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K-6 teachers, worried that your students aren't ready for digital tools? Check out this storytelling site!

Little Bird Tales
In Tech for Teachers

Direct your students through the historical research process with these digital resources.

Using the Web to Learn Research and Presentation Skills
In Ask a Digital Historian

Check out this tech-based alternative to counting raised hands.

Learner Response Systems (Clickers)
In Tech for Teachers

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

Twitter

Does Twitter have value as an educational tool, or does it promote [...] »

PrimaryAccess

Construct your own short films demonstrating historical thinking.

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iMovie/Movie Maker

Produce digital documentaries with iMovie for Mac and Windows Movie Maker [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Whiteboard Basics

Using a whiteboard for the first time? Educator Simon Botten shares [...] »

Zoom-in Inquiry

High school teacher Joe Jelen introduces the primary source analysis [...] »

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 [...] »

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Primary and Secondary Sources through Video
primary and secondary source wordle

Can video help me teach about primary and secondary sources?

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