Placing Primary Sources is a collection of  classroom ready story maps and lesson plans designed by teachers for teachers.

The goal of this collection is to provide K-16 teachers with interactive and dynamic classroom materials that highlight the role that geography played in shaping key events and episodes of American History.

 

Funded by

• Virginia Geographic Alliance

• Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region 

Contained in this website are a number of classroom ready resources and lesson plans that leverage interactive technologies (layered web maps, 3-D videos, and geo-tagged primary sources) to help you and your students see and analyze what our doughboys experienced, sacrificed, and achieved during World War I.  Developed with Teresa Goodin.

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Funded by

• American Battle Monuments Commission

• Virginia Tech

GeoInquiries™ are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based content found in commonly used textbooks. Each activity is designed using a common inquiry model and can be presented quickly from a single computer and projector or modified for students’ hands-on engagement.  Collections that I helped support include US History, World History, Advanced Geography, and the Georgia GeoInquiry Collection.

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Funded by Esri

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Statistics in Schools offers free lessons, activities and resources that use current and past data from the U.S. Census in order to help students across the country use and understand applications of statistics in the real world.  The activities are the product of eight content teams comprising teachers, subject matter experts, and standards experts in K-12 education and curriculum design.

Click here to read an op-ed piece on the power of statistics in schools.

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Funded by the US Census