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Woolworth's Diner, Greensboro, North Carolina

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Woolworth's Diner, Greensboro, North Carolina

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The date is May 28, 1963,  John Salter, a social science professor at Tougaloo College, stage a Sit In at the "Whites Only" counter in Woolworth's store lunch counter.

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Use the About, Photos, and Friends section to give a general overview. Create "posts" to summarize key points.

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Defining image. Great Depression. Migrant Mother, Soup Kitchens. Bank runs

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We've covered word nerds; now, follow a few twitter accounts that will satisfy your historical curiosity.

1. Tweets of Old

These tweets, which contain actual lines from old newspapers, are very entertaining-and tell us a lot about the people of yesteryear.

A kitten with two heads was born in a Charles street stable this week. The little monstrosity was perfect in all other particulars. MA1905

- R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) July 15, 2014

2. John Quincy Adams

If you've ever wanted to read our sixth President's diary, this Twitter account is for you.

7/8/1814: IV:30. Sudden Summer heat. I dined at table d'hote at one. My Colleagues together at 4. Evening walk alone.

- John Quincy Adams (@JQAdams_MHS) July 8, 2014

3. Girls Own Advice

These tweets are, according to the bio, "genuine replies from 1880s and 1890s problem pages." Some are wise. Some are weird. Some are enough to make us glad we live in a modern day and age.

4. Slate Vault

The official Twitter account of Slate's The Vault Blog is interesting in its own right.

Instructions for avoiding cholera, Suffolk, UK, 1832 http://t.co/FqClrRCqZm via @britishlibrary pic.twitter.com/yafn4dqahb

- Slate Vault (@SlateVault) July 12, 2014

5. Weird History

Exactly what it sounds like, and quite delightful. The tweeter even makes a point to publish old articles featuring names that are famous today.

6. Retronaut

Excellent vintage photos!

1931: Slot machine selling warm sausages in Germany ( http://t.co/7CLlSnbZ08) pic.twitter.com/oCjero8qlE

- Retronaut (@theretronaut) July 15, 2014

7. British Pathé

Tweets featuring videos from the now-defunct Pathé News.

8. Public Domain Review

Fascinating findings from videos and documents in the public domain.

Patent for a Diving Suit (1881) http://t.co/Fh6Fm1djjy pic.twitter.com/GfvOf3IeXX

- Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) June 24, 2014

9. Michael Beschloss

Fun facts from a presidential historian.

Fort Stevens DC, where Lincoln faced Confederate fire 150 years ago--was allegedly told, "Get down, you fool!" #LOC pic.twitter.com/gsh0O8tr57

- Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) July 12, 2014

10. DigiVictorian

This account, which covers Victorian Popular Culture, is run by Bob Nicholson, a lecturer at Edgehill University in the UK.

11. Today in History

You could visit Wikipedia ... or you could follow this Twitter account.

12. NASA History

Space history!

#Apollo11 crew members arrive at @NASAKennedy #today in 1969 to prepare for mission. Here's @TheRealBuzz pic.twitter.com/d4C8dVlvMr

- NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) July 9, 2014

13. SI Vault

Sports history!

14. Today's Document

One excellent historical document a day, direct from the National Archives.

"...I have resolved...to throw away my first fire..." #AlexanderHamilton's fateful decision in his duel w/Aaron Burr #tdih: http://t.co/YJKsLxtXeP

- Today's Document (@TodaysDocument) July 11, 2014

15. Papers of GW

Parts of letters and other tidbits from our first president's papers.

3/31/1776 to J. Washington: I believe I may affirm that no Man ever commanded [an Army] under more difficult Circumstances than I have done

- Papers of GW (@PapersofGW) March 31, 2014

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HISTORY, a division of A+E Networks, is the premier destination for historical storytelling. From best-in-class documentary events, to a signature slate of industry leading nonfiction series and premium fact-based scripted programming, HISTORY serves as the most trustworthy source of informational entertainment in media. HISTORY has been named the #1 U.S.

