With U.S. election day quickly approaching, I thought I would reblog this post I did for Presidents’ Day. If you are looking for some more election resources, check out KB Konnected’s post on The Democracy Project and other great links here. 7 Hat Challenge is a game hosted by Scholastic News that allows the player to … Read more
I alluded to Poetry Pairing a long time ago when I posted about the New York Times Learning Network, but I think it is well-deserving of its very own post. Poetry Pairing is a collaborative effort between the New York Times and the Poetry Foundation. Each week, a poem and a current article are selected … Read more
Last week, I featured the topic of Universal Design for Learning. You can learn more about it here. One of the proponents of UDL, and a man who practices what he preaches, is named Jon Mundorf. When he spoke at the UDL Institute at Harvard a couple of weeks ago, he mentioned something he does … Read more
Teach with Tournaments is a curriculum written by Josh Hoekstra, and was recently featured in a blog entry by William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education. I highly recommend that you read William Bennett’s blog entry, as it gives a very good summary of the idea successfully used by Mr. Hoekstra with his U.S. History students. I … Read more
Pocket Law Firm is an iDevice app that is free. It comes to us from Sandra Day O’Connor’s iCivics program, which has a wonderful website that I have featured on this site. Pocket Law Firm is a game designed to teach about the Constitution. In the game, the user is in charge of a law … Read more
National Geographic has an Education site that is in Beta right now. Just in time for the summer, you can visit the site to play “Go on a Family Adventure!” You can choose whether you would like to do a Land or Sea Adventure, which route you would like to take, and the difficulty level. … Read more