$2000 Budget

This platform was free to use and began by asking questions about what the user needed for their webpage to gear the organization to the user’s needs. It also had AI assistance available to help get started on the webpage, so it wasn’t required to be created from scratch. I liked that this platform had places for information and assessment while also being very easy to navigate.

This platform has a 30-day free trial and begins providing the user with courses to complete that provide information on how to use the platform. The user can switch into admin mode and see progress that Is being made by those using the website and which courses or trainings they have made. This program is less easy to navigate and requires more set up time.

This platform begins by giving user questions to tailor the website to best fit their needed. The site has multiple opens for color, design, use of AI assistance, and package selections from free to paid. This website is very easy to navigate and create content for.

This platform has a free trial and is easy to navigate and get started. The site begins by asking questions to understand what the user needs from the website and helps to create a template for the beginning of the site. The starting page is mostly blank for the user to continue adding content.

This resource provides support for students in reading by providing many books and textbooks online as eBooks or audiobooks. This supports students who need to have text enlarged or read aloud for example as this cannot be done with a physical text.

I like this resource because it contains reading materials for students at a variety of reading levels. It also provides resources in Spanish as well as English. An example that could be used in my content area would be the “Fossil Indicators” lesson for an evolution lesson. This connects to UDL through multiple means of engagement by making the reading more accessible through reading level and language        

Diffit uses AI to adjust the reading level of articles for students. Teachers can select the article they want students to review and adjust the level up or down to meet students where they are at. Teachers can also adjust the style the text presents in to be more accessible for students. The article provides vocabulary, multiple choice questions, short answer questions, and open-ended prompts for students to respond to as well.

This tool allows students to paste in text from an article, and the platform will take the text and reword it into simpler language for the student. This can help students to better access written materials that may have otherwise been inaccessible.

This tool is a communication board that has different icons for students to select. The symbols have text to speech technology within them that can assist students with communication challenges with communicating their needs.

This resource is an extension for google chrome that gives students assistance with reading and writing. It allows students to use text to speech technology to have text read aloud to them. It also provides speech to text technology that allows students to turn their spoken words into written text.

This is a text to speech tool that allows students to have written text read to them. This tool can be used text that can be scanned in an online format and allows students who may have reading challenges to have more access to written materials.

This resource is specifically designed for students with dyslexia, it has all text written in font that helps students with dyslexia better read the text. This font is designed with intentional spacing and letter shapes to best support students.

This resource is designed to help students with reading and writing. It includes features such as creating word webs, and diagrams. It assists students with creating visuals to represent written materials to further student literacy.

Diffit uses AI to adjust the reading level of articles for students. Teachers can select the article they want students to review and adjust the level up or down to meet students where they are at. Teachers can also adjust the style the text presents in to be more accessible for students. The article provides vocabulary, multiple choice questions, short answer questions, and open-ended prompts for students to respond to as well.

This aligns with UDL guideline 1 by providing opportunities to customize the display of information unique to the student’s needs by adjusting the reading level and presentation of written texts.

I like this resource because it provides video explanations for a variety of biological phenomenon. An example that could be used from this resource would be the protein synthesis video.

This connects to UDL guideline 1 by providing multiple means of representation and giving students another way to perceive the material through video explanations from another source.

This tool allows students to paste in text from an article, and the platform will take the text and reword it into simpler language for the student. This can help students to better access written materials that may have otherwise been inaccessible.

This aligns with UDL guideline 2 by clarifying vocabulary, symbols, and language structures for students and decoding text through rewording complex texts into simpler language.

Curipod is a teacher resource that uses AI to assist teachers in designing interactive learning experiences. Teachers can generate entirely new lessons using Curipod or upload their own slide decks and have Curipod integrate interactive activities within it. Curipod uses a variety of response types to keep students interested and engaged, and also gives AI generated feedback to students during the lesson to help their understanding.

This aligns with UDL guideline 3 by helping to connect prior knowledge to new learning through interactive slides that build on past knowledge. This also helps to explore patterns and big ideas within a lesson.

This resource is an extension for google chrome that gives students assistance with reading and writing. It allows students to use text to speech technology to have text read aloud to them. It also provides speech to text technology that allows students to turn their spoken words into written text.

This aligns with UDL guideline 4 by optimizing access to accessible materials and assistive technology by increasing accessibility to written materials through speech to text and text to speech technology within the student’s browser.

This tool is a communication board that has different icons for students to select. The symbols have text to speech technology within them that can assist students with communication challenges with communicating their needs.

