This website is fascinating! It's GOOGLE but for kids! Kids can safely search the web with this search engine in the classroom when collaborating on projects with other students in class. Say if I wanted kids to search a specific topic and give me some facts, I could also use KidRex because it's safe as well.
My StoryBook is an amazing app that promotes creativity, literacy, and comprehension by letting children create their own drawing, story, and/or video! Students can use it to describe what the teacher has just taught in class by drawing pictures, by text, and/or by talking like it's a video. Students could also use it to share with each other. If you had each student to share what they did over break through this app, they can share with one another through this app.
This app will have your students/kids up and moving! As they stretch, dance, and wiggle their bodies kids will have loads of fun while exercising too! In the classroom this is great to use with your students to wake them up and get them ready for the class day. Or if you're stuck inside on a rainy day it's a great activity for the kids to do while they are inside on recess.
This website is AMAZING tool for students, teachers, and parents that are helping their students study and review! Kahoot is a game that students can play with others to help them study and review different topics discussed in class! It's great to use in the classroom before a test or as a summative evaluation tool. If you want to take it a step further you could also have the class form teams and the winners get a prize!
National Geographic for Kids offers a variety of fun things for your student or child to do! The website is filled with games, fun facts, pictures, and video's about animals, while also prompting your child to want to learn more about the world around them! If you've got an explorer on your hands you'll definitely want to subscribe to their magazines! This website is great to spark student's interest and it's also a great place for teachers to subscribe to their magazine so that way their students can have the magazine in the classroom. Children could also do research on their own about different places around the world with his website, when learning about different cultures in the class.
Educreations is a fun and interactive tool that teachers can use to get their content to their students! Teachers can import pictures, documents, animate, or draw out concepts they are talking about for their students while they narrate as well! This is the next step to helping kids visualize content not only inside the class, but outside the classroom as well! Which is one way to use this app in the classroom, you can send video's to your students to watch anywhere before coming to class. Or you can use this app for students who missed a day, so that way they can watch the lesson whenever and wherever they may be. Educreations is also a great way for students to study as well!
BrainPOP Jr. is loads of fun for your student's and kids...and it's educational,but they'll hardly know. There's games, educational videos, quizzes and much more! This is a fun site to show videos in your classroom depending on the topic! This could also be a website that students can use when they're done with an assignment, or if they have free time in class.
