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Bringing History Home - University of Iowa and Washington Community School District
Grades
K to 5tag(s): civil rights (119), communities (37), environment (325), great depression (27), immigrants (22), immigration (60), native americans (78), segregation (16), underground railroad (12), world war 2 (142)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free lessons and materials on this site to use in your social studies classroom. Have students use a mapping tool such as Zeemaps, reviewed here, to create a map featuring historic events. Have students create timelines (with music, photos, videos, and more) using Timeglider, reviewed here, to visualize events over a period of time.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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TED-Ed Clubs - Lessons Worth Sharing - TEDEd
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4 to 12tag(s): collaboration (26), creativity (118), critical thinking (120), logic (248), problem solving (294)
In the Classroom
Facilitate a TED-Ed Club to promote problem-solving skills and creative thinking in any subject. Challenge students to pursue ideas of interest to them in the classroom. Create a club as an after-school activity for like-minded students, or as enrichment for gifted learners. TED-Ed Club provides an outlet for some quieter students with interests other than what is offered in the curriculum, encourage these students to share their interests and passions through the guidelines provided in the clubs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask: Tech Integration Made Easy with Sutori - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (155), timelines (59)
In the Classroom
The archive of this teacher-friendly, hands-on webinar will empower and inspire you to use learning technology in the classroom and for professional productivity. As appropriate, specific classroom examples and ideas have been shared. View the session with a few of your teaching colleagues to find and share new ideas. Find additional information and links to tools at the session resource page. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Peekapak - Ami Shah and Angie Chan
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K to 3tag(s): emotions (36), preK (288), social skills (21), Special Needs (33)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free materials provided by Peekapak to introduce or reinforce social-emotional lessons in your classroom. Share the included digital books on classroom computers. After your lessons, have students contribute to an online bulletin board of the important terms they learned from this site using a tool such as Dotstorming, reviewed here. Then ask students to vote on each word they agree with. Tally up the votes. At this point, you can create a word cloud of the words or allow students to create their own using a tool such as Word Clouds for Kids, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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3x3 Links - Federico Elles
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K to 12In the Classroom
3x3 Links is an excellent tool for efficiently managing online resources in your classroom. For younger students, use this site as the home page on classroom computers. Add direct links to sites for student use or create folders for each subject. This site allows the creation of multiple grids, create a grid for each content unit or semester. Use the embed code to add the grid to your class webpage. For older students, this site is perfect for organizing and sharing resources for study or research projects. As an example, if your students are doing a research report on a state, ask them to create a grid to include folders linking to different topics including famous people, population information, geography, and history. Although there is an option to create up to 9 cubes in your grid, it isn't necessary so the number of cubes can be suited to fit your needs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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PlagiarismSearch.com - PlagiarismSearch.com
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4 to 12tag(s): copyright (51), evaluating sources (16), plagiarism (37), writing (365)
In the Classroom
Although the free portion of this site is limited, it is worth bookmarking and sharing for use by you and your students. Be sure to include a link on your class website for students to use at home. Demonstrate to students how to upload their writing to check for plagiarism as part of your ongoing lessons in intellectual honesty. If their work is longer than 300 words, upload a small portion that needs to be checked instead of the whole project. Often when students are researching and writing a report, they find it difficult to put information in their own words. Ask students to attach their report to writing as part of the writing assignment. Encourage them to share reports that indicate plagiarism, with an online bulletin board like Dotstorming, < a href="/single.cfm?id=16997">reviewed here, where other students can comment and help them reword the writing. Then, have them discuss steps to take to avoid it happening in the future. Ask students to create video commercials informing viewers on different aspects of plagiarism. Use a tool such as Powtoon, reviewed here. Share their videos using a tool such as SchoolTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sticky Notes: Just Popped Up! - Ukiv
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4 to 12tag(s): brainstorming (23), note taking (40), organizational skills (128)
In the Classroom
Make notes for conferences, lab materials, books needed, or even parent conferences on any web page. Add sticky notes to any webpage or PDF shared with students on your interactive whiteboard to remind them of necessary information or as a list of important items to watch for when viewing a page. Create a list of vocabulary words from any website as you view it together. Share this extension for students to use on their device for note-taking.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Loose Canon - Julia Franks
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K to 12tag(s): book lists (131), book reports (36)
In the Classroom
Share Loose Canon with your students as an extensive resource for finding and comparing books to read. Use materials found on this site to create collaborative Literature Circles in your classroom. If you create an account with Loose Canon, ask students to share their thoughts on books read in school and at home by reviewing and rating it on Loose Canon. These reviews can be made public, or students can keep them private. Take your reading reflections a step further and ask students to share their thoughts through a multimedia presentation using an interactive tool like Sway, reviewed here, that allows users to include images, links, and videos.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Unio - Harness
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K to 12tag(s): book reports (36), classroom management (159), multimedia (62), social networking (112)
In the Classroom
