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Tracy Watanabe

Rand McNally Education :: Play the Election - 1 views

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    Rand McNally launched a free online tool for students and teachers to learn more about the presidential election process. "An accompanying online teacher resource center includes lesson plans based on the Common Core Standards making it easy to integrate the games and activities into the classroom.   Features of "Play the Election" Digital Learning Game * Interactive electoral map - Breaks down the Electoral College by state, details past election results, real-time polling data, election-related headlines, and more. * Digital Mini-Games - Students can choose from eleven different mini-games that reinforce key concepts of the election, delve deeper into the issues of influential and battleground states, and tie core civics curriculum to current events. * Standards-aligned lesson plans - Professionally-created lesson plans for educators that cover key aspects of the 2012 Election, the Electoral College, and major debates. * Student Access - Each student creates their own unique profile that allows them to save and edit their own electoral map, play and track their progress through the games, and see how their answers stack up against those of others in their class or the country. * Create Your Own Games - Teachers can create their own mini-games to reinforce key concepts or to teach new, related events. "Play the Election" was created in collaboration with ImpactGames and is powered by ImpactGames' Knight News Game award winning platform."
Tracy Watanabe

#MysterySkype - Skype in the classroom - 0 views

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    "Mystery Skype is an educational game, invented by teachers, played by two classrooms on Skype. The aim of the game is to guess the location of the other classroom by asking each other questions. It's suitable for all age groups and can be used to teach subjects like geography, history, languages, mathematics and science."
A McDaniel

MapMaker Interactive - National Geographic Education - 2 views

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    This Beta site is very interactive. You can see several thematic options, put markers on the map, print, etc.
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    National Geography Interactive Maps
Tracy Watanabe

Civil Rights | Classroom Resources | PBS Learning Media - 0 views

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    "In 1954, the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declared segregated schools unconstitutional and sparkeda decade of groundbreaking civil rights activism and legislation.Using archival news footage, primary sources, and interview segments filmed for Eyes on the Prize, this collection captures the voices,images, and events of the Civil Rights movement and the ongoing struggle for racial equality in America. "
Tracy Watanabe

Home | Design Other 90% Network | Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum - 0 views

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    Design for the Other 90% http://designother90.org View solutions that improve access to water, sanitation, food security, electricity, health, transportation, and education. -- Virtual exchange of ideas as solutions to these real world problems.
Tracy Watanabe

Survivor Stories of the Holocaust LIVE VideoConference -- CILC - 0 views

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    Education: Grade(s): 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Cost $FREE! What was it like to be a Jew in Europe prior to World War II? How was your life different from non-Jews? What did you know about the regime in Nazi Germany and what happened to you as a result of its rule? What was it like to be sent away from your parents on the Kindertransport or to stay in your home country and be taken away to a concentration camp? What was life like in the camps? What did it mean to be liberated? For this very special program, take your study of World War II and the Holocaust to individuals who lived through them. Ask these questions and more as you interact with Holocaust survivors. Our focus in this program will not be exploring the historic details of World War II or the Holocaust, but it will be to provide students the rare and important opportunity to speak directly with those who lived during that time and survived to share their experiences with others. This program will come live from the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in St. Louis. The program will also include information about resources available through the Center.
Tracy Watanabe

Revised AP Physics, U.S. History Coming Soon - Curriculum Matters - Education Week - 0 views

  • The College Board today announced the release of redesigned AP programs for U.S. history and physics, with a focus on reducing the amount of content coverage required to allow more time for studying key concepts in greater depth. Schools will offer the revised courses starting in fall 2014.
  • The emphasis on covering less material in greater depth surely rings a bell with lots of this blog's readers, given that this is a core mantra these days, emphasized, for example, in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics, as well as the common science standards now being developed by a coalition of states and others.
  • Topics covered in Physics 1 include Newtonian mechanics; work, energy, and power; and mechanical waves and sounds. Physics 2 covers fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, optics, and atomic and nuclear physics.
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  • As for U.S. history, the key objectives of the changes include: • Alignment with evolving U.S. history curriculum at the nation's top colleges and universities; • Providing teachers and students flexibility to focus on specific historical topics, events, and issues in greater depth; and • Increasing student practice of historical thinking skills as central to understanding history.
Sheryl Anderson

Teaching History - National History Education Clearing House - 0 views

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    Resources for history lessons that use primary sources and inquiry
Sheryl Anderson

TED-Ed video - 1 views

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    How to use TED-Ed to flip a lesson
Tracy Watanabe

Profile in Courage Essay Contest Landing Page - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & ... - 0 views

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    JFK Profile in Courage Essay Contest -- Write for authentic audience The contest deadline is January 6, 2014. Profile In Courage - What political leader has shown courage. Fits in great to social studies and language arts.
Sheryl Anderson

Reading Like A Historian | Stanford History Education Group - 1 views

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    Lesson Plans and primary source documents for history lessons
Tracy Watanabe

C-SPAN StudentCam 2012 - 1 views

  • C-SPAN's StudentCam is an annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think seriously about issues that affect our communities and our nation. Students are asked to create a short (5-8 minute) video documentary on a topic related to the competition theme listed below.
  • The Constitution and You: Select any provision of the U.S. Constitution and create a video illustrating why it’s important to you.” Your documentary may focus on any section of the Preamble, Articles, or Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. You should not focus your documentary on failed or proposed amendments that have yet to pass. Choose a provision, grab a camera, and get started on your documentary today!
  • grades 6-12.
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  • teams of up to 3 members.
  • by midnight on January 20, 2012.
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