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Create - alone or in a team – flash cards online and save your knowledge with the flashcard app in the web.

Study flash cards with friends or with eCoach, the E-Mail reminder and dozens of online tutorials.

Build a team with friends, share workload, save time and control each others work via chat or Skype.

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Emily Ringler - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Emily Ringler - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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The Holocaust Memorial Museum has an excellent collection of free resources online for teaching about the Holocaust, World War II and other genocides. There are timelines, primary source archives, videos, speeches and photos. It is well organized and very high quality. I definitely recommend using this resource when teaching WWII.

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Learn about the Holocaust - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Despite the indifference of most Europeans and the collaboration of others in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust, individuals in every European country and from all religious backgrounds risked their lives to help Jews. Rescue efforts ranged from the isolated actions of individuals to organized networks both small and large.

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This is a website for kids to learn about the presidents, our U.S holidays, states and flags. It also has a timeline of US history. It has very nice condensed information on the many subjects.

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Geography Drive USA is a app that can be found in the Apple Store. Students "drive" through the USA answering questions about each state to earn gas money. If students don't get the questions right then they cant earn any gas money and then they loose the game. Students are able to practice state locations and learn facts at the same time!

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Learn NC is a website created by UNC Chapel Hill's College of Education. It provides a abundances of quality resources for teachers to plan quality lessons on North Carolina History and Social Studies. Not only can you find links, lesson plans, and assessments, professional development opportunities are also provided. Most of these materials are accessible for free to all educators, but some resources are reserved for members.

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http://www.appsychology.com/PsychactiFun/Games/gameshome.htm

This is obviously on the psych end of the social sciences. It is fun to have students analyse how these games effect their mind, or make use of common perception to effect player performace.

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Found through the app store, The JFK Challenge is a free app allowing students to listen to JFK's famous inaugural address and experience first hand the kinds of projects JFK started: The Peace Corps, and the Space Program. This app combines historical documents, photographs, and audio clips to immerse students into the history of JFK's presidency. The hands on games allows students to experience each mission the same way the first Peace Corps volunteers and NASA astronauts did. Very cool, check it out.

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This web-based tool is great for students, educators, professionals, and individuals interested in creating stories. It's a great tool for integration in history/social studies. It allows users to create a timeline with pictures, videos, descriptions and locations. The timeline can be viewed online via the myHistro website, embedded into a personal website or exported as a PDF. Users have the ability to create multiple "stories" by creating individual events which can be saved under their profile username. There is also a quiz function which gathers questions from the stories the user has created. It's easy to use and also available for download in the App Store for Apple products.

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End of the 18th century in France saw a radical political and social upheaval, influenced by the ideals of the Enlighentment, that had a lasting impact on the whole world.

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Jen Baccus- Scholastic Virtual Field Trip to Ellis Island

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Jen Baccus- Scholastic Virtual Field Trip to Ellis Island

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http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/webcast.htm

I love the virtual field trips on Scholastic's teacher site. There are many interactive tools as well. I especially love the Historical Timeline of Immigration to America and the Stories of Young Immigrants.

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Google Field Trip (www.fieldtripper.com) is a free app for iOS and Android that uses your location to identify historical points of interest nearby. The app alerts you to let you know that you're near the sites of historical events with stories and details that have been researched by the Google team. SPARK began this initiative along with Google Doodle in order to better represent women and diverse populations that receive little to no attention in history books.

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(CNN) - Lake Waban on the southern edge of Wellesley College is best known for its shoreline trails offering a scenic reprieve from campus life.

Freshman Katy Ma sees it in a different light after learning about Xie Bingxin, the influential 20th century Chinese writer and activist who attended the Massachusetts single-sex college in the 1920s. In one of Bingxin's poems, she describes the tranquil waters of Lake Waban as her only source of comfort in bouts of homesickness.

Now, Lake Waban provides Ma with a tangible connection to a woman from another time, someone who rose to prominence after walking the same grounds as her. And, not just any woman, but someone who shares Ma's cultural roots.

"Knowing that someone lived in the exact spot where you are right now, and knowing that so much came out of her life inspires you to think that you can accomplish just as much," she said.

It's a big deal for Ma, who says she never learned about a single Asian-American in school. As far as she knew growing in Philadelphia, the white men featured in public monuments were the only people who made noteworthy contributions to history.

She knows better now thanks to her involvement with activist group SPARK Movement, which is putting women on the map, with a little help from Google.

Ma and a group of girls around the world spent the past five months researching locations of significance in the lives of women who don't always get a mention in history class. Starting this week, their stories will be featured on Google's Field trip app tagged to significant locations in their lives.

