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Don McLean wrote the song "American Pie" in 1971. What do the Lyrics mean?

A long, long time ago...
American Pie was written in 1971 and the time McLean is going to talk about is the 1950's. This seems
like a long time ago 'cause of all the turmoil that occurred in the 60's.

Now for ten years we've been on our own

The music died 1959, McLean more than likely started writing this song around 1969.

And in the streets the children screamed

The youth of America were beaten in the streets especially at the end of the decade. (Like I said earlier, the Kent State murders and the Chicago Democratic Convention)

And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye singing "This will be the day that I die, this will be the day
that I die."
The traditional Americans are depressed with the current lifestyle (60's). The song comes from Buddy Holly's "That'll be the day," that eventually says "that I die."

Another interesting note brought to my attention by Scott Tilles, is that the Levee was a bar in Purchase, NY near McLean's hometown. There is also a Levee, NY which is about 15 minutes from the school he attended.

Interesting...

This was found on the following web site: http://webpub.alleg.edu/student/c/carsonm/amerpie.htm

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If you want your students to tackle real-world issues and take a deeper look at evidence, data and research, then KQED's video series Above the Noise belongs in your classroom. Keep reading to find ideas about using this new series to help your students cut through the hype and learn more about the world around them.

Classroom Resources

Start the conversation in your classroom! Find the discussion questions from this post in downloadable form.

What is Above the Noise?

Above the Noise is a YouTube series for middle- and high-school students that dives deep into the big questions behind issues affecting students' daily lives. Episodes take on complex subject matter with facts and research to help young viewers draw informed conclusions, while inspiring media literacy and civic engagement.

Above the Noise focuses on data and science literacy, but the series takes on issues that are just as relevant in English and social studies classrooms.

The Anatomy of an Above the Noise Episode

Each episode has a similar structure in order to help students unpack the topic.

The hype: Every episode starts with what we call "the hype." We choose issues that are already being talked about. Then, the hosts go beyond the hype and find out what's really going on.

The research: We do research, analyze information and evaluate the data behind the hype. The hosts model how to look at information by talking about things like sample size and research protocols, citing research papers and discussing what the experts are saying.

The call to action: Episodes end with a question students can answer. This can be a jumping off point or serve to wrap up the topic. We'd love for your students to respond to this question in the comments on our YouTube channel, either individually or as a class. Many episodes are also featured resources for KQED's The Lowdown .

Using Above the Noise with Students

Step 1: Choose an Above the Noise episode

Check out the episode list on our YouTube channel and accompanying resources on the KQED Education website . From gerrymandering to genetically engineered mosquitoes , there's something for everyone!

Step 2: View and Discuss

As a class or in small groups, have students watch the Above the Noise episode. True to YouTube style, the narration can move quickly, so plan to watch more than once. You can also stop and start the video as needed and use the closed-caption function. Use the student viewing notes handout to help your students keep their thoughts organized.

Before watching the video

Gauge what students already know about the topic. If you want to provide a brief overview, you can find more resources in the episode's blog post on KQED Education . Start by asking students the following questions:

What do you already know about this topic?

How well do you think you understand this topic? Is what you know based on your own reading, word of mouth or from scanning headlines on social media ?

What questions do you have about this topic? What do you want to know more about?

While watching

Stop to check for understanding and point out the data and media literacy aspects of the episode. Here are questions that apply to almost all videos:

What issue does this episode discuss?

What is the "hype" around this topic or issue?

What does the data or other evidence tell us about this issue?

How does the host analyze the data? What kind of research or information is presented?

Are the sources used in the episode credible? How do you know?

Do you think graphics are used effectively in this episode? How do they add or detract from your understanding of the topic?

What other production choices (color, sound effects, etc.) did you notice while watching the episode? How did they add or detract from the topic?

After watching

Help students share their thoughts and internalize the media literacy strategies from the episode using the following questions:

Have your views on the topic changed? If so, how?

Did the evidence provided in the episode help to change or refine your views? Explain.

How would you respond to the "call to action" question at the end of the episode? (Give your students time to respond in the comments section of the YouTube page or on the episode's page on KQED Education.)

What did you learn about analyzing evidence or data from this episode that you can use when reading about other controversial topics or doing your own research?

What is another aspect of this issue that you think should be studied further? What would your research question be?

How might someone else look at the evidence presented in the video differently than you do?

What questions do you still have about the topic? What is unclear?

If you and your students want to explore the issue further, you can review the research behind each episode and find links to further reading on the Above the Noise collection page .

Want to know more about the Above the Noise hosts? Check out the Welcome video.

Step 3: Let us know what you think!

In addition to sharing your thoughts on individual episodes, we are also looking for new ideas and will give a shout out (and full credit) to any classroom who comes up with an idea for an episode we produce. Youth voice is integral to Above the Noise. In addition to asking our audience for ideas, we work closely with KQED's high school Youth Advisory Board , which co-produces the series.

Connect with us on , Facebook or Instagram using #TeachATN. That way, we'll be able to able to find your comments and questions. We would love to hear from your students, but also from you! Let us know how you are using Above the Noise as a teaching tool!

Classroom Guide for Above the Noise

Author

Andrea Aust

Andrea is the Senior Manager of Science Education for KQED, where she has been developing science education resources and providing professional learning for STEM educators for more than 10 years. Andrea graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Environmental Science and earned her M.A. in Teaching and Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from the University of San Francisco. Prior to KQED, she taught, developed, and managed marine science and environmental education programs in Aspen, Catalina Island and the Bay Area. Follow her on Twitter at @KQEDaust.

Author

Rachel Roberson

Rachel Roberson is KQED's news education manager. Previously, she was a reading, writing and social studies teacher leader on three continents, having served on the founding staff of KIPP Bayview Academy in San Francisco before moving to schools in Abu Dhabi and Austin, Texas. She started her teaching career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. Before she was a teacher, Rachel was a journalist in the East Bay.

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If you want your students to tackle real-world issues and take a deeper look at evidence, data and research, then KQED's video series Above the Noise belongs in your classroom. Keep reading to find ideas about using this new series to help your students cut through the hype and learn more about the world around them.

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Chinese developers have opened a series of new tourist attractions in some very lofty places. Glass-bottomed bridges, cliffside walkways, observation decks, and more

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The total number of smartphone users worldwide will reach an estimated 3 billion this year-here's a look at the visual landscape.

A selection of entries from this year's competition, which is open for submissions until November 15

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
There is much quality material for students, educators, and enthusiasts at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art web site. Start with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History, a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world. Each timeline page includes representative art from the Museum's collection, a chart of time periods, a map of the region, an overview, and a list of key events. The timelines, accompanied by world, regional, and sub-regional maps, provide a linear outline of art history, and allow visitors to compare and contrast art from around the globe at any time in history. There is plenty more here apart from the Timeline: "Just for Fun" has interactive activities for kids, "A Closer Look" examines the "hows and whys" behind Met objects, "Artist" enables visitors to access biographical materials on a selection of artists as well as general information about their work, and "Themes and Cultures" presents past and present cultures with special features on the Met's collections and exhibitions. Sections of interest in Ancient History include Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, The New Greek Galleries, The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: A Journey through the Met to the Land of the Great Khan, and The Glory of Byzantium.

The British Museum
The British Museum was founded in 1753 to promote universal understanding through the arts, natural history and science in a public museum. Its various online offerings are impressive. The World Cultures website highlights achievements of some remarkable world civilizations and explores cross-cultural themes of human development. It features interactive multimedia resources, historical reconstructions and 3D animations and atttracts millions of visitors each year.

BBC: Ancient History
BBC's History section offers an impressive array of exhibitions, activities, games, photo galleries, and other resources. The BBC Ancient History section focuses on Anglo-Saxons, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Vikings. Among the special attractions are examples of Roman art found in Britain, planning your own Viking raid, and discovering treasures from the 'cradle of civilization.' Take some time to explore more of the BBC History offerings. There are engaging sections entitled Multimedia Room, Historic Figures, Timelines, Programmes, Reading Room, Talk History, For Kids, and History Trails. Aimed at upper elementary and lower secondary students.

Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt
Mark Millmore's fun and educational site is comprehensive, updated daily, and features several great sections. Major sections include Hieroglyphs, Numbers and Egyptian Maths, Pyramids and Temples, Kings & Queens, Rebuilding Ancient Egyptian Temples in 3D, Ancient Egyptian Videos and Documentaries, The Discovering Egypt Newsletter, and Ancient Egyptian Quizzes. The Hieroglyphics section contains Ancient Egyptian Mathematics Problems to see if you could "survive" in the world of Egyptian numerals and mathematics and a chance to play the ancient game of Senet. The Pyramids and Temples section is a virtual tour featuring plenty of great pictures of the temples at Karnak, Luxor, Dendara, Philae, and Ramses II. The Kings and Queens section is more essay format, but again features excellent images. Hatshepsut ("The Woman who was King"), Thutmose III ("The Napoleon of Ancient Egypt") and and Ramses II ("The Last Great Pharaoh") figure prominently in this section. Embedded YouTube video and 3D multimedia play a key role at the site, especially in the engaging Rebuilding Ancient Temples exposition and the Ancient Videos section. keep up-to-date on Ancient Egypt news and website updates via Mark's bi-monthly newsletter and take your hand at some of his quizzes. Finally, the site has a Discovering Ancient Egypt shop where you can game and educational software, books, posters, art prints and photos with an ancient Egyptian theme.

Ancient History: Egyptians
This is an impressive introduction to Ancient Egypt aimed at students from BBC. Major categories include Pyramids and Monuments, Mummification, Gods and Beliefs, Pharaohs and Dynasties, Daily Life, Hieroglyphs, a Timeline, and Related Links. Highlights from The Pyramids and Monuments section include an image gallery of the "top ten" Ancient Egypt sites, and an interactive diagram of Khufu's Pyramid complex. The Mummification section features an animated "Mummy Maker" embalming game, and The Gods and Beliefs contains a photo gallery of both Egyptian sacred animals and the 'Death in Sakkara' game. The Pharaohs and Dynasties contains various essays, including a discussion of Hatshepsut, Ramses II, and photo gallery of Tutankhamun tomb and great dynasties. Special features include an Ancient Egypt Timeline and the animated games Death in Sakkara: An Egyptian Adventure. A nice mix of essays, images, and active-learning multimedia.

Perseus Project
Perseus Project is an impressive digital library for Greek and Classical resources from the Classics Department at Tufts University for primary and secondary source scholarly works that cover the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. The collection contains extensive and diverse resources including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps. Works are listed by author and you can browse the Greco-Roman Collection or use the search engine. Art and archaeology catalogs document a wide range of objects: vases, sculptures and sculptural groups, coins, buildings and gems. The site also has FAQs, essays, a historical overview, and an extensive library of art objects, and other resources. Special exhibits include The Ancient Olympics and Hercules. Site is updated regularly.

Turning the Pages
Turning the Pages is an award-winning interactive display system developed by The British Library to increase public access and enjoyment of some of its most valuable treasures. Visitors are able to virtually "turn" the pages of manuscripts in a realistic way, using touch-screen technology and animation. There are currently fifteen treasures on display in Turning the Pages including: the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Sforza Hours, the Leonardo Notebook, the Golden Haggadah, the Luttrell Psalter, Blackwell's Herbal, the Sherborne Missal, and Sultan Baybars' Qur'an.

The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame
The Sport of Life and Death was voted Best Overall Site for 2002 by Museums and the Web and has won a slew of other web awards. The site is based on a traveling exhibition and bills itself as "an online journey into the ancient spectacle of athletes and gods." The Sport of Life and Death features dazzling special effects courtesy of Macromedia Flash technology and its overall layout and organization are superb. Not just stylish, the site's content is excellent and engaging as well. For instance, there are helpful interactive maps, timelines, and samples of artwork in the Explore the Mesoamerican World section. The focus of the site, however, is the Mesoamerican ballgame, the oldest organized sport in history. The sport is explained through a beautiful and engaging combination of images, text, expert commentary, and video. Visitors can even compete in a contest! A must see for Middle School or 9th-grade World History teachers.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
The Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use by Paul Halsall of Fordham University. The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook contains hundreds of well-organized sources; the main sections are Human Origins, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Greece, Hellenistic World, Rome, Late Antiquity, and Christian Origins. The Ancient History Sourcebook also includes links to visual and aural material, as art and archeology play a prominent role in the study of Ancient history. There are also pages designed specifically to help teacher and students: Ancient History in the Movies, Using Primary Sources, Nature of Historiography, Other Sources of Information on Ancient History, and more.

Illustrated History of the Roman Empire
This website offers a comprehensive history of the Roman Empire through essays, chronologies, photo galleries, maps, lists, timelines, and more. Major categories include The Founding, The Kings, The Republic, Early Emperors, The Decline, The Collapse, Constantinople, Religion, Society, and The Army. It includes a Roman Empire Map AD 116 and interactive maps of Roman Italy, the Roman Empire, and the City of Rome. Among the photo galleries is a picture album of historic Roman sites as well as views of Rome as it looked in the 4th century AD. There are also lists of Roman battles, emperors, Roman place names, and other topics. There is an online quiz and embedded YouTube video of a Roman army reenactment. There is also a Kid's Section, which is essentially an illustrated essay. The site design could use a facelift, but the site is maintained and updated and contains a wealth of information.

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
Part of PBS's Frontline series, this companion site explores archeological clues to Jesus' life, paints a portrait of his world, examines the gospels and the first Christians, and discusses why Christianity succeeded. From Jesus to Christ features the testimony of New Testament theologians, archaeologists, and historians who address issues relating to Jesus' life and the evolution of Christianity. The site also offers interactive maps, a timeline, an anthology of primary sources, a discussion forum, and a biblical quiz. A new addition is the edited transcript of a two-day symposium at Harvard University which served as a follow-up to the FRONTLINE broadcast and featured scholars' presentations, workshops and audience discussion.

BuddhaNet
An interesting and broad site that includes Qs and As, historical background, vivid images, and more. Some of the major categories include "Buddhist Studies", "eBook Library", "Buddhanet Audio", "Archived File Library", "World Buddhist Directory", "BuddhaZine" (a kind of buddha devoted magazine), and "Meditation". It integrates the complexities of the religion with the basics very well and has so many subtopics that it is difficult not to find what one is looking for. Some of the special features include audio files of chanting, a photo documentary of Buddhism, teacher's guides, and crossword puzzles and games.

Muslims
This recent PBS addition examines Islam through stories of diverse Muslims. The "Frequently Asked Questions" is like "Islam 101" as it concisely explains the basic principles of Islam, including the most widely accepted definition of "jihad." This site provides an abundance of fascinating facts about Islamic history, basic beliefs, and various other topics through its portrayal and interviews of various Muslims.

Oriental Institute Virtual Museum
The Oriental Institute Museum is a showcase of the history, art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. The Museum exhibits major collections of antiquities from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Palestine, and Anatolia. The Oriental Institute Virtual Museum makes use of a series of Apple QuickTime VR panoramic movies to take you on a tour of each of the Museum's galleries, accompanied by descriptions of each alcove and their artifacts. Where appropriate, links to related materials, such as the Museum's Highlights From The Collections, the Photographic Archives, and relevant Oriental Institute Archaeology and Philology projects elaborate on the most significant objects in greater detail.

BBC: The Story of Africa
This BBC site features Africa's top historians and analyzes the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. Among the topics covered are the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms, the power of religion, the injustices of slavery, and the expansion of trade between Africa and other continents. Features audio segments.

Wonders of the African World
In this PBS production Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. challenges the widespread Western view of Africa as the primitive "dark continent" civilized by white colonists. The series covers Black Pharaohs, Meroe, Gedi, the Swahili People, Zanzibar, the Ashanti and Dahomey (Benin) Kingdoms, Aksum, Gondar, the Churches of Lalibela, the Dogon, Grand Mosque of Djenne, Empires of Mali & Ghana, the Tuareg, Great Zimbabwe, a 1,000 year old South African city - Mapangubwe, the Shona People, etc. Includes a kids' activity page, teachers' lesson plans, and audio clips.

BBC: Civilisations
This Flash-generated BBC site allows users to examine key events in the development of any given ideology or religion and its diffusion across the world. It uses web technology to reveal the sweep of historical forces and the rise and fall of great empires and ideas over 5000 years and is customizable. You will need the Flash 6 player to use Civilisations.

Money - Past, Present & Future: Information on Monetary History, Contemporary Developments, and Electronic Money
Based on Glyn Davies' book, "A History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day", this web site is an excellent resource that covers an array of topics: monetary history, forms of money, politics of money, financial scandals, money and banking in fiction, alternative forms of exchange and economics of the internet. Some topics are covered entirely by Davies, while others use collections of external links. The monetary history section includes "A Comparative Chronology of Money", a comprehensive timeline from 9,000 BC to the present.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art There is much quality material for students, educators, and enthusiasts at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art web site. Start with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History, a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world.

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This institute creates a network for students and educators nationwide, providing engaging ways to learn about the Bill of Rights. It includes many primary resources for students to interact with.

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This resource supplies political cartoons as well as cartoons from other areas for students to examine. Not only do they have older political cartoons, but they even include today's political cartoons which would relate much better with a classroom.

