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Bell Ringer: Claudette Colvin and the Civil Rights Movement - C-SPAN Classroom
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6 to 12
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Learn about Claudette Colvin in this C-SPAN bell-ringer lesson featuring a video discussion with author Mattie Kahn. The Lesson includes a four-minute video, assignment questions, a...more
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Learn about Claudette Colvin in this C-SPAN bell-ringer lesson featuring a video discussion with author Mattie Kahn. The Lesson includes a four-minute video, assignment questions, a vocabulary list, and several links to related topics. Registration isn't required; however, creating a free account lets users bookmark and organize content.
tag(s): 1950s (36), civil rights (230), womenchangemaker (95), women (197)
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Use the additional resource links to support this bell-ringer activity as part of a larger lesson or unit. Extend learning by using this site as the foundation for creating a presentation using Visme Presentation Maker, reviewed here. Include the link to this bell-ringer in your prompt, and ask Visme to create a slide presentation about Claudette Colvin that includes additional information and context about her role as a change maker and civil rights proponent. Consider asking students to create short podcasts that feature women changemakers, including Claudette Colvin, using a free tool such as Adobe Podcast, reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Claudette Colvin: The O.G. Rosa Parks - Untold History
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5 to 12
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This two-minute video tells the story of Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African American schoolgirl who, in 1955, stood up against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. Often...more
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This two-minute video tells the story of Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African American schoolgirl who, in 1955, stood up against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. Often called the "original Rosa Parks," Colvin challenged the state's unjust laws by refusing to give up her seat on a bus. The video covers the historical context of Colvin's actions, her act of resistance, and the ensuing legal battle and legacy. YouTube Disclaimer: If your district blocks YouTube, the video may not be viewable.
tag(s): 1950s (36), civil rights (230), women (197), womenchangemaker (95)
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Include this video with your lessons about civil rights and women changemakers. Enhance student learning using Edpuzzle, reviewed here, to create an interactive activity within the video and include the video within personalized lessons. Find additional resources about Claudette Colvin from Smithsonian Learning Lab, reviewed here. Search for Colvin's name to find a collection that contains newspaper articles, a video of Claudette talking about her experience, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Meet Claudette Colvin - Vocal Essence Witness
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Meet Claudette Colvin is a PDF document containing a standards-based lesson, extension activities, and a student worksheet, adaptable to different grade levels. The lesson includes...more
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Meet Claudette Colvin is a PDF document containing a standards-based lesson, extension activities, and a student worksheet, adaptable to different grade levels. The lesson includes small-group discussions about the included article and encourages note-taking. The worksheet asks students to share information about Claudette Colvin to create a portrait of her life and serves as the lesson assessment. Extension activities include suggestions for incorporating visual arts, songwriting, and deeper exploration by older students.
tag(s): civil rights (230), womenchangemaker (95), women (197), 1950s (36)
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Include information from this lesson as part of a Civil Rights Movement unit or when studying women as changemakers. Find other women changemakers on TeachersFirst ST pages, including Change Makers: Young Women Who Have Changed the World,
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Teacher's Guides and Analysis Tool - Library of Congress
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Turn almost any historical document, image, map, recording, or other artifact into a structured investigation with these ready-to-use primary source analysis materials from the Library...more
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Turn almost any historical document, image, map, recording, or other artifact into a structured investigation with these ready-to-use primary source analysis materials from the Library of Congress. The page includes a downloadable, fillable Primary Source Analysis Tool that guides students to observe, reflect, question, and identify areas for further investigation. Teachers can pair the tool with format-specific guides for analyzing books and printed texts, charts and graphs, manuscripts, maps, motion pictures, newspapers, oral histories, photographs and prints, political cartoons, sheet music and song sheets, and sound recordings. Each guide includes prompting questions teachers can select based on students' needs, along with follow-up activities at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. Teachers can save, print, email, or upload the student analysis PDF, making the materials useful for individual, small-group, whole-class, and remote learning.
