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PBS: Teaching Women’s Suffrage

American History, Biographies, Secondary, Social Studies, United States of America, Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage August 3, 2020

An excellent set of resources for grades 5-12. You can share the lessons through a variety of methods including Google Classroom.

This collection of video clips, lesson plans, and primary sources details key figures, events, and regional movements of the decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. Students will encounter activists including Sojourner Truth, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Grace Abbott, and examine key regional efforts within the movement. Primary source documents offer evidence for a study of the chronology of campaign for women’s suffrage, from the movement’s beginnings through the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

Topics include:

  • 19th Amendment
  • Advocates and Organizers
  • Regional Movements
  • Primary Sources
    • Library of Congress: Media Gallery- Women’s Suffrage
    • Digital Public Library of America- Primary Source Set: Women’s Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
    • 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – Women’s Right to Vote (1920) and Resource Materials
    • Why Should Women Vote? The Suffrage Question

PBS: Finding Your Roots

American History, Biographies, History, World War II June 29, 2020

Highlights of numerous seasons of the popular PBS: Finding Your Roots program with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In this collection you will find: Video (55), Document (9), Webpage (1), Lesson Plan (9), Media Gallery (18) for Grades 5-13+

George Washington and the American Revolution

American History, Biographies, History June 29, 2020

PBS has a collection of a variety of media to introduce your students to George Washington and the American Revolution. Included this Collection are: Image (2), Interactive (3), Video (3), Document (1), Media Gallery (1) for Grades 5-12

See the progress of the war through the actions and decisions of General George Washington, such as direct confrontation, military strategy, disease prevention, and spy techniques.

  • Yorktown Now or Never
  • Yorktown: The French Alliance
  • Yorktown: The Siege Begins
  • Spy Techniques of the Revolutionary War: Culper Code Book
  • Smallpox Inoculation Letter
  • Washington Crossing the Delaware Painting- Interactive
  • Interactive Map of the Battle of Trenton

Picture Books used in Middle School Classes

Langauge Arts, Reading June 16, 2020

A Middle School Teacher and Principal discuss the use of picture books in the Middle School classroom do introduce complex literary techniques and reading strategies.

“Charlie Anderson by Barbara Abercrombie, is about a cat who spends the days in the woods and comes home to sleep with his owner, only to leave again the next morning.”

“It is a parallel story and requires quite a bit of inferring on the part of the reader, ” says teacher Jason DeHart.

Online Learning

Online Learning, Professional Development June 7, 2020

14 Simple Tips for Teaching Online
Practical ideas to help teachers with developing their online teaching lessons and resources.

Also great links to integrate technology in your class

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Critical Thinking June 7, 2020

Task-Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
Print this page to have it by your side when you are building tiered activities for your students.

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Clip-art for Teachers

Technology in the Classroom May 19, 2020

❇️ My Cute Graphics: Free for personals and educational use.

❇️Pixabay: Free image and royalty free stock. Search for images- photos, vector graphics, illustrations, and also videos.

❇️ Emojipedia: Lots of free emojis to add to your google classroom documents. A tip– Use selected emojis on sections of your Google Classroom subjects and documents to help your students stay organized.

Harry Potter’s Wizardly World

Langauge Arts, Language, Literacy, Reading July 20, 2020

Wizardly World is the official Site of the Harry Potter world. You can register for free and investigate everything Harry Potter.

J.K. Rawling has granted open licence to read aloud her books during the Covid-19 outbreak. This means that teachers can post themselves reading to their students. Some teachers never got to finish reading the book they started before the outbreak. Now is your chance to read to your students.

❇️ Daniel Radcliffe reads the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone/Sorcerer’s Stone, ‘The Boy Who Lived’.

❇️ Noma Dumezweni reads Chapter Two: ‘The Vanishing Glass’.

❇️ Eddie Redmayne reads Chapter Three: ‘The Letters from No One’.

❇️ Stephen Fry reads Chapter Four: ‘The Keeper of the Keys”.

❇️ Simon Callow, Bonnie Wright, and Evanna Lynch read Chapter Five: ‘‘Diagon Alley’.

❇️ Jamie Parker and the Broadway cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child read Chapter Six: ‘The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters’. Have a watch and listen. This chapter is read as a script with a wonderful casting of characters reading the parts. Enjoy this read.

❇️ Olivia Colman, Jonathan Van Ness, and Kate McKinnon read Chapter Seven: ‘The Sorting Hat’.

❇️ Alia Bhatt, Alec Baldwin and his daughter Carmen, introduce us to Professor Snape, the Potions teacher at Hogwarts.reads Chapter Eight: ‘The Potions Master’.

❇️ Dan Fogler and Alison Sudol read Chapter Nine: ‘The Midnight Duel”. Dan Fogler and Alison Sudol narrate Harry’s first flying lesson, as well as a midnight adventure in the castle, where he meets a rather unusual dog.

❇️ Whoopi Goldberg reads Chapter Ten: ‘Hallowe’en’.

❇️ David Tennant and David Beckham read Chapter Eleven: “Quidditch”.

❇️ Matthew Lewis, Helen Howard and Imelda Staunton read Chapter Twelve: “The Mirror of Erised’.

❇️ Hugh Bonneville reads Chapter Thirteen: ‘Nicolas Flamel’

❇️ Jason Isaacs, Tom Felton, and Helen McCrory read Chapter Fourteen: ‘Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback’.

