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R. Byrne: "A featured resource on MoMA Learning is this video containing five tips for teaching with works of art. The video not only lists the tips, it contains examples of using these tips to teach art history and art appreciation lessons to students." Most of the great art museums and natural history museums of the world have websites with instructional materials of very high quality. It's worth some time to explore what they offer and figure out how to adapt their resources for your classes. One of the other excellent resources on MoMA Learning is this glossary of art terms. In many cases the definitions in the glossary contain links to multiple examples of each term. You might also like: Three Good Places to Find Art Lessons Art Babble - Videos and Lessons In Art History Read and Download 250+ Art Books from the Getty Museum 390 Free Online Art History Books Linkwithin 33 at 7:05 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Art, Art History, art lessons, Free Technology For Teachers, MoMA, MoMA Learning Links to this post Create a Link Newer Post Older Post Home LinkWithin Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger... TW FreeTech Banner Dark Blue (1) freetech4teachers HelloTalk new seesaw-468-60 Midwest Teachers Institute Banner 468x60 isd-richard-byrnes-ad-2014 ettipad-boston15-CFP-200x200 prepfactory DE_WILKES_EDGE_AD_200x200.jpg Browse The Archives ► 2015 (707) ▼ 2014 (1243) ► December (115) ► November (86) ► October (112) ► September (116) ► August (102) ▼ July (114) ► Jul 31 (5) ► Jul 30 (4) ► Jul 29 (2) ► Jul 28 (4) ► Jul 27 (3) ► Jul 26 (2) ► Jul 25 (5) ► Jul 24 (5) ► Jul 23 (4) ► Jul 22 (5) ► Jul 21 (5) ► Jul 20 (2) ► Jul 19 (2)

"The Smithsonian's History Explorer is packed with lesson plans, interactive media, and reference pages for teachers and students. Using the search tools teachers can find lesson plans for every K-12 grade aligned to national standards for U.S. History. Teachers can search for lesson plans and other materials by grade level, resource type, historical era, and cross-curricular connections. " This material is useful for any online teacher around the world as a history source.

A social studies teacher shares American history images. May prove useful for content-based projects and the study of American culture. "American History Resource - The Denver Post Photo Blog "As a social studies teacher I am always looking for new resources to to bring into the classroom. We can no longer rely on notes and a text book as our primary learning tools. The internet has provided teachers with new resources and new opportunities to change the way history is taught and learned. Every month I come across new sources of photographs, documents, and videos that help to enhance the learning experience. One of my favorite recent discoveries has been the The Denver Post photo blog, or Plog as it is called. The Plog is a terrific resource of photographs and information about a wide variety of historical topics which I have covered here, here, and here in my other blog. From the Statue of Liberty, to the inauguration,then the Great Depression, and the Berlin Wall, the Denver Post's Photo Blog is one resource that I highly recommend you explore."

"Mapping History contains hundreds animated and interactive maps from key events in the history's of the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. The U.S. maps are sorted chronologically and by event or era. The European maps section is categorized more by topic and appears to be still under construction. The Latin America section is sorted into three regions (Caribbean, Central America, South America) and there are four African maps, each one shows the continent's division and political borders at various points of history. Mapping History is an excellent resource for the social studies classroom. Thanks out to Greg Odell who shared this site on Twitter." Great for project- or content-based projects.

"Timelines is a site where history meets social media. The website itself is very useful by categorizing key historical events in several ways. You can browse the site by era, type of event (ie; war), or by date. They have a neat page where you simply select a date and the events that occurred on that date appear. Almost everything you find on Timelines is created by their community and registered users can record events and contribute descriptions, photos, videos and links related to events. Unlike a wiki, the site is built to display various (and potentially conflicting) descriptions of the same event from many different contributors which is always important when trying to understand historical events. Timelines is a great site because it allows you to report and discover history with your friends, colleagues, and students." from Learning Never Stops Blog

Provides interactive and animated presentaions of fundamental history problems and illustrations of historical events and dynamics. Copyrighted, but open to academic users. Based at U of Oregon; includes American, European, Latin American, and African history.

