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BON in a Box - GEO BON
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9 to 12
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Explore how scientists collect, analyze, and report biodiversity data with BON in a Box, an open platform for developing and supporting Biodiversity Observation Networks. Users can...more
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Explore how scientists collect, analyze, and report biodiversity data with BON in a Box, an open platform for developing and supporting Biodiversity Observation Networks. Users can search a large catalog of observation-design, data-collection, management, analysis, and reporting tools, investigate registered monitoring projects, and work with pipelines that transform local or global data into Essential Biodiversity Variables and biodiversity indicators. Featured topics include genetic diversity, threatened species, habitat change, protected-area connections, species distribution, biodiversity intactness, and phenology. The visual pipeline editor can run existing components without coding, although advanced work may involve R, Python, Julia, data preparation, GitHub, or installation on a local computer or server. This resource is designed primarily for researchers, conservation practitioners, policymakers, and advanced learners, not as a ready-made K-12 curriculum. Several pages include YouTube tutorials. If your district blocks YouTube, the videos may not be viewable.
tag(s): biodiversity (44), citizen science (45), conservation (104), data (211), ecosystems (115), habitats (113)
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Have students design a schoolyard biodiversity investigation by identifying a research question, target organisms, sampling locations, collection methods, and possible sources of bias, then sketch their proposed sampling map on paper before comparing it with the platform's monitoring concepts. Have students search the projects portal for biodiversity-monitoring efforts in different regions, then plot selected locations and summarize the species, ecosystems, and sampling methods in Google My Maps, reviewed here. Ask pairs to select two monitoring projects and compare their geographic scale, biological groups, data-collection methods, and conservation goals using the Interactive 2 Circle Venn Diagram by Read Write Think, reviewed here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Olympic Athletes - International Olympic Committee
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4 to 12
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Put a human face on Olympic history with Olympics.com's athlete collection, which provides profiles of Olympians from many countries, eras, and sports. Students can browse featured...more
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Put a human face on Olympic history with Olympics.com's athlete collection, which provides profiles of Olympians from many countries, eras, and sports. Students can browse featured athletes or investigate individual competitors through profile pages that may include biographies, Olympic results, medals, competition highlights, news, photos, and videos. Profiles vary in the amount of information available, but the collection offers a useful starting point for researching athletic achievement, perseverance, international representation, and the history of individual Olympic sports. The resource works especially well for biography projects, comparison activities, geography connections, and research tied to current or past Olympic Games
tag(s): biographies (102), olympics (52), sports (93)
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Have small groups choose athletes from several nations and plot their home countries on Google My Maps, reviewed here, adding a brief athlete profile to each location to connect Olympic participation with world geography. Invite students to synthesize research by creating a short athlete profile presentation with Microsoft PowerPoint Online, reviewed here, combining biographical information, Olympic results, geography, and images into an evidence-based presentation. Have students select an Olympian from a country or sport they are studying and gather evidence from the athlete's profile to write a short biography highlighting accomplishments, challenges, and Olympic participation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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15 Worksheets - 15Worksheets.com
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K to 12
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Save preparation time with a large collection of free, ready-to-print worksheets covering math, reading, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, writing, science, social studies, holidays, preschool,...more
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Save preparation time with a large collection of free, ready-to-print worksheets covering math, reading, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, writing, science, social studies, holidays, preschool, kindergarten, and general skills. The homepage reports more than 28,100 worksheets, with most topic collections offering at least 15 activities and many including answer keys. Teachers can browse broad subject categories or search for a specific skill, unit, or lesson topic. Materials range from early-learning practice to selected high school content and include reading passages, writing prompts, computation practice, word problems, language exercises, science activities, and history resources. The creators report that retired educators write the worksheets, which are peer-reviewed, checked by an editor, and reviewed for clarity, age appropriateness, skill progression, and answer accuracy. Worksheets may be downloaded and printed for free educational use, but the site does not permit users to repost the files to public websites, shared drives, or file repositories.
