Dianne Krause's List: Social Studies Resources

Great resources for Election 2012

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Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history.Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories.Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.

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Whether it’s with a moment of silence or an outpouring of service, schools across the country are considering how to help their students observe the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. A wide range of resources are available to assist educators as they seek learning opportunities around this emotion-charged date.

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Great resource for Social Studies teachers! Google Map with each marker being either a virtual tour or a webcam.

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Topographic maps are a fantastic teaching resource for educators. They can be used in a variety of ways in the science, math, geography, and history curriculum, from elementary to college level. The following ideas may be used as an aid in building educational lessons or to spark your own ideas for using them in the curriculum.

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f a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology.

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SELECT a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value.

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This blog is not officially affiliated with Google. Google Earth Blog is dedicated to sharing the best news, interesting sights, technology, and happenings for Google Earth. You will find the most amazing and interesting Google Earth news stories and content you can download right off the site. Learn how to take data from your GPS, map it into Google Earth, and share it with friends or the world. Learn when new releases of Google Earth come out, hear about new technologies and features, or check out the links to dozens of other Google Earth web sites.

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Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine

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Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.

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Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.  Gapminder World shows the World’s most important trends

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The Biography Maker is like those homework machines we have been hearing about for many years. It is designed to help you convert facts into insights, dull and boring information into fascination and magic. It will help you do a good job, but you must provide some of the "steam" to make it work well.

The Biography Maker is meant to inspire lively story telling and vivid writing which will make your readers want to know more about your subject.

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Search by newspaper title, language, or address and get a map of the world with pinpoints for each newspaper. Awesome for finding newspapers from different countries and in different languages.

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Nice resources for using google earth with the civil war.

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"Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere."

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Over the last few weeks, months, and years, a lot of people have had much to say about education.

The voices of students, teachers, parents, and community leaders deserve increased prominence in these conversations. Let's elevate the level of discourse. Let's talk with the people around us, and let's make an effort to talk with people who are outside our immediate circle.

Let's identify the good we want to retain, the change we want to see, and mark the steps to make it happen.

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"With Myfakewall.com you can easily create fake profile pages just for fun. This fake facebook wall generator allows you to create a funny profile to entertain your friends. Create it, and share it on Facebook !"

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Nice world clock widget/applet that includes world time, population, death, illness, environment, energy, US crimes, food and more

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Explore the President's desk. Object that shine are interactive. Click on a highlighted object to learn more about its significance and the United States' 35th President

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"Whether you’re writing a paper or studying for a test, odds are you spend more time gathering the pieces than actually working. In my experience, getting all of my notes together, hunting for quotes, and tracking down bibliographical information takes at least as long, if not longer, as writing the paper itself.

In a group situation, sharing research and collaborating on the production of one document is even more difficult without the proper tools.

Enter Evernote. For students, it’s an invaluable way to organize research and streamline the collaboration process. Here are some examples of how Evernote simplifies the student research process."

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