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Resources from Rhode Island College History and Social Studies educators for the classroom http://geographyeducation.org
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Epic time-lapse map of Europe

"Fast forwarding from ca 1000 AD until 2005 showing Europe's shifting borders, alliances, unions, territories, occupied land etc."

 

This is an excellent video that highlights the shifting political geography of Europe and the historical sweeps of the various eras. 

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Spatial History Project

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The Spatial History Project at Stanford puts together some fantastic geovisualization that is an awesome site that allows you or your kids to spatial and temporally the diffusion of Nazi concentration camps.  It has some clickable 'GIS-like' layers to help students contextualize the data and to make some important interdisciplinary connections.  Originally spotted on http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/

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Charlemagne ("Call Me" by Blondie)

Mrs. B rocks out to the Blondie classic with a crown from Burger King (???).

 

If you haven't yet discovered the YouTube channel "historyteachers," this is a sample of their work.  The simple premise is that musical rythmns and beats help us remember lyrics; using that idea, they've created a wide list of songs with historically-themed lyrics.  

go social studies go's comment, February 29, 2012 7:28 PM
This is one of my favorites
Karen Kelly's comment, March 1, 2012 9:13 AM
I wish I had this level of creativity!