Covid-19 Teacher Resources / Overview

Face-to-face Instructional Approach	Technology Tools for Consideration	Tips for Consideration by Educators
Direct Instruction	Screencasting Tools such as Screencastify, Screencast-O-Matic, Camtasia	Upload to LMS or YouTube Include written script of video for accessibility
Group Discussions or Presentations	FlipGrid, Video Recordings, Google Slides	Upload, share in LMS, FlipGrid
Student Reflections or Worksheets	Google Forms, Editable PDF,	DocHub and PDFEscape, Kami
Assessments and Quizzes	Google Forms, Editable PDF, LMS Assessment Creator	Frequent check ins for understanding, formative and summative
Video / Movie Lessons	EdPuzzle	Upload instructional videos and include pause points to allow for student responses
Writing	Google Docs and Classroom	Consider how students submit this work to you
Read and Respond		Programs like ActivityLearn allow students to respond to online readings
Student Questions	LMS Discussion Forums, Google Doc or Sheet	Always provide specific guidance regarding expectations, and meaningful responses to support students
Labs	PhET simulations	PhET has been converting labs from Flash to HTML5. Some may not be ready to go, so please watch carefully. Adobe stopped supporting Flash as of January 2020.

Content Resources:

Name	Link	Content Area	Info
OER Commons	https://www.oercommons.org/	ALL PK - Higher Ed	Variety of resources - Join Westmoreland IU group
New Visions for Public Schools	https://curriculum.newvisions.org/	ALL K-12	Units and Lessons - aligned to New York State Standards
DCPS Cornerstones Project	https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DTJFvPmiB-7Uqv1w7jpBAjLqAUXQk6yI?usp=sharing	ALL K-12	Unit Projects - Aligned to Virginia State Standards
Project Gutenberg	https://www.gutenberg.org/	ELA	free eBooks
PhET	https://phet.colorado.edu/	Math and Science	simulations
Open Stax	https://openstax.org/	ALL PK - Higher Ed	free eBooks
Khan Academy	https://www.khanacademy.org/	Mostly Math and Science	Variety of resources
CK-12 Flexbooks	https://www.ck12.org/student/	Mostly Math and Science	Customizable Flexbooks - you cannot alter images from CK-12
COERLL	https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/	World Languages	Variety of resources
AMSER	https://amser.org/	Math and Science	Variety of resources
The Orange Grove	https://www.floridashines.org/orange-grove	ALL K-12	Variety of resources - aligned to Florida State Standards
OpenSciEd	https://www.openscied.org/	Science 6-8	Rollout of new resources through 2022

Media Resources:

Name	Link	Info
Pixabay	https://pixabay.com/	Copyright Free Images and Videos
Wikimedia Commons	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page	Mostly Copyright Free Media
Internet Archive	https://archive.org/	Variety of Resources
Film Studies for Free	https://filmstudiesforfree.wordpress.com/	Commentary on and links to online open-access film studies resources
Public Domain Review	https://publicdomainreview.org/	Variety of Resources
Digital Public Library of America	https://dp.la/	Variety of Resources
Pexels	www.pexels.com	Free stock photos
GIMP	https://www.gimp.org/	Free & Open Source Image Editor
MeshLab	http://www.meshlab.net/	Open Source 3D model processing, editing and converting software
Autodesk Tinkercad	https://www.tinkercad.com/	3D design, electronics, and coding
digccmixter	http://dig.ccmixter.org/	Music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under CC licenses
Free Music Archive	https://freemusicarchive.org/	free and royalty-free music
Audacity	https://www.audacityteam.org/	Free, open-source audio creation platform

App Resources:

Name	Link	Info
OER SEARCH - OER COMMONS	https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/oer-search/id358703397?mt=8 http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/org.oersearch.OERSearch/OER-Search	Apple and Android
Merlot Search	https://itunes.apple.com/app/merlot-oer-search/id541266116?mt=8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.merlot.search.html&hl=es	Apple and Android
Libby	https://meet.libbyapp.com/	Public Library app
Ted	https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-talks/ways-to-get-ted-talks	Free TedTalks

