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1. AVL AVL is an online collection of AVL organizes Jumping off 5

http:/ resources for teachers and material by
/ww students. AVL would provide a grade level,
w.av plethora of materials such as content, and
l.lib. maps, encyclopedias, books, resource
al.us and magazines.
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2. This site offers many free This site Jumping Off 4

Discovery resources for students, parents, correlates to
Education and teachers. Two unique many state
http://www. features include online standards
discoveryed textbooks and virtual field trips. including STEM
ucation.com I would use virtual field trips to and is
/teachers/ visit historical sites mentioned organized that
way. It would be
in class.
easy to blend
curriculums. It is
not very user
friendly,
however.

3. Kathy This is a great guide to using This site has Jumping off 3
Schrock’s technology in the classroom. It plenty of tips to
Guide has many helpful articles about use technology,
http://www.s using technology. but not much
chrockguide content specific
.net/ resources.

4. PBS A great collection of documents The biggest Jumping off 5

Learning resources, and lesson plans advantage is
Media divided into content units. Also the amount of
https://aptv. includes personal different
pbslearning documents/stories from resources
media.org/ witnesses to history. I would provided on this
use personal stories from site. It also
events to bring a personal covers a wide
touch to a history lesson. variety of topics.

5. Stanford This site provides several It is helpful, but Content 3

History lesson plans that are inquiry there is not a
Education based. It also provides wide range of
6. Group teachers with great primary lesson plans.
https://sheg. and secondary sources
stanford.ed
u/history-les
sons

7. Nearpod Nearpod is perfect for history. It Many lessons Jumping off 3

https://near gives students the opportunity often cost
pod.com/ to take virtual field trips and money. It is a
explore. It gives teachers great tool and
several mini-lessons. neat mini
lessons for
students. It is
also easy to
assign anywher.

8. NewELA NewsELA gives access to The biggest Jumping off 4

https://news thousands of different articles advantage is
ela.com/ from a variety of topics. I use this site allows
NewELA for an “Article of the you to
Week.” differentiate
reading levels
for articles.

9. Edutopia This website provides links to This provides Jumping Off 4

https://www. professional development great tips for
edutopia.or opportunities, project based teaching, but
g/ learning plans, and does not give
technology/curriculum direct lessons
integration. This is a great or go by content
place for me to integrate standards.
several of my social studies
lessons with ELA, math, and
science.

10. Georgia GPB is a great resource for It is limited in a Jumping 3

Public Georgia Studies teachers. It variety of off/content
Broadcasti provides interactive games, content and
ng field trips, videos, and lessons only gives
http://www.g for students to discover on their lessons related
pb.org/ own. to Georgia
Studies. It has
several good
blogs relating to
education.
11. This provides many inquiry I like that this content 4
Teaching based historical lessons and provides central
History materials. It also provides good questions and
http://teachi pedagogical information. then gives
nghistory.or materials from
g/ different
viewpoints to
allow students
to decide. It
also has ELL
material.

12. Library This provides access to many This has good Jumping off 4
of primary documents as well as materials and is
Congress lessons to go with those one of the best
https://www. documents. This also provides places to locate
loc.gov/ daily activities that would be documents.
great “warm ups.”

13. This provides great examples This has content 2

Smithsonia of history labs and gives several ideas
n students the chance to see for history labs
http://smiths what the Smithsonian offers. and is a reliable
onianeducat source of
ion.org/educ information.
ators/lesson However, it is
_plans/histo not very easy to
ry_culture.ht navigate and
ml needs to be
updated.

14. Digital This is a great way to It provides content 5

History incorporate technology into a many digital
http://www.d history lesson. It provides resources.
igitalhistory. many resources to do just that.
uh.edu/

15. Big This site promotes thinking This site is very content 4
History from different viewpoints with organized and
Project digital media that supports it. interactive. It
https://sch provides
ool.bighist students with
oryproject. fun and
com/bhpliv engaging
e material.

16. EDTech This website provides access This is Jumping off 3

http://besth to several useful history sites. beneficial to me
istorysites. when searching
net/ for materials.

17. This is a great website that’s It is very content 3

Constitutio mission is to explain the beneficial and
n Center constitution to students in a provides
https://con moderate view. This was podcasts,
stitutionce commissioned by the federal debates, and
nter.org/ government to spread other resources
education and understanding relating to the
of the constitution. constitution.
However, it is
limited to just
one topic.

18. This provides access to several This website Content 3

Teaching important documents to really supports
American American history. It also gives teachers with
History free lesson plans. access to blogs
http://teachi and webinars. It
ngamerican provides a
history.org/t community of
eacher-reso history
urces/lesso teachers.
n-plans/neh/

19. This provides anything you This website is Assistive 5

Accessible want to know about using very easy to Technologies
Education assistive technologies in the navigate and
Materials classroom. It will educate provides
http://aem.c teachers on how to support answers to
ast.org/navi student needs and give you almost any
gating/assis access to the materials. question about
tive-technol using assistive
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TeachThou best assistive tech available and convenient technologies
ght and what needs it serves. list to access for
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The purpose of this table is to find useful, content related sources applicable to the subject area I
am teaching. I plan on doing a Civil War unit next year and I kept that in mind when looking for
resources. Most of these websites pertain to American history and provide materials and lessons
based from those materials. I also incorporated 2 assistive technology resources to help me better
serve the needs of my diverse students.

I found that using the Google bookmarking tool was very beneficial. It allowed me to quickly
and conveniently create a list of sites I found useful. It also allows me to organize those sites any
way I choose, which is very convenient when trying to recover them in the future.