
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.