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Adrea Lawrence

Public Education Network: Home - 0 views

www.publiceducation.org/

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  • Adrea Lawrence on 24 Jun 08
     
    The Public Education Network website is an accessible, interactive citizen's gateway to the world of public school reform and local education funds.
Adrea Lawrence

American Society for Ethnohistory | Promoting the Interdisciplary Investigation of the ... - 0 views

ethnohistory.org/

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  • Adrea Lawrence on 24 Jun 08
     
    The American Society for Ethnohistory website containing information regarding, the Society, its membership, annuual meetings, ethnohistory journal, web resources, links, teaching aids, references and much much more.
Adrea Lawrence

New Mexico Office of the State Historian - 0 views

www.newmexicohistory.org/home_flash.html

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  • Adrea Lawrence on 24 Jun 08
     
    As part of the mission of New Mexico State Historian to foster an appreciation and understanding of New Mexico History, the New Mexico History Website will bring those histories to life through the dynamic matrix of the internet. By focusing upon the p...
Nicole Avery

The White House Historical Association - 0 views

www.whitehousehistory.org

Presidents White House

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  • Nicole Avery on 19 Dec 09
     
    Great website with information on important presidential inaugurations!
David Colon

edwired » Blog Archive » What a Way to Launch a Website - 0 views

edwired.org/?p=486

History

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  • David Colon on 06 Apr 09
     
    History of 1989 and the fall of communism
Erin Power

Social Studies Music - 0 views

www.songsforteaching.com/socialstudiessongs.htm

Music History Social Studies Teaching Multiple Intelligences

shared by Erin Power on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 25 Sep 09
       
      This website uses music from a variety of artists to encourage teaching social studies. The songs on this site are a little cheesy for me, but they are impossible to get out of your head. I think that they could be great to incorporate multiple intelligences into a lesson. This site is valuable for social studies teachers because it provides an alternate way to introduce materials.
  • Erin Power on 25 Sep 09
     
    This site provides songs that can be included in history teaching units.
  • Lindsay Andreas on 25 Sep 09
     
    This is unbelievable! I still remember the song we did in elementary school called "Fifty Nifty United States." I am definitely going to use this. They are totally silly but that is why they will remember them.
Laura Wood

www.globalpeacestudies.org - Global Peace Studies - 0 views

www.globalpeacestudies.org/home

peace education peace education global conflict violence non-violence war civil disobedience civil rights activities curriculum resources

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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
       
      This site was a research project by Daryn Cambridge while he was in the International Training and Education Program at American University. It's a great Peace Education Resource
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
       
      The "Reading Guides" section has many suggestions for various peace education theorists and resources as well as some links to these sources and even some guides to teaching on these resources.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
       
      Daryn was a teacher trainer for years and all of his "Activities" are student centered, multi-sensory and action-based.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
       
      These Activities are appropriate or can be adapted to all ages.
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
       
      Links to MORE peace education websites, teachers guides, resources, etc.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
       
      The coolest part: A Global Peace Ed teacher FORUM! and blog site.
  • Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
     
    A Global Peace Studies Online Curriculum created by AU alum and adjunct Daryn Cambridge. Contains links to documents, lesson plan ideas, activities and resources. A great beginner's guide to peace education
  • Laura Wood on 01 Sep 09
     
    A Global Peace Studies Online Curriculum created by AU alum and adjunct Daryn Cambridge. Contains links to documents, lesson plan ideas, activities and resources. A great beginner's guide to peace education AND offers links to news articles and a Peace Educators discussion site!
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

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    • 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."
Alan Edwards

Battle Lines: Letter's from American Wars - 0 views

www.gilderlehrman.org/...index_good.html

America war veterans letters primary source

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    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 15 Sep 09
       
      This website was created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Their collection includes thousands of letters written during wars of military service. It is an active site, and they ask people to send in war letters to expand to the collection.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 15 Sep 09
       
      As people get older and they come across old letters in the attic, hopefully they will want to contribute their personal correspondence for a greater public understanding of war.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 15 Sep 09
       
      I think this would be a great activity during the study of any war. It would also make for a great activity on Veteran's Day. Using Joellen's SOAPS (speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject) analytical tool, students could examine different letters.
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    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 15 Sep 09
       
      The site is asking for people to submit war letters, a reflection of a commitment to keeping the project active.
  • Alan Edwards on 15 Sep 09
     
    The Gilder Lehrman Institute created this site on letters written during war. You can view copies of original letters written by soldiers, generals, presidents, and family members during conflicts from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War. But wait, there's more: actors read the letters aloud while you read along. They have organized the letters by five different themes: Enlisting, Comforts of Home, Love, Combat, and The End of War. Each theme includes letters from all different eras of US history.
Alan Edwards

Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - 1 views

www.lib.utexas.edu/...map_collection_guide.html

map maps

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    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 18 Sep 09
       
      The online map room is maintained by the University of Texas at Austin, and it is frequently updated with new scans and additions from the library. The folks at the library can be contacted by computer or telephone.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 18 Sep 09
       
      The site has a plethora of maps, but I think their modern political maps/historical maps are most helpful. For teachers, this is a great resource to help students understand and analyze history.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 18 Sep 09
       
      The library's online map collection is also searchable-although the search engine is pretty basic
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    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 18 Sep 09
       
      There's also a great selection of OTHER map websites, including a huge selection of historical maps or maps about history
  • Alan Edwards on 18 Sep 09
     
    The Perry-Castaneda Map Collection at the University of Texas-Austin has a great selection of online maps. They have modern political maps, historical maps, maps about history, regional maps, thematic maps (population, climate, energy, ethnic, religious). Many of the maps have large PDF formats that are of great quality and detail.
Alan Edwards

Dave's ESL Cafe - 0 views

www.eslcafe.com

ELL english language learner lesson plan TEFL TESOL

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    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 21 Sep 09
       
      Dave's ESL cafe is a site that is maintained by Dave Sperling. I cannot find any information about the man and his affiliations on the website, but he does have contact info.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 21 Sep 09
       
      Dave collects and posts lesson plans, strategies, and assessments for teaching English language learners. Dave appears to have exclusive control on what gets posted, and there are a lot of helpful ideas from educators around the world.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 21 Sep 09
       
      I think this site is a great resource for teachers with ELL students. It maintains a large selection of works collected from educators. Many of the lesson aim at creating a more active and fun classroom. Also, if the forum was up and running it would also be a great place for teachers to help one another with their teaching dilemmas.
  • Alan Edwards on 21 Sep 09
     
    Dave's ESL Cafe includes a wide selection of strategies, lesson plans, and tools for teaching English language learners. There is a section for teachers as well as a section for students themselves.
Erin Power

National Historic Landmarks, List of sites: National Park Service - 1 views

www.nps.gov/...listsofNHLs.htm

Historical landmarks field trips

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  • Erin Power on 09 Oct 09
     
    This has a list of historical landmarks in each state.
jbdrury

iLearn Technology » Social Studies - 3 views

ilearntechnology.com/?tag=social-studies

technology education education technology iLearn blog technology websites

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      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      Each post has tags like these
  • Meet Me at the Corner
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      I thought this "Meet Me at the Corner" site was particularly interesting, and with the proper resources it could be cool to involve a class in creating videos to post in connection with DC history.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      Furthermore, this could be connected to neighborhood studies, perhaps done by the students themselves and added to this site
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  • What it is: Meet Me at the Corner is an inventive site that seeks to take students on virtual field trips through videos created by students.  The site started with video podcasts of the history and people of New York City.  As the site grows through student submissions, people and events of other towns, cities, and nations will be highlighted.
  • jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
     
    I'm not certain this hasn't already been posted; I did a search in our groups and didn't see it. iLearn Technology is an interesting and useful blog, where people post descriptions and links to other tech-savvy web sites and applications that can be a great resource to teachers. Though most of the sites I have looked at would probably be aimed more towards K-6 classrooms, others extend at least into middle school. Much like our diigo, each post is tagged with keywords so that you may search their site by subject or category.
Laura Wood

First In the Family - 2 views

www.firstinthefamily.org/highschool.html

high school college admissions advice counsel

shared by Laura Wood on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 14 Oct 09
       
      There are videos to watch so that students can know that they are not alone and learn from the experiences of others.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 14 Oct 09
       
      There are many resources collected on this site, from financial aid and scholarship options to programs that might give students an admissions boost to checklists on what to do before you go.
  • Laura Wood on 14 Oct 09
     
    A spin off cite of the What Kids Can Do site, this site offers advice for teens through college age students who are the first in their families to go to college. There is also a publication that you can print. There is also a portion of the site for college aged students.
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  • Laura Wood on 14 Oct 09
     
    Again, the Diigo isn't working so . . . There is a "planning checklist" on the site that has printable checklists of things students can do every year starting in 9th grade to prepared themselves for college. Teachers should explain to students that these are not absolutely necessary so that kids don't hyperventilate, but for kids needing to see progress towards a goal, these might be useful
  • Laura Wood on 14 Oct 09
     
    There is a "hard facts" tab that has some of the facts about parental income, race, and expected income. If students don't think it's important to go to college, some of these facts might shake them up and make them realize how important and how difficult it may be for them to go. This might inspire a school project where students determine how many of their classmates plan to go to college and where they want to go and why or some such thing.
  • Laura Wood on 14 Oct 09
     
