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Random Acts of Kindness - Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
Grades
K to 12tag(s): classroom management (147), emotions (39), service projects (22)
In the Classroom
Become a "RAKTIVIST" and start a kindness raid on unsuspecting communities, classes, or schools! Give children power and voice through their actions. Partner this with character education programs to make a difference in all the lives you touch. During social studies, find ways kindness has changed the world. Look for times in which kindness was thwarted, such as during civil wars, dictatorships, or wars. Start a research project on world leaders who have changed the world through nonviolence, education, or generosity. Explain the power of nonprofit organizations and all the lives affected. Look into your own community and school to find needs that are waiting for active, caring participants. Create school or classroom rules to promote the power of kindness. Show your students how to embed media transforming their work and challenge students to create "kindness" commercials and share their learning with their peers in a multimedia presentation using Adobe Spark for K-12 , reviewed here. Alternatively, students could create a video using Typito, reviewed here. Share them using a tool such as SchoolTube, reviewed here. Emotional Support or Autistic Support teachers may find some of the ideas here helpful for talking about how others feel and ways to show kindness in a very deliberate way.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Giza 3D - Dassault Systemes
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): architecture (84), egypt (62), pyramids (28)
In the Classroom
View this site in the classroom using a projector or interactive whiteboard. View the reconstruction of these artifacts from information collected during its discovery. Use the 3D tour to view the Necropolis, join a guided tour of the monuments, and look at the collected objects reconstructed from the site. Bring the history of Egypt to life. This is a powerful tool to show the role of Archaeology in reconstructing history. Compare this site to the work of archaeologists at Jamestown or other historic locations to talk about different techniques of science used to reveal history.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Historical Marker Database - HMdb.org
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5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): 20th century (49), american revolution (85), anthropology (12), civil rights (121), civil war (140), disasters (43), explorers (69), heroes (24), hispanic (13), labor day (5), native americans (78), natural disasters (21), natural resources (57), vietnam (34), war of 1812 (15), world war 1 (56), world war 2 (141)
In the Classroom
Use the Historical Marker Database to find information and locations of important events near your hometown or relating to any area of study. For example, choose the Civil Rights link to find markers noting important events related to Civil Rights. Then have students enhance their learning and create a simple infographic sharing their findings. Use Easel.ly, reviewed here. Have students create maps using Animaps (reviewed here). Students can add text, images, and location stops! Transform learning by having students create timelines of historic events near your school; use Timeline JS, reviewed here. Timeline JS also offers the option to upload and add photos, videos, audio, Tweets, and Google Maps making it interactive.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The State Hermitage Museum - State Hermitage Museum
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6 to 12tag(s): artists (78), DAT device agnostic tool (179), medieval (26), museums (44), religions (68), russia (34), virtual field trips (55)
In the Classroom
View exhibits and information together with your class on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Allow students to explore the site on their own. Have students create a timeline of artworks and more using Timeglider, reviewed here. Challenge students to create a presentation using Prezi, reviewed here. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms (or people) they learn about the Hermitage using a tool such as Wordle, reviewed here, or WordItOut, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Truman S. Library: Idealogical Foundations of the Cold War - The Truman Library
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): cold war (30), europe (71), primary sources (91), russia (34)
In the Classroom
While much of what you find here will be useful for your own lesson planning, the photograph archive will be useful for images related to the Cold War era. Some of the documents could be printed and used for small group discussions or analysis. Consider referring students who are doing research for a National History Day project to this resource. Challenge students to research the information shared at this site and create blogs as Cold War personalities. If you are beginning the process of integrating technology, have students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Loose Leaves, reviewed here. This blog creator requires no registration.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cosmo Learning - CosmoLearning.com
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6 to 12tag(s): anthropology (12), archeology (31), architecture (84), business (57), engineering (134), environment (321), geology (76), german (63), marine biology (36), medicine (66), paleontology (38), politics (102), psychology (64), religions (68), sociology (22)
In the Classroom
Use materials from Cosmo Learning as part of any unit or lesson plan. Use materials on the site for flipped lessons or share with gifted learners as an enhancement to current course content. Using the flipped classroom format is helpful if YouTube is blocked at your school. Share lessons on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Teachers of gifted can share this with their students whose interests fall outside typical school curriculum to encourage independent study or projects. Provide the link to this site on your class wiki or website for students (and families) to access anytime.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Have Fun With History - havefunwithhistory.com
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4 to 12tag(s): 1900s (39), aircraft (25), american flag (10), american revolution (85), artists (78), bill of rights (28), civil rights (121), civil war (140), colonial america (107), flags (22), industrial revolution (26), kennedy (25), lincoln (81), martin luther king (35), native americans (78), pearl harbor (13), railroads (11), slavery (66), space (230), thanksgiving (33), underground railroad (11), war of 1812 (15), world war 1 (56), world war 2 (141)
In the Classroom
Mark this one in your favorites for use with almost any history unit. Your visual learners will find history more understandable using the video and interactive options. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as Wordle, reviewed here. Share links to specific videos on your class website or blog for students to view at home. Have students create timelines using Timeline JS, reviewed here. Timeline JS offers the option to upload and add photos, videos, audio, Tweets, and Google Maps making it interactive. . Have students use Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about a person in a video.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ArtsAlive.ca French Theatre - National Arts Centre
