Welcome : PBS TeacherLine. History Lab Links Page. New Deal Network. EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it. Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history. The History Lab: US History Essential Questions. Cartoons for the Classroom :: AAEC - Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Tooning into history Resources to help you include political cartoons in the study of different eras Herblock's 20th Century: From the Crash to the Millennium Herbert L.
Block published his first editorial cartoon six months before the 1929 stock market crash and continued commenting on world and national events until his death on October 7, 2001. Here's a sampling of what's available through the Library of Congress exhibiition: 1940s, 1950s: Atom Bomb1950s: McCarthy Era1970s: Richard Nixon era . . . 2000: Gore vs. Presidential elections, 1860-1912 : Cartoons from Harper's Weekly Lincoln vs.
America in Caricature Highlights from the Lilly Library collection of political cartoons. Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Civil Rights, Cold War, Vietnam Clifford H. Cartoons from the Clifford H. Civil War and Reconstruction Who was Thomas Nast? His cartoons popularized the elephant to symbolize the Republican Party and the donkey as the symbol for the Democratic Party. Harry S. Oliphant's Anthem: The Gettysburg Address Animated. Wordplay - Spanish Vocabulary Game. The Educator's Best Friend. TED Talks. How The USA Expanded (In One Mesmerizing Animated GIF) The 90-Second History Of Education 9.80K Views 0 Likes Well here's an insanely detailed infographic to peruse.
It's the history of education and details the past, present, and future. Rewind Your VHS Tapes Or Face $1 Penalty 623 Views 0 Likes Was it really that long ago when you had to stand up and walk across the room to rewind our VHS tapes to re-watch a favorite scene or catch a softly spoken line that you missed? POP QUIZ: What Is History? 3.42K Views 0 Likes I love these thought-provoking questions. Industrial Revolution.
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25 e-Learning & Education Start-ups That Could Change the World. Born to Learn ~ You are Born to Learn. Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education. Seven Ways to Build Your Own Educational Games. There are hundreds of places to find educational games and quizzes on the Internet. That said, sometimes you still cannot find quite what you're looking for. In those cases you're better off creating your own games. Here are seven good tools you and your students can use for creating games. Sharendipity makes it possible for students and teachers to quickly create and share simple video games. Sharendipity's drag and drop creation tools can be used to create a game in as few as four steps. For new Sharendipity users the tutorials provide clear directions and helpful game ideas.
ClassTools.net is a free service teachers can use to create their own educational games. Purpose Games is a free service that allows users to create custom games, share games, and play games. What 2 Learn is a website offering more than two thousand educational games for middle school and high school age students.
Jeopardy Labs is a free service you can use to create your own online Jeopardy game. Authentic, Hands-on Learning with Career and Technical Education. I am a daily witness to outlandish potential and even more incredible reality as I see students fabricating complicated ductwork, reworking the plugs and wires on a V8 engine and interpreting the bitewing X-rays of dental patients. Career and technical education is about differentiated instruction, higher levels of thinking and essential questions.
Can it be more? Is it more? Exploring. When I construct a lesson for my crew, of course I focus on ushering them to comprehend the elements we are exploring. Collaboration to set a course; cooperation and more questioning. How does the career arena compare to its academic counterpart? End product. I remember my education psych class (which I was forced to take when I left the cooking field) and the very last words the instructor offered us. Sampling. "Just keep it relevant and everything else will take care of itself. " That was it. And it is all happening in real time.
Project Based Learning. (image from education-world.com) Project Based Learning (PBL) is a great way to teach students content, 21st century skills, and engage them in something fun and educational. I spoke more about PBL in an earlier blog ( and we had some great reader comments (Tech&Learning, May 2009, page 14). Today I'd like to give some tips and ideas on how to get started with PBL in your classroom. First of all, PBL can be used in any classroom, in any subject, at any grade level. Projects can be one class period, or take weeks to complete. PBL does take planning.
For instance, I teach physics and developed a project for my classes on structures and stress and strain. Another example of PBL is having the students research a topic and present it to the rest of the class through a multimedia presentation, website, or poster. Start small. Another idea for projects is to look at your school or community and see what they need. A Parent's Guide to 21st-Century Learning. You’ll find a selection of outstanding online resources and projects, sorted by grade levels, to provide a glimpse of successful school programs. Elementary School: The World Peace Game Skype in the Classroom Peace Helpers Become Classroom Problem Solvers Middle School: Down the Drain Digiteen: Digital Citizenship for Teenagers World of Warcraft in School High School: World Youth News Digital Youth Network Money Corps: Finance Experts as Guest Teachers Across the Grades: More Ideas that Work Ten Tips to Bring 21st-Century Skills Home Resources: Bring the C's to Your School.
iCivics | Free Lesson Plans and Games for Learning Civics.