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Saints & Strangers - National Geographic
Grades
K to 12
tag(s): explorers (69), game based learning (149), holidays (140), pilgrims (17), thanksgiving (33)
In the Classroom
Engage your students by sailing into 1620 Plymouth. Share the experience using your interactive whiteboard or projector and the introductory ideas in the lesson plans. Then pair students or small groups to complete the activities you choose on their own. The text portion might be challenging. Pair weaker readers with stronger readers. You could also enhance the technology use in your class room by using Immersive Reader, reviewed here, or Text to Speech Reader, reviewed here. Have students create an annotated image to discuss one item or idea of their choice, including text boxes and related links using a tool such as Thinglink, reviewed here. Thinglink presents a variety of levels for technology use depending on teacher requirements for the project, or even student ability. Create a class Padlet, reviewed here, with links to other resources on the pilgrims. Be sure to include Saints & Strangers as part of your Thanksgiving lesson plans.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Smithsonian Learning Lab - The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): animals (319), architecture (83), art history (79), aviation (36), black history (60), civil war (145), dinosaurs (50), explorers (69), images (271), inventors and inventions (83), scientists (69)
In the Classroom
The Smithsonian Learning Lab is a must-add to your list of classroom bookmarks! Search for collections and information throughout the year on all topics. Add a link to classroom computers for the entire site or specific collections. Be sure to take advantage of the many features of this site to create customized collections, then have students add additional resources. Have students create quizzes for review of topics. Challenge students to create a simple infographic sharing their findings using Easel.ly, reviewed here.Comments
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Newsela - Students Vote 2016 - Matthew Gross
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): elections (77), news (259), newspapers (101), reading comprehension (133)
In the Classroom
If you haven't already, sign up for Newsela and create your class. Add students by using a teacher (or parent) provided code rather than an email address. Go to the Election Text Sets and assign reading-level specific articles to individual students, or download printable PDF copies of the article in any of its reading level versions. Be sure to set up a time for your students to vote on election day.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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PBS Election Central - PBS Learning Media
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3 to 12tag(s): debate (46), elections (77), electoral college (15), presidents (131), speech (87)
In the Classroom
Include Election Central as part of any election unit. Have students research candidate information and compare and contrast points of view. Use an online tool such as the Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram, reviewed here, or the Interactive Three Circle Venn Diagram, reviewed here. Pose a controversial question about an election issue and have students answer as one of the candidates. Use a tool such as WeJIT, reviewed here, for that exercise. Or, challenge students to use Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about a candidate's journey through the election process. Or, using Fakebook, have two candidates debate an issue. Be sure to take advantage of the free lesson plans offered on this site correlated to National History Standards.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TPS Teachers Network - Metropolitan State University of Denver
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K to 12tag(s): bookmarks (62), primary sources (97), professional development (164), social networking (96)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save TPS Teachers Network as an excellent professional development and social networking site. Share with your colleagues to create your own professional learning network on the site. Create albums with primary sources for use throughout the year in one easy to find location.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teachers - Primary Source Sets - Library of Congress
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4 to 12tag(s): 20th century (52), authors (120), black history (60), civil war (145), constitution (91), hispanic (13), jefferson (20), lincoln (84), new deal (5), primary sources (97), segregation (16), thanksgiving (33), veterans (17), washington (31), westward expansion (31), womens suffrage (26), wright brothers (19)
In the Classroom
When introducing a new unit, show students photos from the era and have them describe what they see and what period they think it is. Find plenty of questions and activities (including a blank analysis organizer for students) in the Teacher's Guides. Also look at Library of Congress: for Teachers, reviewed here. Encourage your students to use this tool for projects. Challenge students to find a photo (legally permitted for reproduction), and then narrate the photo as if it is a news report. Have students create a multimedia presentation using Slidestory, reviewed here. This site allows you to narrate a picture modifying student learning. Include this site on your class webpage for students and parents to access as a reference.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project - Social Studies - Public Schools of North Carolina
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K to 6tag(s): communities (40), constitution (91), cultures (114), gifted (80), supply and demand (5), timelines (59), women (101)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site as a resource for finding enrichment lessons and for working with gifted students. Share this project with your school's gifted teacher to use with students. Modify and use lessons from this site in your regular classroom, differentiate as needed for different student needs.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Black History Month Resources - PBS
