Entries Tagged as 'Social Studies'

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Dioramas go Web 2.0

Think back to elementary school… Do you recall creating shoebox projects for a variety of reasons ~ book report or a social studies topic ~ remember putting in small figures and crafting tiny objects to showcase a scene from a book or moment in history?
With Museum Box, students can demonstrate knowledge by creating an online [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Google News Archive Search

News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.
A search for “Abraham Lincoln” brings new results from the NY Times…from 1921! Amazing opportunity for students to learn news from the [...]

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Digital History

In the past week, I’ve come across a couple of sites that should be useful in Social Studies classrooms.
The National Archives may be known to many. From the site:
Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical [...]