World History
From Freetech4teachers.com, I found this fun site that shows you where you lie in terms of how many people were alive when you were born. I hold the distention of being the 3,230,700,582nd person alive on earth when I was born and the 77,053,916,357th person to have lived since history began. Where do you fall?
- Editing In Youtube
Believe it or not, but a fellow chair asked what we are doing for our end of the year project. Some of my students will be looking at an immigrant in their family and writing an original essay on that person, but they also need to have a narrated...
- Holocaust Survivor Meets Savior
When possible I enjoy using primary documents as they bring history alive, but it is even better when one gets a short video like the great one above. It shows two elderly gentlemen, one who was hidden by the other during WWII for being Jewish....
- World's Most Typical Human
We just finished our India unit and now are into China so I showed the bottom video to our students. It is a great clip from National Geographic showing that the most typical person in the world is a Han Chinese man. There is more to it...
- The World's Most Typical Man
I just found this at Freetech4teachers.com. It is a tremendous video showing who the most most average person is in the world and what are his (and it is a he) qualities. So in three weeks I will be starting my China unit and this will be...
- Google Maps Mania & Google Earth
Here is a new blog I just found that shows how people around the world are using Google Maps. I have used it with my students to show their own history and another person in my department uses it for "history trips." You can add pictures...
World History
Where Are You In the Seven Billion?
- Editing In Youtube
Believe it or not, but a fellow chair asked what we are doing for our end of the year project. Some of my students will be looking at an immigrant in their family and writing an original essay on that person, but they also need to have a narrated...
- Holocaust Survivor Meets Savior
When possible I enjoy using primary documents as they bring history alive, but it is even better when one gets a short video like the great one above. It shows two elderly gentlemen, one who was hidden by the other during WWII for being Jewish....
- World's Most Typical Human
We just finished our India unit and now are into China so I showed the bottom video to our students. It is a great clip from National Geographic showing that the most typical person in the world is a Han Chinese man. There is more to it...
- The World's Most Typical Man
I just found this at Freetech4teachers.com. It is a tremendous video showing who the most most average person is in the world and what are his (and it is a he) qualities. So in three weeks I will be starting my China unit and this will be...
- Google Maps Mania & Google Earth
Here is a new blog I just found that shows how people around the world are using Google Maps. I have used it with my students to show their own history and another person in my department uses it for "history trips." You can add pictures...