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Benny Goodman: The Official Website of The King of Swing - CMG Worldwide
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6 to 12tag(s): biographies (95), black history (128), music theory (45), musical instruments (47)
In the Classroom
Introduce your students to Benny Goodman using the information found on this website. The site does not include recordings of Benny Goodman, find those on YouTube at Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, concert Carnegie Hall 1934, reviewed here, or on Spotify at Benny Goodman. Engage students in learning about Benny Goodman using Padlet, reviewed here, to share and organize resources. On Padlet create columns with links to books and articles, videos, audio recordings, and interviews for students to explore. Have students experiment with music using Chrome Music Maker, reviewed here. Select the Song Maker, then change the instrument type to woodwind and start creating! Enhance student learning by asking them to research and share information on favorite musicians or different types of instruments. Use Genially, reviewed here, to create interactive presentations and images that include links to audio and videos related to their topic.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Twitter Chat: Technology Integration Frameworks - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): twitterchatarchive (175)
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Find resources and information about technology integration frameworks. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for strategies and resources on technology integration frameworks.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Social History for Every Classroom (SHEC) - American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
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6 to 12tag(s): 1600s (20), 1700s (36), 1800s (73), 1900s (73), american revolution (83), civil rights (198), comics and cartoons (54), great depression (29), immigrants (33), immigration (63), industrial revolution (20), politics (113), racism (76), railroads (14), slavery (76), underground railroad (12), world war 1 (73), world war 2 (151)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site to find lesson ideas and teaching activities to use in any American History Class. Include the ideas found on SHEC to apply to other history lesson topics. For example, one activity looks at slave life using primary source images and short text. As part of this activity, students create found poems using the keywords found in the documents. Adapt this strategy to learning about the American Revolution, World Wars, or any other significant events. Using lesson ideas and information on SHEC, engage students to start a new learning unit using a polling tool to create a word cloud. Answer Garden, reviewed here, is a free tool that creates word clouds based on students' short answer responses to an initial question. Ideas might include, "What words come to mind when you think about slave life?" or "What do you think life was like for the first colonists arriving from England?" Enhance student learning using Curipod, reviewed here, to create interactive lessons that include videos, quizzes, and learning activities. Extend learning by asking students to demonstrate learning using a multimedia tool such as Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, reviewed here. Offer students options to "show what they know" by creating a website, video, or graphic images that share their understanding of the content.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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PDF Mixer - PDF Mixer
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K to 12tag(s): conversions (36), worksheets (70)
In the Classroom
Download PDF Mixer onto your computer as a timesaving tool when working with PDF documents--saving as a PDF offers flexibility when sharing documents with others. Save multiple student documents as a PDF to share with parents. Use PDF to Flipbook Converter, reviewed here to turn students' PDFs into an online book; there is even a page-turning effect! This tool is a helpful utility for students entering contests or completing applications offered only in PDF form.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Spaces - Gil Silberstein
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K to 12tag(s): assessment (146), communication (133), DAT device agnostic tool (144), Formative Assessment (70), Learning Management Systems (20), portfolios (21), Teacher Utilities (150)
In the Classroom
Access the included guides to learn about the features of Spaces and to import your class. After creating a class, invite students to join by sharing the class code or link. Access is available on all devices and through apps available on Google Play and the Apple App Store. Introduce students to Spaces by asking them to upload a short video or photo introducing themselves to the class. Create and share student portfolios that demonstrate growth in reading, math, science, music, art, or other subjects. Share student work during parent/teacher conferences to show and highlight student progress.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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20th Century America (1945-2000) Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): 20th century (61), black history (128), civil rights (198), cold war (30), korea (19), martin luther king (43), middle east (43), rosa parks (9), segregation (18), vietnam (35)
In the Classroom
Use these resources as you prepare social studies lessons related to American History 1945-2000. Each review includes technology integration ideas. This list includes resources for elementary and secondary students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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20th Century America (1900-1945) Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): 20th century (61), great depression (29), holocaust (41), immigration (63), japanese (47), segregation (18), stock market (9), world war 1 (73), world war 2 (151)
In the Classroom
Find resources to educate yourself and your students about various topics related to American history during the years of 1900-1945. This collection includes lesson plans and interactives too. Share these resources with your colleagues and families.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: The Science of Learning - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): twitterchatarchive (175)
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Find resources and information about the science of learning. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for strategies and resources on the science of learning.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Resources Related to Colonial America - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): 1600s (20), 1700s (36), colonial america (95), colonization (20)
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Use these resources as you prepare social studies lessons related to Colonial America. Each review includes technology integration ideas. This list includes resources for elementary and secondary students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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American Civil War Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): 1800s (73), civil war (135), lincoln (60), slavery (76)
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Help to deepen your students' understanding of Civil war times using this curated collection. Share these resources with your colleagues and students by emailing the page or sharing the link from your school web page and in your school newsletter. Find resources to incorporate into your lessons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Resources Related to the Revolutionary War - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): american revolution (83), colonial america (95), colonization (20), washington (25)
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Use these resources as you prepare social studies lessons about the Revolutionary War. Each review includes technology integration ideas. This list includes resources for elementary and secondary students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask: Google My Maps Basics - TeachersFirst
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3 to 12You've probably...more
You've probably used Google Maps to find directions, but there are so many other things you can do with this tool in the classroom! In this session, educators will go on a journey to learn how to integrate Google Maps into instruction. Learn about strategies for group collaboration and how to create and customize your own map by adding placemarks and paths--and remember, it's OK2Ask questions at any time! As a result of this session, teachers will: 1. Explore Google Maps and its features, 2. Learn about uses for Google My Maps in education; and 3. Plan to incorporate Google My Maps into an upcoming lesson. This session is appropriate for teachers at all technology levels.
