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After a lesson, check for understanding by having students answer questions from the lesson or discuss their biggest takeaways. This is a good tool for the teacher, so he or she knows whether students need to spend more time on a particular part of the lesson.

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Telling students what they did well and what they can improve on will help them in the future. Telling students what they did well will give them confidence, and giving them tips to improve will let them know what to focus on in upcoming assignments/projects.

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This strategy involves telling the students the important information they need to know, then modeling the skills the teacher wants them to do. This helps students see what is expected of them and how to do it.

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I remember my father trying to teach my how to tie a tie. "Dad, could you teach me how to tie this?" was followed by his wrapping his hands around the tie and working it into a knot around my neck. "Watch this," he said. I watched many times, but my understanding of how to tie my own tie didn't increase at all. Finally I told him, "No, teach how to do it ... don't do it for me!"

Stories like this make me recall the old saying:
"Tell me and I forget; show and I remember; involve me and I understand."
This simple statement has large implications for how anyone retains and applies knowledge. The more we focus on involving students in learning as a teaching strategy - and the less we simply show and tell - then the more likely we are to create a lasting educational experience.

The Flaws of Telling and Showing as a Teaching Strategy

School - "a place where young people go to watch old people work." This humorous description identifies a big problem with traditional models of education. Teachers first work hard to learn and master their material, and then later work themselves into a flurry broadcasting that information as thoroughly as possible to their students. But what are students doing this whole time? In many cases, they are sitting, listening, maybe taking notes, and then later, they are asked to reproduce the content on an exam. The teacher was the one who did the learning, and then they proceeded to "do the thinking" for the students.

This is "telling"- a recitation of what a teacher knows with the prayer that students will somehow absorb that content. "Showing" students is a little better than telling, in that it reveals a process that children may potentially emulate. In either case, it's not the most effective method-pupils connect best when they're allowed to actually manipulate the material with their own hands and minds. So what does it look and sound like when we "show and tell"? Ask yourself:

How often do you:

Focus on students getting to "The answer" rather than struggling through the process?

Let your "They must learn this today" list interfere with the organic conversation we could share?

Accept short, non-descript answers from students and expound the answer ourselves?

Cringe when students take a task in a new direction and seemingly "mess it up?"

Model thinking and producing without giving students an opportunity to emulate?

Expect students can accomplish something perfectly the first try?

Get excited about a particular topic and share a lecture or forced discussion?

Require that students be "good listeners" only?

Why Involving Works

When we remember something, it goes into one of two different types of memory banks in our brain, the first storing facts and figures-declarative memory. This is where the details of our course content often reside ... if in fact they end up there at all.

The second, and in many ways the more effective bank, is called procedural memory. Ever hear that phrase "It's like riding a bike" and wonder what it meant? Once someone learns how to ride a bike, they don't forget. It's not that they've memorized a series of facts and formulas to achieve coordination. Their body automatically remembers. Once they've physically engaged in the task, their brain is permanently reconfigured to perform it.

This is as true for academics as it is for bike riding. The more students are involved in the learning process, the more of their minds and bodies are reconfigured to retain that knowledge. I finally learned how to tie a tie when I told my dad to stand next to me and tie his tie. I had my own tie and slowly imitated his movements. After about 10 minutes of practice, I had the basics down. And after a few more tries, I nailed it every time.

I try to bring this same mentality to my classroom as well. How involved are my students with their own learning? How long before I entrust content to their own hands and minds, and facilitate their material manipulation? Am I expecting them to "tie the perfect knot" the first time, and if not, how much practice am I allowing?

What Involving Looks Like

The first and simplest way to involve students is to set up your class with a basic, "I show, you do," structure. Here, a small portion of your class time is devoted to sharing a new piece of information (or skill) with your kids. The rest of the time is devoted towards application, removing the teacher as the centerpiece of the classroom. Sound familiar? It also serves as the foundational layout of the flipped classroom.

But involved learning can go further, too. The key difference is a distinction between just giving answers or directions versus letting them personally take part in their learning process. Look at these examples of "telling" and try to think of your own "involving" phrase to replace it with.

"Do this."

"Use this technique."

"We're all learning this same thing."

"Here's your grade. That's it."

"We can't do that."

"Follow these steps."

"Listen to me."

Each of the above phrases places the teacher at the center of learning, dictating the content and process step-by-step with little input from the class. Try replacing the above phrases with phrases like these:

"What do you think?"

"Which technique would you like to use?"

"What are you interested in exploring?"

"Your homework is practice."

"Let's do it. Let's go there."

"Design a process that yields the product you're looking for."

"Create, build, invent."

These phrases allow for students to engage their bodies, hearts, and minds into the material. It's a welcomed departure from the "learn and do exactly this" methodology of and produces a vastly superior result. By being involved in the process, students become masters of the material, encode the content into their procedural and declarative memories, and have an applicable understanding of their learning.
They Can Teach
One last way that involved learning looks different than merely showing or telling is that students can now teach others. When I was in junior high I tutored a friend in algebra (yes, she was cute, but that wasn't the point). By tutoring her, my algebra scores skyrocketed because I was forced to sit in the driver's seat and be able to explain the concepts to someone else. When students are given the opportunity to take the wheel and explore the content on their terms, their learning too will skyrocket.
What does involved learning look like for you? In what ways might "telling" and "showing" play a role in your classroom? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!
Jordan Catapano is a high school English teacher in a Chicago suburb. In addition to being National Board Certificated, he also has worked with the Illinois Association of Teachers of English and currently serves as a school board member for a private school. You can follow him on Twitter at @BuffEnglish, or visit his website .

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Having students break up into two groups, with the inner circle discussing a topic and the outer circle taking notes, will improve their social skills and open them up to new ideas. This is a useful tool when trying to get students to think about the big ideas of a discipline.

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Are more and more students looking a little bored and bleary-eyed during history and geography lessons lately? As a first-year teacher, it's easy to become so focused on covering all the necessary content that you overlook opportunities to bring social studies to life. These easy-to-do, hands-on activities will help you put a quick end to social studies doldrums.

Mapping Your Way From Home Sweet Home

After teaching about map symbols and directions, invite to students create a map showing the route from their home to school. A fun motivator is to tell students that they have won a contest but the only way to receive their prize is to provide the delivery service with a clear and accurate map to their home. Maps should be neat, easy to read, and contain proper map symbols, with a key and compass rose. Let them know that landmarks will help the driver make a speedy delivery. Most middle school students will be familiar with the route from home to school. However, if you give students advance notice about the project or a few days to complete in class, then they will be better able to recall details that would enhance their maps. When the maps are completed, you may want to "deliver" students some type of prize or reward.

Three Cheers for Sports Teams!

This activity gives students a chance to show off sports knowledge and geography skills. Organize students into groups and provide them with a list of sports teams. The list should include only the nickname of the team, for example: Dolphins, Red Sox, Mariners. The students have to first figure out what city the team is from, and then locate the city on a map. As an additional challenge have students explain how the team name relates to the geography, culture, or history of its home town. If your community is not already home to a major league team, ask students to imagine that it soon will be. Have students think of appropriate names for the team based on geographical, cultural, or historical information. Students may also pick other cities without professional sports teams and think up names for them too.

