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Digital Resources<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

STAR360 Testing Website<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Renaissance website<\/a> – Testing website Renaissance – ID RP-17579247<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General Digital Resources<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Google Arts & Culture<\/a> – Lots of activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Granite’s EdTech Department<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Granite’s EdTech’s Digital Learning Resources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Citizenship Resources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inventors and Inventions – Book List<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OverDrive<\/a> – Granite’s Digital Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CACTUS<\/a> – Comprehensive Administration of Credentials for Teachers in Utah Schools<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Utah’s Online Library<\/a> (Formerly Pioneer Online)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

emedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UEN’s Student Resources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UEN’s Homework Help<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WELCOME TO APPLIED DIGITAL SKILLS<\/a> – 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Robots take my job?<\/a> – You can find if automation will take a job in the future. Growth in the profession, wages, resources and local job opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Profile of a life long learner<\/a> – 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teacher Tools<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Padlet <\/a>– Teacher and student collaboration tool<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symbaloo<\/a> – A place to manage, organize and share favorite websites and online resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UEN Teacher Toolbox<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouTube<\/a>– Search for videos by subject area<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smart Learning Suite<\/a> – Create short and engaging activities for review or skills maintenance in under 5 minutes need to log in to Lumio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mindfulness<\/a> – Provides information on mindfulness, how to practice it and how it can help with mental health problems<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greater Good in Action<\/a> – Science-based practices for a meaningful life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ChatGPT<\/a> examples to use artificial intelligence in Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canva<\/a> – Creative tool uses google account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI in Education: What Educators Need to Know (Google Document)<\/a> – Articles and resources about AI<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynx<\/a> – Interactive activates need to make an account to use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hipster Google Resources (Google Document)<\/a> – Search tools, creative tools, map tools and creative tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Product Creation Tools<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thinglink<\/a> – Create interactive projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quizziz<\/a> – Create free self-paced quizzes that can provide review, assessment, and are engaging<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piktochart<\/a> – Easy-to-use presentation and design maker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucid Chart<\/a> – Create diagrams with Lucid Chart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tes Blendspace<\/a> – Create digital interactive lessons, projects, presentations and more<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeopardy Labs<\/a> – Create online Jeopardy-like games around any curriculum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curriculum Resources<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Applies to All Curricular Areas<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

SchoolAi<\/a>  – 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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearpod<\/a> – Whole class or individual student lessons. Access to District and YESS library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

engageny<\/a> – Ideas for meeting the core standards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times – The Learning Network<\/a> – Activities for students and lesson plans for teachers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN’s Daily<\/a> 10 – A 10-minute summary of news and events designed for students and classroom teachers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interactive Sites for Education<\/a> – Interactive, educational games, and simulations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

StudyLib<\/a> – Study documents and flashcards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trivia Plaza<\/a> – Trivia games associated with different subject areas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bookcreator<\/a> – Teacher\/students create books and can publish them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financial Literacy<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

teachbanzai<\/a> – Free online financial literacy resource<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language Arts<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Every-Day Edits<\/a> – Great for building language arts skills with a daily editing activity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CommonLit<\/a> – Free reading passages and tools for literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storybird<\/a> – A website to jumpstart writing with prompts, challenges, and artwork<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readworks<\/a> – 1,000s of stories and articles from 300 to 2,000 words and K-12 skill levels with comprehension questions included<\/p>\n\n\n\n

myShakespeare<\/a> – “Very hip approach to Bill’s best” (Sandy)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quill<\/a> – Grammar and writing tools and resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owlcation<\/a> – Short stories for middle and high school students<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry Foundation<\/a>  – Poetry and writing resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocab Test<\/a> – Create your own vocabulary tests<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verse by Verse<\/a> – An experimental<\/a> AI-powered muse that helps you compose poetry inspired by classic American poets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Semantris<\/a> – Word association and typing activities<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Math<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Khan Academy<\/a> – Khan Academy is best known for its math tutorials, but has expanded to include other curricular areas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desmos<\/a> – A website with resources for teaching math<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHET<\/a> – Interactive Science and Math simulations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RoboBlocky<\/a> – Learning Math with Coding and Robotics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

ScienceNewsforStudents<\/a> –  An award-winning online site that provides age-appropriate science news for students, teachers and parents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn Genetics<\/a> – Genetics, Evolution, Human Health, Cell Biology, Plants, Neuroscience, Ecology, and Science Tools<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joel Sartore Photo Ark<\/a> – Animal photographs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kids Geology<\/a> – Geology website resources for kids<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explore<\/a> – Live animal webcams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Science Teacher’s Website<\/a> – Contains numerous links to science resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHET<\/a> – Interactive Science and Math simulations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International wolf Center<\/a> – Resources from the International Wolf Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google Science News<\/a> –  This brings up news related specifically to science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science and Engineering Videos<\/a> – Mark Rober has a YouTube channel with science and engineering videos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AIClub<\/a> – Free AI resources for Educators<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MySciLife<\/a> – Welcome to MySciLife, a free, educational social media platform that enables enriched learning and engagement for middle-level science students!<\/strong> Students use MySciLife to collaborate, connect, and think critically as they create and respond to posts in a safe digital environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Studies<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

iCivics<\/a> – An engaging set of resources to teach the importance of civics, founded by former supreme court justice Sandra Day O’Connor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maps<\/a> – This website has maps that you can add tables to and change the type of map depending on what you are looking for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annenberg Classroom<\/a> – Explore: Constitution Guide, Supreme Court Cases, browse by topic, Explore media, and Civics websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House Kids<\/a> – Explore resources and activities for the White House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Constitution Center<\/a> – Interactive Constitution <\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Museum of American History<\/a> – Smithsonian History Explorer, Access to Collections & Exhibitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE<\/a> – PBS Films, Videos and resources.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ART & Music<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Quick Draw<\/a> – C<\/span>a<\/span>n<\/span> <\/span>a<\/span> <\/span>n<\/span>e<\/span>u<\/span>r<\/span>a<\/span>l<\/span> <\/span>n<\/span>e<\/span>t<\/span>w<\/span>o<\/span>r<\/span>k<\/span> <\/span>l<\/span>e<\/span>a<\/span>r<\/span>n<\/span> <\/span>t<\/span>o<\/span> <\/span>r<\/span>e<\/span>c<\/span>o<\/span>g<\/span>n<\/span>i<\/span>z<\/span>e<\/span> <\/span>d<\/span>o<\/span>o<\/span>d<\/span>l<\/span>i<\/span>n<\/span>g<\/span>?<\/span><\/span><\/span>Help teach it by adding your drawings to the world\u2019s largest doodling data set<\/a>, shared publicly to help with machine learning research.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google Art Palette<\/a> – Analyze pictures using color palettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AutoDraw<\/a> – Gives you a blank paper you can draw and AI gives you options to pick from to draw your picture or draw your self. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MusicLM<\/a> – Generating music from text<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Semi Conductor<\/a> – You can conduct the orchestra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carnegie Hall<\/a> – Carnegie Hall provides free digital resources for teacher, students and parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology How-To’s and Hints –
Video Tutorials<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Change the Default Browser<\/a>
Using Emojis in Microsoft Office Products<\/a>
Nearpod Resubmit Answers Feature<\/a> 
Accessing Your Granitesd Google Account<\/a>
Backing-up Your Outlook E-mail<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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