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A Visual Timeline

September 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Content - Social Studies

 Are you (or your students) visual learners?  The American Revolution timeline is a picture timeline complete with podcasts.  Below is a screen shot from the site.  

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If you were there

August 31st, 2011 · No Comments · Content - Social Studies

Looking for eyewitness stories?  Try the BBC podcast series Witness.  Updated daily, it includes a variety of resources from people who witnessed historic events.  While it does have a British flavor, there are many international podcasts.

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Another view of the Civil War

May 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Content - Social Studies

A House Divided is a civil war search engine based on material developed by Dickinson College. Visit the site for maps, virtual field trips, images, and documents.  What makes this site unique is their point of view- this material is based on students from Dickinson.  (from TeachersFirst)

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The next best thing to being there!

May 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Content - Social Studies

EyeWitness to History is the next best thing to being there! Loaded with first person narratives, images, videos, and sounds, you can travel back in history to examine major events (i.e., Pearl Harbor or the Hindenburg) or every day occurrences (i.e., how to make a mummy or how the Gibson girl came to be!). Search [...]

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