These are some things I think are useful, or maybe just good fun.

Tewlz

Copy Paste Characters: This lets you click on an image (which is really just a text symbol-NOT a picture), and then paste it into your document, tweet, whatever. Cool. Here's the link.

Fruit Machine found HERE and here it's embedded. Nope, took it out because it's too noisy every time the page loads...

Flippity.net takes a Google spreadsheet and turns it into a Name Selector, Group chooser,  Bingo Game, Flashcards, Trivia Gameshow, MadLibs creator, Badge Tracker, and MORE -- all totally free. They have even added the ability to make digital ESCAPE rooms. Fun!!
This Free Crossword Puzzle place: 
http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/crossword/

they make free Cloze pages too:
http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/fill-in-the-blank/

This countdown timer has different music choices to accompany the timer. Found at Class tools.net also... Click Here

Scribble Maps lets you take a google map and add your own junk. Markers, pics & video. show a sequence or track a road trip. find it here: http://scribblemaps.com/

Create Word Clouds with Wordle.net and some with real style at Tagzedo

Class Dojo is an online Class Management Tool with customizable Carrot and Stick behavioral tracking. Can set up different classes, track individual or class for day, week, month, etc. and give parents access to those records including graphs.

Innovative Resources at EdHeads including Virtual Surgeries, Genetics, Nanoparticles and Crash Scene Investigation and more. Not to mention Discussion topics, assessments, projects, etc.  Browse the Teacher FAQ Page here

Wonderopolis is a cool place for inquiry. Great Bell Ringers, etc. Reading level only goes to Grade 5, but is inquiry based, sparks the imagination, has vocab and reflective questioning. Explore some Wonders HERE

Award winning Science and Math activities at HowToSmile.org

Siemens STEM Day activities; searchable and available Year-Round! HERE

360 Degree viewable and rotatable images of dissections, skeletons, chemical molecules, yoga & ballet positions, Guitar chord finger placement, and more. Some are disturbingly graphic and some are even viewable in 3D!!! HERE at 3dtoad.com

Video Making:

  • Life Lapse is a mobile app that quickly turns your photos into a stop-animation.
  • FlipAnim is a web app that lets you really sink your teeth into Animation projects.
  • Zamzar is a site that allows you to convert nearly ANY video or audio file (and MANY other file formats) to nearly any other format. amazing.

Art & Image Creation / Editing

  • Edit images online quick N easy with iPiccy
  • Also fun to use are Sketch.io and Pixilart
  • Explore Internet Hex Color codes and their names at Computer Hope
  • Convert RGB color codes to Hexadecimal HERE
  •  View colors contrasted as seen by color blind peeps  HERE
  • Remove the background of your photo HERE

Audio & Recording:

  • ​​​Vocaroo.com (they call themselves the Premier voice recording service)
  • OtterAi is an app that transcribes (converts to text) the audio it hears in team meetings, Zoom calls, etc. Free version works well & can record up to 40 minutes per session.

Music:

Some of my Faves...

  • Convert your text to one of several different dialects with the DIALECTIZER at RinkWorks.com
  • Organize your text into a graphic that demonstrates larger words for those used more often; you can also control/ remove common words, foreign words, etc. at WORDLE.net.
  • Edit images online quick N easy with iPiccy
  • Make some VERY cool swirly art at weavesilk.com
  • Make Evolution happen in action with FLOW
  • On This Day in History with dMarie Time Capsule
  • FUN! Make phony Church Signs, LPs, Badges, etc. HERE
  • Make your own snowflakes HERE or HERE

Tech, Coding + Computer science

​Keyboarding Goodies


  • Lessons, Games, Tests, and more at MapCon.com with special thanks to a Girl Scout Troop in CA for sharing this one!!

Science:

Mathematics:

Social Studies / History

Languages Other Than English

  • Test you Italian language skill level at this BBC web page.
  • Practice your Italian (or another language) at DuoLingo.



Fun Puzzles & Stuff:

Play Bloxorz here
Play Snail Bob Snail Bob 2 Snail Bob 3 Snail Bob 4 More?
Play Amigo Coyote, Amigo2, Amigo3, Amigo4, +more
A really difficult Animation Game here
Play the Puzzle game "Astrophysics" here
Play Chess against a computer HERE
Play Sugar, Sugar HERE
Play Factory Balls 2 HERE
Play Rush Hour HERE
Play Gravity Master HERE

Play Jelly Cannon HERE at Physics Games dot Net