Travel Time Brochures

One way to energize teaching about U.S. cities or countries around the world is to have students look at them as travel destinations. The first step is to bring in examples of travel brochures (readily available at most travel agencies, AAA, and tourist bureaus) and discuss what makes them interesting, exciting, and informative. Then, based on places you have been teaching about, have individual students or student groups create travel brochures for a particular location. Students should include at least three reasons why this place might attract visitors and use a simple tri-fold format. Students can illustrate their brochures with drawings or pictures from magazines or the internet.

Person of the Year

In this activity, students become journalists for a famous news magazine. Their assignment is to select a "Person of the Year" for the next issue. As journalists, they need to convince their editor-in-chief that the person they have selected is deserving of this title. Students write a brief article that explains their choice based on research. Students should also design a magazine cover honoring this person. When the projects are complete, consider having students give oral presentations and then take a class vote to decide which person they learned about is deserving of the title "Most Outstanding Person of the Year."

People Poems

Have students write poems about people or places they have been learning about in social studies. The poem can be in the form of an acrostic, in which the first letter of each line begins with a letter of the person's name. The lines consist of words or phrases describing the person's characteristics. Another type of poem is the diamante, which takes its name from the diamond-shaped form it makes. Here's the formula:

person's name
two adjectives to describe the person
three "ing" words related to the subject
four nouns that describe the person
three verbs that tell how the person acted or felt
two adjectives to describe the person
person's last name

These ideas were adapted from Making Social Studies Come Alive! by Marilyn Kretzer, Marleine Slobin, and Madella Williams (© 1996, Scholastic).

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These graphic organizers can help students read difficult texts, including primary sources, informational texts, and literature. Teaching them these strategies will improve their literacy skills.

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The classroom is a dynamic environment, bringing together students from different backgrounds with various abilities and personalities. Being an effective teacher therefore requires the implementation of creative and innovative teaching strategies in order to meet students' individual needs.

Whether you've been teaching two months or twenty years, it can be difficult to know which teaching strategies will work best with your students. As a teacher there is no 'one size fits all' solution, so here is a range of effective teaching strategies you can use to inspire your classroom practice.

1. Visualization

Bring d ull academic concepts to life with visual and practical learning experiences, helping your students to understand how their schooling applies in the real-world.

Examples include using the interactive whiteboard to display photos, audio clips and videos, as well as encouraging your students to get out of their seats with classroom experiments and local field trips.

2. Cooperative learning

Encourage students of mixed abilities to work together by promoting small group or whole class activities.

Through verbally expressing their ideas and responding to others your students will develop their self-confidence, as well as enhance their communication and critical thinking skills which are vital throughout life.

Solving mathematical puzzles, conducting scientific experiments and acting out short drama sketches are just a few examples of how cooperative learning can be incorporated into classroom lessons.

3. Inquiry-based instruction

Pose thought-provoking questions which inspire your students to think for themselves and become more independent learners.

Encouraging students to ask questions and investigate their own ideas helps improve their problem-solving skills as well as gain a deeper understanding of academic concepts. Both of which are important life skills.

Inquiries can be science or math-based such as 'why does my shadow change size?' or 'is the sum of two odd numbers always an even number?'. However, they can also be subjective and encourage students to express their unique views, e.g. 'do poems have to rhyme?' or 'should all students wear uniform?'.

4. Differentiation

Differentiate your teaching by allocating tasks based on students' abilities, to ensure no one gets left behind.

Assigning classroom activities according to students' unique learning needs means individuals with higher academic capabilities are stretched and those who are struggling get the appropriate support.

This can involve handing out worksheets that vary in complexity to different groups of students, or setting up a range of work stations around the classroom which contain an assortment of tasks for students to choose from.

Moreover, using an educational tool such as Quizalize can save you hours of time because it automatically groups your students for you, so you can easily identify individual and whole class learning gaps.

5. Technology in the classroom

Incorporating technology into your teaching is a great way to actively engage your students, especially as digital media surrounds young people in the 21st century.

Interactive whiteboards or mobile devices can be used to display images and videos, which helps students visualize new academic concepts. Learning can become more interactive when technology is used as students can physically engage during lessons as well as instantly research their ideas, which develops autonomy.

Mobile devices, such as iPads and/or tablets, can be used in the classroom for students to record results, take photos/videos or simply as a behaviour management technique. Plus, incorporating educational programmes such as Quizalize into your lesson plans is also a great way to make formative assessments fun and engaging.

6. Behaviour management

Implementing an effective behaviour management strategy is crucial to gain your students respect and ensure students have an equal chance of reaching their full potential.

Noisy, disruptive classrooms do no encourage a productive learning environment, therefore developing an atmosphere of mutual respect through a combination of discipline and reward can be beneficial for both you and your students.

Examples include fun and interactive reward charts for younger students, where individuals move up or down based on behaviour with the top student receiving a prize at the end of the week. 'Golden time' can also work for students of all ages, with a choice of various activities such as games or no homework in reward for their hard work.

7. Professional development

Engaging in regular professional development programmes is a great way to enhance teaching and learning in your classroom.

With educational policies constantly changing it is extremely useful to attend events where you can gain inspiration from other teachers and academics. It's also a great excuse to get out of the classroom and work alongside other teachers just like you!

Sessions can include learning about new educational technologies, online safety training, advice on how to use your teaching assistant(s) and much more.

Being an effective teacher is a challenge because every student is unique, however, by using a combination of teaching strategies you can address students' varying learning styles and academic capabilities as well as make your classroom a dynamic and motivational environment for students.
What strategies do you use to be an effective teacher? Have you got any top tips? Comment below - we'd love to hear from you.

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Archaeology Lesson Plans, Games, & Activities - Archaeology for Teachers

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AIA Lesson Plans - Archaeological Institute of America

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NOVA Teachers Resources listed by subject and type of resource: Anthropology Classroom Activities

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This resource allows students to see archaeology sites in each state. This would be a good tool when allowing students to research the sites in a particular state or region.

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Click on the states for recommendations of archeological places to visit across the nation and their nearby towns. For more opportunities to experience archeology near you, see Events in Your State and the website Archeological Parks in the U.S. The National Register of Historic Places Travel Itineraries include a number of archeological sites.

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This resource has students looking at historical sites so they can better understand the history and geography of an area. This could be useful in helping students understand a particular region.

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Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) offers teaching tools and lesson plans to help educators engage young people with powerful stories representing America's diverse history. Historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects.

Historic places offer connections across time, encouraging empathy for the people who shaped our past. Students can connect their own local history with national events and themes. TwHP materials enable teachers and students to learn from places without leaving their learning spaces. By examining and questioning readings, documents, maps, photographs, and by engaging in activities, students connect these locations to broad themes of American history.

TwHP resources help educators, interpreters, and curious learners virtually explore and engage with our shared history.

Teaching with Historic Places is included in the African American Civil Rights Network, which encompasses historic sites and interpretive programs associated with the African American Civil Rights movement in the United States.

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This book helps teachers incorporate archaeology into their lessons. This would be a useful tool when trying to create activities relating to this discipline.