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): acting (24), architecture (84), design (88), plays (32), producers (8), shakespeare (110)
In the Classroom
Use a projector or interactive whiteboard to present this site to students of drama, English, history, art, or architecture students. Make theater more accessible in your literature class by letting students investigate an aspect of interest to them. History teachers may want to introduce the history of theatre and divide the students into small groups to investigate a specific time period. Have the groups create timelines using Timeline JS, reviewed here. Timeline JS offers the option to upload and add photos, videos, audio, Tweets, and Google Maps making it interactive., to share with the class. Art and design teachers may want to present the sections for design and architecture and then change to the sister site, Arts Alive.ca English Theatre, reviewed here, to learn even more about these theater professions. English and drama teachers could focus on the basics of theater vocabulary, genres, and the various stages of a theater production. Use the French version of this site (click top right) for articles to explore in advanced French classes, perhaps before staging a short play in French.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Here is Today - Whitevinyl
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1 to 12tag(s): 20th century (49), calendars (45), cells (101), earth (227), geologic time (10), timelines (57)
In the Classroom
View on your interactive whiteboard or projector to help students visualize and gain perspective of events over time. Here is Today would be great to use when studying dinosaurs, in biology class, in Earth science or geology units, or just as part of a philosophical discussion on the world today. This is a great tool to share with students where "our time" fits into the continuum of the earth's 'life." This site could be used with younger students as well. Share the easier concepts (day, month, year) visually during your calendar math lessons. Extend the concept of proportionality by having older math students create simple visual timelines to scale showing their own life vs the life of the United States and other major, longer periods.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CurriConnects Book List: Childhood Here and There - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): book lists (129), cross cultural understanding (127), independent reading (123)
In the Classroom
Include these books for independent reading during a unit on world cultures, in a guidance class about differences, or in a reading unit about drawing inferences. Spark discussions about what we assume is "normal" and what we should realize about our own upbringing. The conversations will easily evolve into projects where students can compare and contrast or create "profiles" of childhood in different places and cultures.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Nazi and East German Propaganda Guide Page - Randall Bytwerk
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): germany (26), history day (24), holocaust (41), nazis (10), primary sources (91), propaganda (11), world war 2 (141)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site for use throughout your World War Two unit. Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Challenge students to find examples of the Allies' use of propaganda and exchange paper and pen by using an online tool such as Canva, reviewed here, to create diagrams, mindmaps, and other visual graphic organizers comparing the uses of propaganda. Enhance learning by having students create a word cloud of the propaganda terms they learn from this site using a tool such as Wordle, reviewed here, or WordItOut, reviewed here. Save this one in your favorites to suggest if you have students who need primary sources projects for National History Day.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sepia Town: From Here to Then - Sepia Town
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): cities (27), images (279), map skills (80), maps (292), photography (155)
In the Classroom
This site is perfect for your projector or interactive whiteboard. Studying the Battle of Gettysburg? Access a photograph of Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address simply by searching for Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Wondering what your town or state looked like 50 or 100 years ago? See what images have been uploaded for places near you. Taking a field trip? Compare the "Then/Now" views and find the actual spot the photograph was taken and from what vantage point. Wondering what a famous person in history saw when she looked out her window or travelled around her town? Check to see what Sepia Town images are available for that time period or geographic area. How have cities grown and changed over the past 100 years? What factors lead to those changes? What do you see in the images that you would not see today? A horse drawn delivery truck? What don't you see? Power lines? Sepia Town is one of those sites that can simply be enjoyed by accessing random views and using those images as a platform for discussion or discovery. Be sure to include this when learning about local or state history! Ask students to explore and list the changes they find to bring back and share with the class. Students can take screenshots of the same site at two different time periods and put them onto a presentation slide they can explain orally or put them on a class wiki along with an explanation of how and why things have changed.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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History Hunt - St Albans Museums
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6 to 12tag(s): britain (35), medieval (26), romans (35), victorian (20)
In the Classroom
Play History Hunt together on your interactive whiteboard or projector as you learn about Britain, Roman times, Medieval times, or European history. Allow students to play on laptops. Be sure to share a link on your class web page for students to play at home. Have students use Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about one of the figures found during the History Hunt. Have students create a timeline using Timeglider, reviewed here. Use this prototype for student groups to create a choose-your-own-adventure style interactive history of other locations with questions to solve using a tool such as inklewriter, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Edspire - Jim Moodie
Grades
11 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): advanced placement (25), learning styles (20)
In the Classroom
Use this resource to learn information to increase your knowledge and extend learning beyond the textbook. Link to this site from your gifted resource page. Gifted students will find a great variety of courses and materials in many fields and interests that can stretch their learning past the High School level. If you teach an AP class in your school, encourage students to find a passion related to your class. If possible, create an assignment where students choose their area of interest, take a course related to it (many courses are only 4 hours in length), and present material to the rest of the class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Worldcrunch - All News Is Global - Jeff Israely and Irene Toporkoff
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): cross cultural understanding (127), DAT device agnostic tool (179), journalism (57), media literacy (66), news (258), newspapers (98)
In the Classroom
