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Michele Brown

profspop's channel - YouTube - 20 views

www.youtube.com/...profspop

videos travel history socialstudies

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  • Michele Brown on 18 Oct 12
     
    Ed and Alan like to share their travel adventures so others may learn and have a laugh.  Covers a variety of topics.
Deborah Baillesderr

CommonLit | Free Fiction & Nonfiction Literacy Resources, Curriculum, & Assessment Mate... - 53 views

www.commonlit.org

reading themes literature informational text news poems history library

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  • Deborah Baillesderr on 10 Aug 16
     
    Great resource for CCSS-ELA. This site is geared for grades 5-12. The library is full of informational and literature text that can be found by lexile range, grade level, theme, genres, device or standards. You have the ability to get paired text, related media (videos), a teacher guide, and a parent guide. Assessment and discussion questions are included that asked students to prove their answers using passages from the text. Truly worth checking out.
Allison Hart

My Fake Wall - MyFakeWall.com - 122 views

www.myfakewall.com

history facebook creativity projects template

shared by Allison Hart on 02 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Tony Bollino on 02 Mar 11
     
    Create a Fake Facebook Wall and use it to create a biography, historical fiction, or an autobiography. Students can be very creative.
  • Allison Hart on 11 Oct 11
     
    Anyone else having trouble uploading images to new Walls?? We could last week, but today get an HTML error... Anyone else?
  • Tony Bollino on 11 Oct 11
     
    I have. I had to enter compatibility mode in Internet Explorer. There is a button next to the address bar that you click on. It looks like a broken page. Here is a screen shot. That seemed to do it. http://screencast.com/t/OtIYLvy40
mspayton68

Hispanic Culture - Latin American Culture - Spanish Culture - 14 views

www.explore-hispanic-culture.com/hispanic-culture.html

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  • efer to the set of values, standards, beliefs, art, music, and practices shared by a particular group.
  • Thus, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries are referred to as Hispanic America.
  • Hispanic or Latino culture encompasses the traditions, language, idioms, religious beliefs and practices, legends, arts, music, literature, cuisine, history, social and family values of the Hispanic people.
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  • The different "Hispanic cultures" share many things in common, including these religious observances.Navidad (Christmas)Like in many other cultures – Christmas is one of the most important religious celebrations among Hispanics. A unique characteristic of a "Latino" Christmas is the prominent role of the "nacimiento" (the nativity scene). La Semana Santa (Holy Week) This is another important and deeply religious Hispanic holiday. The Holy Week is the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. Not surprisingly, some of the most notable celebrations of the Holy Week occur in Latin American countries, including: Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Perú.
  • May 1 - Día del Trabajo May 5 - Cinco de MayoMay - Día de las MadresSep 15 - Oct 15 - Hispanic Heritage Month
Jessica Limmer

A Step-by-Step Guide to the Best Projects | Edutopia - 95 views

www.edutopia.org/-learning-best-practices-guide

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      Jessica Limmer on 09 Jun 15
       
      Love the connection to history/social studies. How can I do this?
  • Jessica Limmer on 09 Jun 15
     
    State standards are laid out in the rubric, and students should be able to tell you which ones they're covering in any given project.
Javier E

Obama's War on Inequality - The New York Times - 16 views

www.nytimes.com/...obamas-war-on-inequality.html

inequality Democratic party gop great depression New Deal obama obamacare

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  • what can policy do to limit inequality? The answer is, it can operate on two fronts. It can engage in redistribution, taxing high incomes and aiding families with lower incomes. It can also engage in what is sometimes called “predistribution,” strengthening the bargaining power of lower-paid workers and limiting the opportunities for a handful of people to make giant sums.
  • We can see this in our own history. The middle-class society that baby boomers like me grew up in didn’t happen by accident; it was created by the New Deal, which engineered what economists call the “Great Compression,” a sharp reduction in income gaps.
  • Obamacare provides aid and subsidies mainly to lower-income working Americans, and it pays for that aid partly with higher taxes at the top. That makes it an important redistributionist policy — the biggest such policy since the 1960s.
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  • between those extra Obamacare taxes and the expiration of the high-end Bush tax cuts made possible by Mr. Obama’s re-election, the average federal tax rate on the top 1 percent has risen quite a lot. In fact, it’s roughly back to what it was in 1979, pre-Ronald Reagan, something nobody seems to know.
  • What about predistribution? Well, why is Mr. Trump, like everyone in the G.O.P., so eager to repeal financial reform? Because despite what you may have heard about its ineffectuality, Dodd-Frank actually has put a substantial crimp in the ability of Wall Street to make money hand over fist.
  • these medium-size steps put the lie to the pessimism and fatalism one hears all too often on this subject. No, America isn’t an oligarchy in which both parties reliably serve the interests of the economic elite.
  • Money talks on both sides of the aisle, but the influence of big donors hasn’t prevented the current president from doing a substantial amount to narrow income gaps — and he would have done much more if he’d faced less opposition in Congress.
Maureen Greenbaum

