line color" tool in the top menu bar.

To change the text color of your main word, select the text, then use the "Text color" button in the top menu bar.

Sharing the Final Product

When all done creating your motivational poster you can share it in several ways.

As normal, it can be shared using the "Share" button to give access to specific people or to anyone with the link.

The poster can be downloaded as a PDF or image by clicking "File" then "Download as" then "PDF" or "JPG" or "PNG".

The Google Drawing can be inserted directly into a Google Sites to embed it as a live Drawing.

The image can be printed by clicking "File" and "Print".

Below are a few samples of what students might create with the educational "Motivational Posters" activity:

And if you get really creative, you can insert animated GIFs for your image so the picture moves when viewed as a Google Document. Click the link below to see an animated motivational poster about Twitter:

Conclusion

Motivational posters can encourage people in real life, and they can also serve as a motivational learning activity for students. If you have your students create some posters, please consider adding a comment below to share how it went, what the activity was, and maybe some samples of what the students created.

Post by Eric Curts. Bring me to your school, organization, or conference with over 50 PD sessions to choose from. Connect with me on Twitter at twitter.com/ericcurts and on Google+ at plus.google.com/+EricCurts1

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Have Students Create Educational "Motivational Posters" with Google Drawings

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We are all familiar with motivational posters. They typically have a black background, one large image at the top, then a word or short phrase in large type below it, and finally a short inspirational sentence at the bottom.

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We are all familiar with motivational posters. They typically have a black background, one large image at the top, then a word or short phrase in large type below it, and finally a short inspirational sentence at the bottom. These motivational posters have been around for decades, and most likely can still be found in the classrooms, libraries, and offices of your schools.

However, beyond just providing some encouragement to students, motivational posters can actually be used as a fun and educational activity. With some simple technology tools, students can create and share their own motivational posters. These creations can be used to show students learning and understanding of any concept being taught in your subject.

See below for some free templates, directions on how students can create the posters, and ideas for how this activity can be used in your class.

Ideas for Use

Students could create motivational-style posters for many educational activities. Some ideas include:

Vocabulary terms for any subject

Content area concepts

Characters from a story

People from history

Events from history

Foreign language terms

Actual motivational posters

Free "Motivational Poster" Templates

For this particular activity, Google Drawings is an excellent match. Drawings makes it easy to find and add an image, edit the text, change colors, and finally download or share the creations.

To make this even easier, I have created two free templates you and your students can use. Simply click on the links below to get your own editable copies of these templates.

1) Horizontal "Motivational Poster" Template - Google Drawing link

2) Vertical "Motivational Poster" Template - Google Drawing link

Tutorial Video (8 minutes)

Below is a short tutorial video on how to use the templates to create motivational posters.

After you have made a copy of the template, you can edit the poster as follows:

1) Main Text

First, you will want to type in the main word the poster will address.

Simply double-click on the textbox that has "MAIN WORD" and edit the text as needed.

For stylistic purposes, you may want to put a space in between each letter to stretch out the word a biy.

If needed, you can change the font size or font face as normal.

2) Sentence Text

Below the main text of your poster is a spot for the sentence that goes along with the main text.

Just like before, simply double-click on the textbox and change "Your sentence about the main word." to the sentence you want.

3) Image
Next you will want to replace the template image with a picture of your choosing.

Click on the image and then click the "Replace image" button in the top toolbar.

You can now select the image in one of several ways:

Upload - Upload an image that you have saved on your computer

Take a snapshot - Use your webcam to take a picture

By URL - Paste in the web address to an image

Your albums - Choose a picture from your Google Photos albums

Google Drive - Pick an image saved on your Google Drive

Search - Use Google to search for an image

The image you choose will be automatically resized and cropped to fit into the space from the original image.

If you need to make any adjustments to the cropping or resizing, simply double-click on the image.

You can now click and drag in the center of the image to move it.

Or you can click and drag the corners to resize as needed.

Click off of the image when done.

4) Colors

Based on the image you have chosen, you may want to change the color scheme for the poster. Traditionally for a motivational poster, you would change the border color of the image and the text color of your main word.

To change the border color of the image, click on the image, then use the "Line color" tool in the top menu bar.

To change the text color of your main word, select the text, then use the "Text color" button in the top menu bar.

Sharing the Final Product

When all done creating your motivational poster you can share it in several ways.

As normal, it can be shared using the "Share" button to give access to specific people or to anyone with the link.

The poster can be downloaded as a PDF or image by clicking "File" then "Download as" then "PDF" or "JPG" or "PNG".

The Google Drawing can be inserted directly into a Google Sites to embed it as a live Drawing.

The image can be printed by clicking "File" and "Print".

Below are a few samples of what students might create with the educational "Motivational Posters" activity:

And if you get really creative, you can insert animated GIFs for your image so the picture moves when viewed as a Google Document. Click the link below to see an animated motivational poster about Twitter:

Conclusion

Motivational posters can encourage people in real life, and they can also serve as a motivational learning activity for students. If you have your students create some posters, please consider adding a comment below to share how it went, what the activity was, and maybe some samples of what the students created.

Post by Eric Curts. Bring me to your school, organization, or conference with over 50 PD sessions to choose from. Connect with me on Twitter at twitter.com/ericcurts and on Google+ at plus.google.com/+EricCurts1

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Classroom Challenges are lessons that support teachers in formative assessment. There are 100 lessons in total, 20 at each grade from 6 to 8 and 40 for 'Career and College Readiness' at High School Grades 9 and above. Some lessons are focused on developing math concepts, others on solving non-routine problems.

The Brief Guide for teachers and administrators (PDF) is recommended reading before using these lessons for the first time.

Each lesson is downloadable as an all-in-one PDF to print out, and a supporting PowerPoint presentation.

Finding a Lesson

There are several ways of navigating:

1. Use the menu on the left to browse by grade and topic area, or search for a key phrase.

2. Go to the Standards tab to find lessons linked to a particular content standard or practice.

3. The complete set of lessons is listed below in alphabetic order.

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Classroom Challenges are lessons that support teachers in formative assessment. There are 100 lessons in total, 20 at each grade from 6 to 8 and 40 for 'Career and College Readiness' at High School Grades 9 and above.

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Mathematics Formative Assessment Lessons Videos