CVSD Secondary Group

The Tied turns the Battle of Trenton

Revolutionary War video Battle of Trenton.

Michelle Krill's site about incorporating technology with LFS.

The National Academy of the Sciences has launched this new website that gives an overview of the U.S. energy system. It covers 4 main topics: energy uses, sources of energy, the cost of energy (in terms of the environment, national security, and sustainability), and energy efficiency. The site has easy to navigate content and links to source material, and it includes n energy quiz, a glossary, and a source library. The site's producers are also developing curriculum-based materials for high school and middle school classrooms. Two special features--Our Energy System and Understasnding Efficiency--are designed to actively engage visitors and enhance their understanding of energy, including what it is, h ow we use it, and ways to conserve it.

Looks like a good resource related to the topic of energy

NBC Learn has launched this website called Finishing the Dream. It chronicles the h istory of the civil rights movement. It includes more then 100 stories from NBC News archives. Materials include documentaries on significan events over the course of 60 years, including the Montgomery bus boycott; the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; the Freedom Riders; and more. The content provides the opportunity for community leaders, teachers, and students to discuss the impact of the civil rights movement and to consider related modern issues that affect people today.

A new public television show designed to teach children basic financial literacy. It covers personal finance topics, such as credit, saving, budgeting, investing, and charity. Free lesson plans are available online for each show. The program will air on public television stations around the United States.

This is a tool designed for history classrooms but able to be adapted to any discipline.

Free site that looks like it would be fun for kids.

This site is a new multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set throughout U.S. history. The first game, Mission 1: For Crown or Coloni? puts players in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14 year old printer's apprentice in 1770 Boston. As players complete tasks throughout the city, they meet everyone from merchants to soldiers, sailors to poets, Patriots to Loyalists. The game reveals rising tensions threatening to come to a head, and, ultimately, players must choose where their loyalties lie. Teachers can use the website to manage classes and track student progress.

Looks interesting. It may align more with the elementary SS content.

Maps 101 appears to not be free but has a trial version. ti appears to be K-12. It includes materials for Spanish language educators and those teaching students with limited English. I couldn't find information on the purchase but I did see that you can request an extension on the trial version.

Map resource

Edupic is a site with free photographs and grapics for education.

Neat site! Lots of free pictures and graphics.

Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

Lots of free tools. I liked the diagrams available.

Mindtools is another site with information about doing icebreakers and it also includes further down the home page a variety of icebreakers that can be used.

more icebreaker activities

more icebreaker activities

This site has a variety of icebreaker activities for free. There are also some additional activities that can be purchased, but there are a number of them free.

Here is a neat site for anyone looking for icebreaker activities.

Digitales is a great site to assist in the development of evaluation rubrics for a variety of project types.

Digitales is a great site to use for development of rubrics for a variety of projects.

Larry Ferlazzo's extensive list of "best of" covering many curricular areas

Gail Desler's (Blog Walker) post 4/6/2009 about resources for teaching about earthquakes.

Thanks to Miguel Guhlin's post of this resource 4/6/2009 The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore,

New Glogster Widget in Wikispaces.

New widget for those who like wikispaces and glogster.

Mathew Needleman's blog post 3/23/2009 about links for the Revolutionary War.

Mathew Needleman's blog post 3/23/2009 about links for the Civil War.

Miguel Guhlin's blog post 3/26/2009 gives a list of resources of where to find Moodle courses.