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Archaeology Lesson Plans & Activities - Archaeology Resources - SAA Archaeology for the Public

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A collection of sample lesson plans and activities on archaeological topics from the SAA's Public Education Committee.

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This template allows students to make economic graphs. This would be a good tool for students to create maps easily instead of having to draw them on paper.

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This website features raps that discuss concepts in economics. This could be a tool to help students remember specific concepts.

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Economics Rap Songs and Worksheets for Introductory Lessons

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We are a group of economics instructors who actively try to demonstrate the relevance of economic concepts to our students' daily lives. One of the ways that we do this is to use contemporary media in our classrooms. Pursuant to that goal, we have compiled a list of clips from TV shows that we use to emphasize applications of the economic concepts that we teach.

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How to Use Memes to Teach and Learn Economics

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This resource provides various games to teach students about economics. When students get done with their work, they could play these games to get them doing more economics.

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The Industrial Organization Game.

Free, Ready to play, Nothing to install, No need to register!

Economics-games.com is a free educational games site for teaching microeconomics, industrial organization and game theory.

Choose the game you want to run, enter the number of players and that's it: You just have to communicate their logins to your students and have them connect to the site with their phones, tablets or laptops. You can then observe and debrief the game through your interface.

(COVID-19 Response) We are making the individual simulations of our other, commercial, website available for free until the end of July 2020 ( IO Game, Carbon Game and Airline Game).
Your students can directly hit the 'Play' button, on the game page. Or, if you want access to an administration interface, you can send an email to nicolas@lud.io (with subject 'Access to the admin interface', and mentioning the number of students and the simulation).

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This resource provides games for students to learn about principles in economics. This would be a fun, engaging way to teach students about the subject.

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Games Economists Play: Jurgen Brauer and Greg Delemeester

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Lesson Plans - Foundation For Teaching Economics

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To find FTE activities and lessons, please select from the different search options. Search by FTE program, topic, FTE economic reasoning proposition, Voluntary National Content Standard, or History Content Standard.

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About 3rd World Farmer

What is 3rd World Farmer?

3rd World Farmer is a new kind of game. An experiment in the genre of Serious Games, it simulates some of the real-world mechanisms that cause and sustain poverty in 3rd World countries.

In the game, the player gets to manage an African farm and is soon confronted with the difficult choices that poverty and conflict can cause.

As a farm and family management game it has an emotional impact on many players because usually these types of games play out in much easier settings, where it's always possible to prosper by playing cleverly and making the right game choices. It's not always like that in 3rd World Farmer. Just like real people are dying from starvation in desperate situations that they never asked to be put in, all it takes for things to go wrong in this game is one bad harvest, an unfortunate encounter with corrupt officials, a raid by guerillas, a civil war, a sudden fluctuation in market prices, or any of the many other game events, that might never happen to families in industrialized countries.

By letting players experience this - albeit in a harmless, fictional setting - we hope to open their eyes to the problems and to motivate them to make positive social change. Our aim is to have everybody play the game, reflect, discuss and act on it. The game is a great starting point for discussions of 3rd World issues, so we encourage teachers to use it in class.

Although the current version of the game is finished and fully playable, our work to improve it continues.

The story behind 3rd World Farmer

The first prototype of the game was developed as a students' project at the IT-University in Copenhagen, Spring 2005. All initial participants were actively involved in shaping the original concept to a playable game. Actually, the very most of the game features have been discussed by the entire group until a fitting solution was agreed upon.

The positive evaluation and feedback from user testing inspired some of us to continue developing the game and to publish it online in new versions. Our work to shape the prototype into a fully playable game has involved meetings and correspondence with relief agencies and game industry professionals.

Version History and Team

First prototype was developed by Frederik Hermund (original concept, written documentation, in-game text and photos), Ole Fabricius Toubro (lead game artist, concept development, graphics programming), Jakob Elias Nielsen (program design & structure, concept development), and Roman Spycher (programming, balancing, concept development.)

Second prototype was developed by Frederik and Ole (programming) and Benjamin Salqvist (artwork).

The release of November 23rd, 2006 was the result of extensive redesign based on feedback from people at our forums and elsewhere, managed and implemented by Frederik with some cool new graphics by Benjamin.

The release of November 2008 includes Spanish translation by Cristian Selman, implemented by Frederik.

Releases since then have been implemented and managed by Frederik with the help from our amazing volunteer translators: Cristian Selman (Spanish), Synthesis.it (Italian), Ulrich Tausend, Alexander Forestier, and Jan "dkh" Simon (German), Martin Truhelka (Czech), Marco Bertolini, Yasmine Kasbi, and Simon Bachelier (French), Ricardo Pereira Filho and Rodrigo Dias (Brazilian Portuguese), and Adam Steer (Hungarian).

The 2014 release featured many small updates including a new highscore system, implemented by Frederik.

In September 2018, Chinese localization was added along with a number of new annual events.

The November 2019 build, which was long available primarily on a separate preview page, included Turkish translation and adjustments to game balance.

With the End of Flash in January 2021, the current HTML5-based version of the game was launched. Unlike Flash, HTML5 is based on javascript and thus supported by most modern browsers, making the online game version playable for the first time on devices such as iPads and Android tablets.

About 3rd World Farmer Translations

Amazing volunteers have helped translate 3rd World Farmer. It's currently available in 11 languages: English, Spanish, Danish, Czech, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and Turkish.

If you're interested in helping us translate 3rd World Farmer into your own native language, feel free to contact us.

News

3rd World Farmer ported to HTML5! A final goodbye to Adobe Flash Player, which did serve us well for 16+ years. And a welcome to JavaScript and the Phaser3 Framework for html5 game development.

3rd World Farmer released for Android on Google Play!

Open playtest of version 1.7.500 on our preview page. Play it and send us your feedback! :-)

Pre-registration enabled for 3rd World Farmer on Google Play.

Game version.1.7.200 uploaded for player preview. Included new game events and a new language (Chinese) as well as updates to balancing, interface and translations.

New responsive website test-launched on 3rdworldfarmer.org.

New WordPress-based website test-launched.

Small update on the website today: Now we're showing both weekly and all-time top scores on the leaderboards!

3rd World Farmer in good company with other economics-themed serious games on ChangeGamer. Student activity for the game included in pdf and doc formats.

3rd World Farmer is one of many teaching tools listed on Educade.org by GameDesk and At&T. We definitely recommend exploring this great resource - and if you're a teacher, please go ahead and share your lesson plans for 3rd World Farmer.

We're proud that 3rdWorldFarmer is on DailyGood's list of games that aim to change the world. We've talked about some of these games earlier on our facebook page, but some may be new to you. Play 'Garbage Dreams' and learn a bit about recycling in Egypt. Or 'Fate of the World', which sure looks very interesting too.

New 3rd World Farmer update today!

With the translation into two new languages, Brazilian Portuguese (by Ricardo Pereira Filho and Rodrigo Dias) and Hungarian (by Adam Steer), 3rdWorldFarmer is now available in the native tongues of some additional 260 million players! :)

This update also includes a number of smaller gameplay tweaks and improvements to the interface, such as multi-planting and highlight markers.

