Additional+Tools

Ted Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing
====Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch. ====

====All the resources you need to know about math, art, educational videos, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. ====

====Provides a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. All of their resources are completely free forever, regardless of whether you're a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. ====

[|MIT Open Courseware]
====MIT OpenCourseWare makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects available on the Web, free of charge. With more than 2,000 courses available, OCW is delivering on the promise of open sharing of knowledge. ====

Primary Source
====Primary Source promotes history and humanities education by connecting educators with people and cultures throughout the world. ====

All areas: Documentaries
====At Top Documentary Films you can find 2100+ (more to come) stunning, eyeopening and interesting documentaries. ====

====PBS offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning through television and online content. On-line broadband access and digital media are dramatically changing the opportunities available to the nation’s educators improving STEM education. ====

BBC For Teachers
====More than 10,000 video clips from BBC programs on Learning Zone Class Clips ready to play in your classroom. ====

**Additional Free Tools **

 *  Need a Rubric? **

RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics, but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.

> ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|www.funbrain.com] (Also Great For Stations…) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|www.iknowthat.com] (Science, Math - Interactive) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|panoramas.dk] (Quick Time Virtual Reality - QTVR) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|www.learner.org/interactives] (Interactive Learning) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|www.lizardpoint.com/fun] (Geography and more) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|www.mrdonn.org] (Lots of Areas!) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|www.awesomelibrary.org] (Tons of Resources!) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|www.pocketmod.com] (Paper Organizer!) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|www.getreadytoread.org] (Early Literacy Resource) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|www.readwritethink.org] (Tools for Literacy!) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/] (Grammar!) ==== > ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> [|www.mathsnet.net/logo/turtlelogo] (LOGO Programming) ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Open Dyslexia - Free font for people with reading disabilities ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Project Spectrum] - Google Sketchup Tutorial for use with students on the Autism Spectrum ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Spelling City] - insert the week's spelling list and students can play games, finish worksheets, and complete other interactive activities. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Read,Write,Think Student Materials Index] - offers dozens of interactive tools. You will LOVE this and so will your students! ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Pacer Center - Kids Against Bullying Site] - very kid friendly ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|ZacBrowser] - Web Browser designed by a grandfather for his grandson who is on the Autism Spectrum. Appropriate for young children or those with developmental disabilities ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|100 Useful Tools for Special Needs Students and Educators] ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner] ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Do to Learn] - Free [|Feelings]and [|Emotions]Games, excellent for social skills instruction, also check out the [|Fire Safety] and [|Street Safety] songs for students with cognitive disabilities. They have added an [|Emotions Color Wheel tool]which is an incredible resource to help students visually understand their feelings. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Better Fonts] - [|Dafonts] - free fonts ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Diigo]- a powerful social annotation research tool, with highlighting features and the ability to extract highlights ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Cast UDL Lesson Builder] - provides educators with models and tools to create and adapt lessons that increase access and participation in the general education curriculum for all students. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Checklists] - linear alternative to rubrics, easily create guides for students' projects. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Visual Schedules] - best for younger students. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Note Star] - helps organize notes and bibliographies for essays and research papers. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Imagine Symbols] - 4000 free realistic symbols. Import these into your clip art folder for easy access. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Audacity] - Free, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Click N Type Virtual On Screen Keyboard] ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Pics4Learning] - copyright friendly image library for teachers and students ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">XtraNormal - This web service allows students to create video projects with type-written text. The animated characters speak the text. An excellent resource for those students who may have difficulty speaking in front of others. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">22 Frames is a new service that provides a central location for locating captioned videos for learning English and for Internet users who have hearing impairments. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Animated Explanations is a website for finding animated explanations of topics and concepts in the fields of health, technology, and work. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Zap Reader]- This app allows students read online text one word at a time as slow as 25 words per minute, it can act like a finger spot holder on the digital page. ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|www.quia.com/shared] (Great for Stations…) ====

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Tools For Auditory Discrimination

 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|What's That Sound](QuickTime version) ====
 * ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[|Jay Calls] - engaging auditory discrimination site for younger students. ====