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IllumiNative - IllumiNative
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K to 12
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Explore research, classroom materials, campaigns, and media resources created to increase accurate, contemporary representation of Native peoples and challenge stereotypes and invisibility....more
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Explore research, classroom materials, campaigns, and media resources created to increase accurate, contemporary representation of Native peoples and challenge stereotypes and invisibility. IllumiNative worked with Native-led organizations, Tribal Nations, educators, artists, and community leaders to change public narratives about Native peoples. Although the organization sunset in 2025, its website remains available as an archive of research and projects. Educators will find especially useful K-12 activity guides developed with the National Indian Education Association, Amplifier, and Nia Tero, including materials on Native art, storytelling, food sovereignty, traditional games, language, notable Native leaders, boarding schools, contemporary identity, and Indigenous Peoples' Day. Resources are organized into collections for Pre-K-2, grades 3-5, and grades 6-8, with additional educator lesson plans and research to support older students.
tag(s): montana (34), native americans (162), preK (335)
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Have students listen to or read a Native story and identify important details, themes, and lessons. Then have them retell, illustrate, or dramatize the story. Explore the geometry found in Navajo weaving, then have students identify patterns, symmetry, shapes, and tessellations before designing their own geometric pattern. Students can write an "I Remember" poem about family, traditions, places, or meaningful memories, then add illustrations or photographs to create a personal heritage page.
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Everyday Native - The Everyday Native Project
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4 to 12
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Everyday Native helps students look beyond stereotypes by pairing contemporary Native American experiences with photographs, poetry, videos, background information, discussion questions,...more
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Everyday Native helps students look beyond stereotypes by pairing contemporary Native American experiences with photographs, poetry, videos, background information, discussion questions, and inquiry activities. Designed for grades 4-12, the resource focuses on both Native history and present-day life. It supports Language Arts, U.S. History, Native American History, Social Studies, Current Events, Photography, Poetry, and Art. Students encounter photographs by Sue Reynolds, poems by Victor Charlo, and videos featuring Native youth discussing pride, courage, resilience, culture, family, and challenges. Teacher supports include interpretation strategies, writing and discussion prompts, research ideas, downloadable analysis sheets, and a regularly updated newsfeed. Full access is free after registration.
tag(s): media literacy (133), montana (34), native americans (162), primary sources (164)
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Ask students to read a Victor Charlo poem and use the site's inquiry approach to identify what they notice, what they wonder, and where their prior ideas about Native Americans originated; then investigate one compelling question using additional sources. Have students compare information about a Native nation featured in the resource with tribally produced information, then create an annotated map with Google My Maps, reviewed here, showing important places and explaining why specific tribal identification is more accurate than treating Native peoples as one group. Assign students a final reflection in which they explain one stereotype or misconception that changed during the unit and support the response with two pieces of evidence from photographs, poems, videos, or background readings.
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Native Knowledge 360 - Smithsonian Institution
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K to 12
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Bring Native perspectives, contemporary voices, and more complete histories into the classroom with Native Knowledge 360 (NK360), the National Museum of the American Indian's education...more
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Bring Native perspectives, contemporary voices, and more complete histories into the classroom with Native Knowledge 360 (NK360), the National Museum of the American Indian's education initiative for K-12 teaching and learning. The collection features classroom-ready lessons, digital books, teaching posters, artist spotlights, online resources, reference guides, and professional-development materials created in collaboration with Native communities, scholars, and educators. Teachers can search by grade, subject, resource type, and classroom or educator use, with materials spanning art, English language arts, history and social studies, mathematics, and science. A central feature is the NK360''? Essential Understandings framework, which addresses themes such as American Indian cultures, identity, environments, governance, economics, science and technology, global connections, and civic life. Resources intentionally emphasize Native voices, cultural diversity, accurate information, and the ongoing presence and contributions of Native peoples, rather than presenting Native cultures solely in the past.
tag(s): montana (34), native americans (162), preK (335), primary sources (164), professional development (303)
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Invite students to examine one of the ten NK360 Essential Understandings, create a short explanation supported by examples from a classroom resource, and then ask classmates to identify stereotypes or oversimplifications the evidence corrects. Ask small groups to explore an NK360 art or artist resource and discuss how a contemporary Native artist communicates identity, community, history, or personal experience, then have students design an original visual response with Adobe Creative Cloud Express, reviewed here. Ask students to compare two Native nations or communities featured in NK360''? resources and organize similarities and differences in geography, culture, historical experiences, or governance with the Venn Diagram Creator by Canva, reviewed here.
