Common Sense Education's Back-to-School List

Common Sense Education recently published their new Essential Back-to-School Tools for Teachers. There might be something useful to you!

Non-Googleable Questions

Students Googling answers is a world-wide issue. Take a look at this publication from Government of South Africa’s Department for Education and Child Development on creating non-Googleable questions. Take a look through the whole thing. There's some good stuff in there! 

The 10 Best EdTech Blogs for Teachers to Follow

If you're looking for more EdTech related ideas, I highly recommend you check out this list of The 10 Best EdTech Blogs for Teachers to Follow. There are a lot of good suggestions on the list!

Educational YouTube Channels

I recently ran across this list of educational YouTube channels. Take a look and see if any are a good fit for your class! If so, they're the perfect thing to add to the "Course Resources" in the top left block of your Learning Hub course. See Penney Matos for help!

Free Resources from the National Archives and the Library of Congress

  

Check out these awesome FREE resources:

• 7 FREE Mobile & Web Apps from the National Archives 
• 5 FREE Teacher Tools from the Library of Congress

Grammarflip

Teachers can register on GrammarFlip for free and create online classrooms in which they can track their students’ progress on the lessons they have completed.  The concise tutorials are designed to engage students and grab their attention while allowing pause and playback at any time.  Students are awarded virtual badges when they successfully reach certain milestones to build confidence and provide encouragement.  GrammarFlip can be used with any computer, tablet or mobile device connected to the Internet.

Learn more by visiting GrammarFlip’s website!

Google Classroom: Share from Gale

Any resources found through Gale (access through MackinVia) can be shared directly with your students through Google Classroom.

Instructions for adding a Gale item to the Google Classroom linked here.

Instructions for downloading a Gale article (with notes and highlights) to Google Drive linked here.

Video tutorial on using Gale with Google Classroom linked here.

Video tutorial on adding Gale resources to Google Drive linked here.

A Teacher's Guide to Wikipedia

Often teachers ban students from using Wikipedia which may not be the best practice. Take a look at Edudemic's article, A Teacher's Guide to Wikipedia. It discusses pros and cons, situations when using Wikipedia is helpful, and more. 

Math Video Resources

This year our math department has new curriculum. These videos do not match the new curriculum's way of teaching concepts but they may be helpful for struggling students. Feel free to use and share these!

WOWmath.org’s Playlists covers Algebra II, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus AB Practice Problems

The New Boston: Geometry & Algebra

Math Doctor Bob covers Algebra I & II, Calculus, Statistics, Geometry and more

Patrick JMT

Numberphile fun math facts

YayMath includes Algebra I & II, Geometry, Statistics