Today, 3rd World Farmer has been updated with TWO new language versions:

Italian (by Synthesis) and German (by Ulrich Tausend, Alexander Forestier, and Jan "dkh" Simon).

With the translations earlier this year into Czech (by Martin Truhelka) and French (by Marco Bertolini, Yasmine Kasbi, and Simon Bachelier) 3rd World Farmer is now available in 7 languages :)

If you would like to help us translate the game into additional languages, please let us know.

The site got a brand new webdesign, by Frederik.

3rd World Farmer got its own fanpage on Facebook. Join to show your support, meet other players, receive updates, and get access to exclusive content.

¿Hablas español?
3rd World Farmer has been translated into Spanish by Cristian Selman from Chile. Cristian is also the author of these two articles on educative simulations that teach economics:
(link 1) (link 2)
Thanks for the effort!

Launched on Newgrounds Awarded the Daily 3rd Place Award! :)

Website up at new webhost.

New version sneak preview launch on dr.dk/spil - Denmark's largest electronic media enterprise's games page. Radio news coverage (1 Million listeners)

Site closed down by webhost. Too much traffic. Various mirrors up. No forums, to avoid server strain.

3rd World Farmer site restored >:D

3rd World Farmer site hacked... >:(

Official site up at new webhost.

Temporary mirror sites up.

Site down because of massive traffic from www.fark.com

We were mentioned at www.fark.com!
Cool :)

Game launched on:

Version 3.4 up
Forum opened

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Play a Geography Quiz on Sporcle, the world's largest quiz community. Sporcle has 165,597 Geography Quizzes that have been played 1196449532 times.

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This tool helps students get familiar with different regions around the world. This would help them become more knowledgeable on where places are located and physical features around the world.

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Free Printable maps

Visit our page of free printable maps - blank, labeled, fill in the blanks for studying and learning.

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Study mode provides all kinds of additional material on countries, and on the US states. Watch this quick video to see how it works.

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Test your geography knowledge - clickable map quizzes

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Clickable Map Quizzes of the world - just click on the map to answer the questions. Great geography practice for students in elementary school, middle school, high school, colleges and universities.

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This resource allows students to explore the earth to see what regions actually look like. This would be a good way to engage students and take them on a virtual field trip.

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Get dropped anywhere from the busy streets of New York to the beautiful beaches of Bali.
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Become a geography expert and have fun at the same time! Seterra is an entertaining and educational geography game that gives you access to over 400 customizable quizzes. Seterra will challenge you with quizzes about countries, capitals, flags, oceans, lakes and more!

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

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This website provides various activities to get students thinking like geographers. This would be a useful way to engage students by having them act like geographers.

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The Geography in a Box Project offers a 'toolkit' of items that students can use to think like geographers. While each 'box' has the same items, grade-specific examples are provided that are based on developmental growth and learning progressions in the Minnesota Standards. Your school could create a Geography Box for each grade level or classroom to engage students with spatial thinking, conceptual knowledge, and decision-making skills necessary for geographic inquiry to solve problems today and in the future.

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Attention Teachers of Geography!! If you have not ordered the newest 4 th Edition Food for Thought curriculum then GET WITH IT. It's free and full of great lessons and maps connecting agriculture with geography. According to MN Agriculture in the Classroom Program Director, Al Withers, it's the best thing since sliced bread! Food for Thought: Connecting Minnesota Geography with Agriculture contains 18 Standards-Based K-12 Lessons & Maps.

Grade 8 Global Studies Teacher's Guide

Teacher's Guide to Restructuring and 8th Grade Global Studies Course: The 2011 Minnesota Standards in Social Studies require that 8th grade will be a Global Studies course, including 29 Geography, 12 History, 4 Economics, and 3 Government and Citizenship benchmarks. This document provides effective ways to teach an 8th grade Global Studies course with MAGE recommended units and resources. Click this link to get started: LiveBinders. The guide is organized by region and appropriate benchmarks. The other recommended resource is a Live Binder created for this course. Powerpoints and other resources are available, as are lessons and units for world regions.

How should a K-12 teacher use a geospatial technology such as Google Earth in the classroom? Should they have students pinpoint a series of locations and measure the connecting distances, essentially using the technology as a mere digital representation of the traditional globe? Or, should they encourage learners to harness the powerful data-driven affordances of the technology to make and justify decisions on contemporary issues? We believe it is the latter scenario; this is the foundation of GeoThentic!

MAPPING Minnesota, a collection of nine geography lessons developed to incorporate selected maps from the Minnesota Historical Society's (MHS) exhibit, 'Minnesota on the Map:' Four Centuries of Maps from the MHS Collection.

An educational website to accompany the MAGE film project about Minnesota history and the science and politics involved in exploring and defining the "True Source" of the Mississippi River Headwaters.Interviews with regional experts on the history, geography, culture, and settlement of the region, and how these played a part in the definition and preservation of the headwaters, are also an important part of the story.

K-12 curriculum designed to enable educators to teach the Minnesota State graduation requirements in geography.

Earthducation is a series of 7 expeditions to every continent over the course of 4 years (2011-2014) designed to create a world narrative of the dynamic intersections between education and sustainability. Teachers, students, and our online community expand upon this narrative to explore how education influences the future of our planet. Join the team on their next adventure at earthducation.com.

National Geographic Society's endowed funds for geographic education. The foundation support National Geographic Education's programs for educators and learners.

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This website provides resources relating to physical, human, and environmental geography. This includes population pyramids, the U.S. Consensus, and the National Weather Service. This would be a good tool when allowing students to research specific regions.

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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service National...

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This website features case studies and resources to teach with maps. This would give students practice in looking at maps.

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The Kansas Geographic Alliance (KGA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing geographic literacy among the citizens of Kansas. The KGA is funded by the National Geographic Education Foundation with additional support from Kansas State University, Fort Hays State University, and the State Department of Education.

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This resource allows students to see different parts of the globe, along with giving them information on important landmarks. This tool would be a good way to engage students and allow them to explore the world.

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This resource provides printable materials, including maps, posters, and charts relating to geography. This would be a good tool when creating lesson plans and giving students visuals.

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Foster global awareness in your class with U.S. and world geography printables, lessons and references. Teach students about oceans and landforms with science activities and mapping resources. There are plenty of crossword puzzles and quizzes to test your students' knowledge of the earth's surface. Map and geography skills may be used in many subject areas including language arts, math, and history. These social studies resources can enhance any curriculum for kindergarten through twelfth grade.

Printables for Grades K-5

Build your students map reading and identification skills with these various activities that cover maps of the entire world. These visual representations of parts of the world will help your students discover without having to leave the classroom! These resources are geared toward grades K-5.

Printables for Grades 6-8

Go deeper with your study with these printable maps of different parts of the world. Whether you are completing a comprehensive study of the United States or another country, or you just want to focus on a particular subsection, these worksheets will help students in the moment during your lessons as well as a resource to study for their quizzes as well.

Printables for Grades 9-12

Use these resources for a general study of different countries or modify them to target a specific historical period or political movement that you want to focus on with your students. These maps can be a useful resource or study guide as students move toward learning more higher order concepts and retaining more historical information throughout the upper grades.

