Great hook to pull kids into talking about the Declaration of Independence, or the Revolution in general. Personally I think the production value is higher than the original by Justin Timberlake.
Extremely clever song, and well worth a listen!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Top 48 ads that would never be allowed today
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Do you think ads today are racy? Too revealing for young children? Offensive? You have no idea.
A bit hat tip to Mark for this link, to some of the most dated ads from the mid-20th century I have ever seen. I have actually used a significant portion of these in the past week of my New American Studies class, in a unit that I call "Selling the Sixties: Advertising Social Change in an Age of Free Love." For the intro lesson, I provided students with a certain advertisement, and had them inform me what decade they believed it was produced in, and justify their answer.
Some of the reactions not surprisingly were pretty amusing among the students, who were really amused at how outdated the ads were, and how ineffective they would be at selling anything today
TeachingHistory.org | Home of the National History Education Clearinghouse
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Not surprisingly, anything that involves the words "History" and "clearinghouse" in the same phrase catches my eye pretty quickly, and this site is well worth the time.
Offering a wide range of teaching materials, history content, and examples of teaching techniques, the National History Education Clearinghouse should be a resource that every history teacher stores in their pocket full of tricks when having difficulty creating a tough lesson, or finding a new way to teach content.
Teaching Genocide | Resources from Luke, Judith, and Ryan
Teaching genocide in any historical period, be it in ancient history, during the Holocaust, or in recent times, is an incredibly difficult challenge.
Some of these links are for organizations that are actively advocating against ongoing genocides, others are historical resources.
Some of these links are for organizations that are actively advocating against ongoing genocides, others are historical resources.
Facing History and Ourselves | Helping classrooms and communities worldwide link the past to moral choices today
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A great resource for teaching civil rights, activism, decision making, and a variety of other difficult topics.
The "Educator Resources" will be most helpful for you, including prepared lesson/unit plans, Moral Dilemmas today, and teaching strategies.
It takes some time to learn how to navigate around the site, but it is worth it especially if you are teaching hot button issues such as the Holocaust, Civil Rights, immigration, or even trying to have in depth discussions of bullying.
C-SPAN Classroom | Free Primary Source Materials For Social Studies Teachers
Not surprisingly, C-Span has a really helpful website chock full of videos of pretty much everything we might need as current or future social studies teachers.
Political Science, Economics, History, Government, Media... it's all here!
It's a classic, and a pretty basic resource, but if you don't have it bookmarked and search for videos here regularly, you are missing out.
And of course the most valuable aspect of this site? School district firewalls won't block this website, unlike youtube....
Political Science, Economics, History, Government, Media... it's all here!
It's a classic, and a pretty basic resource, but if you don't have it bookmarked and search for videos here regularly, you are missing out.
And of course the most valuable aspect of this site? School district firewalls won't block this website, unlike youtube....
Daily political cartoons on any topic
So my classroom mentor uses political cartoons constantly in class, and I've begun to do the same in our Social Science class. I will actually be creating an ongoing assignment for my students in the next week or so, who from February-March will be finding one political cartoon per week, and will be writing about the political commentary in each cartoon (maybe even in a blog that I have them create....? I'll update you on how this goes).
This site provides a massive quantity of indexed, cross referenced, and highly informative political cartoons on a huge variety of subjects. You can search for nearly anything that is political, and probably will find a wealth of cartoons that you could use in a class.
This site even allows you to subscribe to a daily email list, but I have to admit it has just gone into my spam filter for the past few weeks, and I haven't noticed the loss. So I leave that decision up to you.
The Evolution of US Political Parties, 1788-1840
This is one of the best resources I have found to explain the changing political parties of the United States over time to students. When trying to explain to students the difference between political ideology and political parties, I pulled up some of these images to show that while there have always been liberals and conservatives over time, the terms "Democrat" and "Republican" are relatively new terms, and their relation to the ideologies has drastically shifted in the past two centuries.
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