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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Stories: Legacies of who we are - Awele Makeba

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The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance

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Saturday, February 21, 2015

"Kick Me": Interactive Vocabulary Activity

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Teaching Students to use Textual Evidence

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Kelly Gallagher: Noticing sentence craft

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Kelly Gallagher: Which draft is better?

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

An Argument For Teacher Modeling and Student Revision

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Progressive History Teacher

I am a middle school social studies teacher and this is my blog concerning all things educational. Here you will find strategies, successful lessons, PowerPoint presentations, videos, as well as links to useful sites. Ultimately this site is meant to help other teachers build lessons. Good Luck!

Building Units

  • Authentic Education
  • Understanding by Design

Building Lessons

  • Awesome Library
  • Awesome Stories
  • Best of History Websites
  • Beyond the Bubble: A New Generation of History Assessments
  • Constitutional Rights Foundatioin
  • Digital History (U.S. History)
  • EDSITEment
  • EduHound
  • Edutopia
  • Federal ED Resources
  • Fordham University: Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  • Go Social Studies Go
  • Harvard Graduate School of Education: Educator Resources
  • Historical Thinking Matters
  • History for Kids
  • National Archives Teaching With Documents
  • National Archives: Digital Resources
  • National Gallery of Art
  • PBS Learning Media
  • Philosophy Slam
  • Picturing America
  • Pros and Cons
  • Smithsonian: Resources for Teaching American History
  • Stanford History Education
  • Teachers First
  • Teachers Pay Teachers
  • Teaching History
  • The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  • United Religions Institute
  • WikiTeacher
  • Women in World History
  • Zinn Education Project

Primary Resources

  • Harp Week (Political Cartoons)
  • Eye Witness to History
  • Digital Documents (Illustrations & Photographs)
  • Library of Congress
  • Avalon Project (Yale University)

Educational Videos

  • Disney's Education Videos
  • Mr. Zoller's Social Studies Podcasts
  • U.S. National Archives
  • Hip Hughes History
  • Crash Course
  • Ted Ed
  • Open Ed
  • Educational Portal
  • Teaching Channel

Productivity

  • Conscious Teaching
  • LACOE
  • Classroom Resources
  • UCLA Writing Project
  • Project Based Learning
  • Edmodo
  • History Tech
  • Online Courses
  • Best Reference Page
  • Poem Hunter
  • Poll Everywhere
  • Video Converter
  • Video Downloader

Technology: Research

  • Citeliter Extension

Technology: Miscellaneous

  • 4Teachers.org Teach with Technology
  • Animation
  • Blabberize: making pictures talk
  • Classdojo.com
  • Common Sense Media
  • Edmodo
  • FreeTechnologyforTeachers.com
  • Go Animate
  • History Tech
  • Linoit online sticky notes/bulletin board
  • Nearpod.comPoll Everywhere.com
  • SAS Curriculum Pathways
  • Todays Meet

Dealing with Common Core

  • Achieve the Core
  • Brokers of Education
  • Brokers of Expertise
  • CCSS Curriculum Maps
  • California Dept. of Ed
  • California Dept. of Ed II - Modules
  • Common Core
  • Common Core Resources
  • Common Core State Standards Initiative
  • Curriculum Associates
  • ELA Crosswalk
  • Edmentum
  • Engage NY
  • Essay Tagger (generates rubrics)
  • History Blueprint
  • Norwalk La Mirada USD
  • Oakland Unified School District
  • Orange County Dept Ed II
  • Orange County Dept. of Ed
  • Oregon Dept. of Education
  • Partnership of 21st Century Learning
  • Pearson Ed
  • Public School of NC - Has examples of "unpacking" the standards
  • SBAC Sample Items
  • San Diego Office of Ed
  • Share My Lesson
  • Smarter Balanced
  • The Reading and Writing Project
  • Tulare County Office of Education
  • UC Davis History-Social Science Project
  • UC Davis: Teaching in the Common Core
  • Val Verde School District

News Sources

  • CNN Student News
  • Channel One News
  • DOGO News
  • History and Current Issues
  • Kelly Gallagher: Building Deeper Readers and Writers
  • National Geographic News
  • New York Times Learning Connections
  • New in Levels (For English Language Learners)
  • News for Students of English
  • Newsela
  • PBS News Hour
  • PBS News Hour for Kids
  • Scholastic
  • Scholastic News: The Holy Land in Crisis
  • Student News Daily
  • Teach Kids News
  • The CBBC (The BBC for Kids)
  • The Connected Classroom
  • The Washington Post Kid Post
  • Time for Kids
  • Tween Tribune
  • Weekly Reader

Geography and Maps

  • Atlapedia Online
  • Blank Maps
  • CIA Factbook
  • Global Trek
  • Library of Congress Map Collection
  • Manifest Destiny in 141 Maps
  • Maps of War
  • National Geographic: Historical Maps
  • National Geographic: Map Maker
  • National Geographic: Maps
  • National Park Service
  • United States Census Bureau
  • Webrangers
  • What's It Like Where You Live?

Teacher Blogs

  • PragmaticMom
  • Cassie Stephens
  • Teach Like a Champion
  • Lessons From the Middle
  • mrgrayhistory | History resources for students and teachers
  • Teaching Social Studies and Language Arts
  • The Middle School Mouth
  • Squishy Not Slick
  • FUNSHINE
  • Principal's Page
  • The Social Studies Teacher's Blog
  • Mr. Needleman"s Integrating Technology
  • Trail of Breadcrumbs
  • Mrs. Redd's Social Studies - Home
  • Kelly Gallagher
  • Ms. Pojer's Teaches History

Educational Activism

  • Jonathan Kozol.com
  • What Kids Can Do
  • Not Waiting for Superman
  • Rethinking Schools
  • Save Our School
  • The National Center for Fair and Open Testing
  • DianeRavitch.com
  • Diane Ravitch's Blog

Stuff You Missed in History Class

Stuff You Missed in History Class
A great place to find those cool history tidbits and extra background for your class is the Stuff You Missed in History podcast. Every few days they post a 20-30 minute podcast about some incredibly interesting but almost always little-known historical event, fact, or person.

StoryCorps

StoryCorps
StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization whose mission is to record, preserve, and share the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs.

The Moth

The Moth
The Moth brings in a unique experience where real people tell real stories. Each week they host a open mic show with different themes in several locations.

TED Talks

TED Talks
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

The Hidden World of Girls

The Hidden World of Girls
THE KITCHEN SISTERS are producing a new NPR multimedia series exploring the hidden world of girls. Stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secret identities—of women who crossed a line, blazed a trail, changed the tide.

This American Life

This American Life
This American Life is a weekly public radio show with a simple format. There is a theme to each episode and a variety of stories told about that theme. It is mostly true stories told by regular people. There are literally 100s of episodes on a wide variety of different topics. Some are funny, some are sad, some are informational, etc. etc.

This account has various pictures, videos, and maps that can be used in the classroom all organized according to subject.

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2015 (8)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ▼  February (7)
      • Stories: Legacies of who we are - Awele Makeba
      • The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance
      • "Kick Me": Interactive Vocabulary Activity
      • Teaching Students to use Textual Evidence
      • Kelly Gallagher: Noticing sentence craft
      • Kelly Gallagher: Which draft is better?
      • An Argument For Teacher Modeling and Student Revision
  • ►  2014 (33)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  October (14)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (6)
  • ►  2013 (23)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (6)
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