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Big Horn County Historical Museum and Visitor Center - Big Horn County Historical Society
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4 to 12
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Explore Montana history through the Big Horn County Historical Museum in Hardin. Teachers can use its historic buildings, artifacts, and exhibits to support lessons on Plains Indian...more
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Explore Montana history through the Big Horn County Historical Museum in Hardin. Teachers can use its historic buildings, artifacts, and exhibits to support lessons on Plains Indian culture, Fort Custer, ranching, transportation, schools, early businesses, and daily life in Montana's past. Students can examine primary-source photographs and preserved structures to compare life then and now.
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Invite small groups to examine how the museum presents Plains Indian history alongside settler, military, agricultural, and community history, then ask students to identify which perspectives are represented and which additional tribal or primary sources would strengthen their understanding. Ask students to research Will James using the museum's biographical information and create a biography card with Trading Card Creator, reviewed here, including key dates, his work as a cowboy artist and author, and his connection to Big Horn County. Have students investigate the development of Big Horn County, Fort Custer, local settlement, transportation, or agriculture and organize major events on a class chronology with Timeline Tool by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Museum of the Plains Indian - U.S. Department of the Interior
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Explore the art and material culture of Northern Plains Tribal peoples through the official Museum of the Plains Indian website. Founded in 1941 and located in Browning, Montana, the...more
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Explore the art and material culture of Northern Plains Tribal peoples through the official Museum of the Plains Indian website. Founded in 1941 and located in Browning, Montana, the museum features historic clothing, horse gear, weapons, household implements, baby carriers, toys, and other works associated with peoples including the Blackfeet, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Sioux, Assiniboine, Arapaho, Shoshone, Nez Perce, Flathead, Chippewa, and Cree. The site also links to current and recent exhibitions, including contemporary American Indian art and craft exhibitions that highlight living artists rather than presenting Native cultures only in the past. Additional museum pages provide location, hours, admission information, virtual exhibitions, and collection-related resources.
tag(s): artists (106), montana (34), native americans (162)
In the Classroom
Ask students to compare works or traditions connected with two Northern Plains Tribal peoples and organize similarities and differences using the Venn Diagram Creator by Canva, reviewed here. Assign students to build a short timeline showing changes in Plains Indian art, material culture, or museum interpretation using the Timeline Tool by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here, incorporating both historic collection objects and contemporary exhibitions. Have students write a museum label for a selected object or artwork that includes an accurate description, cultural context, and source attribution, then peer-review labels for respectful language, specificity, and avoidance of generalizations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Montana History in 9 Easy Lessons - Montana Historical Society
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9 to 12
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Get a broad overview of roughly 12,000 years of Montana history through this collection of nine recorded lectures presented by Montana Historical Society staff and other subject-matter...more
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Get a broad overview of roughly 12,000 years of Montana history through this collection of nine recorded lectures presented by Montana Historical Society staff and other subject-matter experts. Topics include pre-contact archaeology, early contact and the effects of horses, disease, and European trade goods, the gold rush and creation of Montana Territory, industrialization, tribal nations during the early reservation and assimilation era, homesteading, the Cold War, political changes from the late 1960s through the 1990s, and tribal sovereignty during the self-determination period. Each section introduces the topic, provides background about the speaker, and links to a recorded lecture. Educators can watch the presentations and complete associated quizzes to earn OPI Renewal Units. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the videos.
