Archive for the 'Social Studies' Category
The Learning Network is a site/blog sponsored by the New York Times. The Learning Network is a current site, updated every school day, that offers a wealth of high quality learning resources — lesson plans, student opinion questions, challenges, crossword puzzles, etc. — for teachers and students in grades 3-12. For example, a periodic math […]
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Problem Based Learning: Explained is a video created by Common Craft for the Buck Institute of Education. If you are familiar with Common Craft videos, you know they do a nice job of making complex concepts easy to understand. Problem Based Learning: Explained is a short (Time: 3:50 video that explains the basic concepts of […]
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OER (Open Educational Resources) Commons is a site through which educators share lessons and resources. The site hosts thousands of lessons which can be searched by content, lesson type and level. The lessons are licensed to be used and reused free of charge. All lessons have been reviewed and approved by the OER Commons staff. […]
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Culture Crossing is a site designed to promote cultural awareness. In addition to providing demographic information about each country, it provides information about basic, business and school etiquette. In addition, there are weekly cultural quizzes, interviews of famous people, and travel information. It’s database is kept current by its community of users from around the […]
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Khan Academy is an amazing site that contains over 1,600 math, science and history videos designed for “providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere”. It is created and maintained by Salman Khan, who started the site after remotely helping his niece with her math homework. All the videos on the site are created by […]
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Colonial Williamsburg is a site created and maintained by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The site offers images, videos, games, podcasts, online field trips and more that relate to the Colonial period of our country’s history. Click on the Education / Teaching links for lesson plans that show how the site’s resources can be used in […]
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Picturing America is a site created by the National Endowment for the Humanities to help promote a greater appreciation for art and American history. The interactive art gallery contains beautiful photographs related to events, people and themes in American history. There is a link to the Educators page, from which you can download a free […]
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Kids Know It Network is a kid-friendly site for elementary students, created by a teacher in Utah. The site contains animated videos, which introduce topics related to the core subject areas. After the students watch the videos, they take an online quiz on the topic. If they do not pass the quiz with an 80% […]
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The CenteronCongress’s Channel is a YouTube channel created by the Center on Congress at Indiana University. The channel contains videos for helping middle school and older students learn about Congress. The videos are short — about 1-3 minutes in length — and cover topics like Federalism, Checks & Balances, and the legislative process.
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Skype/Multi-Media Collaborations by Unit for Social Studies is a site created by a middle school teacher who is looking for other middle school social studies classes with whom his classes can collaborate. The units he teaches are related to United States history. He has project ideas for some units and is looking for ideas for […]
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