Free Printable Maps from the USGS and National Geographic

The United States Geological Survey creates topographical maps of the United States.  The USGS maps can be downloaded for free from the USG...

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Let the Games Begin - An Interactive Map of Issues Surrounding the Olympic Games

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games begin at the end of this week. The lead-up to the games has been full of new stories about physical, political...

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Running Reality - Mapping the Rise and Fall of Nations

Running Reality is an ambitious project that is attempting to build an interactive map and timeline of the rise and fall of nations through...

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How Much Does It Cost to Run for President?

Now that the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign is in full swing it's a good time to take a look at how much it costs to run for President....

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Quick Current Events Activities from KQED Education

KQED Public Media's  website has a small section of its Ed Space pages dedicated to short current events-based  Do Now  activities that ...

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Lessons on Critical Thinking & Logical Fallacies

Many of the students in my social studies classes over the years have enjoyed a good classroom debate. I am sure that as the 2016 campaign f...

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7 Free Timeline Tools Compared In One Chart

Earlier this year I published a chart in which I compared the core features of six online timeline creation tools. The History Project is a ...

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How to Create Multimedia Timelines

Late last week I wrote a blog post about The History Project which is a site for collaboratively creating multimedia timelines. The History...

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Collect, Customize, and Share Resources from Smithsonian Learning Labs

Late last year I wrote a post about  The Smithsonian Learning Lab  which is a fantastic tool for organizing the thousands of digital resourc...

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Mission Mapquest - Create a Map Game That Can Be Played on iPads

Mission MapQuest  is a great map game creation tool developed by friend Russel Tarr for his  ClassTools.net  website. The concept behind Mis...

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The History Project - Like Storycorps With Timelines

The History Project is a new multimedia timeline tool funded in part by The New York Times . Larry Ferlazzo tipped me off to The History P...

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GeoQuiz - A Talking Map Quiz

There is certainly not a shortage of map quiz on games on the Internet. GeoGuessr and Spacehopper have been two of my favorites for a long ...

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A TED-Ed Lesson on the Bill of Rights

The latest lesson published by TED-Ed explains to students why the Bill of Rights was added to the US Constitution. In the lesson students l...

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Recording History With Students - Tools & Ideas

Over the weekend at the Native Innovation Education conference I facilitated a short workshop titled Recording History With Students. The f...

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