Adobe Education ExchangeAdobe Education Exchange is a free website designed by educators for educators to ignite creativity in the classroom. On the site, you will find workshops, classes, and resources based on subject, education level, products, author, and location. Each lesson has an estimated time to complete the activity, description of the activity, downloadable lesson plan, and related resources to maximize success. There is even a lesson to get students learning about and using Adobe Spark.
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Everyone Can Create (Apple)Everyone Can Create includes four project guides that introduce the fundamentals of video, photography, music, and drawing for over 30 activities. All of the apps used in the project are free and take advantage of the iPads built-in camera, microphone, speakers, Multi-Touch display, VoiceOver, and Apple Pencil. You can also download a design workbook, to help student build critical skills through phases of the creative process, and a teacher guide, with over 300 lesson ideas and rubrics to add engaging projects and assess student work when integrating these projects into existing lessons.
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Applied Digital Skills (Google)Creative, video and project-based lessons that teach students about the 4 C's and prepare them for future jobs. The lessons are free and work for students learning remotely or in-class and connect directly with Google Classroom. When searching for lessons, you can filter by audience, digital tools, and topic. This all means you can find a lesson to work with Slides, Docs, Sheets or an other Google Workplace apps and filter it to fit the subject you teach, like ELA, math, art, etc. Each lesson will tell you about how long it takes to complete, you are provided a lesson plan, sample rubric, certificate of completion, and all video to support the learning.
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Chromebook App HubThe Chromebook App Hub is a website that combines lesson plan ideas with specific Chromebook apps. Search and filter ideas by category, subject, age, and learning goal. Help students work through the 4 Cs or built their skills to be a 21st century learner. Each lesson idea is created by an educator and offers an overview, tips for success, differentiated instructional strategies for English language learners and special accommodations, resources to get you started, and apps used for the idea.
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Design School (Canva)Canva has several courses to help you get started using Canva and build your ability from basic design up through being a pro in Canva. There are also courses for graphic design basics, social media mastery, creating impressive presentations, and more. Use the courses to get familiar with Canva or incorporate your students and up their graphic ability in Canva.
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TED EdTED Ed are high-quality, interactive, video-based lessons that are delivered to your inbox daily for free. The lesson plans include a video to watch, multiple-choice and open-ended questions based on the video, additional resources to help you dig deeper into the topic, and guided discussion and open-ended questions. If you don't want the newsletter delivered to your inbox you can search the TED Ed website and discover lessons, a series of lessons, earth school, and the TED Ed blog with other resources. If you're feeling lucky you can try to search for a lesson on the site. If you are feeling inspired you can also create your own lesson for your students and share it back to the site for other educators.
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PBS Learning MediaPBS Learning Media has FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for teachers. The site can be filtered by subject, grade level, and standards. There is also a site dedicated for students with a lot of games, videos, and activities. PBS Learning integrates with Google login credentials and Google Classroom. The lessons come with any videos, discussion questions, or documents needed.
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Adobe, Khan Academy & Pixar in a Box On the Adobe Education Exchange, Khan Academy provides materials, and then presents students with guided activities to create, express themselves, and experience the full breadth and richness of new topics and subjects. With Pixar in a Box, you will learn from Pixar how to animate, build, and make amazing things based on Pixar movies.
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