http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 03:57:06 PDT Sun, 19 May 2013 03:57:06 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78386 The Cyber Newseum is an interactive museum most appropriate for high school teachers and students. The museum features several online animated exhibits including War Stories, Holocaust: The Untold Story, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs from 1941, the cartoons of Joel Pett, a photo tour with a photojournalist, reporters and candidates on the 20th -century presidential campaign trail, the Berlin Wall, and more. One of the exhbits is called Today's Front Pages and features links to 155 front pages of newspapers from 24 different countries. The pages are updated daily. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89776 This site is a great resource for both educators and students in regards to teaching and learning about the U.S Government. The site includes a variety of historical documents such as the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. In addition, the site is divided into grade levels in response to documents, to corresponding issues like how laws are made, and to interactive games. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=88730 History Matters is designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. history courses; however, teacher education majors will find this site very helpful. Features within this site include the Digital Blackboard, examples of web-based assignments to serve as models for integrating new media into the classroom; Secrets of Great History Teachers, a collection of interviews with teachers who share strategies and techniques; and Syllabus Central, which features syllabi for courses that offer innovative ways to teach U. S. history. History Matters also has an annotated guide to useful Web sites for teaching; a collection of primary document in text, image and audio; and a reference area for links to resources on standards, citation methods for Web sites, and copyright and fair use law information. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80426 In an inquiry-oriented classroom, the teacher is a co-explorer and guide who cultivates curiosity and challenges students to think and act like scientists as they explore intriguing questions. It takes time, practice, and sometimes, a shift in teaching strategies, to create a classroom where inquiry can flourish. This web site is part of a larger Online community of classrooms from 11,000 schools, representing more than 490,000 students track wildlife such as monarch butterflies across North America during the spring migration. The instructional approach integrates various disciplines in science, math, social studies, development of personal ethics, and language arts. Explicit strategies should help both novice and experienced teachers create a climate for inquiry, support productve discussions, generate questions, plan investigations and gather data, guide consideration of evidence, and critically review research reports. Established in 1991 with a grant from the Annenberg Foundation to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Project uses media and communications to improve math and science education. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80241 "This web site is designed to assist teachers of middle grades and secondary level history and social science programs in their handling of religion as curricular subject matter." Through a series of four online, self-paced lessons, current and future primary and secondary teachers can learn to be more sensitive to the religious diversity they will find in their classrooms. Lessons include presention of information, reflective exercises and self-quizzes. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89825 The child anxiety network is a website is dedicated to providing information about children suffering from anxiety disorders. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=91276 This site provides a collection of radio dramas from The Mercury Theater on the Air series in the 1930s. The show featured Orson Welles and John Houseman. One of the most memorable radio dramas from The Mercury Theater on the Air was Orson Welles, War of the Worlds. It is at this site, but so are many others. The 1988 interview by Leonard Maltin with surviving members of the Mercury Theater on the Air (found at the very bottom of the page under the Theater of the Imagination link) provides some wonderful history and backgound information for these radio dramas. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86340 Step-by-step instructions for teaching basic theater game techniques and for using theater games in the social sciences. All the steps necessary to IONize your classroom: exercises in cooperatION, concentratION, justificatION, motivatION, and improvisatION. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83967 his resource for K-12 teachers and students developed by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library is designed to bring historically significant map documents into your classroom. Inside are high quality images of historic map documents that illustrate the geographical dimensions of American history.Each map is accompanied by lesson plans written for four grade levels and designed to support a variety of social studies, history, and geography curricula. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=475026 iCivics is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. iCivics is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support.