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.
National Air and Space Museum: Wright Brothers: Interactive Experiments By TL Editors Experience the discovery of flight through three different interactive experiments.
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.
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.
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.
Holy Artwork, Batman! Teachers Should be Using #SeeingAmerica and SmartHistory! By Glenn Wiebe There are tons of things to explore at Smarthistory.
A Biography of America: The Women's Movement By TL Editors Select a side and read articles that present the other side of the argument to help students determine their final answer
Tip of the Week: Six Super Sweet Social Studies Strategies for Back to School By Glenn Wiebe To help energize your first awesome week with kids, here are six great ways to kick off the school year.
Civilisations AR Sparks Curiosity of Learners By TL Editors Students can view a collection of 41 artifacts thematically organized: Early Civilisations, Human Body, Faith, Encounters, and Progress and Modernity.
My 10 fave historical movies that every social studies teacher needs to see By Glenn Wiebe Some would be good for instructional purposes. Some are more historically accurate than others.
The World Is Complex. Our Kids Need To Understand That. World Savvy Can Help By Glenn Wiebe These six questions were part of a larger survey given to 1200 people between the ages of 18 – 26 by National Geographic and the Council for Foreign Relations.
Clark Griswold would have loved Google My Maps. So will your kids By Glenn Wiebe Tenae Alfaro, Slate Creek principal, is planning a summer trip and so she asked fourth grade kids to do some in-depth research and plan a trip for her.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Website Offers Wealth of Teaching Resources By TL Editors The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website offers educators a wealth of resources and guidelines for teaching about this sensitive topic.
Race to Ratify is latest awesome iCivics game that you should be playing right now. By Glenn Wiebe Your students pick a character from 1787 and spend their time trying to get the Constitution ratified by the different states.
STUDENT REPORT: How I Learned About Art & History By Building with LEGO By Wyatt Zaleski, a 5th grade student at Fair Haven Schools (NJ)
A Framework for Teaching American Slavery – from Teaching Tolerance By Glenn Wiebe If we are to understand the United State and the world today, we must understand slavery’s history and continuing impact.
