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Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Maps of World - A Great Learning Tool (and maps too) - 0 views

seekoutlearning.blogspot.com/...d-great-learning-tool-and.html

learning maps world tool resource geography history

shared by Michael Sheehan on 11 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Sheehan on 11 Feb 13
     
    This site contains a huge variety of maps plus useful facts including demographics, economic data, and the history behind the subject of each map. Great tool for teachers and students.
Debbie Moore

BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - 0 views

www.brainpop.com

social studies interactive teaching tools

shared by Debbie Moore on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Debbie Moore on 25 Sep 09
     
    BrainPOP is an interactive instructional tool that uses animated characters, Tim & Moby to introduce and illustrate content material for social studies, math, science, English, arts, health and technology. The interactive resources include quizzes, movies, timelines, and activity pages. Other resources include lesson plans, classroom tools, curriculum calendars, research and much more. Some of what they offer is free. Unfortunately, there is an annual fee for most of their material. My practicum school uses this program extensively. The students really like using this program and actively engage in the material. At the moment, BrainPOP is featuring a segment on "American Indians" and "Digital Citizenship." If you go to this location, you will find a free movie on the civil war. http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/freemovies/civilwar/
Laura Wood

Upfront - 0 views

teacher.scholastic.com/...index.asp

library of congress social studies New York Times current events political cartoons upfront news history research resources education teaching articles magazine scholastic

shared by Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      The teacher that I'm observing for my thesis research (let's call her Teacher 2) gets tons of these every month and distributes them to all of her students. They use some of the articles, cartoons and pictures for their class but I've also heard other teachers say that the kids just read them in their down time. SWEET!
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      Oops, sorry, they're biweekly. That means twice month, right?
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      Each issue contains a cover story, International story, National Story, Technology story, Environment story, History portion, Columns and Cartoons (and more!). The content is designed for teens. They also newly have an Ethics column, where teens can exercise critical thinking, opinion forming and values exploration.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      OKAY! So "Times Past" has historical events framed in a modern context. Each issue a different historic event is featured. If you were collecting these things, pretty soon you'd have a whole curricular arsenal of articles written for teens, framed in a contemporary lens, about history. It might be interesting to contrast these against newspaper articles from say the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      "Teacher Tools" - sorry my friends. While you can read all the Upfront articles online, you can't access the "Teacher Tools" unless you buy a subscription. Who knows what "Teacher Tools" could mean. Could be curricula . . . or games! . . . or account management tools.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      Lastly, there appear to be more cool pages at the top here, including: "Computer Lab Favorites," "Word Wizard Dictionary," "Write and Publish," "Reading Responses," and "Research Projects" All of these sound promising and worth exploring. Yay for current events and technology!
  • Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
     
    SO RAD! A New York Times publication for teens. SWEET! From the website: "The New York Times Upfront is published by Scholastic in partnership with The New York Times."
kkasargodstaub

Environment Facts, Environment Science, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Ecosystems, ... - 1 views

environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment

socialstudies geography teaching facts education

shared by kkasargodstaub on 03 Oct 10 - Cached
  • The ocean needs your help
    • kkasargodstaub
      kkasargodstaub on 03 Oct 10
       
      The site relies on a lot of different sources but National Geographic is a reliable source. There are great tools here for teachers to take current issues and make them relevant in students' lives. You could use the site for research, inspiration and/or to get students involved in local community issues. It's great for a civics, current issues and/or geography class.
  • kkasargodstaub on 03 Oct 10
     
    I absolutely LOVE the National Geographic Website as a social studies tool. I've specifically used it in civics classes or geography classes for students to study current events, but the options are endless. They have videos, pictures and great information.
Lindsay Andreas

More Teachers Turning to Sign Language to Manage Classrooms - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2009101501373.html

sign language classroom management

shared by Lindsay Andreas on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • how to manage children's urgent requests, in the middle of the most carefully planned lessons, for permission to sharpen pencils, get drinks of water or visit the bathroom.
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 16 Oct 09
       
      I have to be honest, my students do get kind of annoying with this stuff but you can't not let them go to the bathroom, I like that this maintains control but still gives kids independence.
  • "Sign language is the ultimate multitasker's tool," she said. "It lets you tend half the class's bodily needs at the same time you're helping a small group learn."
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 16 Oct 09
       
      In these times of standards and high-stakes testing, they want us to accomplish so much, this just might be a simple way of gaining a little edge in more fluid instruction time and I think it is worth trying out.
  • Signing has long been a tool for teachers to help special education students develop language skills, and for years it has been offered in area high schools as a second language. Now its use as a management tool appears to be on the rise.
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 16 Oct 09
       
      A teacher could also use it as an opportunity to talk a little bit about deaf culture, which I think is really important. One of my good friends is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult) and it is a very passionate and strong community.
Nate Merrill