tag(s): grammar (143), grammar review (34), holidays (291), preK (347), worksheets (71), writing prompts (56)
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Invite students to revise several worksheet questions into a class review game with Wayground, formerly Quizizz, reviewed here, and require each team to provide an answer explanation. Have students use a worksheet as the starting point for a hands-on station where they model math problems with manipulatives, act out vocabulary, sequence printed events, or test a science concept with classroom materials. Use worksheets at different complexity levels for targeted practice, then ask students to reflect on which items were most challenging and create a personal improvement plan in Simplenote, reviewed here.
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Geography for Kids - KidsWorldTravels
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3 to 8
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Explore the planet through a child-friendly introduction to physical and human geography. This resource explains what geography is, distinguishes physical from human geography, introduces...more
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Explore the planet through a child-friendly introduction to physical and human geography. This resource explains what geography is, distinguishes physical from human geography, introduces the word's Greek origins, and describes geographers' work. Students can read about landforms, natural hazards, migration, cultures, languages, environmental challenges, and the relationship between people and places. Photographs, examples, related country and continent pages, and an embedded geography quiz support independent exploration. The site states that children collect and write much of its geography and travel information for children and that it supports students, teachers, and homeschooling families.
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tag(s): continents (30), countries (66), cultures (301), landforms (38), map skills (68), maps (223), migration (45)
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Have pairs research a country and write five clues about its location, landforms, and culture without naming it. Classmates can use a world map to identify the country and explain which clues helped. Assign small groups to design a three-stop trip using the site's country and landmark resources. They can plot their route on a map and create a travel guide explaining what visitors would learn at each stop and what to pack based on the climate and activities. After reading the page, ask students to sort examples such as mountains, languages, rivers, and cities into physical or human geography. Challenge them to explain how the two connect--for example, how a river might influence where people build towns.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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18 Ideas for Teaching About the Olympics - Victoria Dotson
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K to 12
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Bring Olympic excitement into nearly every subject with this collection of 18 flexible teaching ideas from ClickView. The activities connect the Olympics with math, language arts, social...more
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Bring Olympic excitement into nearly every subject with this collection of 18 flexible teaching ideas from ClickView. The activities connect the Olympics with math, language arts, social studies, science, art, physical education, music, and social-emotional learning. Students can graph medal counts, work with fractions and percentages, analyze texts about Olympians, research athletes and countries, compare the ancient and modern Olympics, investigate physics and nutrition, explore symbolism and flags, create athlete portraits, practice sportsmanship, study music from Olympic ceremonies, and discuss growth mindset and resilience. Several activities link to supporting ClickView videos and curated Olympic resources for elementary, middle, and high school learners, and the author notes that many ideas can be differentiated by grade level.
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tag(s): charts and graphs (184), fractions (175), nutrition (138), olympics (52), sports (93), symbols (22)
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Invite students to examine the symbolism and color choices in Olympic rings, flags, medals, and other visual designs, then sketch a new Olympic symbol or flag and write a short artist's statement explaining each design choice. Have students research an Olympian's journey and create a digital presentation that combines images, brief text, statistics, and evidence of perseverance using Adobe Creative Cloud Express, reviewed here. Invite students to review key facts from the unit and create questions for a whole-class formative assessment or review game using Wayground, formerly Quizizz, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Living Nations, Living Words: A Guide for Educators - Library of Congress
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6 to 12
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Bring contemporary Native voices into the classroom through poetry, place, sound, and personal experience. This Library of Congress educator guide supports Joy Harjo's Living Nations,...more
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Bring contemporary Native voices into the classroom through poetry, place, sound, and personal experience. This Library of Congress educator guide supports Joy Harjo's Living Nations, Living Words, a project featuring poems by 47 contemporary Native Nations poets, an interactive story map, and an online collection of poets reading and discussing their work. The guide provides interdisciplinary entry points, themes, discussion questions, adaptable activities, and additional research resources. Teachers can begin with an individual poem, explore poets geographically, compare recurring themes, study the relationship between identity and place, or use the audio recordings to examine how a poet's voice shapes a listener's understanding. The materials emphasize that Native people, communities, and literary traditions are living and diverse, not confined to the past.
