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Explore the solar system with Slooh

Byryan August 28, 2019August 28, 2019

Source: Learn to explore space | Slooh.com

Slooh.com is an website designed to help you learn about space. Although it isn’t free, the $300 classroom license with 30 students is reasonable. Once you become a member of Slooh.com, you can take part in several cool activities:

Control of 6 telescopes, allowing you up to 20 hours of sky viewing. You can make reservations to few particular objects too.
Access to astronomers. Ask questions of real life astonomers.
Quests. Gamified learning of space.

All in all, I would have loved to have had access to something like this in high school!

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Ancient Earth globe is a Google Earth but for going back millions of years

Byryan June 30, 2018June 30, 2018

Ancient Earth globe is a Google Earth but for going back millions of years Source: Ancient Earth This is a very cool tool for studying the past geology of the Earth. One of the most interesting features is the ability to enter an address and have Ancient Earth locate where that address would be on…

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Squibler is a writing prompt generator with a dangerous mode

Byryan October 14, 2021October 12, 2021

Source: Squibler: Where writers get serious Squibler is not available for free past a 14 day trial mode, but it does have some free features that you and your students can use without an account. The Plot Generator helps you start a story with an idea. Students could copy the idea into their own document…

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Use Dave’s Mapper to create fictional town & country maps

Byryan June 5, 2019June 5, 2019

Dave’s Mapper is a fun little site for generating fictional maps. The main purpose of the site is to generate maps for role playing games, but it could also be used by students in the classroom. Design projects such as creating a town or community could benefit from this tool, allowing the students to easily…

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Unsplash is another option for free photos to use for any purpose

Byryan May 12, 2017May 17, 2017

Unsplash is another site for free to use photos. Like LibreStock, these photos are licensesd under Create Commons 0, which means they are free to use for any use, including commercial use. The site couldn’t be simpler to use, you type your search term into the site and it returns pictures related to the term. So,…

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Grammar checking with Linguix

Byryan November 4, 2021November 4, 2021

Source: Linguix Free Writing Assistant Linguix is a grammar checker and more that is available as a Chrome extension and a website. As a Chrome extension, it is available for writing on various websites. I’m currently using it in the WordPress editor as I write this post. The extension and website do require an account…

$Brilliant teaches math and science in a fun an interactive way$

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Brilliant teaches math and science in a fun an interactive way

Byryan November 24, 2020November 24, 2020

Source: Brilliant | Learn to think A lot of the sites I link to have a lot of value at a the free tier. Although Brilliant does have some activities available for free, to get the most out of it you’ll need to subscribe. Also, the site doesn’t have any classroom management or school plans….

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