ABC Humanities

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Colonization is a strategy game where players take on the role of settles and build towns in a new land. A useful game for history lessons.

Facebook has set the share price for its upcoming initial public offering (IPO) at between $28 and $35 per share, valuing the company at between $85bn and $95bn. The pricing would enable Facebook to raise as much as $11.8bn (£7.3bn) through its stock market listing.

A US drug company has agreed to pay out $1.6bn (£1bn) after improperly marketing a mood-stabilising drug in a settlement thought to be the largest of its kind involving a single drug. Abbott Laboratories encouraged its sales teams to market Depakote for uses that were not approved by regulators, the US justice department said.

Virtual field trips challenge and expose students to new types of technology. It is a great way to spark their interest and motivate their learning in a specific content area. Virtual field trips can offer students more opportunities because you can take them to places they wouldn't normally be able to go to otherwise - like inside a volcano or ocean floor! In addition, virtual field trips may even boost students' reading comprehension skills and will expose them to different cultures and environments. While virtual field trips offer a great learning opportunity, they can be hard to organize and time consuming. Take advantage of our free virtual field trips and engage your students even more!

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.

as above, but also just generally Coke as a Global Brand

Case Study

Critical thinking animations

Collaborative tool for creating group mindmaps/webs/brainstorms. Very easy to use, but requires either Safari or Chrome. Free signup. 

Harvard Referencing Generator for books, chapters, journals, websites and even emails.

In just a few hundred years, humans have dramatically changed our planet.  Though global warming gets most of the news coverage, another major impact is the loss of habitat for many of the world's animal species.  Here is a collection of videos you can use when talking about this topic with your students. via ​James Sanders G+

they used to sell Amazon Kindle - but wont be anymore

California changes its tax laws, thus affecting Amazon expansion plans

only after the EC told them to 'scale it down'

Apple's chief executive has penned an apology following a barrage of criticism caused by its switch to a new maps system. Tim Cook [the new 'Steve Jobs'] acknowledged that users had been frustrated by the move and repeated a pledge to improve the software. In the meantime he suggested users download an alternative product from one of its rivals.

World war 1 crash course

realtime disaster app.

see above

also has potentially useful links down the side