tag(s): cultures (301), identity (48), native americans (169), poetry (195), primary sources (175)
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Synthesize learning by asking groups to select recurring words and ideas from several poems and create a class WordCloud visualization, reviewed here. Students should then evaluate which themes the visualization highlights, which nuances it hides, and what textual evidence is needed to explain the results. Write place-based poetry by inviting students to identify a location important to their family, community, or personal history. Students can publish the finished work in Book Creator, reviewed here, combining text, images, maps, and recorded readings. Hold a seminar on the idea of poetry as "living language". Ask students to support their responses with details from several poems and collect opening observations or concluding reflections on Padlet, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wisconsin First Nations Education - Wisconsin First Nations
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K to 12
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Looking for classroom-ready materials that present Wisconsin's Native nations through accurate, place-based perspectives? Wisconsin First Nations offers lesson plans, videos, books,...more
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Looking for classroom-ready materials that present Wisconsin's Native nations through accurate, place-based perspectives? Wisconsin First Nations offers lesson plans, videos, books, maps, interactive activities, professional learning materials, and teacher exemplars to teach the histories, cultures, governments, treaty rights, and contemporary experiences of the American Indian Nations of Wisconsin. Teachers can browse by grade level, resource type, tribal lands, and tags, then use the interactive maps to identify the ancestral lands and present-day tribal nations nearest their schools. Many entries include printable teaching guides, discussion questions, assessments, extension activities, and academic standards, making the collection especially useful for meeting Wisconsin Act 31 requirements. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the videos.
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tag(s): native americans (169), preK (347), primary sources (175), professional development (304)
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Conduct a close reading of a treaty, citizenship document, oral history, or lesson text from the collection by asking students to annotate claims, unfamiliar terms, perspectives, and supporting evidence before discussing how tribal sovereignty differs from state or federal authority. Stage a structured discussion about treaty rights, land use, natural-resource management, or self-determination by assigning students stakeholder perspectives, requiring them to cite evidence from the site, and collecting final claims or questions on Padlet, reviewed here. Have groups build an illustrated chronology with the Timeline Tool by Read Write Think, reviewed here, and add a written explanation of two important cause-and-effect relationships.
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Chickasaw.tv - The Chickasaw Nation
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4 to 12
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Hear Chickasaw people share their own history, language, traditions, achievements, and contemporary experiences through Chickasaw.tv, the Chickasaw Nation's high-definition video network....more
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Hear Chickasaw people share their own history, language, traditions, achievements, and contemporary experiences through Chickasaw.tv, the Chickasaw Nation's high-definition video network. Its growing collection includes short interviews, documentaries, profiles, language lessons, traditional stories, historical features, and multi-episode series organized around people, places, culture, government, and community life. Teachers can locate firsthand perspectives on topics such as tribal sovereignty, forced removal, boarding schools, language revitalization, traditional arts, stickball, stomp dancing, military service, education, and notable Chickasaw citizens. The language area also features songs, stories, games, and videos connected with conversational Chickasaw lessons.
