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Historical Thinking Interactive Poster (Secondary) - National History Education Clearinghouse
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): civil rights (119), history day (24), infographics (51), primary sources (93)
In the Classroom
Use your projector or interactive whiteboard and teach your students how to think like a historian. There are some interesting links here for you and your students to investigate. For instance, there are links for exploring the modern civil rights movement, primary sources to look at diary entries from other time periods, examining lithographs, using and reading multiple perspectives, and several more. You may want to go through each quadrant with the entire class, or you might want to assign groups to become "specialists" in a quadrant and have them present it to your class. Challenge the groups to create presentations using Prezi (reviewed here).You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Historical Thinking Interactive Poster (Elementary) - National History Education Clearinghouse
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3 to 7tag(s): history day (24), primary sources (93)
In the Classroom
Use your interactive whiteboard or projector and teach your students how to think like a historian. There are some interesting links here for you and your students to investigate. For instance, there is a link to discover how different the lives of kids were in the past. View the primary sources to look at what nineteenth century kids read, what their toys were, and how the clothes looked. There are also links for using primary sources, and surfing the net successfully. You may want to go through each quadrant with the entire class, or you might want to assign groups to become "specialists" in a quadrant and have them present it to your class. Have students create online posters on paper using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard (reviewed here) or PicLits (reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sacred Stories - The British Library Board
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4 to 12tag(s): cross cultural understanding (123), cultures (109), hanukkah (14), holidays (142), religions (68)
In the Classroom
Ancient History and World history teachers will delight in this site! Use this site at a learning station (headphones would be a good idea) and allow students to talk about what they think they know about the religion before viewing the text. Follow up after with what know after viewing the content and completing the student activities. This site would also be an excellent extension for the gifted students in your classroom. Consider having the gifted students explore the three religions that have the "contrasts and crossovers." Language arts teachers can use this site to meet the goals of Common Core State Standards (cross curricular studies and nonfiction reading). Challenge students to find other myths and legends from other cultures that "crossover" with these or other well-known tales.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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True Tube - TrueTube
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9 to 12tag(s): architecture (84), digital citizenship (68), diseases (72), environment (325), media literacy (65), mental health (26), persuasive writing (57), poetry (219), religions (68), sexuality (14), social skills (21), writing prompts (93)
In the Classroom
Share specific videos on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use a video to introduce a debate topic or as a prompt for persuasive writing. As a media literacy exercise, ask students to find another video (perhaps on YouTube) that presents an opposing viewpoint on the same topic as one here. Then challenge cooperative learning groups to create their own videos on this or another controversial topic being discussed in class. Share the videos using a tool such as TeacherTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Google World Wonders Project - Google
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6 to 12tag(s): archeology (32), architecture (84), cross cultural understanding (123), virtual field trips (55)
In the Classroom
Share this site on your projector or interactive whiteboard, enabling your classroom to become a virtual window on the world. Indulge in a quick "visit" to a site associated with a historical issue in your curriculum. Compare and contrast various architectural styles across cultures. See how humankind has built places of worship in keeping with different religious viewpoints. Groups of students or individual students might be asked to design their own field trip, choosing a collection of sites, researching them, and presenting their personal journey to the rest of the class. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Consider using the in-depth examination of one of these sites as an enrichment activity for high achieving students, or as an independent project. Be sure and explore the downloadable educators' packets yourself for more suggestions and classroom resources.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sound Maps -- British Library - The British Library
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K to 12tag(s): cultures (109), multimedia (62), sounds (69)
In the Classroom
This site is a great addition to any world language, history, music, English, or science class. Use the oral history section to hear stories from Holocaust survivors. Listen to accents from around the world. Have you ever wanted to know what a cicada sounds like? Use the recordings from the nature and environment section. Science and music teachers can use the site to show how sound waves look. Use the site to demonstrate how to create an oral history. Then have cooperative learning groups create podcasts demonstrating their understanding of a particular topic you are studying. Use a site such as PodOmatic (reviewed here). In world language classes, have students explore locations to learn more about the sound of that country. Then have them create a recording that uses recorded sounds as background to their own spoken words in their new language.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pixabay - Pixabay
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K to 12tag(s): creative commons (23), images (278), photography (156), search engines (62)
In the Classroom