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-Inner City Blues( Make me Wanna Holler ) by Marvin Gaye
-Ball of Confusion by The Temptations

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TikTok is mostly known as a home for memes, dance challenges, and skits, but there are a bunch of people hoping it can also be educational. You know, in a fun way.

Teen history buffs are using the app to share their love of the past, and they're doing an excellent job keeping it fun.

Brooke Pavek, 17, lives in Florida and got started on TikTok amid the "Old Town Road" craze. She also happened to be taking AP history classes and started making history TikToks to help her study.

"I do base a lot of my TIkToks on my AP notes," she told BuzzFeed News. "I try to be educational while also sometimes being stupid at the same time."

One of her favorite topics is Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire, which has inspired many of her videos.

She also covers moments in history from other places, too, and has a knack for fitting whatever she's learning into whatever the latest TikTok meme is.

There are dozens of these on her channel, but she said a particular favorite is this one about US independence.

"It's just kind of a fun one," she said.

Beyond being fun, she said the TikToks really do help her with school, and she hopes they help other people too.

"Most kids always thought that history is a boring subject, and I've seen kids fall asleep in my history class, but you can make it fun, not just a lecture," she said.

"There's so many things now that are fresh in my mind because of TikTok."

Pavek was one of many history TikTokers featured in a recent Twitter thread that went viral.

The thread highlighted history TikToks that were both funny and educational, including this one from Ryan White about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

White, 17, lives in Alaska and told BuzzFeed News he's an avid World War II history buff and a collector of military uniforms. His interest was sparked by his grandfather, who served in the Army and was stationed in West Germany after the war.

"It was everything outside of school that got me interested in history," said White.

His start on TikTok was sort of accidental. Like many others, he started seeing TikToks elsewhere, downloaded the app out of curiosity, and got sucked right in.

Most of his videos focus on WWII and its aftermath and feature his uniform collection.

His personal favorite is this one about the July 20 plot, which was an attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler. The uniform here isn't totally accurate - it's East German, from after the war.

"For me it's a fun way of getting one of my biggest hobbies out, which is having a greater understanding of history and collecting uniforms," said White.

He's also critical of how history is taught in schools and how it can make people think history is boring. He said learning from a textbook is about memorizing, not actually understanding history.

"I think having that greater understanding of history is what allows us to progress - understanding what went right, and what went wrong," he said.

But, he said, he's also run into problems with censorship. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company that's known for taking down videos it doesn't like. According to the BBC, videos about Tiananmen Square and Tibet are censored, for example.

Still, White has stuck with it because it's a huge and fast-growing platform where he's managed to find other teens who love history. Some of them even have group chats, he said.

Each history TikToker brings their own interests into the genre. For Leonardo Vanegas, it's politics. Vanegas is 16 and lives in California, and is his class president, although his ambitions are even bigger.

"The first time I ever got into politics was very early in 2007 - a young senator by the name of Barack Obama came to San Diego and my parents took me," he told BuzzFeed News.

"I remember being so inspired by his words that I looked to my mom and said, "I want to do what he's doing.'"

Vanegas said he likes identifying trending audio and finding a moment in history to match, like this one about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

He also likes this one about the 1986 election, set to a song from Hamilton.

"It helps people study," he said, adding that it can help teens see their history lessons in a whole new light.

"They've been useful for me, and they've been useful for other people as well."

Although these teens may have started due to boredom, they've all stuck with it because there's something so compelling about TikTok.

"It's a great app, you can see so much creativity, you can have a good laugh, you can be emotionally touched by somebody, you could have gone through the same experiences. It's like community," said Venagas.

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Teens Are Getting Historical On TikTok And It's Both Fun And Educational

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TikTok is mostly known as a home for memes, dance challenges, and skits, but there are a bunch of people hoping it can also be educational. You know, in a fun way. Teen history buffs are using the app to share their love of the past, and they're doing an excellent job keeping it fun.

