Get out and VOTE!

We are all busy with Homecoming this week, but here are a few resources to check out. As you can see... I am a bit biased and think that casting our vote for President is pretty important, so there are a lot of resources for you to check out there. 

Let me know if I can help with anything and have a great day!

Samantha 

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1) I will readily admit that I am very opinionated on many political issues, but more than anything, the fact that everybody needs to become an informed voter. So, I will get on my soapbox for a bit and list a few resources that may help you to integrate "Decision 2012" into your classroom. 

• http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/decision2012 
• http://magazines.scholastic.com/election-2012
• http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/election-2012-teaching-ideas-and-resources/
• http://www.teachervision.fen.com/elections/teacher-resources/6615.html
• http://constitutioncenter.org/education/educators/learning-resources/election2012/
• http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Lesson/659/Featured+Lesson+Idea+Primaries+and+Caucuses.aspx 
• http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Lesson/658/Featured+Lesson+Idea+Road+to+the+White+House.aspx
• http://www.livingroomcandidate.org 
• http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2642

2) http://www.wordner.com Wordner is fun, online game that is like Apples to Apples. You can create a free account (or a more generic student account) for students to play. I also like that you can create and print out your own cards too. 

3) https://docs.google.com/present/embed?size=l&id=dhn2vcv5_8323t58h3ft Here is a Google Doc on using Google Docs in the classroom that was created by somebody else, but free to share. I am hope you take some time to look through some of it and then insist on trying it out yourself! Let me know if you are interested and I can help, too! 

4) http://www.timetoast.com Timetoast is a site to make online timelines and share them as well. You can sign up for free and see other examples of timelines and also assign students to make one themselves. 

5) http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/ Bookr is a free, online book creator. The student indicates a 'tag' for the photos or a 'user' (like NationalGeographic or China) and hits go. They simply drag the picture up to the book, add titles, captions and drag the page over to go to the next page or add content. When complete, hit Publish this book! Here is an example: http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/index.php?id=41035