Resource Blog #3
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Social Studies teachers, PLEASE CHECK OUT THIS SITE!
Digital History divides their homepage into five different sections: timeline, era, topics, resources, and references. The eras range from 'The first Americans' all the way to 'The 21st Century'.
Each link provides an overview, analysis, and summary of the most significant events during that certain era. I clicked on the 'Slavery' era and wasn't expecting much information but was pleasantly surprised that this site emphasized the significance of it and brought up how Slavery has been marginalized.
And within each era, Digital History offers more links: textbook, documents, events, people, music, film, images. do history, multimedia, links, quizzes, and for teachers. If you click the for teachers bar, it even offers lesson plans!
Digital History also offers a timeline generator, you can type in any two points of years that you'd like to study and it generates a giant custom timeline with more in depth information about smaller events as well as large events.
This website also as a 'Voices' link which is very insightful. Click on the topic and it displays different voices of marginalized people from different eras and gives the reader a perspective on different voices. It also offers 'Ordinary Voices'.
I will, without a doubt, take advantage of this database of a resource if not implementing this site into my classroom. I especially love the 'timeline' and 'voices' aspect. Both of these links can educate my classroom on historical events, but more importantly, it provides different aspects of history that textbooks don't like to mention and can enhance the quality of educating my classroom on Social Studies. (270 words)
Social Studies teachers, PLEASE CHECK OUT THIS SITE!
Digital History divides their homepage into five different sections: timeline, era, topics, resources, and references. The eras range from 'The first Americans' all the way to 'The 21st Century'.
Each link provides an overview, analysis, and summary of the most significant events during that certain era. I clicked on the 'Slavery' era and wasn't expecting much information but was pleasantly surprised that this site emphasized the significance of it and brought up how Slavery has been marginalized.
And within each era, Digital History offers more links: textbook, documents, events, people, music, film, images. do history, multimedia, links, quizzes, and for teachers. If you click the for teachers bar, it even offers lesson plans!
Digital History also offers a timeline generator, you can type in any two points of years that you'd like to study and it generates a giant custom timeline with more in depth information about smaller events as well as large events.
This website also as a 'Voices' link which is very insightful. Click on the topic and it displays different voices of marginalized people from different eras and gives the reader a perspective on different voices. It also offers 'Ordinary Voices'.
I will, without a doubt, take advantage of this database of a resource if not implementing this site into my classroom. I especially love the 'timeline' and 'voices' aspect. Both of these links can educate my classroom on historical events, but more importantly, it provides different aspects of history that textbooks don't like to mention and can enhance the quality of educating my classroom on Social Studies. (270 words)
Alex, I just checked out the page and it looks so useful! I like how the information is organized so well. It make everything easy to find. I also like the direct access to primary sources. This would be a great resource for me because I’m a social studies teacher too. I like how there is lesson plans, quizzes and classroom handouts ready to go. This is a great resource.
ReplyDeleteWC: 70
This source does look incredible. It found a way to neatly organize all of the different types of resources and tools are used in a social studies classroom. I have definitely added this to my resource log for future use. Thanks for the find!
ReplyDelete