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My love of history heavily influences my design work, to the point I figured I ought to give due to some of the best accounts out there. Wether you are looking for inspiration, or just want to be more educated - here are 9 must follow history feeds.

Let's just get the obvious one out of the way. The History Channel's Instagram Account is a standard (and obvious) follow for history buffs. Their main shtick is #thisdayinhistory which gives you an interesting photo and description about a historically significant event that happened on that very day. For example:
#ThisDayinHistory 1983, Scarface starring Al Pacino hits theaters. In Scarface, Pacino played Tony Montana, who arrives in Florida from Cuba in 1980 as part of the Mariel Boatlift and eventually becomes wealthy from his involvement in the booming cocaine business. Things fall apart when Tony becomes addicted to the drug and his world collapses in violence. Directed by Brian De Palma from a screenplay written by Oliver Stone, Scarface co-starred Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Robert Loggia."
21st century Brooklynites aren't the only hipsters, nor were they the first! Historycoolkids shines aspotlight on the most glamorous and vogue characters throughout the ages.

Atlas Obscura focuses on the strange and unique places found throughout the world. Much of its content is sourced by like-minded individuals in the community. Before I travel anywhere, I always make sure to check out the Atlas Obscura recommendations for that region.

A good variety page with emphasis on people. It's hard to put an exact finger on what their brand is, but scroll through their feed for a few minutes and you'll get a sense for it. There's definitely a rockn'roll - Rolling Stone vibe going on, and that's always a plus in my book.

I love a good "boots on the ground" IG account. Marina Lo Blundo is an archaeologist and blogger in the field, and she's always got unique posts and photos I rarely (if ever) see on other feeds. "Original" (and beautiful) content is the best way to describe her feed. Give her a follow, you won't regret it.

As I said earlier, I like a good alternate history theory just as much as the next guy. No one does that better than the Ancient Origins IG account. Shout out to the Ancient Origins Podcast as well, as I really enjoy its discussions and interviews with movers and shakers in the field. Not to be reductive, but Ancient Origins is as close as it gets to pornography in the history world . It's gratuitous AF, and I love that about it.

Not strictly, history - but in a way, it's all history - right? I don't need to say much about this one since you already know what National Geographic is - the OG of World Porn. They've got incredible resources and are the mothership of the exploration industry - funding expeditions, and with feelers all over the world. You're guaranteed to always get quality content with NatGeo.

I visited the Getty Museum a few years ago and it was truly a treat. Make your high school art teacher proud and follow their IG account to stay up on all of your art history, both old and new.

I saved this one for the end because it's one of my favorite. This is history through the eyes of objects. If you say auction, Sotheby's is probably the first if not only name that comes to mind. Sotheby's gets some of the most luxurious and incredible items and relics history has produced. Live the life of a the rich and famous for a few seconds a day as you see what latest items on the Sotheby's account you definitely can't afford!

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9 Must-Follow Instagram Accounts for History Lovers

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You might have guessed I'm a big fan of homeschool history, and I tend to obsessively follow history pinterest boards, and have a few favorites. I wanted to share my 10 favorite history boards.

Most of the ladies I'm linking to have multiple history pinterest boards, so I'd highly recommend clicking around on their profile after looking at the different boards.

This seems to be the most common specialized history pinterest board, so it was very hard to narrow this one down.

Ancient history pinterest board
Mystery of History 1 board
I can't wait for this time period next year because we'll get to learn about Vikings, the end of the Roman empire, Norse mythology, illuminated texts. (Update, it was awesome. I was right)
Medeival history Mystery of History 2
Renaissance to Age of Reason History Pinterest Boards

This is a fun time period to study because you start off with the Renaissance, and that's an interesting period of so much change.
Early Modern times Renaissance and Reformation
This is an area a lot harder to find pins for because many of the pins will overlap with US history, so boards on this topic tend to be a little lighter in content or are focused on political content.
Mystery of History Volume 4 Modern history board

I actually had a fair number of US history pinterest boards to pick from, including some very specific topics, but eventually chose these two because I like their particular takes on the topic.
Homeschool US history board American Girl doll history
Do you have a favorite history pinterest board I missed? I'd love to hear of any other pinners that pin history.