tag(s): biographies (102), interviews (19), native americans (169), primary sources (175)
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Have students map significant Chickasaw homelands, removal routes, cultural sites, and present-day locations with Google My Maps, reviewed here; have small groups attach relevant Chickasaw.tv videos to map points and explain how the place shapes the history presented in each selection. Have students role-play a tribal council or community planning discussion about language revitalization, cultural preservation, education, or economic development. Assign students evidence-based roles and have them prepare questions, proposals, and responses drawn from related videos. Synthesize learning through a short interview-style podcast in which students correct a misconception about Native peoples using evidence from Chickasaw voices and record with Online Voice Recorder, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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American Indian Resources - Utah Education Network
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K to 12
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Bring contemporary Native voices, tribal histories, and culturally informed teaching materials into the classroom with UEN's American Indian Educator Resources. This organized collection...more
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Bring contemporary Native voices, tribal histories, and culturally informed teaching materials into the classroom with UEN's American Indian Educator Resources. This organized collection connects teachers to lesson plans, primary-source activities, videos, professional learning, background information, and answers to frequently asked questions about topics such as Thanksgiving, Indigenous Peoples' Day, classroom costumes, and mascots. Featured materials address Utah's five tribal groups and eight sovereign nations, boarding-school history, cultural arts, movement, storytelling, geography, government, and current issues. Resources come from UEN and organizations such as the Smithsonian's Native Knowledge 360''''?, the National Indian Education Association, the BYU ARTS Partnership, and the Utah State Board of Education.
tag(s): native americans (169), preK (347), primary sources (175)
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Conduct a close reading of a tribal history, oral tradition, or boarding-school account from the collection; have students annotate evidence, distinguish firsthand experiences from later interpretations, and write a reflection explaining whose voices are represented and whose may still be missing. Research a Native leader, artist, educator, knowledge keeper, or community contributor connected to Utah; have students create a biography card with Trading Card Creator, reviewed here. Have sompare two tribal nations using the Interactive 2 Circle Venn Diagram by Read Write Think, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teaching and Learning About Native Americans - Illinois Early Learning Project
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K to 2
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Teaching and Learning About Native Americans is a practical collection for early childhood teachers, caregivers, and families seeking accurate, respectful materials about Native peoples....more
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Teaching and Learning About Native Americans is a practical collection for early childhood teachers, caregivers, and families seeking accurate, respectful materials about Native peoples. It brings together Illinois Early Learning articles, recommended books for children and adults, lesson-plan background, museum collections, Indigenous-led organizations, maps, podcasts, videos, current news sources, and professional learning materials. Especially useful features include resources about contemporary Native communities, Indigenous peoples of Illinois, tribal nations, children's literature by Native creators, land acknowledgments, boarding-school history, Native art and music, and guidance for avoiding myths and stereotypes.
tag(s): native americans (169), preK (347)
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Students can contribute illustrations and dictated sentences to a shared digital book using Book Creator, reviewed here. Pair a picture book with photographs, artwork, music, or museum objects from one of the listed collections. Locate Illinois and the Great Lakes on a classroom map, introduce the names of specific Native nations, and compare the natural materials, foods, homes, transportation, or artistic traditions associated with different places and times. Have students complete a family interview, classroom reflection wall, collaborative book, or neighborhood-community investigation focused on whose histories and present-day experiences are represented.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Lozen - Women & the American Story
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6 to 12
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Lozen was a Chihenne Chiricahua Apache leader and warrior who resisted forced relocation and challenged the gender expectations of her community. This illustrated life story traces...more
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Lozen was a Chihenne Chiricahua Apache leader and warrior who resisted forced relocation and challenged the gender expectations of her community. This illustrated life story traces her childhood, spiritual calling, partnership with her brother Victorio, resistance to confinement on the San Carlos reservation, service alongside Geronimo, participation in peace negotiations, imprisonment, and death in 1889. Teacher supports include discussion questions, defined vocabulary, source notes, a historical photograph, related-resource suggestions, and a video created by New-York Historical Society Teen Leaders with the Untold project. The page requires no account and is free to read online. Teachers should prepare students for references to violence, death, forced removal, imprisonment, disease, and colonial mistreatment of Indigenous people. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to view the video.