Products:

Name	Link	Info
Easy Test Maker	https://www.easytestmaker.com/	online test generator - no account needed for students.
Screencastify	https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screencastify-screen-vide/mmeijimgabbpbgpdklnllpncmdofkcpn?hl=en	free Chrome extension - 50 free recordings
Screencast-O-Matic	https://screencast-o-matic.com/	free video recording software - limit of 15 minutes per recording

English as a Second Language Resources:

Name of Product	Link	Cost	Brief Description	ELD Instruction	Content Area Differention for EL	Accessiblity Features	Age Group/Audience
Google Classroom	https://edu.google.com/why-google/k-12-solutions/?modal_active=none	free	Free online classrrom for students; can be used for Core or supplemental instruction				K-12
Room Recess	https://www.roomrecess.com/	free	Free, online games that reinforce basic skills--literacy, language, math. No account or login is required.	No account or log-in is required. This might be a helpful item for enrichment or optional work.
ESLGamesPlus	www.eslgamesplus.com	free	ESL Games Plus offers interactive online games for learning and teaching English as a Second Language. Our learning games are mostly suitable for teaching ESL Kids and Teenagers. There are activities for teaching and practising English grammar, vocabulary, sentences, listening and pronunciation skills. The site features these ESL Activities Online: ESL Classroom Games, Memory Games, Spelling Games, Sentence Games, Interactive Board Games, Hangman Games, Jeopardy, Wheel Games, Concentration Games, Matching Games, Car Racing Games, Pirate Games, Crocodile Games, Word Recognition Games, Mobile Games for iPad, iPhones and Android devices.	Also includes videos and printables.			K-8
Storylineonline	https://www.storylineonline.net/	Free	The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.	Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.
Learning A to Z	https://www.learninga-z.com/?fbclid=IwAR1TWVWUtnp7yoWoNVrxhyp5RuaCMgMbHQ-YZN1HLkuDXyzvy2y8RXEgVAo	Free	Free virtual resources for educators for the 90 days including RAZ Kids and Headsprout. Leveled reading resources, interactive computer based mobile books and quizzes. Mobile APP available iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android & Kindle	Headsprout is an adaptive, online reading program that takes non-readers and beginning readers to a mid-2nd grade reading level with 30 hours of instruction. Because of its special focus on phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, and phonemic awareness, it is ideal for ELL students who can benefit from individual practice with listening to correct pronunciation and decoding letter/sound connections. Each colorful episode challenges students to build upon skills they have practiced before, and the program adjusts to students’ progress, ensuring that students advance episodes only when they demonstrated skill mastery.			K-5
Listenwise	www.listenwise.com	Free	Listening and comprehension practice through podcasts. Premium access free during closure.				Grades 2-12
BombBomb	https://bombbomb.com/education/	Free	allows teachers to send pre-recorded video emails
Actively Learn	https://www.activelylearn.com/	Free	Texts and videos for ELA, Science, & Social Studies. Premium accounts are now free through the end of the school year.		Available for all core content areas; Teachers can add content to existing ready-made lessons to differentiate for the needs of ELs	Students can highlight a phrase they cannot read and it will translate the text into that language. There is an embedded dictionary.	Grades 3-12
Brain POP ELL	https://ell.brainpop.com/	Free	https://educators.brainpop.com/faq/brainpop-esl/ BrainPOP ELL is a web-based English language learning program comprised of short, animated movies as well as games, quizzes, and interactive features. It encompasses the four main language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The movies feature the characters Moby and Ben, who model conversational English while presenting target vocabulary, language, and content.			?
Quizlet	https://quizlet.com/	Free	English study sets on Quizlet for may topics like Weather/ Seasons, Science, clothing, etc... as well as Vocabulary, Grammar and Questions. Ads on the website can be removed for monthly fee		Empowering ELLs with Quizlet https://www.empoweringells.com/quizlet-vocabulary/
Newsela	https://newsela.com/	Free	The same news articles can be selected in one of five different Lexile levels. Students may select a level or the teacher can assign a level. Articles are updated daily.	http://blog.tesol.org/5-reasons-to-use-newsela/