For Bingxin, it's Wellesley University. For dancer Janet Collins, it's New York's Metropolitan Opera, where she became the first African-American prima ballerina. For 19th century journalist Annie Smith Peck, it's Musho, Peru, the village at the base of Mount Huascarán, which she scaled in 1908 in a record-setting feat. For journalist Nellie Bly, it's the site of Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, now Roosevelt island in New York, where she went undercover for a story.

Most of the women have Wikipedia pages or obits online; far fewer have parks, squares or monuments named for them.

"Every single one of these woman is a rock star," Ma said.

"These women have been edited from history not because they didn't make meaningful contributions to society but because someone deemed their stories not worthy of being told."

The initiative started in 2013 when SPARK approached Google with data showing that women and people of color were underrepresented in the popular doodles featured on its search homepage. The Google Doodles team has since made strides toward balance the ratio.

The encounter led to talks about another SPARK project on representation of women and people of color in parks, monuments and public spaces -- "all the places outside a school textbook where we learn about who's important in the world," SPARK Executive Director Dana Edell said.

The conversations led to Google's Niantic Labs, creator of Field Trip. The app displays geotagged stories within a certain geographic radius created by different publishers. Users can choose to be alerted to locations in a certain category.

Google agreed to publish the stories if SPARK created them. After all, SPARK's vision fit into Field Trip's goal to help people "discover the stories around them," said Google's Yennie Solheim Fuller, who worked with SPARK.

"It's one thing to read about a landmark while sitting on your couch," she said. Visiting it in person creates a sensory experience that's harder to forget, and telling a story about the place has the potential to create an even stronger connection, she said.

"We're hoping it brings more awareness to those locations and stories," she said. "What I really hope is that people learn something cool about a place and a woman, and feel inspired to do something similar in their community."

The initiative launched on Monday featuring 119 women in 28 countries representing the arts, science and technology.

The hard part was not finding women, 15-year-old SPARK member Ajaita Saini said. Pinpointing locations to feature was the greater challenge, sometimes because of lack of information; in other cases, it was hard to choose just one.

Take for example, Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man so she could fight in the Revolutionary War. The coordinates of her birthplace will show up for anyone using the app in the vicinity of Plympton, Massachusetts.

The app also features Mary Anning, a 19th century British self-educated fossil hunter who was unable to publish her discoveries in her lifetime. The app highlights the British shore where she made some of her most significant findings, including the first complete skeleton of a long-necked Plesiosaurus.

Saini, a student at Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies in New Jersey, knows firsthand that women's contributions to science, technology, engineering and math don't usually make it into the lesson plan.

Through this project and other SPARK initiatives, she hopes to change that.

"It's time we recognized the female scientists, researchers, musicians who are invisible to us," she said. "They definitely existed, we just don't learn about them."

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app puts women on the map for women's history month - cnn

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App puts women on the map for Women's History Month

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(CNN) - Lake Waban on the southern edge of Wellesley College is best known for its shoreline trails offering a scenic reprieve from campus life. Freshman Katy Ma sees it in a different light after learning about Xie Bingxin, the influential 20th century Chinese writer and activist who attended the Massachusetts single-sex college in the 1920s.

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Voicethread is an interactive, multimedia presentation site that allows students and teachers to post video, photos, and URLs about any given topic and then comment/annotate on each slide of the voicethread. The example that I've linked below is about the Great Depression. Integrated with ELA, the 5th grade students in the voicethread have used visual literacy and their research about the Great Depression to develop an original poem. This proceeded their reading of Bud, Not Buddy, which was set during the Great Depression.

https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#thread/425796

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Scholastic's First Thanksgiving Interactive Unit

This is a unit for K-12. It provides visuals and photographs of historical artifacts, virtual tours, and interactive diagrams to teach students about life during the time period of the first Thanksgiving. It is excellent to teach colonial America.

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/

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Democracy 3 is a graphically straightforward approach to simulate the running of a government. Within the game, the player uses political capital as a country's highest executive official (President/Prime Minister/etc) to modify public policy. Sometimes there is enough political capital to implement top-notch country-wide healthcare, but other times there's only enough capital to lower taxes (modifying anything in the game takes capital, even if it means easing that program's impact on the budget).

Speaking of budget, that's another aspect to moderate, as a runaway deficit will drastically lower political power and encourage more radical opposition (up to and including assassination!).

So, while balancing the budget of the country, its policies regarding firearm use, traffic control, drug use, and prisons, and your own personal desires as the leader of the country, it remains a constant struggle to keep playing the game and win re-election.

