Apps and Extensions to use with your Google Chrome Browser
With the web store you can find all kinds of apps and extentions you can add to your chrome browser.
Google Classroom is an LMS that makes lessons, grading and even classroom management much easier.
Graphic Organizers created in Google Drawing- Can be used in Google Classroom for your students or you can use them yourself on a projector in front of the class.
Google Play for Education makes it easy to control the apps your students have access to! You can find apps that you want your students to use and install them to your students account so when they log into a Chromebook the apps are already there!
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Announcify will read a page to you paragraph by paragraph. It helps your students who struggle to read. It will also blur out the other paragraphs so you know which one it is reading.
Google Forms and Flubaroo are a Great way to do online quizzes and have them automatically graded!
Pixlr Express allows you to create photos and edit them right on the chromebook! Lots of options for adding overlays, borders, pictures, words!
WeVideo allows you to record and edit videos right on your chromebook. You can then share the link to the videos with students or students can share their videos with you.
Master touch typing using this free game / educational program. This online program will assist you with learning and improving your typing speed! Practice each lesson over and over to at least get all three stars. It really doesn't take much to learn touch typing, a few minutes a day for one to two weeks and you will be a pro!
Math Extensions/Apps
Math Trail is a math adventure game
Kids can expect to be snapped up by crocs and swamped by red-hot lava if they get their mathematical calculations wrong
Los Números 0-10 Spanish Numbers Baby Flashcards are fun for babies and toddlers. Los Números 0-10 Spanish Numbers Flash cards will entertain and teach them as they learn the numbers, count and hear the words. With quiz and practice modes.
Reading/Writing Extensions/Apps
Boost reading and writing confidence. Offer support for Google Docs/web to students with learning difficulties, dyslexia or ELL/ESL. Read&Write for Google™ offers a range of powerful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading and writing, including:
• Hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting • See the meaning of words explained with text and picture dictionaries • Hear text translated into other languages • Get suggestions for the current or next word as you type • Turn words into text as you speak • Highlight text in documents or the web and collect for use in other documents • Simplify and summarize text on web pages
• Hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting • See the meaning of words explained with text and picture dictionaries • Hear text translated into other languages • Get suggestions for the current or next word as you type • Turn words into text as you speak • Highlight text in documents or the web and collect for use in other documents • Simplify and summarize text on web pages
315 Dolch sight word flashcards with Audio - Free and no ads!
Simple and clean layout with no ads! Is your child/student ready to learn how to read?! Sight words are some of the most common words in the English language. Small children are predominantly visual learners and therefore the use of sight words is a more effective way of learning how to read. Combined with an appropriate curriculum these flashcards will help provide balanced reading instruction for your child and students.
Simple and clean layout with no ads! Is your child/student ready to learn how to read?! Sight words are some of the most common words in the English language. Small children are predominantly visual learners and therefore the use of sight words is a more effective way of learning how to read. Combined with an appropriate curriculum these flashcards will help provide balanced reading instruction for your child and students.
The AL – Early Literacy application has activities that are developed for students in pre-kindergarten through first grade. Each activity is geared towards understanding different fundamentals of reading while supporting the Common Core State Standards. The activities are designed to supplement and support an educator's course plan.
+ English Audio Books - Librivox + Learn English listening and reading Audio books, or if you know the language, just enjoy our catalog. Features: - More than 3000 Audio Books. - The books can be downloaded and read without Internet connection. - Includes the text of books. - Now, with an English dictionary.
Free Interactive Childrens Books for the new generation! Free books that read itself to your little ones! Yes the books include text and audio. We publish a new book every 2 weeks. Kids can enjoy these books on their own or you can read to them. When we publish new free books they will appear automatically in the App. All books we publish are picture books with audio.
VocabularySpellingCity offers learning games and activities including spelling tests and flash cards for students to use to practice spelling and vocabulary words entered by their teachers or parents.
READ each book with audio playback, word highlighting and automatic playback! Want to read it yourself, just click the pause button, and then turn the pages manually.
Word Connect is a puzzle game of connecting words. Think of it as a cross between Boggle and Bejeweled. Click and drag your cursor over the letters to form a word. This will drop down new letters. Repeat and see your score go up. How high of a score can you get in 60 seconds?
Science Extensions/Apps
Learn more about our solar system. The amazing 3D graphics will make you feel as if you were traveling through the universe.
Science Games include various sub-categories of science. In this comprehensive science games collection, you will find biology games, surgery and doctor games, anatomy games and more educational games that can be played by both kids and adults.
People from all ages interested in medicine and human anatomy can play anatomy games. Also there are interactive anatomy atlases.
High School level site. Anatomic.us is prepared to enable medical students, interns, teachers, patients and everybody interested in human anatomy to access anatomy atlas. You can learn pronunciation of medical terms with audio descriptions, location of organs with visual graphics. This interactive guide appeals to visual perception, auditory perception, so information is catchy.