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

SurveyMonkey

Digitize class surveys and poll student knowledge with this tool.

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Moodle

Looking for an open-source way to network with students and colleagues?

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Google Earth

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

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!

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Analyzing Campaign Commercials

Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School brings modern and historical [...] »

Whiteboards and the Youngest Children
Screencapture, Five-Year-Olds Pilot Their Own Project Learning, May 9, 2007

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

Ask a Digital Historian

KeepVid

Download and save videos from the web with this handy tool. Read on for [...] »