Infographic Creation

Infographics are a great way to share data and statistics information
visually and are super popular these days. 

{An inforgraphic is a graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge.}

Here is a fabulous animated infographic that explains the 

13 reasons why your brain craves infographics

and a few of my favorite educational technology infographics can be found here. 

In addition to being a great way to share information with students, 

they can be created BY students to understand and

 connect their learning, vocabulary, and other info.  

How neat would it be to have students create their own for a research project

 they are doing instead of a traditional essay, poster, or powerpoint?

It could be a visual essay! 

Here are some great infographic creators that make the task super easy! 

Piktochart is a great online creator that allows you a
free account to make some basic infographics. 

There is even a discounted rate for educators that would like to go pro.  

Sign up is super quick and allows you to get started creating right away! 

Easelly is another great online infographic creator that allows 

you to start with a template and adjust it to fit your data.  

It's a great way to create an infographic without out starting totally from scratch! 

Infogram is my favorite of all three of these as it has lots of options 

and even allows you to upload your own data in an Excel document! 

Here's a fabulous tutorial video by Linda W. Braun showing
 how to use both Easelly and Inforgram!

Animal Habitats

There are some absolutely amazing sites out there for kids to

 learn about animal habitats. 

Here are a few of my favorites: 

Switch Zoo is my absolute favorite! 

Build an Online Habitat is where students choose animals and 

match them to the correct environment by changing weather, 

vegetation, animal & biome. 

Animal Homes is a great site for little ones to begin learning 

about different animal habitats. 

Draw that Habitat from PBS is a super cute site! 

A student chooses an animal, is given some information to read about

 the animal, and then draws the habitat for it. 

Once their drawing is completed they can save or print it.

National Geographic has a fun activity called Creature Feature. 

Students select a wildlife or habitat category button and only

the animals that match what you have selected will be shown. 

Plant and Animal Habitats from the BBC is another great habitat game

where students have to put aliens in their correct habitat after being given

clues about the creature and their habitat. 

Wanted: New Home for Frog! is a great activity from EcoKids 

where students can help a frog find a new habitat. 

Every Living Thing Has a Home from e-Learning for Kids is

 another good interactive for kids.

The Crittercam from National Geographic is a great way for students to explore 

the deep sea habitat as they attempt to find nine different animals. 

Students can design a habitat for a ferret in the

  Design a Habitat site from ARKive.

In Who Lives Here students match cards to see which 

animals and plants live around a specific kind of tree.

The Magic School Bus has a fun habitat matching game 

called The Great Habitat Match.

Mr. Nussbaum has a Habitat Maker game that allows

students to take quizzes on animals and vegetation. 

A Walk in the Forest is a great site to help kids learn 

about the different layers of a habitat. 

Paper is NOT Dead

While I love love LOVE my iPad, paper is still necessary for some things!

Love this ad that shows that some things are indeed, better left low tech!

Easter Fun - ALL in One Place!

I've created a website full 

of all my favorite Easter sites and apps

so that it's easy to for teachers and parents and kids to access them!

Click HERE to visit Easter Fun and 

find a bunch of great educational websites, apps, games and more!  

{And please feel free to share with your friends!}

Fabulous and FREE Apps Daily Email

There are so many fabulous apps out there that it's hard to sort 
through them to know which ones are really good.  

Like all items at Hobby Lobby all apps go on sale at some point 

but you have to catch them right away because many are only for a short time. 

I post a few great FREE apps each day on the CSISD Ed Tech Facebook page 

but also recently began emailing out a daily list to save

 teachers & parents time searching for apps.  

This daily email is called Fabulous and Free 
and includes free apps and Kindle books. 
{See below for an example or click here to view the flyer online!}

If you'd like to have links to great FREE apps delivered directly

 to your inbox just complete the form below!  

Holiday Fun Site

I've created a site that houses all of the holiday sites 

I have created this year so that you can easily find and reference them. 

Click HERE to visit the Holiday Fun site!

As I make new holiday sites I will add them. 

If you have any ideas for sites you'd like me to make please let me know!

St. Patrick's Day Fun- All in ONE Place!

