Discovery Education Interactives

If your school (as mine does)  has a Discovery Education subscription, you can find a wide variety of interactives for your students.  In this recent blog post, you will see several suggestions.  To find all interactives, open your Discovery Education account and search (without any specific term). You can then filter by grade level and Interactives.

Teach Middle school or high school history?

Then you want to attend this free webinar on interactive games for history. Please see the information below. Revolutionary Learning

Interactive History Games for All Secondary Social Studies Students

Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 4 p.m. Eastern Time REGISTER

Presented by Peter Mabli Assistant Director of Online Professional Development American Social History Project

This edWebinar will explore ways for middle and high school students to “live” transformational moments in U.S. history. Our presenter will use the first Mission US game, “For Crown or Colony?”—available free to schools from WNET—to introduce effective ways to integrate “serious games” into U.S. history curriculum. The edWebinar will also focus on successful strategies for including English language learners and struggling readers in the full learning experience. Peter Mabli, an expert in teaching U.S. history, will unpack ways to integrate gaming with document-based activities, writing prompts, and other resources in a range of learning environments. He’ll showcase ideas for independent, small group, whole class and flipped learning approaches while meeting rigorous content and instructional standards. Learn how technology-infused gaming can help students experience a more personal, memorable, and meaningful connection with the complex historical content, as they learn to think like historians, develop historical empathy, and discover the role of ordinary men, women, and young people in U.S. history.

Interactive Website

Eric Boehm shared this website with me last week- Interactive Learning.  When I dug deeper, I realized it is host by a fellow DEN Star (Karen Ogen who taught me how to green screen at DENSI in Nashville!).  It is a small world.