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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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Everyone Can Create but what for? An EdWeek article about how to teach civics with storytelling
All these Apple tools and apps are nice, but how can we actually USE them to teach our curriculum? This Education Week article features my thoughts about using challenge-based learning and digital…
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April Monthly Art Challenge: Middle Eastern Art
Welcome to the April 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 art…
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Continent Freeform
I love using Freeform to collect ideas, brainstorm, and collaborate. But I had an idea for having students use it as a great place to document all that they'd learned during the year in social studie…
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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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Apple Maps Travel Guide
In this engaging activity, students will step into the role of travel agents to design and promote a captivating trip itinerary for their audience. Each stop in Florence on their itinerary will symbo…
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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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Empower Your Students with a Pages Interactive Workbook on Civil Rights and "Brown Girl Dreaming"
Greetings, fellow educators! I'm thrilled to share a dynamic teaching resource that our team recently developed and think could be a fantastic addition to your classrooms. It's an interactive workboo…
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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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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…