tag(s): bias (38), inferencing (9), maps (222), oral history (17), map skills (68), point of view (11), inquiry (42), critical thinking (194), evaluating sources (61), primary sources (184)
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Have students examine a photograph without first revealing its caption or date, complete the Observe, Reflect, and Question portions of the Primary Source Analysis Tool, and then compare their initial inferences with the source's catalog information. Have students investigate a historical map with the map-analysis questions, then use Google My Maps, reviewed here, to create an annotated map connecting locations in the source to evidence uncovered through further research. Invite the whole class to complete one analysis collaboratively, then assign students a new source independently as a formative assessment of their ability to distinguish observation from inference and support conclusions with specific evidence.
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Test Prep Reimagined: Brain-Based Strategies That Improve Student Performance - TeachersFirst
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6 to 12
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This TeachersFirst blog post shares three research-supported approaches to help students prepare for high-stakes tests. The article explains how retrieval practice, concept mapping,...more
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This TeachersFirst blog post shares three research-supported approaches to help students prepare for high-stakes tests. The article explains how retrieval practice, concept mapping, and cognitive offloading can help students organize information and manage testing demands. Specific strategies include completing a five-minute memory dump before reviewing notes, creating concept maps from memory, identifying gaps in understanding, and writing important formulas or information on scratch paper before beginning a test. Other parts of the post address how stress and limited working memory affect testing. These practical strategies give teachers alternatives to traditional test review methods such as rereading notes or completing worksheets.
tag(s): thinking skills (137), concept mapping (16), Research (94), teaching strategies (94)
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Use the strategies throughout a unit rather than waiting until the days before a test. Have students complete a short memory dump at the beginning of a review session, check their responses against their notes, and use the results to identify what they still need to study. Students can also create concept maps that connect major ideas from a unit or semester. Share templates from Canva for Education, reviewed here to create mind maps that help organize concepts and show relationships that help to clarify information.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Understanding Executive Functioning Skills: Your Students' Brain Command Center - TeachersFirst
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K to 12
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Understanding Executive Functioning Skills: Your Students' Brain Command Center explains how executive functioning affects students' ability to manage learning tasks. The article describes...more
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Understanding Executive Functioning Skills: Your Students' Brain Command Center explains how executive functioning affects students' ability to manage learning tasks. The article describes ten skills, including task initiation, planning, organization, working memory, information processing, self-monitoring, sustained attention, processing speed, impulse control, and cognitive flexibility. A classroom example shows how a seemingly simple digital assignment can require students to use several of these skills at once. It also describes connections between executive functioning and academic achievement, social-emotional learning, and learner agency. Examples throughout help teachers recognize how executive functioning challenges can appear during everyday classroom activities. This article offers a useful introduction for educators who want to understand these skills better and consider how classroom routines and expectations can support students.
tag(s): organizational skills (93), social and emotional learning (235), teaching strategies (94)
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Use ideas from the article to help teachers and students identify the executive functioning skills needed for common classroom tasks. Choose an assignment and have students break it into steps, identify where they might get stuck, and develop a strategy for getting started, staying focused, or checking their work. Share Magic ToDo, reviewed here, to help students break a large assignment or project into smaller steps. Have students use the tool to create a task list, estimate the time needed for each step, and check off completed tasks as they work.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Using Retrieval Practice to Boost Student Learning - TeachersFirst
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This blog post introduces retrieval practice as a simple strategy to help students recall and retain what they've learned. The article explains the connection between retrieval and...more
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This blog post introduces retrieval practice as a simple strategy to help students recall and retain what they've learned. The article explains the connection between retrieval and long-term learning and offers practical suggestions for using the strategy in daily instruction. Examples include brain dumps, Cops and Robbers, short quizzes, and other activities that ask students to recall information without looking at notes or other resources. The information also emphasizes that retrieval activities should be brief, low-stress, provide feedback, and occur regularly over time. Teachers can easily adapt the examples for different subjects and grade levels.
