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This collection of reviewed resources from TeachersFirst is selected to help teachers and students learn about Women's History and to plan related projects and classroom activities. Whether you spend one class or an entire unit on Women's History, the ideas included within the "In the Classroom" portion of reviews will launch discussions and meaningful projects for student-centered learning.
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America in Class - The National Humanities Center
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5 to 12
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Discover American History lessons correlated to Common Core reading and social studies literacy standards, especially those that require close reading and evidence. The goal of these...more
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Discover American History lessons correlated to Common Core reading and social studies literacy standards, especially those that require close reading and evidence. The goal of these lessons is to use primary resources, background information, and the analytical strategies suggested to meet the Common Core standards. In addition to these outstanding American History lessons, also find free online seminars and secondary sources. The secondary sources, under TeacherServe, include essays on topics in American literature and history.
tag(s): abolition (7), american revolution (52), civil war (113), colonial america (89), colonization (12), commoncore (43), democracy (11), native americans (48), primary sources (62), slavery (56), women (88)
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Use your interactive whiteboard or projector to help your class learn the background information and read the material through once. Work through the lesson together; then consider assigning groups of four students to go through the readings again, discovering the answers to the essential questions. Have students post the group's answers on a back channel chat program such as Today's Meet reviewed here so all groups can see all answers. Where answers differ, have students go back into the reading and cite evidence to support their answer on Today's Meet for all to see.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
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K to 12
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The Educator Resource Center contains hundreds of interactive whiteboard lessons available for easy download. Explore the list by topics such as Math-Elementary, ELA-Middle, SS-High,...more
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The Educator Resource Center contains hundreds of interactive whiteboard lessons available for easy download. Explore the list by topics such as Math-Elementary, ELA-Middle, SS-High, Science-Middle, Judaic Studies-Dinim, ELL-Beginners, Games Templates, STEM, and more. You can also use the search function to find specific content. Search by Common Core topics or enter your own term. Each lesson includes a title, resource type, grade level information. Some lessons also include a correlation to Common Core, images, or slideshow previews of content. Click on the download button to save to your computer.
tag(s): 1800s (30), 1900s (16), angles (62), animal homes (19), area (40), civil war (113), communities (24), counting (100), decimals (95), equations (98), food chains (11), fractions (172), graphic organizers (35), habitats (59), hebrew (11), holidays (117), integers (35), iwb (27), life cycles (18), maps (194), mean (16), measurement (121), median (18), native americans (48), percent (58), place value (43), planets (96), plants (86), polynomials (19), pythagorean theorem (18), religions (38), rock cycle (7), rocks (35), STEM (27), transformations (11), volume (28), womens suffrage (10), world war 1 (28), world war 2 (127)
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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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Awesome Stories - AwesomeStories
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4 to 12
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AwesomeStories is a one stop shop of primary source materials. It is a gathering place of sources located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies...more
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AwesomeStories is a one stop shop of primary source materials. It is a gathering place of sources located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created websites. The site includes documents, videos, audio clips and narrations. Topics range from the Women's Movement to Emperor Penguins to Abraham Lincoln to the Easter Story (through medieval/renaissance art) and much more. Search by biography, disaster, trials, flicks, history, philosophy, sports, or the arts. You can also search by lesson plans, narrations, slide shows, videos, images, audio clips, documentaries, and more! You can also take advantage of the Visual Vocabulary to learn vocabulary related to many of the stories and video clips available at this site.
tag(s): art history (38), artists (47), biographies (31), black history (41), civil rights (77), civil war (113), cross cultural understanding (63), disasters (30), earthquakes (37), easter (18), inventors and inventions (93), korea (14), lincoln (75), mars (37), movies (49), natural disasters (13), presidents (87), primary sources (62), resources (92), south africa (6), vocabulary (289), weather (158), womens suffrage (10)
In the Classroom
Use this rich site to support your social studies, history, science, language arts classroom and many others! There is a lot here to explore and many diverse topics. Use the Visual Vocabulary Builder to introduce your students to new vocabulary in a different way. Middle and high schoolers could use the movies to teach about character development and themes. The site includes several lesson plans that help you teach with current movies. Have your students use the site to find historical images to use in presentations. (Be sure to check the licensing on any image you use and cite it properly.) Project the video clips using an interactive whiteboard or projector to introduce students to a unit of study. Challenge small groups of students to explore one of the topics presented at this site and share their "story" with the rest of the class. Have students create an annotated image including text boxes and related links using a tool such as Thinglink, reviewed here. Many texts on this site are also useful examples of informational texts for practice of Common Core standards.
