educational tools
Teaching support materials
Educational tools are resources used to facilitate learning and teaching.
The term covers physical items like textbooks, flashcards, and manipulatives, as well as digital resources like apps and interactive software.
In contemporary usage, educational tools often implies technology: The school invested in new educational tools for remote learning.
The phrase sometimes appears in marketing contexts where ordinary products are rebranded to appeal to parents and teachers.
- manipulativesTangible educational objects
- hands-on learningEducation via direct participation
- chalkboardsErasable classroom writing surfaces
- textbooksEducational reference volumes
- lesson plansPrepared teaching frameworks
graphic organizers · tangrams · number lines · diagnostic tests · e-books · study guides · rubrics · microscopes · standardized tests · calculators · globes · podcasts · documentaries · educational apps · interactive games · flashcards · visual aids · portfolios
- teaching aidsblackboard, chalkboard, whiteboard, smartboard, textbook
- globe collectinggores
- math artgeometric art, fractals, tessellations, symmetry, patterns
educational toolsentertainment
Agreeable diversion of attention
distractions · amusements · diversions · time-wasters · toys