Allow students to explore their own lives and the important ideas that make them who they are by building a personal timeline in Google Drawings.
Students learn to keep a photo journal using Google Docs.
Give students choice in what they are presenting by allowing them to create an "All About A Topic" presentation in Google Slides.
Creating a weekly study schedule has never been easier with Google Sheets.
Creativity around a subject needs a place to grow and explore. Creating a vision board in Google Drawings is a great way to unleash and build students' creativity.
Learn how to create a new Google Classroom.
Students need collaboration skills and a great way to learn them is in this lesson from Google's Applied Digital Skills.
Create a community map in this lesson from Google's Applied Digital Skills.
Share some great Google Drawing practices with your students through this amazing post from Control Alt Achieve.
This lesson plan aims at incorporating technology, in this case the Pages app on iPad, to create pamphlets that demonstrate depth of knowledge of social studies content.
Explore Google's Cultural Crosswords for weekly puzzles while learning about Earth's cultures.
Students will be able to identify the map and globe symbols: Cardinal Directions; Compass Rose; Mountains; Rivers; Lakes; Towns; Roads, after receiving direct instruction and carrying out activities in cooperative group settings, in 1-2 class periods.
Students will be able to name the vocabulary words in Navajo, Ute and Spanish for the cardinal directions, after receiving direct instruction and carrying out activities in cooperative group settings, in 1 class period.
Students will be able to locate the local community, surrounding communities and major geographic features of the SE Utah and the Four-Corners region on a map, after receiving direct instruction and carrying out activities in cooperative group settings.
These activities will provide students an opportunity to reflect their culture through art.
Help children recognize traditions they have in their own families and provide them with an opportunity to share part of that culture with others. Have child(ren) share a drawing, a photo, music they enjoy, food, etc.
Explore current and past hurricanes using Google Earth.
This fun, Zelda-like game allows players to explore ancient Mesoamerica and learn about Central American culture. Players learn about different items, ideas, and the culture of ancient Mesoamerican people.
This is a lesson plan to teach the timeline of Ancient China for 6th-grade social studies.
Georgina Drapeau and Mat Pendleton of the Lower Sioux Indian Community talk about the revival of quill working traditions taking place in the Minnesota River Valley, inspired by master quill workers Hope TwoHearts of Cansayapi and David Louis of Flandreau, South Dakota.
A lesson plan for grades 7-12 is included as a gallery asset and in the support materials.
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Daughter of a master quill artist, Georgina Drapeau and Mat Pendleton of the Lower Sioux Indian Community near Morton are interviewed for a story about a revival of quill working traditions taking place in the Minnesota River Valley, inspired by master quill workers Hope TwoHearts of Cansayapi and David Louis of Flandreau, South Dakota.
Pieper Bloomquist uses natural materials and homemade paints in the Swedish styles of Dalmålning and Bonadsmålning. She studied under master artists Karen Jenson of Milan, MN and Judith Kjenstad of Minneapolis, MN and works from her studio in Grand Forks, ND.
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