History+Resources

__**General Sites**__

Google Docs Tutorial __[]__

How to use Google Docs to Collaborate in classroom and address Common Core

__[]__

__[]__ __: history videos__

__[]__ / great site for civics and government teachers that allows students to learn while having fun

__[]__ __/__ Neat easy way to tell your life story! cool site that sends students/teachers emails that contain questions....student answers the questions and it compiles it into a private journal

__[]__ __/__ great videos for all subject areas including history includes link to common core for math and english

__[]__ / interactive website on the constitution

__[]__ contains templates for students doing story boards for imovies

__[]__ /

A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard.

__[]__

great lesson plans and videos for history

__[]__

Library of Congress website with lots of materials and primary sources

__[]__

Link to the National Archives that contains primary source documents and lesson plans

__[]__

great site for all science teachers

**eBooks** __[]__ / Google books is a search engine that will allow students to search for books that are free to download on their computers. Many great historical books are on this site and are free to download

__[]__ / specializes in making complex ideas easy to understand

__[]__ / cool interactive current events website

[]


 * **The World Factbook** provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map. ||

. []

Library of Congress- contains large collection of digital history archives

Thomas.gov

__[]__

Congressional records and current actions of congress

__**COMICS in HISTORY**__

How to Integrate Comics Comics can be integrated in history and social studies classes in a variety of ways:
 * 1) Upload and comment on historical photographs.
 * 2) Create a fictional story about a historical event.
 * 3) Create a virtual tour of a country or historical place.
 * 4) Create an editorial cartoon.
 * 5) Create a traditional scene or event of a foreign culture.
 * 6) Transform a Primary Source Document into a comic.
 * 7) Create a 'What If' comic strip version of a historical event.
 * 8) Jigsaw a larger unit of study into smaller sections and have groups create comics to teach their section to the class.
 * 9) Encourage otherwise reluctant writers to express themselves.

__[]__ / record audio as you sketch-good for working out math problems __[]__

great site for all science teachers

__[]__ / comic creator that allows you to create comics with uploaded images

__[|Book Report Alternative: Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares]__

Students must think critically in this ReadWriteThink lesson to create comic strips highlighting six important scenes from a book they have read.

__[]__ / great site for integrating technology into the history classroo

__**Digital Storytelling Tools**__ __[]__ / This intuituve and powerful web-based application provides basic but impressive multimedia features. Animoto offers music and professional-looking special effects to add to your photos and text. Students can sign up for a free account and access Animoto from any Mac or PC with an Internet connection.

__[]__ /

This new tool from the National Archives allows students to create their own accounts and then build a story using digital resources directly from the National Archives. They can search through historical collections and even build their own collections of resources. Each image contains historical information that can be added as captions. The movie making tool includes soundtrack options as well as basic editing functions. With a free login account, students can save their work, and completed projects can be emailed or shared via hyperlink.

__[]__ / is a powerful online poster creation platform with an easy drag-and-drop interface and enables students to create interactive, aesthetically appealing, and media-rich posters. With Glogster students create "Glogs," an online multimedia poster made with text, images, graphics, music, video and more. [|Glogster EDU] is an advertisement-free educational community wherein educators set up a "“virtual classroom” for their students. By default Glogs are private unless a teacher designates them as “public,” and students are assigned randomly generated login information and passwords. No student is identified by name. As such, Glogster EDU helps address issues of inappropriate content and undesirable contact with those outside an educational community.

**eBooks** __[]__ / Google books is a search engine that will allow students to search for books that are free to download on their computers. Many great historical books are on this site and are free to download!

__**History Games and Animations**__

__[]__ / interactive strategy game in which students try to create their own colony

__[]__ / easily explain redistricting to your students

__[|http://muzzylane.com/ad/index.html]__ American Dynasties is a dynamic learning game where students learn history by living out stories of people from the past, focusing on key events in American History __[]__

global teaching and learning school developed by the United Nations, includes live webcasts of United Nations meetings

__[]__ Freeciv is a free empire-building strategy game that begins in prehistory. The players mission is to lead their tribe from the stone age to the space age

__[]__ hands on history lessons provided by the BBC

__**Geography and Maps**__

__[]__ geography game allows students to quiz themselves

__[]__ civil war animated maps

__[]__ / interactive maps

__**PODCASTING**__

How to Integrate Podcasts in the Classroom Here are some specific ideas for the history/social studies classroom:
 * 1) Students interview relatives about their life histories, and then combine the audio interview with family photos in an iMovie project.
 * 2) Students write a radio drama based on a historical event and record their show (complete with commercials) using an iPod and a voice recorder.
 * 3) Students learn about a different country by interviewing a recent traveler. They record the interview and then create a digital travel album.
 * 4) Students create a faux advertising campaign to convince immigrants to settle the new American colonies.
 * 5) Students use an iPod and a voice recorder to interview sources for articles for a class newspaper.
 * 6) Students write and record short stories and add music and sound effects.
 * 7) Teacher records a tutorial that students listen to on their own
 * 8) Present student writing through a class radio drama or a poetry slam.
 * 9) Teacher records and broadcasts group discussions.
 * 10) Using an iPod and a voice recorder, the teacher records each student telling a story and then saves the recordings in iTunes for assessment purposes.
 * 11) On a field trip, students use an iPod with a voice recorder to take notes and a digital camera to take photos. They then create a guided tour in iMovie.

__[]__ / easy voice recording tool that allows you to email or embed

__**Digital Timelines**__ __[]__ /


 * Free tool that allows text and images in each timeline entry. Also provides an embed code for each timeline. ||

__[]__ / Visually appealing, image based timeline creator. Unique Feature: Video, images, mp3, word, excel, powerpoint & pdf can be uploaded. Events can be “stacked” on the timeline. Timelines can be edited and shared. The most visually appealing timeline tool. __**Publishing**__ __[|**http://www.issuu.com**]__ **/ online publishing for students**

__[|**http://www.Google.com/cse/**]__ **create a customized search engine for your students**

__[|**http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp**]__ **create website learning tracks or use ones already created** __Bookr__ __[]__ students can create books using flickr images

__**Rubrics**__ __[]__

http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/rubrics.cfm#cooperative

__[]__ /

British Literature

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html