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10 Best history Pinterest boards for you to follow

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You might have guessed I'm a big fan of homeschool history, and I tend to obsessively follow history pinterest boards, and have a few favorites. I wanted to share my 10 favorite history boards. Most of the ladies I'm linking to have multiple history pinterest boards, so I'd highly recommend clicking around on their profile after looking at the different boards.

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Templates for Engaging Assignments

Fake social media templates have been long popular on Nick's picks an engaging way for students to demonstrate an understanding of course content. The positive feedback I have received from teachers about my Netflix template encouraged me to continue expanding this type of approach in new ways. An Amazon template seemed like an equally engaging approach to incorporate a wider range of content.

Amazon Template

Students can use the Amazon template to create "products" from a variety of items. What would you you shop for before heading out on the Oregon Trail? What if cells had to shop for their organelles? What types of products would you have found on Amazon during the roaring twenties?

Cell Organelles Example
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Roaring Twenties Example
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Create Engaging Assignments With This Amazon Template

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Students can use the Amazon template to create "products" from a variety of items. What would you you shop for before heading out on the Oregon Trail? What if cells had to shop for their organelles? What types of products would you have found on Amazon during the roaring twenties?

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Find the free templates below!

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No matter the age -- kindergarten to high school senior -- students are pretty familiar with social media. In fact, many of them can think in terms of tweets, snaps, pins and videos. They know what they have to say, and they have an idea of how to say it with a certain kind of post.

If they can think in terms of social media posts, can we let them demonstrate their learning in that way, too?

In many cases, the answer is yes!

And, thankfully, they don't need the app to create the experience! In each of the examples below, students can do an activity that feels like posting on social media without actually signing up for or using the app.

This concept is a big part of the social media chapter in my book, Tech Like a PIRAT E, which is all about making learning memorable with technology. In this post, each of these social media experiences is recreated with a tool that so many students DO have access to -- Google Slides.

How to assign these templates to students

1. Click the "Get the template" button for the template you want. Here, you'll make a copy of the template into your own Google Drive.

2. Create an assignment for your students in Google Classroom or your learning management system (LMS) like Canvas or Schoology.

3. If Google Classroom: attach the copy you made of the social media template and choose "Make a copy for each student" in the three dots menu button for the attachment.
If you can't do this in your LMS: Click the "Share" button in the top right of Google Slides. Under "Get link", click "Change to anyone with the link". Make the link "Anyone with the link" is a viewer. Copy the link. Paste the link in your assignment instructions. In the link, delete the word "edit" and everything else after it at the end of the link. Type the word "copy" right at the end of the link.

4. Students get their own copies of the template and get to work!

14 FREE social media-inspired Google Slides templates

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Students use social media all the time. Let's put those skills to use! In these social media-inspired Google Slides templates, they can show what they

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Mask Off by Future lol
Nina Simone
The Message by the Furious 5!
what's up - 4 non blondes lyrics
Mercy, Mercy Me  Marvin Gaye
Bee Gees, Staying Alive
Gloria Gaynor, I Will Survive
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke

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1) Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cook
2) Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
3) Bee Gees - Staying Alive
4) Mercy, Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye
5) The Message, Furious 5
6) Mask Off - Future
7) Nina Simone
8) Era review with students
Vietnam war songs decoding.
9) Strange Fruit
10) House of the Rising Sun
11) Fortunate Sun
12) War by Edwin Starr for Vietnam
14) The Letter - VWS
15) Crazy Train - Ozzy Ozzbourne - Anti-war/Conflict song
16) The Last Poets & Gil Scott-Heron

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Lab safety

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Life cycle

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By Amy Cowen on March 7, 2014 11:00 AM
Teachers may or may not be tweeting their science lesson plans or sharing every hands-on engineering classroom activity at Facebook, but they are finding inspiration and community at Pinterest, where discovering new ideas and approaches to teaching is fun, visual, and easy. See it. Like it? Pin it for later. As a virtual bookmarking and filing cabinet system, Pinterest gets an A+ from many teachers-and is helping this teacher with classroom science and math planning.

