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Almost all of the resources listed offer an amount or a duration of free services. There are paid resources in this blog. The presence of these resources on this blog does not mean that CESD has provided licensing for said resources. Choices regarding technology resources are made at the school level, just as decisions regarding textbooks are handled there.
CODE – Drama & Dance
The council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators (CODE) offers a great number of free resources to drama and dance teachers. They continually review their resources to keep them pedagogically...
Theatrefolk
Theatrefolk offers a large number of teaching resources for drama teachers. As the site does not offer student sign-up, there are no concerns regarding their privacy policy. According to their...
Drama Notebook
Drama Notebook hails itself as the world's best site for Drama teachers. They have a small selection of straight-up free resources.They do offer a free trial on their library of resources to support...
Drama Activities
Drama activities provide excellent opportunities for young children to engage in storytelling, social interaction and practice communication skills. Arts on the Move has a lovely list of activities...
Flat for Google
Flat is an excellent music notation editor that works directly with GSuite. You install it from the Chrome store into your Chrome account and you will have a sheet music editor that allows for...
Organic Chemistry Practice Problems
Though the site is not very visually appealing, it contains a relatively large database of practice questions for Organic Chemistry.
Molview – Chemistry Modelling
MolView is an open-source, intuitive web-application to make chemistry and biology. This application consists of two main parts, a structural formula editor and a 3D model viewer. User can employ 2D...
Noteflight Learn
Noteflight is a robust application for music teachers. They do offer a free trial, but in order to access this, you must contact the company. Their product prices in at approximately $7 per student,...
Gamestar Mechanic
Gamestar Mechanic is an online application to allow people to build a digital game. It also teaches students how to build a game in their application through the playing of a game. The exclusive...
Curious George STEM
Using a well-known character from a series of children's books, PBS has created a fantastic set of lessons to spark curiosity in young learners. The lessons in Curious George STEM include measuring,...
Physics Calculators
Omni Calculator offers a host of calculators for all types of calculations, but their selection of physics calculators is particularly impressive.
Interactive Chemistry Review Activities
Science Geek has a large file of Chemistry Review activities, and they are converting them to html5 (which means Chromebook compatible). Many of their interactive resources are already Chromeboook...
Interactive Periodic Table
This advanced periodic table includes health and safety information.
Chem Ed Exchange
Chem Ed Exchange is a site for - you guessed it - chemistry and science teachers! They have a great deal of free content in addition to their paid content.
Biology Q&A
Based on theory of knowledge and brain science, Biology Q&As was specifically designed, written and organized to make learning biology easier. More than 1800 bite-sized Q&As, covering all of...
Middle School Science Quizzes
Education Quizzes offers a wide range of quizzes on a variety of topics. It is American in its content, but science crosses all borders. This tool should be used as a supplemental tool and for...
Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life offers vast amounts of information about all forms of life on earth. They offer biodiversity cards, data searches, trait-based models and a host of other information to...
Nasa Science – Space Place
Launched in 1998, NASA Space Place's mission is to inspire and enrich upper-elementary-aged kids' learning of space and Earth science online through fun games, hands-on activities, informative...
Help Teaching
Help teaching is a website to assist with test and quiz creation along with worksheets. With a free login, teachers have access to all the questions in their database, but your documents will be...
Wolfram Demonstrations
Wolfram Demonstrations offers over 12,000 demonstrations and simulations for everything from advanced science and physics to K-2 science to arts and architecture. There is something for every...
Wolfram Alpha Problem Generator
Practice makes perfect with the Wolfram Alpha Problem Generator. They have a huge database of problem types for you to springboard off. Additionally, their partner site, Wolfram Demonstrations...
School Yourself
School Yourself is a mathematics website based on doing math, not on watching an instructor do math. Their unique interactive lessons cover math subjects ranging from algebra, geometry, and...
Math Planet
Math Planet is a resource for Div 4 teachers and their students. The educational material is focused on US math, but has support for algebra, geometry, SAT and ACT examinations. Math Planet is...
Visnos Mathematical Demonstrations
Visnos is a nifty site with many interactive tools for teaching and learning math. It tackles everything from basic addition and subtraction to fractals to the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
Prodigy Math Game
The Prodigy Math Game is well-known amongst educators for its engaging math-based games. Further, its privacy policy allows for teachers to enroll students with just first and last name. If you...
iPractice Math
iPractice Math uses game based principles to encourage students to learn through discovery, they also have all the usual stuff schools may like such as worksheets, lesson plans, and of course real...
Google Books
In alignment with their corporate mission statement "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful”, Google Books boasts the world's most comprehensive index of...
Lucid Chart
Lucidchart helps users sketch and share professional flowchart diagrams, providing designs for anything from brainstorming to project management.
ThingLink – Interactive Images
ThingLink is an award-winning education technology platform that makes it easy to augment images, videos, and virtual tours with additional information. Seamlessly make your images, videos, and 360...
Language Tool
Language tool is a nifty website for checking the grammar of text passages under 20,000 words. In the free version, the website states that it has thousands of patterns it uses for finding errors....
Lexipedia – Where Words Have Meaning
Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference site. Lexipedia presents words with their semantic relationships displayed in an animated visual word web.
AI Duet – A Piano that Responds to you
AI Duet is a Google AI experiment. From the site: AI Duet lets you play a duet with the computer. Just play some notes, and the computer will respond to your melody. You don’t even have to know how...
Autodraw – AI enters the drawing space
Auto Draw is an artificial intelligence experiment hosted by Google. Their AI Experiments is a showcase for simple experiments that make it easier for anyone to start exploring machine learning,...
Deck Toys – Interactive Lessons
Deck Toys provides a very unique space in which to create interactive learning and learning pathways for students. Self-exploration at students' own pace allows practice for mastery of key concepts....
Easel.ly – Infographic Creation for Teachers
Easel.ly is an amazing free service to allow teachers to create infographics to assist students with understanding complex topics. Their privacy policy does not allow us leeway to use this service...
LibriVox – Free Audiobooks
Librivox boasts an impressive library of 5,000 audibooks read by volunteers from all around the world. All books are completely free and can be listened to on a large range of devices. The search...
Lingro – Dictionary for Websites
Lingro refers to itself as the coolest dictionary known to hombre. When you visit the website, you can paste the address of another website into the top search field, then it will allow you to click...
Google Arts and Culture Project
Google Arts & Culture Project Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's...
Sketchpad – Online Creation Tool for Teachers and Students
Sketchpad is a sweet little utility for creative projects. When the Google Drive toggle is set, the contents save directly into the user's Google Drive and nothing is stored on Sketchpad's servers....