Busta Rhymes

Have you ever got stuck trying to find rhymes for your poem or trying to make bars in your new mixtape? Write Rhymes is a FREE website to help find words that rhyme with other words! It's simple, all you have to do is write a word, then click on it while holding the alt key. It will then show you a list of different words and different syllables. Also, users can print, save, or copy their work. No more brain farts!

SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey is a FREE survey site! Users are allowed to create surveys and then can set up a link to send out to people. Also, it is a great tool if you have paper surveys to input. There is no limit to how many you can create! SurveyMonkey will then analyze all the data for you! Depending on what style of questions users use, the website will make a chart to show you how many people said what. I personally love this site. It comes in handy to make reports for my work. I would hate to manually calculate the data. However, SurveyMonkey does everything I need for FREE!

Jeopardy Rocks!

Jeopardy Rocks  is based off the television show Jeopardy. It's easy to go in and set up your FREE account! One can simply click on the amount of money and add their questions/answers. The amount goes from $100-$500. After you complete your questions and answers, you are taken to a screen that asks how many teams are playing. You are allowed to pick up to 6 teams and you are able to pick different characters to represent the team. The game keeps scores, too! Under a team's character, there is a check mark and a red, "X." The check mark will add money, while the "X" takes away the specific amount clicked on! After all the questions are answered, it is time for the final questions. Teams can wage any amount they would like to. Jeopardy Rocks is a great tool to use in a class to review for a test!

Gear Set

The Maker Studio Gears Set is a super awesome set that a teacher could get to have in their classroom.  It gives the students a chance to experience with torque, friction and propulsion while also encouraging creativity with building different types of cars—motorcycles, three-wheeler, cable car or a race car for just a few possibilities that the students could build.  This is really great because it gives the students a chance to not only build the car but they also get a chance to see how everything in the car works altogether.  This gives them a chance to see how different gears work together which will also give the students a good view of what might be wrong if the car doesn’t move like its supposed to—are the gears able to fully turn?  Can the wheels move on the outside of the car?  This set helps pull in engineering, science, and physics and to a degree math.

Plickers!

While assessing students and checking for their understanding of a topic is essential in the academic world, it is also important not to make that something that students come to hate. Many times, students hear the word “test” and automatically begin to panic. They start worrying how much time they will have to study, how much information they will have to try and memorize, and how much information there is that they thought they knew, but actually don’t. With Plickers, the instant anxiety of test taking goes away because here, taking a “test” isn’t really taking a test.

Plickers is an extremely simple tool that allows teachers to collect a real-time formative assessment from their students, without the hassle, and without the anxiety. With Plickers, a question is displayed on the screen, and students answer individually buy turning their individual card in the direction of the answer that they believe is correct. The teacher then walks around the room with their phone, iPad, etc. scanning and automatically recording everyone’s individual answers. By doing so, no one will know who got an answer wrong or right, except for the teacher, allowing students to feel comfortable answering questions, even if they are not completely sure of the correct answer.

The use of Plickers is great for student of all ages, is easy, and free to use! 

Better Ears

Better Ears Beginner is the free version of Better Ears. An educational music and ear training app, which helps you grow your musical skills and enhance your hearing capabilities. There are ten different exercises included, starting from interval recognition all the way to chord progressions - Better Ears Beginner has all the features of Better Ears, but is limited to one level. Better Ears Beginner includes 10 different exercises: • Interval recognition • Scale recognition • Chord recognition • Chord progressions • Pitch recognition • Tempo recognition • Key Signature recognition • Interval music reading • Scale music reading • Chord music reading. Available on iTunes.

TechRocket.com

TechRocket.com is an interactive website where students learn how to do programming, game design, and graphic design. They have different courses available for kids ages 10-18. The site is user friendly, easy to maneuver and well organized. Each course has supplemental videos which give instructions and examples to students. There are also cool challenges and tasks in which upon completion students gain badges, and gain points. Through theses programs students will become familiar with Python, iOS, Java, Minecraft, and even 3-D printing.  Each course has lessons and support materials. They also have camps, and other opportunities in partnering with schools! To find out more about this source click on the link below. 
/https://www.techrocket.com/