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Women in World History - Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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10 to 12
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Women in World History offers sophisticated, high-level learning opportunities for exploration and research into the role of women throughout the world. Choose website reviews to find...more
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Women in World History offers sophisticated, high-level learning opportunities for exploration and research into the role of women throughout the world. Choose website reviews to find scholarly reviews of online archives and resources. View more than 200 primary sources with essays analyzing gender. View case studies from teachers discussing primary sources. Classroom modules offer lesson plans for several topics: the British Empire, Western Views of Chinese Women, and the Soviet Dictatorship. The lesson plans include everything you need: ways to differentiate the lesson, objectives, materials, time needed, and additional strategies.
tag(s): 1600s (7), 1700s (9), 1800s (30), 1900s (16), 20th century (17), africa (173), asia (63), central america (13), europe (57), great britain (11), north america (13), russia (24), south america (25), women (88)
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Use modules from this site to supplement current teaching materials. If you are teaching about primary sources, be sure to share that part of this website. Students can search by region: Africa, The Americas, East Asia, Europe, Mid-East/North Africa, Russia, South Asia, or Southeast Asia. Information on this site is written at a very high level. Use this with gifted and AP students as a source for research information or extended lessons in current content.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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For Girls In Science - Loreal
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4 to 12
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This website is for girls to learn about STEM careers and the various research and educational opportunities that exist for them. Famous women in STEM careers and other prominent women...more
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This website is for girls to learn about STEM careers and the various research and educational opportunities that exist for them. Famous women in STEM careers and other prominent women are a focus of this site. Learn about great STEM careers and how STEM impacts much of our world. Watch and learn from others, view video clips, take challenges, learn about careers, and more. Some of the videos are hosted on YouTube. If your district blocks YouTube, then they may not be viewable. You could always view the videos at home and bring them to class "on a stick" to share. Use a tool such as KeepVid reviewed here to download the videos from YouTube.
tag(s): engineering (69), STEM (27), women (88)
In the Classroom
Use this site when researching science careers and scientists to be sure to give women their turn and to inspire another generation of female scientists. Share the video clips on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use this site during Women's history month. Challenge your students to learn more about present-day famous women in STEM careers and create their own interactive books. Have students use Page Flip-Flap (reviewed here) to turn their Word documents, PDFs, and images into an online book, There is even a page-turning effect!
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Trace Effects - U.S. Department of State
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7 to 12
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The U.S. Department of State designed this interactive game to help ESL/ELL learners to learn American English. However, many non-ESL/ELL students could greatly benefit (and enjoy)...more
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The U.S. Department of State designed this interactive game to help ESL/ELL learners to learn American English. However, many non-ESL/ELL students could greatly benefit (and enjoy) this highly interactive experience and look at U.S. culture. Download Unity Player to begin. Registration is free, but does require an email address. Begin your mission with Trace, a teen back in time from the year 2045. Help Trace return to his regular time by completing several challenges. Trace must follow directions (called objectives) on each screen. He travels to 8 separate locations around the U.S. Learn about entrepreneurship, community activism, empowering women, science and innovation, environmental conservation, and conflict resolution. Travel to Kansas, New Orleans, the Grand Canyon, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Complete 28 practice activities. You will also find 4 multi-player practice challenges, 7 graphic novels for extension activities, and an American English dictionary integration activity. The game is so involved, that you will not even realize that you are also learning English.
tag(s): communities (24), conflict resolution (4), conservation (115), cross cultural understanding (63), women (88)
In the Classroom
This site offers a window on American culture that you can use in comparing cultures. It is a great way to engage ESL/ELL teens as they practice English skills. Since the State Department created it, an AP Civics or Government class might even want to critique or discuss its portrayal of U.S. culture. Have ESL/ELL students work on individual laptops and explore this site alone or with a partner. Provide this link for students to access both in and out of the classroom. Challenge your students to collaboratively write the dialogue for an additional visit Trace might make to a community near you using Google Docs/Drive reviewed here. Your more technologically savvy students may like to create another version of a Trace visit to go along with the dialog! In a world language class, have students work collaboratively to create a visit to a cultural site using this game as a model.