tag(s): cold war (40), gold rush (20), montana (34), native americans (162)
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Have students analyze the lecture on Montana's tribal nations during the early reservation years alongside the lecture on tribal sovereignty in the self-determination period, then write an evidence-based response explaining how federal policy and tribal sovereignty changed over time. Ask students to work in pairs to compare the Pre-Contact Montana and Early Contact Period lectures, then organize evidence about continuity and change using the Venn Diagram Creator by Canva, reviewed here. Have students watch an assigned lecture and create a one-page set of notes identifying the central claim, three important details, and one question they still have about the topic.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Native Land Digital - Native Land Digita
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4 to 12
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Begin a place-based inquiry by searching Native Land Digital's interactive maps of Indigenous territories, treaties, languages, and place names around the world. Map layers overlap...more
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Begin a place-based inquiry by searching Native Land Digital's interactive maps of Indigenous territories, treaties, languages, and place names around the world. Map layers overlap intentionally, helping users consider Indigenous relationships with Land and Waters beyond fixed colonial borders. Nation, treaty, and language entries may include sources and links for further investigation. In contrast, additional resources include a 2025 Teacher's Guide, a land and waters acknowledgment guide, open map data, and an API. Teachers should present the map as a starting point rather than a final authority because Native Land Digital states that its maps are living educational resources, are still being refined, and do not represent official or legal boundaries. Students should verify findings through Indigenous nations and community-based sources whenever possible.
tag(s): cultures (299), evaluating sources (56), map skills (66), montana (34), native americans (162)
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Ask pairs to compare the Native Land map with a conventional political map and organize differences in borders, labels, overlap, and perspective using the Interactive 2 Circle Venn Diagram by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here. Have small groups investigate Indigenous place names in a selected region and build a map-based story with StoryMap JS, reviewed here. Assign students to compare several overlapping territorial or language layers and create a presentation with Canva for Education, reviewed here.
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Spin the Wheel Education - Spin the Wheel
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K to 12
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Spin the Wheel Education is a free, fully customizable spinner that also provides ready-made spinning-wheel templates for many uses. Choose wheels with recess games, story ideas, creative...more
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Spin the Wheel Education is a free, fully customizable spinner that also provides ready-made spinning-wheel templates for many uses. Choose wheels with recess games, story ideas, creative writing prompts, and much more. Customize each wheel by color, topic, layout, theme, and spin time and speed.
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tag(s): classroom management (150), game based learning (326), Teacher Utilities (224)
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Use Spin the Wheel templates to add engagement and excitement to any classroom activity. Spin to select students to respond to questions, add a series of review questions, select writing or debate topics, and more. Add character names or chapters to the wheel with hidden questions that test comprehension or theme analysis. Store short science, math, or history questions behind entries and have teams compete to answer correctly for points. Spin the Wheel is an excellent way to build in retrieval practice and spaced review into a busy day.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Thiings - Liinks.co.
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K to 12
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Thiings is one of those handy sites you didn't know you needed until you see it. Choose from over 10,000 (and growing) icons of everyday objects to download as PNG ...more
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Thiings is one of those handy sites you didn't know you needed until you see it. Choose from over 10,000 (and growing) icons of everyday objects to download as PNG files. Search for what you need, or browse categories such as animals, vehicles, and historical figures. Downloading the file is as easy as selecting the icon and clicking to download or copying and pasting the image into your design. Email registration is required, and Thiings provides unlimited free downloads. Share icons using the provided share link.
tag(s): graphic design (57), images (275), presentations (49), symbols (21)
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Bookmark and save Thiings to use when creating any digital design, saving time and frustration by avoiding searches for the right icon. Thiings also includes a link to hear the object's description, making it user-friendly for all ages and abilities. Add a link to Thiings on classroom computers for students to use with their projects. Use icons from the site to ask students to predict the topic of an upcoming lesson, practice descriptive writing by describing an icon, or create visual examples of classroom routines. When using the Thinking Routines Toolbox, reviewed here, such as See, Think, Wonder, choose an unusual icon for students to generate observations, inferences, and questions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Virginia Changemakers - Library of Virginia
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4 to 12
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Virginia Changemakers from the Library of Virginia is a free educational resource featuring short biographies of influential Virginians who have made lasting contributions to their...more
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Virginia Changemakers from the Library of Virginia is a free educational resource featuring short biographies of influential Virginians who have made lasting contributions to their communities, the Commonwealth, and the nation. Organized by historical era and themes such as civil rights, education, science, government, the arts, military service, and business, the site helps students explore diverse historical figures through engaging, accessible profiles. Teachers can use this resource to introduce biography studies, highlight underrepresented voices, connect historical events to real people, and support inquiry-based learning in history, social studies, language arts, and civics.