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Cartoons for the Classroom :: AAEC - Association of American Editorial Cartoonists

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This resource connects today's news highlights with topics in the classroom. It educates teachers on how to use today's news and relate it to the every day student and class.

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Lessons to connect the content of your classroom to the headlines in the news.

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South China Sea: Maritime Conflicts

In this lesson students explore, discuss, and evaluate multiple perspectives on maritime disputes in the South China Sea.

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Puerto Rico's Recovery After Hurricane Maria: Who is Responsible?

In this lesson students learn about the post-hurricane situation in Puerto Rico within a broader context of U.S.-Puerto Rican relations.

We keep a full archive of all of our past Teaching with the News curricula and lessons. view archive

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This resource uses technology to bring history to life. There are different eras, topics, primary sources, and references for students and educators to examine.

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Focuses on the study of immigration in the United States. It includes resources to online exhibitions, videos, lesson plans, and many other sources to help engage student learning.

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History Now, the online journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, features essays by the nation's leading historians and provides the latest in American history scholarship for teachers, students, and general readers.

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History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web

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Featured Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources

Center for History and New Media: History Matters
The Center for History and New Media produces historical works in new media, tests their effectiveness in the classroom, and reflects critically on the success of new media in historical practice. CHNM's resources include a list of "best" web sites, links to syllabi and lesson plans, essays on history and new media, and more. This link takes you to their excellent "History Matters" web site for U.S. History. Go to the Digital Blackboard section for lesson ideas that integrate the Internet. Resources are designed to benefit professional historians, high school teachers, and students of history.
See also related World History Teaching Sources.

Teaching American History
This is a wonderful collection of thoughtful and thorough lesson plans and other resources on teaching American history. Each project was created by teachers in Virginia at a Center for History and New Media workshop. All projects include a variety of lesson plans and resources, and some even offer instructional videos on source analysis. The lesson plans cover a range of topics in American history and utilize interesting and engaging sources, activities, discussion questions, and assessments. Take your time browsing-there are many to choose from.

PBS Teacher Source
PBS is a great source for information on a myriad of historical events and personalities. PBS's assorted and diverse web exhibits supplement specific individual television series and generally include a summary of each episode, interviews (often with sound bites), a timeline, a glossary, photos, and links to relevant sites. Go to the PBS Teacher Source for lessons and activities - arranged by topic and grade level - and sign up for their newsletter. Categories include American History, World History, History on Television, and Biographies. Some lesson plans require viewing PBS video, but many do not.

EdTechTeacher Introduction to Guided Inquiry Activities

Explore several exemplary guided-inquiry Internet activities and learn about the possibilities for social studies guided inquiry on the Web.

BBC: History
BBC's History section offers a multitude of sites, activities, games and other resources. Major categories include: Ancient History, Archaeology, Church and State, Science and Discovery, Society and Conflict, War and Culture, and Family History. There are also sections entitled Multimedia Room, Historic Figures, Timelines, Programmes, Reading Room, Talk History, For Kids, and History Trails. The BBC Multimedia zone offers games, animations, virtual tours, and galleries. Many games deal with various aspects of British history.

The National Archives: Teachers' Resources
The National Archives Lesson Plans section contains incorporates U.S. primary documents and its excellent teaching activities correlate to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government. Lessons are organized by chronological era, from 1754 to the present.

National Archives: DocsTeach
Using DocsTeach from the U.S. National Archives, educators can create interactive history activities that incorporate more than 3,000 primary-source materials from the National Archives. These constructivist activities engage students in hands-on exploration of history.

National Archives: Digital Vaults
Digital Vaults is an interactive exploration of history that examines thousands of documents, photographs, and pieces of history that have been integrated in a digital format. Clicking on a document will give a description and a brief history of that archive, as well as displays a large variety of similar archives. The user has the ability to shuffle, rearrange, collect, and explore archives, as well as search for specific points in history using a keyword search. Although a lack of initial organization or index might seem overwhelming, Digital Vaults is a wonderfully imaginative resource for exploring history in a digitally compiled way.

The Center for Teaching History with Technology

The Center for Teaching History with Technology from EdTechTeacher provides a multitude of free online resources - articles, tips, strategies, and lesson plans - to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Visit the center and discover, among other things, how to get started teaching with technology, great examples of inquiry-based, World History and United States History lesson plans, as well as resources and tutorials for teaching history with technology. Subscribe to the free EdTechTeacher Newsletter and receive additional resources, lesson plans, and tech tips. The Center for Teaching History with Technology is led by Tom Daccord, veteran high school history teacher, academic technology specialist, webmaster of Best of History Web Sites, and co-author of Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers, By Teachers.

Mr. Donn's Pages: Free Lesson Plans, Activities, and Resources
Teacher Don Donn of the Corkran (Maryland) Middle School provides complete units on various historical topics with daily lesson plans and resources. Units include Ancient History, World Geography & Maps, World Cultures/Eastern Hemisphere, World Cultures/Western Hemisphere, World History, U.S. History & U.S. Government, Sociology & Psychology, Social Studies & Literature. The numerous lesson plans and resources available at this popular site have been developed by Mr. Donn and other contributors. Lessons are most appropriate for students in grades 5-8.

Edsitement - The Best of the Humanities on the Web
EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities. All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. This impressive site features reviewed links to top sites, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and search engines. You can search lesson plans by subcategory and grade level; middle school lessons are the most numerous.

National Archives (UK) Education Service
The UK National Archives holds records dating back nearly 1,000 years and here you will find lessons, podcasts, and other resources. The resources cover a wide range of historical periods and are arranged in chronological periods. The lessons are mostly source based case studies centered on key questions.

Innovative Teaching with Web 2.0

Web 2.0 tools enable users to contribute content easily to the Internet and communicate with others. Blogs, wikis, and podcasts are frequently identified as Web 2.0, though many other tools and platforms fall into this category. Visit EdTechTeacher.org to learn more about teaching with technology. Our inquiry-based, technology integration projects and activities engender student creativity & empowerment. EdTechTeacher's Center for Teaching History with Technology also offers tips, guides, and examples to assist you, such as:

Tip: Find recommended WebQuests for History and Social Studies at the Center for Teaching History with Technology.

The British Museum WebQuests
The British Museum was founded in 1753 to promote universal understanding through the arts, natural history and science in a public museum. Its various online offerings are impressive. The British Museum interactive WebQuests are designed to to help students explore the collections of nine museums and galleries.

The British Museum Ancient Civilisations Websites
The British Museum The British Museum Ancient Civilisations websites incorporate images, simulations, and other resources to make the study of Ancient history enticing for students. The British Museum websites feature animations, 3D models and objects from the Museum collection.

SCORE - Schools of California Online Resources for Educators
The Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) project is a terrific resource for teachers and students alike. You'll find lesson plans evaluated by history/social science leaders in California - all rated and arranged by grade level and content area. Unfortunately SCORE has been hit by budget cuts so many resources have not been updated.

The New York Times Learning Network
This informative site offers detailed lesson plans and quizzes built around New York Times articles. Check out the Lesson Plan Archive and search by keyword, subject, or grade level. Social studies lesson plans are objective and standard-based and are well supported by charts, graphs, and images.

Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines

If you are planning to show copyright materials within the confines of your classroom then your usage more than likely falls within the scope of educational "fair use." Mind you, more and more educators are making their (or their students) presentations available online, and this practice raises some important copyright issues, so please visit our Understanding Copy Right & Creative Commons page at The Center for Teaching History with Technology. We know it's not always easy to adhere to Fair Use policies, so here are a few simple practices that can help:

1. Credit all the sources that you use in handouts and presentations.

2. Don't borrow too much from any individual work.

3. Don't republish anything from the Internet onto a public Web site without permission.

4. When in doubt consult your librarian or media specialist.

Helpful Resources for the Classroom

Stanford Universities Libraries
The Stanford Universities Libraries Copyright & Fair Use Center provides articles, FAQs, primary materials, and various other helpful resources.

Copyright Crash Course
The University of Texas offers a crash course on copyright. Its "syllabus" includes an explanation of basic and applied fair use and copyright.

Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creativity. Creative Commons can help you find photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share, or build upon, utilizing Creative Commons search tools.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History
There is much quality material for art students, educators, and enthusiasts at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art web site. Start with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History, a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world. Each timeline page includes representative art from the Museum's collection, a chart of time periods, a map of the region, an overview, and a list of key events. The timelines - accompanied by world, regional, and sub-regional maps - provide a linear outline of art history, and allow visitors to compare and contrast art from around the globe at any time in history.