Share with your students to show them different perspectives on world events. This site would also provide contrasting texts for close reading as required by Common Core. Use an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram (reviewed here) to compare and contrast coverage between two newspapers. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here after reading and comparing many different articles. Build student awareness of the limited view provided by some publications, especially during times of international tension. Explore this site during Newspaper in Education Week or as part of a unit on the basics and nuances of journalistic writing. World language teachers can use newspapers to teach about both language and culture. Have world cultures or social studies students learn about local culture through advertisements and articles and share their findings using a screencast (or screenshots) of the newspaper and talking about their discoveries. Use a free tool like Screencast-o-matic, reviewed here, or Screencastify (Chrome app), reviewed here, to create screencasts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Library of Congress American Memory - Library of Congress
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4 to 12tag(s): advertising (33), african american (106), architecture (84), branches of government (53), cities (27), conservation (122), cultures (111), environment (321), immigration (61), industrialization (14), literature (264), maps (292), native americans (78), north america (18), presidents (124), religions (68), sports (97), women (99)
In the Classroom
Use American Memory in your study of either state, or United States history providing further primary and secondary resources to bring life into your subject matter. Discover point of view or popular opinion found in the collections. Use on your interactive whiteboard with the class, or even as a resource on projects to give a personal reference. Combine with literature for understanding of a place or time in American history. Look at the year of birth for your students to compare and contrast for today. Use as an example for your year of learning in your subject area or even grade level. Be sure to list as a resource on student computers or your class website.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The National Archives Activities and Games - The British National Archives
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1 to 12Download lessons, Resource Packs, and Podcasts. Be sure to check out the extensive section for students including games, study skill tips and advice, and information on using primary sources. Learn about important people, government officials, and heroes of the past and present such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. Explore and research famous events/times such as American Civil Rights Movement or Life During War Times. The site was created in the UK, so some of the pronunciations and spellings may differ from American English.
tag(s): dickens (10), great britain (20), heroes (24), industrial revolution (26), medieval (26), victorian (20), world war 1 (56), world war 2 (141)
In the Classroom
Keep this site in mind as an easy place to find games and lessons related to British history (and even some world history topics). Use this site as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Present the same time period, such as World War II, from a British and American point of view using this site and similar primary source images from U.S. collections like this one or this one. Have students create timelines using Timeline JS, reviewed here. Timeline JS offers the option to upload and add photos, videos, audio, Tweets, and Google Maps making it interactive.. Have students use Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about a British resident during any time periods involved with these activities. Take advantage of the ready to go lesson plans, interactives, podcasts, and videos. Literature teachers will also want to explore and share the information about British authors.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Authentic History Center - Michael Barnes
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6 to 12tag(s): 1600s (14), 1700s (29), 1800s (47), 1900s (39), 20th century (49), civil war (140), cold war (30), great depression (27), photography (155), vietnam (34), world war 1 (56), world war 2 (141)
In the Classroom
The Authentic History Center is excellent for making history real. Share this information on your projector or interactive whiteboard (or speakers) during lessons on any time period of US History. Play Bing Crosby singing "God Bless America" to help students feel the pre-WWII era or nationalism. Make the Angry era of McCarthyism real by letting student explore the collection. Include this entire collection on your class web page for students to access both in and out of class. Use the sources for students to experience a multi-sensory tour of any era in U.S. history and create their own project about it incorporating the artifacts (with proper credit) and their own explanations. You could modify student learning by having students create a simple infographic sharing their findings using Easel.ly, reviewed here. Or, have students create online posters about an era individually or together as a class using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard, reviewed here, or PicLits reviewed here. Redefine learning by having students create timelines using Timeline JS, reviewed here. Timeline JS offers the option to upload and add photos, videos, audio, Tweets, and Google Maps making it interactive. If you participate in National History Day, this site is an outstanding start point. If you are the advisor for your high school play, bookmark this site as a great source for authentic era images and sounds. Need background music for a play (or video) set during WWII? Here it is!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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This Day in History Game - Shockwave
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): logic (247), problem solving (294), trivia (21)
In the Classroom
This is a challenging activity to sneak in some problem solving and logic lessons! Use the "This Day in History Game" as a fun class warmup activity on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Challenge students to problem solve dates of events with as much accuracy as possible. Choose items of interest for students to research. Then have students upload a photo they have taken and add voice bubbles to explain what they learned using a tool such as Superlame, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Next Exit History - Historical Research Associates, Inc.
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3 to 12tag(s): cultures (111), DAT device agnostic tool (179), maps (292), primary sources (91), virtual field trips (55)
In the Classroom
Use Next Exit History for either primary or secondary information on any location for social studies, history, or even literature study. Use this tool as an example for a multimedia presentation or map drawing of state history or study about any geographic location. After reading The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty Birney, discover the wonders of your school, community, or state. Plan culminating projects where students create their own Google Earth Map (reviewed here). Create placemarker guides to your community using Next Exit History as an example. Be sure to share this link on your class website for instant reference.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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