tag(s): teaching strategies (94), assessment (144)
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Use the ideas in this article to add short retrieval activities to existing lessons. Begin class with a two- or three-minute brain dump about yesterday's learning, or ask students to recall key ideas before introducing a related topic. Use short quizzes or partner activities to revisit learning from earlier in the week. Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM), reviewed here, can create quizzes and flashcards from teacher-provided materials for additional practice. Padlet Arcade, reviewed here, can turn review content into a game that gives students another way to practice recalling information.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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GradeWithAI - GradeWithAI
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Speed up grading while keeping the teacher in control with GradeWithAI, an AI-powered grading and feedback tool designed for educators. Teachers can import assignments from Canvas,...more
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Speed up grading while keeping the teacher in control with GradeWithAI, an AI-powered grading and feedback tool designed for educators. Teachers can import assignments from Canvas, Google Classroom, and Google Forms or upload digital and handwritten student work, including PDFs, Word documents, presentations, and images. Add an existing rubric or have the tool generate an editable rubric from assignment directions, then review the AI-generated scores and personalized feedback before returning results to students. GradeWithAI also includes tools for regrading, exporting results, identifying learning gaps, generating follow-up activities, and analyzing student performance. The free plan is limited to 25 AI requests per month.
tag(s): artificial intelligence (371), Formative Assessment (52), assessment (144), feedback (20), rubrics (40), Teacher Utilities (234)
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Have teachers upload a set of student essays with an existing rubric, then use the generated scores and comments as a first grading pass, carefully reviewing and editing all feedback before returning the work to students. Ask teachers to use Kleo, the built-in AI assistant, to identify common misconceptions after grading an assignment, then use those findings to plan a small-group reteaching activity or next-day warm-up. Have teachers grade a common assessment with GradeWithAI and review results across the class, then compare AI-generated patterns with classroom observations to determine which skills students have mastered and which need more practice.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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12 Summer and Winter Games Activities for Elementary and Middle School Students - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Bring the excitement of international athletic competition into math, social studies, and language arts lessons with this collection of 12 classroom activities for elementary and middle...more
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Bring the excitement of international athletic competition into math, social studies, and language arts lessons with this collection of 12 classroom activities for elementary and middle school students. Students can investigate the history of the Summer and Winter Games, analyze a passage about Jesse Owens and the 1936 Games, research notable athletes, locate host cities on a world map, create a digital magazine about a specific year, compare the Summer and Winter Games, and complete a Winter Games scavenger hunt. Math activities connect sports with graphing, rates, functions, measurement, nutrition, and data analysis through topics such as javelin throws, cycling, medal counts, and goal setting. Several activities include downloadable materials or teacher guides, and individual activities specify appropriate grade ranges.
tag(s): functions (60), sports (107), data (215), olympics (65)
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Have students in grades 4-6 use the downloadable timeline activity to investigate historical events that disrupted, postponed, or canceled the Summer Games, then discuss connections between international events and sports. Ask students in grade 6 and above to examine the passage about Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games, then discuss how sports can reflect larger political and social issues occurring at a particular point in history. Ask students to use one of the math investigations to analyze a real-world sports problem, such as graphing javelin angle and distance, examining cycling pace, graphing medal data by country, or tracking progress toward a personal goal.
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Earth Day Timeline - HISTORY.com
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Trace the environmental movement from the events that inspired Earth Day to its development into a worldwide observance with this chronological overview from HISTORY. Beginning with...more
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Trace the environmental movement from the events that inspired Earth Day to its development into a worldwide observance with this chronological overview from HISTORY. Beginning with Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson's birth in 1916, the timeline highlights Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, major environmental legislation, Earth Day's international expansion, the Paris climate agreement, Greta Thunberg's climate protests, and the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in 2020. The combination of concise dated entries, photographs, related links, and a short video makes the resource useful for examining connections among environmental concerns, activism, government action, and changing public awareness. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the videos.
