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return to subject listingMpala Live! - Mpala Research Center
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): africa (142), biodiversity (34), conservation (92), ecology (102), habitats (87)
In the Classroom
Have students watch a live cam for a set period and record observations about animal behaviors, habitats, and interactions. Encourage students to note patterns, movements, and any interesting behaviors and share their observations with the class, comparing findings to discuss the diversity of animal behaviors. After learning about the endangered species featured on Mpala Live!, students can design their own wildlife conservation campaigns. Students can research an animal they watch on the live cam and make a presentation using Genially, reviewed here with their findings.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Short History Of... - Paul McGann and John Hopkins
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6 to 12tag(s): africa (142), american revolution (82), artists (82), authors (105), churchill (8), colonial america (94), colonization (21), d day (11), dickens (9), dinosaurs (41), disasters (37), diseases (69), england (51), explorers (66), great depression (30), greece (28), india (25), industrial revolution (22), korea (20), lincoln (65), listening (92), martin luther king (45), native americans (95), olympics (41), pearl harbor (14), podcasts (103), presidents (133), pyramids (18), renaissance (38), rome (23), roosevelt (15), rosa parks (9), russia (35), shakespeare (95), st patricks day (12), underground railroad (15), vietnam (38), westward expansion (39), womens suffrage (46), world war 2 (161), wright brothers (16)
In the Classroom
Add this podcast to supplement your current list of history resources. Organize and share resources with students using Wakelet, reviewed here or Padlet, reviewed here. Wakelet and Padlet offer tools that make it easy for students to collaborate and share information. Enhance learning by sharing a podcast as an introduction to a new unit and asking students to discuss what they learn. Consider using Project Zero's Thinking Routine Toolbox, Padlet, reviewed here to encourage student understanding and develop critical thinking skills. For example, the Step-in, Step-out, And step-back routine can help students view people and events from different perspectives. Extend student learning by asking them to develop a script and share a podcast as a final assessment of your unit using a free tool such as Buzzsprout, reviewed here or Spotify for Podcastors, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World History 2 - Crash Course
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6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): africa (142), world war 1 (78), world war 2 (161)
In the Classroom
After watching the video series, students can pick a historical period that they would like to time-travel to and explain why. They can debate which period of world history had the most impact. Use an online debate tool such as Kialo Edu reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World History - Crash Course
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6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): agriculture (48), renaissance (38), world war 1 (78)
In the Classroom
After watching the video series, the students can pick a historical period they would like to time-travel to and explain why. Students can debate which period of world history was the most impactful. Create a virtual bulletin board for an online debate using Padlet, reviewed here. Turn on the commenting features so students can comment on other students' posts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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History of Science - Crash Course
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5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): brain (56), computers (109), ecology (102), electricity (62), genetics (81), medieval (32), scientific method (48), scientists (63)
In the Classroom
After watching a of Crash Course History of Science episode, students can create a living museum highlighting famous scientists. Students can research more about the time that each video takes place. Students can debate which scientific "event" was the most important to shaping our world.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Nelson Mandela and South Africa - Teacher's Guide - Edsitement
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8 to 12tag(s): 20th century (62), black history (130), civil rights (200), heroes (25), Nelson Mandela (7), south africa (13)
In the Classroom
Include this guide with your other resources when teaching lessons about Nelson Mandela, Black History, or South Africa. Use Wakelet, reviewed here, to curate resources and videos. When sharing articles that contain difficult reading selections, use Read Ahead, reviewed here to transform the text into a Guided Reading activity that includes a focus on keywords and vocabulary found in the text.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Nelson Mandela - Fought for All Children - The World's Children Prize
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K to 10tag(s): 20th century (62), black history (130), civil rights (200), heroes (25), Nelson Mandela (7), south africa (13)
In the Classroom
Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector as an introduction to your Civil Rights, Black History, or Heroes unit. To allow students to explore on their own, you may want to create a guided reading activity using Read Ahead, reviewed here. Enhance learning by having students create an infographic using Free Infographic Maker, reviewed here about Nelson Mandela's life using this article and others.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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National Geographic Education - National Geographic Education
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K to 12tag(s): africa (142), amazon (11), animals (288), antarctica (30), anthropology (10), australia (29), biodiversity (34), birds (46), cells (83), climate (83), climate change (93), conservation (92), constitution (89), continents (32), countries (73), diseases (69), earth (186), earthquakes (45), egypt (49), engineering (126), erosion (15), explorers (66), fish (18), hurricanes (33), mammals (23), migration (45), molecules (44), moon (73), natural disasters (16), natural resources (38), nutrition (137), oceans (149), plants (148), pollution (51), population (48), religions (85), reproduction (7), reptiles (12), romans (36), slavery (78), sociology (24), solar system (109), space (216), volcanoes (56), weather (161), world war 2 (161)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site as a resource to supplement your current curriculum. Share interactives and videos with students by bookmarking them on classroom computers or using a curation tool such as Symbaloo, reviewed here when sharing several resources. Enhance student learning when watching videos using Playposit, reviewed here to add questions, text, and additional media. Upon completing your unit, ask students to share their understanding of the content by creating concept maps using a visual organization tool such as Circlyapp, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kente Cloth Lesson Plan - William Kodzo
