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Scholastic Story Starters: choose a theme, then a grade level and click the lever to populate your story starter.
Dash and Beebot Robots: use robots to code the telling of a story.
Create Your Own Adventure Storytelling: use Google Slides to help students write out their own CYOA story.

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CoSpaces: create and code your own 360-degree world.
Merge Cube: view your 3D world and use additional apps to view different environments.
Google Tour Creator: use Google Maps Street View to create your own tour.
MapFling: uses Google Maps to create annotated maps.
Google Expeditions: create your own Google Expedition or use pre-existing guided tours. Students can view the expedition with VR goggles.
Aurasma: use QR codes to create augmented reality scenes.

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Make any webpage into a worksheet! Embeds questions on a webpage. Students answer questions as they read.

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Insert instructional content into any web page

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Canva: Canva is a powerful and easy-to-use online tool that's suitable for all manner of design tasks, from brochures to presentations and much more besides. It also offers users a vast library of images, icons, fonts and features to choose from.
Piktochart: Piktochart's custom editor lets you do things like modify colour schemes and fonts, insert pre-loaded graphics and upload basic shapes and images. Its grid-lined templates also make it easy to align graphical elements and resize images proportionally.
Infogram: Infogram is a great free tool with a wide variety of graphs, charts and maps as well as the ability to upload pictures and videos to create cool infographics. You enter and edit the data that makes up the infographic in an Excel-style tool, the contents of which are reflected in your design. The software will automatically change the look of the infographic to perfectly represent your data, too.
Easel.ly: This free web-based infographic tool offers you a range of templates to start you off, all of which are easily customisable. You get access to a library of things like arrows, shapes and connector lines, and you can customise the text with different fonts, colours, text styles and sizes. The tool also lets you upload your own graphics and position them with one touch.

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CultureGrams: online multimedia database for information from countries around the world. Also includes a modified 'kids edition' for elementary schoolstudents.

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Use the attached padlet for Breakout ideas.

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Click the image below for sample Goose Chase activities.

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GooseChase Game - GooseChase Sample PD/Workshop Game

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Scavenger hunts for the masses. Bold, crazy and highly addictive. Incredibly easy to use with all the power you could ever want.

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Storyboard That: Drag scenes and characters into cells to tell a narrative. Consider using to support reading and writing!
Make Beliefs Comix: Simple comic strip creator- drag and drop and add speech bubbles.
ToonDoo: Drag and drop elements onto your comic strip.

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Adobe Voice: Mobile app- animated video with voice add-on.
Moovly: Video templates or start from scratch.
Hippo Video: Create videos from images, screencasts, or using your webcam.
WeVideo: Record and edit 4K videos using this app.
Screencastify: Google add-on that allows you to screencast video using your computer screen. Great for distance learning or extended absences.

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Recap: Question-led chat tool augmented by the power of video.
GoSoapBox: Create quizzes, polls, and discussions to make direct instruction interactive.
Backchannel Chat: Facilitate online, safe discussions in real time.
Google Classroom: Create a question then allow students to respond to each other.
Google Slides: Now has a Q&A feature- open in presentation mode then select Q&A- great for students who are afraid to raise their hands!
Padlet (this resource!) also includes a backchannel chat format. :-)
Infolio: Padlet-esque resource. Great for collaboration.

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Have your students create memes to reinforce content knowledge.

Imgflip

Meme Generator

Meme Better

Make a Meme (click on image below)

Imgur

Quickmeme

iMeme

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Animoto: drag and drop photos, videos, and music to create and share presentations in film-strip style.
Haiku Deck: simple image-based online presentations.
Emaze: choose from templates to create customized presentations.  Editing similar to PP but has 3D and moving themes.
Adobe Spark: graphic design app with presentation features- create images, videos, and webpages as well.
Powtoon: make videos and presentations.
Genial.ly: presentation templates- can also be used for infographics and timelines.
Prezi: zoom through your presentation- now offers templates.  Emaze is a good alternative if this gives you a headache. :-)

Hint: copy the Google Document below by clicking on the image.  Use this document to collect links to student work.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Research platform that helps students cite, archive, evaluate sources; organize notes; outline their research.

Create notecards for research annotations!

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Designed by educators. Powered by technology. Tested by time.

For individual inquiry and collaborative research, NoodleTools:

Paves the way for original, high-quality work

NoodleTools gives students a systematic but flexible framework for navigating the tangled web of research. Students develop expert critical-thinking skills, gain confidence, and replace patchwriting and plagiarism with synthesis.

Grows with students, novice to expert

From a novice's research question to a graduate student's thesis, the three levels of NoodleTools provide a mental model for research and a common language across faculty and disciplines.

Supports teaching in the moment

NoodleTools pulls back the curtain so that you can offer early, in-context feedback on students' work at predictable bottlenecks and ahead of the writing space.

Gives you access to experts

We are educators, citation specialists, primary source authorities, and academic researchers. That expertise is baked into our platform design and services.

Smart Tools. Smart Teaching. Smart Research.

Effective & proactive teaching

Set up and start teaching in minutes.

Track students' progress, provide in-context feedback.

No advertising. Student-friendly privacy policy.

Teach responsively

A student's research companion

Cite your sources and organize your notes.

Get help with MLA, APA and Chicago-style citations.

Collaborate in real-time from anywhere.

Discover a better way

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NoodleTools: Student research platform with MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian bibliographies, notecards, outlining.

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Tool that builds stronger writers through interest-based curriculum, adaptive exercises, and actionable data.

Create classes and assign specific diagnostics to students for practice and assessment.

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Readings with varying lexile levels (3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th grade- maximum level); classes can be imported from Google Classroom.

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Newsela | Content and assessment platform

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.

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Click the image below to view a Google Doc of Google-friendly educational apps.

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Mind Mup 2.0: log-in with Google; great to make in pairs or individually
Mindmeister (click image below): great for whole-class brainstorming

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MindMeister: Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming

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Create, share and collaboratively work on mind maps with MindMeister, the leading online mind mapping software. Includes apps for iPhone, iPad and Android.

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Kahoot: online quiz creation- now includes group capacity!
Quizlet: create decks of flashcards and have students play in groups via Quizlet Live
Quizizz: self-paced individual quizzes
Pear Deck: import or create a slide presentation and insert formative questions between slides.
Nearpod: direct instruction with formative, interactive questions.
Gimkit: Alternative to Quizlet, Kahoot, Quizizz- can take decks from other tools and insert.

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Embed questions in videos.

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Students respond to assignments you create and compile their own portfolio throughout the school year.

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Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

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Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

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Elementary Learning Experience Platform | Seesaw

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Seesaw is a Learning Experience Platform with 25M+ users, enhancing elementary education, engagement, and school culture while improving academic success.

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This padlet pairs new digital tools with traditional pedagogy.