Differentiated+Instruction

This page will showcase numerous sites for differentiating instruction using technology. Topics will include the use of PowerPoints, WebQuests, Internet sites, multimedia, video streaming, problem based learning, web based games, simulations, podcasting, digital storytelling, Google Applications for Education, free or low cost internet applications, and other applicable methods to reach each and every child.

This page was co-created by Beth Rayl from W-A-Y (Widening Advancements for Youth) and Monique Uzelac from the Ann Arbor Public Schools.

 **DIFFERENTIATING FOR CONTENT **  [] (The Lexile Framework - finding leveled text for student readiness)

__ [] __ (Discovery's educational site that integrates over 80,000 video clips, virtual labs, interactive activities, audio files, and lesson plans)

__ [|http://www.prometheanplanet.com] __ / (Promethean's website that shares thousands of lesson plans, FlipChart demonstrations that can be viewed with the free FlipChart viewer, weblinks, and a forum to collaborate with other educators)

__ [] __ (Current events lessons, contests, games, and educational DVDs)

__[] __ (This database provides students with curricular support and self-help on topics such as diseases, drugs, alcohol, fitness, nutrition, etc)

__ [] __ (MORE serves as the gateway to a large collection of lesson plans and digital resources. This portal is a partnership between the Michigan Department of Education and Verizon Thinkfinity)

__ [] __ (Resources for preschool through second grade designed to make learning fun through themes, units, displays, literacy connections, and math connections)

__ [] __ (The Public Broadcasting System mega site of educational resources for all grade levels and content areas)

__ [] __ (Website for middle school or high school science teachers created by a middle school science teacher. The site includes lessons, video demonstrations, and webquests)

__ [] __ (Awesome Stories is a gathering place of primary source information that was launched in 1999 to warehouse original sources from national archives, museums, historical societies, and governmental websites)

 [] (Project ACT site from California State University. Lists several examples of ways to differentiate in the classroom)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is an NSF supported project that houses a library of interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives and concept tutorials)

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"> **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">DIFFERENTIATING FOR PROCESS ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (Educational games and resources from the Verizon Foundation)

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (A portal that houses a math pathway and a science pathway to assist middle school teachers in their quest to differentiate instruction)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [|http://www.funbrain.com] __ (Location for interactive educational games, especially designed for K-8 students)

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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [] (Virtual Field Trips from the Utah Education Network)

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [|http://www.readwritethink.org] (International Reading Association website with Classroom Resources and multiple activities for students)

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [] (bubbl.us is a free, online brainstorming and web application)

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [|http://prezi.com] (Free online presentation tool)

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"> **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">DIFFERENTIATING FOR PRODUCT ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (Hosted by San Diego State University, this is the most comprehensive resource for webquests on the Internet)

[] <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">(The leading producer of public service announcements PSAs that address critical social issues)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (The Greece Central School District's exceptional page of curriculum resources)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (The Chain Stories project from the United Kingdom in which students from 8 to 12 engage in creative writing in their mother tongue. The students write a part of a story which is then passed on to other schools, within a chain, for completion)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (Fun and educational solar projects for students that include solar physics, model wind generators, PV powered boats/cars, and building a solar balloon)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [|http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx] __ (Lesson plans from Microsoft on how to integrate technology into the curriculum)

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<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"> **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">DIFFERENTIATING FOR LEARNING PROFILE/MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES ** <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [] (Self-assessment for learning style)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (Homework resources to help students in grades K-4)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (Three minute videos to help educators explain complex subjects)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (An amusement park of math)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (The Virtual Museum of Educational Iconics is a collection of images of artifacts from ancient Greece to the 20th century from locations around the globe)

__<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] __<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (A helpful site that houses links to quality websites, educational videos, and educational powerpoints)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (Numerous resources for teaching to the Multiple Intelligences)

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [] (The museum of science, art, and human perception)

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [] (The Lakeland Central School District in New York's excellent page of resources for differentiating instruction using technology)

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"> **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">DIFFERENTIATING FOR INTEREST ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (Numerous free or low cost ideas for using technology in the classroom)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (A meeting place where youth share, distribute, and discuss their digital content online)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [] (Overview of the use of Jigsaw groups)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [] (Project Based Learning - what it is and how to develop effective PBL lessons, projects, and units)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [] (Excellent examples of project based learning)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [] (Internet Scavenger hunts for elementary education)

**<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">OTHER USEFUL SITES: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ (An excellent collection of Web 2.0 tools for teachers)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> [] (Digital book trailers designed by and for students)

__<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] __<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (The world's largest reviewer of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (Literacy education site designed by literacy coaches, teachers, and school leaders with experience in dozens of diverse classrooms. The site provides tools, guides, literacy lessons, and sage advice)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (A source for daily research news for Science)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (The Education World website is a massive host for lessons and activities from a variety of content areas)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (A massive effort by the U.S. Department of Education to create a central database of resources from federal, state, university, nonprofit, and commercial sites)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (The Museum of Unnatural Mystery)

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">__ [] __ (NASA's official website with numerous educational resources)

**<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Further Learning: ** __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] __ <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">[]