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Useful resources for teaching social sciences and the arts from a multicultural perspective.
Updated on 2009-09-21
Created on 2008-09-25
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John Quincy Adams (JQAdams_MHS) on Twitter
The line-a-day diary entries of John Quincy Adams, beginning with his journey to Russia on 5 August 1809. A project of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Such a cool idea! Now I'm starting to get an idea about how Twitter could be used educationally.
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Bloom's Taxonomy - Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology
A wonderful Cliff Notes to Bloom’s Taxonomy. The reference page is most helpful.
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Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square!
The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it.
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The Cochrane Mural Mosaic
A single work composed of 160 individual pieces of art that, when set together, make one stunning mural. In Alberta, Canada.
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Curriki - coolschool
Part computer game, part educational classroom tool, COOL SCHOOL: Where Peace Rules! is a whimsical interactive game where children, ages five to seven (grades K-2), journey to the fanciful world of Cool School, where everything -- from erasers to desks to books to basketballs -- are alive and full of personality. Here, in a vibrant and fun setting, children are taught invaluable social, communication, and problem-solving skills that promote conflict resolution through negotiation, compromise, cooperation, and reconciliation.
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MixedInk - Free Collaborative Writing Tool
Have not tried it, but looks like an interesting tool to pursue. Aimed at producing collective op ed pieces, letters to congress, etc.
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Music-in-Education National Consortium
Here you will find a wealth of articles from our Journal for Learning Through Music and Journal for Music-in-Education (2007) that can be freely downloaded and used for reference. (Jessica Reed shared this site with our class in Winter 2009.)
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The Language Experience Approach and Adult Learners
While this description of LEA is for people working with adult language learners, the methods are adapted easily to elementary school students.
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Developing a Language Experience Story
The Language Experience approach can easily be used with a whole class as well as with individuals or small groups. It is a natural approach for helping scaffold writing assignments in other subjects, such as social studies!
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Colonial Newspapers
Did this quick Google search and found three good options for using colonial newspapers as primary documents in the context of a 5th grade history lesson.
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Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades
Report and recommendations from the What Works Clearinghouse.
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Guadalupe Historical Society
Visitors will find a growing collection of photos of early days, early pioneers and enterprises that formed the now-incorporated City (1946) from a Mexican land grant of 1840. Artifacts from the no longer extant adobes are on display, as well as items representative of the European, Chinese, Filipino, Swiss-Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Portuguese, Spanish cultures arriving as the Native Americans, the Chumash, ebbed.
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