Discovery Education Experience	https://www.discoveryeducation.com/coronavirus-response/	Free for the rest of this school year; supt or principal must request it through an online form	Uses research-based strategies for incorporating media into learning; the platform provides ready-made lessons, which teachers can customize with the ability to add their own content and have students create content; teachers and students can collaborate in real time or asynchronously	Each program from the English Language Learner Series targets grades K-2 or 3-5, is available in English and Spanish, and comes complete with a teacher’s guide.	Available for all core content areas; Teachers can add content to existing ready-made lessons to differentiate for the needs of ELs; a California study of classrooms that frequently used a similar Discovery Education platform found that ELs' achievement partricularly improved compared to other classrooms	Closed captioning and transcripts are available for all videos.	Grades K-12
CommonLit	https://www.commonlit.org/en	Free	Provides curated, research-based lesson plans centered around texts of various genres, and some are organized into units; includes texts intended to supplement books commonly assigned in schools; teachers can choose to include guiding questions, online assessment questions, and the ability for students to annotate texts online; teachers view student annotations and assessment responses	Website can be translated into Spanish with a click of a button. A Quick Start Guide is avaialble for students and teachers.	Lesson plans for ELA and history/social studies; the ability to chunk texts into smaller pieces with guiding questions can help ELs check for understanding; ELs can annotate the text online to show teachers where they are struggling or comprehending; texts conclude with discussion questions, which the class can discuss via online chat or phone, to provide speaking and listening practice for ELs	Teachers can enable the translation function for students to click on a word and translate it to selected languages	Grades 3-12
Duolingo	https://www.duolingo.com		Free language learning tool that has bolstered their offerings for English learners across language proficiency levels.	Students participate in a variety of activities at various levels of language proficiency according to the CEFR framework. Resources are included for beginning English learners, as all English pathways start at the A1 level per the framework. Students are given word identification, fill-in-the-blank, complete the chat, and read and respond prompts. The A1 (beginning) English pathway is available for native Spanish and Portuguese speakers. English pathways are available for a host of other languages at higher proficiency levels.			K-12 students with Spanish/Portuguese as their L1
Hippocampus	https://hippocampus.org/	Free	HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.Includes content for Algebra, Geometry, Biology, Chemistry, History, Sociology, Economics, etc... using middle school, highschool & college cointent from NROC, Kahn Academy, NOAA, Interactive Sceince Solutions, Dallas Learning Solutions, Phoenix College, Mt. San Jacinto College and more.	Open source content for personalized learning	Strategies for teaching Science to ELs: https://www.csun.edu/science/ref/language/teaching-ell.html
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab	https://www.esl-lab.com/copyright_terms/	Free	Unless otherwise noted, all materials at Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab including the interactive quiz questions, transcriptions, and tutorials, video, and sound files are free to use. Easy, intermediate and difficult levels of listening activities based on specific topics are available.	Application of language skills in an interactive format. Here are tips for teachers https://www.esl-lab.com/tips-for-teachers/		https://www.esl-lab.com/audio-help/
Voces Digital	https://www.vocesdigital.com/	Free through June 30	Online learning resources are specifically for those who teach French, Spanish, and ESL. Students get audio and video, interactive writing and speaking exercises, and more. Register for free access here	ESL Series for level 1, 2, 3 & 4
TextHelp - Read&Write Feature	https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/read-write/	Free on a trial basis	Emails/documents read out loud, text prediction, picture dictionaries, summary highlighters and a grammar, spelling and confusable words checker	Scaffolded literacy supports for preexisting documents, files, and webpages
CK-12	https://www.ck12.org/	Free	An integrated set of tools for learning: digital textbooks, concept-based learning, SAT prep, and interactive Algebra curriculum (with additional math and science subjects in progress). All products can be customized to match the needs of the student, educator, or school.	Create your own digital textbook or use the library of interactive Flexbooks for instruction. The CK-12 platform	CK12 platform works with Google Classroom, Edmodo, Schoology, Canvas, Kiddom, and chrome extension to enable collaboration between ESL teacher and content teacher,