"The UMBC Assessment Resource Center for History offers sample assessments based on readings from six eras in U.S. history. The assessments include multiple choice question and performance tasks based on close reading exercises. The performance task assessments include scoring rubrics, sample responses from students, and the documents that students need in order to complete the performance tasks." T/H R. Byrne

"The Memorial Hall Museum in Deefield, Massachusetts has an tremendously engaging website with a wide variety of interactive exhibits for teachers and students. You can watch colonial tools being used or use the sites "magic lens" and read historical documents. The site has exhibits on colonial clothing and objects and there is a section dedicated to kids activities. The site has sections dedicated to the Civil War, Shay's Rebellion, African American history, and so much more. The Memorial Hall Museum's online exhibits are a great resource for students, teachers, and anyone studying American history."

"History is so often seen as boring and meaningless to students who can't grasp why they need to learn about events and people from the past. These two music videos from Soomo Publishing have high production value and utilize current pop music songs with a historical twist on the lyrics. The first one is about the Declaration of Independence and uses One Republic's Too Late to Apologize. The focus of the second video is women's suffrage and it uses Lady Gaga's Bad Romance to tell this important story." Maybe these could be a model for student-created videos.

R. Byrne shows how the U.S. National Archives can be used to teach history, allowing students to use digital artifacts in their projects. For high school and adult learners.

"The Public Domain Review could be a great place to find historical media to use in history lessons, literature lessons, and art history lessons. If you're looking for colorful imagery to use as filler or backgrounds in slide presentations, the collections on The Public Domain Review are probably not your best bet. In that case, I would look to Pixabay for images that are in the public domain. " Collections include short descriptions of the significance of the media. T/H R. Byrne

Discussion of the man who founded the concept of evolution.

"From his comedies to histories to tragedies, the series looks at the stories that have shaped our cultural history: seeking out each play's inspiration, finding the moments and places that set every scene, as well as examining the words that gave life to Shakespeare's world both in the past and present. "This thematic collection -- which adheres to national learning standards -- contains video segments from the series, informational texts, discussion questions, and suggestions for extension activities to enhance your students' reading, viewing, and appreciation of Shakespeare's works." Another great series by PBS, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each video in the series covers a particular theme and is appropriate for high school students. Explore and savour!

This is a great way to learn about art and is now connected to Khan Academy for additional practice and assessment or self-assessment. Created by two art history professors. Also pages to help you teach with Smarthistory.

Actually turns out there are 9 channels mentioned. These include amusing ways to teach history, the U.S. presidents, politics, etc. worth a view, especially for middle school students.

Get onto Keith Hughes' channel. He makes history absolutely compelling in short videos for high school students. These videos may help your students get into their social studies subjects and they model a way to bring the past to life. Your students may want to produce some themselves. t/h R.Byrne

R. Byrne: "Keith Hughes, teacher and producer of the popular Hip Hughes History series of videos, recently released a good video for new teachers. Ten Solutions for Misbehavior offers practical advice for new teachers. "My addition to this list comes from the first principal that I worked under, "don't openly engage in power struggles with students."

"Knowitall.org is ETV's educational Web portal, a collection of fun, interactive websites for K-12 students, teachers and parents." Has culture snapshots (eg, Gullah Net), how-tos, history-related features (Road Trip through Civil Rights History). jobs, health, career development resources, etc. K-12 with an emphasis on younger kids.

"Want to make an amazing timeline? * Create a timeline for almost anything * Add multiple layers to keep events organized * Keep your timelines private or share them with others * Preceden is completely web-based and 100% free" "When you hover over an event, the timeline will display the approximate length of the event at your cursor location. Other ideas for timelines: coordinate a get together, research history, track your startup, organize a vacation, mastermind Thanksgiving dinner, learn about family history, plan a revolution, etc." User can set up layers, e.g., education, relationships, locations in a biography. Doesn't have ability to upload pictures or video, however. Good instructional page with examples.

"Capture windows and region No need to install the application, you can run it directly after download. Screenshot history Don't bother to save screenshots on your drive, Screenpresso does for you. Drag and drop screenshots from history directly to your favorite email editor. Webmails like GMail are also taken into account! Built-in image editor Crop, spotlight an area or comment on parts of captured image. Capture scrolling part Can't fit it on the screen ? Make a unique image thanks to the stitching mechanism. Add image effects. Add drop shadow, round corners and reflection and more. Resize bunch of images Need to export images or create thumbnails at specific size? one click. Easy share screenshots on Twitter thanks to Twitpic integration. "