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prompts for students to use when documenting & reflecting on their work

"Find and use activities crafted by educators using documents from the National Archives. 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."

Create a school library of laminated documents?

A Summer Workshop for Educators on Using Historical Documents in the Classroom  --one week workshop in Waltham July 21-25

The site offers bibliographic information and digital facsimiles for selected collections of manuscript codices, texts, documents, papers, and leaves held by Penn's Rare Book & Manuscript Library as well as those privately owned by Lawrence J. Schoenberg (C'53, WG'56). Penn holds over 2,000 Western manuscripts produced before the 19th century; medieval and Renaissance manuscripts comprise approximately 900 items, the earliest dating from 1000 A.D. Its holdings of Indic manuscripts is the largest in the Western hemisphere with more than 3,000 items. The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection emphasizes secular topics, especially science and mathematics, and includes tablets from the 21st to 18th centuries B.C.

Word ladders for older students

MacBeth Character Connection Card-brief outline of plot and shows the relationships between the various characters

Macbeth Character Connection Card-brief outline of plot and shows the relationships between the various characters

"Three Ring unlocks the power of your mobile phone or iPad. Now it's easy for teachers and students to document evidence from the classroom. Capture anything, regardless of format, in just seconds. Take a picture of any paper, drawing, or board work. Record presentations or discussions with audio or video. Students can upload their own work from any mobile device or computer."

Cauldron Scene from Act IV, Scene I (double, double toil and trouble). Script with suggested sound effects.

Cauldron Scene from Act IV, Scene I (double, double toil and trouble). Script with suggested sound effects.

Background information on Kingship Psalms

This is a unit designed by the NYC Dept. of Education and includes the study of the novel "With Every Drop of Blood."

Education hash tags for Twitter listed on Novemberlearning.com

Presentation notes from Kathy Cassidy's breakout session regarding digital portfolios

Grade 5: Use with unit 9.