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USA Geography - Map Game - Geography Online Games. "I stumbled upon your fun interactive geography games from a link on the Massachusetts Geographic Alliance Website.

USA Geography - Map Game - Geography Online Games

Since then, your games have become quite a hit with my competitive colleagues! " --Candice Gomes, Education Outreach Coordinator, Boston Public Library Sheppard Software's geography games were featured in the Boston Public Library's 2006 Exhibition on Mapping! "Terrific online educational games, especially geography. " --Dallas Children's Museum "I am a middle school social studies teacher who also sponsors a geography club after school.

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Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Rare photo of the elusive tree octopus The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. PacificNorthwestTreeOctopus LessonPlan. Find the Cause and Effect_Worksheet. Understanding Cause & Effect_Worksheet. Test Prep- (2nd Grade) Fact/ Opinion. Credibility/Fact.Opinion.PDF. Tools of Inquiry_All Subjects.doc. Intro of Inquiry based learning. Www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/eless1.pdf. Student Historians: Inquiry-Based Learning in a Literacy and Social Studies Classroom. “One of the big challenges today is that students are inundated with the ability to access information, but don’t know how to answer the ‘so what’ question—how to interpret it,” Douglas Brisson, a National History Day judge and historian.

Student Historians: Inquiry-Based Learning in a Literacy and Social Studies Classroom

YES! Social Studies Lessons - Inquiry-based Learning. Social Studies Lessons We are very excited to be supporting the Ontario Ministry of Education's 2013 Revised Social Studies - Grades 1 to 6 History and Geography - Grades 7 and 8 curriculum implementation roll-out.

Social Studies Lessons - Inquiry-based Learning

You can view the document here.Scroll down to view lessons -First Nations - Origins of Our CountryRemembrance - How We Won Our FreedomCanada From Coast to Coast to CoastPioneer Life is the Life for MeYou Don't Have to Fight City Hall Adventure and Intrigue - The TitanicFirst NationsBlack History MonthElection IssuesNEW lesson added regularly, so check back often. First Nations - Origins of Our Country When and Why: The founding peoples of many countries are not honoured for their contributions to the cultural makeup of the land. In too many instances, aboriginal people become the marginal or forgotten few, their sacrifices and struggles relegated to a few lines in a history book or dusty prints. APA format citation generator for books.

Overview of this guide: This page provides you with an overview of APA format.

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Included is information about referencing, various citation formats with examples for each source type, and other helpful information. If you’re looking for MLA format, check out the Citation Machine MLA Guide. Also, visit the Citation Machine homepage to use the APA formatter, which is an APA citation generator, and to see more styles. EasyBib: Free Bibliography Generator - MLA, APA, Chicago citation styles. How to Cite a Site (3-5) For Elementary Students. You’ve heard the terms Generation X and Generation Y, but Generation Plagiarism?

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Copy and paste Generation? Unfortunately, these are all common terms floating around to describe today’s youth. According to a New York Times Upfront article, “47 percent of high school students admitted to copying and pasting from the Web, with nearly one third saying they didn’t consider it cheating.” Pretty crazy, right? Georgewbushlibrary.PrimarySources.PDF. Doing Internet Research at the Elementary Level.

One of the hardest things to teach, in my opinion, is research.

Doing Internet Research at the Elementary Level

I have been teaching in a computer lab for going on five years and I have never taught research the same way twice. This is partially because I never teach anything the same way twice, but it's also because each year I learn something new. Sometimes I learn the hard way when things don't pan out the way I planned in the classroom, sometimes I learn because something I didn't plan arose and worked out well, and sometimes its due to my own self-education as I prepare to teach my annual research unit.

Who Said That? Web Literacy Lesson. I Read It on the Internet: Teaching About Web Literacy. Teaching Copyright_LessonPlans. As today's tech-savvy teens become increasingly involved with technology and the Internet for learning, work, civic engagement, and entertainment, it is vital to ensure that they understand their legal rights and responsibilities under copyright law and also how the law affects creativity and innovation.

Teaching Copyright_LessonPlans

This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills. Lesson topics include: the history of copyright law; the relationship between copyright and innovation; fair use and its relationship to remix culture; peer-to-peer file sharing; and the interests of the stakeholders that ultimately affect how copyright is interpreted by copyright owners, consumers, courts, lawmakers, and technology innovators. Unit Goals Educate students about copyright law, including the concepts of fair use, free speech, and the public domain.

Objectives for Students Assessment. Copyright, Fair Use and Research Skills for Elementary Students.