WEB RESOURCES
Free DVDs annually with feedback
Ex – Pennies a Day (Grameen Bank, microcredit)
Above link includes annual membership for $4.95 (includes monthly video)
Graphic Organizers of historical events and time periods
Annenberg, Bridging World History
Annenberg, Geography Case Studies
Center for Global Geography Education, Case Studies
World History for Us All is a powerful, innovative model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high schools.
Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt, interactive website that explains a commodity chain
Supplement Books: Where am I Wearing by Kelsey Timmerman
Travels of a T-Shirt by PietraRivoli
PBS Rx for Survival, A Global Health Challenge
Integrating Reading into Social Studies
Current events at reading levels with built in quizzes. Teachers can create accounts that have student accounts. Students take quizzes online.
Use to find TV shows related to different content
TEDTalks
Hans Rosling
Dan Barber: How I Fell in Love with a Fish
Eduardo Paes: The FOUR Commandments of a City
Robert Neuwirth: The Hidden World of Shadow Cities
Carolyn Steel: How Food Shapes our Cities
Wade Davis: Dreams from Endangered Cultures
Aaron Koblin: Visualizing Ourselves with crowd sourced data
Redistricting Game, GREAT intro about the power of a mapmaker!
Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
Scoop It – Geography Education, curated by Seth Dixon
Access to current happenings around the world and geography related
ESRI – demographic data by zip code
Email to request free poster
Nation Master – Compare Countries on Just about Anything
American Factfinder @ the Census Bureau
Forbes – Interactive Website
Gapminder – Data and demographics with Hans Rosling
Videos and lesson plans available
Interactive Maps of Open Data
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Food for Thought Mapping Curriculum
What Kind of American English do you Speak?
Language evolution
Chipotle’s website on farming
Website to create review questions
World Time Clock and LOTS of other information
$$ - pre-tests, chapter drills, etc. Teacher can track student progress
Many content areas available
PRINT RESOURCES
Using ESPN for note-taking
Economic, Social, Political, eNvironmental
Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind
MULTIMEDIA
Darwin’s Nightmare - documentary on trade and economic development around Lake Victoria
King Corn – Agriculture, subsidies, US dependence
Life and Debt – Jamaica, economic development
China’s Lost Girls – One Child Policy
Food, Inc – Agribusiness
With the King – Swaziland
“30 Days” Episodes – FX Network, DVD
Whale Rider – culture
Under the Same Moon – Mexico/US migration
Last Train Home – China, urban/rural migration
Black Gold – coffee, fair trade
Gimme Green – US obsession with lawns
Bag It – plastic bags documentary
Urbanized
The Welsh Knot – YouTube
World in Balance – PBS/DVD
Lost Boys of Sudan – DVD
Promises-Arab Israeli teacher’s guide
The story of the weeping camel- globalization
The Dark Side of Chocolate
The Cappuccino Trail- coffee
Behind the Swoosh- 25 minutes/Nike
Lost Boys of Sudan- 60 minutes update when Sudan split into two states
- Chasing Freedom- Asylum (DVD)
Inside Mecca
The Empires of Islam
Outsourcing—Hollywood movie on outsourcing
One Day on Earth- people videotaped all over the world in one day
Kingsley’s Crossing
Media Storm
APPS
Soundcloud – podcast creation
Doceri – presentation tool
Remind101
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR STUDENTS
Hand-written vs computer taken notes