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K to 12tag(s): black history (60), civil rights (124), martin luther king (37), racism (17), video (265)
In the Classroom
Explore this site for many different lessons and resources to use during Black History Month and throughout the year. Use lessons found here to differentiate for students of different levels. Be sure to check out the Discrimination - fair or unfair? lesson plan that is designed specifically for students who have difficulty with verbal and written expression.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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PBS Interactive Whiteboard Games - PBS Kids
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K to 5tag(s): design (88), environment (322), estimation (47), game based learning (149), gravity (52), literacy (107), measurement (181), operations (119), painting (61), patterns (87), reading comprehension (133), sight words (36), suffixes (13), vocabulary (313), vocabulary development (119)
In the Classroom
Use activities from this site on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) to supplement current lessons. Create a link to specific activities on classroom computers for use as a learning center. Allow students to explore these sites on individual computers. Share links to games and activities on your class web page for students to try at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Branches of Power - Annenberg Classroom
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): bill of rights (28), branches of government (57), constitution (91), game based learning (149), supreme court (24)
In the Classroom
Use the Sunnylands Civics Games to introduce Constitution-related topics to your class using an interactive whiteboard or projector. View videos together and pause as needed to discuss information. Challenge students to try the interactive activities on individual computers or at home. Enhance learning by having students use Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about Americans described in the games. Modify learning by having students create interactive timelines (with photos, text, and more) using Sutori, reviewed here, to trace the path of a bill or the writing of the Constitution.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ducksters - Technological Solutions, Inc. (TSI)
Grades
2 to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (224), african american (107), american revolution (88), animal homes (64), animals (319), artists (80), biographies (86), china (65), civil rights (124), civil war (145), cold war (30), continents (49), countries (83), data (154), division (157), egypt (61), elements (38), energy (212), environment (322), explorers (69), fractions (230), friction (13), geometric shapes (168), greece (29), habitats (110), human body (131), inventors and inventions (83), keyboarding (40), mean (27), median (24), mode (17), multiplication (210), planets (136), presidents (131), puzzles (204), recycling (60), renaissance (32), rome (25), solar system (121), sound (104), sports (97), subtraction (186), sun (71), world war 1 (56), world war 2 (142)
In the Classroom
This site is a perfect addition for use with a biography unit. Explore and share information categorized by topics such as Civil Rights, the Cold War, Ancient Greece, and WWII. Extend student learning by having students use Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about a president, famous scientist, or nearly any other real or fictitious person. Be sure to create a link to the site on your class webpage or newsletter for students to explore at home. Create a link on classroom computers for students to use the interactives during center time.Comments
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Create Your Visited States Map - Jeremy Nixon
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): maps (294), north america (18), states (161)
In the Classroom
Creating this would make an interesting map to create as a class project when learning about the 50 states. Go through the states list on your interactive whiteboard and create your class map to print or share as a digital image on your class website. Do a map as a class to see which states MOST students have visited. If you feel students may be embarrassed at their lack of travel, this may be better done on individual computers or on a personal response form given to you to input privately. For a whole class activity, divide your class into groups to create separate maps. Compare and contrast states visited. Send home a link to the website for students to create a map with their families. For older students, use the map for content and reassign colors as needed. For example, create a map showing the birthplace of U.S. Presidents: assign red to states without a president, yellow with one president, and green with two or more. This same format could be used in nearly any subject while studying differences in states (democrat or republican, most popular agriculture product, how many - if any - NFL teams, teen pregnancy rate, and much more).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Our Nation's Leaders - Minnesota State University
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3 to 12tag(s): presidents (131)
In the Classroom
Use this site to introduce a specific president. Share this site on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use this tool for research projects. There are several short paragraphs devoted to each President, and they would be perfect to teach how to take notes or summary writing. Have your class write a proposed piece about the current President and have the class vote on the best one.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CurriConnects Book List - 20th Century America, Part 2 (1945-2000) - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): 20th century (52), book lists (128), independent reading (122), kennedy (26), vietnam (34)
In the Classroom
