Digital Tools for Social Studies
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Quizizz
Quizizz is very similar to Kahoot, except the questions appear on the students' devices.
Let's try it out!
- On your device or laptop, open quizizz.com.
- Click Join a Game.
- Enter the Game Code the teacher provides and click Go.
- Type in your name and click Join Game.
- Wait for the teacher to begin the game.
Good Luck!
Take a look at some favorite Quizizz features:
- Easily create a quiz by using questions from multiple public quizzes
- Math symbols
- Highlight keywords with red, green, or blue text
- Make your own Memes
Quizizz now has a Draw option for quizzes and lessons. You can provide an image or a blank background for the students to draw on. Note: The best way to view student results is through the Results option in your Teacher Dashboard
Gimkit
Gimkit was created by high school students and is similar to Kahoot! and Quizizz, except the students play for “money” instead of points. The free version allows you to have 5 Kits (games) in your account. The paid version allows for unlimited Kits and edits and includes other features. The Pro version is $59.88 a year or $7.99 per month. School and bulk discounts are available. Wa5ch for changes in the pricing structure in the near future.
Gimkit includes a library of Kits from users. You can create your own Kit by typing in the questions and answers or you can upload questions from Quizlet or a CSV file.
Quizlet Live
Let's give it try!
- Open quizlet.live.
- Type in the code the teacher has given you.
- Type in your name.
- Quizlet Live will assign you a team. Find your teammates and get together.
- Wait for the teacher to begin the game.
Relay Style
We love Quizlet Live, but playing Relay Style really makes it exciting. The devices for each team are all placed in one location. Students on a team line up and only one person at a time can go to the devices and answer a question. Once a question has been answered, the next student goes to the devices and answers the next question. Watch this video to see how it in action!
Create Your Own Quizzes, Games & Online Activities
Student Interactives from Read Write Think
Read Write Think Student Interactives
The Read Write Think website includes student interactives to be used on computers. Many of the interactives are also available as apps.
Student Interactives - online literacy learning tools
Cube Creator - helps students to learn the skill of summarizing
Trading Cards - create trading cards for any number of categories (web version)Timeline - create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line
Newsela
Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform that includes current articles in seven categories: War & Peace, Science, Health, Kids, Money, Law, and Arts. The articles are Common Core-aligned and available in five Lexile levels. Each leveled text includes a quiz and a writing prompt about the article.
Newsela WorksheetNewseumED
NewseumED provides free educational programs, primary sources and standards-aligned (national) resources that focus on history, media literacy, civics and the First Amendment. Check out the resources that are available in Spanish.
Wonderopolis
Click here to access Wonderopolis Social Studies posts.
Thinglink
13 Colonies and American Revolution
Social Studies and History-Greek Religion
Google Drawings
Google Drawings has so many classroom applications and this is one idea that can be used in any subject area and grade level.
The following directions are for creating a picture of yourself with 3 different callouts containing a fact about yourself.
- Open Drive.
- Select New, More and choose Google Drawings.
- Change the title from untitled drawing to your first and last name.
- Go to Insert → Image and find the picture you want to use.
- Select Insert → Shape → Callouts.
- Choose one of the callouts.
- Drag the callout to desired location and type in your first fact.
- Drag the yellow dot (located at the tip of the point) to move the point of the callout.
- While the callout is selected, click on the Fill tool and change the color.
- Create 2 more callouts for the other facts.
- You can change the alignment, font, font size and color, etc. of the text, if desired.
- Click Insert →Text Box to add your name to your picture. Drag your text box to the desired location. Change the font and the font size and color so that it is clearly visible.
- Go to File and select Download As → JPEG.
Example:
Ideas:
Describe yourself at the beginning of the year.
What was Washington thinking when he crossed the Delaware?
How would you describe a parallelogram?
What are five important facts about an animal cell?
New York Times
Bingo Baker
Do you know the Presidents?
View Pure
Create a link to YouTube videos without ads and links to other videos using this site.
- Copy the URL (web address) of the YouTube video.
- Paste the URL into blank and click the Purify button.
The new link contains the YouTube video without ads.
Make sure to check out the Teacher Resources for some excellent information!
Maps
- MapMaker Interactive, by National Geographic, is a hands-on learning site developed by National Geographic, that supports interactive mapping on computers and tablets. Check out the Help link for information on how to use this amazing tool.
- 8 Options for Making Digital Maps
SymbalooEDU
SymbalooEDU is a PLE (Personal Learning Environment) where teachers can visually organize and share the web with students and other educators.
There's an App for that!
Examples:
Black History Month
Virtual Field Trips
European History
U.S. History
Geography Resources
Geography Games
Social Studies
HS Government Resources
Interactive Websites/3D Tours
Smithsonian National Museum of National History Virtual Tour
Library of Congress - Jump Back in Time
Tour Ellis Island
Interactive Sites for Education
Social Studies: Middle School Games
6 Powerful Interactive History Sites
The American Revolution
Civil War 150
Freedom: A History of US
This Amazing America - displays the population distribution of every person in America
Interactive Constitution by the National Constitution Center
iCivics - resources and games to help students understand civics and how the government works. It’s driven by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and is a lot of fun.
Econ Ed at the St. Louis Fed - interactives and lessons for economics
The Alamo Augmented Reality
Experience Real History: Alamo Edition - Travel back in time and visit the Alamo with these Augmented Reality products. Let your students engage in historically accurate adventure scenes with Personalized Reality Boards™, Reality Books™ and Trading Reality Cards™. Download the IOS and Google Play apps here.
Gettysburg should be released in July 2019.
The Statue of Liberty AR
Resources
10 Essential Websites for the History Classroom - presentation
Photos For Class - Photos are automatically cited when they are downloadedTeaching with Documents (lessons plans and activities from the National Archives)
Teaching History by National History Education Clearinghouse
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
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)
Teaching Map Skills on Pinterest
11 Websites and Apps for Social Studies Reading Passages
Data USA - Search, Map, Compare and Download U.S. Data
10 Engaging Digital Education Sites For Any Social Studies Classroom
Docs Teach
Docs Teach, from the National Archives, includes thousands of primary sources. Teachers can assign activities that will help their students understand stories, events, and ideas of the past.
How to Find and Create Primary Source Lessons With DocsTeach org by Richard Byrne