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The 24 free lessons from Understanding Fiscal Responsibility (UFR): A Curriculum for Teaching about the Federal Budget, National Debt, and Budget Deficit connect students to the current public policy dilemmas about the federal budget, national debt, and budget deficit that confront the US and its citizens. These 1-2 day lessons are not interdependent and are appropriate for students ranging from grades 9–12 in Civics, Government, Economics, History, Geography, and Math. Delete the scoop?
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Food-stamp use rose 2.7% in the U.S. in February from a year earlier, with 15% of the U.S. population receiving benefits.
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"Real time economics" offers graphs and maps outlining the status of different portions of our economy. Delete the scoop?
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Co.Exist This Infographic Is The 21st Century's Quickest Economics Class Co.Exist If you haven't seen it, a Reddit user's clear-cut infographic that's gone viral among economics wonks gives the world's quickest economics lessons for the 21st...
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Interesting look at population and economics in the 21st century. Delete the scoop?
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Customize one-page maps and download, email, print, or share!
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The old downloadable maps from NatGeo have been updated and are now customizable! Delete the scoop?
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The African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa. MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, is partnering with universities and cultural heritage organizations in Africa to build this resource. Plans are underway to add digital tools in order to enable scholars to work with and add to these materials. Individuals and organizations interested in contributing to the African Online Digital Library are invited to contact us. Delete the scoop?
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Use Google Earth in the classroom with clickable layering of maps. Great for bringing Geography into your classroom! 
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March 19, 2:54 PM
GE Teach is a phenomenal site, designed by an AP teacher to bring geospatial technologies into the classroom in a way that is incredibly user-friendly. This site allows you to use Google Earth with clickable layers. With multiple data layers of physical and human geography variables, this interactive globe puts spatial information in powerful, yet fun, student-inspired platform. Click here for a video tutorial. Tags: google, virtual tours, geospatial, edtech. Delete the scoop?
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"Staff Sergeant Edgar D. Bledsoe, of Olive Branch, Ill., cradles a critically ill Vietnamese infant. The child was brought to Fire Support Base Pershing. This image, with this caption, was originally published in Vol. 3 No. 53 of Tropic Lightning News, December 30, 1968." Via Seth Dixon
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Charlie Haughey was assigned as a staff photographer in Vietnam, and took over 2000 photos during his 18 month tour. The negatives sat for 40 years...until now.
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March 27, 2:44 PM
This gallery of 46 vintage images of the Vietnam War (primarily of U.S. GI's) shows the humanity and the pains of war. This photoessay is very informative and moving. Delete the scoop?
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Smithsonian Quests is an interdisciplinary program for teachers. Earn all the badges! Delete the scoop?
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The world watches with interest as cardinals gather in conclave to elect the next pope. This infographic was produced for the Catholic News Service. Via Seth Dixon
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Infographic looking at what goes on inside the Conclave. 
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March 10, 9:46 PM
This will be of interest to many people in the coming week. I know it has nothing to do with my topic but I am interested in it therefore I scoop it! 
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March 11, 9:57 AM
Parabéns pela postagem. Bastante esclarecedora. Um abraço.
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More than 1600 federal teaching and learning resources organized by subject: art, history, language arts, math, science, and others -- from FREE, the website that makes federal teaching and learning resources easy to find.
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A huge amount of resources are available for teachers from federal agencies, including MANY primary source documents. Delete the scoop?
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Very few educators can take their class, hope on an airplane, skirt through customs, and visit the Hague. Here is a brief list of great museums that have wonderful online exhibits that can help to ...
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Links to famous museums from around the world with many interactive tours and galleries. Delete the scoop?
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100,000+ vintage advertisements to explore
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A huge collection of vintage advertisements to explore and use in the classroom. What a great way to get primary sources in front of your students! Delete the scoop?
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Want to learn more about how to "write like a historian"? Take a peek here! Delete the scoop?
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Government Agency Pages for Kids When kids are curious about certain things, it can be tough to find an age-appropriate way to teach them. Most of the many agencies of ...
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A HUGE list of government resources for students. Delete the scoop?
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entry page for online image gallery (RT @JaneHamlett: Snapshots of Institutional Life - gallery from the ESRC At Home in the Institution Project http://t.co/D8dKK1sWsr)...
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These galleries were assembled by Jane Hamlett, Lesley Hoskins and Rebecca Preston at Royal Holloway University of London, and are part of the Economic and Social Research Council funded project At Home in the Institution? Asylum, School and Lodging House Interiors in London and South East England, 1845-1914 (ESRC RES-061-25-0389). The images have been reproduced by kind permission of Christ's Hospital; the Headmaster and Governing Body of Charterhouse School; London City Mission; London Metropolitan Archives; The Warden and Scholars of Winchester College; North London Collegiate School Archives; Octagon Developments; and Surrey History Centre. Delete the scoop?
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Washington's only all-news radio station with traffic and weather together every ten minutes on the 8's.
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Ever wonder about Hitler's food tasters? a 95-year old Berlin woman tells her story.
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THIRTEEN YEARS AGO Bill Clinton, then America’s president, said that trying to control the internet in China would be like trying to “nail Jell-O to the wall”....
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"The internet was expected to help democratise China. Instead, it has enabled the authoritarian state to get a firmer grip, says Gady Epstein.
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Try the Population Bracketology game from @uscensusbureau! Weekly data visualization from the U.S. Census Bureau compares populations for US states and metro areas.
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Try bracketology for geography while you're waiting for games to start! :)
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March 19, 4:54 PM
Get into the spirit of March Madness by challenging your knowledge on the sizes of Metropolitan Statistic Areas and state population (just think electoral college). I got a 56 on my first stab (59 for the states)...what did you get?
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March 20, 8:34 AM
Although I've never been very good at brackets, I have a better shot with this one! Neat way to engage students with population data!
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Interested in updates on teaching and learning sources from the National Archives? They have a new Education Updates blog! Set up your RSS feed in a reader and keep up with NatArch!
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Comprehensive collection of rare color photographs and images from World War II.
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Large collection of WWII photos - and you can upload your own, too!
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A huge collection of webcams, downloads, podcasts, etc from Colonial Williamsburg gives classroom teachers a lot of choices!
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Protesters tried to stop demolition of one of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall on Friday, decades after jubilant Berliners tore down sections of the hated symbol of the...
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Art and history to be saved...or reminders to be torn down?
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Multiple animated and interactive maps of history.
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Great site to show projection and changes in perception on maps.
Seth Dixon's curator insight,
February 1, 4:36 PM
This online game where you return the "misplaced" country on the map is more than just an exercise in locating places (there are many online map quizzes for that sort of activity). What makes this one unique is that as you move the country north or south the country expands or contracts according to how that country would be projected if that were its actual location on a Mercator map. This is a great way to introduce projections.
Tags: map projections, mapping, cartography.
Ann-Laure Liéval's curator insight,
February 2, 6:26 AM
Des cartes pour comprendre le monde: comprendre la projection Mercator avec ce puzzle en ligne.
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February 5, 12:09 AM
This is great fun! A little tricky at first though:)
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