Check it out and see if it's right for your or an associate's class!

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The Smithsonian websites offers different virtual tours of their exhibits. This is a great way for students to experience the Smithsonian even just within their own classrooms.

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66 Million Years Ago, the last dinosaurs roamed what is now the Western Interior of North America. Then global catasprophe ended their reign. Walk through time to explore our scientists' findings to the questions that help us understand America's last dinosaurs, their the lives, and their ultimate demise.

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This interactive game allows students to practice finding absolute locations on a map with longitude and latitude.

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In International Pizza Delivery, users must delivery pizzas to all corners of the world using their latitude and longitude skills. The object is to delivery as many pizzas as possible in three minutes. For each successful delivery, the user earns the flag of the nation in which the pizza was delivered to.

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This is a great tool for creating virtual displays of artifacts that you find online. Students can organize images, text, videos, links, and audio clips about any topic that they're researching. When completed , students' "boxes" become digital dioramas.

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This is a great tool for creating virtual displays of artifacts that you find online. Students can organize images, text, videos, links, and audio clips about any topic that they're researching. When completed , students' "boxes" become digital dioramas.

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Everfi is a product sponsored by BB&T that provides lessons in financial literacy to middle and high school students. The program features interactive games and tutorials that make learning the ideas of personal finance fun for students.

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Tackling Society's Most Challenging Issues With Education | EVERFI

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EVERFI is a pioneer in the Community Engagement industry and serves as a powerful operating system that enables institutions of all sizes to empower their communities.

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GeoGuessr is a game that "drops" you somewhere around the world on Google Street View and requires you to figure out and guess where in the world you are. This would be a good way to teach Geography and location skills. It gives you points based on how close you are to the actual location. You can make it a competition or single player. You can also choose what part of the world to play in. I've used this with my students and they love it!

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Get dropped anywhere from the busy streets of New York to the beautiful beaches of Bali.
Join 50 million players now!

Discover the world

Discover the world in your own pace and earn medals in our single player mode.

Play with your friends

Put your skills to the test against your friends and family. Create your own private party and play together.

Compete against others

Test your ability against players all across the world. Earn badges and compete against others in tournaments and events!

If you've forgot your password, click on "Already have an account?" in the upper right corner, and then on "Forgot your password?". Enter the email address which is connected to your account, and we'll send you an email with a link to reset your password! Don't forget to check you spam email if it may have gotten caught there.

If you are not receiving an email you might have enabled Google/Facebook login. If so, send an email to info@geoguessr.com and we will help you further. If you've forgotten which email you signed up with, no worries! Contact us at info@geoguessr.com and we'll help you out!

Become a geography expert and have fun at the same time! Seterra is an entertaining and educational geography game that gives you access to over 400 customizable quizzes. Seterra will challenge you with quizzes about countries, capitals, flags, oceans, lakes and more!

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GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.

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Kitt Starnes- PBS and PBS Learning Media

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Kitt Starnes- PBS and PBS Learning Media

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I sometimes forget about PBS but it has so many great resources for a number of content areas (you can choose by grade level and content area), but especially history and social studies. It even shows you how each piece aligns with Common Core standards! I definitely recommend checking it out!

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

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Last year I attended a CCRESA session on global awareness. This was one of the resources they showed that really stood out. It is a dynamic tool that follows different trends (life expectancy, diseases, employment, education, population, etc.) for all countries from 1880-2013. You can either select a specific year or watch as the graph moves through time. It would be an excellent tool to spark student research. Why do you think the population in Japan decreased so much from 1944 - 1945?

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TimeMaps' free interactive World History Atlas is the most comprehensive history atlas on the internet. Inside you will find over 1,500 maps, well-written historical overviews, depth-articles, images and much more.

It allows students to view history of different eras and what happened to different areas in the same time period.

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World in 3500 BCE

Stone Age hunter-gatherers and farmers live in much of the world. In one small area, however, cities are appearing, literacy is developing, and civilization is emerging.

Start Exploring

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World History Timeline The FREE atlas of world history

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Stone Age hunter-gatherers and farmers live in much of the world. In one small area, however, cities are appearing, literacy is developing, and civilization is emerging. Start Exploring

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This is a section provided by Edhelper and which offers great activities and projects all geared towards a better understanding of this subject area. There are social studies theme units such as United States History and Theme Units, Canadian Theme Unit, Crime and Terrorism and so on. You can also create you own time line.