    The "inspiration" tab has great quotes that teachers might consider putting up around the room and great books that teachers might consider assigning to their students.
  • Lindsay Andreas on 15 Oct 09
     
    Thanks for posting this article, it came at just the right time for me because my students need so much help and now that their counselors were fired, they are screwed. I've been thinking of ways I can help with guiding them through the college acceptance process and this website looks like a great start.
Lindsay Andreas

EconEdLink | Current Events - 2 views

www.econedlink.org/current

economics NCEE lesson plans current events

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  • EconEdLink provides access to the latest economics news and information. Come here to learn more about what's happening in the world of economics and access related lesson
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 20 Oct 09
       
      I really like this part of the website because it keeps track of current events in economics and gives you related lessons. My understanding is that economic education works best when you give the kids real-life examples. My teacher likes to bring up the healthcare package a lot and it works because the students know that this is a big issue and it puts context to things.
  • A premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 20 Oct 09
       
      NCEE (National Council on Economic Education) likes to use real life context in their lesson plans. There are simulations, group decision/problem solving solving, etc. They believe in the education principle of learn by doing (Dewey) and I think economics needs real world context even more so than other subjects.
  • Alan Edwards on 31 Oct 09
     
    I second this - this is a great resource for incorporating economics into the lesson plans-I really dig a lesson plan here on voter turn-out.
jbdrury

Capital Gains FAQs - DC Public Schools, Washington, DC - 1 views

dcps.dc.gov/...de50edb2b17a932c69621014f62010

faq capital gains DCPS cash awards to students

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      jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
       
      Emery Educational Campus is one of these fifteen participating schools.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
       
      The assessments done at our school are created by the teachers. The students are also judged considerably based on their classroom behavior. A sort of giveaway is the awards for wearing the proper uniform.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
       
      I feel this website could have gone into greater detail explaining exactly how much money these students might be earning.
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  • The Capital Gains program is a partnership between DCPS and Dr. Roland Fryer, economics professor at Harvard University and the founder of Harvard’s Education Innovation Laboratory (EdLabs). In addition to Washington, DC, EdLabs and Dr. Fryer work with school districts in Chicago and New York City on similar incentive initiatives.
  • jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
     
    I know we've all heard about the rather controversial Capital Gains program - where DCPS is paying students cash awards for good academic performance and behavior - but I wasn't certain how much anyone really knew about the specifics of the program. I just recently learned that my own school - Emery Educational Campus - is participating in Capital Gains. I can say that my own students do not seem to take the program very seriously, or at the very least not enough to study more to make certain they perform well on the mandatory assessments (said one student: "I don't really care about the extra money").
  • Lindsay Andreas on 23 Nov 09
     
    They have "Tech Tickets" at McKinley, it's just a huge joke because the rewards are like breakfast with Mr. Pinder the principal, who they hate. Last Wednesday, they started joking around about starting a black market for tech tickets, at least they are inventive about it. But it doesn't motivate them.
kyleassad

Kids.gov - Social Studies - Maps /Geography (Grades 6 - 8) - 4 views

www.kids.gov/...6_8_social_studies_maps.shtml

education teaching geography social studies maps primary sources

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    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      Great general resource for teachers who are looking for options to enhance their geography classes.  Online resources at reliable government websites to help augment lessons and skills.
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      I would use this site as a resource for my students to do research for themselves.  I would also use some of the sites as alternate assignments for students.
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      This site is an awesome resource for social studies teachers looking for internet resources to give their kids.  It is both credible and provides general enough resources that allow them to use it for all lessons.
  • kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
     
    A geography unit resource for teachers in middle school teaching the mandated coursework.
Jeannie Davidson

DocsTeach - 9 views

docsteach.org

history socialstudies primary sources

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    • Adrea Lawrence
      Adrea Lawrence on 21 Sep 10
       
      You can customize a lesson with historical thinking strategies by building interactive activities.
    • Adrea Lawrence
      Adrea Lawrence on 21 Sep 10
       
      Thematic eras can help you find documents in U.S. history quickly.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 21 Sep 10
     
    The National Archives and Records Administration has launched a new websites for teachers that includes thousands of primary source documents that are ready to use in classroom settings.
  • Lindsay Andreas on 22 Sep 10
     
    I talked to the education specialists at NARA this summer and they showed me how to use DocsTeach and it is AMAZING. Also, they have the most wonderful field trip opportunity. They have a simulation where the students become archivists and they go through the research process. I don't think there is anything else like it in the entire country. If you want to teach the research process and historical thinking, you need to book a trip ASAP!
  • Jeannie Davidson on 27 May 15
     
    National Archives Documents and Activities for teaching History
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