National Geographic: Maps and Geography
National Geographic.com provides interactive quizzes, games, expeditions and tours as well as Maps. Xpeditions Atlas offers teacher-tested lessons plans sorted by standard and grade level as well as interactive lessons and a virtual museum called Xpeditions Hall. Students will benefit from the Homework Help section where they can research pictures, articles, maps, and more for reports, presentations, and more. The GeoBee Challenge is a game that features five new geography-based questions every day. Map Machine provides physical and political characteristics of countries and includes aerial views. You can view nearly any place on Earth by population, climate, and more.

Smithsonian Education
The Smithsonian Education site is divided simply into three main categories: Educators, Families, and Students. The Educators section is keyword searchable and features lesson plans - many pertaining to history. The Students section features an interactive "Secrets of the Smithsonian" that teaches about the special collections at the Smithsonian..

Primary Source: Primary Source World
This site features teacher-created, classroom-ready activities designed around key primary sources, including written documents, artifacts, audio clips, visual evidence and much more. Each cluster of sources includes key questions, objectives, and a background essay to help you teach the activities with confidence and infuse more global content into your curriculum.

Public Domain Historical Images

To help you and your students avoid infringing on copyrights, EdTechTeacher has prepared an extensive list of Internet sources for public domain images, with an eye towards the humanities. Please check individual images you find at these sites to determine if there are any restrictions on usage.

HistoryTeacher.net
An impressive, award-winning site from a New York high school teacher. Features many research links and curriculum resources for Global Studies, U.S. AP History, US European History, and American History and Government. Also has quizzes, news links, and more.

SchoolHistory.co.uk
School History is a bountiful online history site that offers huge numbers of freely downloadable resources, interactive and entertaining history games and quizzes, interactive online lessons together with comprehensive links to online resources.

Education with Student News
This CNN Education site provides teachers with instructional materials for integrating current events across the curriculum. A student section keeps students in grades 6-12 aware of the latest news of interest to them. Lesson plans, background material, profiles, links to useful Internet sites, and forums for interaction with other teachers are all included.

Time for Kids: Teachers
Time for Kids provides online lesson plans based on the Time for Kids magazine. Lessons are organized around four editions: K-1, Grades 2, Grades 3-4, and Grades 5-6. Teachers only need to subscribe.

Discovery Education: Lesson Plan Library
The Discoveryschool.com Lesson Plan Library offers history and government lesson plans for Ancient History, U.S History, and World History. Lesson plans are organized as per Grades K-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12 and provide: Objectives, Materials, Procedures, Adaptations, Discussion Questions, Evaluation, Extensions, Suggested Readings, Links, Vocabulary, Academic Standards, and Credit.

Education World: History Center
Education World provides practical resources for history educators. You'll find lesson plans, articles about what other teachers are doing, professional development resources and more. Education World offers timelines, activities, work sheets, games, homework help, clip art, images, and articles.

History Lesson Plans and Resources
Edmund J. Sass, Ed.D, developed this page primarily for use by education students at the College of Saint Benedict/St.John's University. He offers an extensive list of history lesson plans as well as lesson plans related to terrorism, tolerance, or the events of September 11.

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
The Gateway is a Consortium that provides educators with access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites. It includes over 12,000 history and social studies resources and activities. Annotated and organized by grade level.

McRel: History Lesson Plans
McREL is a private, nonprofit corporation that provides products and services for PreK-16 education. It offers a wide selection of United States History, World History, and Historical Understanding lesson plans.

Awesome Stories
AwesomeStories.com is a free, non-commercial educational web site for educators (as the basis for lesson plans) and students. Stories link to organized primary and secondary source materials found principally at U.S. and other worldwide national archives, museums, libraries, universities, news organizations, and government web sites. The purpose of the site (including its separate, stand-alone channels) is to take visitors on a virtual guided tour of relevant on-line source materials. Be sure to check out Click2History.

Turning the Pages
Turning the Pages is an award-winning interactive display system developed by The British Library to increase public access and enjoyment of some of its most valuable treasures. Visitors are able to virtually "turn" the pages of manuscripts in a realistic way, using touch-screen technology and animation. There are currently fifteen treasures on display in Turning the Pages including: the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Sforza Hours, the Leonardo Notebook, the Golden Haggadah, the Luttrell Psalter, Blackwell's Herbal, the Sherborne Missal, and Sultan Baybars' Qur'an.

Primary Access
Primary Access allows students to use primary source documents, pictures, videos, and recordings to create multimedia presentations about a specific topic in history. It uses a general layout that consists of video recordings, outlines of ideas, timelines of history that include dated pictures and archives and much more. Although it can be very informative, Primary Access's simple layout and summarized history explanations make it seem a bit more directed towards middle school students. While the information may seem limited at times, it provides a good layout for students to begin formulating a general idea of what they want to focus on.

ThinkQuest Library
The ThinkQuest Library is a free educational resource featuring websites created by students around the world as part of a global competition. There are some outstanding websites here that ca serve as an example to students of what they can accomplish. Go to the Library section to view websites organized by topics.

ActiveHistory
Note: This is a subscription website, but one that many teachers feel is worth the expense. ActiveHistory.co.uk is the creation of an impressive and award-winning UK teacher who provides interactive simulations, decision-making games, self-marking quizzes, worksheets and lesson plans for teachers and students of World History. It is aimed at students between 11-18 years.

C-SPAN in the Classroom
Access C-SPAN's complete program archives including all videos. C-SPAN in the Classroom is a free membership service that offers information and resources to assist educators in their use of primary source, public affairs video from C-SPAN television. You do not have to be a member to use C-SPAN online resources in your classroom, but membership includes access to teaching ideas, activities and classroom tools

Virtual Tours & Electronic Field Trips

See "Examples of Virtual Tours and Electronic Field Trips" from The Center for Teaching History with Technology for an annotated list of great web sites to use for virtual tours.

Educational Resources from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's site offers information on the Federal Reserve System and monetary policy with sections for students, teachers, and the general public. A highlight from the Student Activities section is "FedVille" which allows students to explore the subject of economics through a fun and interactive game. Teacher Resources provides course material and helpful link. For information on a variety of more specific topics, see the helpful Publications section.

EcEdWeb
The EcEdWeb or Economic Education Web provides helpful teaching resources for K-12 or pre-college economics.. The K-5 Economics and 6-12 Economics are organized so that you can locate resources by concept, by standards, and by lesson. If you need a lesson or information on a particular concept (e.g. scarcity), start with Concepts

Games Economists Play
"Games Economists Play" is a website compiling over 170 descriptions of games for economics teachers (ranging from high school to college level) that can be used in classrooms. These game descriptions are divided into two major categories, Micro and Macroeconomics. The website is simple in design, thus making it very easy to navigate. It's search features and index allows teachers to scan the website for games specific to topics being covered. "Games Economists Play" has a bibliographical layout that makes it organized and efficient in finding helpful games used for teaching economics.

Geography World
A Geography teacher from Pennsylvania has put together this award-winning teaching resource. Contents are organized around four major areas: Geographic Information; Geography Games, Puzzles, Quizzes, Trivia; Pennsylvania; and Geography World. Check out the links to Maps and Globes as well as the Geography Quizzes area. The site design may look outdated, but the resources are updated regularly.

National Council for the Social Studies: Social Studies.org
National Council for the Social Studies offers support for social studies educators. Links are categorized by themes of the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. Teachers share classroom experiences at the site and on the NCSS listserv. The National Council for the Social Studies Data Bank features an annotated list of teaching resources categorized by the ten themes of the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. Many of these resources involve technology integration, especially internet use.

The History News Network
The HistoryNewsNetwork was created in June 2001 and features articles by historians on both the left and the right who provide historical perspective on current events. HNN exists to provide historians and other experts a national forum in which to educate Americans about important and timely issues, and it is the only web site on the Internet wholly devoted to this task. HNN is a nonprofit publication run by George Mason University.

teAchnology: History Lesson Plans
TeAchnology is an online teacher resource offering thousands of K-12 lesson plans and free printable worksheets.

The Henry Ford: Education Resource Bank
The Henry Ford museum resource website provides multiple resources from "America's traditions of ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation." Search the Resource Bank by curriculum topic or theme.

Voice of the Shuttle: History Page
Part of an extensive guide to humanities resources that provides numerous links to feature sites, teaching resources, electronic journals, course syllabi, and more. Aimed at university educators.

The LessonPlansPage.com
The Lesson Plans Page is a collection of over 2,500 lesson plans, primarily at the elementary level, that were developed by Kyle Yamnitz, students, and faculty at The University of Missouri.

Tip: See "Examples of Virtual Tours and Electronic Field Trips"from The Center for Teaching History with Technology for an annotated list of great sites for virtual tours.

Spartacus: History
Run by a small educational publishing company, this website provides free online materials for major history curriculum subjects. Visitors can sign up for a free monthly e-mail newsletter covering web reviews and using technology in the history classroom.