Pinning Classroom Ideas

Teacher Christi Woods ( above) says that Pinterest is one of the few sites always open in a browser when she is working at home. At the visual bookmarking site, she finds all kinds of inspiration for science, technology, engineering, and math education -including Science Buddies!

Bringing the Scientific Method into Classrooms

Thanks to support from Elmer's Products, Inc., many teachers in the Science Buddies community received a copy of the classroom Scientific Method Poster (shown above). Christi says her poster has already been helpful in the classroom. "I referred to ours each day as the steps were used and reviewed with each science experiment we covered."

In the photo below, two students consult the scientific method poster while working on an in-class project.

No matter what your profession, you probably frequent at least one social media site or online hangout where you indulge your need for news, social happenings, and, maybe, a steady stream of professional ideas, inspiration, resources, and support. For Christi Woods, a 5th grade teacher at Normandy Elementary School in Ohio, Pinterest is her social media spot of choice, one of the few browser tabs guaranteed to be open when she is working on her computer at home.

Christi is not alone. While many pinners are busy pinning hairstyles, home decorating ideas, wedding themes, and food, food, and more food, there are thousands of education-oriented pins and boards. With boards ranging from grade-specific collections like First Grade Fun, Second Grade Smiles, and Third Grade Troop to boards devoted to specific core curriculum subjects and themes (e.g., science, math, robotics) or grade ranges (e.g., middle school science), teachers have raced onto the Pinterest scene, virtual thumbtacks and staplers at the ready, and are actively pinning away.

The Teacher's Bulletin Board Gets a High-tech Update

Recognizing that teachers have gravitated to Pinterest for bookmarking handouts, printables, assignments, resources, bulletin board and class organization ideas, and more, Pinterest launched a specific set of curated boards for teachers last fall. The teachers hub may have been an experiment, but, today, the "Teachers on Pinterest" board collection has attracted more than 77 thousand followers. While there are other teacher-specific social media networks trying to draw teachers in, teachers appear to be comfortable at Pinterest and inspired by the easy exchange and sharing of information that happens through pinning and pin surfing.

With more than 70 million users worldwide, the soon-to-be-four-years-old visual bookmarking site has rapidly climbed the ranks of social media hotspots. Able to create and organize boards on any topic they want, pinners routinely scan pins, and repin ones of interest, adding them to their own specialized boards. As pinners repin pins that catch their attention, pins circulate, over and over. With each repin, other pinners may see the content in their streams, repin, and, in doing so, pass pins on to a new group of viewers. The site makes is very easy for users to "repin" content to a personal board. Pinners can add a comment, if they want. But it isn't required. Just click "repin," choose the board where you want to stick the pin, and the pin immediately floats to the top of the stream for your followers.

From the outside, pinners can pin fresh content they discover on Internet pages, stashing information for later reference or helping curate a certain category or topic for their own followers. With multiple ways to pin, share, and reshare content, Pinterest creates an elegant, and very visual, circular flow of information, one with an unlimited number of intake points for introducing new content.

While the visual grid of Pinterest has a bulletin board system at its core, the sheer size of the collections of pins amassed by many pinners quickly transforms any "board" idea into a giant filing cabinet system. Nice search features, easy visibility to "similar" pins, and the ability to discover new pinners based on others who have pinned the same kind of information make Pinterest easy to use-and, for many pinners, hard to put down.

Science Buddies @Pinterest

As a trusted resource in science education and hands-on science fair project ideas and materials for more than a decade, Science Buddies boasts more than 15 million student, teacher, and parent visitors each year-and more than 1,200 hands-on project ideas for students.

