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=media type="custom" key="19333102" = Collections of Learning & Teacher Resources: = ===Great search engine just for education- facts, data, videos, quizzes!: Gooru===

=Resources for Introducing Topics in Social Studies: = > @http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/11/7-outstanding-youtube-channels-for.html
 * ===This YouTube channel has lots of videos on a variety of topics: crashcourse===
 * ===YouTube channels on history courses:===

=Research: =
 * === Primary Sources : []===
 * ===Civil War: []===
 * **Great** **search engine** **just for education:** ** Gooru **

= Collections of sites with Resoures & Tools for Lessons & Projects: =
 * ===This site has extensive collection of tools & sites for storytrials, timelines, & other projects: [[image:valems/ICT.JPG width="159" height="54" link="@ictmagic/History#General%20History%20Sites"]]===


 * ===Great projects and lesson plan ideas and resources: Teaching History===
 * === 13 Good Resources for Social Studies Teachers: Free Technology for Teachers===
 * ===Research moments in histroy -Google Cultural Projects: [|http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/?hl=en#!home:page=1]===
 * ===The World of Wonders Project: new way to teach history w/lessons & projects: []===

Primary sources:

 * National Archives!! -need we say more?!: []

= Creating & Projects: =
 * === Create posters or movies using the tools and the video, images & documents from: [|The National Archives]===
 * === Visual Narratives : students can use this MIT creation as a model for creating visual narratives:[| MIT Visualizing Cultures]===
 * ===** Biographies **: Fake Facebook Wall - students can present biography presentations : []===
 * ===Create your own interactive project using primary documents : []===
 * === **Make your images interactive - I.e- add links to forerfather in a painting/pic of the signing of declaration of independence, etc! : [] -Tingling how-to-video: [|freetech4teachers]===
 * ===Visuwords - interactive: Get the history of words by seeing linked terms -i.e. -Social Studies country projects: [|Visuwords]===

= Historical Characters: =
 * === Create a text message conversation between two characters with this free tool - no login required!: http://www.classtools.net/SMS/ ===

= Politics and Elections: = = Educational History Games: = A database of history games - over 126 playing history games! : [|Playing History]
 * ===Following the unbiased news via. FairSpin on Twitter===
 * ===Help yourself and your students along with other cititzens rate the news to tell fact from falsehood in the 2012 Elections - the goal is to sort news by quality rather than popularity. Users rate articles by journalism standards (facts, sourcing, fairness, etc.) : NewsTrust===

= Timelines: =
 * ===Create timelines and incluce pics, video, or audio! - Great for history project: TimeRime===
 * ===Create timelines with video, pics, etc., and students can collaborate and/or embed timeline in website (need email to sign up): OurStory===
 * Great timeline - put in pics, video etcl!!!: []

Tools: Living Wage calculator - []

= Maps/Graphs: =

> http://visual.ly/wealth-inequality-america?autoplay=1&utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email
 * ===Interactive - view hundreds of historical maps (primary documents) from various time periods: Old Maps Online===
 * === Wealth Inequality in America (video):===

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> [] > > http://youtu.be/epT_DyGzTho > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA-vHanFv1o&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53MYuHDbg5E&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9cOMFN4Vso&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active >
 * Mr. T's Civil War tour in our library:**
 * Civil photos ** in 3-D ** :
 * Civil war battle ** in 3-D ** : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IouISrUL01A&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
 * Same battle in ** 2-D ** : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_hWyCmdJWc&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
 * ** Clara Barton Bio -complete ** : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQMtR3BtyU&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
 * Clara Barton Bio: http://youtu.be/XuZWgJjvpXE
 * Clara Barton in action - ** go to 8:00 & to 13:00 ** : http://youtu.be/ssBg4TW-5AQ
 * Bleeding wound - how to apply pressure:
 * Head wound - ** stop video at 1:40 ** :
 * How to make an arm sling: