Must Farm Lesson Plans | PBS NewsHour Extra Extra News for Students and Teacher Resources 7–12 Grade Level Lesson Plans Extra Extra Daily Videos Videos Student Voices Lesson Plans Lesson plan: Brown v. Board of Education and the story of Prince Edward County Schools Use this lesson plan to learn more about the life of Linda Brown and the impact of the Brown v. Extra: News for Students The PBS NewsHour PBS NewsHour – Headlines Submit Your Student Voice Your story idea, essay or poem NewsHour Extra will not use contact information for any purpose other than our own records. World History Project UK Films – Nick Dennis I wrote about being part of the World History Project filming process earlier this year and I’m pleased to share the results of our labours! The videos are designed for the US school system where topics vary state by state, but they may be useful for UK educators too. The resources are available for free on Youtube and will be made available on the World History Project site. Thanks to everyone involved for making it such a great set of films.
Operation Dynamo: Rescue from Dunkirk Immerse yourself in the drama of the Dunkirk evacuation of May 1940, in the very tunnels where the operation - codenamed 'Dynamo' - was masterminded. Walk through the tunnels deep beneath the castle as state-of-the-art special effects, dramatic projections and real film footage bring this dramatic rescue operation to life. Imagine working day and night deep inside Dover Castle's top secret tunnels as war raged outside, in a desperate bid to rescue the troops stranded at Dunkirk as German forces closed in. This gripping battle against time was won in just ten short days in 1940, when Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay pulled off a miracle. Operation Dynamo: Rescue from Dunkirk uses original news-reels and recordings, testimonies from veterans and dramatic special effects to recreate the terror and tension of these dark days of Second World War. The urgency and drama unfolds in self guided tours that take visitors in small groups through the tunnel casemates.
Find OER | Open Professionals Education Network CC licensed (BY) Flickr photo shared by David Amsler modified by Paul Stacey Reusing existing Open Educational Resources (OER) can save significant time and effort. The OPEN partners recommend TAACCCT grantees invest up-front time finding OER to reuse rather than starting development of new educational resources right away. A significant benefit of OER is that they provide source material to build your development efforts around. OER come in a wide variety of types. The page below will help you find openly licensed media elements to use within your courses. OER also exist as distinctly education content such as full courses, workshops, textbooks, tests and assessments. The page below will help you find openly licensed education content you can use in whole or in part. It is unlikely that you will find OER that perfectly fit your needs. Open Educational Resources are distributed across the Internet. 1. 1.1 Google Many people start out looking for OER using Google. Google Advanced Search
British Empire is still being whitewashed by the school curriculum – historian on why this must change Jeremy Corbyn has recently proposed that British school children should be taught about the history of the realities of British imperialism and colonialism. This would include the history of people of colour as components of, and contributors to, the British nation-state – rather than simply as enslaved victims of it. As Corbyn rightly noted: “Black history is British history” – and hence its study should be part of the national curriculum, not segregated in a single month each year. This is a welcome proposal because, as an academic who teaches modules on South Asian, imperial, colonial and global history, I face an uphill struggle at the start of each new academic year. These are students who are educated through a school history curriculum that focuses almost entirely on English political and religious history – with bits of 20th-century European history thrown in. They therefore know practically nothing about empire and its legacies – including in Britain. Denial about empire
Intelligent YouTube Channels Below, we have gathered together some of the most intelligent video collections on YouTube. A great place to find culturally enriching video... General Universities Spotlighted Collections YouTube EDUYouTube got a lot more intelligent when it launched YouTube EDU, a section of the site that centralizes all of its educational/academic content. Other University Collections KS2 Vikings | What Impact did they Have in Britain Edmund, King of East Anglia, was buried at the place now known as Bury St Edmunds. The photo shows the cathedral. A major part of KS2 history is about Norse, or Viking, culture. This is the last of four quizzes on the subject and it looks in particular at the Viking invasions of Great Britain. The Vikings made a series of raids on and invasions of Britain between the 8th Century and the 11th. Take this quiz to see how much you know about the Viking invasions of Britain.
OER Commons 'Rosa' Vs Reality: Did Doctor Who Get It Right? - Blogtor Who Series 11’s first historical story saw the Doctor and her new friends arrive in Montgomery, 1955, on the eve of one of the most significant civil rights events in history. Rosa saw the TARDIS crew strive to ensure history was preserved – but how accurately did Doctor Who depict that history in the first place? Blogtor Who has set out to see just how close the events of Rosa are to true life. Needless to say, there are spoilers galore ahead for Rosa. If you haven’t already seen the episode, make sure you catch up – it’s available on BBC iPlayer or other on-demand services – before continuing! James Blake And 1943 In Rosa: In the opening scene, we see an altercation between Rosa Parks (Vinette Robinson) and bus driver James Blake (Trevor White) set in 1943. Twelve years later, Blake is the driver of the bus that Rosa catches on 1st December 1955, when he orders her to move seats for a white passenger. “I wasn’t trying to do anything to that Parks woman except do my job. Emmett Till