Hands-On Strategies for American History
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Includes Jeopardy game templates, foldable examples, graphic organizers, and much more.
I really thought the “Analysis Worksheets” were very good. They will help students analyze written documents, artifacts, cartoons, maps, motion pictures, photographs, posters and sound recordings.
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5 Places to Find and Watch Documentaries Online
Some of the best videos to supplement the classroom are not found on YouTube but found on these great documentary websites. Also, OpenCulture has a huge collection of free videos that can be shown as well.
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How Big Really?
BBC Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.
What Is an "Inquiry Lesson"?
A lesson where students analyze historical evidence in order to form and test hypotheses about past events. Good stuff!
The Single Best Idea for Reforming K-12 Education
This is one of the best articles I can recall reading on Forbes, and an absolute breath of fresh air. If you were looking for that “Someone else gets it” moment, this is it.
To decide what is the single best idea for reforming K-12 education, one needs to figure out what is the biggest problem that the system currently faces. To my mind, the biggest problem is a preoccupation with, and the application of, the factory model of management to education, where everything is arranged for the scalability and efficiency of “the system”, to which the students, the teachers, the parents and the administrators have to adjust. “The system” grinds forward, at ever increasing cost and declining efficiency, dispiriting students, teachers and parents alike.
Given that the factory model of management doesn’t work very well, even in the few factories that still remain in this country, or anywhere else in the workplace for that matter, we should hardly be surprised that it doesn’t work well in education either.
Oh, and an interesting chart of where they think things should go:
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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011
An interesting list. Throw in your own suggestions for the list HERE
How To Work Better (1991), by Peter Fischli and David Weiss.
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Chris Lehmann introduces a revolutionary idea in education: Encourage learning by allowing students to do things they are good at instead of restricting them.
Daring kids to make something that matters.
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