Student Educational Resource Page

Music and Art Resources

Capstone Kids- presents a range of complementary material to support fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and Spanish-language titles from publisher Capstone Press. Kid-pleasing story angles that include kid werewolves, fortune telling, super scientists, and monster friends are enticingly brought to life through colorful graphics, a few full-chapter selections, and downloadables such as comic-strip templates and tattoos. The Make Stuff section highlights magic tricks, paper folding, and crafts. There are recipes and instructions for some really fun projects!

Do Ink- is the fun, creative way to make animations on your iPad. The app was designed to be easy for beginners and young animators, but with powerful tools for creating advanced animations. Use the drawing editor to create vector artwork and frame-by-frame (flip book) animations.

Draw A Stickman- Draw a custom stickman and watch him come to life in this interactive stickman adventure.

Edheads- is an online educational resource that provides science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards.

Incredibox - a musical app in which you can quickly and easily create a mix by running a band of beatboxers. Enjoyed by music teachers Incredibox is used in schools to introduce rhythm and music mechanisms to children.

Jam Studio - create music beats - free online music mixing & songwriting tool - quickly create backing tracks, karaoke songs, soundtracks & demo songs with professional sounds. JamStudio is perfect for songwriters, musicians, producers or any music enthusiast. Producers can enter chords, loops, sound effects, sound clips, tracks, music, beats, patterns, riffs, pads, samples, remix and sequences using guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, music software and producing tools. JamStudio is a free online mixer similar to Acid, Acid pro, garageband, Sony Acid, fruity loops, band in a box, pro tools, vegas, DAW.

This is Sand- is a unique playground for creating and sharing amazing sandscapes.

Technology Resources

Canva.com - Easily create beautiful designs + documents. Use Canva's drag-and-drop feature and professional layouts to design consistently stunning graphics

Code.org non-profit computer science website where kids in grade K-12 can practice coding skills free

Edmodo - grade K-12 social learning network where students, teachers, and parents can communicate, share, and learn

Codecademy - Students middle-school age through adults can visit this site to take courses in different coding languages such as HTML, CSS, Python, and more.

Piktochart - an easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce beautiful, high quality graphics. Make your own infographics here.

Prezi- a presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there

Scratch - a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

Screencast-O-Matic - a free online video maker that produces quality videos and it's very easy to use. This is a simple screen capture tool that allows you to record what ever is happening on your PC screen and narrate it as it's happening

Weebly for Education - Weebly enables students to express themselves creatively using a variety of multimedia features, all within a protected environment managed by the classroom teacher