Miscellaneous Tools

Primary Sources

• Zoom In: A free, web-based program that "helps students build literacy and historical thinking skills through "deep dives" into primary and secondary sources."

Citation Help

• Knightcite

• Owl Purdue Writing Lab

• Easybib, Bibme and NoodleTools Express

Lesson Design

• Literacy Design Collaborative: Templates for developing lessons and units for Argumentative writing
  Templates include rubrics, ELA standards, and state standards

• EngageNY: Lessons, modules, videos and more for aligning social studies content to the Common Core

• C3 Teacher: Lessons and templates

Instructional Technology Help

• Favorite tools (WSCSS '16 Presentation)

• Teach with Web 2.0 Lessons and tutorials for educators

• Cool Tools for Schools Lessons and tutorials for educators

• Wakefield 2.1 Lesson plans and tutorials for numerous Web 2.0 programs

Data Sources

• Open Data and Mapping: https://www.sos.wa.gov/library/libraries/projects/opendata/

• Data Equity for Mainstreet (4 modules) https://data-equity.org/

• Tableau Public Data Visualization Software  https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/ 

• Statistics in school (includes lessons & shorter challenges) https://www.census.gov/schools

• WA Data dashboard https://erdc.wa.gov/data-dashboards

• ArcGIS Contest for MS/HS resources, via Dennis Small   

• Esri: https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/about-arcgis/overview 

• Data 101 Toolkit (from Pittsburg): http://www.wprdc.org/news/data-101-toolkit/ 

• Open data Washington State Library: Open Data Resource Guide.