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Eric Grant: Stanford History Education Group:

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As the social studies specialist for my school district, I sought a tool that would help teachers develop engaging, inquiry-based social studies lessons. This website is a true treasure trove. For both world and American history, this site provides dozens of intact lessons including a compelling question, short related primary and secondary docs and a powerpoint with background information. Amazing!

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I came across your site while researching to update and improve my U.S. History classes. I was amazed at the quality of the lessons present here and will use them frequently in my classes.

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I came across your site while researching to update and improve my U.S. History classes. I was amazed at the quality of the lessons present here and will use them frequently in my classes.

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ThingLink offers a web platform and mobile app for creating and sharing interactive images. This allows teachers or students to add content inside any image - including photos, video and audio players, web links, polls, text and more - that appear in the image when shared and viewed.

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ThingLink: Create unique experiences with interactive images, videos & 360° media

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Easily create interactive and immersive visual experiences for online communication and learning. Start a free trial!

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The mission of C-Span classroom is to "enhance the teaching of social studies through C-Span's primary source programming and websites." This free site offers video clips, lesson plans, topics for debate, and a wealth of information on events throughout history. The site is updated regularly with current events or hot topics highlighted in their "timely teachable videos" section. Great, user friendly resource for teachers and students.

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Provides a lot of resources for teachers and students. It breaks resources down into history eras so teachers can easily target resources, it provides easy access to primary document resources, multimedia resources (video, MP3 etc.), maps, pictures, and many other resources to support instruction or student research.

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This is a web based timeline creator. There are a lot of timeline creating resources out there, but I like this one because it has some interesting features. Because it is web based, it can be accessed anywhere there is Internet access. It can create timelines in 3D. Teachers and students can add multimedia pictures, videos, etc to the timelines too. It has a basic free package, but there are upgrades that subscribers can pay for. With upgraded packages, Tiki-Toki allows timelines to be embedded into blogs or websites and group editing which is useful for class projects

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Newspapers.com is a collection of over 3,600 newspapers from the 1700s-2000s. There is a search feature for keyword, name or location. You can also search by Newspaper title. This can be a valuable tool for research papers.

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Newspapers.com - Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s

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The largest online newspaper archive. Search historical newspapers from across the United States and beyond. Explore newspaper articles and clippings for help with genealogy, history and other research.

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Wow I can't believe that no one has put Google Maps on here! This is great for seeing the world and learning about different historical things occurred.

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Noodle tools is a subscription web-based suite of integrated tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, collaborative research and writing. There is a very informative back-end that allows a teacher to track and oversee projects with his/her students. An annual subscription for one teacher and his/her classes is $60. School/site subscriptions are available as is a free trial version and a free "lite" version. Our history department uses Noodle Tools and RAVES about the ways it has reformed their research projects and paper writing. Student feedback is incredible positive for Noodle Tools as well!

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This is a visual news display that can be set to look for one specific topic or just be left as current information. It can be used for SS and current events.

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Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.

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This is a great site with much SS and current information that can be set a variety of lexiles to help students be able to read.

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An app I have recently heard about but am still playing with is Tiny Tap. This is an app that allows teachers to create an educational game/quiz as well as lessons and presentations. For example, when learning about the map and continents teachers can create a game where students have to click on the continent that they are being asked about.  They could also click on latitude, longitude, cardinal directions, etc. The app could also be used to generate quizzes about the vocabulary words they are learning—for younger grades pictures could be included with words to give the students who cannot read a visual clue (also they can hear it read aloud to them).

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TinyTap, Games by Teachers on the App Store

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Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about TinyTap, Games by Teachers. Download TinyTap, Games by Teachers and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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I know it has been mentioned for other subjects, but I love using Discovery Streaming in History. It is a great way to show students video clips of things that are hard for them to conceptualize or even understand. Especially for my young students, this is very beneficial. When we discuss different cultures, celebrations, and folklore, it is often hard for them to look outside of the world they see and experience. Video clips that describe in words, pictures and music help make this more real. Another unit that comes to mind that is aided so much by Discovery Streaming is life long ago and today. The video clips are only part of what the website has to offer--pictures, lesson plans, and so much more.

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Verifying direct content navigation | Discovery Education

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Kids.gov is available for grades K-5 and grades 6-8. Students can learn about different cultures within the U.S., the U.S. presidents, and more about our country’s history, including wars and important documents. They can view a timeline of the U.S. history. They also can learn more about the states, and play games or watch videos relating to the U.S. history. We also liked to view “Today in History,” which shares a famous event for any given day.

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Find government information on education including primary, secondary, and higher education.

