ASD Social Studies Department

Different way to assess student understanding of some key historical events.

This is going to be an amazing tool! Use engaging videos to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube. Watch the video to learn how.

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

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

A new site -Teacher Resources

An extensive, yet simplistic site on different periods of history.  

Glean Comparison Search helps you compare and contrast differing viewpoints of a research topic

Great resource for current events.  

"Tinychat provides dead simple, free to use, video chat rooms that just work!"

I read an article about a month ago on when watching a video or movie in class, teachers were using a chat room to simultaneously discuss the movie. Tiny Chat is only one of many sites where you can create temporary chat rooms for the class and share the link to all of your students. At the end, many of these chat rooms disappear and the info gets cleared. What I liked about Tiny chat is that is also has the ability to show webcams, share Youtube videos, and you can create a whiteboard to share with the group so they can do some brainstorming.

Good article about tech enriched student empowered classes with quite a bit of detail on how to organize it.

Tedtalk showing Gapminder. Really cool.

Cool site for showing trends and statistics. It goes with the TEDtalk that I will share right after.

A cool interactive timeline of the uprisings

There are some good macro and microeconomics and social science simulations here that you can manipulate online now for free. Great population simulations.

census population movement and impact on politics

I am now "Diigoing" this article, but I already sent it to you via e-mail so please delete. TEST.

This is a tool that I am learning for possible research papers etc. Jill recommends it for high school students.