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Creativity and Innovation

Creativity and Innovation - Image tools

Creative Commons
Dig this listing of music, drawing, images too.

http://search.creativecommons.org/
Pics for Learning
Please cite your source when you use this site!

http://www.pics4learning.com/
UnSplash
Free useable Images - Must cite

https://unsplash.com/

Creativity and Innovation

Creativity and Innovation: Art

Creativity and Innovation: Drawing

Single letter drawing examples
For viewing purposes only!

http://www.stevenkatz.com/student-work/illuminated-letters-7th-grade/

Creativity and Innovation: Art

Free Rice - Art Style
Learn the Masters

http://www.freerice.com/index.php?&t=16713222044&s=Famous%20Paintings
Make your own comics!

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/index.html
Portrait Drawing

http://www.artyfactory.com/

Creativity and Innovation: Shape and Line

Letters, letters, letters

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/collections/72157594587080023/

Creativity and Innovation: Symmetry

Symmetry Webquest
Learn All About Line Symmetry

http://www.adrianbruce.com/Symmetry/

Creativity and Innovation: Technology: Innovative Designer

Graphic Editor - Canva
Okay to make an educational account.

Canva.com
Graphic Editor - Vectr
Do Not Login

vectr.com
Make Belief Comix

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
Need a logo?

http://cooltext.com/
Online storyboard\comic creator

http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator
Pixlr - Photo Editor
Photo Editor - Do NOT login

https://pixlr.com/
Presentation color tips

http://www.public-speaking.org/public-speaking-color-article.htm
Word Cloud #1
Students can create a Word Cloud from this site.

https://wordart.com/
Word Cloud

http://www.wordclouds.com/
Word Cloud Generator - Word It Out

https://worditout.com/

Communication and Collaboration: Music & Audio Resources

Jazz Greats
Music

http://pbskids.org/chuck/index.html#/jazz
Lists of FREE to USE music

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryMedia
Music for you to use
browse our music by composer, performer, instrument, form and time period

https://musopen.org/music/
Sounds for you.

http://www.soundgator.com/
Vocaroo Voice Recording
Voice Recording

www.vocaroo.com
musopen
Royalty Free Music

https://musopen.org/music/

Communication and Collaboration: Community Contributions

3rd World Farming
Simulation on Farming & Family life in Africa

http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com/index.html
Free Rice
Language, Art, Math, and Science

http://www.freerice.com/index.php
Volunteer Opps in Derry, NH

http://www.americantowns.com/nh/derry-make-a-difference

Research and Information Fluency

Behind the Name
Research what your name means here

http://www.behindthename.com/
Bitly
Make your URLs shorter than short using this tool (simply copy and paste)

https://bitly.com/
Compare where you live to others...

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/US/CA
Current Events

https://newsela.com/
Dictionary+
Use this dictionary to look up one word in many places

http://onelook.com
Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/
Names, Maps & Graphing

http://www.babynamewizard.com/
Quotes

http://www.brainyquote.com/
Research Library
Use this tool for planning purposes

https://www.lib.umn.edu/
Sweet Search

www.sweetsearch.com
The Wayback Machine
Assists in examining and evaluating web content

http://www.archive.org
What happened the day you were born?
Fun, fun, and great for autobiographical projects

http://www.mybirthdayfacts.com/
What's does your favorite color represent?

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0769383.html
Who made this website?
Find out who owns or publishes a web site.

https://domainhelp.com/
Wolfram
Lots of facts, and secure blogging too.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Research and Information Fluency: Amazing Race across the states

Brain Training: States & Countries

http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/unitedstates.html
Enchanted Learning
United State information

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/
Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/
Maps of the United States
Many map styles available here!

http://www.maps-gps-info.com/u-s-mps.html
Post Cards across America
Postcards and Facts about each US State

http://www.postcardsfrom.com/t1/arcin.html
Scenic Byways
Enter state into Search box on site to explore its' beauty!

http://byways.org/
What about my state?
USA Games

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

Research and Information Fluency - Tips to Boost Productivity

Clever
Big Ideas Math

https://clever.com/oauth/authorize?response_type=code&state=2fc11e981f250f7485597e054860a2e197f7a778bb7ed895208a7c9aeab7d87c&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclever.com%2Fin%2Fauth_callback&client_id=4c63c1cf623dce82caac&channel=clever&district_id=55e45b7a
Keyboard Shortcuts
Use CTRL (control) if using a Windows device

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343
Tiny URL
Create a tiny web address from an existing one.

http://tinyurl.com/create.php

Research and Information Fluency: Culture

CIA - The World Factbook
from the CIA archives

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
Flags
Flags from around the world

http://www.flags.net/EGYP.htm
Flag Colors

https://www.allstarflags.com/facts/color-meanings-in-flags/

Research and Information Fluency

Hero 2
CNN Hero site

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/index.html
Heroic Women

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nwa/heroine.html
Webpath Express
Find local resources for your projects.

