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kkasargodstaub

Teaching Tolerance - 2 views

www.tolerance.org

tolerance education socialstudies

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  • Teaching Tolerance
  • kkasargodstaub on 20 Sep 10
     
    A great website by the Southern Poverty Law Center that provides thoughtful ways to address all kinds of issues. There are useful history, geography and current issues lesson plans.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    How might teachers use this site specifically?
Elliot Borg

StreetLaw.org - 0 views

www.streetlaw.org/Index.aspx

shared by Elliot Borg on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
    • Elliot Borg
      Elliot Borg on 20 Sep 10
       
      put your cursor over "resources for" and click on "teachers and educators" for great ideas for your classroom.
Preston Spradling

Afrobarometer - 1 views

www.afrobarometer.org

history education resources research social studies

shared by Preston Spradling on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Preston Spradling on 04 Oct 10
     
    Afrobarometer is the archive for a huge amount of statistical data about modern Africa. Most of this kind of data did not exist until about twenty years ago, and all of it is amazingly valuable. All sorts of political, social and economic data are gathered here.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    How might teachers use this site and its resources?
Preston Spradling

The Naval Postgraduate School's map collection - 0 views

www.nps.edu/...Maps.html

history education social studies

shared by Preston Spradling on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Preston Spradling on 04 Oct 10
     
    The NPS' website has a series of links to all manner of useful maps, including ones hosted by the University of California, that are quite good.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    How might teachers use this site and its resources?
kkasargodstaub

Environment Facts, Environment Science, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Ecosystems, Green Living - National Geographic - 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.
kyleassad

Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy - 1 views

avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

history documents research education resources teaching primary sources

shared by kyleassad on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      I would use this site as a reference for students who are looking for primary sources to supplement text books.  It helpful to see the actual text of documents instead of trying to read the handwriting.
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      This site would be useful for social studies teachers as they navigate many different topics, and would like to use primary source text to augment their teaching.  It lacks certain citing items, which hurts credibility, but it is the Yale Law School, which lends credibility.
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      It is a comprehensive resource for primary sources across history.  It doesn't speak to how they arrived or were able to translate the sources. 
kyleassad

Avalon Project - 17th Century Documents : 1600 - 1699 - 1 views

avalon.law.yale.edu/...17th.asp

History education teaching primary sources

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    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      It is a comprehensive resource for primary sources across history.  It doesn't speak to how they arrived or were able to translate the sources.
  • kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
     
    Primary sources across many millenia.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    How might teachers use the site and its resources?
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.
Mark Moran

SweetSearch Content and Tools for Social Studies - 0 views

www.sweetsearch.com/socialstudies

History Resources teaching social studies education

shared by Mark Moran on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Mark Moran on 19 Apr 10
     
    A collection of all of Dulcinea Media's resources for Social Studies teachers.
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.
Laura Wood

Even Babies Discriminate: A NurtureShock Excerpt. | Newsweek Life | Newsweek.com - 1 views

www.newsweek.com/1

UT Austin racism education children discrimination proactive color-blind experiments research Vittrup White Black

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  • Kids as young as 6 months judge others based on skin color. What's a parent to do?
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      I find this particularly important after seeing how some race dynamics play out in my practicum. Specifically I find myself asking "Why are all the White kids sitting together in the classroom?" This article might give one reason.
  • Prior research had shown that multicultural curricula in schools have far less impact than we intend them to—largely because the implicit message "We're all friends" is too vague for young children to understand that it refers to skin color.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      Highlights the importance of being specific with kids. I'm not sure why our modesty makes us, as teachers, code and shy away from just being real with our students. One of the goals that I have set for myself this semester is to get real with students, just tell them the truth (for example saying, "That's disrespectful. Stop.") instead of playing games (for example feeling flustered and walking away or saying something vague like, "behave").
  • They wanted their children to grow up colorblind. But Vittrup's first test of the kids revealed they weren't colorblind at all. Asked how many white people are mean, these children commonly answered, "Almost none." Asked how many blacks are mean, many answered, "Some," or "A lot." Even kids who attended diverse schools answered the questions this way.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      And here's the gold. Kids are not color blind. Adult embarrassment to speak about race does not mean we're not communicating messages to our children about race and prejudice, it just means that we're also communicating that it's something to be embarrassed about and/or hush up. I really recommend reading this article in full. It's fantastic.
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  • Vittrup was taken aback—these families volunteered knowing full well it was a study of children's racial attitudes. Yet once they were aware that the study required talking openly about race, they started dropping out.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      Parents are so uncomfortable talking about race with their children, they drop out of the study. Why is this conversation So hard to have???
  • hardly any of these white parents had ever talked to their children directly about race.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      To quote Zinn "you can't be neutral on a moving train" (i.e. you can't fail to proactively oppose a racist infrastructure/social order without perpetuating that racist infrastructure/social order. i.e. If you don't teach your kids explicitly anti-racist behavior, language and attitudes, you tacitly support and perpetuate a racist system - whether you are racist or not)
  • Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
     
    An article that summarizes some incredibly important findings on race and racism. Specifically, if you don't talk about racism with kids, you support the status quo. Even very young kids.
James Leslie

Carter Center Teacher Resource Center - Middle & High School Lessons - 2 views

www.cartercenter.org/...index.html

teaching resources education social studies

shared by James Leslie on 09 Oct 09 - Cached
  • James Leslie on 09 Oct 09
     
    Another page with links to teaching resources and lesson plans.
  • Alan Edwards on 11 Oct 09
     
    I just took a glance at one of the lesson plans from the Carter Center and I love how thorough it is. Great resource!
Alan Edwards

Race & Place: An African American Community - 0 views

www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/...index.html

African American History The South Webquest Virginia Oral Newspaper Map Timeline

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    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 09 Oct 09
       
      This website was created and maintained by the Virginia Center for Digital History, the Carter Woodson Center for African and Afro-American Studies, and the University of Virginia. You can contact these folks about the project via email.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 09 Oct 09
       
      The site emphasizes a great holistic approach to studying an African American community in Virginia after the fall of the Confederate States of America and up through the first half of the twentieth century. They include oral histories, maps of Charlottesville, census reports, city records, political materials, personal papers of residents, newspapers (including two African American papers), as well as images.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 09 Oct 09
       
      For educators, I think this might be a great way to teach Jim Crow and/or Reconstruction in the South through exploratory web quests. If the students have access to computers in a school, they could investigate the website at their own pace and answer essential questions or pose questions themselves for others to answer. Also, teachers could use the primary sources as classroom aides for their students to examine.
Jeannie Davidson

DocsTeach - 9 views

docsteach.org

history socialstudies primary sources

shared by Jeannie Davidson on 21 Sep 10 - Cached
    • 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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