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Timelines.TV - Timelines.TV
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6 to 12
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This British site marries the interactive timeline with the video clip to create a historical resource that has a strong visual impact. Although the focus is on British history, there...more
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This British site marries the interactive timeline with the video clip to create a historical resource that has a strong visual impact. Although the focus is on British history, there are also timelines focused on the American West, and the history of pandemic smallpox. A number of the British timelines have applications for the study of world history: Shakespeare, the Industrial Revolution, Women's Suffrage, and more. Access a timeline and then view short video clips designed to explain or enrich your understanding of events or trends along the line. There is a message board. At the time of this review, all content was appropriate. However, you may want to preview that area or advise your students to steer clear of the message boards.
tag(s): diseases (52), gold rush (15), great britain (11), industrial revolution (17), native americans (48), shakespeare (136), timelines (44), westward expansion (15), womens suffrage (10)
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Timeline.TV is tailor made for classrooms with interactive whiteboards (or projectors). The video clips generally run between five and ten minutes, so are a perfect reinforcement for classroom lecture or for outside reading. If you are running a "flipped" classroom, ask students to access the timelines at home, knowing that the presentations will help expand understanding of concepts to be discussed in class. There is also a mobile and tablet version of this resource. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create their own timelines on a topic not highlighted at this site. Use a tool such as Capzles (reviewed here).
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The Victorians - Learn to Work Like a Historian - The National Archives - United Kingdom
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6 to 12
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Use sources to investigate the past at this website offered by the National Archives of the United Kingdom. View videos explaining how to think about historic artifacts and try studying...more
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Use sources to investigate the past at this website offered by the National Archives of the United Kingdom. View videos explaining how to think about historic artifacts and try studying items on your own. Take notes to save and use along the way. Topics include Queen Victoria, childhood, women, the Great Exhibition, the British Empire, and Local History. The site contains an extensive group of resources for teachers embedded in each section. Teacher resources include lesson notes, how to use resources, and historical source captions and notes. In addition, each unit has a downloadable pack of assets for use with an interactive whiteboard.
tag(s): britain (31), careers (93), england (51), great britain (11), victorian (18), women (88)
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View this site and the videos together as a class on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) as part of career days. Use this site as an introduction to history and how research is completed, or as part of your studies of England or the Victorian Era. Have students watch on their own and complete notes as they view the videos and information. Break the site up into portions and assign to different groups of students. Have students create a multimedia presentation using ed.Voicethread reviewed here. This site allows you to narrate a picture. Challenge students to upload a copyright-safe photo, and then narrate as if it were a news report.
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A Mighty Girl - Carolyn Danckaert and Aaron Smith
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K to 12
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Are you looking for materials portraying strong females? If so, this site is a great resource to find books, movies, toys, and music that portray strong, confident, female characters....more
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Are you looking for materials portraying strong females? If so, this site is a great resource to find books, movies, toys, and music that portray strong, confident, female characters. Choose from the "best of" lists to find top Asian Pacific or Latino mighty girls among other specific categories. Filter books by categories such as age, award winners, social issues, and language. Many picture books are also featured, making this a site even the youngest students can use. Visit the Character Collection link to learn about various famous females and books available about each character. Be aware: much of this site features items for sale. You may want to use this site solely for finding topic ideas, strong/famous women for research and sharing, and literature to locate in your local library.