Teacher's Virtual School
The Spartacus Teachers' Virtual School History Department provides lessons under Key Stage (2,3,4) and Topic. Teachers are invited to send in details of any online history lessons they have produced for their students.

Teaching with Historic Places - Women's History Lesson Plans
Teaching with Historic Places complete lesson plans that consider important aspects of women's history. Created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and educators, these lessons are free for classroom use.

Studentsfriend.com - World History
This non-profit, teacher-to-teacher site is a guide for high school teachers of world history and geography, although much of the content is suitable for teachers of other social studies subjects as well. Content includes fundamental information about history teaching, resources, a concise alternative textbook and lesson plans.

Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet that social studies teachers should find very useful. Among the categories are Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies, Online Activities, and Teaching Current Events. The site is detailed and well organized, but not actively maintained and thus there are several broken links.

UMBC History Lesson Plans
University of Maryland Baltimore County Teaching American History Lesson Plans organized by historical eras.

The Academy Curricular Exchange
The Curriculum Exchange offers a variety of lesson plans created by a consortium of teachers from 14 states. Their social studies "mini" lessons are organized by Elementary School, Middle School, and High School.

edHelper.com
Edhelper.com provides lesson plans for teachers of social studies and other academic disciplines. It includes documents-based and timeline activities and there are Geogrpahy and Economics activities as well.

edClass
EdClass by SchoolKiT is a library of hundreds of classroom-ready learning modules that make use of technology to enhance learning. There are some excellent sample modules to peruse at the site, but you must register to gain access to all the modules.

Social Studies Lesson Plans
Much information on government and politics for 9-12 students. Has many "mini" activities that do not necessarily involve the Web.

Oral Histories
This website, run by the Oral History Society, provides some good practical advice on how to start an oral history project.

Classroom Lesson Plans: Teaching About 9-11
History News Network - In addition to the sites listed by HNN, teachers may want to consult, which is sponsored by the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning at CUNY. This site features a large digital archive of individuals' stories about 9-11.

Textbook Companion Web Sites

The Textbook Companion Web Sites page from The Center for Teaching History with Technology points out that many textbook companion web sites contain an impressive amount of technology tools and materials, such as PowerPoint presentations, primary sources, interactive maps, interactive tests and quizzes, essay questions, bulletin boards, chat rooms, and more. Even if you don't use these textbooks, you may well find many uses for their companion sites. Check out the article as well as the three sample sites listed below.

Out of Many: A History of the American People - Lesson Plans
Focus Lessons for Out of Many highlight important ideas and concepts in each chapter as well as the relevant sections in the program's ancillaries. The Focus Lessons, written by an experienced AP teacher, suggest strategies for assessing how well your students understand the important points in each chapter and also provide test-taking tips that will help your students prepare for and take the AP United States History test successfully.

The American Nation: A History of the United States - Lesson Plans
Focus Lessons for The American Nation highlight important ideas and concepts in each chapter as well as the relevant sections in the program's ancillaries. The Focus Lessons, written by an experienced curriculum developer, suggest strategies for assessing how well your students understand the important points in each chapter and also provide test-taking tips that will help your students prepare for and take the A United States History test successfully.

World Civilizations: The Global Experience - Lesson Plans
Focus Lessons for World Civilizations highlight important ideas and concepts in each chapter, as well as the relevant sections in the program's ancillaries. The Focus Lessons, written by an experienced AP teacher, suggest strategies for assessing how well your students understand the important points in each chapter, and also provide test-taking tips that will help your students prepare for and take the AP World History test successfully.

A More Perfect Union
Lessons and resources to support resources that support Houghton Mifflin's Middle School Social Studies textbook.

Learn History
Learn History is produced by a History teacher at a London high school and features notes, quizzes, exercises and PowerPoint lessons.

Primary Source Materials and Document Based Questions
This website is an "Internet Hotlist" for Document Based Questions (DBQs). Many useful links here.

Web Guide for AP World History
The Web Guide for AP World History includes some 500 web links that are categorized and annotated to compliment the AP World History course. The Web Guide is organized into the five sections of the AP World History course: Foundations, 1000-1450, 1450-1750, 1750-1914, and 1914-present. The thematic and analytical sections that are presented follow the structure of the AP World History course. Visitors must register through the College Board.

GCSE History Pages
Main features of this site include interactive tests and quizzes, revision tips, practice GCSE exam papers with mark-schemes for self assessment, revision notes and structured lessons.

Course Models: Medieval Europe
Part of the California History-Social Science content standards and annotated course which include: background information, focus questions, pupil activities and handouts, assessment, and references to books, articles, web sites, literature, audio-video programs, and historic site. Grade 7.

History 20
The Saskatchewan Social Studies Curriculum has developed a "resource hot sheet" dealing with topics identified in the History 20 (Modern World History) curriculum. The resource hot sheets can act as a primary or secondary reading, or to assist in classroom discussions of a variety of topics. Each page has been supported with appropriate visual images, and where possible, first person accounts by individuals who were present during the event. In addition, a number of multimedia-learning objects have been place including sound bites, mini - movies and flash items.

Quizzes and Games

Want to create your own online quizzes or games? The Center for Teaching History with Technology provides an annotated list of links of Links to Games and Activities See also the Best of History Web Sites Games and Animation section for recommended games.

HistoryTeacher.net: AP U.S. Quizzes
The quizzes and puzzles are part of a general site called American Resources. They are arranged chronologically and thematically; the quiz questions are challenging, but there are only five per section.

Practice Quizzes and Crossword Puzzles for U.S. History
The quizzes and puzzles are part of a general site called American Resources. They are arranged chronologically and thematically; the quiz questions are good, but there are only five per section.

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This is a way for students to study the world around us through pictures and articles written by people today. There's a section called "explore today" which relates to exploring through pictures, videos, and journalist that would be interesting for a class to examine. It also has a section relating to Common Core which would help educators in advancing education through this website.

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National Geographic: Stories of Animals, Nature, and Culture

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This website identifies controversial issues that occur in the American society. Pros and cons lists are created with resources linked to reasonings. Not only are their controversial issues from today but it also looks at previous presidential issues that occurred a while back.

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"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
-Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, 1956

"Television is no gimmick, and nobody will ever be elected to major office again without presenting themselves well on it."
-Television producer and Nixon campaign consultant Roger Ailes, 1968

In a media-saturated environment in which news, opinions, and entertainment surround us all day on our television sets, computers, and cell phones, the television commercial remains the one area where presidential candidates have complete control over their images. Television commercials use all the tools of fiction filmmaking, including script, visuals, editing, and performance, to distill a candidate's major campaign themes into a few powerful images. Ads elicit emotional reactions, inspiring support for a candidate or raising doubts about his opponent. While commercials reflect the styles and techniques of the times in which they were made, the fundamental strategies and messages have tended to remain the same over the years.

The Living Room Candidate contains more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952, when Madison Avenue advertising executive Rosser Reeves convinced Dwight Eisenhower that short ads played during such popular TV programs as I Love Lucy would reach more voters than any other form of advertising. This innovation had a permanent effect on the way presidential campaigns are run.

The 2020 edition of The Living Room Candidate has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.

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This is a unique resource of a compilation of youth poems. What makes it unique is they are all refugees and the poems express their feelings towards their lives and leaving their home country.

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This resource uses clips of The Big Bang Theory to teach students about economics. Not only does it include clips, it also has lesson plans to follow.

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Just like Bazinganomics, The Office uses clips to show how economics works as well. It provides a brief description about how the video can help and what it explains in the video.

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Video clips from the television show the office that illustrate economics concepts.

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This resource highlights different ways to engage student learning. Whether it is through lecture or own personal note taking, there are many different ideas listed to help with interaction in the classroom.

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This is the presentation given over the Cold War and foreign perspectives rather than the view of the United States, which is what is usually covered. Here we cover the issues that occurred in the Congo during this time (Congo Crisis).

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This resource provides collections of documents that are categorized to specific topics, regions, or events. The resources are organized through a timeline with documents attached to each event.

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This is a presentation over the impacts that the cold war had on the United States. It includes how it affected social life, politics, and foreign affairs throughout the US

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This is the presentation given over Archaeology, it defines what it means as well as why it is important for us to teach it to our future students. It also provides resources such as Understanding by Design and Project Archaeology.

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This is a game created by Richard Byrne that helps students begin to understand the economy. The goal of the game is to demonstrate the effects of a business closing on a small town's economy.

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Kid's Economic Glossary | Scholastic.com

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A glossary of economic terms to help kids better understand the economic and the current economic crisis.

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China used to call Russia its 'older brother'. However, never again since the fall of the USSR. In an effort to portray its status as a less powerful yet assuredly more senior neighbour, Russian officials have recently begun referring to their country as China's 'elder sister'. The new term has proven less popular in China.

