Welcome To The Center For Teaching History With TechnologyEdTechTeacher presents The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for history and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about web technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, social networks, Google Docs, ebooks, online maps, virtual field trips, screencasts, online posters, and more. Explore innnovative ways of integrating these tools into the curriculum, watch instructional video tutorials, and learn how others are using technology in the classroom!
Resources for Teaching 6-12 EconomicsUnder Reorganization
Here are many online teaching resources for middle school and high school and useful web sites for economics. See also our online lessons page. If you need information about high school textbooks, please see the pdf version of A Review of High School Economics Textbooks by Don Leets and Jane Lopus.
This page shows a small selection of the hundreds of websites that provide resources for teaching geography at Key Stage 3. If you have any recommendations please email resources@rgs.org
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This is an IB Economics teacher's wiki which he uses to teach the course and seems to be very full of good resources for teaching and learning.
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EASE History is a rich online environment that supports the learning and teaching of US History. Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History.
Learn about US History through the prism of US presidential campaign ads, better understand the complexities of campaign issues and their historical context by looking at historical events, and explore the meanings of core values by examining how these values have been applied in both historical events and campaign ads. "
"Calling all teachers and students from around the world: join together to exchange your perspective about what you teach and have been taught about events, figures and time periods in history. "
Using rich resources that encourage children's empathy skills can make all the difference in teaching about WWII. This collection has detailed lesson plans, sources of information, emotive images, audio interviews, film footage and display materials.
The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities.
This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on issues from King Philip's War to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and make historical claims backed by documentary evidence.
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