Can Technology be Integrated with a Colonial Fair?
In my previous life as a classroom teacher, I was a Social Studies teacher (Virginia History, or you could also call it colonial history). When I was told by the principal that this would be my...
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Leave Social Studies Textbooks behind for Technology
Glenn has come to the rescue again! He has a link listed in a comment in the previous post about Social Studies Central. What a great resource! Thanks, G!
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American History Teachers! Need a Great Teaching Resource?
Textbooks can strike terror in a student, especially if the teacher has students read aloud and then says after the lesson, “Answer the questions at the end of the chapter.” Argh! Last week, when Lisa...
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Have a Colonial Fair at Your School
I always thought my Social Studies teachers were boring. Very, very, VERY boring. In fact, just the word history made me cringe. To me, I always thought that to be a history teacher, one had to be a...
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Marinate Your Head
Do you cringe at the thought of taking a history class, or worse yet, TEACHING history? As for me, my FORMER dislike of it came during high school, in a little town in southern Ohio, where all the...
View ArticleSend Your Students on a Cruise Around the World Virtually
This is a neat blog to check out if you teach anything about the globe, latitude and longitude, oceans, continents, explorers, navigation, or the like: Skipper Rich Wilson is racing around the world...
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Make a Timeline on Line for Not Too Much Time!
Time Rime is a Beta site that allows you to make a timeline of your own and add your own pictures. Instead of a worksheet only, how about modeling on the Internet? Thanks to Lisa for pointing this out...
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