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tag(s): native americans (169), womenchangemaker (85)
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During a close reading, have students annotate evidence showing Lozen as a warrior, caregiver, spiritual leader, and negotiator. Small groups can sort events into categories such as resistance, survival, leadership, gender expectations, and government policy, then discuss where categories overlap. Have students plot key locations and movements from Lozen's story with Google My Maps, reviewed here. Have students produce a brief evidence-based audio reflection with Online Voice Recorder, reviewed here, addressing how Lozen's life complicates common narratives about westward expansion.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Montana's Native American Tribes - TeachersFirst
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K to 12
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Montana is home to 8 federally recognized Tribal Nations comprising 12 tribes. Each with its own history, language, and living culture, spread across seven reservations and the state's...more
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Montana is home to 8 federally recognized Tribal Nations comprising 12 tribes. Each with its own history, language, and living culture, spread across seven reservations and the state's landless Little Shell Chippewa Tribe. From the Blackfeet in the north to the Crow and Northern Cheyenne in the south, and the diverse nations sharing the Flathead, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck, and Rocky Boy's reservations, these communities continue to shape Montana's identity today. This collection is designed to help educators bring that rich diversity into the classroom -- moving beyond generalizations to explore the distinct histories, sovereignty, traditions, and contemporary lives of each tribal nation, with an emphasis on accuracy, respect, and the voices of Native peoples themselves.
tag(s): montana (34), native americans (169)
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Help your students learn more about Montana's Tribal Nations. Find resources on this list for students to use in cooperative learning groups. Read each resource's Classroom Use section to learn how to incorporate its information into your lessons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OpenGuessr Education - PaulPlay
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4 to 12
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OpenGuessr Education provides a free, browser-based geography game for students in grades 4 through 12, offering an engaging way to explore the world through real street-level photography....more
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OpenGuessr Education provides a free, browser-based geography game for students in grades 4 through 12, offering an engaging way to explore the world through real street-level photography. The activity begins by dropping players into random global locations using interactive street views. Then it challenges them to use surrounding visual clues like architecture, language, vegetation, and road markings to determine where they are on a map. Teachers and students access the site without creating an account or paying subscription fees, making it an accessible option for quick classroom warm-ups or geography centers. Players click on an interactive world map to place a guess, earning points based on how close their selection is to the actual location. The interface includes options for customized map regions, allowing educators to restrict gameplay to specific countries, continents, or historical landmarks to match ongoing social studies units. Additional activities include quizzes, guides, and links to short articles and fact sheets that help learners learn about countries.
tag(s): continents (30), countries (66), game based learning (333), landmarks (20), map skills (68), maps (223)
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Share this site with students, then allow them time to explore and play the activities on their own before assigning activities. Use this mapping challenge during a social studies unit on world cultures by pairing the activity with Google My Map, reviewed here, and ask students to document their virtual travel discoveries and build collaborative regional guides. As players analyze visual details to pinpoint coordinates, they strengthen critical thinking and observational skills far beyond traditional map-reading worksheets. To extend the learning experience and encourage peer discussion, have small groups record their geographic reasoning and strategies using ScreenPal, reviewed here, to capture their problem-solving process as they navigate unfamiliar terrain, turning standard geography drill practice into an interactive exploration that encourages students to connect physical landscapes with cultural contexts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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National Postal Musuem - Smithsonian
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1 to 12
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The National Postal Museum site showcases the postal service with an online calendar of events, highlights, and photographs. Highlights include current exhibitions, special topics,...more
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The National Postal Museum site showcases the postal service with an online calendar of events, highlights, and photographs. Highlights include current exhibitions, special topics, stamp collecting, educator resources, and more. Google Arts and Culture Street View has a 360 tour of the museum. STAMP camp (currently closed at the time of this review) offers activities in science, technology, art, math, and problem-solving. STAMP camp is for children ages 6 through 12. All lessons are online and can be completed at your child's own pace.
