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Turn an image into an interactive graphic with ThingLink!

ThingLink

In Tech for Teachers

Map the twists and turns of a process or historical narrative with this charting tool.

LucidChart

In Tech for Teachers

Immerse your students in World War II battles, veterans, and services for Veteran's Day projects with these handy websites.

Understanding and Appreciating World War II Veterans

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Spotlight on Elementary Education

This nifty tool is not only fun to use, but also very useful in the history classroom! Students can use this free website to constructing their own short digital movies, in doing so they will learn how to utilize primary sources and develop their historical thinking skills. FIND OUT MORE »

Tech for Teachers

Digital classroom tools

Combine maps and a timeline to tell the story of change over time and place [...] »

Bring geography into the history classroom with resources from Google Earth [...] »

Skype

Bring experts into the classroom or meet students from around the globe with [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

Educator Simon Botten demonstrates whiteboard techniques for history and [...] »

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

See how one 8th-grade teacher introduced herself to digital storytelling [...] »

Whiteboards and the Youngest Children

Watch kindergarten classes engage in project-based learning using new [...] »

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Historic Images are Everywhere

Needed: directions to reliable databases for historic images.

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