Lesson Plans

Use these comprehensive lesson plans to fully develop an individual, geographical concepts, or historical periods of time that you want to focus on with your students. Within each lesson, you will be guided on how to complete the lesson with students as well as provided different questions, discussions, or activities to help students deeply understand the topic under study.

Printable Geography Quizzes

Tired of making your own geography quizzes? Who says you have to? Review the different quizzes in this section to use as the perfect complement to your lessons and activities. You can use these quizzes as is or can modify them to better meet your teaching style or the needs of your classroom.

Maps and Globes Resources

Use these printable map outlines or review the Practicing Map Skills activity to help your students learn about the different geographic features of various places around the world. These maps can be used again and again and are great resources to help student keep track of the constantly changing world.

Geography Games & Puzzles

Need an interactive game to help reinforce your students' understanding of a geographical unit? This section is the one for you. Whether you want to teach students initial map skills by creating your own map of your classroom, or help them remember the different features that can be used when viewing a map, these printable games will make learning fun for your students.

Technology Resources for Geography

Build your students inquiry, research, and discussion skills with these geographical technology resources. In this section, students will be responsible for investigating the world's wonders and reporting on their findings.

U.S. Geography Resources

Use these printable maps to teach a comprehensive study of the geographical makeup of the United States. Students can keep these maps as study tools when looking back on a full year's study of the U.S. or just as a quick reference during a topic or concept.

World Geography Resources

Use these printable maps to teach a comprehensive study of the geographical makeup of the the world. Students can keep these maps as study tools when looking back on a full year's study of the world. or just as a quick reference during a topic or concept.

Political Geography Resources

Help your students keep track of all the political affiliations during different historical periods with these resources. In this section, you can use printable maps, interactive books and slideshows, or just reinforce their understanding of geographical topic with various quizzes.

References

Looking to build your geographical resource library? This section can provide you a wealth of resources ranging from lesson plans, various charts and maps, or just some fun information or facts on the different parts of the world.

Geography Skill Builders

Uses these Skill Builder guides to help students learn research skills and discover fun facts about geography. Each guide divides into different activities according to your individual classrooms grade level so it can be a resource that you use for any classroom. It also is completed weekly so this be a great compliment to your daily lessons, review sessions, or even as homework activities for your students.

Geography Resources for History Class

Use these resources to help students learn about the geography from different historical periods or important events. In this section, you have access to different lesson plans, printable maps, interactive activities, and classroom guides for discussions. These resources can be kept as is or can be modified to be better for your individual teaching style or classroom needs.

Earth Science & Geography Connected

Planning a cross-curricular study with your fellow teachers? Or just trying to help students understand how geography is formed? This section will provide you for a little bit of both! In this section, you have access to different comprehension resources that outline the causes and effects of natural disasters and how that has developed the geography from the past to today.

Math & Geography Connected

Planning a cross-curricular study with the other teachers in various content areas? Or just trying to help students understand map reading and geography skills? This section will help you prepare for any objective or goal you have for your students. Use the different printable maps, lesson plans, or graphic organizers to build students comprehension and map-reading skills by focusing on topics such as time zones and latitude and longitude.

Language Arts & Geography Connected

Build your students reading comprehension and map reading skills with these different activities. In this section, students connect their understanding of different geographic features with their own previous knowledge and experiences. Each resource is a perfect complement to any part of your lesson, as a resource for students to use to remember key concepts, or as supplemental work to assess student understanding.

Art Activities for Geography

Use these activities to add an artistic spin to learning geography. Students can create their own geographical tools, create cultural artifacts of individuals from a different country, or design different geographic maps of countries around the world. These activities can be used as is or modified to better suit the needs of students in your classroom.

Earth Day Activities

Build your students understanding of this important day with different resources that highlights the importance of taking care of our Earth. In this section, students can review the different economic resources that are pivotal to human survival, the different ways we take care of resources, and much more!

Wildlife Week Resources

Use these literature/teacher guides to review with students the different types of wildlife that live in various places around the world. These guides can compliment any content area and will help your students improve their reading comprehension and geography skills. Use them as is or adapt them to best fit your classroom.

Columbus Day Activities

Use these lessons or activities in this section to help students learn about Christopher Columbus's voyage and exploration of America. These activities can be kept as is or modified to fit your individual teaching style or the needs of your students.

Native American Resources

Help students understand that studying geography means studying the individuals that live in those different regions as well. By reviewing the lives and culture of Native Americans, students can connect their geographical skills to deeper higher order thinking ones

Voyages & Travels Resources

Use these different resources with your students to discuss the concepts of voyages and traveling. In this section are different visual maps, lesson plans, reading comprehension activities, and much more! These activities can be used in their current form or modified to better serve the needs of your classroom.

Ocean Resources

Need some inspiration for teaching your students about the Earth's oceans? Well look no further! Whether it's full comprehensive lesson plans, printable map activities, game worksheets, or resource guides for geographical features, this is the section for you. These activities are great as they are or can be adapted to the characteristics of your classroom.

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This website provides lesson plans that teach students about the Constitution using primary sources. This would be a good tool to teach students about the government, along with improving their literacy skills by working with primary sources.

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Theme: Community Duration: 1-2 Class Sessions
Interdisciplinary Subject: Civics Grade Level: 4-5

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will analyze primary sources from the Library of Congress to identify freedoms and rights. Then they will be provided with background information about the Bill of Rights. Students will match the amendments related to some of the freedoms they identified through analyzing sources and will then work in small groups to reach consensus and propose a new amendment to secure rights or freedoms not included in the Bill of Rights.

Theme: Community Duration: 1-2 Class Sessions
Interdisciplinary Subject: Civics Grade Level: 6-8

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will analyze primary sources from the Library of Congress including Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" and "The Bill of Rights." Students will identify amendments related to two of the four freedoms from the primary sources and will then work in small groups to reach consensus and propose a new amendment to secure rights or freedoms not included in the Bill of Rights.

Theme: Purpose Duration: 1-2 Class Sessions
Interdisciplinary Subject: Civics Grade Level: 9-12

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will analyze a part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech and use primary sources from the Library of Congress to gain historical context. Next, students will explore sources from the Library to draw conclusions about the impact of the speech on American culture at the time. Finally, students will write their own "Four Freedoms" speech, outlining four freedoms they believe Americans should keep front-of-mind today.

Theme: Collaboration Duration: 2 Class Sessions
Interdisciplinary Subject: English Language Arts Grade Level: 3-5

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will explore the experiences of Mexican-American farmworkers in the United States and learn about how they - especially through the leadership of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers - worked with others for improvements in pay and working conditions, as well as respect for their civil rights. Students will analyze primary sources that document working and living conditions for farmworkers in order to build context and then analyze additional sources that highlight the contributions of Dolores Huerta. Finally, students will complete a writing assignment to reflect on working with others to help solve a problem; they may also complete an additional (or alternative) writing assignment to write a letter to Congress.

