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Activating background knowledge: FreeForm Brain Dump
Use the FreeForm app to have students share all they know before starting a new unit.
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American Revolution
Students will work in groups or independently to research the founding fathers/founders and other important historical figures from the American Revolution using Britannica School or another resource…
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Hexagons and McDonalds: What's the connection?
I use this lesson in my AP Human Geography class to teach about threshold and range in Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory. I have students examine the distribution of Starbucks and Walmart aro…
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Mind Mapping Images & Stories of Black History with Freeform
Often you need to jump into a new app with a project, to fully understand its potential.That’s what I did with Freeform on iPad in order to organize and mind map some social studies resources for Bla…
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World Religions Autopsy Project and Gallery Walk
Our 9th grade Social Studies teachers had reached an impasse with their World Religions Project as it had evolved over the last couple of years. Plenty of Autopsy Analysis projects exist—this Autopsy…
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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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Garageband Podcast Badging for Students
Does anyone have task cards prepared that students can use to show evidence that they have basic skills in Garageband? With the help of a grant, I'm purchasing podcasting equipment. I want to give my…
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Animated Comics/Storyboards with Keynote
I was talking with a teacher on my campus earlier this week, and she asked me what I thought the best resource for making digital storyboards would be that didn't require a subscription or extra sign…
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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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Design Thinking Journal
The design thinking process can be used to encourage problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration among students and can be incorporated into various subjects and projects, across different …
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OBT-Beyond Boundaries: A Human Geographer's Journey
In this lesson, students will take on the role of a Human Geographer. To work through a culminating project-based adventure. Envision a 12-stop global journey where creativity and critical thinking t…
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Historic Peace Posters Displayed in iMovie or Clips - A Challenge Based Learning Big Idea
For Social Studies educators, focusing on current news is one way we connect students to learning and the standards.I’m a fan of Challenge Based Learning (CBL) because it is an impactful framework to…
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Pride in Primary
Positivity - Respect - Integrity - Determination - Equality ...that's a recipe to create a class community where everyone belongs and feels safe. Pride in Primary is a teacher guide that links days l…
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Keynote Quilting for Black History Month
This year’s Black History Month Theme is Resistance. The Library of Congress has a Free to Use and Reuse Primary Source collection titled: Images of African American Women Changemakers.Here is a blog…
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Explore Our Town
While coaching a first grade teacher, we came up with a plan to have students practice cardinal directions utilizing Create Path animation in Keynote. I created a simple map in Keynote and added phot…
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Instagram Journal Template
The following resource is a journal entry template that was revamped into a fake Instagram page using a Canva template. The first page is an Instagram Profile page and the following three pages are I…
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November Monthly Art Challenge
Welcome to the November edition of our monthly series of art challenges, an ongoing journey through diverse cultures and artistic expressions. Each monthly installment in our series introduces young …
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Code Tom the Turkey to Macy's
Students have been discussing the story “Balloons over Broadway” and learning information about the Macy’s Day Parade they are also learning the basics of coding. Thus coding Tom the Turkey to Macy’s…
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Community Maps- Pages
Teaching maps in K-2?? I created this resource in pages for students to create their own map to demonstrate their knowledge of map keys, locations, and directions. The students have the ability to ad…
