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Bicycling with Black History
During Black History Month and beyond, students have the opportunity to delve into stories of remarkable resilience in the face of adversity. These stories are powerful and students can explore a var…
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Guess Who? Biography Podcast
Learning Objective/Intention + Success Criteria Students will research an individual and find information that is key to who the figure is and how they became the impactful person that history rememb…
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Lunar New Year Lanterns in Keynote - 2024 Update!
I like to encourage learners to do some digital crafting and primary source sleuthing around Lunar New Year (or any holiday). Using a Library of Congress primary source from the Carol Highsmith Coll…
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One Best Thing: What small shift can you make?
When students connect to the History, in Space Science. What small shift can you make? Think of an assignment where your students produce a product of some sort - for example they have a google slide…
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Vocabulary Hunt with Numbers
Introduce or review vocabulary using Numbers! Add media placeholders for each vocabulary word and have students "hunt" for items that represent the vocabulary word in its context. This can be used at…
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The Mac at Forty!
If you are as seasoned as I am, you were using the Mac from its very beginning. Or maybe you adopted this classroom magic some years later. The Mac turns forty January 24, 2024. Here are a few of ou…
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Apple’s Web site features Martin Luther King Jr. ebook
Free download of The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr. featured on Apple’s Website today - January 15, 2024.
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Challenge: Commemorate and amplify history’s underrepresented stories
CommemoratingHeritage months broadens the scope of student historical knowledge, adds to the picture of our past and provides an understanding of the richness and historical influences of our diverse…
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One Best Thing - New Curriculum = New Opportunities for Creativity and Collaboration
Students learn best when meaningful integration is implemented across the curriculum. I have found that teachers in many primary classrooms are unaware of how technology can aid in subject integratio…
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Using Freeform to ACTIVATE our destiny.
Ninth grade students are beginning a unit on American Westward Expansion. Prior to beginning the unit, students analyze an image to "activate" their brains for the upcoming content to be learned. S…
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Using AI and Keynote for Storytelling- Māui and Kupe
I have started using AI images through Padlet to support my students with storytelling, especially around Aotearoa New Zealand Histories and Legends. I was inspired by some of Paul Hamilton's work an…
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Aotearoa New Zealand Histories-Shine a Spotlight on Peace Pins
Our Year 7 and 8 ākonga have been learning about Aotearoa New Zealand Histories through picture books. The book we focused on recently was Remember that November which incorporates two different hist…
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Art Restoration
When studying history we see artifacts in their current state, however I want students to visualize what the original looked like. We are working on a unit on Egypt, and we were learning about Nefert…
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Be a Part of Your Storytelling - Keynote Live Video
Last year, I got to be a part of helping our 8th grade Reading department use Keynote to show learning. These teachers had students write summaries and predictions about events and characters from in…
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Diving Deep with APUSH: A Creative Exploration Through Apple Freeform
Hey Folks, I'm pumped to share an innovative project idea that's going to jazz up our AP US History (APUSH) adventure. It's all about harnessing the cool features of Apple Freeform to dig deeper into…
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Wall of Fame or Wall of Shame Persuasive Project (Early European Explorers)
Students should research the history and events involving early European exploration of the New World. Once the research or teaching unit is complete, the students can choose one of the explorers the…
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Igniting Creativity and Learning with an Interactive Workbook on Diverse Heroes
Hey all! I'm thrilled to introduce you to a fantastic teaching tool that can redefine engagement and learning in your classroom. It's an interactive workbook, thoughtfully designed using Pages, that …
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Word Art - Yes AND…
Check out the some of the creative Word Art lessons posted by teachers using the #EveryoneCanCreate tag in our Apple Education Community: You Can Animate Two Homophones, Too! - @VictoriaLS Capture Wo…
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Visual Literacy - Looking Closer with Clips
One technique history learners use when analyzing primary sources is to reveal sections of an image before viewing the whole.Clips can augment that technique by focusing the learner on specifics in a…
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Civic Literacy and Video Creation!
For a wonderful integration of student created video and government or civics class content consider the annual C-SPAN StudentCam documentary contest “C-SPAN's annual national video documentary compe…
