The best middle school-level apps, games, and websites for the social studies classroom.
Grades
6–8
Expert Review
Up-to-date, expert-backed news literacy program builds needed skills
6–12
Price
Free
Platforms
Web
Create sleek media with cool templates, powerful features
7–12
Free, Paid
Put students in the spotlight with these great video and animation creation apps.
K–12
Tools for making, creating, demonstrating, and inventing.
They'll see adult content. Here's what we can do.
Posted on January 10, 2023 by Paul Barnwell
Awesome audio to inspire ideas, and tools to make those ideas into great podcasts.
How do you know something you see or hear is true?
K–2
Time
15 mins.
Includes
Video
Tech that makes games just as fun to make as to play.
Pre-K–12
Rich professional development sites and online communities for teachers.
Excellent edtech for building early literacy.
Pre-K–5
A huge database of ready-to-go lesson plans but needs more curation
Online art museum empowers students to exhibit, explain their work
Android, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Web
Biweekly, homespun news site offers useful videos and lessons
Free to try
Get students writing for the world, not the classroom.