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tag(s): climate (100), conservation (110), environment (248), earth day (68)
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Ask students to create a cause-and-effect chart connecting events such as Silent Spring, the Cuyahoga River fire, the first Earth Day, the establishment of the EPA, and subsequent environmental legislation. Have students work in pairs to investigate one event from the timeline more deeply, then create a visual timeline using Timeline Infographic Templates by Canva, reviewed here, that adds historical context to the events before and after it. Ask students to write an evidence-based response to the question, "How much difference can one public movement make?" using at least three events from the Earth Day timeline to support their argument.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Earth Day - WWF-UK
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Help students discover more about Earth Day, planet Earth, and the people working to protect it. WWF-UK brings together accessible facts, conservation stories, and hands-on Earth Day...more
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Help students discover more about Earth Day, planet Earth, and the people working to protect it. WWF-UK brings together accessible facts, conservation stories, and hands-on Earth Day activities focused on wildlife and the natural world. Students can explore facts about oceans and forests, read firsthand accounts from WWF conservationists, learn about projects involving tigers, rhinos, jaguars, pandas, penguins, and hawksbill turtles, and try activities such as creating a nature book or coloring a rainforest scene. The page also encourages spending time outdoors and links to additional games, live learning opportunities, and environmental resources. This collection works especially well as a starting point for Earth Day inquiry because teachers can select individual readings and activities rather than follow a prescribed sequence.
tag(s): conservation (110), ecosystems (117), sustainability (60), biodiversity (45), forests (31), oceans (142), earth day (68)
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Ask students to explore the ocean and forest facts, then work in pairs to sort their findings into categories such as biodiversity, human impact, ecosystem services, threats, and conservation solutions. Ask students to choose one issue they learned about from the Earth Day resources and write a persuasive Earth Day message explaining why others should care and one action individuals or communities could take. Have students conduct a biodiversity observation around the school grounds or another nearby outdoor area, tally the living things they observe, and propose one realistic change that could make the area more supportive of wildlife.
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Earth Day Lesson Plans for Science, ELA, and Social Studies - Newsela
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Bring Earth Day into science, ELA, and social studies with this collection of ready-to-use lesson ideas and resources for K-12 classrooms. Teachers can explore Earth's systems, environmental...more
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Bring Earth Day into science, ELA, and social studies with this collection of ready-to-use lesson ideas and resources for K-12 classrooms. Teachers can explore Earth's systems, environmental change, conservation, energy choices, recycling, environmental data, and ways students can help the planet. Literacy activities include environmental debates, argumentative writing, advocacy texts, and poetry, while social studies ideas connect environmental issues with civic responsibility and community action. Science resources include articles, infographics, data investigations, hands-on activities such as making seed balls, and videos accompanied by 5E lesson plans, vocabulary, and discussion questions. The page identifies resources for different grade bands, although access to some linked Newsela instructional content may depend on the user's Newsela access.
tag(s): earth day (68), ecosystems (117), sustainability (60), recycling (51), environment (248), conservation (110), pollution (59), poetry (195), climate change (115)
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Have students examine an infographic about Earth's biomes or four spheres, then sketch and label connections among Earth's systems, and then discuss how changes in one system can affect another. Have students examine environmental data about air quality, plastic waste, or energy consumption, identify patterns in the data, and write an evidence-based claim about what the information reveals about Earth's health. Ask students to develop an Earth Day action plan for their home, classroom, or school, then create a persuasive presentation using Adobe Creative Cloud Express, reviewed here, which can be used to create flyers, presentations, social media posts, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Earth Month is Here: Simple Ways to Pitch In for the Planet - EarthShare Texas
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Looking for practical ways to turn Earth Month into everyday action? EarthShare Texas offers ten approachable categories of environmental actions, including using sustainable transportation,...more
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Looking for practical ways to turn Earth Month into everyday action? EarthShare Texas offers ten approachable categories of environmental actions, including using sustainable transportation, reducing and recycling waste, supporting environmentally conscious businesses, gardening, reducing paper use, advocating for environmental causes, choosing renewable energy, supporting wildlife conservation, conserving energy, and traveling responsibly. Each section provides specific suggestions students and families can consider, such as walking or biking, using reusable products, planting native plants, participating in community cleanups, and turning off unused electronics. Several suggestions link to outside organizations and resources for additional information. The article emphasizes that environmentally responsible choices can extend beyond Earth Month and become part of daily routines.