tag(s): american revolution (99), biographies (100), civil rights (224), civil war (148), colonization (22), great depression (33), industrialization (14), virginia (16), womenchangemaker (83), world war 2 (169)
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After reading several biographies, ask students to identify common leadership qualities such as perseverance, courage, innovation, or service. Students can support their findings with evidence from the biographies and discuss how these traits apply today. Have students select a changemaker and prepare a first-person presentation or living museum exhibit. Using information from the website, students can dress as the individual (optional), share important accomplishments, answer classmates' questions, and explain how their contributions continue to influence society today. Assign each student a different changemaker to research. Students can create a trading card using Trading Card Creator, reviewed here explaining the individual's accomplishments and lasting impact.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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National Native American Hall of Fame - National Native American Hall of Fame
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The National Native American Hall of Fame is an educational resource that celebrates the achievements and contributions of Native American leaders, innovators, artists, athletes, military...more
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The National Native American Hall of Fame is an educational resource that celebrates the achievements and contributions of Native American leaders, innovators, artists, athletes, military veterans, educators, and other influential figures from tribes across the United States. Teachers can explore inductee biographies, photographs, videos, historical information, and educational resources that highlight Native American history, culture, leadership, and contemporary accomplishments. The site helps students gain a broader understanding of Indigenous perspectives while promoting cultural appreciation and challenging stereotypes, making it a valuable resource for history, social studies, language arts, and multicultural education.
tag(s): biographies (100), native americans (162)
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Assign each student or small group a Hall of Fame inductee to research. Students can create a slide presentation, podcast, or short video using Adobe Express for Education, reviewed here highlighting the person's accomplishments and lasting impact. During Native American Heritage Month or while studying U.S. history, have students explore the website's biographies and videos. Students can create a digital timeline using MyLens, reviewed here showcasing achievements across fields such as science, sports, government, the arts, and military service. Have students compare a Hall of Fame inductee with another influential historical or contemporary figure. Students can create a Venn diagram with Venn Diagram Creator by Canva, reviewed here, analyzing leadership qualities, challenges, and contributions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teaching Comics - The Center for Cartoon Studies
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1 to 12
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The Center for Cartoon Studies' Teaching Comics page is a large collection of free resources for using comics, graphic novels, and cartooning in the classroom. Teachers can find short...more
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The Center for Cartoon Studies' Teaching Comics page is a large collection of free resources for using comics, graphic novels, and cartooning in the classroom. Teachers can find short creative exercises, complete lesson plans, study guides, handouts, and resources about visual storytelling, character development, dialogue, sequencing, editing, and literary devices. Many materials are available as printable PDFs, and several list recommended grade levels and Common Core subject connections. The site can support reading, writing, art, media literacy, and social studies lessons by helping students learn how words and images work together to communicate ideas.
tag(s): comics and cartoons (69), literary devices (14), sequencing (22)
In the Classroom
Have students use a simple six-panel template from Comic Strip Templates by Canva, reviewed here to tell a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end. Encourage them to plan how each panel moves the action forward and to use captions, dialogue, and pictures only where they add important information. After reading a chapter or short text, have students create a comic response that shows an important event, a character's change, a conflict, or a theme. Have students add a brief written explanation that describes how their visual choices connect to evidence from the text. They can choose new vocabulary words from a reading, science, or social studies unit and create small comics that show each word in context. Classmates can use the illustrations and dialogue to infer the word's meaning before checking the definition.
