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Use Oral History Projects to Teach Research Skills and Personalize Learning
I’ve always found that students become more engaged in a topic when they have agency over their learning and can make personal connections to our curriculum. Oral history projects–a kind of basic pod…
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Interactive Learning Journals: Engaging History Students
Use Numbers as a note-taking tool to engage students with a unique digital spin on the traditional KWL strategy using Numbers to create a digital learning journal. This file can be used both on Macs…
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Understand the World Outside the Classroom Using Apple Maps
Are you wondering how you can give learners of all ages the opportunity to “travel” outside of their classroom to document and gain a visual sense of place and geography, whether it be neighborhoods …
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Activate Learning by Building Background Knowledge with QR Codes
Do you struggle to engage your learners with content they need to succeed? Try building a web quest or other scavenger hunt using QR codes; they’re not for just reading menus. In this post, I will wa…
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“Keynoting” with Apple Maps on a Historic Train Ride
The early Thomas Edison films are a captivating part of early film history. They can also provide a historic mapping challenge.Linked here is a 1902 Edison film from the Library of Congresscreated be…
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Using Challenge Based Learning to meet Curricular Standards & Objectives
I love how students can bring their unique perspectives and interests to a Challenge Based Learning Big Idea. Educators can also focus on parts of the Framework to effectively achieve standards and …
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Mondays with Milly: more than just a podcast
Like so many people around the world, I felt disconnected and isolated during dark days of lockdown. For my ninety-something year old mother-in-law in the UK, Doreen, the feeling of separation was ac…
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Engage Your Students with an Interactive Workbook on the Fur Trade and "The Littlest Voyageur" - Template
Hey fellow educators! I wanted to share an exciting resource that I created this spring for use in our district's third grade classrooms. I thought it might be helpful for some of you too. I've devel…
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Evidence of Learning
As a secondary school English and History/Humanities teacher, I am always thinking about the different ways I can gather evidence of learning from my students. For my English students and for my VCE …
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Fireworks Allowed Here! - Creating Keynote Builds & Animations
Use Keynote to easily create animated gifs of historic fireworks celebrations and send to friends, students, colleagues as part of the U.S. 4th of July celebrations. Celebrating in Washington DC Libr…
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Commemorating Juneteenth using CBL & Apple Tools
Background The newest U.S. National Holiday, Juneteenth, is another wonderful opportunity for student celebration and learning (great for summer programs).Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates th…
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“Shaping up” with Keynote - History Electrified
Michael Hernandez in a Community post featuring student work using shapes in Keynote, and a blog post fromKristi Feinfieldin Picture This Library of Congress Prints & Photos, inspired a history l…
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Woman's History Month- Mary Blair's Castle Design
In honor of Women’s History Month, we focused on the brilliant work of Mary Blair, the first woman hired by Disney in the 1940s. We started our journey in Art class. Students studied the work of Mary…
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Correcting Media Misinformation
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (and beyond) Lesson Idea Frequently primary sources can tell the story of wartime racism, stereotyping, and government misinformation.I came acros…
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Purple Pop Art… SHIRLEY!
Shirley Chisholm, the first Black U.S. Congresswoman, was creative and innovative in her 1972 run for United States President. Her campaign slogan “Unbought and Unbossed” inspired many. Shirley is my…
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"Be the Curator of your Own Museum" using Augmented Reality
Objectives: Students will create a "museum exhibit" using augmented reality (AR MAKR) to show their knowledge and understanding of a specific topic from World War II . Students will research, desig…
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What are we all teaching?
Chatting with some of the ADEs around the world, it got me thinking about what we call subjects where we live and what we teach. As such, I thought it would be interesting to discuss this very topic …
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Retrieval Practice and Daily Reviews
I’m a collector of research, good practice and learning. I apply what I learn to my own classroom to improve my teaching, and then support other teachers to improve theirs. I am constantly learning… …
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Challenge: Advocate for civic participation using lessons from the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
As we create content and lessons for Woman’s History Month (and beyond) using the Challenge Based Learning framework to Engage, Investigate and Act around the Big Idea of Suffrage helps students make…
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World Explorers Research and Poster Project
Exploring the Great Explorers: A Journey Through History and Creativity Dive into the past with our captivating World Explorers project, where Year 4 students embark on an educational adventure to re…
