Tools to Engage Young Learners

Bingo Baker makes it easy to create bingo cards. You can generate hundreds of random cards and print them using the printer-friendly PDF (with no ads or watermarks). You can also save paper (and waste electricity instead) by playing your bingo game online (it works on the iPad).

($14.95 for a lifetime membership)

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EdPuzzle allows you to add your voice and questions to educational videos. On EdPuzzle you can search for educational videos from Khan Academy, Learn Zillion, YouTube and more. Once you've found a video, you can insert your own voice comments and/or create a series of questions to go along with your chosen video. Questions are inserted along a timeline that matches the video. Your students don't have to wait until the end of a video in order to answer the questions. They can answer questions while fresh in their minds. The data is collected on the site so you can see when a student watched the video and the progress of all students answers.

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Have you ever begun to show a YouTube video to your class, only to be shocked at the inappropriate ads appearing on your screen? With View Pure, you don't have to worry about that. Simply type in the URL to your video into View Pure and the clutter and potential inappropriate content is gone.

PRESENTATIONS THAT INSPIRE

Meet Haiku Deck, a completely new kind of presentation software. We make telling your story simple, beautiful, and fun.

Haiku Deck is a free presentation tool that focuses on a simple idea utilizing images and a small amount of text. Remember the saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words"? Haiku Deck is the perfect tool to tell a powerful story with amazing images.

76 Examples of Using Haiku Deck in School

Presentation Ideas

10 Ways to Use Haiku Deck In Education

Tired of PowerPoint? Try Haiku Deck!
Haiku Examples

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Meet Nearpod, an all-in-one solution for the use of mobile devices in education. Easily create interactive multimedia presentations to engage your audience.

Open www.nearpod.com.

Share information in an engaging way

Keeps students on task

End-of-lesson reports to help you monitor progress and plan future instruction

Students can create their own presentations to share with the class

Click Join Session button.
Type in the Pin Number the teacher gives you.
Wait for the teacher to begin.

Nearpod also has an App for most devices!

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Kahoot.it is a fun online game that allows you to search or make your own online quizzes. Are you ready to have some fun?

Teacher:

• Open https://getkahoot.com/
• Create a new Kahoot or search for a public one..

Players:

• Open kahoot.it on your device or laptop
• Enter the Pin number projected on the screen and click Enter.
  
• Type in your name and click Join Game.
  
• Wait for the teacher to begin the game.

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Quizizz is a fun new way to conduct multiplayer review sessions in the classroom. It allows you to conduct live quizzes where all your students participate together. The fun graphics and leaderboards get students super-excited. You can also get 2 separate classes to play together... which is very fun! Choose from among the public quizzes, or create your own, there are 100s of quizzes for math, science, languages and several other topics.

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QR Codes are a great way to get students up and moving and while you're at it, you can assess their learning too!

QR Code Creators

• QR Monkey
  
• QR Stuff
  
• QR Voice

QR Code Activities

• Ideas & Templates
• Peggy Reimer's Premade Templates
  
• Kathy Schrock's Guide to QR Codes
  
• Angie Bakke's Cut n Paste Template
  
• QR Code Scavenger Hunt Creation Tool

InstaGrok is a visual search engine that collects accurate educational content and displays it in a concept map/word cloud. From there, students can find videos, images, weblinks and text. Students can use the slider tool in the top, left corner to access information by reading difficulty.

Making Great Research Assignments

Top 5 EdTech Tips: instaGrok

Kiddle is a visual search engine for kids. Searches the web, images, news and videos.

It's the Google Search Engine for kids where safe search is always on. It also includes lots of tips and advice for cyber safety. Access Safe Search here.

Blabberize - Upload a picture, create a line on a mouth on the photo and then record your voice to make your character speak.

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Chatterpix - Make your photos, friends, pets or drawings talk. Take a photo, draw a line to make a mouth and record your voice and then share with your friends and family. Very creative way for students to introduce themselves. (App)

PhotoSpeak - Works like Chatterpix. (App)

Share your sounds and hear what is happening on the internet!
Convey thoughts and expressions on the go via your voice with just one tap. Whether its a song you are humming, a poem you wrote , a story you want to tell or just your views on the weather, Croak.it! is the easy way to get your voice out there and be heard by the world.
Discover, create and collect 30 second audio snippets ("Croaks") from around the world and follow the people you want to stay updated about. Download the app here.

Shadow PuppetEDU is a free IOS app that allows the user to easily create videos to explain an idea, tell a story and document learning.
To create an ABC Book:

1. Each student is assigned a letter of the alphabet to illustrate. They must write the letter and draw a picture of something that begins with that letter.
2. After students have completed their illustration, the teacher takes a picture of each drawing.
3. The teacher then has each student record the name of their letter and what begins with that letter. Example: "A is for alligator".
4. You will want to create a beginning an ending slide for your book, such as a class picture or a sign that says Mrs. Smith's Class Alphabet Book.
5. When the book has been recorded, you have several sharing options to choose from within the ShadowPuppetEDU app.