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tag(s): biographies (31), book lists (81), cross cultural understanding (63), literature (210), women (88), womens suffrage (10)
In the Classroom
Choose from books included on this site for classroom use portraying strong female role models. Share with parents through your website for use at home when choosing books, movies, and toys. After reading two books, compare characters using an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram (reviewed here). Create a visual comparison of two strong female characters.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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History Tools - David Voelker
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8 to 12
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History Tools shares many resources for the study of American History. Choose from Historical Sources Online, an online Handout Library, and student projects. Historical Sources Online...more
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History Tools shares many resources for the study of American History. Choose from Historical Sources Online, an online Handout Library, and student projects. Historical Sources Online contains texts in chronological order from 1600-present. Selections include letters from Thomas Jefferson, Gloria Steinem's testimony on the Equal Rights Amendment, and Edgar Allen Poe poems. The Handout Library links to the author's Delicious account. There are several ready-made handouts including an essay rubric and "how to" participate in class discussions.
tag(s): american flag (10), american revolution (52), branches of government (28), civil rights (77), civil war (113), colonial america (89), colonization (12), darwin (10), kennedy (10), lincoln (75), poetry (193), religions (38), slavery (56), washington (26), womens suffrage (10)
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Bookmark and save for use with American History units. Use online source documents in addition to materials currently used in class. Allow students to explore the online documents; then have students create a "word cloud" of key terms from any document using a site such as Tagul reviewed here. Post the clouds on your bulletin board for visual "review." Use the author's essay rubric and class participation information with your class for assessment and participation guidelines.
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Zinn Education Project - Zinn Education Project
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6 to 12
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The Zinn Education Project provides teaching resources as a part of its effort to offer an alternative to traditional methods of teaching history. Inspired by the work of Howard Zinn,...more
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The Zinn Education Project provides teaching resources as a part of its effort to offer an alternative to traditional methods of teaching history. Inspired by the work of Howard Zinn, the site and its resources come from a clearly progressive point of view and focus heavily on issues of social justice. Understand there is a political agenda here. The website offers both lesson plans and other teaching materials and a bibliography of related books and other non-web-based resources. In order to access the teaching materials, you must register on the site.
tag(s): civil rights (77), hispanic (15), women (88)
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If you are looking for additional teaching materials that focus on issues of social justice, or which provide information from a progressive point of view, you can search by time period or theme (i.e. African American, LGBT, War and Anti-War, or Latino). The teaching materials are in PDF format you can download once you log in. Language arts teachers will find the articles here great for nonfiction reading and terrific as discussion starters!
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The HTML5 Gendered Advertising Remixer - Jonathan McIntosh
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6 to 12
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Do advertisers market to boys and girls differently? The answer is obvious: Yes! Beyond that, how does that affect children's development and society in general? This site does not...more
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Do advertisers market to boys and girls differently? The answer is obvious: Yes! Beyond that, how does that affect children's development and society in general? This site does not offer a specific answer to those questions, but can make distinctions between boy-girl-centric advertising painfully clear. It is a simple concept: run the audio portion of an ad targeting boys under the video of an ad targeted to girls, or vice versa. Then consider what this "mashup" now communicates. The directions ask you to drag and drop icons; do not drag them to the big open box in the center of the page. Instead, drop one ad on the "audio" icon, and the other ad on the "video" icon; the mashup plays in the middle. If you go to the home page for the project, there are other "mashups" available focused on certain kinds of toys and advertising. You can view in either HTML 5 or Flash.
tag(s): advertising (22), consumers (16), media literacy (20), psychology (39), sociology (16), women (88)
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One of the truisms about analyzing culture is that it is difficult to see the impact of cultural norms and practices from the inside. Students will probably agree that advertising targets boys differently than girls, but they may have serious difficulty considering what impact it has had on them. This site may help them see the subtle messages in advertising, and how those messages constrain or empower them. Project the mashups on an interactive whiteboard and then ask students how the audio changes the message on the video portion. Reverse the two and ask the same question. What does this say about the girls' gender roles? What does this say about boys' gender roles? What does this say about the impact of play on learning adult roles? Have student groups create digital "collections" of examples of gender-targeted ads using a tool such as Evernote (reviewed herehttp://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=10550) or turn them into mosaics of ad images using Mosaic Maker (reviewed here). Note: Since students are specifically studying advertising and critiquing the ads, it would not be a copyright violation to add images as part of a media project to illustrate gender targeting.Comments
This is fascinating but somewhat difficult to know how to use. A rich resource. I found the key to making it usable was the list of questions for discussion which are here: http://www.genderremixer.com/curriculum/Sandra, , Grades: 0 - 5
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The Anne Frank Trust UK-Her Story, Today's World * - The Anne Frank Trust UK
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8 to 12
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Here you will find information about Anne Frank and her father. The Anne Frank Trust UK is the partner organization of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam whose mission is ...more
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Here you will find information about Anne Frank and her father. The Anne Frank Trust UK is the partner organization of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam whose mission is to draw on the power of Anne Frank's life and diary to challenge prejudice and reduce hatred, encouraging people to embrace positive attitudes, responsibility and respect for others. The Exhibitions and the Schools and Communities Projects, intended for the UK, cost money. However, the news and resources links are free to download and have valuable up-to-date information and sources to take advantage of in your classroom.
