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Essential questions for all subject areas

From Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana a guide to effective questioning.

an excellent process to help guide students to deeper thinking

Sample questions from revisied APUS exam

"A collection of primary resources-historical documents, literary texts, and works of art-thematically organized with notes and discussion questions."

Lots of discussion guides with excellent questions

Lots of discussion guides with excellent questions

" Social Media Classroom Using social media to learn about social media issues Today's students live in a world in which all of the traditional elements of their education-texts, lectures, connections with the world outside the campus-have been transformed by the ubiquitous presence of laptops and Wi-Fi. In their lives outside the classroom, and in the lives of their families, communities, and fellow citizens, important questions arise about the effects of using digital media-questions about identity, relationships, community, collective action, public sphere, social capital"

JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique. Give it a try and start creating your own Jogs.

"From March 21 through April 1, 2011, over 500 educators from around the world are participating in an online workshop hosted by Facing History and Ourselves, entitled "Teaching Reporter in the Classroom." The workshop explores the themes and stories from the documentary Reporter, which follows New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on a trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the film, we learn how Kristof works to get his readers to "care about what happens on the other side of the hill." We see how Kristof uses social science research and the tools of journalism to try to expand his readers' universe of responsibility - the people whom they feel obligated to care for and protect."

worth your time, questions we can pose to our students

"Keith Hughes, history teacher extraordinaire and producer of the excellent Hip Hughes History videos, recently published a new video for students who need to write document based question (DBQ) essays. In DBQ Essays for Dummies Keith offers five helpful essay writing tips for students."

Copyright issues and iTunes. Very detailed post on various scenarios pointing out what is probably ok and what isn't

An Open Educational Resources site OER; in beta now. "Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru's content experts, so you don't have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself. Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience. Post questions to an active community of students, teachers and experts, or find friends and peers to study with. Best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts. You can track your study habits and monitor your performance on any of the topics you study."

Not sure what resources are here for social studies but still looks like a very interesting site. Think you should check it out for resources and to share with students.

"A research project focusing on reading behavior going on at Johannes Gutenberg University (go figure) asks the question of whether or not we actually read in a completely different way using our ereaders, and if the effects are undesirable. Has technology developed its own significant physical procession of human motor movements for consuming info and entertainment on today's digital media? Sure it has, and according to this study at least, it's harmless-just different. posted by Ian Jukes Nov 10, 2011"

"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."

Great ideas for using wikipedia in a lesson

Some great ides for using wikipedia in a lesson. Can be modified for all topics, subjects

"For years, magazines and newspapers have used photo galleries to tell stories. Photos can build emotion, provide information, encourage a specific action and create great questions. We can have our kids do the same thing by asking them to create Five Photo Stories. It seems like a great way for kids to activate prior knowledge, review information, learn new content or practice summarizing. It's basically an all-purpose graphic organizer! "

Check this lesson out.

using cell phones to take polls in the classroom

Great way to incorporate cell phones in classroom. Article shared by Chris K.

questions to ask to help one think like a historian from Stanford Univ.

Tries to answer questions about where the US is headed.

Very interesting read

This guide answers these questions, showing you how to get started on Twitter and showing you how Twitter can be used as a resource for research, teaching and impact activities. From the London School of Economics

A research level guide to using twitter as an academic research tool

"a new Google Maps game develop by Google. Smarty Pins presents players with a trivia question that they have to answer by placing a pin on a map. Players earn "miles" for correctly placing a pin on the map. Players can lose miles for answering incorrectly and or taking too long to answer. Games are available in five categories; arts & culture, science & geography, sports & games, entertainment, and history & current events."

"The University of Maryland, Baltimore County has an excellent resource for history teachers. The UMBC Assessment Resource Center for History offers sample assessments based on readings from six eras in U.S. history. The assessments include multiple choice question and performance tasks based on close reading exercises. The performance task assessments include scoring rubrics, sample responses from students, and the documents that students need in order to complete the performance tasks."