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Lauren Olson

Place The State - History.com Interactive Games, Maps and Timelines - 2 views

www.history.com/...place-the-state-game

maps history states united states

shared by Lauren Olson on 19 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Lauren Olson
      Lauren Olson on 19 Sep 10
       
      The levels on this game are a little tricky-- I would try the game first to determine which level is best for your students. Even though I know where all the states are, it requires you to be very precise.
    • Lauren Olson
      Lauren Olson on 19 Sep 10
       
      I don't like that this is all the way at the bottom. If you use this in the classroom as an interactive learning game, make sure you scroll down the page so you can see the state facts. The game is a little bare without the extra information.
  • Lauren Olson on 19 Sep 10
     
    History Channel interactive "place-the-state" game.
  • Lauren Olson on 19 Sep 10
     
    This site is, overall, a little boring but it does what it's supposed to do. Sometimes getting students interested in geography is tricky but this game could increase student interest. Students will select a level, then drag and drop the states to their correct location on the map. There could be a little more information about each state (just to increase the amount of learning) but this is generally a good, basic, online learning game.
Laura Wood

Map Man Game from Scholastic News Online | Scholastic.com - 0 views

teacher.scholastic.com/...game.htm

game geography map education teaching scholastic

shared by Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
     
    Mapman game.
  • Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
     
    Not sure how useful this actually would be, but incidentally, I killed it! :-) Thought ya'll would enjoy it . . .
Laura Wood

Peace Media - 0 views

peacemedia.usip.org

global peace education peace clearinghouse resource database UNHCR refugee immigrant multimedia conflict resolution war conflict current events

shared by Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
       
      For "educators, students, organizations, and the community of practitioners working in the conflict management field" To "access multimedia materials that support conflict analysis and prevention, conflict resolution, and post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation." Very political
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
       
      Again, I would strongly caution you to try out games and media first. The Darfur and UNHCR games are extremely violent.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
       
      Search by Keyword, Country, Region, Type of Resource, Subject, and/or Language
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
       
      The amount of info can get quickly overwhelming so I recommend searching for what you are particularly interested in. For example there are teaching guides for tons of movies and documentaries.
  • Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
     
    Compiled database of games, radio programs, teaching materials, etc about global peace. Some of the content is rather graphic and all should be screened for appropriate audiences. Info on Darfur, refugees, education in various countries. Etc.
  • Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
     
    Compiled database of games, radio programs, teaching materials, etc about global peace. Some of the content is rather graphic and all should be screened for appropriate audiences.
Erin Power

BBC - History - Games - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...games

Ancient History Archaeology British World Wars Games

shared by Erin Power on 30 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Erin Power on 30 Oct 09
     
    This BBC website gives tons of interactive history games in categories of ancient history, archaeology, British history, and world wars.
Erin Power

Games and Cool Stuff - 3 views

www.history.com/games.do

Games history

shared by Erin Power on 16 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Erin Power on 16 Nov 09
     
    This history channel website gives online history games (I think this could act as a fun homework assignment to reinforce a lesson already given, or to get kids excite about a unit.)
Billy Campione

BBC History Interactive Games - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...games

shared by Billy Campione on 07 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Billy Campione on 07 Jul 12
     
    BBC History has an archive of games and simulations that make learning about historical periods interesting and interactive
Sarah Franquemont

BBC - Schools Ages 11-16 - History Sites - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...history.shtml

history geography resources games BBC

shared by Sarah Franquemont on 20 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Sarah Franquemont
      Sarah Franquemont on 20 Sep 10
       
      Choosing the link for games in the bottom right redirects to a page with a variety of educational games in every subject area.
    • Sarah Franquemont
      Sarah Franquemont on 20 Sep 10
       
      This site has a heavy focus on British and Scottish history, so it may not be as useful in units unrelated to those areas of the world.
    • Sarah Franquemont
      Sarah Franquemont on 20 Sep 10
       
      This site contains secondary source information such as galleries and videos to supplement units on European history.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    How might teachers use this site?
Kyle Adams

Sheppard Software - educational games and activities for kids of all ages. - 0 views

www.sheppardsoftware.com

games math geography science

shared by Kyle Adams on 08 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Kyle Adams on 08 Apr 10
     
    Great website full of educational games. I especially like the scaffolding techniques used for enhancing geography skills.
Laura Wood

