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If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology. USA Weekend Magazine " Get the children excited. Let them start exploring the Civil War sites before you even hit the road. Check out civilwaranimated.com to preview the battlefields, hear a narration and meet the generals." School Library Journal "If, like me, you have a few students and teachers who fancy themselves fill-in-the-blank war buffs, if the Civil War, World War II, and the Revolutionary War are part of your curriculum, you’re going to want to share HistoryAnimated .
History Animated
Can I see a sample? Yes. You can check out this free sample unit: our 2011 Summer Recap .
The Week in Rap
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Flocabulary produces educational hip-hop music and learning tools for reading, math, science and social studies. Our award-winning programs are used in more than 10,000 schools. Flocabulary also produces The Week in Rap: a free weekly current events rap music video. Subscribe at theweekinrap.com .
April 9 - What are the details of an agreement involving military night raids in Afghanistan? Why would a U.S. Navy official describe a plane crash as a "miracle"? How could a decline in unemployment be considered disappointing?
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We’re winding down our daily lesson plans for summer, but we couldn’t let you go without making sure you knew about The Lively Morgue , a Times Tumblr introduced in February that features images chosen from The Times’s morgue, a physical library of photos and newspaper clippings dating to the mid-19th century. The morgue contains so many photos, in fact, that the editors write , “If we posted 10 new archival pictures every weekday on Tumblr, just from our print collection, we wouldn’t have the whole thing online until the year 3935.” Watch the video above to learn about the morgue and how The Times uses it today, then use our questions and activities below to have students go further by examining this archive in particular, by creating their own archives of personally meaningful material, by choosing a local or online archive to discover on their own, or by thinking about the future of physical repositories like this in general.
My Wonderful World -- Give Kids the Power of Global Knowledge
Geography: The Adventure in Your Community This year’s Geography Awareness Week theme promotes the idea that the geographic perspective is an important way to understand every community—no matter what size, or how long or briefly one has been a part of it. Download and print this year's poster for your classroom or bedroom wall to inspire you!
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