This aligns with UDL guideline 5 by allowing the use of multiple media for communication through providing symbols on a communication board to allow students to communicate their needs in different ways.

This tool Is an interactive platform that allows students and teachers to brainstorm ideas together. Users can post questions and responses where the whole class can respond together through posting items such as pictures, videos, or text. Response boards can be customized to meet the needs of that lesson.

This aligns with UDL guideline 6 by allowing opportunities to organize information and resources as well as enhancing capacity for monitoring progress by giving both teachers and students the opportunity to brainstorm together in a shared space where resources can be collected and stored for future use.

Gimkit allows students to interact through games that students can choose. Students must earn energy by answering quiz style questions with 2-4 answer choices. With energy the student can then move their character within the game mode of their choice. Students gain points by answering questions correctly and making it up the leaderboard.

This aligns with UDL guideline 7 by nurturing joy and play through the use of gamified assessment and practice quizzes.

This website has simulations for math and statistics, chemistry, biology, physics, earth and space science that demonstrate different topics. The simulations are interactive and allow students to change settings to see what happens to the situation if different variables are adjusted. This website is also free to use for teachers and students. 

This aligns with UDL guideline 8 through optimizing challenge and support by giving students the opportunity to explore different phenomenon on their own providing challenge but still providing support through guided practice and help available.

This resource allows educators to create videos using annotations, uploaded documents, and handwritten information. This tool can work with other established learning management systems such as canvas, Google Classroom, Blackboard, Moodle, and others. This resource provides teachers with an interactive space to show students materials.

This tool is an interactive platform that allows students and teachers to brainstorm ideas together. Users can post questions and responses where the whole class can respond together through posting items such as pictures, videos, or text. Response boards can be customized to meet the needs of that lesson.

This whiteboard includes a chat and video element which allows students to ask questions and interact with the material. This tool can be used in a virtual classroom where students can join and watch from different locations. This supports students who may need to view the material up close as they can have the whiteboard up on their own screen.

This whiteboard is a downloadable app that has a blank canvas for teachers to sketch on. The app is interactive and allows users to record voice over videos to share with students. Users can also include images, handwritten information, and typed text.

This lesson takes students through the ecological changes that have occurred surrounding Mount Saint Helens from the original eruption in 1980 to present day. This lesson makes note of the blast zone and impacted areas.

This lesson shows students satellite weather imagery from the United States in real time. This allows students to deepen their understanding of weather patterns and their presentation on the globe.

This lesson shows data on floodplains in Massachusetts with data that was collected from FEMA. This lesson will help students to better understand floodplains around waterways and the areas these may impact.

This lesson involves earthquake and volcanic activity around the pacific area of the globe. This helps students to better understand earthquake activity on the global scale.

This lesson focuses on the Yosemite Valley, looking at different geography in the area and the impacts it has on the overall ecosystem. This helps students to better understand the impacts geography has on ecosystems and their makeup.

This lesson compares different bodies of water around the globe. This allows students to understand changes over time in bodies of water.

This lesson takes students on a tour of basins around the ocean across the globe. This lesson will help students further their understanding of ocean geography and plate tectonics.

This lesson demonstrates the breaking up of Pangaea into continents. This will better help students to understand how the earth got its modern-day geological features.

This lesson goes over data collected from a tsunami that occurred on December 26^th, 2004. The data covers the impacted areas of the tsunami and how it occurred. This lesson will help students to better understand the causes and impacts of a tsunami.

I compared Gimkit and Kahoot. Gimkit allows students to interact through games that students can choose. Students must earn energy by answering quiz style questions with 2-4 answer choices. With energy the student can then move their character within the game mode of their choice. Students gain points by answering questions correctly and making it up the leaderboard. Kahoot is a quiz style trivia game where students are timed and compete against the class to get the highest score. Students get points in Kahoot by selecting the correct answer the fastest. Questions appear as true or false, multiple choice or other question formats if the premium package is purchased. Both choices generate a report of student progress following a live session. Between these two options I would use Gimkit in my classroom because it allows more students to have a chance to demonstrate their understanding as it is not speed dependent for points.

I compared Gimkit and Kahoot. Gimkit allows students to interact through games that students can choose. Students must earn energy by answering quiz style questions with 2-4 answer choices. With energy the student can then move their character within the game mode of their choice. Students gain points by answering questions correctly and making it up the leaderboard. Kahoot is a quiz style trivia game where students are timed and compete against the class to get the highest score. Students get points in Kahoot by selecting the correct answer the fastest. Questions appear as true or false, multiple choice or other question formats if the premium package is purchased. Both choices generate a report of student progress following a live session. Between these two options I would use Gimkit in my classroom because it allows more students to have a chance to demonstrate their understanding as it is not speed dependent for points.

