Teacher Resources for Distance Learning
Distance Learning involves planned online or teacher-prepared lessons that students complete when away from the physical school building. Education can continue even when students and teachers are not in the same location. Below are resources to help facilitate the continued education of our student at a distance.
Professional Development
Transitioning to Distance Learning (Webx PD to learn how to transition from face to face to distance learning.)
Resources
Planning and Delivering Instruction
ClassDojo (tool for parent communication, sharing information, and portfolios provide a platform for teachers to assign and students to complete and submit work online)
Discovery Education (contact Mary Shaddrick for login info to access videos)
Educreations (An app that transforms your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. It records your voice, handwriting and also allows you to insert pictures to produce your own personal video lessons that you and your students can share online)
Freckle (practice website (and app) for grades K–12 that addresses standards-based skills and concepts in core subject areas)
Khan Academy - remote learning resources
Nearpod (Contact Mary Swanson for access)
Assessment and Feedback
Voice Tools:
Age of Learning (ABCMouse, Adventure Academy, ReadingIQ)
Vocaroo.com - simple voice recording, no account required
Voicethread.com (requires paid subscription)
Quiz/Exit Ticket:
MobyMax – Free until June 30th
Padlet - bulletin board style
Quizizz - create your own quizzes or find one
Video:
Edulastic (online k-12 assessment tool where teachers make their own assessments and assignments or choose from over 35,000 pre-made assessments. Get immediate feedback, can provide feedback to students, and can tie questions to learning standards)
SEL
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ELs and Technology (more secondary, but principles are similar for elementary)
Language
NewsELA (leveled news text)
Quill (free grammar and writing activities)
Shortcut (Make 30 sec. Clips from This American Life podcasts)
Unite for Literacy (online books read in multiple languages)
Other
ALBERT (FREE -Albert.io has resources for both middle and high school, through AP level)
Breakout Edu (K-12 lessons in all content areas – students can click and play)
Center for Interactive Learning (free of charge, interactive, live-streamed programs from 9:30am to 3:30pm Eastern time. The programs are delivered by our highly professional content providers)
Edmodo (FREE -Quizzes, Formative Assessments, SEL, Virtual Field Trips)
EdPuzzle (Platform to make any video your lesson. Already created lessons w/ Formative Assessment)platform where you can make any video your lesson. With just one click, you can find video lessons created by other teachers, including formative assessment! Another click and you can adapt that video by embedding your own questions or audio. With the final click, assign it to your students and get beautiful hassle-free analyticsplatform where you can make any video your lesson. With just one click, you can find video lessons created by other teachers, including formative assessment! Another click and you can adapt that video by embedding your own questions or audio. With the final click, assign it to your students and get beautiful hassle-free analyticsplatform where you can make any video your lesson. With just one click, you can find video lessons created by other teachers, including formative assessment! Another click and you can adapt that video by embedding your own questions or audio. With the final click, assign it to your students and get beautiful hassle-free analyticsplatform where you can make any video your lesson. With just one click, you can find video lessons created by other teachers, including formative assessment! Another click and you can adapt that video by embedding your own questions or audio. With the final click, assign it to your students and get beautiful hassle-free analyticsplatform where you can make any video your lesson. With just one click, you can find video lessons created by other teachers, including formative assessment! Another click and you can adapt that video by embedding your own questions or audio. With the final click, assign it to your students and get beautiful hassle-free analytics
Education.microsoft.com (For info on our suite apps. Login and pass same as O365)
Free Tech 4 Teachers (online directory for free resources for teachers)
Gamilab (platform where anyone can find or create their own simple learning games)
Google Voice (Alternative way to contact students if teachers don't wan to give out their personal number)
HippoCampus (Explore over 7,000 free videos in 13 subject areas)
Izzit.org (FREE, high-quality educational materials to educators: teachers)
Kids Discover Online (library of science and social studies material on any device. Username: isd750rocori
Password: isd750rocori)
Minecraft: Education Edition (A game-based learning platform that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive digital environment)
PebbleGo by Capstone (K-3 curricular content hub packed with informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities, it boosts engagement and fosters independent learning in core subject areas)
Reading Tip Sheets by grade level in 13 languages
Content Specific
ELA and Online Books
Junior Library Guild (Free online access to Junior Library Guild books. No login, no account needed when accessed by computer. All age levels.)
NY Public Library (300,000 ebooks free)
Turnitin.com - Quick Start Guide
Math
DeltaMath (online Math for grades 6-12. Free)
Free Math (allows collecting digital assignments from students and enables quick grading by grouping similar student work on each question. It isn't limited to a specific bank of questions and all of the work done by students is completely freeform, so it can work for a broad range of classes)
Music
SmartMusic (practice and assessment support)
Science
Alchemie (Alchemie makes chemistry learning resources)
American Chemistry Society (The American Chemical Society has ChemMatters magazines, targeted for high schoolers, available online. In addition to chemistry, there are article that are biographies of chemists, and historical articles.)
Backpack Sciences (This is a free video series on how to teach science without the overwhelm)
The Science Mom (Elementary….Youtube videos of different science experiments)
Social Studies
Google Expeditions (Take virtual tours around the world. Tour notes are built in)
Special Education
Boardmaker (Boardmaker is a collection of standardized picture symbols used for communication with students who are strong visual learners)
Practical Money Skills (Educators can customize lesson plans)
Teachervision (Pre-made K-12 lesson plans)