Latitude Longitude Machine. Description: This awesome application allows students to practice their latitude and longitude skills by using a dynamic point and click world map. It also allows students to test their proficiency in latitude and longitude with a fun game in which students must identify as many coordinate points as possible in one minute.
Collage America. Description: This innovative USA Activity allows students to construct the United States by dragging and dropping the states to the map.
States are illustrated with themes relative to each state. Students can choose from three different themes for each state, thereby making each "collage" different. Collage World - Online.
Description: This awesome resource allows students to make online collages featuring a continent of choice and its nations. Great world geography practice and collages print beautifully! Information Games - the Constitution. Description: Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information!
Can you stop her? She has traveled to the National Archives in Washington D. Use your knowledge of this great document to foil her plan once and for all! Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6. Information Games - Lewis and Clark. She has traveled to the Missouri River to change the story of the events in the Lewis and Clark expeditionr. Use your knowledge of these causes to foil her plan once and for all!
Information Games - Causes of the Revolutionary War. She has traveled to Philadelphia change the story of the events leading to the Revolutionary War.
Information Games - George Washington. She has traveled to the Washington Monument in Washington, D. Information Games - Jamestown. She has traveled to the Jamestown Village in Virginia to change the story of the colony's early history.
Use your knowledge o Jamestown to foil her plan once and for all! Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on the American Revolution.. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids. Not Boring Jeopardy - 13 Colonies Editiion.
Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on the 13 colonies. Not Boring Jeopardy - Presidents Edition. Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on United States Presidents.
Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on U. Halls of History - Online U. History Game. Description: Welcome to Halls of History! This game will test your visual knowledge of American history.
There are seven sections to the game, five of which cover historical eras until the Civil War, and two of which cover famous people in American history.
Click on each image in history to enlarge and inspect and then answer the question associated with it. When you are done with the game, you'll get a percentage score for each section.
Ameriquake - Game. Description: In this game, an "Ameriquake" occurs resulting in the state name becoming jumbled. Students must drag and drop the correct names back to their states. Students can customize the number of state names that become jumbled. Burnside's Billions. Description: This innovative game requires students to "purchase" as many of the world's most important landmarks as possible with ten billion dollars.
Students must purchase by using the game's tools to convert dollars to the native currency. For example, to buy the Eiffel tower, players must convert dollars to euros. The game provides real-time currency exchange rates and has numerous twists and turns. Games can be saved! For more detailed video instructions, check out the Burnside Billion's instructional video. Type: Math Game - Decimals Focus.
Grade Levels: 5, 6. State Detective - Game. Request a Demo. Our Company. Ages K - 6th. All ages. Once there, challenge students to collaborate and share out the strongest reason for their answer, ask a question of the other side, offer a rebuttal, etc. This is so powerful that I will find myself gesturing to the sides of the rooms for the whole rest of the unit when revisiting the topic. Very powerful! Head out to the hallway and throw string or masking tape on the floor.
Have students express their answer by heading to the spot along the continuum line that represents their feeling. The only difference from This or That is that now you are phrasing your questions so students can quantify their answers:. If students need help identifying amount qualifiers and most do! How might those locations actually improve the impact of the lesson? Sidewalk or courtyard : completing chalk talk , concept mapping, or hashtags and six-word novels see below!
Hallway: hosting silent learning stations or gallery walks. There are so many more open-ended, creative, yet no-prep-time-needed ways to gauge student understanding, while simultaneously expanding it in new ways.
This works great after students have finished reading a longer text or filling in a full-page graphic organizer of notes. Have students zoom out and look at the work as a whole.
Then, challenge them to make a decision by selecting one paragraph, sentence, bullet point, piece of evidence, quote, etc. I use this one all the time so that my students have their evidence and thinking already decided when we head into end-of-unit review and essay outlining. As the story goes, Ernest Hemingway was challenged to write a six-word novel. While this activity could be used in a variety of contexts, I like using it at the end of a unit. Particularly in my immigration unit , where we study how to examine history through storytelling.
So, so powerful. Not too different from the type of creative thinking required for a six-word novel and always a favorite of my students, especially the wittier ones. I like this one because it connects their learning to either something previously learned or to a current event or cultural reference. This activity can also be used as a quick bell ringer or exit ticket, or during a unit review.
Show a few examples of real-life tweets that model the connection-making, but also the wit that make it a perfectly funny, ironic, or satirical hashtag. Or create some of your own examples using content from a previous unit. Have students jot their hashtags down at the top or end of an assignment or along the side of a written text.
Now this is annotating! Share the best ones the next day. Their thinking might even provide you some entertaining bulletin board material!
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