Theme: Empowerment Duration: 1-2 Class Sessions
Interdisciplinary Subject: English Language Arts Grade Level: 6-8

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will explore the experiences of Mexican-American farmworkers in the United States and learn about how they - especially through the leadership of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers - worked with others for improvements in pay and working conditions, as well as respect for their civil rights. Students will analyze primary sources that document working and living conditions at different times in order to build context and then analyze additional sources that highlight the contributions of Dolores Huerta, including a poem written to celebrate her work. Finally, students will write their own poem about a time they worked as part of a coalition to help solve a problem; they may also complete an additional (or alternative) writing assignment to write a letter to Congress.

Theme: Impact Duration: 1-2 Class Sessions
Interdisciplinary Subject: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 9-12

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will explore the experiences of Mexican-American farmworkers in the United States and learn about how they - especially through the leadership of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers - worked with others for improvements in pay and working conditions, as well as respect for their civil rights. Students will analyze primary sources that document working and living conditions at different times in order to build context and then analyze additional sources that highlight the contributions of Dolores Huerta, including a poem written to celebrate her work. Finally, students will write a poem, speech, or letter to the editor about a social movement (past, present, or future) that inspires them to fulfill their civic responsibilities; they may also complete an additional (or alternative) writing assignment to write a letter to Congress.

Theme: Belonging Duration: 2 Class Sessions
Interdisciplinary Subject: Social Studies Grade Level: 3-5

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students learn about the crucial role journalists and reporters play in keeping the citizens in a democratic society informed about their community, the nation, and the world. First, students are introduced to the notion of "freedom of the press" from the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and they discuss the role of journalists in reporting the news to us all. Then, students analyze primary sources related to famous journalists while referring to historical context for each in order to understand the important role these journalists played in their time. Finally, students create an issue of their own school newspaper to understand the responsibility their have as journalists to report accurately, fairly, and truthfully.

Theme: Equality Duration: 1-2 Class Sessions
Interdisciplinary Subject: Social Studies Grade Level: 6-8

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will explore freedom of the press as they examine sources related to government censorship of the press. After reviewing the First Amendment and the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, they will further analyze the Sedition Act and explore its relevance today. Then students will examine a political cartoon to discuss the relevance of the freedom over time. Finally, they will design and create their own poster promoting freedom of the press today.

Theme: Commitment Duration: 1-2 Class Sessions
Interdisciplinary Subject: Social Studies Grade Level: 9-12

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will analyze a political cartoon created by William Allen Rogers during World War I to give context to press censorship during that war. Next, students will explore additional sources from the Library of Congress to analyze how censorship worked both before and after the passage of the Sedition Act of 1918. Finally, students will compose their own "email to the editor" of a local newspaper or online news source, expressing their own views about the importance of freedom of the press and their informed opinion of press censorship in wartime.

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Teaching With Primary Sources - Constitutional Rights Foundation

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Theme: Community Duration: 1-2 Class Sessions Interdisciplinary Subject: Civics Grade Level: 4-5 Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will analyze primary sources from the Library of Congress to identify freedoms and rights. Then they will be provided with background information about the Bill of Rights.

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This website provides mapping resources, activities, and images relating to geography. These would be engaging resources for students, as their images can hook students at the beginning of a lesson.

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Inspire learners to explore National Geographic through interactive lesson plans, maps, storytelling and a wide variety of resources to illuminate their world.

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This resource features audio clips of famous speeches/events relating to history and politics. This could be a useful tool to hook students into a lesson.

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History and Politics Out Loud | Education World

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A searchable archive of politically significant audio materials.

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This resource provides lesson plans and primary sources to teach students about the founding of America and connecting past events to current times. This would be useful in students' understanding of the Bill of Rights and why it is important today.

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Educating for Self-Governance. Established in September 1999, the Bill of Rights Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that works to engage, educate, and empower individuals with a passion for the freedom and opportunity that exist in a free society.

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This website provides resources to teach students about the Constitution and the branches of government. This is useful because it features games that would help in students' understanding of the government.

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This resource provides simulations relating to foreign relations. This would be a useful tool to teach students about foreign policy and they would be engaged.

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Council on Foreign Relations: Model Diplomacy

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This website helps teachers find cases relating to specific topics. These case studies would help students connect past events to what is happening today.

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The Hallway has new features to create assignments and share them with your students.

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This resource features many current events relating to public policy. There is a section called "Teaching with the News" that connects the content discussed in class to real-world problems. This makes the material relevant for students.

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Engaging, inquiry-based history and current issues curriculum, available in digital and print.

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This website provides lessons and activities involving government and public policy. This would be a useful tool to teach students about the branches of government and how they function.

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Featured Lesson

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Identify key steps in the legislative process where interested parties can have influence on the shape of a bill.

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College, Inc.

Analyze procedures used by policy makers to negotiate rules and deliberate about complex issues.

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By Subject - Government/Public Policy | Teacher Center | FRONTLINE | PBS

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This resource features a variety of materials ranging from videos to lesson plans that focuses on critical thinking skills and citizenship. This would be beneficial to students because it relates periods in history to issues we are facing today.

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Our collection of educator resources includes a wide range of flexible materials. You will find resources that support teaching a complex moment in history or addressing today's breaking news.

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This film gives students a look at the slave trade and how the court system works. This would allow students to visually see what the slave trade consisted of.

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Amistad Lesson Plan - Slavery; Abolition; John Quincy Adams

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TeachWithMovies.org; Create Lesson Plans from 425 Movies and Film Clips - La Amistad, Slavery; Abolition; John Quincy Adams

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This resource provides virtual field trips that relate to U.S. history. This would be a good tool to use to engage students, especially if teachers are unable to take students on field trips.

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Virtual Field Trips | Discovery Education

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Take your students beyond the classroom walls and into some of the world's most iconic locations for rich and immersive learning experiences. Learn more!

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These videos provide a concise summary of events or periods in history. This would be a good tool to summarize a lesson.

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This resource provides tools to help students read primary sources. This would be a useful tool to teach students literacy skills, particularly with primary sources.

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Civics for All of US Civics for All of US is the new education initiative from the National Archives that promotes civic literacy and engagement. DocsTeach Teach with documents using our online tool. Explore primary sources. Discover fun and engaging teaching activities. Create your own online or print activities for your students!

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This resource provides lesson plans and interactive games for students relating to U.S. history. This would be helpful when trying to find engaging lessons and students would enjoy the interactive games.

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

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

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This website provides "toolkits" for learning about different periods in American history. These include guiding questions, primary source documents, online exhibitions, and lesson plans. This source would be beneficial when trying to find various resources for students to examine. It also provides many lesson plan ideas.

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Teacher Resources

The Ashbrook Center offers a variety of resources for teachers:

American History Toolkits - Six topically-focused collections of documents-based resources for teachers of American History, aimed at helping teachers begin the transition away from textbooks.

Exhibits on the American Founding - Each focusing on a different event related to the founding of the American Republic, include primary and secondary source materials, maps, images, and other resources to help you and your students deeply explore key events and ideas in American history.

Exhibits on American History - These resources each focus on a different major theme, event, or idea in American history, with more exhibits to be added over time.

We The Teachers - our blog for teachers, updated weekly with program information, podcasts of webinars and other events, and interesting articles related to documents and American studies.

Lesson Plans - Links to locations containing quality, documents-based lesson plans for multiple grade levels and student audiences.