United Nations Cyberschoolbus - 0 views

cyberschoolbus.un.org/index.shtml

United Nations human rights lesson plans Model UN Global Globalization resources Peace poverty Hunger indigenous international news statistics facts countries

shared by Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      Curricula with information for teachers and lesson plan ideas. For example the "Peace Education" section has 5 units which each contain suggested activities for class, suggested reading, links to more resources, and projects and activities. I like that there are both background readings for teachers AND activities and lesson plans for classrooms.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      The Community page has lots of projects that youth around the world have completed - art, video, writing, etc. This may be inspiring for students or may help to give faces to kids in other countries and places.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      Sweet! Games! Definitely play any of these before you pass them on to your students, the Flag Tag game would be great for Global Studies and the Water Quiz might be an interesting introduction to a lesson on world problems. The "Against All Odds" game is SO intense, why does everyone put it up? Anyway lots of games . . .
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      Each of these boxes contains information on different global conflicts and issues. You could have your students explore this website and pick an issue to learn more about. Students could, for example, use the "web quest" in the box below to learn about child soldiers and then give a presentation for the class about the various issues affecting child soldiers and their opinion of what should be done to help these youth and their communities. Each student could select a different global challenge . . .
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      The "Resources" page is the UN trying to be kid friendly. They have "student" versions of various treaties (and things) and UN Publications for download or order. If you were studying a specific international treaty or event the student versions contained here might be helpful (or you could go to the primary documents). I think it'd be better to have your students CREATE student versions of these documents than to use these, but there are some videos and some links that are helpful. The global map is outdated and slow. There are better maps elsewhere.
  • Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
     
    "The United Nations Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The Global Teaching and Learning Project produces high quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational use (at primary, intermediate and secondary school levels) and for training teachers. The vision of this Project is to provide exceptional educational resources (both online and in print) to students growing up in a world undergoing increased globalization." \n\n "Within the Cyberschoolbus site there are a number of activities and projects that teach students about global issues in an interactive, engaging and fun way."
Tiffany Gilmore

Kick Me - 0 views

www.teachingchannel.org/...-vocabulary-lesson-interactive

vocabulary social studies 7th 8th MiddleSchool games review

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  • Tiffany Gilmore on 30 Aug 13
     
    Kick Me Game
robertscruggs

iCivics | Free Lesson Plans and Games for Learning Civics - 0 views

www.icivics.org

history social studies resources

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  • robertscruggs on 08 May 12
     
    A great website that includes civics games and lesson plans.
darren mccarty

President's Day Game - 0 views

bubbabrain.com/run_game.php

history SocialStudies education resources teaching social studies

shared by darren mccarty on 12 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • darren mccarty on 12 Feb 12
     
    How many Presidents do you recognize? There are over 4000 K-12 games for teachers and students on http://www.bubbabrain.com
Laura Wood

Millennium Development Goals - 0 views

www.un.org/...index.asp

United Nations millenium goals social justice World global UN hunger HIV AIDS education girls pregnant schooling food action projects 2015 gender environment

shared by Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      Each button at the top stands for one of the development goals. Each page contains video clips, a short web game (very simple) and information about what that goal is, what students around the world are doing to make a difference and suggestions for actions more students can take.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      The "Add your voice" portion has a place where students can send in videos that they have made about the Millenium development goals. There's also a Youth Action Guide that you can download and print for your classes!
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      For each goal there is: * Information about the goal * Information on how much progress has been made towards that goal * Projects that other students have done * What still needs to be done * Links to more information This information is not particularly engaging but it is condensed in an easy to find location. It's certainly not a game or anything and kids won't be tricked into learning by any cool effects or anything.
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      From the Millenium Campaign website: "*End poverty by 2015.* This is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they signed onto the Millennium Declaration and agreed to meet the "Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).":/goals The MDGs are an eight-point road map with measurable targets and clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world's poorest people. World leaders have agreed to achieve the MDGs by 2015."
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      This short (3.34) youtube video is much more enticing than the webpage. http://www.youtube.com/mcampaign Perhaps a teacher could show the video and then ask students to research one of the goals using this site. The culmination could be designing an action to participate in on the date of action. This year that is Oct 16th-18th. May be a good introductory activity to get kids to see the importance of global issues before launching into global history (or concurrently :-) Website for the event: http://www.standagainstpoverty.org/
  • Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
     
