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Stories of immigration 8th grade social studies re:Through Ellis Island and Angel Island: The Immigrant Experience

"Researchers have long known that the "classical" language regions, like Broca's area and Wernicke's area, are involved in how the brain interprets written words. What scientists have come to realize in the last few years is that narratives activate many other parts of our brains as well, suggesting why the experience of reading can feel so alive."

HelloSlide transforms your slides into a rich audiovisual format, recreating the experience of a live lecture. Simply upload your presentation, type the speech for each slide, and HelloSlide automagically generates the audio. HelloSlide gives more exposure to your presentations, making them searchable, editable, and available in 20 different languages. It's simple to get started: Upload a PDF of your presentation to our website. Type the speech for each slide using our editor. Press play to hear your presentation.

CK-12 Foundation is a nonprofit organization that offers free, fully customizable, open-source digital textbooks for math, science and engineering classes that are aligned with the standards. Users may read, download, print, and annotate these books written by subject area experts and educators on any ePub compatible device.  Teachers may incorporate all. Most, some, or no content from CK-12 into their digital textbooks, and can build their own from scratch. To create a true multimedia experience, textbooks contain images, videos, graphics, web links, and animations. 

"Create meaningful, annotated conversation around video. Use Vialogues to supplement face-to-face instruction or as the heart of an online learning experience. A vialogue (video + dialogue) puts you at the center of an immersive video-based discussion that includes time-coded, hyperlinked comments. Teachers can post comments, polls, and surveys to scaffold video content."

The Global Bookshelf is a book search and recommendation engine. The purpose of The Global Bookshelf is to help people find travel stories. The books you'll find aren't travel guides, they're travel stories that could inspire you to visit a new place and experience a new culture. You can browse The Global Bookshelf by region, genre, and book format (Kindle, PDF, physical book). Students can add their book reviews to The Global Bookshelf. If you have students who have read some travel narratives, consider having them write a review to share on The Global Bookshelf. This is a great way to provide an authentic audience for your students' work. The Global Bookshelf is good place for your students to find books that they may enjoy reading. Maybe they'll read a story that sets them off to explore the world.

Through the use of canvases that you build and create following simple steps, you are organizing, presenting and sharing online resources with your students and colleagues in a way that's vibrant and unique. Visit the Edcanvas home page to see how it works and how easy it can be to start building and sharing a great lesson. Once there, you'll see and experience tons of resources that you can start using right away to enhance your lessons.

What it is: Physics Central is a fantastic website full of…you guessed it, physics! There are fantastic sections for students to explore science, activity books, experiments and activities. Students can learn more about physics in action (physics as found in the world around us), meet physicists, and learn about physics research. Physics Central will ignite a students curiosity in: sound, electricity and magnetism, force and motion, light and optics, material science, quantum mechanics, space and the universe, and thermodynamics and heat. My favorite find on Physics Central so far (I'm sure there will be many more favorites the longer I explore) is the Nikola Tesla and the Electric Fair section. Here, students will find a downloadable kit that includes a manual, comic book, and four related activities.

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Resource from Ronda Freedom Crafter -- people that were somehow able to beat the system and buy their freedom different perspective on black experience during civil war

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Try to draw some fireworks pictures with your graphing calculator. We've inverted parabolas and experimented with moving them left and right, making them fatter, deciding on their maximum Y value and changing our calculator's viewing window. When you figure out better pictures, please let us know and we'll add your ideas (and give you credit) to this post.

The Foundation is directed by men and women from the private sector who are dedicated to the institution that holds and preserves the records of the United States of America. The Archives Shop plays a vital role in fulfilling the mission of the Foundation for the National Archives by providing quality products and publications based on the holdings of the National Archives.

What it is: Inklewriter is a great digital tool that lets students (and teachers if you are so inclined) write and publish interactive stories. Inklewriter lets students create choose-your-own-adventure type stories, story lines can come with choices and then be linked back together. Inklewriter makes this process easier by keeping track of which story paths have been finished and which still need work. There is no set-up required, no programming language to learn and no diagrams. Inklewriter is free to use and easy to share with the world when it is published. When a story is finished, it can even be converted to Kindle format!

How to integrate Inklewriter into the classroom: Inklewriter is a great digital tool for creative writing. Students can explore multiple plot lines and what-if scenarios in their fictional writing. I also like the idea of using Inklewriter to ask kids to explore the "what-ifs" in history. What if we lost/won this war/battle? What if the other guy (or girl) had been elected president? What if the Berlin wall hadn't come down? These types of stories are fantastic opportunities for students to explore their curiosities and, in the process, learn more about the event they are exploring. After all, you have to know something about how an event actually went in order to write alternate endings. Inklewriter would be a fun way for students to come up with alternate endings to a novel they are reading. Our students wrote a variety of endings for The Giver. Each student wrote a different ending that picked up from the last chapter of the book. Inklewriter would have been a great tool to use for all of these endings to be available in one place. Students could copy/paste the last paragraph of the actual book and then offer their alternative endings as options. In science, students could use Inklewriter as a tool to record their hypothesis. Students can write out the objective and steps in their experiment and make a new "alternate ending" for their various hypothesis. In math, students could create story problems where they lead others down the path to discover the correct answer.