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Explore these resources for ideas you can use to connect classroom curriculum to Veterans Day. Whether you choose to focus on Veterans Day and its history for one class period or to include a special curriculum project in honor of veterans, these ideas and resources will get you started.
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World War 2 Pictures in Color - WebCurl, Inc.
Grades
7 to 12
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tag(s): 1930s (8), 1940s (9), hitler (8), images (165), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
View images on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) as primary sources for World War 2 information. Share a few images a day during your unit about the war. Use these online images to show WWII veterans and spark conversations in face to face interviews. Have students use Fakebook (reviewed here) to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about a World War 2 event, soldier, or Commander after viewing and discussing the site's images. Be sure to discuss acceptable use policies and how to give credit when using images found on the Internet. To find Creative Commons images for student projects (with credit, of course), try Compfight, reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Educator Resource Center Smart Board Lessons - Teq Educator Resource Center
Grades
K to 12tag(s): 1800s (31), 1900s (17), angles (63), animal homes (20), area (40), civil war (115), communities (23), counting (101), decimals (96), equations (99), food chains (11), fractions (172), graphic organizers (35), habitats (60), hebrew (11), holidays (118), integers (35), iwb (27), life cycles (18), maps (198), mean (16), measurement (122), median (18), native americans (48), percent (58), place value (43), planets (97), plants (88), polynomials (19), pythagorean theorem (18), religions (38), rock cycle (7), rocks (37), STEM (27), transformations (11), volume (28), womens suffrage (10), world war 1 (28), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site to use as a resource for interactive whiteboard lessons and activities. Search for topics for your subject/grade level. View the STEM category to find activities for your class. Share activities on your interactive whiteboard, having students operate the board. Some activities would also be appropriate for individual computers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mapping History - University of Oregon
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): 1700s (11), 1800s (31), 1900s (17), africa (173), alaska (23), american revolution (53), central america (13), civil war (115), cold war (20), colonial america (89), colonization (13), explorers (44), great depression (16), greece (22), greeks (22), hawaii (6), industrialization (10), italy (11), maps (198), native americans (48), romans (23), slavery (56), south america (25), spain (6), war of 1812 (9), world war 1 (28), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
View modules together as a class on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Provide links to selected modules on your class webpage or blog. Use as one source for students to create their own maps. Using a mapping tool such as Mapskip (reviewed here) to create a map of any specific time period or event. With Mapskip students can even include audio "stories" and pictures.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Go Social Studies Go! - Kenneth Udhe
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): australia (23), china (56), civil war (115), continents (33), england (51), explorers (44), france (36), germany (21), italy (11), japan (57), martin luther king (31), native americans (48), north america (14), religions (38), renaissance (32), romans (23), rome (22), russia (24), south america (25), spain (6), washington (26), world war 1 (28)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for use in middle and high school Social Studies classes. Select content to view as a class on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Introduce the site to students and let them explore specific sections on their own. Share a link to the portion of the site desired through your class website or blog. Have students or student groups create online posters using Check This (reviewed here). This site is also a useful reference for students to "look up" a major historic event to better understand historical fiction or even movies. Make it available as a general reference link on your class web page.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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LIFE photo archive - Google
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): black history (41), images (165), local history (10), photography (114), world war 1 (28), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
Use the many images and caption of various events to bring the history alive. View Black History events and many other landmark events to life that simple passages in a textbook cannot. Use a specific image to share with the class and have them journal what they see in the picture, what they think is going on, and questions that they have about the image. Use their thoughts to begin discussion about the historical significance of the image. Use other images and research to develop a full understanding of the event. Students cab parallel that event with other similar events through history and present their findings to the class. Virtually any recent (1860s through the present day) historical or news topic might be augmented by an accompanying photo on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Be sure to click to open the largest version of the image! Students might generate their own "collections" of related photographs to illustrate a topic or theme, or create a photo montage to capture a time period. Art teachers can also use these masterpieces in teaching design concepts and composition. Under Fair Use, your students can certainly use these photos in class projects, but our editors would not suggest copying and posting them on the web in blogs or wikis, since this could be seen as making unlimited copies. You can easily include them as linked images, however, to appear seamlessly on the blog or wiki page. What a great way to teach about giving proper credit as your students create annotated, thematic collections on a historical or literary topic.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Meet.fm Online Meeting Channel - Cary and Staci Cole
Grades
7 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): chat (27), homework (42), microblogging (26), multimedia (28)
In the Classroom
Use Meet.fm to host tutoring for small groups of students. Share with students as a resource for collaborating on group projects from home. Use Meet.fm to set up an online interview with authors located across the country, veterans who can discuss their personal experiences with war, or experts to discuss careers in their field. You could also use this site to meet up with absent students as needed.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Navajo Code Talkers - Navajo Code Talkers Foundation
