Beyond the Bubble unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress to create a new generation of history assessments. Developed by the Stanford History Education Group (http://sheg.stanford.edu), the site offers easy-to-use assessments that capture students’ knowledge in action – rather than their recall of discrete facts.
Historypin is a way for people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history. Students can “pin” information and photos on events to where they occurred in the world.
Digital Docs in a Box is a site for Social Studies teachers with pre-selected primary source documents and images students can use for project based learning – including creating a documentary film.
is a You Tube channel with “crash courses” on world history and biology topics by John & Hank Green. These videos are great to use as an activating strategy or students could model video productions on historical and scientific content using this format.
We have all heard of Ted Talks. Now teachers can utilize Ted Ed for their classrooms. Videos are categorized by topics and subject areas, have questions and deeper thinking activities to go with the videos, allow you to use You Tube videos in the same fashion, and even allow you to “FLIP” your lessons by altering content and saving a unique URL. I am impressed with this learning tool for middle and high school students.
Doodle for Google 2012
Doodle 4 Google invites K-12 students to express the theme–”If I could
travel in time, I’d visit…”–as creatively as possible using Google’s
logo as their canvas. This year’s winner, along with having his or her
doodle featured on our homepage for a day, will take home a $30,000
college scholarship and a $50,000 technology grant for their school. And
as an added bonus, the winning Doodle will be featured on a special
edition of Crayola’s 64 box! We hope you’ll get everyone in on the fun
(but please — just one doodle per child!). All submissions must be
postmarked by March 20th and received by March 23rd so there’s not a
moment to wait!
Awesome Stories AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront – not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site’s users to places where those primary sources are located. Sign up for free and have access to lesson plans, narrations, images, slide shows, videos, and vocabulary builders. Awesome Stories is an awesome web site.
Earth Cam.Com has a live camera view of most of the major cities in the world. Allows you to give students that true visual of what a place is like with real time views.
PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for easy, instant access to thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and photos, and even in-depth lesson plans. You can search, save, and share with ease. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia™ is free for educators. Register today!
View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world’s largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage. Offering immediate downloads in more than 10 SD and HD formats, including screeners in all formats.
The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture’s My American Farm project teaches agricultural literacy to consumers and the public through an interactive computer game. Players learn where food comes from and how those products get from the farm to their dinner plate. My American Farm is an online educational game that lets students learn about agriculture while having fun.
Go Social Studies, Go! is a great site with virtual resources to liven up all those dates and names. Topics include World Geography, World History, Ancient History, and Colonial America.
Go Go News.Com Children are curious and interested in the world around them. GoGo believes in satisfying and encouraging this curiosity by publishing real news stories that are not only relevant to them, but also capture the silly and the serious goings on in the world today
Democracy Kids has activities and modules to teach students the concepts of democracy, what it means, how it works, and gets them thinking about how they can help make our country better.