This tool is a survey style resource that uses a variety of question styles to get student responses. Students respond using mobile devices or computers. Student responses and progress are logged within the app, and this allows teachers to track student understanding over time.

This tool uses either mobile devices or physical clicker remotes to respond to a projected quiz style question. Users can design questions for students to respond too using multiple choice style questions with 2-4 responses. This tool does not keep points, and logs student progress as they answer questions.

Allows users to scan plants and insects to receive the name of that species and further information about its background and taxonomy. Allows students to better understand the ecology around them and can tie into discussions of native versus nonnative species and their impacts. It is not always accurate and occasionally is unable to provide a name for the scanned species. It also requires a working camera.

Allows users to project an atom or bonded atoms into the classroom space to view the molecule in 3-dimesensional space from all angles. This could be a useful tool in chemistry classes to better visualize atomic structure and bonding patterns of different molecules. This is an app that would require camera use, and this app must be purchased as well for $1.99 on the app store for apple products.

Allows users to dissect human anatomy models in 3-dimesnsional space. The app also provides lab activities to walk through anatomy, and dissection quizzes to check your progress. This app will allow students to have access to human anatomy dissections that otherwise may not have been possible. The quizzes and lab activities allow students to self-assess their progress and have practice outside of class time as well. This app is only available on apple iPads and iPhones. The app also costs $24.99 on the apple app store for the initial cost. The app also states that there may be in app purchases as well.

Users have access to predesigned activities for different subjects. Users can interact in the 3-dimesnsional space to break down an assortment of topics. This allows students to interact with experiences they may not have had access to without AR. For example, dissecting a human eye, or calculating the mechanics of fireworks. The AR also has Spanish versions of lessons available. This resource would require technology that can use the app for the best experience as the web version is more limited in resources.

This resource allows users to interact with different topics in a 3-dimensional space to better visual the material. The resource contains digital teaching aids, simulations, activity plans, and projects. This resource allows students to manipulate different concepts in the lesson activity to further their understanding of different variables and the impacts on they have on the topic at hand. This resource requires purchasing a package plan of their $5999 for the schoolwide availability, or $2999 for 30 users in a school at a time. This cost is annual as the package only covers a one-year term.

Includes resources for animals, cells and disease, human anatomy, life cycles, environments, and plants. This resource uses AR, VR, and models to help further student understanding. This site also has premade lessons available for teachers or the option to upload your own content. This resource will give students the opportunity to more deeply explore science concepts in class and give access to visit locations or use tools that may not have otherwise been available for students in the classroom. This resource requires a payment to access the supplies and materials that can be accessed through getting a quote from the company. In order to use the materials for this resource a headset from the company must be purchased.

This resource has several VR lessons available exploring different science topics. The lessons contain a central topic or issue and then have VR videos available for students to explore. This resource grounds the science topic in a relevant way for student to generate interest. Additionally, students are able to interact with the material by exploring the virtual space. There are a limited number of lesson available on this site, however the site is free to access and can be done on a variety of devices.

This resource has hands on activities for science lessons that will allow students to explore anatomy, medical studies, and other lessons in a virtual, 3D space. This will allow students to explore more around the topics in class by going to new places and seeing organisms they may not have access to view in the traditional classroom. This resource requires a headset to run the materials.

This resource provides a variety of apps for use for multiple subjects. The apps are VR experiences that will allow students to explore different concepts in the classroom space in 3D. This benefits the students because it gives another way to approach the topic at hand, and it also gives students the opportunity to try certain tasks multiple times that would not be possible in the traditional classroom due to time, or materials. This resource requires access to headsets. It also has apps that are a range of prices from free to paid giving flexibility price for educational materials once the original headset is available.

This resource is an AI generator that can create resources, dialogue, help students brainstorm ideas, and summarize texts by entering phrases into the AI chat bar. This tool can help support students in better understanding written materials or providing assistance in generating ideas.

This AI resource is designed with schools in mind and is a good tool for educators. This tool can help educators brainstorm ideas for activities and lessons and write lesson plan drafts as well by entering prompts into the AI chat bar. This makes the tool a support for educators by having schools in the main focus.

This resource allows users to create a sketch on their online platform and the AI will respond by generating a list of clip art that matches the users sketch. This helps to support users by generating professional clipart to use for projects.

