Digital Resources
STAR360 Testing Website
Renaissance website – Testing website Renaissance – ID RP-17579247
General Digital Resources
Google Arts & Culture – Lots of activities.
Granite’s EdTech’s Digital Learning Resources
Digital Citizenship Brochure and Poster
Inventors and Inventions – Book List
Lynda.com – Learning Resources – Available free through the Salt Lake County Library System – This link has instructions from Ed Tech as to how to access the resources of Lynda.com
OverDrive – Granite’s Digital Library
CACTUS – Comprehensive Administration of Credentials for Teachers in Utah Schools
Utah’s Online Library (Formerly Pioneer Online)
WELCOME TO APPLIED DIGITAL SKILLS – Teach and learn practical digital skills. Teach and learn practical digital skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow with our video lessons that are free of charge
Will Robots take my job? – You can find if automation will take a job in the future. Growth in the profession, wages, resources and local job opportunities.
Profile of a life long learner – Activities dealing with Empowered Workers, Lifelong Learning, Solution Seeker, Mindful Colleague, and Digital Citizenship. Example of activities: Empowered Worker works at the bakery and makes choice that affect his future work opportunities.
Teacher Tools
Padlet – Teacher and student collaboration tool
Symbaloo – A place to manage, organize and share favorite websites and online resources
YouTube– Search for videos by subject area
Smart Learning Suite – Create short and engaging activities for review or skills maintenance in under 5 minutes need to log in to Lumio
Mindfulness – Provides information on mindfulness, how to practice it and how it can help with mental health problems
Greater Good in Action – Science-based practices for a meaningful life
ChatGPT examples to use artificial intelligence in Education.
Canva – Creative tool uses google account.
AI in Education: What Educators Need to Know – Articles and resources about AI
Lynx – Interactive activates need to make an account to use.
Hipster Google Resources – Search tools, creative tools, map tools and creative tools.
Product Creation Tools
Thinglink – Create interactive projects
Quizziz – Create free self-paced quizzes that can provide review, assessment, and are engaging
Piktochart – Easy-to-use presentation and design maker
Lucid Chart – Create diagrams with Lucid Chart
Tes Blendspace – Create digital interactive lessons, projects, presentations and more
Jeopardy Labs – Create online Jeopardy-like games around any curriculum
Curriculum Resources
Applies to All Curricular Areas
Nearpod – Whole class or individual student lessons. Access to District and YESS library.
engageny – Ideas for meeting the core standards
New York Times – The Learning Network – Activities for students and lesson plans for teachers
CNN’s Daily 10 – A 10-minute summary of news and events designed for students and classroom teachers
Interactive Sites for Education – Interactive, educational games, and simulations
StudyLib – Study documents and flashcards
Trivia Plaza – Trivia games associated with different subject areas
Bookcreator – Teacher/students create books and can publish them.
Financial Literacy
teachbanzai – Free online financial literacy resource
Language Arts
Every-Day Edits – Great for building language arts skills with a daily editing activity
CommonLit – Free reading passages and tools for literature
Storybird – A website to jumpstart writing with prompts, challenges, and artwork
Readworks – 1,000s of stories and articles from 300 to 2,000 words and K-12 skill levels with comprehension questions included
myShakespeare – “Very hip approach to Bill’s best” (Sandy)
Quill – Grammar and writing tools and resources
Owlcation – Short stories for middle and high school students
Poetry Foundation – Poetry and writing resources
Vocab Test – Create your own vocabulary tests
Verse by Verse – An experimental AI-powered muse that helps you compose poetry inspired by classic American poets.
Semantris – Word association and typing activities
Math
Khan Academy – Khan Academy is best known for its math tutorials, but has expanded to include other curricular areas
Desmos – A website with resources for teaching math
PHET – Interactive Science and Math simulations
RoboBlocky – Learning Math with Coding and Robotics
Science
ScienceNewsforStudents – An award-winning online site that provides age-appropriate science news for students, teachers and parents
Learn Genetics – Genetics, Evolution, Human Health, Cell Biology, Plants, Neuroscience, Ecology, and Science Tools
Joel Sartore Photo Ark – Animal photographs
Kids Geology – Geology website resources for kids
Explore – Live animal webcams
A Science Teacher’s Website – Contains numerous links to science resources
PHET – Interactive Science and Math simulations
International wolf Center – Resources from the International Wolf Center
Google Science News – This brings up news related specifically to science
Science and Engineering Videos – Mark Rober has a YouTube channel with science and engineering videos
AIClub – Free AI resources for Educators
MySciLife – Welcome to MySciLife, a free, educational social media platform that enables enriched learning and engagement for middle-level science students! Students use MySciLife to collaborate, connect, and think critically as they create and respond to posts in a safe digital environment.
Social Studies
iCivics – An engaging set of resources to teach the importance of civics, founded by former supreme court justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Maps – This website has maps that you can add tables to and change the type of map depending on what you are looking for.
Annenberg Classroom – Explore: Constitution Guide, Supreme Court Cases, browse by topic, Explore media, and Civics websites.
White House Kids – Explore resources and activities for the White House.
The U.S. Constitution Center – Interactive Constitution
ART & Music
Quick Draw – Can a neural network learn to recognize doodling?Help teach it by adding your drawings to the world’s largest doodling data set, shared publicly to help with machine learning research.
Google Art Palette – Analyze pictures using color palettes.
AutoDraw – Gives you a blank paper you can draw and AI gives you options to pick from to draw your picture or draw your self.
MusicLM – Generating music from text
Semi Conductor – You can conduct the orchestra.
Technology How-To’s and Hints –
Video Tutorials
Change the Default Browser
Using Emojis in Microsoft Office Products
Nearpod Resubmit Answers Feature
Accessing Your Granitesd Google Account
Backing-up Your Outlook E-mail