❇️ Claudia Kim and Dakota Fanning read Chapter Fifteen: ‘The Forbidden Forest’.

❇️ Kenneth Branagh and Ruth Wilson read Chapter Sixteen: ‘Through the Trapdoor’.

❇️ The Patels, The Gaffneys and the McKennas read Chapter Seventeen: ‘The Man with Two Faces’.

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simpleK12 Teacher Professional Development

Professional Development May 18, 2020

❇️ simpleK12 – Just-in-time teacher training

During this time of isolation teachers have the opportunity for self-directed professional development.

Many districts are having their teachers reach out to their students using Google Classroom. If you need technology support to learn how to use Google Classroom to your advantage, look no further. You can sign up for free and then view 30-minute webinars to get you on your way to an online classroom for your students.

❇️ simpleK12 offers lots of free webinars. Sign-up to their site for free to have access to a lot of free webinars and resources.

There is a treasure trove of excellent learning opportunities for teachers here. When I was in the classroom I did pay for the low yearly fee to have access to my learning on-demand. It was worth every penny. I started with the free offerings for some time until I just couldn’t be without what they offered on my timeline. Have a look. You won’t be disappointed.

The webinars are always useful, time-efficient, and presented by teachers in the trenches who offer many practical ideas.

Grade 3 Social Studies

3rd grade, Community, Grade 3, Primary, Social Studies May 1, 2020

Ministry of Education, Social Studies, History, Geography Grades 1-8 Curriculum

People and Environments: Living and Working in Ontario – cursor down to page 92 of the curriculum to review the expectations for this strand.

Students can determine land use in cities. Then they can design and build their own city using the building templates provided by the British architect studio, Foster + Partners. The templates included are for skyscrapers and a variety of houses.

Have the students brainstorm what is found in a city. (Include: street names, traffic signs, roads, ponds, parks, government buildings, homes, etc)

Students can alternatively create their own city using boxes, Lego, other building blocks, or found material.

Printable Paper Buildings Design your own streetscape from the templates at KraftTrains.com

Ken Burns’ American History Resources

American History, Geography, History, Junior, Junior, Secondary, Secondary, Senior, Social Studies, United States of America, Vietnam War April 30, 2020

Ken Burns in the Classroom- PBS Learning Media

Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these films present the opportunity to pose thought-provoking questions for students, and introduce new ideas, perspectives, and primary sources. 

You can search the resources available by Era or by Film. The target audience is for grades 4-12+.
Classroom support resources and National Standards are included with each topic.

There are links to share resources via Google classroom and other social media options.

Students and teachers can signup to the website to keep track of their learning using this resource.

UNUM Ken Burns: One Nation, Many Stories

Ken Burns and his team carefully curate topics for study from his media resources.

The topics are sorted by Themes, Events, People, AP US History Themes, Wars, and Time. You can signup to get new topics in your inbox.

The target audience is for grades 7-12+

Teaching American History

American History, Biographies, History, Homeschooling, Oral Language, Professional Development, Secondary, Secondary, Secondary, Secondary, Secondary, Social Studies, United States of America, Viewing, World War I, World War II April 27, 2020

Explore the The World War II Museum in New Orleans. The site has many things to offer teachers and students:

Country Research for Primary Grades

Geography, Homeschooling, Primary, Primary, Social Studies April 27, 2020

Complete the booklet below. Use the following sites, books, and atlases to research a country.
Research Booklet for Student Use (Google Slides)

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National Geography for Kids

A great site to find primary level reading about for 68 countries to choose from. You will find information about their:

  • Geography
  • People & Culture
  • Nature
  • Flag
  • Government
  • History
  • A slide show is included for each country

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Factmonster Countries of the World

Each Country Profile provides information on: Geography · Maps · Flag · History · Current ruler · Area · Population · Capital · Largest cities · Languages · Ethnicity/race · Religion · Literacy rate · Economy · Government

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Duckster Geography- U.S. and by Continents

Click on a continent, then cursor down to select a country. Facts, maps, and flag can be found. (You might find too many advertisements on this site.)

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World Flag Database
Click on the country’s flag to read some fast facts and see the different flags of the country.

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Homeschool Helper Online

Teachers and parents, signup to download free research lapbooks to guide student learning. You will see lots of activity ideas. Look for the Country Lapbook to support your student’s research.

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Biography Online Resources

Artists, Biographies, Intermediate, Virtual Tours May 19, 2020

Guggenheim Online Resources: Artists

Featuring over 1,700 artworks by more than 625 artists, the Collection Online presents a searchable database of selected artworks from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection of approximately 8,000 artworks.

  • Artists
    You then can use the menu across the top of the page to select by:
  • Venues
  • Mediums
  • Special Collections
  • Dates
  • Movements
  • Take a Virtual Tour of the museum

Virtual Tour of Living in Space

Primary, Science, Viewing, Virtual Tours, Writing May 18, 2020

Do you think that you could live in space? There are three short videos that show you how it is done. Watch the video to see how Astronaut Karen Nyberg washes her hair in space.

Then you will learn how Astronaut Chris Cassidy has a “close shave”.

I wonder how you would sleep in space? Astronaut Suni Williams shows you how it is done. Have you ever wondered how you go to the bathroom in space? Well, Suni tells you how that is done too!

❇️ Complete the viewing sheet as you watch the videos.

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Astronaut Suni Williams takes you on a tour of the “bedroom” and the “bathroom” on a space station
September 2020
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