tag(s): sustainability (60), conservation (110), recycling (51), earth day (68)
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Have students choose three suggestions from the article and keep a one-week Earth Month action log, recording what they tried, challenges they encountered, and which action they think would be easiest to continue long-term. Invite pairs of students to select one recommendation, research evidence about its environmental impact, and create a persuasive poster with Adobe Creative Cloud Express, reviewed here, which can be used to create flyers, presentations, social media posts, and more. Have students conduct a classroom or school waste audit, record the types of disposable materials they find, and use the results to propose two realistic ways their class could reduce waste.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teaching with Primary Sources Inquiry Kits - PBS Learning Media
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Teaching with Primary Sources Inquiry Kits contains primary sources of images, maps, audio, and video designed for students in grades 6-8 and 9-12. Each kit includes three thinking...more
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Teaching with Primary Sources Inquiry Kits contains primary sources of images, maps, audio, and video designed for students in grades 6-8 and 9-12. Each kit includes three thinking questions to guide students and web-based tools that let them analyze the historical sources. Some U.S. Inquiry Kits include Early America, A Nation Divided and Rebuilt, The United States in a Time of Crisis, and Modern America. The World History Inquiry Kits are: Growth of Civilizations, Building Empires, Collapse, Expansion, and Exploration, Geographic and Economic Change Shape the Nation, Global Crisis and Acceleration, and Globalization. In addition to the Inquiry Kits, there are Research Learning Modules for Students, ESOL Leveled Text and Thinking Questions, and a Primary Source Analysis Tool. All can be shared to Google Classroom.
tag(s): primary sources (184)
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Students can create timelines using Turbo Timeline Generator, reviewed here while learning about the Growth of Civilizations. Have students use Google Keep, reviewed here to take notes. Assign students to summarize their primary source by making a magazine cover using Magazine Cover Maker, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Ultimate Guide to Teaching with Primary Sources - The Clever Teacher
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Using primary sources in your classroom? Check out the Ultimate Guide to Teaching with Primary Sources. Included in this post are the definitions of a primary source, how to teach ...more
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Using primary sources in your classroom? Check out the Ultimate Guide to Teaching with Primary Sources. Included in this post are the definitions of a primary source, how to teach using them, examples, where to find primary sources, and tips. Included in the Examples of Primary Sources are a Description of the Primary Source, Classroom Discussion Questions, and Resources for this Primary Source.
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Students can use Vmaker, reviewed here to answer the discussion questions that are posted under the primary sources. Ask students to use graphic organizers from Canva for Education, reviewed here to help summarize the primary source. Have students use AhaSlides, reviewed here to create a word cloud of important facts related to the primary source.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teaching with Primary Sources - Thinkport
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Teaching with Primary Sources, from Thinkport, helps educators deepen students' understanding of history by using primary sources from the Library of Congress. Resources are organized...more
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Teaching with Primary Sources, from Thinkport, helps educators deepen students' understanding of history by using primary sources from the Library of Congress. Resources are organized into three main areas: Inquiry Kits and Research Learning, Music as a Primary Source, and Civic Learning, with each section connecting teachers to additional lessons, activities, and websites. Most resources are designed for middle and high school students, although some materials and inquiry activities are appropriate for elementary learners as well.
tag(s): primary sources (184), inquiry (42), evaluating sources (61), critical thinking (194)
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Students can use Seesaw, reviewed here to take notes as they are doing their research. Have students create their own podcast using Adobe Podcast, reviewed here showcasing their learning. Assign students to compare and contrast primary sources in a Venn diagram using Google Drawing, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Malala Yousafzai - Nobel Peace Center
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The Nobel Peace Center's lesson on Malala Yousafzai helps students learn about how she used her voice to raise awareness and change the world. Students will also learn how to ...more
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The Nobel Peace Center's lesson on Malala Yousafzai helps students learn about how she used her voice to raise awareness and change the world. Students will also learn how to use their voice on social media to spark local and global movements. Through game-playing, students will learn how different media can start grassroots movements and drive positive change. The lesson includes Learning Goals, Materials, and a Design Challenge. The lesson is estimated to take more than fifty minutes. All downloadable materials are PDFs.