In an effort to keep members of the Science Buddies community up to date with Science Buddies content and inspired about science education, in ways that are most convenient to them, Science Buddies maintains an active presence at Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. Through any of these popular social media sites, followers can easily stay in touch with Science Buddies and catch highlights of popular projects, see stories about student successes, and catch posts that tie science news and popular culture into science education.

Excited about the potential of Pinterest as a way to help share, highlight, and curate science, technology, engineering, and math education content, Science Buddies has been pinning project ideas, blog posts, and updated student, teacher, and parent resources at Pinterest for more than a year. Science Buddies maintains a giant K-12 science project ideas board for teachers and parents who want to see everything, regardless of grade. At the same time, because many teachers are looking specifically for activities and ideas for students in certain grades, Science Buddies has grade-specific and thematic boards, too.

When Christi contacted Science Buddies with a question about classroom scientific method posters, she mentioned that she follows Science Buddies at Pinterest. We were excited to hear from a teacher who had noticed Science Buddies in her streams at Pinterest. When we talked further with Christi, it was interesting to discover that she knows Science Buddies from Pinterest. She wasn't first a member of the Science Buddies community who then started following Science Buddies at Pinterest. Instead, she learned about Science Buddies first from Pinterest, and Pinterest remains the way she keeps up to date with Science Buddies.

Teachers Pinning Science

Christi, who celebrates her twenty-fifth year of teaching this year, says she doesn't use Facebook or Twitter, but Pinterest is a staple stop for her, both for personal inspiration and idea bookmarking and for science and math lesson planning. "We, my team and I, try to incorporate hands on activities, especially in science, as often as we can," says Christi. "The kids love that best," she continues, noting that at her school, hands-on science education and active learning is widely practiced in the elementary grades.

Pinterest helps Christi mine for fresh ideas and new approaches. "I try to find ways to supplement our science texts and make things more interesting and engaging by using experiments, helpful anchor charts, and interesting lessons I find [on Pinterest]," explains Christi. "Along with pinning experiments that come from the Science Buddies site, I will often pin ideas that come up on my home page if they meet my curriculum needs, are ideas that are different than what I already use, and are ideas I think are unique."

Like many schools, Christi says that her school limits access to certain kinds of sites, including Pinterest. She was able to get special permission to access Pinterest from school, but she says most of her Pinterest browsing and pinning happens at home. "I pretty much am on Pinterest on a daily basis during the school year and on my days off! I am the first to admit to being addicted," she says, adding a smiley face. "However, I use it much more for classroom use than for personal use. Whenever I am working on my laptop at home, Pinterest (along with my school email, personal email, and ProTeacher) is one of the tabs I usually have open at all times."

Science Buddies in the Classroom

For Christi, Pinterest is where her teaching intersects with the wide range of materials at Science Buddies. But all fifth grade teachers at Christi's school also now have classroom Scientific Method Posters in their rooms, thanks to support from Elmer's® Products, Inc., which made a limited number of posters available to teachers last year. While Science Buddies was new to Christi, she says that when she told her students about the posters, she saw a few "head nods" in recognition of the online destination point for student science, technology, engineering, and math project ideas and resources. "I believe they, or their older siblings, have used the site for science project ideas before."

As her school approaches its science fair season later this year, Christi says she will be suggesting Science Buddies to both her students and her colleagues.

Note: Free Scientific Method Posters are not currently available. There is a downloadable version of the Scientific Method Poster in the Teacher Area that teachers can download and print.

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Fun way for students to use what they know-the platform and apply it to what they have learned. 

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Fun way for students to use what they know-the platform and apply it to what they have learned. 

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Students can use this to dump or summarize the unit.

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Great for book reviews, summaries of books

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Great for book reviews, summaries of books

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I love this for historical events and modern topics. Students can research current events.

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If this book was re-made as a movie today, what would it be like?

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Students can choose a character and list songs that they would listen to based on their character traits.

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What would be on a particular character's playlist based on a text/book.

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Character play lists based on character traits

Again, review of a book, chapter, steps in a process, mood interpretation