RegulationData - 0 views

regdata.mercatus.org

resources finance economics

shared by Nate Merrill on 24 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Nate Merrill on 24 Nov 13
     
    RegData is the first tool to allow for industry-specific quantification of federal regulation, permitting within-industry and between-industry analyses of the causes and effects of federal regulations. Mercatus Center George Mason University
goskygo_posts

Connect people News: Tool to connect people and data - Cloud storage - 0 views

www.free-press-release.com/-cloud-storage-1437983863.html

cloud storage

shared by goskygo_posts on 12 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • goskygo_posts on 12 Aug 15
     
    Connect people News: The management of GoSkyGo also added the features of online file storage service through which users can access data, photos, videos, music, documents and more from anywhere at any time.
Laura Wood

The New York Times Learning Network - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...index.html

New York Times lesson plans Curent Events news resources teaching reference learning lessons research

shared by Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Daily Lesson Plan
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      So there are usually Daily Lesson Plans but apparently they are revamping the site so these are temporarily on hiatus. However you CAN access the over 2,000 lesson plans (in the "Lesson Plan Archive" below) they have on the site. I did a search for 9-12 grade economics lessons and hit paydirt. I <3 NY Times.
  • News Snapshot
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      The site says that the "News Snapshot" is for younger kids BUT it might be a great way to gather background information on a picture and gives you all the information to give students contexts about current events.
  • On This Day in History
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      Wasn't someone saying that their students demanded that this be on the board every day. Well here's a one stop shop to find information about what happened today (historically speaking of course).
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  • Crossword Puzzle
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      SERIOUSLY!?!?!? The New York TImes makes themed historical crossword puzzles!?!?! So many to choose from. I'm not sure how helpful this will actually be to students. It may be neat if they could play it online and google search for answers. Might be a cool way to learn even more information on events we cover in class. It would be important to not just make this busy work (why I had word finds).
  • News Summaries
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      Daily headlines with one sentence summaries. Short and Sweet. Could be easily followed with "Daily News Quiz" (below).
  • Test Prep Question of the Day
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
       
      You can't escape standardized tests. The NY Times offers a test question of the day sponsored by Kaplan. They also explain the answers.
  • Laura Wood on 02 Oct 09
     
    This site is RAD! Current and Recent Events resource From the website: "Students can read the day's top stories using Knowledge Tools, take a news quiz about today's world, and play special crossword puzzles. . . . Teachers can access a daily lesson plan for grades 6-12, written in partnership with The Bank Street College of Education in New York City. Each lesson plan and the article it references can be printed out for classroom use. Previous lessons are available in the archive and in thematic lesson plan units. . . The site additionally provides teachers with the latest education news from the newspaper. "
Jonathon Gordon

PBS Teachers | Resources For The Classroom - 1 views

www.pbs.org/...resources

Social Studies Teachers Resources pbs Lessons Plans Professional Development

shared by Jonathon Gordon on 18 Sep 10 - Cached
    • David Loudon
      David Loudon on 18 Sep 10
       
      You can select different time periods/themes to search through. The four most prominent sections are Civics, World History, U.S. History and Cultural Studies.
    • David Loudon
      David Loudon on 18 Sep 10
       
      The problem with this site is that the links they provide are not often scholarly, and as such aren't as reliable as other sources may be.
  • Source: NOVA 60.0 1 Article/Essay Discover the story of how Dale Larson saved 29 schoolchildren during a 1928 tornado in Thurston County, Nebraska. Imagine how the events of that tornado would have been different with the current advances in severe weather warning systems. Details&nbsp;» Tags: 6-8, 9-12, Science &amp; Tech, Social Studies, Geology &amp; Natural Disasters, Meteorology, Historical Perspective
    • Jonathon Gordon
      Jonathon Gordon on 20 Sep 10
       
      Searching on this site is extremely easy. By using tags similar to DIIGO, teachers can search for exact lessons or ideas to improve lessons. 
  • the.News: Woody Biomass - Nebraska Source: PBS NewsHour 60.0 0 Resource Set Analyze the use of woody biomass as a fuel. Understand the carbon cycle, calculate your carbon footprint and formulate a policy position on using woody biomass to produce energy. Details&nbsp;»
    • Jonathon Gordon
      Jonathon Gordon on 20 Sep 10
       
      Classroom resources are not limited to just lesson plans, they also include on/offline activities for students; grade level specific in all cases. 
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  • Earth Days: Technology - Conveniences and Consequences Source: American Experience
    • Jonathon Gordon
      Jonathon Gordon on 20 Sep 10
       
      The sources from this site come from various PBS programs including "American Experience", "PBS Newshour", and "NOVA". 
  • Classroom Resources Discussions Professional Development Classroom Resources
    • Jonathon Gordon
      Jonathon Gordon on 20 Sep 10
       
