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Printmakers A to Z

By TL Editors

Check out the etchings, lithographs and woodcuts featured in the virtual exhibition from Georgetown University's collection.

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Free Martin Luther King Day Resource for Teachers, Parents

By TL Editors

The Character Tree, which provides online video lessons on character development, is offering a free video lesson on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Digital Learning Resources for January 2020

By Deborah Marshall and Lisa McKnight Ward

Explore digital learning resources for January 2020 and preview February's list.

Discovery Education Invites Educators, Students to Virtual Event Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

By TL Editors

During this no-cost experience appropriate for K-12 classrooms, students will explore the life and impact of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as they view Celebrate with DE: Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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Theft of the Mona Lisa

By TL Editors

Learn about the "art theft of the century."

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Did they just add tour creation to web-based Google Earth? Yes. Yes, they did.

By Glenn Wiebe

Google finally added the ability to generate tours with some pretty sweet features.

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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Time and the Calendar

By TL Editors

Discover the importance of time and the calendar, and how they each bring order to life.

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Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation: Family Histories

By TL Editors

Celebrate Roots Day 12/23 by following stories of Americans with different backgrounds

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The 1619 Project: Resources, Opinion and Guidance on Teaching About Slavery

By TL Editors

The 1619 Project is a collection of articles and supporting materials on slavery and its significance to American history and culture by the New York Times.

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The Repeal of Prohibition

By TL Editors

The 5th of December is recognized as the day we celebrate the repeal of the 18th Amendment.

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Historypalooza 2019 – Inquiry Design Models for the Elementary

By Glenn Wiebe

Designed to support NCSS’s Inquiry Arc in their C3 Framework, an IDM has basically three parts: questions, resources, and tasks.

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How to Organize Class Project Groups to Support Our Students’ Future of Work #WanderlustEDU #FOW

By Micah Shippee

In a gig-based economy our students will find themselves working on asynchronous teams in different geographies, different times, and with different cultures. How then can we prepare them for this workflow?

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Ken Burns Classroom Launches on PBS LearningMedia

By TL Editors

“Through these resources, my hope is that we can further interest young people in the power of history and help them better understand the complexity of issues we face today, including the connection to the past and their relevance to the future,” said Ken Burns.

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TPS Inquiry Kits Just Became My New Fave for Primary Sources

By Glenn Wiebe

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Old or New, Maps are Cool

By Glenn Wiebe

I love the ability of digitized maps to allow access to all sorts of data in all sorts of very visual ways.

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National Air and Space Museum: Wright Brothers: Interactive Experiments

By TL Editors

Experience the discovery of flight through three different interactive experiments.

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EconEdLink: Peanuts, Pecans, and Peas, Please

By TL Editors

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Yup. You’re gonna have to talk about it. 22 impeachment resources that can help

By Glenn Wiebe

If you’re not having classroom conversations about both current events and political issues focused on impeachment, you’re probably doing it wrong.

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NBC Learn: Vast Video Archive to Support Classroom Teaching and Learning

By TL Editors

NBC Learn is a video-based educational news website for kindergarten through higher education.

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Yes . . . Your Class Does Need a 12 x 8 foot Map (And Online Interactives)

By Glenn Wiebe

Be sure to make a stop at the Nat Geo Mapping Resources page to find the MapMaker Interactive and other handy tools.