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tag(s): anne frank (11), holocaust (39), jews (17), nazis (11), remembrance day (7), women (88), world war 2 (127)
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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.
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With Liberty and Justice for All - The Henry Ford Museum
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4 to 12
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With Liberty and Justice for All is a special exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. The focus is on the American quest for equal rights, with a special ...more
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With Liberty and Justice for All is a special exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. The focus is on the American quest for equal rights, with a special emphasis on the Women's Suffrage Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. The site includes a video tour of the exhibit, an interactive timeline, a bibliography, and lesson plans with standards for grade levels between fourth grade and twelfth grade. The lesson plans presume a visit to the museum, but could be adapted fairly easily for groups who are unable to visit the museum itself.
tag(s): branches of government (28), civil rights (77), constitution (64), freedom of speech (4), womens suffrage (10)
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While the site is focused on preparing students for a visit to the Henry Ford Museum, the site provides good resources and lesson plans for the study of both the Women's Suffrage Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. The interactive timeline would be useful with an interactive whiteboard, and the questions for investigation contained in the student guides and lesson plans are powerful discussion generators regardless of where the lesson is delivered. Consider using the "Constitution IQ Test" for lessons on the government of the United States. The video tour of the exhibit also provides a "virtual field trip" experience.
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Women @ NASA - NASA
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6 to 12
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This website includes a stunning collection of over thirty videos and essays from women who contribute to NASA's mission in many different ways. The stated goal for the site is ...more
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This website includes a stunning collection of over thirty videos and essays from women who contribute to NASA's mission in many different ways. The stated goal for the site is "we hope that these stories will inspire girls everywhere to reach for the stars, and explore the myriad of opportunities available to them through pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics." Each story includes a biography, story and video about the woman highlighted. Stories include information about their background, academic degrees, and current work and future goals with NASA. The site includes a blog, Twitter feeds, and a Facebook page which you can subscribe to.
tag(s): careers (93), scientists (39), space (152), women (88)
In the Classroom
Share this site with students when researching careers or space exploration. This is a perfect site for Women's History Month! Use information from the site for students to use as a model for researching career information. Have students use a tool such as Woices (beta) (reviewed here) to put a fictitious radio news story on a woman they learned about from this site. Woices also includes map features, so be sure students share the location where their researched woman is originally from.
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Amelia Earhart - The Official Website - Family of Amelia Earhart
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6 to 12
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The Official website of Amelia Earhart is an informational website intended to honor the life, the legend, and the career of Amelia Earhart. It contains a vast amount of information...more
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The Official website of Amelia Earhart is an informational website intended to honor the life, the legend, and the career of Amelia Earhart. It contains a vast amount of information about her life and career. The most extensive part of the site is the "About" portion that contains her biography, achievements, quotes, photos, videos, and fast facts each in their own section. Another interesting portion of the site is the News section which contains links to recent stories and news articles about Amelia Earhart. There is a preview on this website pertaining to the movie Amelia, you may want to share this with your class - or not. Preview beforehand.
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tag(s): aviation (33), careers (93), famous people (14), flight (29), women (88)
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Share this site with students when researching famous Americans, women, flight, or careers. Have students use a mapping tool such as Google Earth (reviewed here) to create an audio (and visual) tour of Amelia Earhart's journeys. Her story could also offer a powerful writing prompt for an essay about people who take on formidable challenges/adventures.