Click on the "ideas" icon within the Shadow PuppetEDU app for integration ideas. Here are a few of our favorites:

1. Sequencing - Tell about a process or event by using transition words (e.g., schedule for the day, timeline of historical events, etc).
2. Summarizing - Take a picture of the book cover. Students record a summary of the book.
3. Reading fluency - Students record themselves reading the text.
4. Creative storytelling - Students work together to develop a story, take photos, and record a narrative.
5. Self-published authors - Students write, illustrate, and record original stories, poems, or ABC books.
6. Readers theater - Student draw pictures to match their assigned part of the story. Order the pictures and have students record their lines.
7. About Me presentations - Makes for a fun beginning of the year activity.
8. Show and tell - Students share interesting things related to the curriculum being studied.
9. How-to tutorials - Create step by step directions for how to achieve a desired outcome (e.g., how to make cookies).
10. Community & culture - Create slideshows of community workers or leaders, holidays around the world, or cultures and customs.
11. Math word problems - Students create word problems such as, "In this photo there are 3 red blocks and 2 green blocks. The total number of blocks is 5 because 3 plus 2 equals 5."

Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.

Tellagami (free and in-app purchase) - Create and share quick animated videos called Gamis.

Create and collaborate on an online sticky board with Padlet. Easily get student ideas and thoughts in one beautiful visual. Web based or app. Download the app here.

Twenty ways to use Padlet now

Easily create a photo collage complete with text, stickers videos and more. Lots of fonts and cutouts to choose from. Download the app here.

Create mind maps with pictures and text. Find pictures online, take your own, or draw them. Download the app here.

Videolicious is an app that makes it very simple to create videos from the pictures on your device.

Doceri turns your iPad into an interactive whiteboard and screencast recorder. Lots of tools for hand drawn graphics and a built in remote desktop control. Great for flipped classrooms or for students to show what they know.

ScreenChomp is a great way to have your students use the iPad to analyze and annotate over pictures or use it as a whiteboard. You can record the work done within the app and have it save automatically to the internet. Check it out!

What is augmented reality? Movies have given us a sense of “alternative reality” for years. Augmented reality makes something come to life! It seems like magic.

Below you will find some amazing ones.

AR Flashcards

AR Flashcards (free) - Animal/Alphabet Flashcards

1. Download and print in color the Alphabet Flashcard from arflashcards.com

2. Download the AR Flashcards App from the Apple or Google Play store.

3. Open the AR flashcards App and press Get Started.

4. Hover you device over a flashcard. Make sure your sound is turned on. Touch the image when it appears and and you will hear the name of the animal and the letter it begins with.

Ideas for using AR Flashcards from Karen's Technology Locker:

-shuffle the flashcard and have students alphabetize them

-shuffle the cards, lay a limited number out, have students build beginning or ending sounds

-shuffle the cards, lay them out and have students spell their name (you may need two decks of cards)

-print two sets of cards and play memory

-identify the number of syllables in each animal word that is on the flashcard

AR Flashcards - Shapes and Colors ($2.99)

1. Download and print in color the Shapes and Colors Flashcards from arflashcards.com.
2. Download the AR Shapes and Colors App from the Apple or Google Play store.
3. Open the AR Shapes and Colors App and press Get Started.
4. Hover your device over a flashcard. Make sure you touch the image when it appears.

AR Flashcards - Space ($2.99)

1. Download and print in color the Space Flashcards fromarflashcards.com.
2. Download the AR Space App from the Apple or Google Play store.
3. Open the AR Space App and press Get Started.
4. Hover your device over a flashcard. Make sure you touch the image when it appears.

Quiver Vision (Formerly ColarMix)

Quiver Vision (formerly Colar Mix) - The Dot

1. Download and print the Dot coloring pages from quivervision.com.
   
2. Download the Quiver Vision App from their website.
   
3. Have students color a picture related to your curriculum inside the Dot. Be careful not to color over the black outlines too much.
   
4. Have the Students write a creative story based on their picture.
   
5. Open the Quiver Vision app and watch your picture come to life! Touch the purple circle to see more image.

Quiver Vision (formerly Colar Mix) - Creative Writing

1. Download and print any of the coloring pages from the quivervision.com. Some of the sets of pages require you to make an in-app purchase.
2. Download the Quiver App from the Apple or Google Play store.
3. Have students color one of the pages. Be careful not to color over the black outlines too much.
4. Have the students write a creative story based on their pictures.
   
5. Open the Quiver app and watch your picture come to life!

Examples:

• Tennis shoe - "When my tennis shoes came to life..."
• Hot air balloon - "My hot air balloon took me to..."

Earth

Earth by Quiver Vision (formerly ColAR Mix) - Check out one of the newest coloring pages by Quiver Vision.

Volcano

Volcano by Quiver Vision (formerly ColAR Mix) - Check out one of the newest coloring pages by Quiver Vision.

Design a Flag

Design Your Own Flag by Quiver Vision (formerly ColAR Mix) - Check out one of the newest coloring pages by Quiver Vision and allow your students to create a flag.