I've created a website full 

of all my favorite St. Patrick's Day sites and apps

so that it's easy to for teachers and parents and kids to access them!

Click HERE to visit St. Patrick's Day Fun and 

find a bunch of great educational websites, apps, games and more!  

{And please feel free to share with your friends!}

St. Patrick's Day Fun

St. Patrick's Day Games & Activities

Find a Four Leaf Clover interactive story by Starfall

St. Patrick's Journey- An interactive story that shares the history of St. Patrick's journey through Ireland. This is a fabulous story and students are given the opportunity to download images from the story so that they can create their own presentation of the story. 

The Luck O' the Irish Funny Fill-In

{Mad Lib type activity!}

St. Patty's Day MahJong- The idea of the game is to remove pair of matching tiles from the screen and eventually remove all the tiles. Tiles are only available if not covered by another tile and their is space on either the left or right side of the title. 

Tiles match only if they have the EXACT same design.

St. Patrick's Day Word Find

Polygone- Look for different sized shamrocks that have 

been shifted out of position. Use your mouse to click on them 

and they will shift back into position. 

St. Patrick's Day Crossword puzzle with clues

Lucky Clover- Find all 10 four leaf clovers as quickly as possible!

Catch Patty

{similar to Whack-a-Mole}

Green Leprechauns- Put leprechauns in the area to turn everything green. A leprechaun will turn all the blocks it sees green. It can see blocks on the same row or column but can not see through shamrocks. Two leprechauns must not see each other. If a shamrock has a number, then the number of leprechauns put beside that shamrock must match that number. 

Shamrock Sudoku

Spot the Differences- Find all 7 differences before time runs out!

Spot the Difference- Find all 7 difference before time runs out!

St. Patrick's Day Printables

March ABC Order (with repeating letters)

St. Patrick's Day Blends Activity

Compound Words at the end of the Rainbow

St. Patrick's Day Inequalities Activity

Rainbow Place Value

St. Patrick's Day Writing Activity

From ABC Teach printables including comprehension stories, coloring pages, grid coloring, did you know pages, rebus, shape books, writing paper and much more!

Sparklebox St. Patrick's Day Printables including 

St. Patrick's Day Word Cards

St. Patrick's Day Number Cards

St. Patrick's Day Banner

Enchanted Learning's St. Patrick's Day Resources including

St. Patrick's Day Addition Book

St. Patrick's Day Word Wheel

St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt from Education World

St. Patrick's Day Apps

Free Apps

Coloring St. Patrick's Day HD

20 original coloring pages that will inspire and spark the imagination of St Patrick's Day. Kids will enjoy coloring and later taking their painting and having it scrambled up in a joyful slider puzzle game. Kids can also customize their drawings with a frame and autograph, which can be saved in the Photo Library!

St. Patrick's Day Photo Free

Add St. Patrick's Day Photo Effects on your photo! Send your work to your friends!

Paid Apps

Clover Touch

The goal of the game is simple, just tap into the clovers that appear in the screen to convert them into gold coins. Collect 1000 gold coins to win the pot o' gold. Sounds easy? A leprechaun might be hidden in one of the clovers looking after his gold, if you find one...game over.

Talking Leprechaun for St. Patrick's Day

Have fun this st patricks day with your very own talking leprechaun. It repeats back what you say, 

It dances and it says a few funny catchphrases.

St. Patrick's Day Hidden Objects

Leapin' Leprechaun

Now you have caught Paddy the Leprechaun, can you get his gold? Flick him at the pot of gold, land him in and you will win. Paddy will take you around Ireland where he has his pots of gold hidden. How much of his gold can you get? However, leprechauns can be tricky, so he might make it hard for you to win. Don't be alarmed when he tells you what he thinks about how you are playing the game.

Build A Card: St. Patrick's Day HD

Use photos from your camera, your photo album, or even your Facebook account to create a classic St. Patty's Day card to show how the party went down with you and all you friends.

St. Patrick's Day Videos

History.com has some great short videos about St. Patrick's Day

like this one about Shamrocks

this one about Leprechauns

this one about the History of St. Patrick's Day

{be warned this one does mention drinking beer on St. Patrick's Day}

and this one about why we celebrate with GREEN!