tag(s): museums (58), primary sources (175), virtual field trips (153)
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Students can participate in the lessons from STAMP camp and showcase their work using ClipChamp, reviewed here. Students can use a virtual bulletin board such as Lino, reviewed here to share what they learned on the Google Arts and Culture 360 tour. Have students use MyLens, reviewed here to create a timeline of special stamps that have been created.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CSERC Kids' Games and Nature Activities - Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center
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K to 7
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Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center (CSERC) shares a variety of games and nature activities that will encourage a love of nature and conservation in any student. Choose from...more
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Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center (CSERC) shares a variety of games and nature activities that will encourage a love of nature and conservation in any student. Choose from nature games such as the "If I Were a Tree" Game and the "Find the Wildlife" Game. Each game includes directions and a short introduction, and many offer different difficulty levels. The Nature Activity suggestions take students outside to complete activities like building a bird feeder and making bark or leaf rubbings.
tag(s): animal homes (55), animals (282), biomes (97), birds (47), conservation (104), ecosystems (115), environment (246), food chains (25), game based learning (333), habitats (113), plants (142), watersheds (10)
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Incorporate games and activities from this site into your current lessons on nature and the environment. Use these interactive resources to kick off a science unit on local ecosystems by having students play the online habitat games to build foundational vocabulary about animal needs and forest management. To take the lesson further, pair these activities with World Geography Games, reviewed here, so students can connect local conservation habitats to broader regional maps and biomes. Afterward, students can organize what they learned by creating digital concept maps using Padlet, reviewed here, where they post game takeaways, wildlife facts, and conservation tips to share with classmates during a gallery walk.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Maps - Aires Loutsaris
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Reading Maps turns journeys from books and films into maps, creating a visual exploration of the story's events. The site includes hundreds of maps to explore, and you can search ...more
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Reading Maps turns journeys from books and films into maps, creating a visual exploration of the story's events. The site includes hundreds of maps to explore, and you can search by author, title, location, and theme. Choose a title to open the map and view an animated journey. Below the book summary is a list of places on the map; click any number on the map to see a summary of the event. Users can change the map appearance with options such as topographic and satellite imagery, and zoom in and out for a closer look at any point on the map. Share individual maps using the share link in the description.
tag(s): independent reading (85), maps (223), reading comprehension (147), virtual field trips (153)
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Reading Maps includes many classic books with notable journeys such as Adventures of Huck Finn, Hatchet, and Frankenstein, making it an excellent option to bookmark and save to accompany your current reading lessons. Share the maps with your students to provide visual context for the physical journey in the story. Extend learning by asking students to create story maps using Google My Map, reviewed here. Add links, videos, and more in Google My Map stories to bring the story to life. For additional examples on how to use maps to accompany books, visit TeachersFirst Reading Treks - Make Learning a Journey, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Art of Storytelling: Plains Indian Perspectives - Montana Historical Society
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K to 12
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The Art of Storytelling: Plains Indian Perspectives is a Montana Historical Society curriculum that introduces students to Plains Indian history, culture, and artistic traditions through...more
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The Art of Storytelling: Plains Indian Perspectives is a Montana Historical Society curriculum that introduces students to Plains Indian history, culture, and artistic traditions through pictographic art. Lessons explore winter counts, oral storytelling traditions, narrative art, and ledger art while helping students examine how Native people have recorded experiences, shared stories, and expressed cultural perspectives. Each lesson includes objectives, essential questions, standards, preparation guidance, procedures, materials, and assessment ideas. Supporting resources, including student handouts and presentation materials, are also provided for classroom use.
