Shmoop.com!
Since 2007, Shmoop has been a digital publishing company with a point of view. Their teaching method revolves around the basic idea that learning is often too hard—so we carry gallons of academic WD-40 to squirt on the tracks whenever they can. And as an added bonus, they're funny. They own 100% of their content and present both a consistent voice and a distinctive product offering. Shmoop free Learning Guides, Online Courses, College Readiness Prep, and Test Prep balance a teen-friendly, approachable style with academically rigorous materials to help students understand why they should care. By the way, that's a clickable link :)
When to Use: Shmoop.com is a 24/7 device that can be used as in-class instruction or student at-home homework help. If you think like every other teacher, you'll look for a way to reel in your students when you're about to start a new lesson...this is it. They have tons of videos to help guide your students through rigorous content, as well as basic or simple mathematics. All of the videos are loaded with animations of characters and real-life plots.
I would use Shmoop.com to "hook" my students in before lessons. The great thing about this website is the concepts taught are at a pace that are beneficial for all students and you can get a great Quick Write from your students. I would offer an assignment to students to research a particular lessoned video before the next class, and bring their new learnings to class the next day. It would be a great conversation started into the lesson.
Another way to incorporate this website and its videos would be to watch as a class, and have the students develop their own skits (of course after the lesson so they can incorporate all of their learnings). Instead of a paper formative assessment, the students can demonstrate their learnings, as a group of individual.
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