Homework help
- StudDocu is a student-to-student knowledge exchange platform where students can share knowledge, college notes, and study guides.
- Heimlers History is a YouTube channel that offers fun, short videos to master AP History.
- Crash Course is a YouTube channel that offers fun mini-courses for kids on history, science, literature, film, sociology, psychology, and more.
- Minute Physics is a YouTube channel that offers quick, simple lessons with fun hand-drawn images.
- Quizlet allows students to browse through and use millions of flashcards created by other students and teachers or make their own. There are numerous study options, and 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 is a free, colorful study tool that works on any device: web browser, iOS, Android, or Chrome apps. Students can access hundreds of ready-made learning quizzes or create their 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 quizzes public or private.
- Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that provides 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.
- Wordtune is a Chrome app that helps you translate your ideas into writing by presenting novel ways to rewrite your sentences. In addition, it helps to correct grammar and define the best tone, word choice, and flow.
- QuillBot is a Chrome app that assists with paraphrasing, summarizing, and grammar.
- Brainly allows students to 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 is a service that has its own engine, and instead of searching the internet for answers, it 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 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 is another nonprofit organization that offers recorded books for students with learning disabilities.
- Project Gutenberg is a website that 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 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 several add-ons that provide services such as a thesaurus and bibliography maker.
- Google Calendar offers a free calendar that can be used on your computer, iPad, or even your phone. Color-code your classes and even get it to send you reminders.
- Ted-Ed 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.
- EasyBib is a website that provides citations, note-taking, and research tools that are easy to use.
- Seterra Geography Games is the 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 offers some great interactive activities and games to help students learn maps, as well as math and language arts skills.
- Shakespeare Online offers all of Shakespeare's work, and it also offers famous quotes and translations.
- Bozeman Science This science teacher, Paul Anderson, offers wonderful multisensory videos in the areas of biology, chemistry, earth science, anatomy, physiology, statistics, physics, and more. His videos are free 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
- 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.
- 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, and create citations in their browser.
- Rewordify is a free site that 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 has evaluated and approved. They use sites such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS, and university websites.
- 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.
- The Student's Guide to Grammar and Punctuation offers a nice listing of useful online sites that can help you with grammar and Punctuation.
- 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.
- 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.
- Storyline Online This site offers videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books as well as creatively produced illustrations.
- MyHomework app This is a great, alternative homework-recording tool for those who use a variety of operating systems, and it quickly syncs across devices for recording, organizing, and accessing assignments. They have a free account that is quite good, but for a minimal cost a year students can access upgraded features.