Docs Teach offers seven free tools that teachers can use to create interactive learning activities based on primary source documents and images. The seven tools are Finding a Sequence, Focusing on Details, Making Connections, Mapping History, Seeing the Big Picture, Weighing the Evidence, and Interpreting Data.
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Activities | DocsTeach - 29 views
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Turn your students into historians with primary-source based activities that develop historical thinking skills. Activities are ready to use in your classroom. Or alter an existing activity to fit your unique needs. Exchange primary source documents and modify activity instructions. Log in to borrow from an even larger selection from fellow educators.
PBS Teachers | Activity Packs - 15 views
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"Explore educational resources and activities from PBS with our library of Activity Packs. Each one focuses on a curricular theme and includes links to great PBS resources and supplemental activities."
Activity Index - National Geographic Education - 1 views
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Potential extra credit activities.
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NATGEO historical activities. This could be good for extra credit opportunities.
Learning Never Stops: Tweetping - See Twitter activity in real time - 2 views
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See Twitter activity in real time. The site's map develops into a current population map. Challenge students to make observations as the map changes.
Create Your Own Interactive Primary Source Document Activities - 24 views
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National Archives tool - Docs Teach offers seven free tools that teachers can use to create interactive learning activities based on primary source documents and images. The seven tools are Finding a Sequence, Focusing on Details, Making Connections, Mapping History, Seeing the Big Picture, Weighing the Evidence, and Interpreting Data.
Learning Never Stops: Colonial Williamsburg's Kid Section - Full of fun games and activ... - 1 views
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Full of fun games and activities about colonial life.
Flickr: Your Photostream - 1 views
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Here is the photostream including photos of activities I've run with my classes. I thought I'd add it to generate ideas on re-enactments and activities that people do with their students. I've found activities like this can be surprisingly educational by helping bring what the students have studied to life. I run them at the end of the term.
Teachers Network: How to Use the Internet in Your Classroom - 10 views
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The Virtual Field Trip is a field trip that students and teachers take via the Internet. A great benefit of this activity is that it utilizes technology tools to help students visualize and understand subject matter through exploration and active learning. It's also a great way to "travel" without leaving your classroom! Look for sites with QuickTime VR, which allows you to view panoramic views of your virtual field trip location.
Hunters with amnesia - 8 views
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This webquest, 'Hunters with amnesia', is an example of an activating teaching method (activating instructional format) called the AQUA, which stands for Activating prior knowledge, asking Questions and searching for Answers. The AQUA is related to problem-based learning. 'Hunters with amnesia' is an assignment about the life of hunters and gatherers in prehistoric times, but is also an assignment about activating prior knowledge, misconceptions, the formulation of questions and about the search for information (information skills) and cooperative learning.
Famous People Painting "Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante" - 9 views
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Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante. Wow!!
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See previous post for advice. This is how I set it up the first two years without specific WHAP content or themes: The rules: You will imagine that each of the historical actors above has access to twitter, the expanded edition, to communicate to the other guests present. You will choose up to four (at least three) of them to role play in the "Twittering Masses" role play. As your historical person, during the Twittering Masses role play you will write, "tweet," at least four other persons. Two of the people should be in close proximity to you based on the painting above. Another tweet should go to the person you feel closest to (not by proximity) at the party - this could be based on ideology (MLK Jr. and Gandhi), background (Tagore and Gandhi), lifestyle (Gandhi and Mother Theresa), etc. Explain in your tweet why you are writing them. The other tweet should go to the person you see as most opposed, or farthest from you - Gandhi and Hitler or Gandhi and Gates or Gandhi and Churchill - in this tweet you should either try to bridge the gap between your differences or explain why the person is wrong in their beliefs. If you have only three guests - you will need to make 5 initial tweets. You will respond to each initial tweet. Then who knows . . . All tweets should have some connection to WHAP content or themes. You may want to comment on the surroundings or other guests . . . -
I would love comments as to the posts above. Something similar I do is written up here: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/7.3/gregg.html
Welcome to InspirEd Educators - I Think Thematic Units - 14 views
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This site looks really elementary, but DON'T be fooled! This company has units for various History subject areas (world, american, gov't, etc) that are based around activities AND taking lessons learned in the activities and making higher order thinking connections. I"m probably not doing the best job annotating this - but i will say this, I have one of the units and my students go NUTS over the activities and with their debriefing worksheets and discussion questions, my students really "get" the concepts and retain the learning.
Activities Archives | Weimar and Nazi GermanyWeimar and Nazi Germany - 16 views
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WEIMAR AND NAZI GERMANY Teaching Resources, ideas and links relating to a study of Weimar and Nazi Germany
Activity A.) German Unification - HistorySpot - 11 views
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"Activity A.) German Unification From HistorySpot Contents [hide] * 1 The Age of Bismarck: * 2 Part 1 * 3 Bismarck's Germany * 4 Part 2 * 5 Back to Webquest Main Page [edit] The Age of Bismarck:"
Ancient Egypt - Printable Activities - 30 views
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Printable games & activities to teach about Ancient Egypt
Learning Never Stops: A Large Collection of Education Games - 7 views
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Large collection of educational games and activities for all grade levels.
Compare Two Worlds: North vs South | Underground Railroad Student Activity | Scholastic... - 0 views
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Compare North and South states on interactive maps to identify the differences between free and slave populations before the Civil War. Also includes discussion questions.
PBS Teachers | Additional Resources - 10 views
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PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online.
Amid Protest, Hong Kong Retreats on 'Moral Education' Plan - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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HONG KONG — Faced with tens of thousands of protesters contending that a Beijing-backed plan for “moral and national education” amounted to brainwashing and political indoctrination, Hong Kong’s chief executive backpedaled on Saturday and revoked a 2015 deadline for every school to start teaching it.
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For the past 10 days, swelling protests against the plan were the latest sign of a new interest in political activism by youths here, and there were some signs that this activism could be spreading in mainland China for the first time since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
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The police initially detained 21 protesters but released them a day later as the crowds swelled. The smelting project itself has been canceled and shows no sign of being restarted, several Shifang residents said, adding that the city had been completely quiet ever since the protests.
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SS Curriculum Guides - 22 views
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These are a set of out-of-print guides made by the NYC Board of Education in 1993-1994. They are full of primary sources, short text selections and activities which many teachers have found very useful. Although designed for 7th and 8th grade they can be modified for high school and elementary school. Many teachers have used these over the last 17 years to help them develop their lessons. They are large files so they will take a few minutes to open. Note that both sets follow the same format but the 8th grade guides were done with a modern text style and therefore "looks" much better.
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