World History
- Europe/middle East From 1000 Ce To 2000
Here is a chronological, animated atlas of Europe between 1000 and 2000 CE. I saw it on historian Juan Cole's blog, Informed Consent....
- 37 Writing Prompts For Social Studies / History
My colleague, Frances Coffey, just sent this cool link with 37 creative writing prompts, like the one above, for history. A few others include: make five merit badges from people or groups of people in history and explain them, or, if they had you tube...
- Monkeys In India
Interesting story about the monkey population in Dehli. It has zoomed. Officials have trapped more than 13,000 since 2007 all because the monkeys are living representative of the Hindu god Hanuman and Hindu tradition calls for feeding them every week....
- The Shiite-sunni Split
Great clip from the Today show a few years ago about the Sunni- Shiite split. Reporter Richard Engle outlines the basic differences in 3 minutes. I'm teaching Islam now and plan to use it. There is also an audio slideshow about the split at NPR here....
- Animated Historical Maps
This site has over 175 online animated maps. You have to have an account to access the vast majority but many are free. For example there are two great animated maps of ancient Greece. One is an overview of Greece from Mycenae and Greek colonization to...
World History
Animated Atlas of Africa History
Here's a cool animated map of Africa's changing borders and conflicts between 1880 and 2002. Toggle buttons allow you to select which thematic layers to activate like territory names, boundaries, conflicts, and demographic trends. You can advance or reverse the chronology. This will be great for students when we study imperialism. Thanks to Frances Coffey for sending me the link.
- Europe/middle East From 1000 Ce To 2000
Here is a chronological, animated atlas of Europe between 1000 and 2000 CE. I saw it on historian Juan Cole's blog, Informed Consent....
- 37 Writing Prompts For Social Studies / History
My colleague, Frances Coffey, just sent this cool link with 37 creative writing prompts, like the one above, for history. A few others include: make five merit badges from people or groups of people in history and explain them, or, if they had you tube...
- Monkeys In India
Interesting story about the monkey population in Dehli. It has zoomed. Officials have trapped more than 13,000 since 2007 all because the monkeys are living representative of the Hindu god Hanuman and Hindu tradition calls for feeding them every week....
- The Shiite-sunni Split
Great clip from the Today show a few years ago about the Sunni- Shiite split. Reporter Richard Engle outlines the basic differences in 3 minutes. I'm teaching Islam now and plan to use it. There is also an audio slideshow about the split at NPR here....
- Animated Historical Maps
This site has over 175 online animated maps. You have to have an account to access the vast majority but many are free. For example there are two great animated maps of ancient Greece. One is an overview of Greece from Mycenae and Greek colonization to...