🧰 Class Utilities

Classroomscreen All in one display with timer, noise meter, random name picker, and traffic light widgets. classroomscreen.com Online Stopwatch Big, simple full screen timers and stopwatches, no login needed. www.online-stopwatch.com Wheel of Names Spin the wheel style random picker, good for choosing students or groups fairly. wheelofnames.com Bouncy Balls Noise meter that makes balls bounce with room volume, a visual cue for managing classroom noise. bouncyballs.org Name Picker Ninja Free name picker where you paste a class list, click GO and the names scroll before stopping on one, with an option to keep or remove the chosen name. www.namepickerninja.com

Flippity Randomiser Turns a Google Sheet into random name pickers, seating charts, and group generators. www.flippity.net ClassDojo Group Maker Free random group generator in the ClassDojo Toolkit that sorts students into pairs, trios or larger teams and helps rotate partners between activities. www.classdojo.com

Blockly Games Google's free sequence of coding puzzles that teach programming logic through block based games. blockly.games Canva for Education Free design platform for teachers and students, used for posters, slides, and printable resources. www.canva.com Seesaw Digital portfolio and activity platform already used for class reflections and interactive tasks. web.seesaw.me Arc Victorian Department of Education's central hub for curriculum aligned teaching resources, learning sequences, and planning support. arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au Padlet Shared digital wall for collecting student ideas, images and links in real time. padlet.com Google Classroom Assignment distribution, marking and class announcements. classroom.google.com Book Creator Digital book and multimedia creation tool for students, with a free teacher account (limited storage) for making, reading and publishing class books. bookcreator.com

Kahoot! Live quiz game shown on the board with students answering on their devices, good for revision. kahoot.com Blooket Question sets wrapped in arcade style games, popular for revision sessions. www.blooket.com Quizizz Self paced quizzes with instant feedback and a results breakdown per question. quizizz.com Mentimeter Live polls and word clouds, useful for gathering whole class responses to a prompt. www.mentimeter.com Wordwall Browser-based game and quiz builder (Match Up, Quiz, Spin the Wheel, Flashcards) with a free plan of 12 templates, shared by link or QR code with no student accounts needed. wordwall.net

PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox Harvard Project Zero's official index of thinking routines (See-Think-Wonder, Claim-Support-Question, and more) sorted by purpose. pz.harvard.edu Cultures of Thinking Project Zero's research on building a whole class culture of thinking, the framework thinking routines sit within. pz.harvard.edu Ron Ritchhart Co-author of Making Thinking Visible, with downloadable routine documents and Cultures of Thinking materials. www.ronritchhart.com

AERO (Australian Education Research Organisation) Australia's national education evidence body, with practice guides, videos and courses on effective teaching strategies. www.edresearch.edu.au Evidence for Learning Teaching and Learning Toolkit Australian summary of international research on classroom approaches, with estimated cost, strength of evidence and months of learning impact, used when planning or justifying teaching decisions. evidenceforlearning.org.au