I’m continuing with my end-of-year “Best” list posts…
You can see all previous Social Studies lists here.
Here picks for the second half of the year:
This is not a NEW resource, however, you might be thinking about how to respond to last month’s presidential election. If that’s the case, you might want to check out The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change. I’ve been carefully curating it since 2012, and both my twenty-two year career as a teacher, and my preceding nineteen year community organizing career inform what’s on it. It also includes links to the very few articles that I think provide an accurate analysis of what happened.
Fred Ross, Sr. was a legendary organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation and the United Farmworkers Union, and Cesar Chavez’s mentor. Every year for the past eleven years I “give” a book he wrote to readers of this blog as a holiday gift. His late son, Fred Ross, Jr., was also an extraordinary organizer who I had the privilege of working with for several years when we both worked for the Industrial Areas Foundation. Now, a movie – long in the making – about their lives is being released. Learn more about it at the American Agitators website.
Here’s a trailer:
I may be involved in developing an accompanying curriculum.
I’m adding this info to The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change.
The British Museum has created an experimental “interface” called The Living Museum that uses AI to allow you to explore its collection, use AI to talk with each object, and curate a collection of them. It’s very cool. I’m adding it to The Best Ways For Students To Create Their Own Online Art Collections and to The Best Resources For Using “Object Lessons” In History.
Al Jazeera has created an interactive titled Visualising the global flow of 35 million refugees. Additional info and infographics accompany the interactive, all documenting this year’s refugee crisis. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day.
Make the Constitution accessible to all of your students with The Constitution EXPLAINED video series—now available in Spanish and English. Each short video teaches the context and relevance of the Constitution.
— iCivics (@icivics) March 21, 2024
Herodotus “is an app that allows you to study history and track your progress.” Though they describe themselves as an “app,” it’s actually a website. The developer specifically says they were inspired by Duolingo. It’s definitely intriguing.
Deeplomacy is a pretty creative interactive that uses Artificial Intelligence to provide information about the history of relations between any two countries on the globe. All the information is “as of” a couple of years ago, but it’s still obviously useful.
I’m continuing with my end-of-year “Best” list posts… You can see all previous Social Studies lists here. Here picks for the second half of the year: This is not a NEW resource, however, you might be thinking about how to respond to last month’s presidential election. If that’s the case, you might want to check best of the year, social studies Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…