Music in the Classroom - 0 views
In our final class we discussed different resources found online I thought I would add to that collection. Grooveshark.com streams all types of genre of music and no downloading is necessary. Mus...
How Can Social Studies Teachers Best Use The Internet With Young Learners? - 1 views
http://www2.education.ualberta.ca/css/css_39_1/ARgibson_SSteachers_internet_young_learners.htm Our program has a "technology focus" and we get bombarded with suggestions to include technology in ...
Lessons of history - 0 views
In England, there has been a push towards changing the history curriculum to be compulsory until a higher age level. The teaching of history has been placed under review that the lessons are taught...
Sheppard Software: Fun online games - 0 views
This is a website that provides fun interactive online games for students in all subjects. There are interactive geography games and history games as well as quizzes. This provides for a great wa...
GIS in the Classroom? - 1 views
http://innovateonline.info/pdf/vol4_issue1/Using_Digital_Mapping_Programs_to_Augment_Student_Learning_in_Social_Studies.pdf This article explores the use of Digital Mapping Programs in the Classro...
Introducing Technology in the Classroom - 0 views
http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss1/currentissues/socialstudies/article1.htm This article comes from Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, outlines best practices for using tec...
How To Teach History Facts the Fun Way - 0 views
This short article suggests that history is often perceived as boring for the students and for the teacher trying to convey the information. The author suggests that history needs to be made 'fun'...
Canadian Council for Geographic Education: Geography Challenge - 0 views
The Canadian Council for Geographic Education is an organization that provides geography elementary students with the opportunity of making the study of geography more exciting for them. There are...
Professional volunteers teach students GIS technology - 0 views
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/precollegiate/professional-volunteers-teach-students-gis-technology/article_02a78241-fef7-5e9a-bd4f-0b9d5f85d655.html Throughout Utah County, 4 hund...
Geography Songs and Raps - 0 views
Start your geography lesson with a song or rap to grab your student's attention! There are many different songs that you can model a concept or skill of geography with. They can then spur conversat...
The Purposes of Teaching Canadian Hisotry - 1 views
In this article, Peter Seixas discusses the importance of teaching Canadian history in a method that moves away from myths. Seixas argues that "Some of our myths feel crusty and irrelevant, some o...
Make Classes Fun By Teaching History CSI Style - 3 views
Teachers have always struggled with finding a way to make teaching and learning history fun. Some interesting history resources include Teen Second Life or materials from the National Archives. As ...
Teaching History's Big Picture - 1 views
As history teachers, we sometimes get lost in teaching the "big p picture" of history. This as a result, often causes our students to lose interest and become disengaged in the subject area of teac...
National Geographic Teaching Resources - 1 views
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/teaching-resources/?ar_a=1&ar_r=1 This is a great site for geography resources. This site provides teacher's with some great resources for a vari...
Veterans' Week and Remembrance Day - 1 views
http://education.alberta.ca/department/events/veteransweek.aspx This article looks at Alberta schools celebrating Veteran's Week and Remembrance Day. They celebrate the week of November 5th- 11th....
Remembering - 0 views
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/_UNDEFINED_VALUE_/20071108/history_torch_071108/ This article talks about the use of monuments to help generations to "preserve" history once living examples have passed ...
How to Incorporate Drama in the Classroom for Social Studies - 1 views
http://www.ehow.com/how_7791434_incorporate-drama-classroom-social-studies.html Drama in Social Studies is a really interesting idea. I think it could really work to help students have a greater ...
Numerous Canadian Organizations Will Open Their Doors to Demonstrate How Geographic Inf... - 1 views
The article discusses the growing importance of GIS in teaching as well as its growing importance in organizations and in gaining a better understanding of world issues. GIS allows for a better un...
Teaching Children About Geography - 0 views
This article discusses new, innovative, educational products that can be used for teaching geography and history to make the subject matter fun. To steer away from books, maps and globes, there are...
"Eddie and us," or reflections on a class project to commemorate a fallen soldier of th... - 0 views
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb302/is_1_36/ai_n57319567/?tag=content;col1 I came across this article looking for something that might relate to remembrance day. It was about a professor ...