Storybird is a wonderful tool to create picture books for and with your students. All you need is a free account. As a teacher you can add students, invite them to collaborate or give them an assignment. The works can be published, so parents and friends can appreciate them, too. The best thing, of course, Full Article…
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You be the judge
The Criminal Justice system is about the police, the court, and the sentences which work together to maintain the law in our society. In the UK the most severe punishment is life imprisonment however in the US, China, India and other places, the Death Penalty exists. You be the judge is an interactive game where Full Article…
Elections and voting
There’s a great interactive tutorial here about voting systems, it works well as a whole class demonstration on an interactive whiteboard or could be worked through independently on tablets or desktop computers.
Help deliver food to a war torn country
Delivering humanitarian aid and supplying food to countries in crisis from war, drought, floods or famine is a complex set of logistical and political issues. The World Food Programme – who are the experts in this field – have developed an interactive game called Food Force which gives you an insight into some these problems Full Article…
Start an Argument…
amap is a great resource for instigating discussion. Follow the on-screen instructions to create an interactive mind map. Click on Reply to respond to a discussion (you’ll need to delete previous comments). Here’s an example designed for teaching How Science Works, but it is possible to use the software for the teaching of all topics Full Article…
Newseum and Newsmap
Both Newseum and Newsmap let you display the latest news stories from across the world in an interactive visual way. Newseum gives you a world map where you can view the front pages from around 800 of that day’s newspapers (see screen shot below left). As you hover over the region the relevant newspaper front pages pop up. Newsmap Full Article…
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