Archive for the 'Social Studies' Category
Photo Prompts is a site that can be used to support creative writing. The site offers many different writing starters that include a picture and a writing prompt. These can be used or altered to use with students of all ages, and in different subject areas. If you click on the “i” icon on the […]
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Printing Press offers interactive, online templates for creating newspapers, flyers and brochures. Printing Press is part of the many wonderful offerings available on the ReadWriteThink website. It’s user-friendly interface allows students to choose from several templates, then add images and text. Another nice thing about this site is that it allows students to save their […]
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Teaching Kids News is a site created by a mom and her son’s teacher to help elementary aged students access and understand the news. The articles/stories on the site, written in kid-friendly language, are designed for students in grades 2-8. Each day a new article is added that relates to some news story of the […]
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Text 2 Mind Map is an easy-to-use tool for converting an outline into a mind map. Students type in their outlines right on the site. After the outline has been created, they click on the “Draw Mind Map” button, and the outline is presented on the screen in mind map format. The map can then […]
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Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Documents is a post on the teachinghistory.org website that outlines a four-step process for guiding students in reading primary documents. With all the emphasis on using primary documents to help students better understand historical concepts, it’s nice to have a post like this that clearly describes how to help […]
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Beyond the Bubble is a website created by the Stanford History Education Group to help students learn about history using primary documents. The site contains some fabulous assessments (click on the Assessment link on the top of the page) that use archives from the Library of Congress to assess students’ historical knowledge and critical thinking […]
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Reading Like a Historian is a site created by the Stanford History Education Group that helps students to engage in historical inquiry. The site contains 75 lessons related to major events in history. Each lesson poses a question and offers a list of primary documents (at various reading levels) with opposing viewpoints to help students […]
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DocsTeach is a site maintained by the National Archives and the Foundation for the National Archives. In addition to allowing access to over 4,000 primary source documents, the site provides a tool for allowing teachers to combine documents into activities. These activities can be accessed by students through the DocsTeach website. What I like best […]
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Overlap Maps is an easy-to-use online tool for comparing the size of countries, states, bodies of water, etc. All you need to do is choose the two areas you want to compare, and Overlap Maps will lay one of the areas on top of the other to show the relative size.
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Share My Lesson is a site created by the AFT and the TES (a worldwide network of teachers). The site allows you to use its over 200,000 lesson plans and other teaching resources at no cost (free registration is required to download lessons). It also allows you to upload lessons that you have created and […]
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