The Stanford History Education Group has created Beyond the Bubble to help history educators teach students by primary source documents. This is a great lesson resource that requires students to use higher order thinking skills to analyze the primary source documents. Assessment of student learning is a breeze because each lesson comes with not only a scoring rubric, but examples of student responses for each score. Beyond the Bubble goes way beyond the typical text-based lesson and expects much more thoughtful and engaging answers than a multiple-choice assessment, hence the name.
Click on a number each day of December to reveal a Web 2.0 tool. You could peek early, but what is the fun in that?​
Usually, all resources come from my blog Teachers Technology Toolbox or from my own site. This year I've hidden a few gems that I haven't shared with anybody yet. I hope you find some great tools to use in your classroom this December. Click the 2013 to get back to the main page.