Use Unio to create and prepare lessons for presentation on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector. After providing the share code to students ask them to participate by answering quiz questions or use the drawing tools to highlight information shared in the lesson. Upon completion of your lesson using Unio, have students add a video response to share information learned using a collaborative tool like Flipgrid, reviewed here. Flipgrid allows students to respond to a prompt and add comments as part of a shared conversation within a group. Instead of a written report at the end of your lesson, ask students to create a Symbaloo Learning Path, reviewed here, to use for review. This site allows users to create a learning path by adding websites, videos, documents, and more.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
Includes teacher tools for registering and/or monitoring students
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fabmarks - FabMarks.com
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8 to 12tag(s): assessment (114), test prep (98)
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Share this site on your class website with students to use in place of worksheets or other printed test prep materials. Encourage students to create their own account and take advantage of the lessons and assessments provided. As students progress through the practice materials, encourage them to share suggestions for problem-solving and test-taking with other students. Ask students to create a portfolio including annotated images to reflect and share their progress in test preparation using a tool such as WeLearned.It, reviewed here. Have cooperative learning groups create podcasts sharing their ideas using a site such as Podcast Generator, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Personalized Learning: What's all the Buzz? - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): twitterchatarchive (38)
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View this chat yourself or with your colleagues to learn more about personalized learning. Learn about resources and discuss the benefits.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: PBIS and Relationship Building: What Works? - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): professional development (164), twitterchatarchive (38)
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Share this chat with your fellow colleagues as you learn more about PBIS framework together. Learn about resources and discuss the benefits.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Promoting Digital Citizenship - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): digital citizenship (68), twitterchatarchive (38)
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If you are looking to learn more about digital citizenship, view this archive. Share this chat with your fellow colleagues eager to incorporate more digital citizenship in their classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask: Google Earth Web: Oh the Places You Can Go - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): Google (29)
In the Classroom
The archive of this teacher-friendly, hands-on webinar will empower and inspire you to use learning technology in the classroom and for professional productivity. As appropriate, specific classroom examples and ideas have been shared. View the session with a few of your teaching colleagues to find and share new ideas. Find additional information and links to tools at the session resource page. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask: Transform Your Lesson Plans with SAMR and TeachersFirst - TeachersFirst
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K to 12In the Classroom
The archive of this teacher-friendly, hands-on webinar will empower and inspire you to use learning technology in the classroom and for professional productivity. As appropriate, specific classroom examples and ideas have been shared. View the session with a few of your teaching colleagues to find and share new ideas. Find additional information and links to tools at the session resource page. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Minecraft Education Edition - Microsoft and Mojang AB
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2 to 12tag(s): coding (68), game based learning (139), gamification (87), Microsoft (41)
In the Classroom
Make use of the features provided in the education edition of Minecraft to allow learning through gameplay. Ask students to use the camera and portfolio features to document decision making and progress through games. Use features within the game to learn about history, for example, have students import 3-dimensional structures such as the Roman Colosseum to explore and create experiences from that time. Instruct students to create a story for creative writing projects. Encourage students to retell a story through a Minecraft experience. Use Minecraft features to teach math lessons on shape, volume, area, and more. Discover more ideas at Minecraft Hour of Code Tutorials, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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KingCitation - KingCitation
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5 to 12tag(s): citations (37), plagiarism (37)
In the Classroom
Use your interactive whiteboard and projector to show students how to use this tool for citing their sources. Share this website for all of your projects using research so students know the correct procedure for citations. Be sure to add it on your class web site as a useful reference.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Boardthing - Dave Gray
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5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): bulletin boards (18), collaboration (26)
In the Classroom
Create a Boardthing board to collaborate on collecting ideas, brainstorming, and more. Use this tool easily in your Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) classroom since all students will be able to access it for free, no matter what device they have. Boardthing does not show which work is attributable to which student, so you may want to require that students initial their contributions to get credit. If allowing all students to post to the board or make comments, you may want to discuss Internet safety and etiquette and establish specific class rules and consequences. Challenge students to create a BoardThing to display pictures and videos of their research project, science fair projects, steps to how they resolved a math equation, etc. Free accounts after the trial period allow users five new boards usable only by the board creator.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Slidebot - SlideBot Pty Ltd
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6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): slides (65)
In the Classroom
Use SlideBot for student presentations in the classroom. Challenge your writers to create short stories and publish with slides. SlideBot is a great resource for your BYOD classroom. Create supporting presentations for lessons. Encourage students to create presentations to support book talks and share them on a library website.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Canary Learning - Canary Learning, Inc
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6 to 12tag(s): assessment (114), classroom management (159)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of Canary Learning's features to organize and manage your classroom. Provide student feedback quickly through the site's grading tool. Students will always know the latest assignments and due dates through access on the site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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