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One of my favorite sites to use with my students is the Scholastic site featuring “The First Thanksgiving.” Students can take virtual field trip of the Mayflower and learn what life was like on board the ship, learn about the daily life of the pilgrims and native Americans, view a slideshow of the feast, and read historical fiction letters of a Wampanoag boy and pilgrim girl. There are also videos and slideshows to watch. My students really enjoy visiting this site!

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Scholastic | Books for Kids | Learning Resources

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Find the best kids books, learning resources, and educational solutions at Scholastic, promoting literacy development for over 100 years.

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PhotoSpeak is an app that lets you transform any photo into an animated one. Just imagine a famous historical figure spouting his/her words of wisdom. How cool would that be? Check out Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg below.

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NetTrekker is an online database that allows students (and teachers) to search curated resources. One feature that I think would be very handy is the ability to search by famous person. You can also search by timeline (events between two dates). It also has an easy to use reference section. [This resource is created by the same company as the one that does BrainPop.] One of the best features that I like is the ability to create a classroom and directly share resources with the students.

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netTrekker is the leading educational search tool for schools, trusted by more than 1 million K-12 educators and 27 million students since 2000. netTrekker curates the best educational resources from the web and makes searching safe and effective with unique learning tools to reach every student.

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http://www.history.com/shows/classroom

The history channel classroom gives many resources for students and teachers alike. There are threads for this day in History which I know was mentioned here already, and the History blog too. It gives interactive tools for students to learn history and can be used at many different age levels as well.

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http://www.history.com/

History.com has many tools for students and teachers alike.

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Lena Hicks - The Jamestown Online Adventure

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Lena Hicks - The Jamestown Online Adventure

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This interactive, role playing history game is something I would have loved having access to while learning history as a kid. In this particular adventure students are assigned roles, and one has the part of Captain of the Jamestown Colony. They are challenged to have a better outcome for the colony than the real colonists did. They are provided with copies of historical documents and can the research conducted by their team members to try to make choices that would result in a more favorable outcome. This is just one example of the historical problem-solving environments that are available.

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Contact:
Bob Dunn
Falls Church, Virginia

In 1606, some 105 adventurers set off from England to try and establish the first permanent English colony in the New World. They settled in what is now the state of Virginia and called their colony first James Fort, and then James Towne, in honor of James I, the King of England. The early years of the colony were nearly a total disaster. Almost half of the settlers died due to poor choices in settlement location, management of resources, and quarrels with the indigenous Powhatan Indians.

You are the Captain of the Jamestown Colony:
Can you do any better than the real colonists? You will have a copy of the London Company's Instructions to help guide you. Also, you can ask your fellow colonists and the Native Americans for advice. Be careful, though, because some advice is better than others!

Scoring Factors:
After you make all your decisions, you will receive a report on the state of your colony based on these factors:

Food: How well can you provide it for your colonists?

Health: Can you keep your colonists from dying due to disease, starvation, and attacks?

Wealth: Can you make yourself and your sponsors at the London Company rich from the discovery of gold and silver?

Morale: Can you keep yourself in power by keeping everyone happy?

Make History: You will get to compare your colony to the historical Jamestown at the end. By examining the "Now we know..." section, you can learn from the mistakes of history so you do not repeat them when you play again.

Good luck and Godspeed!

E-mail your comments and suggestions to: historyglobe@yahoo.com

UPDATE September 2006:

Game is now compatible with Flash plugin version 7 or higher

Printable results- compare outcomes with other students in your classroom!

© 2002 Bob Dunn

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Go Social Studies Go is an online textbook whose goal is to engage students in a way that printed textbooks can't. They have 4 main sections: U.S. History, Ancient History, World History, and Global Religions. Each section is divided into certain time periods or events. Once you click on a time period or event, the "textbook" provides information in multiple ways. There are videos, pictures, and links (to sources, games, etc.) in addition to traditional text. It's a fun way for students to explore history!

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Nicolas Winkel-New York Times Learning Blog

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Nicolas Winkel-New York Times Learning Blog

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The New York Times offer free lesson plans that tie in with social studies themed current events. The lessons incorporate articles and videos from the New York Times into a lesson that covers a wide range of topics. All of the lessons are done well. It's worth checking out, you will find something you can use in your class!

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My students used the Freedom House website to make a presentation on the concept of freedom of expression in some Spanish speaking countries.  There is an interactive map which gives each country a quick view and a rating on human rights and freedom of the press.  I think this would also be a great resource for High School Students studying the constitution or human rights.

There is also Spanish version, but its main focus is Mexico,

which is having problems with reporters getting murdered by drug cartels.

https://freedomhouse.org/

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Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people.

