World History
- The Three Teachings: Confucianism, Taoism, & Legalism
Here is a great teacher site for learning about Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism complete with short video clips, quotes from each of the philosophies, and a chart to analyze the meaning of some of the quotes. Thanks to David Koerner fro tweeting...
- New World Religion Blog
Here is a link to a World Religions blog that I started over the holiday break. I teach one section of World Religions and thought that it might be helpful to have a central place for all the links and clips that we come across. There is a lot...
- Faketweet
Rebecca Small is a fellow social studies teacher and a teacher-student in my class learning to integrate technology into the classroom. She just made this very nice assignment for her students using FakeTweet. You could copy it and...
- Test Prep
I am toying with how to use this test prep for the NYRegents exam. It is not quite in the same format that I give my students, but it has most of what you and I cover for world history. For example, under belief systems you will find Shintoism, Confucianism,...
- More Statistics
I posted earlier about using Gapminder in the classroom to give students a visual when it came to statistics. (See that post here.) Well, NPR's Planet Money team has posted a video from one of the site's creators that gives a lecture...
World History
Legalism, Confucianism, Taoism
Above is a student video (not mine) done giving a brief overview of legalism, Confucianism and Taoism. I like it because it gives a visual element to the three isms and it is what I will use as an introduction for my students.
- The Three Teachings: Confucianism, Taoism, & Legalism
Here is a great teacher site for learning about Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism complete with short video clips, quotes from each of the philosophies, and a chart to analyze the meaning of some of the quotes. Thanks to David Koerner fro tweeting...
- New World Religion Blog
Here is a link to a World Religions blog that I started over the holiday break. I teach one section of World Religions and thought that it might be helpful to have a central place for all the links and clips that we come across. There is a lot...
- Faketweet
Rebecca Small is a fellow social studies teacher and a teacher-student in my class learning to integrate technology into the classroom. She just made this very nice assignment for her students using FakeTweet. You could copy it and...
- Test Prep
I am toying with how to use this test prep for the NYRegents exam. It is not quite in the same format that I give my students, but it has most of what you and I cover for world history. For example, under belief systems you will find Shintoism, Confucianism,...
- More Statistics
I posted earlier about using Gapminder in the classroom to give students a visual when it came to statistics. (See that post here.) Well, NPR's Planet Money team has posted a video from one of the site's creators that gives a lecture...