Free websites to enrich curriculum and research

‍Free Websites to enrich curriculum and research

  • The Living Room Candidate is a free web site that can enrich any social studies or current events curriculum, as well as support media literacy. This site features U.S. Presidential television advertisements from 1952 to 2008. Students can view, discuss, and analyze these ads; they can also create their own political ad. This site is a great accompaniment to classroom lessons, especially during presidential elections years. It can also be used in the library to teach students how to disseminate information and judge the accuracy and quality of advertisements.
  • EasyBib is a free website that introduces, then guides students to help them cite their sources. With EasyBib students enter the information from the source used (book, journal article, magazine article, etc.) and EasyBib creates a works cited or bibliography in APA, MLA or Chicago Turabian style. This site is a great resource for teachers or librarians when helping students gather the resources they used in a research paper or other assignment.
  • Animoto is a free website where students (and teachers) can create short videos. A great alternative to Powerpoint Presentations; can be used for book trailers, to introduce new units, to create video slideshows to have as a backdrop during conferences, etc.
  • Web Poster Wizard is a free website (same folks who brought you Rubistar) where students can create online posters and short reports.
  • Voki is a free website where students and teachers can create personal avatars with sound. These can then be embedded onto webpages or emailed. Great for introducing lessons or working with dialogue.
  • Xtranormal is a free website where students and teachers can create personal avatars and cartoon skits with sound. This site offers more features than Go Animate.
  • Go Animate is a free website where you can create cartoon skits.
  • Kerpoof is a free website where you can create cartoons, videos, and pictures.
  • Make Beliefs Comix is a free website where you can create cartoon graphics with dialogue bubbles.
  • Glogster is a free website where you can create online posters.
  • Wall Wisher is an online website where you and students can create a wall of sticky notes and comments.
  • Primary Wall is an online website where you and students can create a wall of sticky notes and comments.
  • Symbaloo http://www.symbaloo.com/ is a free website where you can compile a page of prefererred websites--can be used for research projects.
  • Wonderopolis is a website with "wonders of the day" that can be used for writing activities, journaling or transition times.

 

‍Online eBooks:

  • ‍International Children's Digital Library is a free website with a wide variety of children's ebooks.

  • ‍Children's Books Forever is a free website with small quantity, but good quality of children's ebooks.

  • ‍Storyline Online is a free ebooks website where the books are read by members of the Screen Actors Guild

  • ‍Professor Garfield Toon Book Reader is a free website a decent selection of children's ebooks and other resources and activities.

  • ‍Tumble Books, True Flix, and Book Flix are wonderful online book sites offered through the Mid-Continent Public Library. If you have a library card number, you can access these sites. Tumble Books has a wide, quality selection of books and games and Book Flix pairs fiction and nonfiction children books. True Flix has updated non-fiction books and quick videos to reinforce or introduce social studies and science lessons.

‍Online Resource Symbaloo

‍Primary and Secondary Sources Powerpoint
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