Japan
A wave of political activism has animated East Asian politics: Taiwan's Sunflower Student Movement in 2014, South Korean 2015 street protests against President Park's new labour law, and protests in Japan in 2015 against Prime Minister Abe's security bills. Youth activism was common to all these movements.

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Health Care
Upward pressure on US consumer prices is stemming from two elements. Rents and medical services. Due to the differences in the composition of the basket of goods and services that are used, the core personal consumption deflator, which the Fed targets, typically lags behind core CPI.

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Economic Conditions
The US dollar has firmer against most major and emerging market currencies. It remains well within its well-worn ranges, which continue to be narrow. A notable exception today is the yen's weakness.

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Energy China used to call Russia its 'older brother'. However, never again since the fall of the USSR. In an effort to portray its status as a less powerful yet assuredly more senior neighbour, Russian officials have recently begun referring to their country as China's 'elder sister'.

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This resource makes the stock exchange a reality in the classroom. The teacher can create a game for the students to participate in order to gain some understanding as to how the stock exchange works.

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Trade Stocks.
Make Money.*
Earn Bragging Rights.

Build your portfolio and react to the markets in real time. Compete against your friends or coworkers to earn your spot at the top of the leaderboards.

Login required to play.*We're talking virtual cash, not real money. This is strictly a simulation.

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Build your portfolio and react to the markets in real time. Compete against your friends or coworkers to earn your spot at the top of the leaderboards. Login required to play. *We're talking virtual cash, not real money. This is strictly a simulation.

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This is a relatively easy game to play that could help introduce economics. It is a basic economics and money making game.

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New and Improved! Lemonade Stand version 1.6 is a simple game of economics made with FLASH by Geoffrey Noles. You have 30 days to run a Lemonade Stand. Try to see how much money you can make! Downloadable version available.

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When first looking at this site it seems to be very overwhelming, however if broken down this could be a great resource. Scrolling over different parts of the site the students can get definitions or an explanations as to what they are looking at.

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continuously updated us national debt clock real time us debt clock

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US National Debt Clock : Real Time U.S. National Debt Clock

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This is a great App to use in a classroom, specifically great for geography but could be used for many other disciplinarias. Not only can you explore the globe, it now offers information and facts as well as tours for learners to take.

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Aw snap! Google Earth isn't supported on your browser. You may need to update your browser or use a different browser. Please see our system requirements for more information. Chrome is a great choice and you can download it here. Or if you're feeling adventurous, you can try Earth anyway by choosing an option below.

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This is an app found in the Apple iTunes store. Yahoo finance can be used to keep track of the stocks students are most interested in. This can be used as part of a simulation when having students keep track of certain stocks in order to understand the stock market.

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‎Your #1 finance destination to track the markets and the economy. Follow the stocks you care about most and get personalized news and alerts. Access real-time stock information and investment updates to stay on top of the market. Favorite features: * Track the performance of your personal portfoli...

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Crash course is a great way to quickly introduce economics to students. This video covers all the "need to know" basics of economics in a short video that the students can always refer back to.

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Intro to Economics: Crash Course Econ #1

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This is an awesome resource that gives you an unknown location on multiple different maps. Then looking around and exploring the small area, you then have to make a guess as to where you are located. This could be a world map, US map, European, etc.

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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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This is a great way to get kids excited about geography. It takes you on a real life treasure hunt with items hidden all around your area. This idea can be used in a classroom or school wide search.

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Get the free Official Geocaching app and join the world's largest treasure hunt.

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There are millions of geocaches worldwide, just waiting for you to find them. There are probably even some within walking distance of where you are right now. Visit Geocaching.com to see just how many geocaches are nearby and to learn how to start finding them.

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This is a more complex but really great resource that explains the timeline of events through a map. At certain destinations you can put a picture or video with an explanation of what happened in that area. This could be used to teach a lesson as well as a project to see students understanding of a topic.

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StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. It is a new tool, yet stable in our development environment, and it has a friendly authoring tool.

There are a couple ways you can make a StoryMap.

Maps

Add a slide for each place in your story. Setting the location is as easy as a text search for the name or address. You can change the visual style of your map with a few presets, or you can use Mapbox to create your own style.

Really big images

You can tell stories with large photographs, works of art, historic maps, and other image files. Because it works best with pixel-dense files, we call these gigapixel. Setting one up requires you to host files on a web server.

Learn more about gigapixel

Tips & tricks

1. Keep it short. We recommend not having more than 20 slides for a reader to click through.

2. Pick stories that have a strong location narrative. It does not work well for stories that need to jump around in the map.

3. Write each event as a part of a larger narrative.

4. Include events that build up to major occurrences - not just the major events.

Media sources

StoryMap JS can pull in media from a variety of sources. Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Dailymotion, Google Maps, Wikipedia, SoundCloud, Document Cloud and more!

Examples

Help

Need help? First, please be sure to look at our list of frequently asked questions below.

If you don't find an answer there, try our support forums or use our tech support web form. Please be clear with your question, include a link to your spreadsheet, and if appropriate, a link to a page which shows the issue with which you need help. We can only answer support questions in English. We try to be prompt, but please understand that we do not have a dedicated tech support staff.

Find a bug? If you are confident you have found a bug, please report it as a GitHub issue. Be sure to include detailed instructions on how to reproduce the bug. If you're not sure, please start with the tech support system.

Technical documentation

Go further with StoryMap:

Frequently asked questions

What CMS does StoryMapJS work on?

Please let us know if you have tried it on others and it works, so that we can add to the list.

Why aren't my Google Drive or DropBox Zoomify images working?

Unfortunately, Google has deprecated web hosting in Google Drive, which means that Zoomify images hosted on Google Drive. will no longer display. Dropbox has similary discontinued rendering content in public folders, so this method will cause problems for many users as well.

We find that many people aren't familiar with web image hosting, so we've written up instructions for two solutions so far: hosting on Amazon Web Services, and on Github.

Why are my DropBox images not showing

First the image must be in the public folder.

To get the image URL change the domain name from the link that dropbox creates.

Incorrect: https://www.dropbox.com/s/38053034/GOT%20Storymap%20images/jon-weirwood-tree.jpg

Correct: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38053034/GOT%20Storymap%20images/jon-weirwood-tree.jpg

How can I have a map without the lines between points?

To disable connecting lines on maps, use the StoryMap option: Treat as Image (as opposed to the default, Treat as Cartography)

How can I link to a specific slide?

You can add a parameter to the URL that is the value of the iframe src attribute, start_at_slide. Its value should be a number from 0 to one less than the total number of slides in the storymap.

For example: http://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/storymapjs/latest/embed/?url=//media.knightlab.com/StoryMapJS/demo/sochi.json&start_at_slide=5

This should load Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay Highlights: Slide 5.

How can I use a custom map?

Choose options from the top left of the StoryMap window, then from the map type menu choose the type you like.

Select Mapbox to enter the ID of your Mapbox map.

Select custom to enter the URL for a tile server. If the server supports multiple subdomains, enter them as a single string in the Subdomain field (e.g. subdomains 'a', 'b', and 'c' should be entered as 'abc').

How can I adjust the zoom?

To keep it simple for most users, we've made some assumptions in the authoring tool which may not universally apply. For example, the first screen is always an overview slide. Also, the zoom is affected by the overall size of the map and the relationship between the current and previous points on the map.

It's possible to download the configuration (a JSON file) that the authoring tool makes and edit the JSON yourself. You could then change the first slide to not be an overview and manually set a starting lat/lon/zoom.

Be aware that switching back and forth between editing within and outside the authoring tool can get messy, so we suggest using our advanced method to have maximum control over the zoom feature and more.

Privacy Policy

The StoryMapJS editor uses your Google account to make sure that only you can edit your storymaps. This saves you from needing to remember another password, and saves us from having to help you if you forget it. We only ask for your "profile," which gives us a unique identifier which we can use to connect you to your projects. We don't have your name or G-mail address.

Originally, the StoryMapJS editor stored your projects on your Google Drive, but that is no longer the case. We used to ask for access to your Google Drive. If you made storymaps a very long time ago and have not used the tool since, we may need to ask you to give us permission to read from your Google Drive to "migrate" your old projects.

Please note that it is possible to use StoryMapJS without a Google account; however, it is not possible to use our editor tool. If you prefer not to use a Google account, you will need to manually edit a configuration file and you will need to serve your configuration file and any related media assets from your own server. Some more information about this can be found on our StoryMap for Technical Users page.

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This is a cool way to find collections of images in certain areas as well as find where they were located. Such as, searching Manhattan, KS and viewing all the sites that are now apart of history.

