Archive for the 'Social Studies' Category
Differentiation Meets Digital Technology is a blog post on the Literacy Beat blog that I just recently started to follow. Literacy Beat is a blog written by five teachers and researchers in the field of digital literacy. What I like about this particular post is how it uses the UBD model to plan for differentiation […]
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The Library of Congress website has a wide variety of online primary resources that can be used with students. These resources include newspapers, comic books, maps, and more. The Teachers page includes lesson plans for using primary sources in grades kindergarten and up. The site has recently added references to the Common Core standards. It […]
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108 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom is a blog post by the award-winning blogger Michael Gorman. As the title suggests, the post offers more than 100 ways to use work clouds in the classroom. What I like about this particular post is that the ideas are organized by subject area.
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iWitness: Video Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors is a site that contains over 1,000 videos of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. The site was created by the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute and is intended for use by students in middle and high school. The site also contains other Holocaust-related resources, which can be accessed […]
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The Center on Congress at Indiana University is a site that can be used to help students learn more about what goes on in Congress. The activities help students experience the roles and functions of various members of Congress. While the purpose of the site is to encourage students to take an active part in […]
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Simple English Wikipedia is an online wiki-style encyclopedia geared for students, children, and anyone trying to learn the English language. The articles are shorter than those you would find on the regular Wikipedia, and the articles are written in more basic English. Like Wikipedia, the articles available through Simple English Wikipedia are written and edited […]
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Map Games is a site that offers several interactive map games and quizzes. The maps cover not only the United States, but other countries as well.
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VocabGrabber is part of the Visual Thesaurus website. VocabGrabber creates a word cloud of vocabulary words from any text you copy and paste into their text box. Each of the words becomes a link that, when clicked on, displays the definition of the word in both written and web format.
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Encyclopedia of Chicago, as the name suggests, is an online encyclopedia of the history of Chicago, sponsored by the Chicago History Museum, the Newberry Library and Northwestern University. The site contains, articles, photos, maps, newspaper, videos and more related to the history of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, including Bloomingdale.
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bubbabrain is a site that offers a variety of interactive activities for all grade levels. The activities are easy to use and are organized by grade level, then by subject. Teachers can create their own games, but they need to register. Students can play the games created by their teacher by entering the teacher’s ID.
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