Use in the classroom any time images are needed for projects, even if the project is not put on a website for others to see. Be sure students are aware that any time another person's image is used, they must give full credit for it, even if that owner cannot see it. Student groups can use Pixabay to collectively find the best image to use for a project. Challenge students to create personalized images (with text) using PicFont, reviewed here. Teachers can collect images for use on their interactive whiteboard for sorting activities (monocots and dicots, producers and consumers, etc). Use images as writing prompts or in poetry collections. Art teachers can find images for students to use as references or in photomontages (with credit). Elementary teachers can use images from this site as part of student-run interactive whiteboard activities, such as labeling parts of plants. Speech and language or ESL/ELL teachers can find images to use in vocabulary development activities. World language teachers can find cultural photos to use in oral exercises.Comments
A legal (yet, illegal in every sense) extortion letter from Getty Images ignited my need to find another source of genuinely free images online. Hence, ended up finding this awesome free source of truly free images online i.e. pixabay.com. I fear all the time that such a great source could easily be bought (gobbled up) by greedy and infamous businesses i.e. Getty and we will have to find some other source for genuinely free images. Until that happens, let's all enjoy the free ride.pin, , Grades: 0 - 12
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A Mighty Girl - Carolyn Danckaert and Aaron Smith
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): biographies (91), book lists (131), cross cultural understanding (123), literature (272), women (94), womens suffrage (25)
In the Classroom
Choose from books included on this site for classroom use portraying strong female role models. Share with parents through your website for use at home when choosing books, movies, and toys. After reading two books, compare characters using an online tool such as the Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram, reviewed hereAdd your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Navajo Code Talkers - Navajo Code Talkers Foundation
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): native americans (78), world war 2 (142)
In the Classroom
Share this site with your students on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) during your World War II unit or a unit on Native Americans. This would be a great link to share during Native American Heritage Month. Use an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram (reviewed here) to create a visual comparison of the Code Talkers vs other World War II battle units or cryptographers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Where In The Roman World? - k12 for Districts and Schools
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5 to 12In the Classroom
Display this site on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) to review landmarks in Rome and the Roman Empire. Share with students via your class website or blog to use for at-home review. Challenge students to create a talking avatar using a photo or other image (legally permitted for reproduction). Use the avatars to explain one of the landmarks used on this site. Use a site such as Blabberize (reviewed here). Latin teachers can use this very simple site as a model for students to create their own "what am I" activities about Roman culture, possibly in Latin?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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History of Education Timeline - Brian Tate
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K to 12tag(s): cultures (109), professional development (164), timelines (59)
In the Classroom
This is worth some time to scroll through and watch the evolution of education throughout time. Share during professional development with other staff members. Especially interesting is the large number of events in recent time compared to just a few decades ago! Share with older students and brainstorm a list of what the class believes will be "next" in education. As your class talks about cultures, include this for discussion about the role of education in a culture.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms - Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center
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K to 12tag(s): colonial america (107), explorers (65), map skills (84), maps (298), transportation (43)
In the Classroom
This is a wonderful site to include with your bookmarks for units on transportation, maps, explorers, Colonial America, and more. Print and display maps in your classroom when using the included lesson plans. Have students use a tool such as Padlet, reviewed here, to create an online bulletin board for information they learn from the maps. Have students use a tool such as Zeemaps, reviewed here, to create a fictitious radio news story from a location they learn about.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Findery - Makes Places Come Alive! - Caterina Fake
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3 to 12tag(s): earth (224), map skills (84), maps (298), virtual field trips (55)
In the Classroom
Use this site anytime you discuss a world location. Search the site to find notes placed by people and images of the actual location. Have your class take pictures and upload your own notes of your school and community. Use this in world language classes to explore other countries and cultures. Going on a field trip? Search Findery to see if there are notes about the location. You may find some interesting information to have in mind before leaving! Upon your return, have students place their own images and write notes for others to view. Create a class account then ask students to find items placed on the maps. Next, have them save as favorites to use with a larger project or to be included as part of a newspaper article about their topic using the Newspaper Clipping Generator.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Coursera - Coursera.org
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9 to 12tag(s): china (63), climate change (70), computers (102), data (161), energy (207), engineering (129), financial literacy (87), gamification (87), greeks (33), immigrants (22), immigration (60), nutrition (159), professional development (164), psychology (66), scientific method (67), sociology (22), solar energy (39), space (221), sports (99)
