EquatIO a Chrome math equation extension

 

EquatIO™ is a Google Chrome extension from texthelp®. Click here to see all the information about EquatIO. This tool can be used to add equations to Google Forms.

EquatIO is currently free for teachers. Click here to register.    IMPORTANT: Make sure you register with the Google email you are going to be using to create Google Forms. 

After downloading the software on your computer, you must install the Google Chrome extension to use it in Google Forms. 

Go to the Google Chrome Web Store and search for Equatio. Add it to your Google Chrome extensions. Click the puzzle piece and click the pushpin to add it to your toolbar. 

After downloading EquatIO and adding the Google Chrome extension restart your computer. It still takes about 24 hours for the extension to start working. So, just be aware that it doesn’t work instantly. 

If it is working, when you open Google Forms you will see the blue icons beside the questions and answer choices. 

When you click the blue icons, an equation editor will open at the bottom of your screen. Click the equation button and type the equation. Then click “Insert Math”.
EquatIO does not have symbol buttons just start typing the symbol you want, and it will populate. For example, if you want to type a fraction, start typing the word “fraction”. Once you press “Insert Math”, you will see the equation in Google Forms. 

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Resource Roundup: April is National Poetry Month

Resource Roundup: 

April is National Poetry Month

Poets.org National Poetry Month Resources

Here are 30 ways to celebrate National Poetry Month at Home or Online. Here are 30 ways to celebrate in the virtual classroom. You can also sign up to receive a Poem a Day in your email inbox. 

K-12 Poetry Lesson Ideas from ReadWriteThink

Choose from Lesson Plans, Student Interactives, and/or Mobile Apps to plan activities to celebrate National Poetry Month. 

Discovery Education Poetry Channel

Log in with your district Google account to view lesson starters, videos, video segments, images, reading passages, and activities by grade band (K-12) for teaching poetry. 

Poetry Activities on Seesaw

Choose a Poetry activity on Seesaw to celebrate National Poetry Month.

Pear Deck & PBS News Hour: Amanda Gorman's Inaugural Poem "The Hill We Climb"

This Pear Deck is geared towards middle and high school scholars and covers Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb" and another poem "The Miracle of Morning."

Easter Magnetic Poetry

Click for an awesome Easter Magnetic Poetry template made by Edutech for Teachers. 

Eric Curts' Great Googley Poetry Projects

Eric Curts has created some awesome poetry resources. Included in this link are resources for magnetic poetry, random poetry writing prompt generator, emoji poetry, poetry templates, and blackout poetry (in Google Docs).

Poem Portraits

Google Arts & Culture and Es Devlin have created an AI and human collaboration where you can donate a word to an evolving collective poem. You then have the option to take a picture of yourself or have it create an image for you. Your poem snippet (based on the word you donated) will be at the bottom of the picture.  

30 Ideas to Celebrate National Poetry Month

Here are thirty easy ideas for how to celebrate National Poetry Month. Choose one or choose one for each day of April. 

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poem Farm

The Poem Farm is a site chock full of poems and ideas for teaching poetry. 

TED-Ed's There's a Poem for That: Season 1

There's a Poem for That is a TED-Ed YouTube playlist of videos that pair contemporary &/or classical poems with animation. There are some other great poems if you search the TED-Ed YouTube channel.

Poetry Foundation Educator Resources

The Poetry Foundation has articles, Poem Guides, and videos to help you teach about poems and poetry. 

7 Free Poetry Resources

Here are seven free printable activities for folks who are in person, Hybrid, or HyFlex. Just know that you will need to make the printable activities interactive for any scholars who are remote learning. TeacherMade seems like a perfect tool to make these resources interactive.

Do you have any great Poetry resources? If so, please share in the comments below. 

Teacher Self-Care Tips

Teacher Self-Care Tips- Teacher-friendly free or nearly free tips you can do for yourself in order to take care of yourself. Don't forget to add laughter and fun into your daily routines.  After all, YOU ARE WORTH IT!!

50 Self-Care Ideas

Tips from Other Teachers on Self-Care

Realistic Self-Care: 12 Key Questions to Figure Out What Works for YOU

Self-Care Chrome Extensions 

You can have Editable PDF's with TeacherMade

 TeacherMade takes a PDF or an image file and turns it into an interactive worksheet for your students.  There are options for different types of questions and it will auto-grade. You can share it to Google Classroom in two clicks. You can add audio or video to help those at-risk or younger students and students can add audio responses. This program does most of the work for you! You may have some minor editing but it's super user-friendly. 

Discovery Education: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Center

Discovery Education's Social-Emotional Learning Center is "a curated collection of hundreds of resources designed to help educators integrate SEL into core instruction." The SEL Center is organized by grade level bands (K-2, 3-5 & 6-12). Each section contains grade-appropriate Boards, Videos, and Activities. There are Ready-to-Use Activities in each section, as well as activities that align with each of the SEL competencies. There is also a section with Instructional Resources and a section for Professional Learning. The Instructional Resources section includes writing prompts, Boards that focus on SOS (Spotlight on Strategies) SEL lessons, and other resources broken up by grade level bands. 

Overall, Discovery Education's SEL Center has some amazing and very timely resources for teachers, scholars, counselors, and school staff. To the SEL Center to your Discovery Education home screen/Channels see below.