https://sau10.follettdestiny.com/district/servlet/presentlistsitesform.do?restoreFromCrumb=1&tm=TopLevelCatalog&l2m=WebPath+Express&formSignature=&formName=district_servlet_ListSitesForm&breadCrumbIndex=14457
Country Reports
See the librarian for codes.

https://www.countryreports.org/countries/World.htm
Easy Bib
Use this site to create a bibliography

https://www.easybib.com/mla/source

Search Engines - Use these to search for school stuff

BING
Search Engine

http://www.bing.com
Junior Safe Search
Search Engine

https://www.juniorsafesearch.com/
Safe Searching for Kids
Search Engine

http://www.safesearchkids.com/kids-search-engines/#.WCNp_BIrKuV
Sweet Search
A search engine for students

http://www.sweetsearch.com
Top Marks
Search Engine from the United Kingdom

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Research and Information Fluency: Language Arts

Research and Information Fluency: General Lang. Arts

English Companio
Various Graphic Organizers

http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html
Tech Teachers ideas
Large number of templates to use with Inspiration

https://techteachers.com/
Tips on Study Skills

https://asc.calpoly.edu/ssl

Research and Information Fluency: Language Arts (LA)

Grammar Quizzes
Terrific reinforcement game

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/
Words to Know

http://quizlet.com/39073482/flashcards

Research and Information Fluency: Language Arts

Photos and words together
Terrific Digital Storytelling starter!

http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx
Prep Factory for Middle Schoolers

https://www.prepfactory.com/
Story Cube
Create a cube with story elements, print and fold!

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/cube_creator/
Tips on Note Taking
Five Methods for Effective Note Taking

http://www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/notetaking.systems.html
Word Cloud

https://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/
Word Clouds

http://worditout.com/

Research and Information Fluency: Language Arts - 7th grade

Acrostic Poetry
Introductory Activity

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/
Spelling for all grade levels

http://www.spellingcity.com/

Research and Information Fluency: Math - All Grades

Clever

clever.com
Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org/
Make everyday easier if you can solve these equations

https://www.expii.com/solve

Research and Information Fluency: Language Arts

Comic Book maker

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/
Game Up your Vocabulary

https://www.vocabulary.com/
Letter Writing
Learn the parts of a letter and write your own. Try writing a letter to your favorite character, teacher, or hero.

http://readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/
On-line Dictionary

http://dictionary.reference.com/
Word of the Day
Introduce this new vocabulary word each day to your class.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day
Writing to the President
Substitute Principal for President please!

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/writingletters/government/president/

Research and Information Fluency: Language Arts

Get ready for High School!
root word meanings

https://myvocabulary.com/
Knowing Poe
Mrs. Duxbury's Poe Project

http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/
One-Dictionary

http://dictionary.reference.com/
Word Meaning and Challenges

https://www.vocabulary.com/
Spelling for all grade levels

http://www.spellingcity.com/

Research and Information Fluency: Language Arts

English Companion
Various Graphic Organizers

http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html
Idioms

http://www.idiomconnection.com/mostfrequent.html
Mind-mapping how-to's
Could use for Infographics too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map#Mind_map_guidelines
Notetaking techniques

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/advice-for-students-taking-notes-that-work.html
Word Clouds

http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm

Research and Information Fluency: Social Studies

Research and Information Fluency: Geography

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Use this game to learn about Geography in spatial terms, places & regions, environment, human systems, physical systems and more

http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/
Where am I?
Sherlock Holmes anyone? Unpack the mystery of the Street View image, identifying, classifying, and evaluating its clues, and ma

http://geoguessr.com/

Research and Information Fluency: Social Studies

Famous Speeches

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/search-results/?q=speech#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=speech&gsc.page=1
Historical Timelines

http://www.dipity.com/StevePro/Steve-Jobs-Life-and-Career/
History Central

http://www.historycentral.com/USHistory.html
History via the Internet!

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Oregon Trail

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990
PBS Video site
See the video and learn more about your history stars!

https://nhptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/d4133ad6-22fc-4f38-833a-3fe63016fa63/booker-t-washington-orator-teacher-and-advisor-video/
Senator Obama taking his oath of office

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/search-results/?q=president+obama+inauguration+speech#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=president%20obama%20inauguration%20speech&gsc.page=1
U.S. Constitution Review

http://tinyurl.com/8x5kuvz
US Constitution

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
Vast library of cinematography and movies

http://mediahistoryproject.org/

Research and Information Fluency: Lewis & Clark

Lewis & Clark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition
Lewis & Clark Expedition

http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-channel.asp?ChannelID=262
National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Digital Citizenship: Media Smarts

Common Sense Media
Read, read and search for terrific information.

