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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.

Seven free resources for teaching about the election Teachers, students can benefit from these interactive tools The 2012 presidential election is drawing near, and educators across the country are using campaign efforts as a chance to teach students about the democratic process, the major issues in the race, and how these issues might affect students now and in the future.

If you tweet (or even if you don't) consider checking in on this hashtag for history teaching resources

Great resource I used on both Argo and Lincoln

AMAZING!!!!!

This is Skype's attempt to get classroom's collaborating around the world.  Some people are looking for teachers to help them with specific lessons (i.e. Spanish teacher)  Please take a look through the Skype Lessons link for more details.

Interactive games created by Rice University.  Most of them are Science related but some of them are History.

Check out all the cool resources here! Wahoo

Great stuff! Happy to help anyone who needs it in their classes if they want their students to use video to communicate and show understanding of standards. Remember they can be shown in the Falcon film festival in the late spring as well.