Social Studies
November 6-November 12, 2013

Find the latest educational resources from Iowa Public Television.

Let's Get Social! How To Effectively Incorporate Social Media Into Your Classroom
Grade Range: 13+

Join PBS LearningMedia and Edmodo to learn how to integrate social media into your classroom while exploring best practices, real-life examples of success, and helpful tools to get you connected!

A Partial History of My Stupidity, by Edward Hirsch

Grade Range: 7-12

This video segment from Poetry Everywhere features the poet Edward Hirsch reading his poem "A Partial History of My Stupidity" at the Dodge Poetry Festival. Edward Hirsch is drawn to writing about wandering alone in the night, when a person's thoughts can't be hidden or drowned out by daily activities, work, or other people's words. Facing up to what is really on your mind is the exhilarating and scary result of this night-time wandering.

Mission US: Flight to Freedom
Grade Range: 6-8

Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. The second game, "Flight to Freedom," takes place in northern Kentucky and southern Ohio, and begins in summer 1848. The game is divided into five parts, as well as a framing prologue and epilogue. Students play this interactive adventure game and assume the role of Lucy. As the game opens, Lucy is a young slave on the King family's plantation outside of Lexington.

Comic Strip Activity
Grade Range: 1-3

Motivate spatial intelligence learners by allowing students to create their own Wilson and Ditch comic strip. Students are challenged to take Wilson and Ditch's point of view and create a story of one of their adventures!

Early America: Hensley Settlement
Grade Range: 6-12

In this video segment from the KET series Kentucky Life, host Bryan Crawford visits the Hensley Settlement in the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park. Park Ranger Matthew Graham guides Crawford on a tour of the Hensley Settlement while discussing the unique history of this pioneer community.

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