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Flocabulary
Educational hip hop! Flocabulary creates hip-hop music and curricular materials to teach academic content in grades K-12. Currently being used in 15,000 schools nationwide Flocabulary covers everything from the news headlines to Shakespeare. Check out their newly updated website with lessonplans and dynamic products.
KAHOOT
A game based learning platform. Used by billions worldwide.
It is used in classrooms, offices, and homes, it turns lessons or meetings into friendly competitions where players use their own devices to answer questions based on a shared screen.
Game Creation: Users can easily build multiple-choice, true/false, or open-ended quizzes using text, images, and videos. [1]
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Live Play: A host displays the quiz on a shared screen while players join using a unique PIN via a browser or app, answering on their own phones or tablets to race for points.
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Student-Paced Challenges: Quizzes can be assigned as homework or individual study sessions that participants can complete on their own time.
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Real-time Analytics: Hosts receive detailed reports after the game, allowing them to track overall group performance, see individual scores, and identify difficult topics.
Vacabulary Cartoons
This is absolutely the best learning tool I've used personally with my son.You can purchase the books for all grade levels. There are transparencies available for purchase to be used on an overhead projector.
The Vocabulary Cartoons books make use of multiple mnemonic devices to help students link terms with definitions. For instance, for the word "alienate" (page 29 of SAT Word Power), a word link follows the pronunciation and dictionary definition. The word link is created by dividing the word into "ALIEN ATE." Following the word link a cartoon depicts two obviously disgruntled three-eyed aliens scowling at a gluttonous crewmate who has an ice cream cone in each of his four hands. Underneath the cartoon is the caption, "The chief ALIEN ATE all the ice cream and ALIENATED his crew,"