Federal Student Aid

Federal Student Aid, a part of the U.S. Department of Education, is the largest provider of student financial aid in the nation. At the office of Federal Student Aid, our more than 1,300 employees help make college education possible for every dedicated mind by providing more than $120 billion in federal grants, loans, and work-study funds each year to more than 13 million students paying for college or career school. We are proud to sponsor millions of American minds pursuing their educational dreams.

MES English

MES-English.com is a site containing actual resources, made by myself to be downloaded and used today. This page is not a collection of links to resources, with links to resources, with a collection of links to resources … (which frustrated me enormously and forced me to make everything myself.) I will try to keep it short to the point and help you find what you’re looking for fast. You do not have to register but an e-mail letting me know something worked well, was helpful, or with suggestions would be great.

Florida Literacy Coalition (FLC)

The Florida Literacy Coalition (FLC) promotes, supports and advocates for the effective delivery of quality adult and family literacy services in the state of Florida.

As a statewide umbrella literacy organization and the host of Florida’s State Literacy Resource Center, FLC provides a range of services to support more than 300 adult education, literacy and family literacy providers throughout Florida. Special emphasis is placed on assisting community based literacy organizations with their training and program development needs.

Education World

Here you will find pretty much everything you will ever need as a teacher, including all the latest news and developments in education, lesson plans, reviews of the most popular EdTech apps platforms, as well as a huge archive of articles written to help you advance professionally

Intel Teach Elements

Designed as a series of courses for the teachers, Intel Teach Elements offer videos, syllabi, and all the materials you will need to aid your development as a teacher. They can help you prepare yourself, and your students, for the challenges of 21^st century education.

Annenberg Learner

Learner offers a whole multitude of teacher resources and professional development tools, including lesson plans, interactive materials, videos, courses, as well blog articles and news that will bring you up to speed with the best trends in education.

OER Commons Open Educational Resources

This platform allows you to share your lesson plans and teaching materials with your colleagues from all over the world, as well as download materials created by them as well, completely free of charge, and free to use in whichever way you like.

Ed Week

Started by Editorial Projects in Education, a nonprofit organization, Education Week has grown into one of the most respected and read resources which cover all the latest news and trends in education, helping you keep up to date with everything you’d want to know.

Schoology

What it is: Schoology is a learning management system to facilitate the creation of class rosters, curricula, and calendars. It also keeps track of interactions among students and student assessment results, among other things.

Who would love it: K–12 schools, higher-education institutions, and corporations.

Why it’s good: Features include Web hosting; calendar management and the aggregation of personal, course, school, and district calendars; workload planning; personal messaging; and large-scale (system-wide) and small-scale (user) management.

Skype

What it is: Skype is an online video-calling tool that allows users across the world to communicate, for free, via the Internet.

Who would love it: Anyone anywhere with an Internet connection strong enough to support streaming video. (Given the unregulated nature of the Internet, it’s recommended for users older than 18 or with adult supervision.)

Why it’s good: Skype has been around for a long time, but it has only recently tapped its educational potential. High schools have used Skype to connect students with international speakers and educators, or to organize cross-country educational projects.

Wizehive

This comprehensive application has a lot of functionality: build forms, manage tasks, update your activity feed and create workflow sheets. Wizehive is a great pick for sharing upcoming projects, classroom modules, events and other class activities with parents

Wikispaces

Young children have brilliant minds, and what better way to light the creative spark than to get your class involved in social storytelling? Wikispaces helps you create an online home for your class’s writings, to share with parents and other students.

Padlet

Whether your class is building a poster board dedicated to ancient Egypt or outlining the scientific method, Padlet takes you from blank wall to beautiful display. K-5 students will love that they worked together to create the masterpiece, especially if their homework involves collecting more goodies for their virtual display wall.

Raz Kids

This award-winning website lets elementary learners read anytime, anywhere – and allows teachers to monitor students’ progress, so you can keep class discussions relevant and timely.

Fakebook

Middle-schoolers may not be old enough to use the real thing (Facebook), but that makes Fakebook even cooler. Charge your students with creating Fakebook profiles for historical figures, authors, and other persons of note.

Storify

If you class vibes on storytelling, take stories real and global. Storify culls media from around the web to tell full-featured reports of current events and news. Helpful security settings ensure you pull only age-appropriate content for your class.

Creaza

Classroom assignments have never been so fun as they are with Creaza. Your students can collaborate to create multimedia presentations that incorporate audio, video and even original cartoons! Creaza can also be leveraged for mind mapping, slideshows, and other educational uses.

Popplet

Done well, mind mapping is an incredible tool that turns ideas into tangible, visual plans of action. Popplet, which is available via the web and as an iPad app, helps your students think creatively and learn visually, creating mind maps they can access anytime, anywhere.

Google Earth

If you’re teaching geography or earth science or geological processes or social studies or world cultures or, well, almost anything, Google Earth can make your lessons more interactive, more real and very 3-D. Think of it as an insta-passport to anywhere in the world.

Dweeber

The name may be a little, well, dweeby, but Dweeber is a great place for middle school kids to meet for online study sessions. A free account lets students connect with friends from school, so they can collaborate on group projects and homework. Sketching, note sharing and other features make this tool versatile.