Curipod is a teacher resource that uses AI to assist teachers in designing interactive learning experiences. Teachers can generate entirely new lessons using Curipod or upload their own slide decks and have Curipod integrate interactive activities within it. Curipod uses a variety of response types to keep students interested and engaged, and also gives AI generated feedback to students during the lesson to help their understanding.

This is a learning management platform that works through Google with all other Google tools. This tool can be helpful for students because it puts all of their resources needed for assignments in once place.

This AR tool gives students the opportunity to put a landscape in front of them. The tool will provide stories and descriptions that align to the landscape and events happening within it. This can be a helpful tool for students to visualize waterway landscapes.

This tool provides an assortment of tutorial videos for students on any topic they may find confusing. This tool is helpful for educators because it can provide another perspective to explain topics to students.

This platform allows teachers to communicate with students and parents through a single app that will send messages directly to user’s text inbox. This is helpful tool to for educators to increase communications with students and families outside the classroom for necessary announcements.

This website has simulations for math and statistics, chemistry, biology, physics, earth and space science that demonstrate different topics. The simulations are interactive and allow students to change settings to see what happens to the situation if different variables are adjusted. This website is also free to use for teachers and students. 

I like this resource because it contains animations for different biological processes using 3 dimensional videos. An example that could be used from this resource in my content area would be the “Transcription (Basic)” animation in a protein synthesis lesson. This connects to UDL by providing multiple means of representation by giving students another way to look at the material.

I like this resource because it contains resources for biology lessons in multiple domains of biology. An example that could be used from this resource in my content area would be the “Journey Through the Cell” lesson which contains a story like assignment for students to compare parts of a cell to a factory. This connects to UDL by creating multiple means of action and expression in cell comparisons.

 I like this resource because it contains interactive activities to allow students to dive deeper into certain topics. An example that could be used from this resource in my content area would be the “Interactive Case Study for The Science of an Extreme Animal Athlete” where students investigate natural selection related to deer mice. This connects to UDL through multiple means of representation by giving students another way to view this topic.

I like this resource because it provides online dissection resources. An example that could be used in my content area would be the frog dissection link from this website to PBS. This connects to UDL through providing multiple means of engagement. If students did not want to physically dissect a frog, they would be able to virtually watch the dissection and get the same information as a physical dissection.

I like this resource because it provides video explanations for a variety of biological phenomenon. An example that could be used from this resource would be the protein synthesis video. This connects to UDL by providing multiple means of representation and giving students another way to intake the material.

This tool allows educators to embed quizzes, notes, or questions into already existing videos. This resource also provides teachers with the opportunity to track student progress.

This resource is a communication platform that allows educators to communicate with their students. The platform uses positive reinforcement and tracks student progress to help educators design learning experiences for students.

This resource is a platform that gives educators a space to neatly organize online content such as websites, videos, and articles.

This resource works with premade slide decks and turns them into more interactive learning experience for students through the addition of student activities, quizzes, and polls.

This resource allows educators to create interactive lessons with assessment that involves active student participation and generates live student feedback.

This resource gives students the opportunity to create stories with the freedom to design them based on their own interests.

This resource assists teachers in creating live quizzes or polls that students respond to. This platform also tracks student progress and gives teachers a report of student understanding individually or at the whole class level.

This resource provides real time feedback on grammar within written works. This can help students to strengthen grammar and writing skills through practice and feedback.

This resource provides a space for students and teachers to walk through guided meditation.

This resource allows users to create screencasts to be shared with others.

This resource is a study platform where students can create flashcard decks to study class materials. The platform has different study options that allow students to study in a way that best fits their needs.

This resource allows students to creatively design visuals or projects using a variety of media available. This tool is also useful for teachers to generate engaging worksheets and instructions for students.

This resource is a gamified approach to creating lessons by giving students interactive activities or games that not only help students learn the content but also help with student engagement. This tool also provides a progress report for students as well for teachers to view.

This resource allows educators to track students’ progress in a digital class space by assigning individual or group tasks for students to complete. This site will also generate a progress report for students that teachers can view as well.

This resource assists with language learning by slowly introducing words and phrases from the desired language into stories for users to read.

This resource assists teachers with creating formative assessments for students.

This platform allows users to create interactive content videos for students. This tool also works with other learning management platforms.

This resource uses AI to provide feedback to students in the classroom while they respond to activities and tasks on the platform using tools such as interactive whiteboards and recording their speech to demonstrate their understanding.

This resource is a trivia style quiz that students play where every question they get correct donates 10 grains of rice for the World Food Programme.