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- Crash Course This YouTube channel offers fun and amusing mini-courses for kids on history, science, literature, film sociology, psychology...
- Minute Physics This YouTube channel offers quick simple lessons with fun hand-drawn images.
- Quizlet Students can browse through and use millions of flashcards created by other students and teachers, or they can make their own. There are numerous study options. Students can review their flashcards electronically or in print form. In addition, they can play games that are generated from the information entered. Finally, students can make a multiple-choice, true and false, or fill-in test with the click of the mouse. There are even visuals and a new feature that reads the information aloud. Students can save their flashcards, share them with others, and even merge them for midterms or finals.
- Quizizz This free, colorful study tool works on any device: web browser, iOS, Android and Chrome apps. Students can access hundreds of ready-made learning quizzes or create their own own. Join as a teacher, pick a quiz, and use the code for a virtual room to give to your students. Teachers and students can also choose to make their quiz public or private.
- Khan Academy This is a not-for-profit organization that provides a free, high quality education to students around the world. They offer a growing collection of thousands of videos covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to physics, chemistry, history, SAT prep and more. To top it off, they now have a practice/lesson component that is terrific. This allows students to test their new knowledge, and if they get stuck, the website will walk them through the process and will even offer them the needed video tutorial! They have built into this feature motivational tools such as avatars as well as feedback and progress summaries for parents and teachers.
- Brainly Ask questions and get step by step answers. If you answer questions, you can earn points!
- CK12 CK-12 provides free access to open-source content and technology so students and teachers can enhance learning and experiment with different learning styles, resources, and levels of competence.
- Wolfram Alpha Instead of searching the internet for answers, this service has its own engine that computes answers in many subject areas. The resources on this website are growing rapidly and it already has a massive collection of knowledge. Check it out and you will be amazed. It’s fabulous for calculating difficult math problems, and is a great way to check homework.
- Bookshare Bookshare is a nonprofit organization that offers recorded books for students with learning disabilities. With documentation, you can get this service at no cost.
- Learning Ally Learning Ally is a nonprofit organization that offers recorded books for students with learning disabilities.
- Project Gutenberg This website offers over 30,000 free electronic books to read on a computer or portable device in a number of formats. You can search by title and author and many of their titles are also available as audio editions.
- Google Docs Google Docs is a free Web-based application in which documents, presentations and spreadsheets can be created, edited and stored online. Files can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection, and documents can be shared with and worked on by others. They now offer a number of Apps that provide services such as a thesaurus and bibliography maker.
- Google Calendar Google Calendar offers a free calendar that can be used on your computer, iPad or even you phone. You can color code your classes and even get it to send you reminders.
- TedEd Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.
- Bright Storm This website is a cool website that offers video-based classes that are engaging, multisensory and offer real world examples. They offer classes for the SATs, AP courses, and basic math, English, history and science. You have to check this out!
- EZ Bib EasyBib is a website that provides citations, note taking, and research tools that are easy-to-use.
- Seterra Geography Games This is the he ultimate map quiz site! You can use Seterra from any web browser to explore the world and learn about its countries, capitals, cities, rivers, lakes and more!
- Sheppard Software This website offers some great interactive activities and games to help students learn maps, as well as math and language arts skills.
- Shakespeare Online This website offers all of Shakespeare's work and it also offers famous quotes and translations.
- Boozeman Science This science teacher, Paul Anderson, offers wonderful multisensory videos in the areas of biology, chemistry earth science, anatomy, physiology, statistics, physics and more. Come check out his free videos and have also been translated into many languages.
- Prezi Bring presentations to life with Prezi. Present your ideas on a large canvas, and show their relationship with scale and placement. Try Prezi now for free on Prezi.com
- History Teacher This is a great website that offers study guides, notes, online video classes and strategies for difficult highschool and college courses. You can use the materials yourself, share your own study guides and create study groups with your friends or other students from around the globe. Here is a sample of some of the topics that you can be assisted with: Chemistry, Anatomy, Geometry, Biology, Physics, Microbiology, Physiology, SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, Calculus, Trigonometry, Algebra, Precalculus and more.
- Examville This is a great website that offers study guides, notes, online video classes and strategies for difficult highschool and college courses. You can use the materials yourself, share your own study guides and create study groups with your friends or other students from around the globe. Here is a sample of some of the topics that you can be assisted with: Chemistry, Anatomy, Geometry, Biology, Physics, Microbiology, Physiology, SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, Calculus, Trigonometry, Algebra, Precalculus and more.
- Regents Prep This is a comprehensive website. The goal of this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.
- PBS Regents Review 2.0 The Regents Review 2.0 collection offers videos produced by New York Network in collaboration with the Association of Public Broadcasting Stations of New York. These videos can be used to help students prepare for the NY Regents examinations.
- Brain Pop This website creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Their resources include movies, quizzes, experiments, timelines, activity pages, and much more covering hundreds of topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All content is aligned to and searchable by state standards.
- AAA Math This website features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons for kindergarten through eighth grade level.
- FreeBookNotes FreeBookNotes.com is the largest literature study guide search engine on the web. This site has scoured the web to track down all of the free book notes, study guides, book summaries, chapter summaries, and analyses available for thousands of books, plays, and poems.
- Scrible Scrible is a site supported by the National Science Foundation that has brought web-based research into the Internet Era by allowing people to highlight, annotate pages, create citations in their browser.
- Rewordify This is a free site simplifies difficult text. Enter hard sentences, whole chapters, or URLs into the yellow box at the top of the page. Click Rewordify text and you'll instantly see an easier version, for fast understanding.
- Sweet Search Sweet Search searches the 35,000 websites that the site's staff of research experts, librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved. They use sites such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university websites.
- PhotoMath PhotoMath allows you to use your phone’s camera to take a picture of a math problem and it will instantly display the answer with a detailed step-by-step explanation.
- Number Nut NumberNut works is like an interactive mathematics textbook. It can help students who have homework questions or who need review a specific topic. It also offers so interactive activities that can help to reinforce new knowledge.
- The Student's Guide to Grammar and Punctuation Many thanks to Alyssa R. for telling me about this site! It offers a nice listing of useful online sites that can help you with grammar and Punctuation.
- Grade Proof GradeProof will help you edit your essay and come up with suggestions on how to fix any problems. It will also check for plagiarism and will help you fix it.
- Shakespeare Pro Shakespeare Pro offers all of Shakespeare’s works complete with scene breakdowns and 20 short versions of Shakespeare’s plays for younger audiences. A great feature is that by tapping on a word it will display the definition in context.
- Camscanner By taking a photo of the page, this app will convert it to a searchable file you can edit. Perfect if you need a scanner on the go.
- Memrise This free app makes learning a language a whole lot easier.
- Student's Grammar Resource Guide Thanks to a friendly referral from Elizabeth Crowley and one of her "superstar" students, Mia, I'm happy to tell you about a selection of activities, games and other grammar resources offered by Maryville University.
- Purdue's Online Writing Lab Again, thanks to a friendly referral from Elizabeth Crowley, I'm happy to tell you about the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University that houses writing resources and instructional material.