In the Classroom
Allow gifted students to enroll in courses that interest them or that provide enrichment beyond classroom content. Share with others in your building as a resource for professional development. Explore the topics yourself for some new, engaging topics to round out your own expertise. Allow students to enroll in a course that would fit into their career goals as an exploratory opportunity in that field.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Lincoln Learning Hub - Dream Works
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5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): 1800s (48), civil war (144), emancipation proclamation (12), gettysburg (26), gettysburg address (18), lincoln (84), slavery (67)
In the Classroom
This site would make a great addition to any Civil War or Abraham Lincoln unit. View together on your interactive whiteboard (or projector). Create a link to the site on classroom computers. Use the What Would Lincoln Do portion of the site as a spring board for students to debate Lincoln's possible actions on other important world or national events. Have student groups or partners explore the activity and report to the class on their decisions. Challenge students to create a newspaper article about Civil War events using the Newspaper Clipping Generator.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Worst Jobs in History - Russel Tarr
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5 to 12tag(s): 1600s (14), 1700s (29), 1800s (48), 1900s (36), careers (139), industrial revolution (26), medieval (27)
In the Classroom
Use this site as part of your study of a certain era, of economics, or to open discussion about careers. Before introducing this site, have students brainstorm lists of what they consider to be dirty or dangerous jobs. Post responses using a tool such as Padlet (reviewed here) to create an online bulletin board to use to display their ideas. Share the site with students on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Allow students to explore and complete activities on their own. Have students complete the included worksheet while exploring dirty jobs. Talk about how society determines the pay for a job and what kind of job options people had at certain times in history. How do these opportunities differ from today?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Textivate - TaskMagic
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4 to 12tag(s): grammar review (41), process writing (47), sequencing (29), summarizing (16), word order (5), word study (79)
In the Classroom
Create Textivates to introduce or review any topic. Type in a summary of information and have students place chunks of sentences in order or choose the missing word option for students to insert missing words. Instantly create sequencing activities to build comprehension and vocabulary skills. Paste in a passage from a well-known text and experiment with word order. What would happen if you tried to rearrange the wording in a famous poem? Paste in text during a world language class so students can rearrange words to practice vocabulary, word order, and various skills. Use the embed feature to insert a Textivate activity for homework. Create activities for small group practice on an interactive whiteboard center. Have students create their own Textivate activities to summarize information. Share them with classmates to complete activities. Learning support teachers can have students create and swap review activities. Be sure to share this one with parents for them to use at home for review fun!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Google Cultural Institute - Google
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9 to 12tag(s): 1900s (36), 1910s (8), 1920s (14), 1930s (13), 1940s (12), 1950s (10), 1960s (26), 1970s (11), 1980s (8), 20th century (50), africa (168), asia (72), civil rights (119), cross cultural understanding (123), holocaust (41), jews (26), south africa (12), spain (8)
In the Classroom
Because of the visual impact of this resource, it's perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard (or projector) as a complement to a study of the historical period or issue serving as the focus for each theme. Students can hear the voices of children who were affected by the Holocaust, see photographs of Apartheid era South Africa, and view primary source documents related to the life of activist Steve Biko. Allow yourself a little time to play with the site before you use it, as it may not be immediately intuitive. Overall, however, the impact of the images and video found here will add real power to your lessons. Challenge your students to use the search tool to find visual media related to events or topics you are studying and to explain the relationships. Even world language teachers will find the media available here a way to share a rich nuances of another culture.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Instant Google Street View - Nick Nicholaou
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): map skills (84), maps (298)
In the Classroom
Assign students various countries, regions, or continents to make comparisons. Identify the biological, geographical, cultural, and social issues that exist in the world, based on what the pictures show and what their research uncovers. Bring a greater understanding to current economic and environmental issues in many countries. World language (or world cultures) classes can help students understand the cultures of the countries where the language is spoken. Compare specific attributes of two countries using an online Venn Diagram, such as the one reviewed here. Another idea: have cooperative learning groups use this resource to create online books about the country of their tour using a resource such as Bookemon.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mapas Flash Interactivos - Enrique Alonso
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3 to 12tag(s): asia (72), canada (31), capitals (24), continents (51), countries (81), landforms (49), map skills (84), maps (298), oceans (165), rivers (25), states (165)
In the Classroom
Demonstrate how to access maps on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Allow students to explore and play on their own. Use this site for student practice or for world cultures and world language classes. Share a link to the site via your class website or blog for students to play at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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