Explore the Temples of Angkor Through Google Street View. Free Guides to Teaching and Learning With Primary Sources. KerryHawk02: Teaching HistoryTech: Best YouTube Channels for History Teachers. Here are my favorite YouTube resources for the history classroom.
They've been sorted into two categories: METHODOLOGY and CONTENT. Methodology The Teaching Channel I recently started watching videos on the Teaching Channel website thanks to a recommendation from an assistant principal. I've found a few inspiring lesson ideas there that I've been able to adjust for my students and my classroom. Grades 9-10 / History / Independence Please enable Javascript to watch this video If you find something on The Teaching Channel YouTube channel you can go to their website to find more resources and discussions related to that lesson.
Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) The SHEG website is a rich resource for lessons that teach students to read and analyze primary and secondary sources effectively. Content Crash Course These videos are fast paced, funny, honest, and packed with content. HipHughes History Please feel free to add more great YouTube channel suggestions in the comments below! ContextU - A Great Site for Exploring the Context of the Civil War. Ken Halla, the blogger behind the US History Teachers Blog, has been working on an excellent new site for students of US History.
The new site is called ContextU and its purpose is to help students see the greater context for significant events in history. The first iteration of ContextU is focused on the American Civil War. On ContextU students select from a table of contents an event, piece of legislation, or theme to see it in the context of other events, pieces of legislation, and themes leading to the start of the Civil War. Through timelines, Google Maps, diagrams, flow charts, timelines, and text ContextU provides context for each chosen event, piece of legislation, or theme. Students can jump from event to event or from theme to theme by following the hyperlinks within each diagram. Applications for EducationContextU is still in development, but what is available now is already quite good.
Fakebook. Tour Builder. ChronoZoom. MapStory : Welcome! Three Ways to Create Mapped Timeline Stories. Earlier this week I received an email from a reader who was searching for a good way to have students create mapped timelines.
The idea is to have students be able to create timelines whose events are directly matched to locations on maps. Doing this is a good way for students to see correlations between locations and events. Here are three tools that students can use to create mapped timeline stories. MapStory is a free tool for creating mapped displays of data sets. Data sets that are time based, the travels of Genghis Khan for example, can be set to play out in a timeline style on your map. ChronoZoom allows students and teachers to create their own mapped timelines. The Google Earth Tour Builder allows students to create Google Earth tours in their web browsers. Ancient Civilizations - Free Online Games for Kids. 35 Greatest Speeches in History. Earliest Voices.
Voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. Media in History/Other. Famous Speeches in History - The Speech Archive. Browse the Speech Archive A lot of people said a lot of things throughout history.
Some of the countless lectures, sermons, talks, discourses, and addresses have been preserved. In other words, No poet or orator has ever existed who thought there was another better than himself. End quote. Image Above Cicero addressing the Senate. The Speech Archive This speech collection is indexed alphabetically by topic, alphabetically by speaker, chronologically, and then some.
Terminology Oratory is the art of public speaking. What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? The word eloquence stems from the Latin term eloquentia, referring to the readiness, elegance, fluency, and persuasiveness of speech. The word rhetoric is equivalent to the Greek word ritoriki, which in turn stems from the Greek term ritoras, meaning orator.
At the end of your oration, you probably want to repeat your message in a nutshell and combine it with a call for action. Library of Congress Home. National Archives Experience. RTI example : illuminated manuscript. UH - Digital History. American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page. Create Multimedia History Presentations With Digital Artifacts. The National Archives Experience Digital Vaults is one of the resources that I almost always share in my workshop on teaching history with technology primary sources.
The Digital Vaults offers three good tools that students and teachers can use to create content using images and documents from the National Archives. The National Archives Digital Vault poster and video creation tools allow students to drag and drop digital artifacts into a poster or video. The National Archives provides images, documents, and audio in an easy to use editor. When making a poster students can combine multiple images, change background colors, and create captions to make collages of digital artifacts. See the screen capture below for a demonstration of poster editing. Creating a video is just as easy as creating a poster in the Digital Vaults. Please note that the Digital Vaults website loads a lot of media when you visit it for the first time.