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NCSS Annual Conference. How is StrataLogica Helping You and Your Students? The Best Online “Explainer” Tools For Current Events. A number of news sites have regular features called something like “explainer” or “explain it to me” where they provide — in either video or text — short explanations about current events or answers to reader/viewer questions.

Here are my choices for best of these kinds of resources out there — please share suggestions for ones I’m missing: CNN regularly produces two-to-three minute video clips on current news topics (including ones related to science) called “Explain It To Me.” Goals for the New Year? - Social Studies Chat. A program of The Smithsonian Associates. New Page 1. 6 Historical Wartime Propaganda Films [Stuff To Watch] A while ago we featured a couple of historically important Disney animations commissioned during the Second World War in the form of propaganda.

Today we’re losing the cutesy animation and diving in with real footage of some of the most politically motivated films ever made. Propaganda is a by-product of nearly every war or major conflict, and acts as a concentrated effort by the government to influence, calm and control. Death and Taxes 2012. It's the government, in six square feet. The Crusades (1095–1291) Videos for Learning About Congress. HarpWeek: Explore History. Twitter in the Classroom: Watch This Teacher Engage Shy Students in Learning History - Education. Still skeptical about the value of using Twitter as a tool to engage introverted students in classroom lessons?

You're not alone. A recent survey of almost 2,000 teachers found that half think that using Twitter (and Facebook) in the classroom "is harmful to the learning experience. " But, Los Angeles history teacher Enrique Legaspi disagrees with the naysayers. Marcus Tullius Cicero: A Life in Letters. Novus Homo Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 B.C.E) was a novus homo (new man i.e someone with no notable ancestors) born at Arpinium, south of Rome, to a reasonably well off family.

He studied as a lawyer and, as was the done thing for a Roman barrister, began a political career. Primaries - Election Center 2012 - Elections & Politics from CNN.com. Welcome to Google Docs. Geography Education. Welcome to Google Docs. Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami. Mapping History. Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Retronaut.

University of Georgia Libraries. The Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia Libraries maintains a collection of more than 1,000 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century.

Although not limited to a single geographic subject, the collection heavily emphasizes Georgia as colony and state, along with its surrounding region. The Hargrett maps database serves as a finding aid for the majority of Hargrett's map holdings and provides digital versions of most maps. Not currently included in the database are maps from the Confederate Imprints collection and the County Maps collection. For information on these, please contact the Hargrett Library. For more modern map holdings, visit the UGA Libraries' Map & Government Information Library. The Collection. Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New England. Activity 1.

Crisis in the Colonies: King Philip's War, Bacon's Rebellion, and the Pueblo Revolt 1. European colonists in North America experienced a dramatic expansion in the seventeenth century. American Experience. EdCamp Social Studies. Edcamp. Mary J. Johnson: 2000 clay figures each rep... New York Historical Society. The Badass of the Week: Blenda and the Women of Smaland. Blenda Life as a Viking woman was pretty hard.

Native_americans. Online Archive of California. 9 Places to Find Creative Commons & Public Domain Images. When students create multimedia projects they might be tempted to simply do a Google Images search and use the first images they see.

But as educators we have a responsibility to teach students to respect copyright holders' rights. One of the ways that we can do that is to teach students to use Creative Commons and Public Domain images. Morgue File provides free photos with license to remix. The Morgue File photo collection contains thousands of images that anyone can use for free in academic or commercial presentations. The image collection can be searched by subject category, image size, color, or rating.

Wylio is an image search engine designed to help bloggers and others quickly find, cite, and use Creative Commons licensed images. What About Students With No Access? - FAQ - Katie Gimbar's Flipped Classroom. Calendar. Images - The Vietnam I Remember by Steven Curtis. NASA Visible Earth: Home. Historic American Newspapers.

Welcome to The Ancient Web - The Ancient World's Great Civilizations. EdCamp Social Studies. The Best of the Humanities on the Web. What topic would YOU like to discuss for Monday Jan 2, 2012 ? It's #sschat's first chat of the new year! Join the conversation! The Best of the Humanities on the Web. Three Trends That Define the Future of Teaching and Learning. Culture Digital Tools Teaching Strategies This week, we feature the most popular posts of the year on MindShift.

In today’s dynamic classrooms, the teaching and learning process is becoming more nuanced, more seamless, and it flows back and forth from students to teachers. Please help us organise a monthly Global Education Twitter Chat for Asia! Please select your preferred day & start time (#globalclassroom) Using Old Maps as Tools to Explore Our World.

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In this bulletin board activity, students work collaboratively to explore sections of old maps. By closely examining these unique historical documents, students learn to see maps as more than just tools for locating places. Social Studies Chat. The Origins of Christmas. Dear Readers, We've published several articles this weekend that provide insight into how Christmas Day came to be such an important date of the world calendar. Error. 'What's Christmas without chopsticks?' How other faiths celebrate December 25th.

By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor (CNN) - Two days before Christmas, Imam Mohamed Magid, the executive director at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, preached about Jesus at Friday prayers. "We live in a country with a majority of Christians, where Christmas is a major holiday... It's a reminder we do believe in Jesus. Jesus' position in Islam is one of the highest prophets in Islam," Magid said, adding that Muslims view Jesus as a prophet on par with Abraham, Moses, Noah and Mohammad. Often when he says the name of Mohammad or Jesus in conversation, Magid adds the Islamic honorific "Peace be upon him" after his name. "Jesus is a unifying figure, unifying Muslims and Christians," he said. Books and Films - Terry Jones' Medieval Lives.

Memoir (Page Turner): Albert John Carpenter: Experiencing War: Veterans History Project (Library of Congress. Welcome to Google Docs. The Art of Storytelling. From Joke to Reality. Sedition Act of 1918. The Sedition Act of 1918 (Pub.L. 65–150, 40 Stat. 553, enacted May 16, 1918) was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. [1] It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt. Those convicted under the act generally received sentences of imprisonment for 5 to 20 years.[2] The act also allowed the Postmaster General to refuse to deliver mail that met those same standards for punishable speech or opinion.

It applied only to times "when the United States is in war. Vaclav Havel, Former Czech President, Dies at 75. November 21, 2011 Vol. 178 No. 20. Welcome to Google Docs. WGBH American Experience. The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945) Special feature 24 records found. Only Yesterday. GCSE Bitesize: Causes of the Depression.

World War I Pictures. Internet Catalogue. East New York - Brooklyn. The Christmas Truce — History.com This Day in History — 12/25/1914. World War I Letters - 1. World War I. History: World War One. Civil War Letters Collection. Home » Civil War Letters Collection. World War I, 1918-1942 : Europe plunges into War. The map as history. More people died playing football than SWORD-FIGHTING in Tudor times.

BUBL LINK: Medieval history. The Best of the Humanities on the Web. Ancient humans understood medicine and insecticides over 77,000 years ago. Which topic would you like to crowdsource during this week's #sschat ? (Choose 2!) Why SOPA is unconstitutional. World, 500-1000 A.D. Sschat [licensed for non-commercial use only] / SSChat. Social Studies Chat.