Make the 1950s and beyond come alive during your unit on American History. Have students choose a book from this list and present their impressions from it in the form of a blog post from the times. If you are beginning the process of integrating technology, have students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Pen.io, reviewed here. This blog creator requires no registration! Have students interview parents about different times that they learn about. Have students include the interview in the blogs. Collect the links to all the student posts on your class web page for students to browse and gather a "human" experience of history.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Learn the Address - Ken Burns
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): civil war (145), gettysburg address (17), lincoln (84), slavery (67)
In the Classroom
View a different video daily as part of your class warm up activities. Start with the Old Sturbridge Village to convey the setting and set the tone. Record your class reciting the Gettysburg Address and upload to the site. Encourage others to share their video. Make this part of a class community service project, encourage students to find community members to record a video or go to nursing homes and hospitals to get recordings from patients. While learning the Gettysburg Address have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as Wordle, reviewed here, Tagxedo, reviewed here, or WordItOut, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CurriConnects Book List - 20th Century America, Part 1 (1900-1945) - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): 1900s (42), 1910s (8), 1920s (16), 1930s (13), 1940s (11), 20th century (52), book lists (128), great depression (27), independent reading (122), world war 1 (56), world war 2 (142)
In the Classroom
Make the first half of the 20th century come alive during your unit on American History. Have students choose a book from this list and present their impressions from it in the form of a blog post from the times. If you are beginning the process of integrating technology, have students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Pen.io, reviewed here. This blog creator requires no registration. Collect the links to all the student posts on your class web page for students to browse and gather a "human" experience of history.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Annenberg Learner - The Annenberg Foundation
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): art history (79), butterflies (13), conversions (29), critical thinking (117), dna (64), earth (224), environment (322), geometric shapes (168), immigrants (23), medieval (27), native americans (80), patterns (87), periodic table (54), renaissance (32), rocks (51), russia (35), south africa (12), spelling (165), statistics (129), volcanoes (65), weather (210)
In the Classroom
In your classroom, explore the interactives available to enhance your lessons. Use the lesson plan library to add a new twist to your subject matter. Organize a professional study of your area of concentration for your department or grade level.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Square of Life - The Center for Innovation in Science and Engineering
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): ecology (133), environment (322), scientific method (68)
In the Classroom
Bring a heightened awareness to your local and global environmental education. In lower elementary grades, do the project together as a class. Teach scientific observation using a hands-on project. You could also include this as part of a civics or government class discussing the environment and public policy. This well-defined project is ready made for you. Integrate observations, documentation, measurements, deeper inspection, and ways to identify living and nonliving materials. Take photographs and record written accounts. Create presentations in PowerPoint, Prezi, reviewed here, Google presentations, reviewed here, or other presentation tools to draw in language arts standards. Expand the project to each student's backyard. Are any squares in your school or local area severely damaged environments? Brainstorm with students to find a way to change them back to their original state.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NCES Kids' Zone - NCES
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4 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (203), probability (136)
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Strike an interest in your school and community by finding out where you rank. Investigate college choices. After short quizzes, have a daily comparison of your students to see how they compare in civics, economics, geography, history, mathematics, and science at multiple grade levels. Inspire students to collect data and make their own graphs about school wide topics. Have students create an online graph using Amblegraph (reviewed here). Dig into probability problems to discover the odds.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Have Fun With History - havefunwithhistory.com
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4 to 12tag(s): 1900s (42), aircraft (25), american flag (10), american revolution (88), artists (80), bill of rights (28), civil rights (124), civil war (145), colonial america (108), flags (22), industrial revolution (26), kennedy (26), lincoln (84), martin luther king (37), native americans (80), pearl harbor (13), railroads (11), slavery (67), space (232), thanksgiving (33), underground railroad (11), war of 1812 (15), world war 1 (56), world war 2 (142)
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Mark this one in your favorites for use with almost any history unit. Your visual learners will find history more understandable using the video and interactive options. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as Wordle, reviewed here. Share links to specific videos on your class website or blog for students to view at home. Have students create timelines using Timeline JS, reviewed here. Timeline JS offers the option to upload and add photos, videos, audio, Tweets, and Google Maps making it interactive. . Have students use Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about a person in a video.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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