Presidential Academy - A comprehensive 30-session course covering the entire political and intellectual history of the American experiment in republican self-government. Each session consists of a 60-90 minute lecture from one of the Ashbrook Center's graduate program faculty or a visiting expert in history and a set of primary source readings. Enrich your knowledge and understanding of American history; use the lectures and materials with your students; and be inspired by masterful analysis and discussion of what makes American government unique in the world. PA materials are available through iTunesU, and are serialized through our We The Teachers blog.

Homeschool Resources - For parents of homeschoolers and students, we offer this collection of resources found throughout the site, together on one convenient page.

Standards-Based Search Tool - Search for documents by state academic standard or Common Core English Language Arts for Reading in Social Studies.

Multimedia Resources - All of our multimedia resources, collected in one place.

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Teacher Resources | Teaching American History

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This website features interactive activities for students to explore events in world history. This would be a useful tool to make history fun for students.

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KidsPast.com will be joining the Education.com family! We're so excited to continue to grow and support the parents and teachers championing children's education.

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This website provides online exhibitions relating to the Holocaust. It uses primary sources and videos to hook students. This would be an engaging resource for students when learning about the Holocaust and WWII.

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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 website features various primary sources and case studies relating to children in history. It would be beneficial for students to learn about individuals around their age in history. They may relate to primary sources from kids their age.

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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 resource provides world history lessons and assessments for middle school and high school. This could be useful when trying to find engaging lessons for students relating to world history.

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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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This presentation was created by Dr. Tiemeyer to explain the impact foreign affairs can have domestically. This perspective is important to teach because it is an idea that is repeated throughout history.

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This book breaks down economics to make it easier to understand. This would be a great resource for teachers to use to teach students the basics of economics.

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When Freakonomics was first published, the authors started a blog-and they've kept it up. The writing is more casual, more personal, even more outlandish than in their books. In When to Rob a Bank, they ask a host of typically off-center questions: Why don't flight attendants get tipped?

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This resource provides archaeology units that could be used in any history or geography class. This could be useful to teach students about what archaeologists do, along with using archaeological evidence when looking at a particular region or time period.

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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 provides many resources for teachers who are teaching economics. It is geared toward the secondary level. This could be useful because it provides various tools, including lesson plans and professional programs, for teachers all in one site.

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Home - Foundation For Teaching Economics

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This resource provides free online books. Many of the books are classic works that could be used to understand a particular time period. This could be useful because it would be easy for students to gain access to.

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These listings are based on the number of times each eBook gets downloaded. Multiple downloads from the same Internet address on the same day count as one download, and addresses that download more than 100 eBooks in a day are considered robots and are not counted.

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Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

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This resource gives an overview of important cases throughout history. It also provides a list of all of the Supreme Court justices. This could be useful for students when researching a specific case because it breaks down the case well.

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This resource would allow students to participate in a mock trial relating to the Titanic. This would teach students assignment roles and how a trial works. This could be used in a judicial branch unit.

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The movie, Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, has created great interest in the story of the Titanic. This site gives teachers a way to use the interest generated by the movie to illustrate how the American judicial system works.

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Dinah Zike has various books that includes helpful strategies to get students engaged. Her ideas on foldables and graphic organizers would help in students' understanding.

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Check out these award-winning books used in student-teacher programs, staff development sessions, and given as teacher gifts. Not offered as downloads.

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This resource provides artwork from different artists throughout history. Examining art is a good way to get students engaged, while learning about different time periods.

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Search for Artwork, Artists, Art Movements. Our content is always expanding to include more from the art world!

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This resource provides primary sources for different periods in American History. Also, the "History Now" section features lesson plans, online exhibitions, and videos. This is a good all-around resource that could be used to create lesson plans, along with providing ways to engage students.

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NYC-area students and teachers: Join us at Trinity School for a special book talk on Frederick Douglass.

Join us to honor the winner of the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, Bruce Henderson.

Q&A session for prospective students to learn about the Gettysburg College-Gilder Lehrman master's degree program

Affiliate Schools, libraries, and other sites can host this exhibition for free in January and February.

Enter your EduHam Online creative piece for a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to NYC to see a performance of Hamilton.

Publishers, agents, critics, and authors may submit or nominate books published in 2023.

Stacy Schiff

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Theresa Runstedtler, American University

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

Mark Whitaker

Saying It Loud: 1966-The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement

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Internet Modern History Sourcebook

The Modern History Sourcebook works as follows:

Additional Study/Research Aids

In addition to the above structure the following may be of interest to educators and students.

1. This project is both very large and fairly old in Internet terms. At the time it was begun (1996), it was not clear that web sites [and the documents made available there] would often turn out to be transient. As a result there is a process called "link rot" - which means that a "broken link" is a result of someone having taken down a web page. Efforts are made to remove all dead links, but new link problems do come up.

2. All links to documents marked [At this Site] should be working. 3. Users may attempt to locate texts not currently available, or where the links have changed via The Internet Archive/Way Back Machine. Alternately, a search via Google may locate another site where the document is available.

SECTIONS

Subjects covered by the source texts in each Section.
Studying History

Introduction: Using Primary Sources

Nature of Historiography

Writing History

Ancient Theories

19th Century Philosophies of History

Professional Theories

History and Epistemology

History and Anthropology

History and Identity Politics

Post-Modern Theories

Misc. Discussions

Other Sources of Information on Modern History

General Guides to Net Text [link to texts at other sites.]

General Etext Projects [sites with texts online.]

Economics

Law

Military

Religion

Philosophy

Literature

Music Lyrics

Western Civilization/Europe

United States History

Latin American History

The Early Modern World
Reformation

Protestant Reformation

Precursors and Papal Critics

Luther and Lutheranism

Calvin and Calvinism

Zwingli

Radical Reformers

English Reformation

Scottish Reformation

Protestant Culture

Conflict

Women and Reformation

Early Modern World
Everyday Life

Structures of Life in the West

Population

Climate

Geography

Food and Famine

Housing

Clothes and Fashion

Technology

Money

Towns and Cities

Everyday Life

Country Living

Urban Live

Trades

Criminal Justice

Social Welfare

Health and Disease

Women, Men and Children

Witchcraft

From Popular to Mass Culture

Absolutism

French Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Constitutional States

The Restoration

The "Glorious Revolution"

English Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries

The Netherlands

Philosophical Reflections on Constitutional Politics

Internationalist Ideas

Colonial North America

Colonial North America

Early Conquest and Exploitation

American Society

Colonial Latin America

The Transformation of the West
Scientific, Political, and Industrial Revolutions
Scientific Revolution Enlightenment
The Enlightenment