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David Foster - Montessouri Approach to Geography: USA iPad app

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David Foster - Montessouri Approach to Geography: USA iPad app

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This app is great for elementary students to learn and identify the shape, name, and location of each state in the USA. The app is scaffolded into three different levels. By the third level, the app displays the state name, and the student must choose the appropriate state out of 50 choices to place it onto the map. This app is free, but if you want to access more activities and historical facts about each state, it is $3 to access the full, upgraded version.

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Creators of Montessori inspired, educational apps for the Apple iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch.

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World book is a great multimedia application which informs students of all of the major historical events that happened on a specific day in history. I think this could be a great opener for class, specifically if these events can be related to the lesson plan. It's the same idea of reading a poem out loud every day in an English class. Even if you're not studying a poetry unit or discussing/analyzing a poem, you simply need to hear a poem every day. In my opinion the same could be applied to all subject areas. By informing students of significant historical events, students are learning and their interest may even be piqued, which I think is the goal of any classroom.

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WORLD BOOK - This Day in History for iPad on the App Store

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Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about WORLD BOOK - This Day in History for iPad. Download WORLD BOOK - This Day in History for iPad and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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Google Earth is a great tool for bringing to the classroom. It can be used on the Web or as an app. It is free unless you prefer the pro account. This is a great tool for bringing the world to the classroom and expanding its walls. My students have used Google Earth to do presentations about different
places. The students could share pictures, videos, links with info and other details on specific cities or places/regions (such as history, culture, and geography). My students used the app in their phones and we projected the image on the big screen for their presentations. It is a bit slow moving, but totally worth it!

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Pebble Go is a great social studies resource for younger elementary students. It offers a variety of topics including culture, community, and government. The topics are broken down into simple/small topics, with simple text and colorful photos. It will also read (and highlight) the text for those non/early readers.

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PebbleGo's first Spanish language module! Translated by a team of Spanish language professionals, each article features both Spanish text and read-aloud audio recorded by professional voice over artists.

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Worldmapper.org is a website that has a collection of approximately 700 maps where the size of the world is re-sized according to the topic discussed. For example, if you want the size of the world to be in proportion with the world's population, some countries are portrayed larger and smaller depending on the amount of people that live in a location. This tool is great to show students discrepancies in topics such as: literacy rates, life expectancy, and access to health care.

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Worldmapper | rediscover the world as you've never seen it before

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps called cartograms, where territories are resized on each map according to the subject of interest. Our range of maps is continuously extended and updated. Explore the world as you've never seen it before!
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Worldmapper | rediscover the world as you've never seen it before

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Mapping our place in the world: The atlas for the 21st century. Worldmapper is a collection of world maps where countries are resized according to a broad range of global issues. Our cartograms are unique visualisations that show the world as you've never seen it before. Explore them all!

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http://www.icivics.org

Founded by former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, iCivics offers a number of game-based activities and lesson plans for teaching concepts on the branches of government and basic citizenship. Core gameplay is usually 15-30 minutes (perfect for class), and the related lesson plans can be as small as a single class or span an entire unit. Run for president, make a Supreme Court decision, craft a law, shape a budget, and more!

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In this new Private i History Detectives unit, Elementary students analyze primary sources to discover how Constitutional Amendments attempted to address slavery's wrongs, how the courts challenged unfair laws, and how individuals and groups fought for civil rights.

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In this new Private i History Detectives unit, Elementary students analyze primary sources to discover how Constitutional Amendments attempted to address slavery's wrongs, how the courts challenged unfair laws, and how individuals and groups fought for civil rights.

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The Google Cultural Institute has established a subsection strictly for historical moments. Users can select key moments in world history and explore historical documents, video, speeches, exhibits from museums, as well as take multiple documents from an event or completely separate events and compare them for similarities in structure or content.
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/historic-moments

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One important part of Social Studies instruction is Current Events. CNN has a section of its site called Student News. This page has daily news geared for students. There is a new ten minute video each day that is directed toward middle and high school students. This is a quick way to bring the news right into the classroom and start discussions of what is happening in the world around us.

http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

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I always said if I didn't teach Math, I'd teach US History! And especially "the Wars". Guess that comes from growing up with a Dad in the Navy. This is a great website that animates US war battles from the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and WWII. These animations very much bring these battles to life for students and help them understand the preludes to the battles, the battle strategy, and the after-effects.

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Keeping on the timeline thought process, which I LOVE, http://www.timerime.com/en/ is a great website that provides already created historical timelines and allows you or students to create their own and upload information. I typically use the ReadWriteThink timeline, but my students seem to like this one a tad better.

