Digital Tools for Social Studies

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ClassHook is the best place to find educational clips from popular TV shows and movies. ... Bringing television shows and movies to your classroom helps connect students' personal lives to the concepts they are learning in class. As a result, content retention increases, and learning becomes more fun.

Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The app's concept is simple. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on.

Quizlet has created a program that turns your flashcards into a live, multi-player, review game.

Let's give it try!

• Open quizlet.

1. Click on Important Figures of Early US.
   
2. Check out the different study tools.

To use QUIZLET.LIVE.

Teachers

1. Open Quizlet.
   
2. Open the Quizlet you want to use.
3. Click on the Live button.
4. Choose the combination you desire.
5. Click Create Game.
6. Once students are in, start the game.

Students

1. Open quizlet.live.
   
2. Type in the code the teacher has given you.
   
3. Type in your name.
   
4. Quizlet Live will assign teams. Find teammates and get together.
   
5. Wait for instructor to begin the game.

Quizlet Quick-start Guide

Flipgrid is a video response tool that is used to create discussions among all students within your classroom. Teachers post a topic or question via text or video and the students respond to the prompt. Flipgrid also gives students the ability to comment on their classmates' responses.

Key Features:

• All of your videos are located in one location.
  
• You can Freeze a Topic to continue sharing the videos but prevent new recordings.
  
• Student comments can be turned on or off.

Flipgrid Examples:

• 1000 STEM Women Project

Flipgrid Tutorials/Blog Posts:

• Tony Vincent's Review of Flipgrid - with helpful tips
• Flipgrid Unplugged #2: AppSmashing with Jornea Erwin
  
• Using @Flipgrid in Online #APCalculus to Allow Students to Verbalize Their Thinking Process

• 15+ Ways to Use Flipgrid in Your Class

• Building a K12 Science Flipgrid Community

Educator's Guide to FlipGrid

Quizizz is a student-paced, online formative assessment tool that allows the students to answer multiple choice questions on their device.

Take a look at some favorite Quizizz features:

• Easily create a quiz by using questions from multiple public quizzes
• Highlight keywords with red, green or blue text
• Make your own Memes

Quizizz Tutorials

ClassroomScreen allows the teacher to create a digital board of widgets for students to help them focus on their work/tasks.
You can…

• Choose a background
• Type your instructions in the text area and zoom
• Choose a work symbol
• Set a timer
• Show the clock & calendar
• Use the traffic light
• Pick a random name
• Use the calculator
• Draw in-screen or full-screen
• Generate a QR-code
• Drag and drop the icons in the right place
• Select a language

The ClassroomScreen.com YouTube Channel has great tutorials and ideas.

Google Slides is an easy way to collect information from your students in a collaborative format. Once you have created the presentation, give the students access to the slides. The scribe for the group will go to the slide that matches their group number. The group discusses the question you have posted and the scribe fills out the slide for their group. This can also be used with individual students.

Kasey Bell (Shake Up Learning) has created a free Google Slides Cheat Sheet that can be very helpful when you are working with Google Slides.

Slides Carnival has a large selection of free Google Slides backgrounds.

If you want to force others to make a copy of a Google Document, Sheet or Slide Show before they are able to view and make changes. replace /edit with /copy in the URL. Click here to find other Google tips and tricks from tech guru, Tony Vincent.

Keyboard Shortcuts on a Chromebook

Using Icons to Help Organize Google Drive Folders

How to Use Your Phone as a Presentation Remote

Engaging Students Google Resources

Free Must-Have Apps for Social Studies by TCEA

Social Studies and History Apps

A Worldly Mind

Kahoot!

Quizizz
FlipQuiz

Flippity Quiz Show
Socrative

Nearpod
The Answer Pad
Google Drawing
PowerPoint Game Templates

Free PowerPoint Game Templates

Some interactive websites require Flash Player, which will not work on iPads unless you have an app that reads Flash.
Remembering Pearl Harbor
Interactive Internet Resources for Social Studies
Smithsonian National Museum of National History Virtual Tour
US Capitol Virtual Tour
Library of Congress - Jump Back in Time
Tour Ellis Island
Interactive Sites for Education
iCivics (includes interactive activities and downloaded worksheets)
Social Studies: Middle School Games
History Animated
Interactive Constitution
6 Powerful Interactive History Sites
The American Revolution
Civil War 150
Freedom: A History of US
Growth of a Nation
This Amazing America - displays the population distribution of every person in America
Interactive Constitution by the National Constitution Center

Click here to access the Interactive Websites LiveBinder that includes all subject areas.

The Associated Press and British Movietone YouTube channels provide public access to videos and clips from historical events of the past 150 years.

Photos For Class - Photos are automatically cited when they are downloaded

English Tools - 25 tools for learning English. Designed for English teachers and learners

101 Great Sites for Social Studies Class
Teaching with Documents (lessons plans and activities from the National Archives)
Go Social Studies Go
21 Top Websites for Social Studies Teachers
History Engine - a growing list of articles and episodes
Free Teacher Resources by Discovery Education (click on your grade level & content area)
Teaching History by National History Education Clearinghouse
Resources for Teaching Social Studies
Historical Dictionary by History Today
Best of History Websites

Collections of Historical Maps and Ideas for Using Them In Your Classroom

Six Tools for Creating Online Timelines - A Comparison Chart

7 Awesome Tools Social Studies Teachers Can Use to Teach Geography

Best free K-12 iPads Apps - free k-12 iPads apps to use in your classroom

Geography Resources, Maps, & Facts for Students

The Associated Press and British Movietone YouTube channels provide public access to videos and clips from historical events of the past 150 years.

Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution)

USGS Educational Resources for Secondary Grades (7–12)

Teaching Map Skills on Pinterest

11 Websites and Apps for Social Studies Reading Passages

Data USA - Search, Map, Compare and Download U.S. Data

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