Mrs. Hill's
Technology Classes​
Social Studies Resources:
Good web tools to use for creating maps with students:
This is a great tool for creating interactive maps. It provides unlimited markers per map and has 3 level access control for each map: viewer, member and admin. ZeeMaps also allow you to add video, photo or audio with your markers. Other features provided by this tool include:highlight countries, states, cities, zip codes, counties, or hand-draw region; Customize marker icons with your own images; PDF or PNG map images for presentations or brochures;Manage your map entries with powerful editing grid
2- Click2Map
Click2Map is another web application that enable you to easily create maps and add points of interest to any geographic location of your choosing. Click2Map allows you to import data, geocode multiple addresses perform batch updates, display directions, customize your own database. When done working on your map, you can download and use it on your own website or blog.
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Scribble Maps lets you create and customize your maps the way you want. You can embed images, add text and markers, create custom widgets and share your final product with your colleagues and friends. Pro version of Scribble Maps has the added features of publishing your maps with no ads.
Google Maps for Education provides resources to help teachers and students explore, create, and collaborate with mapping tools. Students who are taught geography are better equipped to understand how human and physical systems interact and to make informed decisions based on that knowledge.
Historical Facebook
Facebook, the third most populated country in the world, is a huge part of many students' lives. Students do a lot of writing on Facebook. To leverage students' familiarity with Facebook for a history lesson, Derrick Waddell created a Facebook template for historical figures. This template, available through the Google Docs public template gallery, asks students to complete a Facebook profile for famous people throughout history. The template has a place for pictures, an "about me" section, a friends column, and a map to plot the travels of historical figures. Please note, this template will not result in an actual Facebook account being created.
Historical Trading Cards
Students can use the RWT Trading Card Creator on the Web to create a set of trading cards about characters in a novel, to create a set of cards about people of historical significance, or to create cards about places that they're studying in their geography lessons. If your classroom has a mix of iPads and computers all students can complete the same assignment because the app and the web version offer the same creation features.
Constitute
“Not a lot of people know about this,” Martinez said. This site hosts a database of constitutions from around the world. Anything digitally available has been aggregated here. It is searchable by topic and will pull out specific excerpts related to search terms like “freedom of speech.” It also has a compare function so students can look at one aspect of citizens’ rights across various constitutions.