    The UN's Millennium Goals as they have constructed them for kids. It's still a ton of information and not in the easiest or most engaging format but it might be a great place for students to get started examining world issues like Hunger, HIV/AIDS or Infant Mortality and what they can do.
Debbie Moore

World Maps - geography online games - 1 views

www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

geography maps education interactive game SocialStudies world map

shared by Debbie Moore on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Debbie Moore on 27 Aug 09
     
    This is a great site for students to use in the classroom. I used this in a middle school history class where we were studying the Middle East. Each student also had a blank hard copy to fill in with notes or to color. The students enjoyed working on the site and learned the material quickly...within the hour.
Joellen Kriss

take the mental_floss geography challenge - 0 views

www.mentalfloss.com/geographyzone

geography game maps fun supplementary activity

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  • Joellen Kriss on 06 Sep 09
     
    Mental Floss is a magazine that gives a very...quirky view of the world. It introduces little known facts and information that we might not have sought to find in addition to providing us well known facts and information in a new and usually very different perspective. This link is to the "Geography Challenge" an online quiz that extensively tests ones knowledge of the world and could serve as a fun way to present the world.
  • Lindsay Andreas on 07 Sep 09
     
    I will probably spend hours at a time playing map games. Save me from myself........
Lindsay Andreas

Comedian urges Hispanic students to stay in school - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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Fund motivational speaker hispanic drop out rates college financing

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  • One in five Hispanic teens drops out of high school, according to U.S. Education Department statistics. That's about twice the rate for black students and more than three times the rate among white students.
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 06 Nov 09
       
      I found this statistic about hispanic drop-out rates really alarming. Considering that the Hispanic population is quickly growing, education policy makers should be moving this to the forefront of their concerns.
  • . "A lot of Latino students look at the sticker price and think, if my family makes $18-20,000 a year, I can't afford it," said Deborah Santiago, vice president of policy and research for Excelencia in Education, a Washington-based advocacy organization.
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 06 Nov 09
       
      This was something that I personally ran into in my practicum. Better information needs to be distributed regarding college financing. There is a stigma in lower-income areas about taking out college loans and a lot of misinformation. When I taught a lesson on saving and investment for an Economics class, I spent the majority of the lesson answering questions regarding this and reminding students that college is an investment and that it will pay-off in the end. An example that worked really well was the game of Life, since many students have played it. In the board game if you go to college in the beginning, you will end up in the better retirement home in the end.
  • He told Wheaton students about a guidance counselor who encouraged him to go to college, and about his time at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles, where he became disillusioned, started partying and stopped studying. "I went from being the first in my family to go to college to becoming another Latino statistic: a dropout," he said.
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 06 Nov 09
       
      Both parts struck me. Encouragement is so important, because if your teacher doesn't encourage you, who will after all? Second, a problem we have at McKinley is that students that go to college get distracted and overwhelmed by college and dropout the first year. This is important on two fronts, we need better college prep programs in high school and also the colleges and universities need better support systems for first generation college students.
Debbie Moore

HarpWeek: Explore History - 3 views

www.harpweek.com

history reference Education newspaper Studies politics resources harpweek immigration historical cartoons slavery

shared by Debbie Moore on 06 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Debbie Moore on 06 Nov 09
     
    I discovered this website while looking for information on Chinese and Japanese immigration. This website supports the newspaper Harper's Weekly that was published from 1857 to 1912. The publication reported on the relevant issues of the day such as immigration, slavery and presidential elections. Not only do they have the actual papers in their archive, they also provide summaries of some of the articles. There is a section dedicated to Immigration and Ethnic America. While there is a great deal of information on the site that is fee to all, one must subscribe to gain access to the entire site. The site also provides links to many other websites that support learning such as lessons, activities, and games. Some of their links are oriented around subjects that were relevant during the time the papers were published. There is also a featured "cartoon" of the day that is taken from the period of 1857 to 1912. It is a great resource for teachers!
heatherstaley

Fifty States for Kids - Maps, Facts, Games, and Activities " - 0 views

mrnussbaum.com/fifty-states-for-kids

geography interactive

shared by heatherstaley on 30 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • heatherstaley on 30 Sep 16
     
    These interactive state maps are perfect for students working on state projects or reports. Each map features clickable points where kids can learn about cities, landmarks, landforms, rivers, mountains and much more. In addition, individual state pages feature numerous activities, state histories, printables, and videos.
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