HCPS Social Studies Teachers

A great tool to use to create review activities for your students.

A new way to do annotating and proof-reading with your students.

"This time-lapse video has never been more relevant. As the eyes of the world are fixed on events in Ukraine and Crimea, its good to have a little perspective on the ever-changing flux of borders throughout time. Very cool!"

"Manifest Destiny tells the story of the United States in 141 maps from the Declaration of Independence to the present. Explore and interact with any of the maps below, or fast-forward to important events, such as the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, or to the present-day US."

"The Univeristy of Richmond School of Professional and Continuing Studies offers several teacher education institutes, most held during the summer. These institutes provide teachers with valuable teaching tools and experiences, and participants are generally able to apply the professional development experience toward teacher recertification. Institutes also offer optional graduate credit in education or humanities."

This story aired during the 2014 Sochi Olympics. It's a great summary of the Cold War rivalry between the US and USSR through the lens of the Space Race. It would be a great opener to introduce Cold War to your students.

This is incredible...

Great page to show historical mechanics that started the Industrial Revolution.

Animated Steam Engines

Animation of the Cotton Gin using Ely Whitney's original patent.

"Create beautiful short video stories using your photos, set to music you love!"

Found this whole page of videos from the Virginia Historical Society on Vimeo.

This is a very interesting story and may even be a good exercise in how students see the world through a geographic lens.

Very timely when talking about the Holocaust and Virginia's Eugenics movement. "Advocates for people who were sterilized in Virginia under the misguided science of eugenics are seeking compensation for surviving victims in the upcoming session of the General Assembly, with more support than last year when legislators quashed their first attempt. More than 8,000 Virginia residents lost the ability to have children, and at least half of those surgeries on women and men were performed in Madison Heights at what's now the Central Virginia Training Center. Most of them occurred between 1920 and 1950, although they continued until about 1970. The number of sterilizations dropped sharply after German war-crimes defendants, on trial in Nuremburg after World War II, claimed Virginia's eugenics law was the model for a German program that sterilized thousands of people."

"A nuclear weapons effects simulator for Google Earth." It has data for Hiroshima and Nagasaki and data on the effects of most of the bombs in international arsenals. This is perfect for lessons about the Cold War and The War on Terrorism.

This is another alternative to Socrative or ActivEngage.