TEACHING AMERICAN

HISTORY

TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATION

Linda Brandon

April 3, 2014

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• Build reading comprehension through non-fiction• Close reading and critical thinking skills• Multiple levels of text complexity, measured by lexile levels• Common Core aligned quizzes with some articles

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• Interactive exploration of words and pictures that define the time• Snapshot of our world at a moment in time• Click on an image for story behind it• Runs with no human intervention – no bias, no commentary• Go back in time to 2004

U.S. HISTORY GOOGLE EARTH TOURS

• Trace historical events over time, touching down on places vital to US heritage and development

• Click on a place and view primary and multimedia resources• Some of the tours –

• Revolutionary War• Lewis and Clark Expedition• Path to the Civil War• Civil War Battles• Right to Vote: Women’s Suffrage• Road to Civil Rights• And more!

WHO AM I? A HISTORY MYSTERY

• Fun and challenging game from Smithsonian “Price of Freedom” exhibit• Identify 6 characters using text and images provided• Students practice using evidence to create a hypothesis

REVISITING SOME OLD FAVORITES

Word Clouds – ideas for use

Discovery Education – tools to use for a “flipped classroom”

DOCS Teach – teaching with documents in the classroom

SAS Curriculum Pathways –new features always added

WHAT DOES THIS WORD CLOUD SUGGEST THE

ARTICLE FROM NEWSELA IS ABOUT?