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This is a historical atlas of the United states. This site is filled with many different maps incorporated with graphs to explain the history of the United States.

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American Panorama is created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers serve as editors. Justin Madron manages the project's spatial data. Nathaniel Ayers leads the design work. Scott Nesbit served as associate editor until 2017.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Richmond have generously provided funding for American Panorama. Stamen Design developed the software for this project.

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American Panorama is created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers serve as editors. Justin Madron manages the project's spatial data. Nathaniel Ayers leads the design work. Scott Nesbit served as associate editor until 2017. The Andrew W.

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This is a great program that incorporates archaeology within the classroom. Its packets and instructional guides line up with Common Core standards and have built in lesson plans.

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Project Archaeology | Discover the past ~ Shape the future

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Project Archaeology uses archaeological inquiry to foster understanding of past and present cultures; social studies and science education; and citizenship education to help preserve our archaeological legacy.

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This resources provides interactive media as well as research to encourage the learning of evolution. The site is classroom oriented and provides different ways to teach this subject.

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This website offers students many different bones to look at from hundreds of different types of species. There are also lesson plans that can be incorporated into examining different kinds of bones and where they might be from.

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Bone Clones, Inc. - Osteological Reproductions

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Bone Clones, Inc. is the premier manufacturer of osteological replica models. We specialize in precise, museum-quality replica human and animal skulls and skeletons. Our range of products also includes fossil hominids and fossil animals. Our casts are used in the study of forensics, pathology, anthropology, archaeology, zoology, primatology, advanced anatomy, and much more.

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Here, students can explore artifacts that have been found over the years. They can search through many different collections and find the history among different items and other findings.

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The Division of Anthropology is concerned with all aspects of human behavior, past, present, and with an eye to the future. Our work is biological, archaeological, socio-cultural and linguistic. Established in 1873, only four years after the Museum's founding, the Division has acquired over 500,000 objects representing the peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Pacific Islands.

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Students can look at many different pictures of culture, people, lifestyle, food, architecture, and much more on this website. Diving into a country at their fingertips.

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Images of Anthropology, Archaeology,Sociology and Geography: Photography of Contemporary and Ancient World Cultures

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Photography of images of Anthropology and Archaeology taken in different world regions

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This link provides collections of interviews and documentaries about different people, events, or places. There are many different videos/documentaries to chose from on this site.

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New Day Films is a filmmaker-run distribution company, providing social issue documentaries to educators since 1971.

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This is a great resource that connects you with the world and people around you. It provides insight into life and public debates.

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Table of Contents

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Anthropology - Understanding - Possibility

Living Anthropologically is an anthropology blog and website launched in 2011, with over one million visitors. Living Anthropologically began as a supplement for anthropology courses, especially Introduction to Anthropology. Living Anthropologically explains "What is Anthropology?"

Living Anthropologically attempts to address what Thomas Hylland Eriksen expressed in Engaging Anthropology: "Anthropology should have changed the world, yet the subject is almost invisible in the public sphere outside the academy." The Living Anthropologically project is to make anthropological findings visible in the public sphere, drawing upon undergraduate teaching to highlight the most relevant lessons of anthropology.

From the very first post, I've tried to take counsel from Ruth Benedict's approach to popularizing anthropology. As she launched Patterns of Culture into the world in 1934, Ruth Benedict was very concerned about titles, writing, book covers, and public perception. However, Benedict also provides a cautionary tale for popularizing anthropology. As Michel-Rolph Trouillot writes in Global Transformations, Benedict's use of culture quickly became amenable to reinforcing ethnocentric and racist hierarchies that anthropology purported to challenge.

Trouillot's Global Transformations, published in 2003, was meant to begin a conversation within anthropology. Or as Trouillot put it:

A major hope behind this book is that anthropologists can explore together the possibility of a [...] model of engagement that reflects our awareness of the true power and limits of our position as academics. No single individual can or should define that model, yet I venture to say that its collective elaboration requires a responsible reflexivity. . . . Within North Atlantic democracies, imperfect as they may be, we are paid to speak our minds with relatively few personal risks, and we should use this privilege responsibly yet fully, lest someone takes it away from us. (2003:114-15).

Within North Atlantic democracies, imperfect as they may be, (academics) are paid to speak our minds with relatively few personal risks, and we should use this privilege responsibly yet fully, lest someone takes it away from us. Click To Tweet
In part due to Truoillot's untimely passing, this hope went unrealized. The consequences of this unrealized conversation-partly explored in the 2018 post on Starbucks Enlightenment-place US academic anthropology in a precarious situation. This blog attempts to further the exploration of a model of engagement for anthropology. If you want to support Living Anthropologically please use a social share button, tweet the link above or below, or make a contribution to keep anthropology resources online, updated, accessible. Thanks!

Living Anthropologically is an anthropology blog to showcase anthropology's undying faith in the richness and variability of humankind during global transformation. Let's bring anthropology to life and to public debates. Click To Tweet
Living Anthropologically

Table of Contents

The website category pages make up a table of contents for Living Anthropologically. Each link contains a set of related blog-posts, in chronological order (newest first). I have additionally included links to related pages on the website, since the site combines both a chronological blog as well as fixed-content pages based on anthropology courses and supplementary materials.

The question of "What is Anthropology?" must be answered in each generation. These posts on "What is Anthropology?" highlight vibrancy and diversity. For my most recent attempt defining "What is Anthropology?" see Conditions and Potentials of Human Life. This version of anthropology draws heavily on Tim Ingold's Anthropology and/as Education (2017).

The "Anthropologists" category of Living Anthropologically contains blog-posts related to a specific anthropologist or anthropologists. These posts are primarily about the internal workings of anthropology and anthropological associations, unlike other sections of the site that are more focused on the external promotion of anthropology. A very helpful book is Matthew Engelke's How to Think Like an Anthropologist, now available in the United States.

This category contains a selection of blog posts which are most related to things happening on the Anthropology Blogs. For the most current list of Anthropology Blogs, see Anthropology Blogs 2018. The 2018 update features the new book by Paul Stoller, Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media.

These blog-posts concern anthropology courses and the teaching of anthropology. The page dedicated to cataloging Anthropology Textbooks and Courses is an important resource.

A collection of blog-posts about the role of history, material culture, and archaeology as a part of anthropology. The overview page Archaeology: Domesticaton, Agriculture, Civilization outlines some of the writing accomplished as an attempt at providing an independent web textbook. The sections on Jared Diamond- Agriculture: Jared Diamond's Worst Mistake and Jared Diamond: Against History -are two of the most popular landing pages on the site.

Blog-posts aimed primarily at biological anthropology. See also the overview page on Biological Anthropology which details 13 chapters of what became a Kindle eBook, Anthropology I: Human Nature, Race, Evolution. However, I have been unable to update the Kindle edition since 2012-2013.

Although it now seems impossible to change the terminology of "Cultural Anthropology," most of the blog-posts in this category are critical of the use of the term culture.

The "Moral Optimism" category of Living Anthropologically contains blog-posts related to the idea of anthropology's moral optimism. The term moral optimism comes from anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot's book Global Transformations. See the page on Anthropology & Moral Optimism for elaboration and a free PowerPoint.

At the end of the day, in this age where futures are murky and utopias mere reminders of a lost innocence, we need to fall back on the moral optimism that has been anthropology's greatest-yet underscored-appeal. But we need to separate that optimism from the naïveté that has been liberalism's most convenient shield. We need to assume it as a choice-whether we call it moral, philosophical, or aesthetic in the best sense. We need to hang on to it not because we are historically, socially, or politically naïve-indeed, as social scientists we cannot afford such naïveté-but because this is the side of humanity that we choose to prefer, and because this choice is what moved us to anthropology in the first place. We need to assume this optimism because the alternatives are lousy, and because anthropology as a discipline is the best venue through which the West can show an undying faith in the richness and variability of humankind. (Trouillot, 2003:139)

I am inspired by the work of Gina Athena Ulysse, who is always engaged in the attempt to carry forward the moral optimism of anthropology. See her latest book, Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, me & THE WORLD.

The first draft of Living Anthropologically was called "Angry Anthropology." I wrote it out of anger that anthropology and anthropological analysis was not being heard in the world. I was pitching it as a textbook companion, and my would-be editor wanted something more positive. Thus: Living Anthropologically. Although in general I have attempted to heed the advice of keeping things positive, the Scathing Anthropology category contains posts that foreground this original "Angry Anthropology."

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Living Anthropologically - Understanding & Possibility

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CNN is a great resource to use in the classroom, it can provide quick articles or videos to show in class. It keeps students up to date with what's going on in the world.

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This website has tabs for many different great resources for teachers and students. This would be a great place for students to look when studying primary sources or writing papers.

