Resources for history teachers
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Online Video Resources:
Nearpod
https://www.nearpod.com/
It can be used for a variety of things including interactive lessons, assessments, questions, videos, etc. It is interactive and can also be used by students.
EDpuzzle
https://edpuzzle.com/
EDpuzzle is a software to create video lessons. Upload a video or find a video that is already uploaded. You can pause the video at any point and add questions. This allows you to make interactive videos that increase student attention and interaction. Ideas on how to use this:
Have students watch the video and answer the questions for homework. Discuss in class the next day.
Show the video in class and have students answer the questions on paper as they come up. After the video go over the questions as a class or in groups.
Show the video in class and discuss as a class when each question comes up.
There are many ways to do this!
Nearpod
https://www.nearpod.com/
It can be used for a variety of things including interactive lessons, assessments, questions, videos, etc. It is interactive and can also be used by students.
EDpuzzle
https://edpuzzle.com/
EDpuzzle is a software to create video lessons. Upload a video or find a video that is already uploaded. You can pause the video at any point and add questions. This allows you to make interactive videos that increase student attention and interaction. Ideas on how to use this:
Have students watch the video and answer the questions for homework. Discuss in class the next day.
Show the video in class and have students answer the questions on paper as they come up. After the video go over the questions as a class or in groups.
Show the video in class and discuss as a class when each question comes up.
There are many ways to do this!
Zaption
https://www.zaption.com/
Zaption is very similar to EDpuzzle. As *** wrote on their blog, AHS/AMS Tech Site, "Zaption and EdPuzzle both allow the teacher, or anyone for that matter, to places questions and feedback into the videos to create a better learning experience for students. We do not just want our students to consume, we want them to be actively thinking even while watching a video. The questions we place into the videos also allow for some form of formative assessment to allow us to see how they are doing at understanding the ideas or concepts being shown in the video".
What are the differences?
Go to their site at the link below to see a side to side video comparison of both:
https://sites.google.com/a/ames.k12.ia.us/ahs-technology-integration/home/blog-posts/zaptionvsedpuzzle
https://www.zaption.com/
Zaption is very similar to EDpuzzle. As *** wrote on their blog, AHS/AMS Tech Site, "Zaption and EdPuzzle both allow the teacher, or anyone for that matter, to places questions and feedback into the videos to create a better learning experience for students. We do not just want our students to consume, we want them to be actively thinking even while watching a video. The questions we place into the videos also allow for some form of formative assessment to allow us to see how they are doing at understanding the ideas or concepts being shown in the video".
What are the differences?
Go to their site at the link below to see a side to side video comparison of both:
https://sites.google.com/a/ames.k12.ia.us/ahs-technology-integration/home/blog-posts/zaptionvsedpuzzle
Need to mix it up in the classroom? Here are some different teaching methods and strategies:
- Interactive Lecture by teacher
- Class discussions lead by teacher
- Question and answer
- Discussion groups lead by students
- Jigsaws
- Educational games
- Primary sources
- Role playing
- Jeopardy games to study
- Projects
- Have students present their project-let them be the teacher for a day!
- Using movies or clips
- Research projects
- Make a political cartoon
- Generalization statements
- Write a letter as a person from that time period/write a diary entry
- Think-pair-share
- Debates
- Make a tweet, slogan, picture, flag, or coat of arms to demonstrate something in the lesson
- Teach the content through a person for a lesson, series of lessons, or unit
- Jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles
- Interviews
- Use of maps
- Photograph centered lesson
- Reading assignments in journals, monographs, etc.
- Reading assignments with primary or secondary sources
- Story telling
- Surveys
- Oral reports or presentations
- Use of timelines
- Reading aloud
- Detecting propoganda
- Making posters by students
- Dramatization, skits, plays
- Students create diagrams, charts, or graphs
- Use of diagrams, tables, graphs, and charts by instructor in teaching