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This is a resource with solid assessments and terrific rubrics.

Election resources from Pearson

"assessing 21st century skills with library of congress documents"

Futurist website nowandnext.com put together this awesome infographic predicting all of the technologies, behaviors, and ideas that will probably be distant memories by 2050. Among their predictions: no more retirement four years from now, no more secretaries six years from now, and no more free parking or sit-down breakfasts by 2019. The European Union is seen as surviving the current crisis before extinct in 2039. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/everything-that-will-go-extinct-in-the-next-40-years-2012-8#ixzz2BRtiTeVD

Geography frequently takes a back seat to history in the social studies classroom, but teaching geographic literacy is essential if students are going to understanding the challenges and opportunities of our complex world. We have created 10 activities for teaching about geography using Times content, all related to the National Geography Standards, which were produced by the Geography Education National Implementation Project. Our list is a grab-bag of ideas - from designing maps to analyzing border conflicts - and teachers can use the activities in any order, or as a road map for tracking ongoing coverage of geography-related issues.

Bougor - this reminded me of that box you guys always do at the start of the year... 

Cool history site by a creative teacher.

I thought this was kind of cool.

A new site -Teacher Resources

This is the first in a series of articles from guest writer Stephen Berer focusing on literacies, fluencies, and projects for museums and classrooms. The following series of articles will discuss how to successfully use museums as multimedia classrooms, and how to bring the best of the museum experience back into your classroom.