Technology Tools for Lesson Plans

Getting Started

This guide offers suggested tool to enhance and create engaging lesson plans using technology

Guide Description:

This guide offers suggested tools to enhance and create engaging lesson plans using technology.

Listed below are websites, apps, and databases suggested for use to integrate technology into a lesson plan.
If you have any questions about incorporating technology into your lesson plans please come to the ERC or email Tiffeni Fontno, Education Librarian, for additional assistance.
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Parts of a Lesson Plan

Pre-Assessment
Objectives/Goals
Anticipatory Set/Background Knowledge/Vocabulary
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Guided Small Group/Independent Practice
Debrief/Post-Assessment/Follow Up

Pre-Assessment

Purpose: To check class status, consider adjustments

Objectives/Goals/I Can Statements

Purpose: Performance expectations, framework, tied to standards or skill

Anticipatory Set/Background Knowledge/Vocabulary

Purpose: Hook, introduction, advanced/concept organizer, activate prior learning

Direct Instruction

Purpose: Instructional strategy

cK-12 (content)
(website) Free high-quality, standards-aligned, open content in the STEM subjects
Commonlit (content)
(website) Free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 5-12.
Curriki (content)
(website) Online community of educators, learners and committed education experts works together to build and share quality materials that benefit teachers, parents and students globally
Google Slides (presentation)
(website, app) Ceate a new presentation and edit with others at the same time
Khan's Academy (content)
(website, app) Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more
Microsoft PowerPoint
Create, edit, and share work with others.
OER Commons (content)
(website) Freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials.
Prezi (presentation)
(website, app) Presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to communicate ideas.
Screencast-O-Matic (presentation)
(website) Create and share screen recordings
Smart Exchange (content)
(website) Lesson plans and resources for a SMART Board.
Smart Notebook (presentation)
(download) Interactive learning experiences that easily connect with your classroom technology
Hyperdocs
HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom.

Guided Practice

Purpose: Integration of skills, content demonstration

Smart Exchange
(website) Lesson plans and resources for a SMART Board.
Smart Notebook
(website) Lesson plans and resources for a SMART Board.

Small Group/Independent Practice

Purpose: Personalized, differentiated and collaborative learning

Epic!
(website, app) eBooks that offers thousands of high-quality books. Free for Educators.
Explain Everything
(app) Integrates content from many sources that teachers and teens can use to create lessons, tutorials, and more for class or personal use
Google Docs
(website, app) Free productivity tools for classroom collaboration.
Google Slides
(website, app) Ceate a new presentation and edit with others at the same time.
iBrainstorm
(app) Capture and shares ideas with teachers or the entire classroom across multiple iPads.
Inkflow
(app) Handwriting, drawing, and note-taking app, loaded with options and features and a picture-perfect tutorial.
Newsela: Nonfiction Literacy
(website, app) Free leveled news, primary sources, and more, with standards-aligned formative assessments.
Padlet
(website, app) Digital canvas to create beautiful projects that are easy to share and collaborate
Popplet
Mind-mapping tool helping students think and learn visually.
ShowMe
(website, app) Open online learning community where anyone can learn and teach any topic.