Wridea

Brainstorming is an important part of the creative process. Wridea allows students to collaborate to organize and streamline their ideas, in order to create better, more cohesive group projects.

Lino

Go old school with new school technologies: Lino lets your students create sticky notes, pin photos, and share ideas and discussions on a virtual canvas that requires nothing more than an Internet connection and web browser.

HeyMath

For every kid who has ever struggled with math, HeyMath! offers an easy, totally fun answer. And the collaborative part? Students can ask friends and teachers for help on any question – or offer their help to solve others’ problems.

Collaborize Classroom

This collaborative platform complements your in-class lessons with assignments, activities and online discussions that encourage 100% participation.

Coolmath4teachers

Cool Math is more than just math: it’s science, reading and geography, too! All games are designed for classroom use, and include fun activities like collaborative algebra and adventurous WebQuests.

A.nnotate

Here’s another collaborative annotation tool, this one with a little extra oomph: in addition to enabling your student groups to collaboratively take notes on web pages and online images, A.nnotate also lets them annotate any PDF or Microsoft Word document they use in their research.

Evernote

It’s likely that many of your students already use Evernote; it’s one of the most popular, cross-platform tools available for mobile and desktop devices. (It syncs information across all platforms.) Collaboration through Evernote means saving important webpages, working on group notes and docs, and collecting research in one place.

Skitch

If you’ve ever wished you could really markup an outline, paper, or project, Sketch is what you’re looking for. Available from the makers of Evernote, this cool tool lets you digitally draw arrows, checkmarks, question marks and other annotations (including text notes) onto shared docs.

Echo360

Cloud office tools are nothing new, but ThinkFree’s comprehensive productivity suite is simple, useful and great for collaborative projects. The web interface is helpful, but your students will also love the mobile support, which means they can view and edit docs on their desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

I Civics

For U.S. students, iCivics delves into the details of American democracy and encourages your class to get hands-on. Argue real cases before the Supreme Court, have a student run for president, and participate in other activities of true patriotism.

Oxford Owl

After registering for a free account, you have access to over 250 children’s audio books that can be used in the classroom. The book text is not part of the presentation, so students will not be able to follow along as it is read to them.

Khan Academy Kids

Khan Academy Kids is a free, fun, educational program designed to inspire young children to become learners for life. The robust Khan Academy Kids curriculum and original content make learning engaging and fun for children ages two to seven

Khan Academy Reading K-12

ELA practice exercises for 3rd -12th grade, covering reading comprehension and vocabulary. Aligned to Common Core State Standards for Reading: Literature

ReadTheory

Reading comprehension exercises — online, free, personalized & adaptive. Fits K-12, ESL and adult students. Easily track the progress of the entire class.

Teachers from all around the world are using ReadTheory to help their students improve their reading comprehension skills in a fun way that keeps them attentive and motivated.

ReadingVine.com

Free grade leveled reading passages for use in the classroom or at home. Filter by genre, grade, topic, skill, and more.

Lumos Learning

Lumos StepUp gives students anywhere learning and teachers the ability to monitor their online work conveniently. It helps them identify student learning challenges and develop remedial programs. Lumos Quill technology allows teachers and curriculum leads to collaboratively create interactive lessons and assessments.

K5Learning.com

Free reading comprehension worksheets for grades 1-5. Use these free, printable worksheets to practice and improve reading comprehension, vocabulary and writing. Each reading passage is followed by exercises which for younger students focus on recalling information directly from the text and for older students focus on prediction, inference and character traits.

TweenTribune.com

A free teacher tool from Smithsonian Teacher, offering daily AP news articles, Lexile® leveled for K-12, self-scoring quizzes customized by Lexile® level, critical thinking questions, student commenting, Espanol AP articles, weekly lesson plans, weekly video, and weekend “Monday Morning Ready” newsletter as prep for the week ahead.

ReadWorks

K12 Reader

Reading worksheets and articles for parents and teachers, covering sight words, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar, and other reading essentials.

Exploratorium

Exploratorium is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art, and human perception. Our mission is to create inquiry-based experiences that transform learning worldwide. Our vision is a world where people think for themselves and can confidently ask questions, question answers, and understand the world around them. We value lifelong learning and teaching, curiosity and inquiry, our community, iteration and evidence, integrity and authenticity, sustainability, and inclusion and respect.

History Curriculum To Power Amazing Classrooms

They curricula are created by teachers and scholars. They offer complete social studies courses aligned to state standards, all totally free. Come explore their teaching materials, planning resources, professional-development offerings, and helpful online teacher community.

Harmony

Harmony SEL is a PreK–6th grade social and emotional learning program that helps teachers cultivate strong relationships between all students. Available at no cost, the program offers a flexible, easy to use curriculum that is available through the Harmony teacher kits and the Harmony Online Learning Portal. Here educators have access to the everyday practices of Meet Up and Buddy Up and a set of thematic lessons, activities, storybooks, and games. Results from recent evaluations have shown that Harmony’s approach to teaching social and emotional skills is effective and recommended by teachers by offering students strategies for problem-solving and building relationships with peers. Harmony has been recognized by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning as a CASEL SELect Program.