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K to 12tag(s): africa (142), black history (130), clothing (4), cross cultural understanding (165), cultures (145)
In the Classroom
Students can create a digital story or a short documentary using a movie program like Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed here to narrate a story or a theme represented in a specific Kente pattern they choose from the website. Students can study the geometric patterns in Kente designs on the website and then use a tool like GeoGebra to create similar geometric patterns, exploring concepts like symmetry, shapes, and tessellation. They can use the website to explore different Kente cloth designs and then use a drawing app like Tux Paint, reviewed here to create their own digital Kente patterns, focusing on the colors and geometric shapes. After exploring the history section on Kentecloth.net, students can create a multimedia presentation using Google Slides, reviewed here or Microsoft PowerPoint Online, reviewed here detailing the origin, evolution, and cultural importance of Kente cloth.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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History Maps - Nono Umasy
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7 to 12tag(s): american revolution (82), china (62), civil war (136), explorers (66), japan (56), maps (207), medieval (32), religions (85), russia (35), south america (39), timelines (56), vietnam (38), world war 1 (78), world war 2 (161)
In the Classroom
Share these maps and information on your whiteboard during classroom discussions as a visual tool for students to understand the geographic location of events and use it to provide context for relationships between different events. As students study history, ask them to create interactive timelines using Timeline JS, reviewed here, which includes images, videos, and documents to detail events. Extend learning by asking groups of students to create presentations using different multimedia tools to provide an overall understanding of the content. For example, ask one group to create a timeline and another to create an interactive map using Zeemaps, reviewed here, and have another group use Adobe Express Free Video Maker, reviewed here, to create a video presentation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Felt - Interactive Map Creator - felt.com
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K to 12tag(s): map skills (56), maps (207)
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Visualizing data and creating maps just became easier for teachers and students. Help your students understand current events worldwide by creating a map and embedding it on your classroom website or learning management system. For example, use maps in science to track migration patterns, explore climates, or map weather events. Teachers of students aged 13+ years can have students create and edit maps in real-time from anywhere. Build upon your student's knowledge by adding layers to your maps to show new information. Teachers of younger students can create maps for student viewing to map a story or show animal habitats.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Gold Road Project - Howard University Center for African Studies
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8 to 12In the Classroom
Introduce this map to students as you begin your studies of medieval Africa. Allow them time to explore the map independently, then share ideas and questions created from their explorations. Use Google Jamboard, reviewed here, to gather students' thoughts. For example, within one Jamboard, create frames (slides) for students to post questions, another for important information found, and another for comparisons between medieval Africa and contemporary Africa. Extend learning by asking students to share their understanding by creating maps made with Google My Maps, reviewed here. Use Google My Maps to create virtual field trips that feature links, images, and videos to tell the story of Africa.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Africa in the K-16 Classroom Online Resources - Boston University African Studies Center
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K to 12tag(s): africa (142), continents (32), countries (73)
In the Classroom
Add this excellent site to your other resources for teaching about the continent of Africa. Consider using a curation tool such as Milanote, reviewed here, to organize your ideas and projects into one location. Add links, notes, images, and more onto one Milanote vision board to make it easy to find and view your resources and ideas. As you implement and teach lessons found on the site, ask students to share their learning using multimedia presentation tools such as Sway, reviewed here, and Adobe Express for Education, reviewed here. Find culturally appropriate images for student use at Fresh Folk, reviewed here, and Unsplash, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Georgia Virtual Learning Shared Resources - Georgia Virtual Learning
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5 to 12tag(s): art history (89), body systems (41), business (51), chinese (44), drawing (60), environment (246), financial literacy (89), french (75), geology (64), japanese (47), latin (22), literature (219), music theory (45), myths and legends (24), narrative (15), novels (32), nutrition (137), oceans (149), OER (43), photography (118), plagiarism (33), poetry (191), psychology (67), robotics (23), romeo & juliet (7), short stories (18), sociology (24), space (216), spanish (107), STEM (279), writers workshop (31)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site as a supplemental resource for your current lessons, as a resource for students to learn about subjects not covered in their current courses, and to differentiate learning for students. For example, provide remediation to high school students by sharing the 9th or 10th-grade literature and composition courses as a review activity or enhance your British Literature unit by assigning a module that focuses specifically on 17th, 18th, or 19th-century British literature. Consider assigning different activities to groups of students to present to their peers. Ask them to use an infographic creator such as the Canva Infographic Creator, reviewed here, as a tool for sharing important information. As a final learning extension, create a digital class book using Ourboox, reviewed here, to share understanding of the content learned. Include text, images, maps, and more in the student-created books.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Tales from the Griots - The Mali Empire - TeachersFirst
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6 to 12tag(s): africa (142)
In the Classroom