tag(s): art history (110), montana (34), native americans (169), primary sources (175), stories and storytelling (81)
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Students can participate in the lessons shared on the website. Students can continue to learn about oral traditions by sharing their own tradition via ScreenPal, reviewed here and explaining how it is the same or different from the Plain Indians. Have students showcase their art in a virtual gallery using Padlet reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Blackfoot Tribal Business Council - Blackfoot Nation
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Explore the Blackfeet Nation through information published by the Nation itself. The official website introduces the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana and provides...more
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Explore the Blackfeet Nation through information published by the Nation itself. The official website introduces the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana and provides firsthand information about Blackfeet government, culture, water rights, tribal departments, community resources, and current issues. Students can learn about the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, whose nine elected members govern the Nation, and read about Blackfeet history and cultural continuity, including the four Blackfeet bands, traditional relationships with buffalo and the land, and contemporary cultural celebrations. The site also provides substantial primary-source material, including council minutes, tribal documents, directories, reports, and information about the Blackfeet Water Compact. Because this is a functioning tribal-government website rather than a site created specifically for schools, teachers will want to select pages and documents that fit students' reading levels and instructional goals.
tag(s): cultures (301), montana (34), native americans (169), primary sources (175)
In the Classroom
Use this resource to learn more about the Blackfoot Tribe. Create a timeline using the Timeline Infographic Templates by Canva, reviewed here to show the actions taken to secure the Blackfeet Water Compact. Invite students to use the site's government, culture, and current-news sections to develop inquiry questions about the Blackfeet Nation today. Next, have each student research one question and write a short, evidence-based response that distinguishes information from the Nation itself from information found in secondary sources.
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Indian Education for All Resources - Buffalo Bill Center of the West
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Bring Indigenous perspectives, primary sources, museum collections, and standards-aligned activities into K-12 classrooms with this collection from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West....more
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Bring Indigenous perspectives, primary sources, museum collections, and standards-aligned activities into K-12 classrooms with this collection from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. The resource gathers materials designed to support Montana and Wyoming Indian Education for All Social Studies Standards, including curated boards on Indigenous content, boarding schools, art, buffalo, sovereignty and tribal government, and reading recommendations. Teachers will also find the Buffalo, Deer, Bird children's activity workbook, information about live virtual and in-person field trips, Plains Indian art and powwow teaching trunks with curriculum, an animated Plains Indian map tracing more than 200 years of movement and changing boundaries, research-library resources, museum collections, and links to official tribal websites. The collection is especially useful for teachers looking for ready-to-go materials alongside primary-source and inquiry opportunities rather than a single prescribed curriculum.
tag(s): montana (34), museums (58), native americans (169), primary sources (175)
In the Classroom
Have students virtually visit one of the museum's programs. Students can compare and contrast the different Plains Indian Tribes using an Interactive 2 Circle Venn Diagram by ReadWriteThink, reviewed here. Have students share what they learned about a specific Plains Indian Tribe by creating an informational digital story using Book Creator, reviewed here.
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Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes - Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
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Learn directly from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes through this official tribal government website, which offers especially useful materials for teaching tribal history,...more
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Learn directly from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes through this official tribal government website, which offers especially useful materials for teaching tribal history, sovereignty, culture, civics, language, and environmental stewardship. The site explains that the Flathead Indian Reservation is home to the Bitterroot Salish, Upper Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai peoples and provides information about their distinct histories, languages, traditions, and relationships with the land. Educators will find particularly strong ready-to-go resources in the Tribal Education and Culture sections, including Tribal Civics study guides and films, materials related to the 1855 Treaty of Hell Gate, bibliographies, Native-authored resources, cultural publications, and environmental education materials. The Tribal Civics collection includes lessons designed to scaffold students' understanding of sovereignty and treaty history, while other curriculum materials connect to Montana's Indian Education for All Essential Understandings. If your district blocks YouTube, the video(s) may not be viewable.
tag(s): montana (34), native americans (169)
In the Classroom
Students can use SchoolAI, reviewed here to learn more about the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Students can highlight important facts about the contributions of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes using Magazine Cover Maker, reviewed here. Assign pairs one of the Tribal Civics films or study guides, such as resources on tribal entrepreneurship, gaming, women in leadership, or treaty promises, and have them create an evidence-based presentation with Microsoft PowerPoint Online, reviewed here.
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