A TeachingHistory.org blog series

Aaron Whelchel, Washington State University

The guide to digital games and learning

a 20 minute TedTalk video

Gamification of Education

A Teaching Channel video for grades 9-12 complete with teacher's guide. (history, economics)

A decision making model designed for the US Army

The Nobel Prize organization has a whole section on education simulations/games that have been nominated and/or won Nobel prizes! Social studies topics can be found in multiple categories: medicine, peace, and economics.

This role-playing game simulates the experience of fugitive slaves.

(6-12) Travel the Oregon Trail! Lots of laughter, learning and realism in this online simulation.

A detailed virtual tour of 18th century Edo (now Tokyo) using traditional web pages.

Lessons and games that include simulations for studying constitutional rights, debating, roles and responsibilities of the president, and the 3 branches of government.

Serves as a central point of contact for youth court programs across the nation, providing informational services, delivering training and technical assistance, and developing resource materials on how to develop and enhance youth court programs in the United States.

is committed to assisting youth in bringing justice to their peers throughout Washington state

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Lexile levels

Readability Test

A free, web-based program that "helps students build literacy and historical thinking skills through "deep dives" into primary and secondary sources."

Maintained by the Hekman Library at Calvin University

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue

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Templates for developing lessons and units for Argumentative writing. Templates include rubrics, ELA standards, and state standards

Lessons, modules, videos and more for aligning social studies content to the Common Core

Lessons and templates

WSCSS '16 Presentation

Lesson plans and tutorials for numerous Web 2.0 programs