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Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum - Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
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Amelia Earhart's birthplace and home in Atchison, Kansas has been turned into a museum to honor her accomplishments. Their website offers several resources geared toward showcasing...more
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Amelia Earhart's birthplace and home in Atchison, Kansas has been turned into a museum to honor her accomplishments. Their website offers several resources geared toward showcasing her life and accomplishments. Visitors to the site can take a virtual tour of the museum to visit the parlors, kitchen and other rooms of her childhood home including several original artifacts. You can visit the link entitled Amelia Earhart to read a short biography, childhood information, aviation accomplishments, fun facts, and much more. Be sure to check out the News Clips portion for actual copies of news articles about her adventures.
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Have students create an online presentation on Amelia Earhart or women in aviation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge presentation tools reviewed here. Have students create "talking pictures" as an alternative to a traditional reports using Fotobabble reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Anne Frank Guide - Anne Frank Stichting
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The site provides information about the life of Anne Frank and also enables you to see the role the United States played in the Second World War and the Holocaust. ...more
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The site provides information about the life of Anne Frank and also enables you to see the role the United States played in the Second World War and the Holocaust. This online guide, which can be viewed in almost twenty different languages, helps students create a project or prepare a talk. The Timeline gives an overview of the most important events in the life of Anne Frank and the Second World War. The Search function is a valuable tool that allows you to type in a word and see what sections of the site contains that word, so you get all the information in one place. Although you must register to use the online project maker, you can view images and information about a variety of themes related to the holocaust and World War II by just clicking on the topic or images, without having to log in.
tag(s): anne frank (11), holocaust (39), jews (17), nazis (11), remembrance day (7), women (88), world war 2 (127)
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You can use this online guide in a variety of ways ranging from simplistic to complex. It can give you project ideas, and you can collect relevant information and images on a variety of related themes, such as persecution and the liberation and aftermath, right from this site. Use this site for research and challenge your students to use a site such as TimeRime reviewed here to create and share interactive timelines. Have students or student groups create an online, interactive poster known as a "glog," using GlogsterEDU, reviewed here. Students must register to start an online project, which allows them to save all the information they have collected, so that they may come back and continue their work from where they left off. Since your user name is the name that the computer recognizes you by, students can make one up, but teachers should keep a list of the fictitious log in information for future reference.
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Anne Frank Tree - Anne Frank Stichting
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The Anne Frank Tree is an interactive monument where students can write a message on a leaf in the virtual chestnut tree that Anne so often wrote about in her ...more
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The Anne Frank Tree is an interactive monument where students can write a message on a leaf in the virtual chestnut tree that Anne so often wrote about in her diary. Unlike the real tree that Anne Frank often looked at from the attic window, the students' leaves in the virtual tree will live on forever to keep her ideals alive and represent how they have been inspired by Anne's life story. Your leaf can be written and read in 5 languages other than English, (French, Italian, Spanish, Deutsch, and Nederland). An email address is required to write the messages.
tag(s): anne frank (11), holocaust (39), jews (17), nazis (11), remembrance day (7), women (88), world war 2 (127)
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Give your students a vehicle to reinforce Anne Frank's wish to make a lasting impact on others, to make the world a better place, and to go on living after her death. This site offers a means for students to put emotional closure on their feelings by giving them an opportunity to express their thoughts in writing, after reading about the history of Anne Frank or her diary, and emphasizes that her spirit lives on through the millions of people she has touched all over the world. You can view other leaves that have been left on the tree and search for classmates' leaves.Students must enter an email address to post their leaf. If you plan to have students register individually, you may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how to set up GMail subaccounts to use for any online membership service.
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Biographies of Women Mathematicians - Agnes Scott College
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These pages are part of an on-going project at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. The site includes...more
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These pages are part of an on-going project at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. The site includes biographical essays or comments on the women mathematicians profiled, as well as additional resources about women in mathematics. Each time the home page is reloaded, a randomly selected photo is displayed. Click on the image to go to the profile of that woman. The site is also searchable by alphabetical order, chronological order, names by location of birth, the first PhD's in Mathematics of Women before 1930, and prizes, honors and awards for women mathematicians.
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Share this site with students as a resource when writing biographies of famous mathematicians (or women's history.) Share one woman mathematician on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) each day as students arrive in class. Use this site in history class to locate and research famous mathematicians alive during the time period being studied. Challenge students to research one of these famous women and create 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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