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PBS is a great resource to find documentaries, historical videos and many other resources for the student as well as the teacher. Instead of learning through reading, students can learn through videos on this website.

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Free, high-quality videos, lesson plans, and other digital resources from PBS for you & your students.

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This is a great resource for teachers to find lesson plans over American history. It is also a place to find study activities that pertain to certain lesson plans.

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This is a great resource that provides lesson plans that are specific to certain time periods and cultures. The resource requires you to have an account, however all lessons are free.

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History Lessons | Stanford History Education Group

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This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues and learn to make historical claims backed by documentary evidence.

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Although this is a US museum, it relates to the Holocaust that occurred in Germany. This is a great resource to teach when covering WWII. It offers many online exhibitions that students can look at without having to go to the museum.

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Online Exhibitions - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Find online exhibitions that explore the history of the Holocaust and contemporary genocide.

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This is such a cool resource that would be great for a middle school classroom. It offers a great visual website that includes interactive games for students to learn from.

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WELCOME TO KIDS PAST! KidsPast.com is the fun way to explore our history. We are who we are today, because of those who have gone before us. Brought to you by the KidsKnowIt Network, The Totally Free Learning Network, KidsPast.com is packed with articles from early man, to recent historical events.

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History Channel is a great places to find videos and/or video clips to share with students. This would be great to use as a hook or a way to end the class period.

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Famous Speeches & Audio | HISTORY Channel

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Witness famous speeches and hear timeless words spoken by historical figures. Listen to recordings of speeches online on history.com

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This is a website that specifically targets youth in history. This would be a fun resource to use to create a connection for students.

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Children & Youth in History is a world history resource that provides teachers and students with access to sources about young people from the past to the present.

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This website offers many things like interactive games that students can play to learn countries, capitals, states, etc. It also offers maps to print out for kinesthetic learning.

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1100 varied and interesting questions about the United States. The questions encourage the player to think and make connections using a map.

Maps of all of the 50 U.S. states, labeled and unlabeled, for classroom and student use. Free.

Free online software to print outline maps - one page to 7 feet wide.

Megamaps - free maps large and small
Great for classroom maps.

Maps by Place:

World:

Print World Maps
Online Atlas Continents and Regions Maps
Continents Map Puzzle
World Features Map Puzzle
World Monuments Map Puzzle

Europe:

Online Map of Europe
Online Atlas Maps of the Countries of Europe
Europe Map Puzzle
Print Maps of Europe and European Countries

United States:

Online Atlas maps of the United States
Make Your Own USA
Online Map of the United States
Printable U.S. State Maps - labeled and unlabeled
United States Map Puzzle - States and Capitals
United States Features Map Puzzle
Print Maps Large and Small of the United States and all of the states

Asia:

China Provinces Map Puzzle
Online Map of Asia
Online Atlas maps of the countries of Asia
Asia Map Puzzle
Print Maps of Asia and Asian Countries

Africa:

North America:

North America Map Puzzle
Mexico States Map Puzzle
Online Atlas maps of North America
Print Maps of North America and North American Countries
Mexico States Map Puzzle

Central America and the Caribbean:

South America:

Middle East:

South East Asia and Australia:

Online Atlas maps of Australia and Oceania
Online Map of Southeast Asia and Australia
Southeast Asia And Australia Map Puzzle Print Maps of Asia and Asian Countries
Print Maps of Australia and Southeast Asia

Mexico:

Online Map of Mexico
Online Atlas Map of Mexico
Print Maps of North America and North American Countries

Canada:

For computers without an Internet connection.
Download and install - PC only. See links above for newer online Map Puzzles - no download and installation; PC or Mac.

U.S. States and Capitals Map Puzzle
U.S. Features Map Puzzle
Canada Provinces, Territories and Capitals Map Puzzle
World Continents Map Puzzle
World Features Map Puzzle
Europe Map Puzzle
Asia Map Puzzle
Australia and South East Asia Map Puzzle
South America Map Puzzle
Central America and Caribbean Map Puzzle
Africa Map Puzzle
World Monuments Map Puzzle
Middle East Map Puzzle

Maps that Teach take advantage of the fact that geography is spatial. They also utilize the way kids learn best, by actively participating in their learning; learning by doing. As students assemble the maps, they build a permanent mental picture of their world.
From Maps that Teach, a student will learn about the continents and where they are in relation to each other; the countries of the world, their capitals and major cultural landmarks, physical features; what is far and what is near.
For the United States, students will learn the states, their capitals, major physical features, and important historic routes that established connections between parts of the country. Students need more than a rote memorization of state names and capitals in order to make U.S. geography meaningful. They should have an understanding of where states are in relation to each other, and the physical characteristics of each region. U.S. students should have a permanent mental picture of their country in their heads, so that any thing they learn about their country can immediately be related to a place.
Maps that Teach are also a lot of fun. They are all played as games, individually or in a group, competitively or not. Can you point to Zimbabwe on a map of Africa? Do you know where the Vietnam war took place? Can you find the Spice Islands (on a map, not in a boat)? Done as a complete program, Maps that Teach will give a student a solid basis in both U.S. and world geography. It is an easy and fun way for your kid to know, "Where in the world am I?"
Maps that Teach have several different formats of learning maps, to be used in conjunction with each other: For each continent or major region of the world, we offer an on-line, interactive map. When the mouse cursor is moved over an area, its name and capital can be seen. These maps can be used to ask, and then check, correct identification of states or countries and their capitals.
For each of these areas, there is also an interactive map puzzle, in which a country or state appears, to be placed in the correct place on the map. Each map puzzle also has a similar program for learning the capitals. Because they are interactive, map puzzle help students learn a permanent picture of the map.
Further, there is a map puzzle of major cultural landmarks around the world, and maps of the major physical features of the world, and of the US. It is one thing to learn that the Appalachian mountains run from Maine down into Georgia; actually putting the Appalachians in the proper place on a map makes it memorable.
We also offer free US and world maps (outline maps) to be printed out on any PC printer, in sizes ranging from a single page to over 7 feet across. Since the maps are free, they can be used freely - tracing the route of Around the World in Eighty Days, or Magellan's Voyage, or the journey of Lewis and Clark; drawing pictures of the forts along the Oregon Trail; marking trade routes and explorations. Mark, trace, draw, color or write on them-they are meant to be used. By using the full range of maps in Maps that Teach-countries, capitals, monuments, mountain ranges, rivers - students will gain a permanent mental map of the US and of the world. They will have the basis of a life-long knowledge of geography, and a beginning to all the knowledge for which geography is the basis.

Suggestions for using the maps in Maps that Teach:

Each continent's Map Puzzle teaches the name and location of the countries and capitals. A country appears on the screen, with its name, and the student places it in the correct position on a map of the continent. In a similar game, the capital has to be placed in the correct country. A separate game has students place major mountain ranges (Andes, Himalayas, Alps), rivers, deserts and jungles on a map of the world. Learned this way, a basic knowledge of where features are becomes a permanent mental picture. Yet another map teaches the location and significance of major world monuments.
The United States map puzzle shows a state with its name, to be placed in the correct location. The capitals are then placed (in a separate game) within their state. Students can learn the location of the physical features-mountains, rivers, lakes, etc.-and their location in relation to the state boundaries, to form an enduring mental picture of the U.S.
On-line interactive maps show the countries and capitals of a continent or region-Asia, Africa, South America, Europe, Middle East or Central America-as the computer mouse moves over the country. Surrounding areas of land or water are also named.
With on-line interactive maps, students can give an answer, then check it by moving the computer mouse, or one student can label a country and its capitals (with a pencil or pointer), then another can use the computer mouse to check his answer. Another way to use these maps is to print them out, have the student write the country and capital on the map, and then check the answers with the computer.
MegaMaps will print outline maps on an ordinary PC printer from a single page to over 7 feet across. They can be used to compliment the study of any period of history where there was migration or movement-which is almost all of them. A large version can be printed and used as a puzzle for students to assemble, then the map can be hung on the wall. Younger students may want to cut out pictures and paste on the appropriate places on the map.
Students can trace anything from the journey of Lewis and Clark to the routes of the Underground Railroad to the main battles of the Civil War on the U.S. map. Any place it would be useful to have a map that can be changed or drawn upon, you can use these free maps. The world maps can be used similarly, to show voyages of discovery, migrations, the spread of empires, etc.

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U.S. and World Maps and Puzzles - Free Maps That Teach

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Learn United States and World geography with Maps that Teach. All of the free maps and map puzzles from Owl and Mouse.

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This is another interactive website that offers students a way to learn countries and continents. It also includes a converter that students can use to begin to understand how currency works.

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Contains a world map organized by continent with links to additional geographic, economic, cultural and historical information.