Exploring The Far East

Exploring The Far East: Myers & Dalton Teams Each year 7th grade students at MSK immerse themselves in the diverse cultures, people and customs that exist in countries and how they compare to life here in Kennebunk, Maine. So please join us as we journey to China, Japan and other countries to learn about what [...]

Website of the Week: Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright

Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright (Gr. 3-12) Produced by the Library of Congress, follow detective Cop E. Wright as she investigates what is copyright, a timeline of how copyright laws developed, and how to register your own copyright electronically! Click the link just above the interactive window to see which academic standards this activity [...]

Website of the Week: HistoryTeachers Channel

HistoryTeachers – History for Music Lovers (Gr. 6-12) Created by two history teachers from Honolulu, Hawaii, HistoryTeachers has over 50 music videos that cover such topics as Napoleon, The French Revolution, Shakespeare, Pompeii, Vikings and more. Their YouTube channel has been going strong for almost 3 years now with new videos being uploaded about once [...]

Kid Politics – from TAL & NPR

From This American Life and NPR (National Public Radio), their January 14 episode entitled “Kid Politics“  investigates what happens when we turn over responsibility for governing and making the big decisions to kids. When a group of 5th graders take over the White House to re-enact the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada in 1983, will they [...]

Website of the Week: Snag Learning

Snag Learning – Documentary films as educational tools (Gr. K-12) An educational division of Snag Films, Snag Learning offers free access to documentary videos on a variety of topics. Snag has collected videos from such sources as National Geographic, PBS, Sundance and more. You can browse their archive of over 275 films by subject, grade [...]

The Center on Congress: YouTube Channel

The Center on Congress – YouTube Channel Earlier this week I published a post highlighting the Center on Congress website that contains a collection of interactive “modules” that help students understand how the U.S. government functions. And now, with thanks to Richard Byrne at FreeTech4Teachers for the discovery, this group also has its own YouTube [...]

Website of the Week: The Center on Congress

The Center on Congress – Interactive Learning Modules (Gr. 3-12) From Indiana University comes a great site with a collection of interactive activities that help students understand how the U.S. government functions. There are a total of eleven activities that cover such topics as civic participation to the federal budget to how members decide to [...]