Teacher Resources

Aloha! Please visit the following online resources geared towards teachers and educators to address reading, language arts, science, social studies, and other content areas.

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Creative Commons Legal Music For Videos– These sites allow you to legally use “some rights reserved” music, movies, images, and other content- all for free.

KS Approved Web Tools

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Web 2.0/Social Media Bloomʻs Taxonomy-Bloomʻs digital taxonomies created by ZaidLearn

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Google Apps to Support Bloomʻs Taxonomy– Created by Kathy Schrock, a resource of Google Apps that could be used to support Bloomʻs Taxonomy.

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DiscoveryEducation-Discovery Education is committed to improving teaching and learning by transforming traditional classrooms into engaging digital learning environments. Discovery Education Techbook™, a series of dynamic all-digital textbooks in science, social studies, and math, brings learning alive. / check with Lynne H x33312 for log-in information

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Atomic Learning Online training video tutorials and technology integration resources designed for schools, districts and educational institutions. Check with Lynne H x33312 for log-in information

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Encyclopaedia Britannica  -(U: kamehameha, P: imua) “Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites.”

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Britannica Image Quest– (U: kamehamehael, P: kamehamehael) “Easy online access to more than two million images from one convenient site. All images are rights-cleared for noncommercial, educational use–great for teacher lesson plans, assignments, activities, and whiteboards; student reports and projects; or school Web sites, newsletters, newspapers, flyers, and bulletins.” (quest.eb.com)

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Google

Google Education Support Site– Training support site to introduce you to Google for Education and how to apply it in the classroom.

Advanced Image Search in Google-Search using Google to access rights-cleared images. In the “usage rights”, select “free to use or share”. Click image below to enlarge.

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Voicethread-A tool that can be used to enhance collaboration amongst peers, create student projects (book reviews/reports, class projects, etc), share ones learning in an engaging fashion, and being able to provide digital feedback by simply commenting on ones Voicethread.

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 Reading Strategies-Reading Rockets-Resource to various reading strategies to incorporate into our instruction; comes with videos to model teaching and suggested books to use

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Graphic Organizers-Thinkport Technology-Helps to organize thinking; select the graphic organizer you need, and it will download as a PDF; great to project up on the screen

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Big Universe-Individual student and teacher log-in / accounts already made / check with Nozomi x28214 or Ruby x33446 regarding account information

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Socrative-”Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.” (socrative.com) Teachers can create quizzes, share them with colleagues, and receive Excel reports of student responses.

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icon-quizlet-lgQuizlet – Our mission is to build beautiful, simple software that helps students learn. Students and teachers can build quizzes as a study tool.

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ReadWriteThink-Acess various reading and language arts resources to incorporate into ones instruction

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Time For Kids-A+ Papers-Resource to help students go through the writing process to write a biography, book report, compare and contrast essay, how-to article, literary essay, news story, personal narrative, and persuasive essay.

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Tumblebooks (U: kes, P: books)-”TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they’ll love.”

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TumbleBookCloudJr (U: kes2, P: books)-”Online collection of read alongs, ebooks, graphic novels, audio books, and educational videos for older elementary students.”

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Bookflix (U: kapalama, P: bookflix)-Non fiction and fictional ebooks that are paried together by subject area.

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Book Adventure-Students take quizzes and parents can monitor their child’s progress; reports generated and teachers can send home in a letter / accounts already made / check with Nozomi x28214 or Ruby x33446 regarding account information

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Little Bird Tales-Students self publish their own e-books and can record their own narration / student accounts already made / check with Nozomi x28214 or Ruby x33446 regarding account information

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Hi’ilei Media Center-Browse through our library collection through the OPAC

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EasyBib is an intuitive information literacy platform that provides citation, note taking, and research tools that are easy-to-use and educational.

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