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): native americans (48), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
Share this site with your students on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) during your World War II unit or a unit on Native Americans. This would be a great link to share during Native American Heritage Month. Use an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram (reviewed here) to create a visual comparison of the Code Talkers vs other World War II battle units or cryptographers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Like a Historian - Stanford History Education Group
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): american revolution (53), civil rights (77), civil war (115), cold war (20), colonial america (89), colonization (13), emancipation proclamation (10), new deal (4), slavery (56), world war 1 (28), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site as a resource for American history lessons throughout the year. The final segment of each lesson, the "Central Historical Question," has been noted as the most important part. If you don't have time for the full lesson, incorporate the historical question into your lesson plans as part of your classroom discussion, or journal activities. Perhaps you can use it as an essential question for your unit. Challenge students to create a talking avatar using a photo or other image (legally permitted to be reproduced). The avatars can be used to explain the central historical question. Use a site such as Blabberize (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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IWitness - USC Shoah Foundation
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (69), holocaust (38), jews (17), pearl harbor (10), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
This is a tremendously rich resource for bringing home the reality of the Holocaust using the words and images of survivors. The number of Holocaust Survivors is dwindling, and we risk losing the full impact of their experience without sites like IWitness. Search the interview archives by keyword or subject and view individual stories. Use the editing tools to collect portions of interviews into a new video presentation. Create class projects and group them by classroom section and collect multiple student presentations. The site is flexible and geared toward educators. Because it is in Beta, feedback is actively solicited, and teachers can help shape how the site can be used. Don't miss the lesson plans and activity plans as well as a good collection of other resources. The site has clearly delineated technology requirements; it would be wise to consult those prior to planning an activity.Edge Features:
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Dr. Seuss and WWII: Analyzing Political Cartoons - National WWII Museum
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): comics and cartoons (65), dr seuss (12), politics (71), propaganda (9), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
Use this lesson instead of your usual Thomas Nast lesson on political cartooning. Geisel's cartoons are more recent, and may be more accessible to today's students. Consider also using this lesson with older students on Dr. Seuss's birthday when the focus is usually on his children's literature. Share the cartoons on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Challenge students to create their own cartoons by drawing or using one of TeachersFirst's many reviewed comic/cartoon tools here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Dr. Seuss Went to War - UC San Diego
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): comics and cartoons (65), dr seuss (12), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
This collection offers rich opportunities during the study of World War II. Students can trace the tensions and events of the war year by year or by issue. See this lesson planthat delves into a few of Seuss's cartoons, but this collection has many more examples so you can go even further. Have students create explanations using Thinglink, reviewed here, an image annotation tool that allows you to reference images by url.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pearl Harbor Raid - US Navy
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): pearl harbor (10), veterans (10), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
Visit this website and share the images of the Pearl Harbor attack on your classroom whiteboard. Keep the memory of this "Day of Infamy" alive, as we approach its 70th anniversary in 2011. Discuss how the tragic "surprise" helped shape our national defense policies and that even now, Pearl Harbor remains the subject of a regular flow of documentaries, dramatic productions, books, and articles. Help students see the connections in history by reflecting on the image of the well-known, torn American flag, poster with the quote from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "... we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ..." Engage students in a critical thinking activity to compare and contrast those two famous battles. They can use the Venn Diagram online tool reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Anne Frank Trust UK-Her Story, Today's World * - The Anne Frank Trust UK
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): anne frank (11), holocaust (38), jews (17), nazis (11), remembrance day (7), women (88), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
Use the powerful messages drawn from the story of Anne Frank to help foster an understanding among today's teenagers of positive citizenship, human rights, democracy and respect for the individual. Log on to this site and click on the resources tab. This section provides critical, relevant information about how to teach Anne Frank's story, the history of the Holocaust, and contemporary issues related to these subjects. You can click on the links and download resources to accompany the drama, The Diary of Anne Frank, and download the PowerPoint to project on your whiteboard. The slide show is an in-depth look at the difference made by Anne's father, Otto Frank, 50 years after the doors of the Anne Frank House opened to the public. Your class can then take the pledge, detailed on the last slide of the PowerPoint presentation, to stand up against prejudice and hatred and defend those who cannot defend themselves. Have students or student groups create an online, interactive poster known as a "glog," using GlogsterEDU, reviewed here of the pledge to sign. Display it on your class wiki or webpage to share with families.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Asian Pacific American Book List - Amer. Indian Lib. Assn & the Asian/Pacific American Lib. Assn.
