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Electric Circuits is an interactive site that shows how electric circuits are used in common items. Students create circuits by dragging and dropping objects on the screen. Then they answer a series of three questions. Electric Circuits provides a safe, hands-on way for students to experiment with electric circuits.
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World Geography Games is an interactive site for learning the names and locations of countries, capitals, regions, land formations, etc. The interface is intuitive and students get instant feedback on their answers.
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The Chemistry of Cookies is a TED-Ed video that shows the chemical reactions that take place when cookies are made. It also talks about salmonella and why we shouldn’t eat raw cookie dough.
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Boolify is a visual search engine that I found out about from Kristen Novotny. The site is designed to help students learn Boolean searching through a drag-and-drop, visual interface. To use Boolify, start by dragging the green Word or Phrase rectangle into the workspace and enter a search topic. Then drag the other rectangles as […]
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Rewordify is a free website that helps users read difficult passages. To use Rewordify, the user just copies and pastes the passage into the box on the Rewordify website, then clicks on the Rewordify text button. What appears on the screen is the same passage with simpler words. The easiest way to see how this […]
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Phase.it is a very user-friendly site that allows you to upload a photo and speech bubbles to it. The site does not require a login and you can save and download the picture when it’s done. Phase.it also offers you the option to choose a random photo rather than upload an image. The best part […]
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Gooru is a website that I learned about from Deyana Matt. It calls itself a website for learning and is a great place for teachers and students in middle or high school to go to find quality resources related to a variety of topics. At the time of this posting, Gooru’s resource collections center on […]
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Lino is a site that allows you to create and share sticky notes. A (free) registration is required to create a board, but once a board is made sticky notes can be added to it by users without an account, making it a great tool to use with a class. Sticky notes can be customized […]
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Big Huge Labs is a site that I found out about from Mariela Siegert. It provides a number of free tools that can be used with images to create posters, magazine covers, trading cards, jigsaw puzzles and much more. The tools are very easy to use and no registration or login is required to create […]
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Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice is a TED video that was recommended to me by Mark Stamatakos. In this video, Schwartz talks about how the over-growing number of choices that we have can make us feel paralyzed when making decisions. While we all like to have many options available to us, we sometimes feel […]
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