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Affinity - Canva
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6 to 12
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Affinity is a free professional design application that combines photo editing, vector illustration, and page layout tools into a single downloadable program for Windows and macOS....more
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Affinity is a free professional design application that combines photo editing, vector illustration, and page layout tools into a single downloadable program for Windows and macOS. Students and teachers can use its Pixel, Vector, and Layout studios to edit photographs, create original graphics and logos, design posters or infographics, and produce polished multi-page publications such as newsletters, brochures, and portfolios. Its layer-based tools and customizable workspace make it a strong option for digital art, media, and presentation projects, particularly when students need more precise design controls than a basic online creation tool provides. The core software is free, although some Canva AI features available within Affinity may require a Pro Canva plan, which is free for educators by enrolling in Canva for Education, reviewed here.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (353), editing (97), graphic design (57)
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Have students turn research from a science, social studies, or health unit into an infographic. They combine a clear title, concise facts, icons, charts, and visuals to teach classmates about topics such as ecosystems, weather, inventions, or historical events. After reading a novel or biography, have students redesign the book cover to show important themes, symbols, setting details, and character traits. They can write a short artist's statement explaining how each visual choice connects to the text. Have students use teacher-approved images to create a visual essay on a school, community, science, or social studies topic. They can edit images, arrange them on a page, and add captions that tell a clear story or support a central idea.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Civil War and Reconstruction Virtual Exhibit - National Constitution Center
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Go on a virtual visit to the National Constitution Center exhibit on Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equality. Use your mouse to move through and view ...more
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Go on a virtual visit to the National Constitution Center exhibit on Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equality. Use your mouse to move through and view different areas of the exhibit. Learn how to move through the exhibit by selecting the question mark icon at the bottom-left of your screen. The dropdown box at the top right of the screen provides direct links to different parts of the exhibit, beginning with "Building to Crisis" and ending with "Impact of the 15th Amendment."
tag(s): civil war (148), lincoln (65), slavery (82), virtual field trips (153)
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Include this virtual exhibit as part of a computer station activity or include it as an activity in a choice board focusing on the Civil War. Extend learning by asking students to create short audio guides of the different areas of the exhibit using a free audio tool like Vocaroo, reviewed here. Another group of students can create a timeline of events in the exhibit and use Timeline Infographic Templates by Canva, reviewed here to share their work.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Document Analysis - National Archives
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The National Archives provides information and worksheets in both English and Spanish to guide users through analyzing primary source documents. The instructions include a step-by-step...more
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The National Archives provides information and worksheets in both English and Spanish to guide users through analyzing primary source documents. The instructions include a step-by-step progression for beginning document analysis, followed by several worksheets categorized by age and document type. The worksheet categories include photographs, written documents, artifacts, and several other document types. After selecting a category, the link includes questions and observations to guide artifact analysis. You can print each worksheet as a PDF.
tag(s): critical thinking (193), primary sources (164), worksheets (70)
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Bookmark and save this series of worksheets to teach students how to analyze documents, artifacts, and primary sources. Ask students to complete the worksheet and attach it to research projects and presentations. Engage students with station rotations and ask them to become the archivist. Include a primary source document or artifact at each station and have students use the appropriate worksheet to analyze the information. Have students record their findings on pre-made Google Slides, reviewed here. Use the worksheet information to create a slide deck for each artifact, then duplicate the slide so that each group can record their findings. When finished, discuss and compare each group's responses. For younger students, modify this activity to do an archivist-of-the-day activity as you work together to analyze a document or artifact.
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Boardous - Boardous
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Boardous is an all-in-one online teaching space for virtual learning activities. The free version gives you a persistent, infinite whiteboard for real-time collaboration, plus built-in...more
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Boardous is an all-in-one online teaching space for virtual learning activities. The free version gives you a persistent, infinite whiteboard for real-time collaboration, plus built-in video and audio chat. You can create reusable lesson templates, schedule sessions on the built-in calendar, and import PDFs to annotate directly on the board with your students; everything saves automatically to the cloud, so your boards are always available to use right where you finished using them. Invite students by sharing an invitation code; they don't need to create a Boardous account.
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Use Boardous for small-group work or to assist individual students. If you provide virtual office hours, Boardous is a helpful tool for conducting online learning sessions via video chat and for using the included tools to support learning. Send an invitation code to absent students to review an annotated board created during a lesson, or to meet live and review information they missed. Boardous is also helpful for virtual parent-teacher conferences and for sharing information as you discuss your student's progress.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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150+ Exit Ticket Questions And Prompts For All Subjects - Dylan Cable
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3 to 12
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Exit tickets are an excellent way to gather formative assessment information and gauge classroom learning, but writing quick, effective questions can take time. This article shares...more
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Exit tickets are an excellent way to gather formative assessment information and gauge classroom learning, but writing quick, effective questions can take time. This article shares over 150 general prompts to open communication and give you the information you need to assess student learning. Find prompts sorted into several categories, including all subjects, math, reading comprehension, and student reflections on strengths and weaknesses.