tag(s): Google (46), map skills (56), professional development (395)
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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How Do Human Rights Work? - Equality and Human Rights Commission
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8 to 12tag(s): civil rights (198), holocaust (41), identity (28), religions (77), social and emotional learning (84), world war 2 (151)
In the Classroom
Include this lesson as part of lessons teaching about the Holocaust and human rights. Engage students by replacing the quiz on the included slide with an interactive quiz response tool such as Quizizz, reviewed here. Use the PowerPoint slide presentation as a starting point to make an interactive learning experience using Google Slides, reviewed here, or Microsoft PowerPoint, reviewed here. Add links to additional resources, videos, and images to enhance student learning. Extend learning by asking students to create a human rights campaign using Canva for Education, reviewed here. Canva for Education provides options for creating media such as infographics, presentations, and videos.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Equality and Human Rights Lesson Plan Ideas - Equality and Human Rights Commission
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8 to 12tag(s): civil rights (198), empathy (27), identity (28), social and emotional learning (84)
In the Classroom
Include these lessons among your resources when teaching Citizenship, as part of English lessons, or within your Personal Social Health and Economic Education (PHSEE) Standards. Many lessons provide excellent resources for use by school counselors to provide support in social and emotional learning. If time is limited, divide students into groups that participate in different lessons then share their learning with peers. If dividing up lessons, consider having all students complete the final two lessons that focus on personal attitudes and discussions of equality within local communities. Engage students by beginning lessons with a simple group response tool such as Answer Garden, reviewed here. Provide a prompt in Answer Garden and ask students to respond; Answer Garden creates a word cloud based on the answers. Enhance student learning using edpuzzle, reviewed here, when watching videos. Add comments, questions, and additional information within the videos to guide students toward a deeper understanding of the content. As a final extension activity, ask students to prepare a plan for their community that focuses on improving human rights locally. Use Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, reviewed here, to prepare a video or website to share with local officials.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask: MakeCode: Bring Computational Thinking into Any Classroom - TeachersFirst
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3 to 12Prepare your students...more
Prepare your students to use today's digital tools to help solve tomorrow's problems. Pattern recognition, abstraction, algorithmic thinking, and decomposition are core thinking skills that can be applied to any subject. Learn how to integrate these components into any content area using Microsoft MakeCode projects and Hacking STEM lessons--hands-on activities that engage students immediately. As a result of this session, teachers will: 1. Review the fundamentals of computational thinking and how they can be applied across K-12 disciplines; 2. Explore MakeCode and Hacking STEM, two resources that promote computational thinking; and 3. Plan for the use of computational thinking in the classroom. This session is appropriate for teachers at all technology levels.
tag(s): coding (90), computational thinking (41), Microsoft (83), professional development (395)
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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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Twitter Chat: Trust the Process: Computational Thinking - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): computational thinking (41), twitterchatarchive (175)
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Find resources and information about computational thinking. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for strategies and resources on computational thinking.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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War to End All Wars: Looking at World War 1 Through the Eyes of Literature - TeachersFirst
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6 to 12tag(s): 1900s (73), 1910s (7), 1920s (7), europe (75), primary sources (117), veterans (20), world war 1 (73)
In the Classroom
Be sure to see all of the many ideas and activities shared on this site to engage students as they learn about World War 1. Organize and share resources with students using a curation tool such as Netboard, reviewed here. Netboard makes it easy to share links, documents, text, and more into one easily accessible location. Extend learning by asking students to share their knowledge using the tools found at Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, reviewed here. Options include tools for creating videos, web pages, and graphics to demonstrate understanding of learning objectives.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Flight 93 National Memorial - National Park Service
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5 to 12In the Classroom
Include this site with your other September 11 resources to share with students. Use Padlet, reviewed here, to curate and share resources in one location. Additionally, Padlet includes a timeline feature. Enhance learning by asking students to construct a timeline of events leading up to and beyond the hijacking and subsequent crash of the airplane as a visual tool for understanding this chain of events concerning other attacks that took place on September 11. Include links to images, videos, newspaper articles, and more on the students' timeline. Extend learning using Google My Maps, reviewed here, to create a virtual map of September 11 events that provides a broader look at the different locations and outcomes of the terrorist attacks.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World History Encyclopedia - World History Foundation
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6 to 12tag(s): china (62), climate change (88), colonial america (95), egypt (48), explorers (66), greeks (32), japan (56), maps (207), medieval (31), primary sources (117), religions (77), romans (34), slavery (76), vikings (10), women (138)
In the Classroom
This site is a must-have for any history teacher. First, bookmark the site for students to use as a multimedia encyclopedia and media resource. Then, include it with your other teaching resources to find engaging classroom lessons. Have students use the images on this site when creating presentations (using proper attribution, of course). Enhance student learning by having them use Genially, reviewed here, an excellent tool for students to use to create interactive and multimedia presentations. Have students add images to presentations, then create "hotspots" that link to outside resources such as videos, articles, or student-created texts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TheyDiffer - TheyDiffer.com
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4 to 12tag(s): animals (284), environment (238), nutrition (135), plants (147), Research (83), space (214), STEM (265), vocabulary (236), weather (164)
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Bookmark TheyDiffer on classroom computers for students to use as a quick guide for exploring commonly misunderstood differences. Consider using Symbaloo, reviewed here, as a resource to curate and share bookmarked resources on classroom computers or share a link to your Symbaloo on your class web page. Use TheyDiffer as an example for students to enhance learning by sharing their comparisons of information or concepts. For example, as students compare life in the early 1900s to life in the 21st century, use the model provided for students to create infographics using Canva Infographic Maker, reviewed here. Extend learning by having students include their infographics with other research and create Sway, reviewed here, presentations. Include videos, images, text, and more in Sway presentations to create interactive multimedia reports.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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