Welcome to Elementary Social Studies

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Academic Vocabulary

Engaging Students with Technology

Introduction - You Tube Video: "A Vision of K-12 Students Today"

Featured Web Sites and Examples

Big Huge Labs- http://bighugelabs.com/

Tons of free things to do with your photos. Create motivational posters, trading cards, magazine covers, and put captions on your photos.

• Motivational Poster
• Trading Card
• Photo Captioner

Wordle- http://www.wordle.net

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Word Sift - http://www.wordsift.com/

WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text.

• MLK: I Have a Dream Speech
• Preamble to the Constitution

Blabberize - http://blabberize.com/

Use this site to make your photos talk, by using the tools to mark the mouth and record your voice.

• Ex: Engage Students with Technology

Xtranormal - http://www.xtranormal.com

Create your own comic strip videos

• http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=2009072921363172 (urban communities)
• Make Movie Instructions

Make Believe Comics - http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Create your own comic strip

• Ex: Yearbook Advertisement

National Archives Experience - http://www.digitalvaults.org/

• Search the National Archives for historical documents, photographs and images (copyright free)
• Create posters and movies using historical documents and images

Class Tools - http://classtools.net/
Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds!

• Post-it
• Timeline
• Lights Out

Super Teacher Tools - http://superteachertools.com/

• Random Fact Desk - random facts every 10 seconds
• USA Population Counter
• Various games (Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire)

Teacher Tube - http://teachertube.com 

You Tube - http://www.youtube.com

YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos.

Additional Sites

Cool Tools 4 You to Use - http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

Tons of resources for presentations, audio, video, slide show, collaboration, etc.

Delicious - http://delicious.com/

Allows you to create a "Favorites/Bookmarks" that can be accessed anywhere.

• Ex: http://delicious.com/mrs.p.teachingtags 

Songza.com   - http://www.songza.com  

This will find any song you want and play it.

Newseum - http://www.newseum.org/  

Read the front page of newspapers from around the world