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• More Resources On Immigration Reform

  
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  Here are some new additions to The Best Resources About The New Push For Immigration Reform : Preview | Immigration: The pathway to now is a preview to a multi-part video series The Washington Post is publishing on the last thirty years of immigration reform. It will start on May 14th, and is embedded below: ...
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• “No Longer Lost To History” Is A Good Lesson Idea

  
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  The New York Times is soliciting contributions to a “No Longer Lost To History” project . They invite readers to “Tell us about a person you knew or admired who you think put a wrinkle in the social fabric.” It’s an interesting idea and is connected to a story about an overlooked professor in history . ...
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• Life on Minimum Wage - A Hands-on Economics Lesson

  
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  Over the last few weeks I have received a lot requests to share the Google Document for my economics lesson Life on Minimum Wage . I thought I had made the document public, but apparently I didnt so Im sharing it again here . The purpose of Life on Minimum Wage is for students to recognize how difficult it is to ...
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• Interactive Infographic: “What Career Should I Choose?”

  
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  What Career Should I Choose? is an interactive that lets you pick a career and then shows you how it ranks in “potential salary, competition and market stability.” Obviously, other criteria need to be taken into account, but it still could be useful. I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Students Exploring ...
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• Video – “Guatemala genocide trial: witnesses of atrocities tell their stories”

  
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  The Guardian has just published an excellent video called Guatemala genocide trial: witnesses of atrocities tell their stories . Guatemala: Voices of the Genocide is a series of videos on what occurred in Guatemala. Efraín Ríos Montt Sentenced to 80 Years For Genocide Of Guatemalan Mayans is a good overview ...
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• Quote(s) Of The Day: “When Helping Hurts”

  
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  When Helping Hurts is a useful column in today’s New York Times, and it’s useful to both parents and teachers. Here’s an excerpt: It’s another way of saying the famous “Iron Rule” that governs the community organizing work of the Industrial Areas Foundation, where I worked for many years prior to ...
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• Our Little Earth - Bi-weekly News Summaries for Kids

  
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  Our Little Earth is a nice site that provides bi-weekly summaries of the worlds biggest news stories. The summaries are written for students. Each edition includes video clips along with the stories. In each edition youll find stories appropriate for use in social studies, math, and science lessons. You may also find ...
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• Learning is the end in mind, not fun

  
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  Every year, back in my Derby Middle School teaching days, we did Kansas Day. A big Kansas Day. As in . . . invite the newspaper, Board of Education, and parents kind of Kansas Day. I was the social studies guy on a teaching team and my goal was to find a way to integrate my social studies activities with math, ...
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• Smithsonian Quests: Learning through discovery and collaboration

  
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  What it is: Smithsonian Quests encourage students to explore learning through discovery and collaboration.  As students learn, they can earn digital badges for their quests.  Students can explore their own interest through a series of online activities while incorporating knowledge and skill-building in the ...
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• State Of The World’s Mothers — 2013

  
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  Save The Children has created a website , including an excellent infographic , analyzing The State Of The World’s Mothers – 2013. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Mother’s Day .
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• The Learning Network Blog: Guest Post | ‘Sliding Into Homelessness’: A Student Essay and Teaching Resources

  
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  An essay from a homeless young adult paired with Times reporting, discussion questions and an invitation to students to post comments and thoughts.        
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• “Civil War 2013: Photographs From the Grisly American Conflict”

  
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  Civil War 2013: Photographs From the Grisly American Conflict is a video and article from The New York Times. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The American Civil War .
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• Overheard

  
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  "Do you know what the worst thing in the whole world is, little kid?" I heard Big Kid ask. "Everything?" "No! Not everything!" As if that was ridiculous. "Then what?" I was curious to know what my sensitive little humanitarian would come up with. "Social studies. Social studies is the worst thing in the world." ...
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• Quote Of The Day: Heritage Foundation Makes a $5.3 Trillion Mistake

  
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  The Heritage Foundation today published a report that has gotten a fair amount of media attention. It says that the immigration reform bill being considered by the U.S. Senate would cost the government $5.3 trillion. Uh, no…. Ezra Klein demolishes the report in the Washington Post . Here’s an excerpt: ...
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• Holland vs. the Netherlands Explained

  
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  One of the things that often confused my 9th grade geography students was the difference between United Kingdom and England . Likewise, the difference between Holland and the Netherlands confused students. If your students also struggle to understand the differences this C.G.P Grey video might help them out a bit. ...
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• 7 sweet social studies iPad apps I just learned about

  
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  I spent yesterday with a whole bunch of excellent K-12 social studies teachers – discussing how we can integrate iPads into instruction. I shared some ideas. They shared some ideas. We did some app throwdowns and as a result, I learned about some sweet apps that I had not heard about before. I promised the group ...
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• Finding My Place is an Award Winning Book!

  
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  These are the winners from all the categories at the MO Writers Guild Conference 2013. I’m really excited to announce that Finding My Place: One Girl’s Strength at Vicksburg won 2nd place in the “Show-Me” Book Awards category at the Missouri Writers’ Guild conference on Saturday night. Any Missouri ...
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• Homeschoolers and AP in the era of Common Core

  
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  After David Coleman left his post commanding Common Core through 45 states, he took a new position as the President of the College Board.  College Board controls the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP).   When Coleman took the position in the spring of 2012 he said in an interview with the New York Times,  "The ...
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• Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

  
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  I recently ran across a very cool book that seems like a perfect tool for world geography teachers. Pretty sure we could use it in a variety of other content areas (especially economics) but I saw this and my mind went immediately to some cool compare and contrast conversations about world regions. Titled Hungry ...
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• Hands on History of the 20th Century in America with Homeschool in the Woods

  
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  History is a subject that seems to go one of two ways for kids.  They are either bored to tears as a teacher drones on about a topic of little interest or assigns pages upon pages of a textbook for reading OR they catch the bug and want to really dig deep and learn more on people or events.  Home School in the ...
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