Sugata Mitra - the professor with his head in the cloud | Education | The Guardian - 16 views

www.theguardian.com/...itra-professor-school-in-cloud

hole in the wall SOLE Mitra children learning school teaching education

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  • “A generation of children has grown up with continuous connectivity to the internet. A few years ago, nobody had a piece of plastic to which they could ask questions and have it answer back. The Greeks spoke of the oracle of Delphi. We’ve created it. People don’t talk to a machine. They talk to a huge collective of people, a kind of hive. Our generation [Mitra is 64] doesn’t see that. We just see a lot of interlinked web pages
  • “Within five years, you will not be able to tell if somebody is consulting the internet or not. The internet will be inside our heads anywhere and at any time. What then will be the value of knowing things? We shall have acquired a new sense. Knowing will have become collective.”
  • if you imagine me and my phone as a single entity, yes. Very soon, asking somebody to read without their phone will be like telling them to read without their glasses.”
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  • Twenty children are asked a “big question” such as “Why do we learn history?”, “Is the universe infinite?”, “Should children ever go to prison?” or “How do bees make honey?” They are then left to find the answers using five computers. The ratio of four children to one computer is deliberate: Mitra insists that the children must collaborate. “There should be chaos, noise, discussion and running about,” he says.
  • . Year 4 children (aged eight to nine) were given questions from GCSE physics and biology papers. After using their Sole computers for 45 minutes, their average test scores on three sets of questions were 25%, 26% and 13%. Three months later – the school having taught nothing on these subjects in the interim – they were tested again, individually and without warning. The scores rose to 57%, 80% and 16% respectively, suggesting the children continued researching the questions in their own time.
  • he says the main benefit of his methods is that children’s self-confidence increases so that they challenge adult perceptions.
  • the propositions that children can benefit from collaborative learning and that banning internet use from exams will get trickier, to the point where it may prove futile. It’s worth remembering that new technologies nearly always deliver less than we expect at first and far more than we expect later on, often in unexpected ways.
Mark Geary

Shmoop: Homework Help, Teacher Resources, Test Prep - 12 views

www.shmoop.com

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      Mark Geary on 04 Nov 12
       
      Good resource for students and teachers in a variety of areas.
  • Jennifer Carey on 22 Jul 11
     
    A series of free and paid study guides for SAT, ACT, PSAT, AP tests as well as free teacher resources for a variety of topics. 
  • Martin Burrett on 29 Jul 11
     
    This is a superb cross curricular site with some paid for services, but the vast majority are free. View book guides on both modern and classic texts, including Shakespeare. The site also has biographies and history info. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
Deborah Baillesderr

Free Technology for Teachers: Historical Investigations for Students to Complete - 86 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...vestigations-for-students.html

Social Studies history free investigations resources

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  • Deborah Baillesderr on 22 Oct 15
     
    "Historical Investigations for Students to Complete"
Sarah McDermott

Internet History Sourcebooks - 53 views

www.fordham.edu/...1773marieantonette.asp

shared by Sarah McDermott on 23 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • I absolutely blush for your kindness to me. The day before yesterday Mercy sent me your precious letter, and yesterday I received a second. That is indeed passing one's fête day happily. On Tuesday I had a fête which I shall never forget all my life.
    • Sarah McDermott
      Sarah McDermott on 23 Oct 14
       
      Does this show up?
  • tom campbell on 23 Oct 14
     
    yes it shows.
Melissa Enderle

MoMA | Teachers Online - 88 views

www.moma.org/...online

Art Museums modern art Art Games and Activities Art Museums for Kids art history Museum lessonplans resources MOMA Art Museum Museum Resources Art Education Elementary Art

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  • Melissa Enderle on 11 Jan 11
     
    Series of lesson plans, collections of art for students, an art game for young (5-8 years old) students, interactive activities for older students, and podcasts about art and artists. Can be searched by theme, artist, medium, or subject.
Glenn Hervieux

Six Timeline Creation Tools for Students Compared In an Updated Chart - 76 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...meline-creation-tools-for.html

timelines webapp history

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  • Glenn Hervieux on 29 Feb 16
     
    Richard Byrne shares his updated list of six timeline creation tools and provides a comparison chart in a Google Doc.
Glenda Carmack

Home/IWitness:Video testimonies from Holocaust survivors and witnesses - 9 views

iwitness.usc.edu/Default.aspx

history web_sites

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  • Gayle Cole on 12 Apr 12
     
    IWitness is a powerful tool in the Shoah Foundation Institute's mission to putting an end to prejudice, bigotry, and intolerance -- and the suffering they cause -- through the educational use of testimony. This resource is hands-on, constructivist, engaging, and relevant to students ages 13 and up. There are a variety of activities, including one especially for classes that read Elie Wiesel's book Night, videos that address ethical editing, a built-in online video editor, and more.
  • Glenda Carmack on 18 May 12
     
    would be great site for students to learn from personal accounts, more interactive than just reading
kris james

Making and reading maps in the 21st century - 109 views

www.microsoft.com/...reading-maps.aspx

Social Studies

shared by kris james on 17 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Time Charts of Cartography: Includes a comprehensive index of maps from ancient times to the present, with links to images.
    • kris james
      kris james on 17 Apr 12
       
      This resource sounds like it would be helpful in multiple history lessons.
  • types of information (geographical, political, and demographic) that digital maps can provide
    • kris james
      kris james on 17 Apr 12
       
      A vital tool for a problem-based learning lesson
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