Tools for Students
All about reading
- Four Reader Personality Types: What type of Reader are you?
- Reading fun with ABCYa
- Learn to read with Starfall!
- Biblionasium: What have you read lately? Write a review and share with friends!
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Books: Book awards for grades 4-8
- Red Clover Books: Book awards for grades K-4
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher book award nominees for grades 4-8
- Slideshow of the 2019/20 Dorothy Canfield Fisher book award nominees.
- YouTube playlist of the 2019/20 Dorothy Canfield Fisher book award nominees.
- FactCheck.org: There are a lot of things said by politicians these days, with lots of data and stats. Is it all accurate or even true?
- Vermont Online Library: Books, magazines, biographies, and more!
- Biographies: Meet someone new.
- Kid Infobits: A great site for research projects.
- Kiddle: Safe visual search engine for kids.
- Kid Search: Kid's Search Engine
- Easybib: Make sure you cite your sources properly. This site will help.
- Photos for Class: Creative Commons photos for school!
- Pics 4 Learning: Safe and free images for school.
- Remove BG: Remove the background from any image
- Typing Club: How fast can you type??
- Make beliefs Comix: Make your own comic strips!
- Sesame Street: Fun and games from Sesame Street.
- PBS Kids: Fun games from PBS Kids
- BrainPop: Learn about anything and everything with Tim and Moby.
- BrainPop Jr.: BrainPop Jr. with Annie and Moby.
- funbrain: Online games and e-books. A place for fun and learning!
- PixelArt: Create and share art
- Sumopaint: Funkiest painting app online
- dogo News: News for kids
- Time For Kids: News for kids from Time Magazine
- Newslea: Find out what's going on in the news.
- Code.org: Learn to code
- Scratch: Learn to code
- Hopscotch - "learn to code through creative play"
- Khan Academy
- Wonder Workshop has a variety of fun apps to use with Dash and Dot (robots)
- Tickle - we use this to program WeDos, Dash, and BB8
- Lego WeDo - We have several Lego WeDo kits in the robotics lab this year. Students will get a chance to explore basic programming and STEM concepts with this kits later this year.
Tools for Teachers
Instruction
- Vermont Secretary of State - Kids Pages: Find out COOL stuff about VERMONT and what YOU can do here.
- Utah Education Network: Open educational resources, one of the nation's premier education networks.
- EngageNY: Common Core aligned lessons and curricuum for teachers.
- YouCubed: Inspire ALL Students with Open, Creative Mindset Mathematics
- Graphic Organizer Maker: A free tool to create custom graphic organizers for use in school.
- The Noun Project: Icons for everything: Nearly a million curated icons, created by a global community
- Discover Artifacts: Discover books with specific topics, concepts, learning objectives, or reading levels
- AllSides: See how the news is reported from the right, center, and left. Better understand all sides.
- Newseum: Today's Front Pages: See how the news is being reported around the world.
- FactCheck.org: There are a lot of things said by politicians these days, with lots of data and stats. Is it all accurate or even true?
- Search CC: Use this site to search articles, images, videos and more, all with a Creative Commons filter to find media you can use for school.
- EasyBib: Teach students how to generate citations in MLA, APA and Chicago formats for bibliographies.
- Newslea: News and other nonfiction text for kids, with lesson plans for teachers!
- Pics4Learning: A curated image library that is safe and free for education.
- Photos for class: Free (Creative Commons Licensed) photos for use in education.
- WeVideo: Get creative with audio, video, and even greenscreen! Every student has a story tell. (HSD has a district-wide license for WeVideo)
- Canva: Easily create infographics with a variety of designs and templates.
- Rubric Maker: Create custom rubrics for your classroom.
- Wixie: An online publishing platform for students to create and share using writing, voice, and art.
- Vermont Online Library: Books, magazines, biographies, and more!
- Biographies: Meet someone new.
Book Awards
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award (grades 4-8)
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award blog to track and review books
- Red Clover Book Award (grades K-4)
Tools for Parents
Coding & Robotics
We will be setting up accounts at many of these sites throughout the year. Please remind your child to log in first if they want to use them at home. That way their work will be saved and transferable between home and school.
- Code.org: Learn to code
- Scratch: Learn to code
- Hopscotch - "learn to code through creative play"
- Khan Academy
- WeVideo: Get creative with audio, video, and even greenscreen! Every student has a story tell.
- iMovie: make awesome videos
- GarageBand: - make music and have fun
Typing
- Typing Club: All students have login accounts on this site and use them during school to practice typing skills. Please encourage your child to practice at home as well, remembering to log in first so their progress is documented.
Media
- Common Sense Media: This is a great website for evaluating all things media. They review books, movies, video games, and more. I love that they give detailed reviews, broken down by categories such as commercialism, sex, language, drugs, and violence. They also provided a insightful overview of the media, alerting parents to potential scary situations, or situations such as death or divorce that may require further conversation.
- Biblionasium: Find, review, and share your love of books!