Use the ideas and resources found in this article to enhance your lessons on ancient civilizations or provide information for a new teaching unit. In addition to the suggestions already seen on the article, consider using technology tools to help students curate resources, organize information, and share their learning. Wakelet, reviewed here, is an excellent tool for curating resources into shareable collections. Use Wakelet individually or collaboratively when working on research projects. Use CirclyApp, reviewed here, as a graphic organizer to help students understand and compare the Mali Empire with other civilizations. CirclyApp is an excellent visual tool that includes several useful templates to compare and contrast information easily. As students prepare to share their learning, consider the options found at Genially, reviewed here, for students to create interactive presentations, infographics, charts, and more. Resources correlate to ISTE and AASL National School Library Standards.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Open-Ended Social Studies - Thomas Kenning
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6 to 12tag(s): 1600s (20), 1700s (36), 1800s (75), 20th century (62), american revolution (82), civil war (136), colonial america (94), colonization (21), gettysburg (15), gettysburg address (11), native americans (95), OER (43), washington (28), westward expansion (39)
In the Classroom
This site is an excellent addition to any middle or high school social studies curriculum. Bookmark this site to include with your other lesson resources. Use individual lessons to supplement your lessons through a new viewpoint since many of the tasks encourage students to think of history through the eyes of a traveler. Each lesson begins with a series of focus questions to keep in mind throughout the article. Engage students in learning and provide support for focusing on important information using Read Ahead, reviewed here. This handy tool lets you transform any text into a guided reading activity that highlights critical components of the text. As students collaborate on learning activities, enhance learning by using Notejoy, reviewed here, as a collaborative note-taking tool. Ask students to add the preview questions listed before the lesson and any other focus points, then share ideas and responses in Notejoy throughout the reading and discussions of the content. As a final learning extension, ask students to use Open-Ended Social Studies as a model for telling history through the eyes of a storyteller or from the perspective of one location. Use Vizzio, reviewed here, to create interactive timelines using animated maps. Include text descriptions, images, and videos as part of your interactive timelines.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World History Encyclopedia - World History Foundation
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6 to 12tag(s): china (62), climate change (93), colonial america (94), egypt (49), explorers (66), greeks (32), japan (56), maps (207), medieval (32), primary sources (119), religions (85), romans (36), slavery (78), vikings (10), women (140)
In the Classroom
This site is a must-have for any history teacher. First, bookmark the site for students to use as a multimedia encyclopedia and media resource. Then, include it with your other teaching resources to find engaging classroom lessons. Have students use the images on this site when creating presentations (using proper attribution, of course). Enhance student learning by having them use Genially, reviewed here, an excellent tool for students to use to create interactive and multimedia presentations. Have students add images to presentations, then create "hotspots" that link to outside resources such as videos, articles, or student-created texts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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WisdomMaps - Terrence Monroe
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9 to 12tag(s): american revolution (82), asia (72), central america (18), ethics (21), greece (28), industrial revolution (22), north america (14), religions (85), renaissance (38), romans (36), south america (39)
In the Classroom
Share WisdomMaps with students as a blended learning activity by allowing students to explore a shared map before discussing ideas together as a class. Provide a collaborative Google Jamboard, reviewed here, and ask students to add sticky notes with information discovered through their exploration. Consider either creating columns for information found and another for questions that need further exploration. Use the WisdomMaps found on this site as a model for students to create maps using MindMeister, reviewed here, that correlate with your current classroom curriculum.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World History for Us All - Public History Iniative, Department of History, UCLA
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7 to 12tag(s): africa (142), asia (72), cold war (31), environment (246), europe (77), greeks (32), industrial revolution (22), migration (45), north america (14), population (48), religions (85), south america (39), world war 1 (78), world war 2 (161)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site to use in whole as your history curriculum or use parts of lessons to supplement your current instruction. Collaborate with your peers to modify and adjust information in these units to suit your needs. If using Microsoft Word, share your document with peers and add highlights and comments as you adjust the unit. If using the PDF version, use the tools found at SmallPDF, reviewed here, to annotate, merge with your current materials, or convert to another format. As you use this curriculum to view the world from a global perspective, use Google Earth, reviewed here, to create a collaborative project by adding markers to areas around the world to create virtual tours of historic events told through the lens of different locations and perspectives.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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BlackPast - BlackPast.org
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6 to 12tag(s): african american (110), biographies (95), branches of government (64), civil rights (200), inventors and inventions (77), journalism (72), racism (79), sports (81), STEM (279)
In the Classroom
BlackPast is a must-have for any social studies classroom. Bookmark this resource to use when learning about Black history, African-American biographies, important events, and more. Consider creating a Padlet, reviewed here, to save different articles from BlackPast for students to easily access specific information. Use the shelf option to divide your Padlet into sections by date, topic, or events. Padlet also has a timeline feature when creating biographies or highlighting important dates within a specific time. Ask students to create blogs using Edublogs, reviewed here, to share information learned from this site. As students prepare to "show what they know," modify their technology use by asking them to use Sway, reviewed here, as a presentation tool and include images, videos, and student writing to share their learning.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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