Google Applied Digital Skills is Google’s platform for teaching students practical computer and technology skills. The curriculum uses a series of videos to guide learners through creating a project from scratch. This means that learners who complete a lesson leave with a useful project, such as a resume, a college planning sheet, or an interactive story.
Quizizz is a multipurpose platform where students can practice with terms and concepts, take formative assessments, or do end of unit summative tests. The massive library in Quizizz features thousands of pre-made quizzes, all of which can be edited to meet the teacher’s specific needs. Then, the teacher can lead a live quiz game with students, assign a quiz game as homework, or have students take the quiz as a formal test.
Quizlet is a terrific platform for students to study and practice with the materials they are learning about. In the free version of Quizlet, the Study Sets are the most useful feature. They are simply online flashcards, but teachers can take advantage of sets that have already been made by others! Once the teacher finds or creates a Study Set, they can host a live in-class study game, or students can study by themselves with several practice games.
Formative (formerly called GO Formative) features thousands of teacher-created formative and summative assessments. On this platform, teachers can search for assessments by grade level, subject, and standard. Most Formatives even auto-grade! Teachers can also take advantage of the user-friendly assessment creator and publish their own activities for other teachers to use. Students can get to their assignments in Google Classroom and complete their work on the Formative website.
Nearpod is a web platform that allows educators to teach students in several ways – including interactive slideshows, interactive videos, and other activities. Teachers can take exiting PowerPoints or Google Slides and make them interactive, or explore Nearpod’s massive library or quality, pre-made lessons and activities. Teachers can have students join a live Nearpod session or have students complete activities at their own pace.
Pennsbury Schools in Pennsylvania put together an excellent website with over 3,000 OER resources! You can search and filter by grade level, subject area, and even the type of tool used – i.e. Google Docs, Jamboard, Canva, Pear Deck, etc.!
National Geographic has a long history of providing teachers with excellent learning resources. Today, teachers can explore their resource library, their library of interactive maps, and teachers can even make their own interactive maps! The resource library has thousands of lessons, activities, articles, and more – all of which can be shared directly to Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams.
This website has thousands of pre-made lesson plans with a search function including a filter by grade level, subject, and focus areas like SEL, PBL, and ESL. Each lesson plan comes with meticulous detail, including objectives, reasoning, and other tips for the teacher. It also has some terrific articles and PD about different instructional strategies and best practices for teachers
Our friends across the pond at the BBC have a great website with hundreds of educational videos and activities! Browse through dozens of categories to find engaging videos, many of which come with teacher guides and accompanying worksheets.
Search hundreds of thousands of lesson plans, activities, and more, all created by other educators. Just like Teachers Pay Teachers, some resources are free and some are paid, but you can filter results by price.
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