      This is a great website for teachers. It is a credible source of information with multiple options for improving lessons plans. 
  • Jonathon Gordon on 20 Sep 10
     
    This website is provided by PBS for teachers to use to help with different classroom applications. It offers teachers the ability get classroom resources, start discussion boards with other educators, and professional development tools. 
Lauren Olson

Historical Census Browser: University of Virginia Library - 1 views

mapserver.lib.virginia.edu

census data population survey

shared by Lauren Olson on 03 Oct 10 - Cached
    • Lauren Olson
      Lauren Olson on 03 Oct 10
       
      citation information clearly listed-- great for student researchers!
    • Lauren Olson
      Lauren Olson on 03 Oct 10
       
      This option allows students with higher level research needs to use this site as a starting point for more advanced work. The linked site is free.
  • Lauren Olson on 03 Oct 10
     
    The Historical Census Browser is a comprehensive data site that allows users to sift through U.S. census information collected between 1790 and 1960. There are clear categories with which to search and the limitations of the search are defined on the home page. This site would be a great introduction search tool for lower-level soc stud students
Joellen Kriss

Classroom Resources for Teachers - 3 views

www.postcardsfrom.com/...teach.html

unitedstates landmarks education teaching History geography

shared by Joellen Kriss on 04 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Joellen Kriss on 04 Dec 09
     
    This web site is pretty old, but as of at least 2004 it was still being updated. The creators have been traveling the country since 1997 and at every place they go, they post a unique "postcard" and information about the site. They make "stamps" out of important wildlife, people and others. This could be a fantastic and fun teaching tool for younger grades to provide an interesting way to learn about the country.
Lindsay Andreas

Without ready access to computers, students struggle - washingtonpost.com - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2009120501746.html

technology educational inequality

shared by Lindsay Andreas on 06 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Lindsay Andreas on 06 Dec 09
     
    I thought this article was very interesting because it is something I have struggled with as well. The internet is such a wonderful tool for education but what if students do not have easy internet access? It really is unfair to give assignments that are internet-based.
Jamie Gravell

Headmagnet | Get stuff in your head and keep it there! - 2 views

headmagnet.com

flashcards web2.0

shared by Jamie Gravell on 07 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Jamie Gravell on 07 Apr 10
     
    Seems like a great flashcard/study tool. Would probably be good for AP classes especially. 
jbdrury

America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War - 0 views

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/...introduction.html

Reconstruction African-American Civil War Images Pictures Pictorial History Slavery Sharecropper

shared by jbdrury on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 25 Sep 09
       
      The home page to Digital History contains links to resources for a variety of other curricular units
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 25 Sep 09
       
      "Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, and Olivia Mahoney, Director of Historical Documentation at the Chicago Historical Society" are cited as the authors of the page.
  • Reconstruction, one of the most turbulent and controversial eras in American history, began during the Civil War and ended in 1877.
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    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 25 Sep 09
       
      Its difficult to sticky note everything you find interesting on an .html site such as this one, but each of these sections has images (many culled from the Library of Congress, which is also an excellent source for images such as these) pertaining to reconstruction, which a teacher could print or make part of a powerpoint presentation to enable students to analyze them.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 25 Sep 09
       
      In the "additional resources" section there is also a visual timeline of the Reconstruction period, including many of the images found throughout the rest of this website, but organized chronologically, which may be of use to those students who need to look at history in this way.
  • In time, the North abandoned its commitment to protect the rights of the former slaves, Reconstruction came to an end, and white supremacy was restored throughout the South.
  • Today, as a result of extensive new research and profound changes in American race relations, historians view Reconstruction far more favorably, as a time of genuine progress for former slaves and the South as a whole.
  • jbdrury on 25 Sep 09
     
    This website, while providing a fairly detailed summary of The Reconstruction, I have bookmarked because of the images it contains. I think pictures and images are a useful tool in shaping students perceptions of history; as Erin evidenced in her last lesson plan, providing students with a model for critically examining images could prove very beneficial to building on their critical thinking abilities.
Debbie Moore

The New York Times Learning Network - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/learning

lesson plans history social studies

shared by Debbie Moore on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Debbie Moore on 05 Sep 09
     
    "The Learning Center" is a website developed and sponsored by The New York Times. The site has links for teacher, students and parents and is designed for grades 3-12 . The link for teachers has many tools for classroom use such as lesson plans, conversation starters, daily news quiz, workd of the day, and discussion topics.
Adrea Lawrence

How Much Is That? | EH.Net - 0 views

eh.net/hmit

economics history inflation Dollar money currency conversion converter

shared by Adrea Lawrence on 07 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Adrea Lawrence on 07 Apr 09
     
    Economic history data sets and conversion tools
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