Grades
K to 12tag(s): asia (63), book lists (83), chinese (45), cross cultural understanding (63), hawaii (6), independent reading (71), japanese (43), korea (14), vietnam (22)
In the Classroom
Refer your class to this list for multicultural reading and reports. If you have any ESL/ELL students from these areas, they may enjoy reading literature from (or about) their homeland. Challenge students to read one of the books on this list and research the location. Have cooperative learning groups create a mash-up map using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge Tools reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: World War I Unit - Alabama Department of Archives and History
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): primary sources (63), world war 1 (28)
In the Classroom
Use the activities to help your students better understand World War I. Be sure to check out the activity in the Selective Service lesson. The activity has each student being assigned to a role. The students write a letter to Senator Bankhead which would explain their positions concerning conscription prior to the declaration of war. To extend the activity, have your students dress as their character and read their letters to the class. Or have students create blogs using Instablogg ( here). This tool allows you to create "quick and easy" blogs to be used one time only. A unique URL is provided, and the tool is as easy as using a basic Word program!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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What's Going On Now - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): 1960s (18), civil rights (77), cross cultural understanding (63), ecology (125), racism (13), vietnam (22)
In the Classroom
History teachers struggle for "coverage," or the ability to teach across all eras. U.S. History teachers often don't get to the Vietnam era, but these resources are a superb reason for pressing forward. Teacher resources include a number of guided investigations and classroom listening guides that can be incorporated in their entirety or adapted to complement lessons on the Vietnam era in a recent U.S. History class, on social change for a Sociology class, or on contemporary music as an agent of political protest for a music class. For independent or gifted learners, this site could provide the basis for sustained small group inquiry as part of curriculum differentiation. Start by asking students to explore the site and write a blog post about their initial impressions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Map as History: A Multimedia Atlas of World History - Images et Savoirs
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): earth (197), explorers (44), greece (22), holocaust (38), india (36), map skills (47), maps (198), middle east (17), westward expansion (15), world war 1 (28)
In the Classroom
Use the maps with an interactive whiteboard or projector to introduce students to key historical events. Have students work in groups to view the maps and then have them recreate their own group map that highlights important facts they learned from the video. Have students use a tool such as Woices (beta) (reviewed here). This site allows students to create audio recordings AND choose a location on a map to narrate.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World Memory Project - U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com
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8 to 12tag(s): family (53), germany (21), hitler (8), holocaust (38), jews (17), world war 2 (128)
In the Classroom
Challenge your students to use a site such as TimeRime reviewed here to create an interactive timeline of individual families' involvements in the Holocaust or of the days of the Holocaust itself. Have interested students create a family tree using documents from this site. Make World War II history more real with these actual accounts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library - JFK Library
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7 to 12tag(s): history day (14), kennedy (11), presidents (88), vietnam (22)
In the Classroom
All of these topics are of interest to students doing research into 20th century US and international history, and might be particularly useful to students working on in depth projects for National History Day. After researching a specific topic, have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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