Interactive Teaching

Students explore seven different Ancient Egyptian tombs in these virtual tours. Students are able to walk around the structure and click to learn about various art and artifacts. Students complete a worksheet about their findings. Can be used as group work or individual activity. Links to virtual tours provided in worksheet.

Students learn about ancient Mesopotamia by using four virtual resources: A virtual tour of an archeological site in Babylon, a 3D Reconstruction of Babylon, An analysis of Sumerian artifacts from a museum, and a video of a Ziggurat. A worksheet is provided to analyze these sources, as well as links to all the sources.

Students explore the Capitol and White House using online virtual tours, and complete a worksheet analyzing what they learning from the tours. Links to the virtual tours are provided in the worksheet.

Students explore a virtual clickable map (linked in file) and analyze Alexander the Great's conquests and his impact on history. Students use evidence from the map to summarize his impact on the world.

Students explore an online interactive map of human migration routes, archaeological sites, and climate conditions. Students complete a worksheet based on the map to learn about human migration causes and routes. Worksheet includes link to interactive map.

The Podcast Project engages students in creating a podcast about their family's immigration history. I use this project in US history during the unit on immigration, but this can be used in Global History or ELA classes as well. The project provides instructions for students on how to create, edit, and publish a podcast about a current social or political issue that is important for them. Students can use their smart phones and free apps and online resources that are listed in the project for th

Students use a web source (linked in file) to explore the Acropolis in detail, and learn about the structures and Ancient Greece. Students complete a worksheet using the virtual tour resource, analyzing the structures after their virtual exploration.

This project teaches students about political parties by letting students create a political party, a website using Google Sites app with the party platform, candidates, discussion of major issues and media such as a speech by their candidate or a campaign ad. The project allows students to be very creative! The project guidelines lead students step by step through the process. Students then present their political parties to the class, and the class can vote and elect the parties in a mock ele

Students participate in a mock election of 1860 to understand the major issues of the election that led to the Civil War. Student groups are assigned a candidate and given a primary source of an abridged speech and party platform. Students create a poster using their analysis of the speech and party platform either supporting or opposing the candidate. (I usually assign student one student group to oppose and one to support each candidate, so we hear both sides of the platform). Students then p

Students create a Google Slides presentation by researching their culture and presenting it through various elements of culture. I use this project in Global History when studying the elements of culture. The project provides instructions as well as two worksheets for planning the project. Students then use evidence of their culture to write paragraphs analyzing their culture. The projects allows students to connect their personal cultural history, with research methods and paragraph writing pra