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Comment by Flocabulary on October 7, 2011 at 1:45pm

Interdisciplinary Age of Exploration song & lesson plan. Get students writing home from sea: http://blog.flocabulary.com/age-of-exploration-lesson-plan/

Comment by Ryan Goble on August 2, 2011 at 11:25pm

Randall - great stuff - if you post up in the discussion forum we can highlight this in the week in review (stuff on the wall here gets buried over time). Thanks for sharing!

Comment by Randall Fujimoto on August 2, 2011 at 1:44am

I’m launching a trial run of a new social studies ARG about Japanese American history during World War II. I’m testing the game as research for a future course I’m designing.

If you or anyone (high school age and above) is interested in participating (no lurkers please), please visit the following page for details: http://www.shoyu.com/arg/v02/default.asp or email me at randall@shoyu.com. Signups are taking place during the next few days.  Thanks!

–Randall

Comment by Johnathan Chase on October 20, 2010 at 10:29am

New this year, 12th grade US Government Class Wiki...

http://chaseusgovernment.wikispaces.com/

Comment by Ryan Goble on August 29, 2010 at 8:06am

Hey Kyle - First off you might check this great post "Music and the American Dream" - second do consider posting the question up above in the discussion forum so I can crowdsource it to the whole NIng (questions here on the comment wall don't have a url and they get buried :(

Comment by J K Van Nort on August 27, 2010 at 6:01pm

I'm wondering if anyone else begins the year with a focus on the American Dream? The mythology and symbols surrounding the concept, the various ways that the American Dream has influenced government actions, people's movements, and people's responses to situations around them. I use it to help students focus on a theme that they can use to tie together essays, especially the NY Regents. I use the essential question: Is the American Dream sustainable?

Comment by Ryan Goble on June 20, 2010 at 9:05pm

Pretty cool slide show (not easy to excerpt above) from the New Yorker
ALTERED STATES
Michael Crawford deconstructs the map of America.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/2010/06/28/slideshow_100628_crawfor...

Comment by Ryan Goble on March 14, 2010 at 10:39am

A reminder how muttled textbooks can get around politics - Texas Education Board Approves Conservative Curriculum Changes By F...

Comment by Ryan Goble on January 17, 2010 at 12:43pm

Hello everyone!

Some folks in the Graphic Novels group are looking for history related graphic novel suggestions...

If you have a hot minute, please check out...

Looking for recommendations: Comics for 9th grade Global Studies cl...

World War II in Comics (and vice-versa)

Thanks (in advance) for your ideas!

Comment by Johnathan Chase on October 19, 2009 at 1:14pm

Hey Kohl,

Last year my social studies students created media projects using a popular song as the soundtrack.

Many of their projects incorporated images and references to the Civil Rights Movement. I also created a sample project using the song "Change" that focused specifically on people and events of the Civil Rights movement.

Perhaps you could use them as a lesson starter or warm up activity and even encourage your students to research a person or event that appears in the projects....or even make their own?

You can view the projects here...

2009 Media Projects

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