tag(s): assessment (141), Formative Assessment (45)
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Bookmark and save this article for inspiration when creating exit tickets. In addition to paper-and-pencil exit tickets, try using digital tools like Socrative, reviewed here, Google Forms, reviewed here, and Kahoot, reviewed here to gather exit ticket responses.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Independence Day Resources for K-12 Homeschoolers - Texas Home Educators
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This ready-to-go collection gathers Independence Day lesson plans, printables, crafts, games, primary-source activities, and historical investigations for homeschool and classroom use....more
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This ready-to-go collection gathers Independence Day lesson plans, printables, crafts, games, primary-source activities, and historical investigations for homeschool and classroom use. Resources are organized into elementary (K-5) and high school (9-12) sections, with each entry listing its grade level, approximate time, cost, and access requirements. Younger learners can explore patriotic symbols through crafts, coloring, puzzles, bingo, and short readings. At the same time, older students can analyze the Declaration of Independence, examine Revolutionary-era perspectives, use an interactive map, and complete discussion or writing activities. Many selections are free, although Education.com, PBS LearningMedia, and Newsela require accounts, and several Teachers Pay Teachers materials cost approximately $4-$10.
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tag(s): american revolution (99), crafts (105), declaration of independence (26), holidays (293), july 4th (20), maps (222), preK (335), primary sources (164)
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Younger students can sketch and label an American symbol, create a paper flag, sequence events from a short read-aloud, or compare how families and communities celebrate the holiday. Have students place key events from 1776 into the Timeline Tool by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here. Students can develop a review game in Wordwall, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The 5 Clue Challenge - Michale Soskil
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5 to 12
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The 5 Clue Challenge is a collection of short videos that present five clues to identify a location, an animal, or another mystery. After hearing the first clue, viewers should ...more
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The 5 Clue Challenge is a collection of short videos that present five clues to identify a location, an animal, or another mystery. After hearing the first clue, viewers should pause and try to guess and research the answer. When ready, move on to the next clue, pause, and try to guess again. This site includes a teaching guide with suggestions for extension activities and integrating the 5 Clue Challenge in different curricular areas. YouTube Disclaimer: If your district blocks YouTube, the video may not be viewable.
tag(s): critical thinking (193), logic (177), Problem Based Learning (15), Research (92)
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Include 5 Clue Challenges as a schema activator to introduce a new teaching unit, such as a geography unit on European countries. Include these activities alongside lessons on research, source reliability, or map skills. Challenge students to play in groups and earn points using the system described in each video: five points for guessing correctly on the first try, four points on the second try, and so on. Extend learning by having students create their own 5 Clue Challenges using information available on the site. After recording student videos, use Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed here or Canva for Education, reviewed here to edit and share the completed challenge videos.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Little Language Lessons - Google Labs
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K to 12
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Little Language Lessons is an experiment from Google Labs providing bite-sized language lessons in fifteen languages, teaching vocabulary, phrases, slang, and more in your chosen language....more
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Little Language Lessons is an experiment from Google Labs providing bite-sized language lessons in fifteen languages, teaching vocabulary, phrases, slang, and more in your chosen language. Begin by choosing from one of the three categories: Tiny Lesson, Slang Hang, and Word Cam. Tiny Lesson helps users learn vocabulary, phrases, and grammar tips; Slang Hang provides expressions and regional slang; and Word Cam uses your photos to help users learn from their surroundings. After selecting a language, each activity provides input options; you can view the results as text or listen to the audio response. Because this is an experimental site, it's best to double-check the accuracy of the results.
tag(s): arabic (12), artificial intelligence (353), chinese (40), french (74), german (51), greek (46), hebrew (18), italian (33), japanese (54), multilingual (83), portuguese (22), russian (27), spanish (114)
In the Classroom
In language classes, ask students to type in a scenario, such as ordering at a cafe, asking for directions, or reporting a lost passport, to get instant results in using the language in real-world situations. Integrate Little Language Lessons into a social studies unit and have students add common phrases and information from different countries or cultures. After learning common phrases or identifying items in their chosen language, ask students to use Canva for Education, reviewed here or Google Slides, reviewed here to make a postcard in that language as if they are writing home to tell about their visit to a foreign country. Use Padlet, reviewed here to create a gallery walk sharing students' postcards.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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