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/
Stop Cyberbullying

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/parents/index.html
Interland
Digital Citizenship game

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland

Research and Information Fluency: Social Studies

Egypt's Golden Empire

http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/index.html
Sheppard Software

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/

Research and Information Fluency

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making:ESOL

Duolingo
Learn a foreign language for free!

http://duolingo.com
Grammar Fun

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/
Language Support
Open a poster and hover over items to hear and view the english description.

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/posters/toc.html
Read aloud, point and match
in English, Spanish, French and more.

http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_de.htm#

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Adjectives that start with...

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/adjectives/Adjectives-That-Start-With-C.html
Scrabble

http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/SSCrabble/
Words that start with...

http://www.scrabblefinder.com/starts-with/d/

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Alan November's favorites

http://novemberlearning.com/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=21&Itemid=90
Check reading level of documents here.

http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp
Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference links

http://www.nhcmtc.org/Extensions/
Jeopardy games
Open onto your desktop, open Keynote, then find the file. Be sure you're in "play" or "view" mode too.

http://www.math-play.com/math-jeopardy.html
PBS Teacherline
Take a look around, become a PBS Leader too!

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
Pete's PowerPoint Station (they'll open in Keynote too!)
Prepared presentations on 100s of topics!

http://www.pppst.com/
Random Name Picker

http://www.classtools.net/random-name-picker/
Technology Ally

http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/blog_mark_payton/who_are_you_calling_digital_immigrant

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and DecisionMaking: Typing

Typing Game
Turn OFF the sound?

https://www.free-training-tutorial.com/typing-games/typing-tycoon-animals.html
Typing.com
Self-paced online Typing

www.typing.com

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making Tools

Currency Converter

https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/
Easy Note Cards+

http://www.easynotecards.com/index
Flashcards

http://quizlet.com/
Homework Helper!

http://bjpinchbeck.com/
Visual Thesauraus
Add a word, and let the drawing begin!

http://graphwords.com/

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making: Literacy

What's so different?

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/why-digital-learning-is-just-different/?utm_content=buffer7ef07&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Digital Citizenship

Avatar Builder - Blue Robot
Be careful on the web, use an Avatar!

https://mybluerobot.com/create-your-own-avatar/

Technology Operation and Concepts Web Design - HTML

Counter for your website

http://www.reliablecounter.com/
How to make a website

http://www.goodellgroup.com/tutorial/toc.html
Web Design & Development

http://www.washington.edu/accessit/webdesign/student/checklist.htm
WebCams available here
You can grab the code here too.

http://www.webcams.travel/webcam/1202587105-Weather-Portsmouth-Harbor-Puddle-Dock-%28historical%29
What's HTML?

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp

Technology Operation and Concepts: Spreadsheets

Sample Spreadsheet Study Tool
Try Games\Scatter

http://quizlet.com/7997318/spreadsheets-flash-cards/
Spreadsheet Toolbar Review

http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tutorial/Spreadsheet_Basics.html#4.The%20Calc%20Toolbars|outline
Spreadsheet Tutorial
for MS Excel

http://inpics.net/tutorials/excel2007/basics.html

Technology: Operations and Concepts

Smith-Corona Clipper circa 1949
Here's a blog on my new classmember

http://genevatypewriters.blogspot.com/2010/08/smith-corona-clipper-black-portable.html

Technology Operations and Concepts: Learn to Code activities

Code Academy
Users need a login. Codecademy is where most people who are new to coding get their start. If you haven’t been to the site yet…

http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0
Want to make an APP?

http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/hour-of-code.html

Derry Cooperative School District sites

DCSD School District Tools

Derry District homepage

http://www.sau10.org/
Gmail

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http://mail.google.com/mail/&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2
Nettrekker
Research resource for your classroom

http://school.nettrekker.com/authenticate/ipauth/1?np=/home.ftl&pp=/ipauth_error.ftl
NWEA
Northeast Evaluation Association

http://www.nwea.org/
Power School

https://powerschool.sau10.org/public/home.html
State of NH - Single User Sign-On
Use this to access Performance Tracker and Techpaths

https://my.doe.nh.gov/myNHDOE/Login/Login.aspx

Games, Games & Games

Free Rice

http://www.freerice.com/index.php
Geoguesser

https://www.geoguessr.com/free
How fast can you type?

https://www.free-training-tutorial.com/typing-games/typing-tycoon-animals.html
Interland

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland
Man in Blue
Scrabble online

http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/SSCrabble/
Oregon Trail

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990
Road to Grammar

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/
Trip Geo

tripGeo.com
USA Games

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm
Vocab Trainer

https://www.vocabulary.com/vocabtrainer/