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Advance Organizer Model of Teaching.mov. Diversity Printables, Lessons, & Resources. Highlights December Calendar of Events December is full of events that you can incorporate into your standard curriculum!

Diversity Printables, Lessons, & Resources

Our Educators' Calendar outlines activities for each event. Happy holidays! Bullying Prevention Resources Bullying can cause both physical and emotional harm. Put a stop to classroom bullying, with our bullying prevention resources. Ed Blogger - Crispy News. Cyber Nations, An online nation simulation game. Essential Teacher Tips for Classroom Management. As a teacher, you either have classroom management, or you don’t.

Essential Teacher Tips for Classroom Management

There really isn’t a gray area here. A successful classroom is about maintaining that sense of learning, of structure, and of student productivity. Chaotic rooms lead to chaotic students. There are 12 elements that I consider key to a student-focused, well-managed classroom. 1. This should be a given, but you would be surprised how many teachers use “free” seating! 2. I establish this space for students on the first day of school and show them where everything is and how I expect it to be used. 3. Say it with me: With.It.Ness. The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2011 — So Far. I usually just do a year-end list on Web 2.0 Applications For Education and many other topics, but it gets a little crazy having to review all of my zillion posts at once. So, to make it easier for me — and perhaps, to make it a little more useful to readers — I’m going to start publishing mid-year lists, too. These won’t be ranked, unlike my year-end “The Best…” lists, and just because a site appears on a mid-year list doesn’t guarantee it will be included in an end-of-the-year one.

But, at least, I won’t have to review all my year’s posts in December… As usual, in order to make this list, a site had to be: Fakebook: Fakebook. Create educational games and quizzes at classtools.net. Teacher Planet. Candidates Reagan & Bush-41 Discuss Illegal Immigration in 1980 Debate. Quotations. Thomas Nast's famous cartoon depicting Boss Tweed and the Tammany Ring Arms and the Second Amendment “The principal foundations of all states are good laws and good arms; and there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms.”

Quotations

—Machiavelli. Boss Tweed - Thomas Nast. Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912. Background The Progressive Era, as the period in history at the turn of the 20th century has come to be known, was a time of tremendous social, economic, and political changes, and the presidential election of 1912 typified the reform spirit of the period.

Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912

Beginning in the late 1800s with the challenge to the "spoils system" of machine politics, progressivism gathered momentum between 1900 and 1916, as the desire for reform permeated the minds of the American people. Reformers themselves were a diverse group, frequently with different views, but always the same general purpose-- to reform America. Among them were politicians, labor leaders, religious leaders, and teachers, men and women who believed the federal government needed to address the ills of a modern industrialized society. Among their choices for president in 1912 were three major candidates, each of whom laid claim to successful reform measures.

Cartoon Analysis. The use of political and editorial cartoons in the classroom can have multiple benefits.

Cartoon Analysis

One of the wonderful qualities is the fact that they can be used to develop skills used in language arts (language use), art (cartooning techniques) and social studies (political and popular events and individuals). Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history. Free Teacher Resources. Political Cartoons. Summary:Political Cartoons play an important part in telling the history of a given period of time.

Political Cartoons

Students will learn to analyze cartoons by identifying the symbols, characters and information and its significance in history Main Curriculum Tie: Social Studies - U. S. History IIStandard 10The students will understand the economic and political changes in contemporary America. Materials:* Textbook cartoons * Current Political Cartoons - newspapers and magazines Web Sites. Index. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" Ever since Upton Sinclair’s, “The Jungle” first came into print in 1906, it has been has been used by generations as a tool to illustrate the corruption of the beef industry in turn-of-the-20th-Century Chicago.

Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

No doubt readers have cringed at the torturous descriptions of wailing animals and the spectacle of filthy, disease ridden disassembly lines producing every product imaginable including lard, sausage, glue, and fertilizer. Even President Theodore Roosevelt was shaken by this story and questioned whether-or-not tainted meat products were responsible for deaths in the Spanish American War. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: Chapter 1. Chapter 1.

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: Chapter 1

[Regents Prep U.S. History] Reform: Progressive Era Reform. Background The (1901-1917) was initiated as a response to political and corporate abuses at the turn of the Twentieth Century. Religious groups, members of the press, and radical political groups all cried out for reform, with solutions ranging from subtle reforms of the American capitalist economy, to a call for the creation of a socialist government. Reforms were initiated by individuals, and at the city, state, and national levels of government.

Supported the movement by embracing environmental conservation, forcing arbitration in the Anthracite Coal Strike, and busting monopolies that were harmful to the public. A number of social reformers also worked to reform what they viewed as the ills negatively impacting United States society: {*style:<b>Jane Addams </b>*} BRIA 24 1 b Upton Sinclairs The Jungle: Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry. FALL 2008 (Volume 24, No. 1) Reform.

BRIA 24 1 b Upton Sinclairs The Jungle: Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry

Teachers Guide - The Alternative Fix. The Jungle. This page has comments.

The Jungle

Move your mouse over the or marked image. <p><strong>Please enable javascript to view comments in this manner. </strong> If your browser will not permit you to enable javascript, you can click the highlighted text to view the comment. Untitled. History Study Guides - SparkNotes. Internet History Sourcebooks. The Second Great Awakening. By the beginning of the 19th century, traditional Christian beliefs were held in less favor by numerous educated Americans. A countervailing tendency was underway, however, in the form of a tremendous religious revival that spread westward during the century's first half. It coincided with the nation's population growth from five to 30 million and the boundary's westward movement.

This Second Great Awakening, a reprise of the Great Awakening of the early 18th century, was marked by an emphasis on personal piety over schooling and theology. It arose in several places and in several active forms. The Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening flashcards. Lesson plans. Teach US History. The Second Great Awaking. HistoryBuff.com. Instructional Materials - History-Social Science. External Resources - History-Social Science.

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web. History Course Models for California Teachers. SCORE History/Social Science. Free ePub Converter - PDF To ePub - Convert Books to ePub Format. Teacher Tools & Templates - Venn Diagram. Outline of U.S. History (Updated) History Timelines. EyeWitness to History - Index. Free University Online - CLEP History of the United States II Study Guide. Find Your Book Here, Social Studies. U.S. History.