SocialStudies

**Social Studies Professional Development Database**

 * **Name** || **Date Attended** || **Title of In-Service** ||
 * Alison Cox || August 29, 2009 || Learning for All Students ||

Social Studies Resources
[|Nearly 400 Google Earth Files for History Teachers] (link from Free Technology for Teachers; all text taken from FreeTech4Teachers blog) " Google Earth is a great resource for providing geographic context for history lessons. Putting an overlay of a battle, building, or historical map provides greater geographical context than a standard textbook diagram provides. The files in the lists above could also serve as models for content that your students create in Google Earth." [|Amazing Race Google Earth Project] (link from Free Technology for Teachers; all text taken from FreeTech4Teachers blog) "Here is how I envision a World Geography teacher using [|The Amazing Race] and [|Google Earth] to design a student project. Each Monday after a new episode of the show airs, students would do some research on the places the contestants visited in the episode. The students would then add placemarks containing some brief information, perhaps even a video clip, to their Google Earth files. By the end of the show the students will have 15-20 placemarks and have learned a little bit about each place that the show's contestants visited. The culminating assignment for the students could be to select one place on which to give an "expert presentation" to the class."



[|Bill of Rights Rap on Youtube] - download to show to students at school. Lyrics are included in video's description. [|Snag Films] - a database of documentaries to use as teaching tools. The videos are also embed-able, so if you have a class website or wiki, you can post the videos for absent (or extra motivated) students.

[|Narrated Tour of the Erie Canal] - from Free Tech for Teachers - a 3:35 narrated slideshow podcast from The Atlantic. This could be a great attention getter or review of the Erie Canal.

[|The History Lab] - this is a pretty new site, but it's full of great resources. Click the links on the right to learn about how other social studies teachers are integrating technology into their classrooms.