ASD Social Studies Department

Geoconferencing marries two well-known concepts: video conferencing and geocaching-an outdoor scavenger hunt in which students use GPS devices and mobile devices to travel to specific coordinates in order to locate hidden items known as travel bugs. Travel bugs have unique codes that owners and participants can use to track a bug's movement on geocaching.com.

Google's Ngram Viewer lets you search keywords in millions of books over the span of half a millennium, a useful tool for finding trends over time. For power users, the Ngram Viewer also has advanced options, such as searching for particular keywords as specific parts of speech or combining keywords.

Great article about the future of education in the eyes of George Lucas. (Thanks for sharing Phil)

Interesting point of view - would make a good writing assignment for students to interpret US events from their own point of view!

Micro-loans and family planning. Low cost & out of the box thinking to big problems

Micro-loans and family planning. Low cost & out of the box thinking to big problems

Example of Co-ops

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.

 International Debate Education Association (IDEA) 

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

Election resources from Pearson

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.