With Educator Tools, access no-cost instructional materials, guides, articles, best practices, reference material, and a selection of INFOhio’s premium licensed resources. With Educator Tools, you can:

• Search from over 90,000 educational resources, including open educational resources.
• Find a range of material types, including lesson plans, modules, activities, interactive materials and games, videos, primary source documents, and more. 
• Be confident in the resources’ quality, as a majority of items are curated and reviewed by ACT.
• Access several of INFOhio’s premium licensed resources.
• Discover helpful guides, articles, and other resources from INFOhio.

Use Cases

When or why would you want to use Educator Tools? Consider the following use cases:

Scenario #1: Looking for Lesson Plans. A teacher wants to find new lesson plans for use in their class. They start at Educator Tools for the most robust, comprehensive search results containing free and no-cost premium resources. Using limiters, they can focus the search results on the correct subject area, the “lesson plan” material type, and age range or grade level. They use the heart icon to favorite certain lessons then email that list to themselves for later use.

Scenario #2: Finding Interactive Content to Supplement Curriculum. An educator would like to help a new colleague by sharing a few instructional resources they think would help for a certain standard or topic—mainly interactive learning games to help students test their knowledge. They search Educator Tools to find the supplemental materials, then:

1. Apply the “Learning Game” and “Interactive Material” filters.
2. Use the heart icon on search results to favorite items.
3. Use the Send to Email option within favorites to send the list to themselves.
4. Copy and paste the list in a new email to the colleague with additional context and ideas.

Search Example

To find a learning module or unit about different types of rocks to satisfy certain Earth and Space Science standards for grades 3 or 4, type rocks in the search box. When the initial results appear, apply these limiters on the left to narrow the search:

• Grade Level: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade
• Subject: Science
• Item Type: Learning Module

From here, scan through the search results to find the perfect instructional materials aligned to your curriculum. Click on the instructional material to open it or use the i button in the upper-right corner of the instructional material's result to view additional details.

When you find a resource you like, click the heart on that resource in your result list. That will add it to your session Favorites. Before you exit Educator Tools, click the heart icon near the search box to see a list of all the resources you liked. You can share this URL or email the list of Favorites to others. Note: It is best practice to email the list of Favorites to yourself. Your Favorites will be saved for one session and may not be saved after you exit Educator Tools.

Additional Resources

• Educator Tools class in INFOhio Campus
• Using INFOhio Tools to Design Learning Experiences article in Teach with INFOhio Blog
• Sharing Links in Educator Tools on YouTube