This page contains resources for the creation/transformation phase of learning
Highway 21 -- A variety of resources gathered by Adams12 technology gurus
grapheine --- create subtitles for scenes pulled from Bollywood, B-movies etc...
Piktochart - Create pictographs for projects. Requires a sign up and a small learning curve, but has the potential for creation of stunning digital information.
TodaysMeet - creates a room for computer labs where students can chat with each other in real-time
stickk.com --- wanna set a goal? Put up or shut up with this site. Set a goal, and put money down. If you meet your goal, you get it back; If not, it goes to charity.
Cell Phone Apps
Tools
Jing - A clean and simple tool to create images from what is seen online. And, it's free!
General Resources
Solution Tree HERE
Instructional Strategies Online HERE
History Labs Site HERE
National geographic Education -
NEH EDSITEMENT - National Endowment for the Humanities
History "Cheat Sheets"
Purdue OWL project - Writing exersises and drills HERE
GRANTS
Interactives
elearning HERE Tons of interactive learning sitesArchives
The Guardian Global Development World News United States
Economist Daily Chart
Economics Resources
csun micro - microeconomics concepts
csun macro - macroeconomics concepts
Council for Econ - Learning Earning and Investing
Civics Resources
I Civics - Teaching Resources and Games that reinforce concepts
60-Second Civics - Short, daily podcast
Political Party Quiz - A short survey used to find out where one lands on the political spectrum (PEW and PBS collaboration)
The American Presidency Project - UC Santa Barbara archives contain over 100,000 documents relating to the Presidency
Constitutional Rights Foundation -
Flash Cards for second language learners -
Documents of Freedom (Bill of Rights Institute)
Montpelier Center for the Constitution-
-weekly constitutional radio show
American History Resources
IIp Digital - Links to many resources including textbooky writings published by the fed Gov
Backstory - podcasts of interesting American history topics
Smithsonian's History Explorer
National Museum of America History
Spanish American War Webquest HERE
UMBC Lessons HERE
Teaching with 9/11 HERE
PBS WWII in Color: The Perilous Fights HERE
Fun with History HERE
PBS video -
Smithsonian's History Page Explorer -
Teaching American History in South Carolina -
Teaching American History Exhibits HERE The Founding HERE
Psychology Resources
Names and memory short video MSN HERE
Super Hard games HERE
article: Oreos may be addictive HERE
zombie autopsy brains and such through PBS HERE
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Timelines.tv: Shakespeare's World
Ted ed Great conspiracy Against Julius Caesar
Ted ed Four Sisters in Ancient Rome
Ted ed A Glimpse of Life for a Teenager in Ancient Rome
Horrible Histories Rome: Come Dine with Me
Horrible Histories Roman Toilets
11 Romulus and Remus Annotation Article (students will annotate this text)
Jewish Reolt
Resources for History Teachers
Frontline From Jesus to Christ
CHWC Concise History of Western Civilization (maps, primary sources, etc)
Maps from above source HERE
Mrs. Walton's Website that has great Practice Quizzes on Geo and History
Mr. Yankey's website that has great maps
Graphic Organizers HERE
Lesson Notes/Reviews HERE
Interactive Maps HERE
Emory Odyssey Online HERE
TCI chapter copies HERE
http://www.ancient.eu/
Norton Maps HERE
Richard Hooker Modules: HERE
MAPS and GEOGRAPHY
Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: Ancient History
Historical Atlas of the Mediterranean
Norton book chapters and maps and Notes HERE
TEXTBOOK good for notes HERE
Good overall information about Rome HERE
Clickview Australia short high quality clips on history and others
webpage of resources HERE
Niall Ferguson Empire
Facts and details HERE
Timelines.tv on youtube. Actual site is HERE - good short clips from the Brits
in Focus: Atlantic Monthly photos by theme HERE These are amazing
BBC Bitesize HERE
BBC Education interactives HERE
Timewatch BBC HERE
1000 years of Europian changing borders HERE
Modern World History Textbook HERE
Stanford University History Lessons HERE
Hyperhistory Web based Timelines HERE
Current Events World History HERE
Mesopotamian History site HERE
Eyewitness to History - primary sources galore!
Internet History Sourcebook - Primary sources organized by theme. Fordham University
Life Magazine - a bit of searching reveals masterful photographs of historical persons and events
Time Magazine - great for current events, video and archived articles
Gapminder - A data tool for looking at trends in a different way.
eHistory - a clearinghouse of sites, sources and online books produced by THE Ohio State University
Larry Ferlazzo - An extensive listing of web resources by a master teacher
Ferlazzo's The Best websites for teaching and learning about world history
Podcast History of Our World: An entertaining podcast of world history. Do far, the producer has gotten to the classical Greeks. Can be accessed through iTunes HERE
The Epic of Gilgamesh recreated on the above podcast. A great supplement to the text
The History of WW2 Podcast: Very good podcast, giving an overview of the war and its leaders.
BBC Primary History - May be a good resource for struggling readers. Vocabulary is linked to definitions
BBC Primary Timeline - Interactive timeline, shows important events in the ancient world
i.e. or e.g.? This is a good cheat sheet!
Horrible Histories Scholastic UK
International World History Project - great for secondaries and some film clips (use explorer)
ClassZone -McDougal Little - primaries and activities
choices program - Brown
Mapping History - Modules on maps and data in world history
World History for us all - lesson plans and units
Worldology Interactive maps by theme
HM Interactive maps ancient world
Google historical moments HERE
Annanburg interactives HERE