New Your Stock Exchange - 9 views
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Tonya Eastman on 16 Nov 11Nice glog on NYSE. Includes a tour of the floor, a history, good images a little video about investing and links to important investment sites.
Colonial America: Northern Colonies - 9 views
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14:36 minutes. Goes through the founding of the northern colonies - Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island
Market Structures - 4 views
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This is a great video to introduce the idea of different market structures. I am going to show it while my students complete their charts on market structures. This will hopefully replace 40 minutes of notes with 5 minutes.
Tempest Over a Teapot - 8 views
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this is a short 3 minute video that explains earmarking and pork barrel legislation. It is goo and pullls in NC
How the Census Bureau Measures Poverty - U.S Census Bureau - 3 views
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Following the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Statistical Policy Directive 14, the Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who is in poverty. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold, then that family and every individual in it is considered in poverty.
Census Bureau website for Apportionment - 5 views
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Fantastic Interactive Map on apportionment, population and density
Electing a US President in Plain English - 16 views
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I thought this did a good of explaining the electoral college
Colonial America: The Middle Colonies - 3 views
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11:30 minutes, details the founding of the middle colonies including Pennsylvania
Interactive Map of Religions in the Colonies - 2 views
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Really quick simple way to show where the different religions were centered and the percentages of people of that religion in each area.
Rights Rights Baby - 1 views
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Rap about Bill of Rights to Vanilla Ice's 'Ice, Ice, Baby'- done by elementary school students in Charlotte, NC. Too cute!!! :)
Our Documents - Home - 1 views
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Primary source documents - view the original and read it.
Infographic of How Laws Are Made - 2 views
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Colorful and neat... interestingly complicated.
CMAPP - 1 views
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Curriculum Management Application
Poverty Guidelines - 1 views
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poverty thresholds for 2011 from the Dept. of Health and Human Services
Market Watch website - 1 views
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tons of market data
Religion and Literacy in Colonial New England - 1 views
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Good, short lesson plan to use with regional similarities and differences
Unemployment in the U.S. - Google Public Data Explorer - 1 views
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Chart of unemployment
Barney Fife and Preamble - 1 views
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This is great. Nice and short.
Pre-Revolutionary Timeline - 1 views
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INteractive timeline of pre-revolutionary America
Teaching American History - 0 views
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Lots of documents, both written and visual, to teach events in US History. Teaching Modules section has more detailed activities and can more easily be geared toward C&E. Lesson Plans has complete lesson plans as well, but more geared toward US