Precursors

The Enlightenment as a Propaganda Project

The Enlightenment and Political Analysis

The Enlightenment Evaluation of the Human Condition

The Enlightenment and Economics

Enlightenment and Philosophy

Enlightenment Attitudes

The Social Setting

Enlightenment Philosophy - Full Texts

Enlightenment Politics and Economics - Full Texts

Enlightened Despots
Government in the Age of Enlightenment
American Independence

The Establishment of the American State

Commentators on America

Native Americans

Slavery

French Revolution

Responses to Revolution

Napoleon

Napoleonic Wars

Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

The Agricultural Revolution of the 17th-18th Centuries

The Revolution in the Manufacture of Textiles

The Revolution in Power

The Great Engineers

The Process of Industrialization

The Industrial Revolution and the Transformation of the World

Literary Response

Romanticism
Romanticism

Roots of Romanticism

Romantic Philosophy

Romanticism in Literature

Romanticism in Visual Arts

Romanticism in Music

The 19th Century and Western Hegemony
Conservative Order Nationalism

Cultural Nationalism: The Nation as Positive Focus of Identity

Liberal Nationalism: The Nation as a Basis for Liberal Democracy

Triumphal Nationalism: The Nation as a Claim to Superiority

Liberalism
1848: Europe in Revolt
19C Britain

Ireland

Victorian Sensibility

Victorian Literature

British Empire History

British Imperialism

Singapore and Malaya

19C Austria and Germany 19C West Europe
Other Western European Countries
19C East Europe
Eastern European Countries

Greece

Romania [Moldavia/Wallachia/Transylvania]

Bulgaria

Hungary

Poland

Bohemia

Russia

The United States Emerges

Political Institutions

Economic Development

Expansion and Manifest Destiny

The United States as a World Power

Early US Society

Early US Religion

US Civil War

The American Civil War

The Conflict over Slavery

Reconstruction, and Jim Crow

US Immigration

US Immigration and Its Effects

Asian Immigration

Latin American Immigration

Ellis Island and New York

Opposition to Immigration

The Maturation of American Culture

Legal Framework of American Life

The Gilded Age

The Emergence of Modern Politics

American Thought

American Literature

Canada: Another North American Society

Origins

Creation of the Canadian State

Canadian Society

Canadian Regions

Australia and New Zealand 19C Latin America

Responses to Economic Growth: Socialism and Marxism

Early Socialism

Marxism

Socialist Culture

Trade Unionism

Imperialism

China and the West

India Under the British

Africa

The Middle East

The Japanese Exception

American Imperialism

Industrial Revolution II Darwin, Freud, Einstein 19C Religion

Religion in the Face of Modernity

Protestantism: Activism, Rationalism, and Fideism

Biblical Criticism

Liberal Protestantism

Muscular Christianity

The Oxford Movement

Quakers

Fundamentalism

Missionary Expansion

Resistence to Roman Control

Old Catholics

"Modernism"

Eastern Orthodoxy: Christian Life Under Tsars and Sultans.

Judaism and Modernity

Eastern Religions in the West

Humanist Consideration of Religious Thought

World Wars and the End of Western Dominance

World War I

Resistence to War

Literary Responses

The Aftermath

Russian Revolution

The Tsarist State

Russian Revolution

The Development of the Opposition

Lenin

1905

1917

Bolshevik Rule to 1924

Stalinism

Age of Anxiety

Age of Anxiety: The Interwar Years

European Culture

The United States

Inter-War International Relations

The Depression

Economic Problems and the Depression

Economic Problems in Europe

The Depression in the US

Fascism in Europe

The Holocaust

The "Final Solution": The Murder of European Jewry

Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

The Handicapped

The Roma [Gypsies]

Serbs

Jehovah's Witnesses

Homosexuals

"Revisionism"

Lead Up to War

War In Europe

War In Asia

After the War

The World Since 1945 Bipolar World: The Cold War 1945-1991 US Power 1945-1990

America as World Leader: External Power

American Foreign Relations
Realpolitik or Human Rights

Relations with the Soviet Union [also see above "Cold War]

Relations with China

The Korean War

The "Vietnam War"

US Society 1945-1990

America as World Leader: Internal Change

US Domestic Politics: The State

American Conservatism

American Liberalism

Democrats

American Radicalism

American Society: Immigration

Post-War W Europe Post-War E Europe

Eastern Europe Since 1945

1989: What Happened and Why?

After 1989

Decolonization
Globalization: New Hegemonies?
Asia since 1900 Africa Since 1945 Middle East Since 1914 20C Latin America Modern Social Movements

Modern Social Movements

Other Ethnic/Minority Movements

Lesbian and Gay Rights

Post-War Thought
Post-War Western Thought
Post-War Religion

Religion since 1945

Roman Catholicism

Protestantism

Eastern Orthodoxy

Judaism

Islam

Buddhism

Humanist-Religious Debate

Modern Science

Science, Technology and the Transformation in the Means of Production

Biology: The DNA Revolution

Physics

Space Exploration

Computers

Knowledge Based Production

The Internet

The World Environment: Cornucopeian Plenty or a Crisis Situation

Pop Culture
Sports: The Opium of the People?

The Twenty-First Century
21st Century
Introduction

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally.

The great diversity of available sources for use in modern history classes requires that selections be made with great care - since virtually unlimited material is available. The goals here are:

To present a diversity of source material in modern European, American, and Latin American history, as well as a significant amount of materal pertinent to world cultures and global studies. A number of other online source collections emphasize legal and political documents. Here efforts have been made to include contemporary narrative accounts, personal memoirs, songs, newspaper reports, as well as cultural, philosophical, religious and scientific documents. Although the history of social and cultural elite groups remains important to historians, the lives of non-elite women, people of color, lesbians and gays are also well represented here.

To present the material as cleanly as possible, without complicated hierarchies and subdirectories. What you get here is direct access to significant documents, not the efforts of some whizkid "website designer". In other words, we are interested here in the music, not the Hi-fi!.

Within the major sections, to indicate a few high quality web sites for further source material and research.

Sources of Material Here

The texts on these pages come from many sources:

Files posted to various places on the net. In some cases, the source URL no longer exists.

Shorter texts created for class purposes by extracting from much larger texts.

Texts scanned in from printed material. In some cases the printed book may be recent, but the material scanned is out of copyright.

Texts sent to me for inclusion.

Links to other online texts. External links sometimes cease to work. An effort has been made to provide a back-up link to an impression of such texts at the Internet Archive.

Efforts have been made to confirm to US Copyright Law. Any infringement is unintentional, and any file which infringes copyright, and about which the copyright claimant informs me, will be removed pending resolution.

NOTES:

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was 1998. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.

The Site Concept and Design: created 26 Jan 1996: latest revision 15 May 2023 [ Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of Fordham University, New York. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and other medieval components of the project, are located at the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.The IHSP recognizes the contribution of Fordham University, the Fordham University History Department, and the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies in providing web space and server support for the project. The IHSP is a project independent of Fordham University. Although the IHSP seeks to follow all applicable copyright law, Fordham University is not the institutional owner, and is not liable as the result of any legal action. Paul Halsall CV]

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This resource provides primary sources relating to the Cold War. This will give students various perspectives on the Cold War.

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This resource provides primary sources relating to various events in world history. This will give students multiple perspectives when looking at a topic.

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History and Public Policy Program Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars One Woodrow Wilson Plaza - 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027 Collection Policy | Questions? Email the project at coldwar@wilsoncenter.org

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This resource has various lesson plans relating to wars throughout history. It provides templates for paper soldiers, so students can reenact battles. This will get students engaged when discussing wars throughout world history.

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Promoting the use of historical simulations as a tool for teaching history. Free resources anyone can use.