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Timemaps show geopolitical change and continuity, as well as chronological development, within specific time periods on interactive maps. The popular Roman period is covered in detail, as well as the Black Death, with the units on Medieval Britain being released soon. The inclusion of information tags and boxes on the maps means that they can be used for much more than presentation, they are tools teachers and students can use for overviews and in-depth studies. Students can SEE history, not just read about it, and make their own maps. The icons help struggling readers to get important ideas in bite size chunks.

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World in 3500 BCE

Stone Age hunter-gatherers and farmers live in much of the world. In one small area, however, cities are appearing, literacy is developing, and civilization is emerging.

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World History Timeline The FREE atlas of world history

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Stone Age hunter-gatherers and farmers live in much of the world. In one small area, however, cities are appearing, literacy is developing, and civilization is emerging. Start Exploring

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CrashCourse is my go-to YouTube Channel for catching international students up on US History. The short, engaging, animated videos are written by John Green (of The Fault in Our Stars fame). They are well produced, thorough, and inciteful, presenting little-known facts and offering challenging perspectives. The only drawback is the speed at which Mr. Green speaks. I often have to play the videos at 1/2 speed so that English learners can understand him clearly.

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At Crash Course, we believe that high-quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free! Subscribe for weekly videos from our current courses! The Crash Course team has produced more than 45 courses on a wide variety of subjects, including organic chemistry, literature, world history, biology, philosophy, theater, ecology, and many more!

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I <3 BrainPOP Jr.!!! If you want full access to all of the videos, it does cost money...but for me it was completely worth it this year! I would show my class a video on the topic we were learning and teach them how to take notes during it. It pinpoints key vocabulary words and shows their definitions along the side of the video. It's perfect for teaching the younger kids note-taking skills while teaching the content knowledge. It puts things in kid friendly language. BrainPOP Jr. is targeted towards K-3 and then regular BrainPOP has things for the older students.

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The social studies movies teach kids educational topics like communities, biographies, holidays, history, government, cultures, and citizenship.

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Have fun with History!

This is a great website with interactive timelines about people, places, events, and historical topics. The site also has links to movies, articles, and articles from the past. There is even a history fact of the day, corresponding to the actual date. The website is based with an American point of view, but it is still a great website to learn about history.

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U.S. History: Free streaming history videos and activities

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The CIA Factbook is a great reference tool for students. It includes information on 267 different countries. The information includes history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. FYI all their photos are in the public domain and are copyright free.

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Digital, searchable primary sources provide great perspective on different events and people in NC. They continue to digitize materials, and there are some astonishing photos. The site has links and tools for educators, and references learning standards. I've been having fun browsing and searching the site for background on the county I live in and it truly provides a window into the local past.

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This resource from the History Channel provides approximately 15 important things that happened on the current date in history. The historical events span several categories, ranging from the American Revolution, to Hollywood, to music. I often use this as a resource to post facts of the day for my classes. The website also provides a detailed description of the event, allowing students and teachers to get more information. You can also look at future dates, which may help teachers plan ahead.

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On May 23, 1934, notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Sailes, Louisiana.

Bonnie Parker met the charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when she was 19 years old and her husband (she married when she was 16) was serving time in jail for murder. Shortly after they met, Barrow was imprisoned for robbery. Parker visited him every day, and smuggled a gun into prison to help him escape, but he was soon caught in Ohio and sent back to jail. When Barrow was paroled in 1932, he immediately hooked up with Parker, and the couple began a life of crime together.

After they stole a car and committed several robberies, Parker was caught by police and sent to jail for two months. Released in mid-1932, she rejoined Barrow. Over the next two years, the couple teamed with various accomplices to rob a string of banks and stores across five states-Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico and Louisiana. To law enforcement agents, the Barrow Gang-including Barrow's childhood friend, Raymond Hamilton, W.D. Jones, Henry Methvin, Barrow's brother Buck and his wife Blanche, among others-were cold-blooded criminals who didn't hesitate to kill anyone who got in their way, especially police or sheriff's deputies. Among the public, however, Parker and Barrow's reputation as dangerous outlaws was mixed with a romantic view of the couple as "Robin Hood"-like folk heroes.
READ MORE: Bonnie Wasn't Clyde's Only Female Accomplice
Their fame was increased by the fact that Bonnie was a woman-an unlikely criminal-and by the fact that the couple posed for playful photographs together, which were later found by police and released to the media. Police almost captured the famous duo twice in the spring of 1933, with surprise raids on their hideouts in Joplin and Platte City, Missouri. Buck Barrow was killed in the second raid, and Blanche was arrested, but Bonnie and Clyde escaped once again. In January 1934, they attacked the Eastham Prison Farm in Texas to help Hamilton break out of jail, shooting several guards with machine guns and killing one.