tag(s): womenchangemaker (95)
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Students can compare and contrast the different types of social media and how they are used for positive change using a 3 Circle Venn diagram with Read, Write, Think, reviewed here. Assign students to create their own game about global change using Baamboozle, reviewed here. Students can create a wall of changemakers using a virtual bulletin board such as Padlet, reviewed here.
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5 Things I've Learned from Malala Yousafzai - Girls' Globe
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Wondering who Malala Yousafzai is? Introduce students to Malala Yousafzai's advocacy through a short, approachable reflection on five lessons drawn from her life and work: speak up,...more
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Wondering who Malala Yousafzai is? Introduce students to Malala Yousafzai's advocacy through a short, approachable reflection on five lessons drawn from her life and work: speak up, be brave, be determined, be knowledgeable, and be humble. Author Eleanor Gall connects each lesson to Malala's advocacy for girls' education, her courage after being attacked by the Taliban at age 15, and her continued commitment to education and human rights. Each section pairs the author's reflection with words from Malala, providing useful starting points for discussing courage, activism, education, leadership, and the power of individual voices. The article also links to Malala's United Nations speech and additional resources about her work.
tag(s): womenchangemaker (95)
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Students can create a timeline of Malala Yousafzai's life using Turbo Timeline Generator, reviewed here. Have students compare Malala with another young activist or historical figure, then organize similarities and differences with Venn Diagram Creator by Canva, reviewed here. Students can use Kialo Edu, reviewed here to debate who is the most influential young changemaker to date.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Year of Greta - Superhero Cheesecake
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Follow Greta Thunberg's rapid rise as a climate activist through an immersive illustrated timeline centered on events from 2019. The Year of Greta combines a 3D representation of Thunberg...more
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Follow Greta Thunberg's rapid rise as a climate activist through an immersive illustrated timeline centered on events from 2019. The Year of Greta combines a 3D representation of Thunberg with animation, photographs, brief text, and interactive navigation to trace her movement from an individual school-strike campaigner to an internationally recognized figure in the climate movement. The site presents both positive and negative reactions to Thunberg, providing opportunities to examine differing perspectives about her activism. The visually rich format makes the resource useful for exploring chronology, climate activism, media representation, and digital storytelling while giving students a model for considering how design choices shape the presentation of a public figure.
tag(s): womenchangemaker (95), climate change (115), media literacy (140), digital literacy (42)
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Students can create a digital diary of Greta Thunberg's story since 2019 using Canva Docs, reviewed here. Invite small groups to research another environmental activist or climate-related movement and create an interactive digital story using Knight Lab, reviewed here. Assign students to map locations connected with major events in Thunberg's activism and add short factual annotations explaining each location's significance using Google My Maps, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Young People Respond to Climate Change - Facing History and Ourselves
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6 to 12
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Young People Respond to Climate Change is a mini-lesson for grades 6-12 about sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg. The mini-lesson explores why young people are taking action on climate...more
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Young People Respond to Climate Change is a mini-lesson for grades 6-12 about sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg. The mini-lesson explores why young people are taking action on climate change and features strategies they can use to make a difference on an issue they care about. The activities include why young people are organizing against climate change, how young people can make a difference on climate change, and an extension activity on climate change and inequality.
tag(s): womenchangemaker (95), climate change (115)
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Students can create infographics using Mind Map Generator, reviewed here to teach about the impact of climate change. Have students create a public service announcement about something important to them using ScreenPal, reviewed here. Students can use Visme AI Presentation Creator, reviewed here to create a presentation on the issue that is important to them.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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