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Eclectic Technology
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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Explore records of the National Archives documenting the ongoing struggle of Americans to define, attain, and protect their rights.
Beth Dichter's insight:
Are you looking for primary documents that explore the history of rights in America? The National Archives has a new website that provides resources on: * Equal rights * Rights to freedom and justice * Rights to privacy and sexuality * Workplace rights * First amendment rights * Rights of Native Americans Each area has a brief overview and provides a list of stories that are told through a detailed timeline with primary documents being utilized to tell the story. This interactive website is a great resource for teachers of history and social studies and may also be a resource for ELA teachers when reading books that relate to the areas covered. 
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Who says that learning has to be lame? Take the boring out of those old Social Studies books add in cool stories, links, and videos, and you get Go Social Studies Go. Currently there are 6 sections: Global Religions, History (ancient, medieval, 19th & 20th century, colonial, American), World Geography, Choose Your Own Adventure (The Underground Railroad and Immigration with more to be added), History Legal Files (the Trial of Marie Antoinette with Brown vs Topeka Board of Ed. to be added soon), Cool Sites (a Scoop.it site by Go Social Studies Go), and Teacher Resources (a wikispaces site). It appears that additional information will be added. If you teach social studies check this site out, and share it with others!
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Beth Dichter's insight:
What do you think are the ten most important developments in human history? What do you think your students would think? This infographic is from Norwich University Online and provides their view but I would suspect that our students might come up with a different list (as would many teachers). This would be a great topic for students to research and create their own infographic...which would probably include items not included in this one!
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Richard Byrne provides 13 resources for social studies in this post. Some have been mentioned previously in this Scoop.it and others are new. Each one includes a brief description and all are free. They include: * Museum Box - a virtual display of artifacts * Mission U.S. - 2 missions that explore different times in U.S. History * Hip Hughes History - a YouTube channel on both U.S. and World History (the image above is from this site) * The Google Cultural Institute (42 exhibitions online) * History Animated - "animated online tours of notable battles and strategies and the outcomes of each battle in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and WWII" and more! Check out the post for additional resources.
Nick Urban's curator insight,
July 16, 2015 3:31 PM
This site offers terrific digital resources specific to the social studies classroom. It offers resources on a variety of social studies topics from world history to American history, and politics. One of the sites that I have used in my classroom is History Animated that allows users to see virtual battlefields and live the action that soldiers would have felt. |
Mission US has just released a new mission: City of Immigrants. This game allows learners to learn about issues of immigrants ad they become Lena Brodsky, a 14 year old immigrant from Russia. During the game learners meet people in Lena's community, gaining a better understanding of the dynamics of immigrant communities. Throughout the game learners will need to make choices, which are not necessarily easy.
These games are geared to middle and high school learners. The other games found at Mission US are:
* For Crown or Colony (1770)
* Flight to Freedom (1848)
* A Cheyenne Odyssey (1866)
You will also find teaching materials on the website.