One of my former colleagues had students do just that with the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Animaps - Create Animated Google Maps - 5 views
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Animaps - Create Animated Google Maps. http://t.co/NJAfSOJV
- rmbyrne (rmbyrne) http://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/146095718573158401
Animaps - Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free! - 7 views
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"Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time.
When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action!"
Animaps - Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free! - 7 views
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Shared on twitter
Biography Maker - 11 views
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Biography maker
Argument Wars | iCivics - 1 views
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Cases include:
Brown v. Board of Education
New Jersey v. T.L.O.
Texas v. Johnson
Miranda v. Arizona
Snyder v. Phelps
Ground Zero II | Carloslabs - 6 views
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Nuclear explosion
Mapping History | DocsTeach: Activities: Create - 9 views
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"Link primary sources to locations on a map to practice spatial thinking and understand the impact of geographic factors in history."
JFK Library :: The President's Desk - 4 views
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Learn about JFK by clicking on resources found on his desk in oval office.
Google Earth: US Presidents - 10 views
Free Technology for Teachers: My Fake Wall - Create a Fake Facebook Wall - 12 views
Picturing America Home Page - 7 views
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"Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country's history and character through the study and understanding of its' art."
CK12.ORG - FlexBooks - 13 views
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customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12
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hey're free, they're customizable, and they meet state standards.
Those are the three biggest selling points of CK12 Flexbooks, digital educational content for K-12 schools.
FlexBooks are developed through a combination of author donations, licensing partnerships, university collaborations, and incentives for community-based authorship, and teachers can customize them to their hearts' content. -
Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12.
CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.
Free Technology for Teachers: The Federal Budget Puzzle - Interactive Challenge - 22 views
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"try your hand and fixing the federal budget The New York Times offers an interactive budget puzzle."
Photo Timelines - LIFE - 13 views
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A Timeline tells a story - of a major historical event, of last night's big game, of your life - in an exciting visual way, using pictures taken by the world's top photographers. (And you, too!)
Browse Time's timelines, other people's creations, or create your own!
The True Size Of Africa - 7 views
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A layover of maps on top of Africa to show the true size
The Supreme Court | PBS - 7 views
Free Technology for Teachers: 10 US History Google Earth Tours - 9 views
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America, A Narrative History is a text published by WW Norton. As a free supplement to the book, Norton has published ten Google Earth tours. These tours include major themes and events in US History. The list includes the Revolutionary War, the path to the Civil War, WWII, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, Lewis & Clark's expedition, the Indian Removal Act, Pre-Columbian North America, the national parks system, and the 20th Century power grid. All of the tours include multiple images and references. Some of the tours also have "tour questions" for students to answer.
National Constitution Center: Which Founder Are You? - 3 views
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Which Founder Are You? is a twelve question personality quiz designed by the National Constitution Center. The purpose of the quiz is to help quiz takers identify which founding father they are most like.
Classroom Lesson Plans: Teaching About 9-11 - 1 views
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Links to lesson plan ideas to teach about 9/11
When you're done watching a module, you can move automatically to the next module on the timeline, or move between timelines to explore parallel events.
All the videos are viewable full screen, and you'll find loads of other helpful secondary resources along the way.
It's a history resource like no other on the web. So go on, enjoy!