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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 Department

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)

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UEN’s Student Resources

UEN’s Homework Help

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

UEN Teacher Toolbox

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

SchoolAi  – If you are interested in AI. This could be a great activity with students. The can interact with people from history or about any content subject. The Ai asks thought provoking questions for students to respond to.  

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 

National Museum of American History – Smithsonian History Explorer, Access to Collections & Exhibitions.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE – PBS Films, Videos and resources.  

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. 

Carnegie Hall – Carnegie Hall provides free digital resources for teacher, students and parents.

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 


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