This well-designed, attractive free site has screening tools and activities to help teens with important social-emotional skills and emotional needs. Schools can sign up to create InspirED teams to assess their school climate and design a team project with the goal of creating a more inclusive, engaging, and safe school community. Or schools and teens can use the free activities to develop important SEL skills. Activities are grouped in 8 broad categories along how students want to feel about school (e.g. Connected & Supported, Energized & Motivated, Safe & Comfortable). Activities are grouped and labeled as 10 minute activities, 1 hour class lessons, or school projects to help teachers decide which activity to choose. Each lesson includes objectives, competencies developed, steps for the activity and teacher reflection questions. This is a great resource for schools searching for activities that they can use on an as-needed basis to develop social-emotional skills. The site is a collaboration between facebook and the non-profit Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Requires registration before using the first time
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use