Texan prison officials hired a retired Texas Ranger, Captain Frank Hamer, as a special investigator to track down Parker and Barrow. After a three-month search, Hamer traced the couple to Louisiana, where Henry Methvin's family lived. Before dawn on May 23, Hamer and a group of Louisiana and Texas lawmen hid in the bushes along a country road outside Sailes. When Parker and Barrow appeared, the officers opened fire, killing the couple in a hail of bullets.

All told, the Barrow Gang was believed responsible for the deaths of 13 people, including nine police officers. Parker and Barrow are still seen by many as romantic figures, however, especially after the success of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
READ MORE: 10 Things You May Not Know About Bonnie and Clyde

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Learn what happened today in history around the world including major events on crime, entertainment, and more.

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This site links to The Library of Congress, and specifically to a page which links to political cartoon. These are good especially for high school students so that they can not only learn about the events, but also analyze them and understand different responses. Some of the links no longer work on the site, but many of them link to really good primary documents.

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Multimedia resources from the Library of Congress that support instruction about political cartoons. These resources include expert presentations, exhibitions, bibliographies, Webcasts, and other online materials.

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Political Cartoons Exhibitions and Presentations

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A compilation of political cartoons and related exhibition from across the Library's Web site.

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Dipity allows users to create free online websites. You can share them with others and work collaboratively as well. Students can add pictures, sound, and text to the timelines that they create. The turning in process would be great for teachers because the kids just have to share it and the teacher can access all the projects with just a few clicks. Great way to save paper.

www.dipity.com

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Every year, I use the Scholastic resources to teach about Thanksgiving. You can take a virtual field trip to Plimouth Plantation and watch numerous webcasts and videos. There are also activities and other resources that help students learn about why we celebrate Thanksgiving each year. Scholastic has many other resources for history topics and often make interactive sites to bring events to life for young children.

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Scholastic | Books for Kids | Learning Resources

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Find the best kids books, learning resources, and educational solutions at Scholastic, promoting literacy development for over 100 years.

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This weebly has a great collection of interactive sites for social studies and all other content areas.  Aimed more towards elementary students, there are many opportunities for map skills development, understanding communities, and learning about US presidents.

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Interactive Learning Sites for Education

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Interactive Learning Sites for Education

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The "History: Maps of the World" app includes 178 historical maps from all over the world. It allows students to see the development of country borders and see the impact of war on geographic regions.

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I love this website! The basis for this site is an organization referred to as KIVA. They help fund entrepreneurial opportunities around the world; mostly in countries where families live on less than $10 per day. The basis of the organization is to match loans - not donations - with small businesses in need. Believe it or not they have a 98.84% repayment rate! Students learn about other regions of the world - great current events opportunities. It can be used for lessons related to geography and history of a region. You can include math because you study how loans work, amortization, and balancing accounts. It can be taken into a CTE setting studying the process of entrepreneurship. I've been to a school that has even organized an extra-curricular KIVA club where the students fund raise to help future business leaders in other countries. Fabulous way to learn about the world, cultures, people, current events, mathematics and business while building character and learning a "pay it forward" mentality that's fun. Hope you enjoy!

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Tool: Digital Collections from the Library of Congress

Dr. Oliver reviewed some great archive opportunities in his lecture, and this has long been a favorite of mine. This could be used to help students practice factual information, as a source of historical information for research, and as support for digital information critiques. It could also be used as a source when asking students to create digital stories or other projects!

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Since Dr. Oliver mentioned the Jeopardy template in his presentation, I was reminded of Jeopardy Labs, which is a site I often suggest to teachers. This site is not based on PowerPoint and instead provides an easy to modify template to create a Jeopardy Game for review or study. The site will even help you keep score--very easy to use, but you need a projector to display it to the class.

Direct URL: https://jeopardylabs.com/

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Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!

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Omeka is an open source software (or web-based) tool that allows users to build digital archives. Students can collect images and information about a historical event, specific culture, or area of the world and create an online exhibit to share with the class. Omeka supports digital storytelling and student products, and this type of project would make a great collaborative project. After creating an exhibit, students could share products with the class as a virtual adventure. Teachers can also use the site as a teaching resource as well, curating online resources into one space.

Direct URL: http://omeka.org/

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Quick tour of the Omeka web publishing platform's core functions.