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

Neatline

Neatline is a digital tool that plots [...] »

Wordle

Does something this much fun belong in the classroom? Yes!

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Whiteboards

So now you have a whiteboard. Do you know how to use it effectively?

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

Creating Campaign Commercials

Students in Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School's class script and [...] »

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

Is the Internet a Reliable Source for History Content?

Encourage students to think critically about website content by introducing [...] »