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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
Mission US: For Crown or Colony
Immerse your students in the 1770s with this online game.
[...] »Google Docs
Create, share, and collaborate with this free word-processing tool!
[...] »Historypin
Historypin is a digital mapping tool that ties collections of items with [...] »
Beyond the Chalkboard
Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies
Recording Experiences with First Graders
Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!
[...] »Advanced Whiteboard Techniques
Educator Simon Botten demonstrates whiteboard techniques for history and [...] »
Zoom-in Inquiry
High school teacher Joe Jelen introduces the primary source analysis [...] »
Ask a Digital Historian
Historic Images are Everywhere
Needed: directions to reliable databases for historic images.
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