Statetris is an interesting game mixing aspects of the popular game 'Tetris' and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location. Fun, challenging and educational!
Harvard’s Open Collections Program brings together thousands of primary sources from the university’s libraries and allows users to search and view them online. This extensive collection of historical material is available to the public free of charge. The site includes manuscripts, books, and images on the subjects of “Women and Work, 1800-1930" and "Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930."
Two different, paid, Constitution and American Government-related summer programs for teachers. A great opportunity to gain some teaching skills in knowledge in a great city while also receiving money for your effort!
A community mapping website, in our definition, is a service that gets its members to map and define places. Through crowd-sourcing, these sites are building a database/directory of local and nearby locations that their users can discover and visit.
This interactive site presents diverse scholarship regarding race and pedagogy. The site is an academic resource intended to provide teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials.
This is an excellent website for teachers with little experience teaching economics. Contains over 500 lesson plans on over 200 topics, and supplemented with current events.
A small Amish boy witnesses a murder in Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. The ensuing events lead to a great deal of cultural exchange between the Amish community in Lancaster County, PA, and the police detective assigned to investigate the murder. This film provides a great exploration of cultural differences, especially considering recent events in the Pennsylvania Amish community.
Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) web site for educators is an amazing resource for teacher and students of American history and civics. The site features everything from primary documents (original Brown v. Board of Ed. decision, Washington’s Farewell Address…all the good ones) to lesson plans for different era to interactive online activities.
Discovering Justice is a project, housed at the courthouse in Boston, focused on teaching students about justice and the American justice system. The project offers programs for all age groups, of particular importance are their courthouse tours (and observing court sessions) for all ages and their mock trials and “Arts in the Law”, which teaches legal history through drama, for secondary student
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Statetris is an interesting game mixing aspects of the popular game 'Tetris' and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location. Fun, challenging and educational!
Harvard’s Open Collections Program brings together thousands of primary sources from the university’s libraries and allows users to search and view them online. This extensive collection of historical material is available to the public free of charge. The site includes manuscripts, books, and images on the subjects of “Women and Work, 1800-1930" and "Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930."
Two different, paid, Constitution and American Government-related summer programs for teachers. A great opportunity to gain some teaching skills in knowledge in a great city while also receiving money for your effort!
A community mapping website, in our definition, is a service that gets its members to map and define places. Through crowd-sourcing, these sites are building a database/directory of local and nearby locations that their users can discover and visit.
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