More AR Fun

Color Alive by Crayola (free, in-app purchases & book purchase) - These coloring pages will entertain and enchant youngsters as well as the oldsters! You'll love the selfie feature! You can purchase pages within the app or buy the coloring books from Toys R Us, Walgreens, Michaels, JoAnn Fabrics or Amazon. The coloring books (Enchanted Forest, Barbie, Mythical Creatures, Skylanders and Minions) come with 7 crayons including a special color. When the special color is used on the page and then scanned with the app, effects like ice blasts, fire and pixy dust appear.
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore - An interactive narrative experience. The app is $4.99 and can be downloaded here. The book can be purchased from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Amazing Space Journey

Explore the Solar System via the Amazing Space Journey app. Download the board here.

Disneynature Explore

Explore 5 different 3D animal adventures -- Brown Bear, Monarch Butterfly, Chimpanzee, African Lion and Loggerhead Sea Turtle. There are 4 activities for each of the animals. Download the app here.
This app does not use a trigger image.

Squiggle Fish ($2.99)

Use a thick black pen/marker and draw a fish on a piece of white paper. Color the fish in with any color(s) you want.

When you're happy with your fish, open the Squiggle Fish app and swipe down. Hold the iPad over your drawing. Watch as it magically comes to life!

Makes a great class pet! Download the app here.

Book Creator for iPad - Create ebooks on your iPad that you can easily share with other.
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4 Compelling Ideas for Using Book Creator in the Classroom

Math Riddles

Create Your Word Wall or Flashcards

School Express contains an online tool that allows you to take the weekly spelling words or vocabulary words and easily create your Word Wall cards or Flashcards.
Once words are typed into the site, you have the following options:

• Print 2, 3 or 4 words per page
• Black or light grey text color
• Comic Sans or Sans Serif font

Read Write Think Student Interactives

The Read Write Think website includes over 50 student interactives to be used on computers. Many of the interactives are also available as apps.
Student Interactives - online literacy learning tools

Cube Creator - helps students to learn the skill of summarizing

Trading Cards - App or Trading Cards - Web - create trading cards for any number of categories
Timeline - create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line

VocabularySpellingCity is an award-winning site with ongoing introduction of new features, many based on input from existing users. The site and app include efficient game-based study of literacy skills using any word list.

Thinglink makes pictures interactive with text, images, videos and links and will work on any device. (WEB and APP)

Keyboarding Activities

Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Virtual Manipulatives for the iPad

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.

Animoto for Education is one of the original sites that allow you to create videos from your photos, videos and audio files. Your students will find many creative ways to use this program! Make sure you go to Animoto education because teachers don’t have to pay to use Animoto! (WEB or APP)
Vocabulary
Meet Mr. Clark
Civil Rights Examples

Blog Post & Video Example - Physics

Vocaroo allows you to create voice recordings and send them through email. No need to install any software! (Online)

Adobe Voice lets students record their voice, import pictures and write text to create a short video. Videos can be shared publicly or privately. (APP)
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Google Slides is one of the collaborative tools available from Google. Students can create online, collaborative presentations and collaborate with other people in real time.

eMaze - A nice site that is a cross between Prezi and PP that allows users to zoom around their presentation. Best of all, a finished presentation can be embedded into a site.

Mixbook EDU - Students can create customizable photo books for free. Parents can view the photo books and can even purchase a hardback copy. (WEB)
Ordering Food in Spanish for Dummies
World War I
Famous Americans
Geometry Scrapbook

Science4Us is an interactive standards-based science curriculum that provides foundational skills for K-2nd grade students.

Virtual Tours - Take your class around the world. See the Louvre. Tour the Titanic. Ideas for using Virtual Field Trips here.

Free brain breaks that help channel classroom energy for good. GoNoodle helps teachers channel classroom energy with short interactive brain breaks that engage and motivate kids throughout the day.

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Drawing Desk (free)

Alien Assignment (free)

Sock Puppets Complete ($3.99)

Endless Alphabet ($6.99)

Endless Numbers (free)

Endless Reader (free)

Who Lives in the Forest? ($1.99)

Apps Gone Free (free)

Apps by Duck Duck Moose

NCTE (2004) tells us "In early writing, we can expect lots of talk to surround writing, since what children are doing is figuring out how to get speech onto paper. Early teaching in composition should also attend to helping children get used to producing language orally, through telling stories, explaining how things work, predicting what will happen, and guessing about why things and people are the way they are." Through the use of various apps that allow students to draw and/or label, young children can begin the writing process by responding to various read-aloud texts. Read-Write-Think has two activities that can easily be adapted for drawing apps:

• Literature response templates for Jan Brett books
  
• Sample Prompts for Literature Response in Primary Classrooms

Writing Study Group of the NCTE Executive Committee. 2004. Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing February, 2016. Web.http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/teaching-writing

1. Press Command-Shift-4 at the same time.
2. Move the crosshair pointer to where you want to start the screenshot.
3. Drag to select the desired area.
4. When you've selected the area you want, release your mouse or trackpad button.
5. Your screenshot is now a .png file on your desktop.

NOTE: Follow the above steps by adding the Command Key to the combination and your image will be copied to your Clipboard.

Some resources on this page were provided by Janet Corder and Joan Gore. For more information, check out their Tech Tools for Early Learners.

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