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Welcome to resourcesforhistoryteachers a multimedia/multicultural wikispace for teachers and students, created by teachers and students

Unique Learning System is the ONLY online, dynamic, standards-based curriculum specifically designed for special learners. Subscribers download monthly instructional thematic units of study. Each unit contains 30 lesson plans and downloadable materials that teachers can readily implement into classroom learning activities. All materials are created using SymbolStix graphics. The unit lesson plans define three levels of differentiated tasks to accommodate the diversity of learners with significant disabilities.

"Every era demands--and rewards--different skills. In different times and different places, we have taught our children to grow vegetables, build a house, forge a sword or blow a delicate glass, bake bread, create a soufflé, write a story or shoot hoops. Now we are teaching them to code."

"The Common Core Learning Standards describe the importance of teaching students how to comprehend informational text. They are asked to read closely, make inferences, cite evidence, analyze arguments and interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text. Primary source documents are artifacts created by individuals during a particular period in history. This could be a letter, speech, photograph or journal entry."

"These web tools are designed to help students organize material, create and learn social media best practices. These free sites are safe and secure with extensive content filters to protect children from inappropriate content."

"Create videos for home or business Welcome to the easiest way to make beautiful videos online. Try it for free!"

"How-to video: Creating a digital classroom project, using Glogster Brief synopsis: With Glogster's education platform, located at edu.glogster.com, teachers can expand their use of the web-based poster creation tool, Glogster. The edu Glogster site gives teachers more power than the standard Glogster application. With the educational Glogster Web 2.0 application, teachers can register their students for their own glogster accounts, all of which are contained in the teacher's Glogster account. Students can complete projects on one unit (see how-to video above) and those projects can be shared in the classroom Glogster site."

"SpeakPipe voice recorder allows you to create an audio recording directly from a browser by using your microphone. The recording is produced locally on your computer, and you can record as many times as you need. There is the option to save your recording on the SpeakPipe server and get a link to it, so you can send it via email or use on the web. Works on iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Android devices."

Free to public for Mac and PC. Software to create stop-animation movies.

"Start A Free Private Chat Fill out this form to create a chat room immediately - only for you and people you invite. (For more options, try our Virtual Rooms.)"

Create your own 3D pop-up books for digital storytelling projects.

Creating self-grading Google forms/quizzes/tests

"Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages."