Skip to main content

Home/ MHSSocSt/ Group items tagged countries

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Debra Gottsleben

Rulers - 0 views

  •  
    "This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. Also included are the subdivisions of various countries (the links are at the bottom of the respective country entries), as well as a selection of international organizations. Recent foreign ministers of all countries are listed separately."
  •  
    handy site for quickly discovering who ruled and when. Good for quick reference.
Debra Gottsleben

Reporters Without Borders - 0 views

  •  
    Readers may browse the site according to region, including information on Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe/Ex-USSR, and Middle East/North Africa. Selecting any of these tabs triggers a drop down menu of respective countries. Selecting any of the countries navigates to an archive of all the articles published about that country written in the past decade or so. Other important features of the site include a World Press Freedom Index, which evaluates each nation on a number of variables to assign them a yearly ranking.
scott klepesch

If It Were My Home - 0 views

  •  
    If It Were My Home now offers a feature for quickly comparing ten key statistics about life in different countries. To view the comparisons just select two countries from the lists and click compare. If It Were My Home will also show you a size comparison of a selected country centered over your hometown.
Debra Gottsleben

Sites for Learning About Countries - 0 views

  •  
    great listing of sites for countries
  •  
    .
Debra Gottsleben

SHOW®/WORLD - A New Way To Look At The World - 0 views

  •  
    "SELECT a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value."
Debra Gottsleben

Wilson Center Digital Archive - 0 views

  •  
    recently published set of declassified historical documents. There are 73 collections of documents containing memos and transcripts of communications between diplomats and country leaders. There are collections of documents organized by themes and topics including those  related to the construction of the Berlin Wall, the origins of the Cold War, and Sino-Soviet relations. 
scott klepesch

Generation Gap: How Age Shapes Political Outlook : NPR - 0 views

  •  
    A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds wide gaps in how different generations view politics. Older voters are more conservative, more angry at the government and less hopeful about the future of the country. Younger voters lean left, wish the government played a greater role in their lives and believe the nation's best days are yet to come
Debra Gottsleben

Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  •  
    great list of free online newspaper links. Searchable by country.
Debra Gottsleben

Free Technology for Teachers: Spacehopper - Challenge Students With Geography Puzzles B... - 0 views

  •  
    "Spacehopper is a new geography game [that features geography questions] that are based on Google Maps Street View imagery. Spacehopper shows you a Street View image and you have to guess where in the world the image was captured. You can click the clue button to have the country identified before making a guess. After three incorrect guesses the correct answer will be revealed to you. You can play Spacehopper on a global level or you can specify that you only want to see images from a particular continent."
Debra Gottsleben

Zinn Education Project - 0 views

  •  
    "The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S. history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and dates. Zinn's A People's History of the United States emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people's choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and actions matter."
scott klepesch

BBC News - Middle East protests: Country by country - 0 views

  •  
    Following the fall of presidents of Egypt and Tunisia
scott klepesch

United Nations Statistics Division - 0 views

  •  
    "The Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system. We compile and disseminate global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries' efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems. We facilitate the coordination of international statistical activities and support the functioning of the UN Statistical Commission as the apex entity of the global statistical system."
Debra Gottsleben

Oyez, Oyez, Oh Yay!: Civics Resources for Texas Students and Teachers - 0 views

  •  
    "The State Bar of Texas' Law-Related Education Department has created Oyez, Oyez, Oh Yay!, an engaging and interactive site geared toward helping students (and their teachers) explore the court decisions that have helped shape our country and the state of Texas - and, most important, how these decisions have affected our everyday lives."
  •  
    Although this is for texas students there are lots of good resources for everyone.
Debra Gottsleben

United States (Contiguous 48) vs. Australia: Comparea Area Comparison - 0 views

  •  
    tool to compare the size of different countries, regions, states or continents
Betiana Caprioli

Violence in Latin America - 1 views

  •  
    This is a great report about the situation in Honduras. As many of our students are from Honduras and have family member there, it provides us with a glimpse of how difficult life there is at the moment.
Betiana Caprioli

Joy, criticism greet immigration policy move - CNN.com - 0 views

  • News of the change raced across the country, buoying the spirits of immigrants and immigrant advocates who have campaigned for such a change for more than 10 years.
  • "It gives us a chance to show the American people that we're not here to use your tax dollars; we're not here to take your jobs; we're here to contribute,"
  • "Why now? Why not let Congress decide next year on this issue and on all the illegal immigration problems we have?" he said. Arpaio said he will abide by the directive, but added he will continue to enforce state laws as he sees fit.
Debra Gottsleben

http://techhappy.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/ - 0 views

  •  
    "One thing kids (and adults) often have trouble with is the concept of scale. Understanding how big or small something is can be difficult if there is no familiar reference point of which to compare. Here are 3 sites that help students gain an understanding of size and how certain occurrences that happen on our planet compare to places that they are familiar with."
  •  
    For World History for country analyis
scott klepesch

Unfit for Democracy? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • I don’t think so. Moreover, this line of thinking seems to me insulting to the unfree world. In Egypt and Bahrain in recent weeks, I’ve been humbled by the lionhearted men and women I’ve seen defying tear gas or bullets for freedom that we take for granted. How can we say that these people are unready for a democracy that they are prepared to die for?
  • The common thread of this year’s democracy movement from Tunisia to Iran, from Yemen to Libya, has been undaunted courage.
  •  
    Scott I totally agree with you. What has been going on in these countries is nothing short of inspiring.
scott klepesch

Civic Mirror | turns classrooms into countries, students into citizens, and teachers in... - 0 views

  •  
    "For progressive educators who want to actively engage their students in learning about government, law, economics, or citizenship, the Civic Mirror brings these subjects to life both in class and online. Unlike traditional textbook and lecture learning, the Civic Mirror actively involves students as citizens of their own nation, making learning exciting and meaningful and providing an experience they will never forget."
  •  
    This looks VERY interesting! Teaching civics or government you might want to check this out!
  •  
    Teacher showing The Civic Mirror http://bit.ly/hwZ8Vg Kids can create their own nations. Cool. #plpnetwork
Debra Gottsleben

International statistics: Compare countries on just about anything! NationMaster.com - 0 views

  •  
    "Search the web for statistical images: graphs, maps, data tables, scatterplots, figures and statistics."
1 - 20 of 20
Showing 20 items per page