Edlin Universe

Room 201; Fairfield Middle School; Fairfield, Iowa; USA; North America; Earth

Pages

  • Home
  • About FMS GOAL
  • About This Blog
  • GOAL Reading Contract Info.

Monday, January 9, 2017

History Day Primary Resources

The following links can help you with your project for this year's National History Day theme: Taking a Stand in History.

https://www.docsteach.org/topics/nhd

https://nhd.org/student-resources

http://www.digitalvaults.org

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/finding.html

https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_the_United_Kingdom:_Primary_Documents

http://www.shsulibraryguides.org/worldprimary

http://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=289297&p=1929346

https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog










Posted by T. Edlin at 11:23 AM No comments:
Labels: History Day

Friday, January 6, 2017

Deep Thinking Friday

Watch the following video:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/

We'll discuss when you're finished.
Posted by T. Edlin at 10:10 AM No comments:

Thursday, January 5, 2017

History Day Category Examples

Go to this link to see examples of all the possible category entries for History Day.
Posted by T. Edlin at 1:14 PM No comments:
Labels: History Day
Newer Posts Older Posts Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

About Me

My photo
T. Edlin
I teach 5th-8th GOAL, and I coach drama at Fairfield Middle School.
View my complete profile

How Many Times This Blog Has Been Viewed Since 9/25/15


Free Visits Counter
Locations of visitors to this page

FMS Rabid Readers Book Club

Click here to go to our middle school book club's website!

Blog Archive

  • ►  2024 (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2023 (6)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2022 (12)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  March (9)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2021 (16)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2020 (17)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ►  2019 (33)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (3)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2018 (37)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (8)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ▼  2017 (24)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  October (3)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ▼  January (3)
      • History Day Primary Resources
      • Deep Thinking Friday
      • History Day Category Examples
  • ►  2016 (19)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2015 (25)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (4)
  • ►  2014 (14)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2013 (28)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  April (9)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ►  2012 (23)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (6)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2011 (67)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (12)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  May (9)
    • ►  April (8)
    • ►  March (10)
    • ►  February (7)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2010 (67)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  November (10)
    • ►  October (9)
    • ►  September (8)
    • ►  August (10)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (12)
  • ►  2009 (6)
    • ►  December (6)

Idleness Prevention Society... click any of the following...

  • Free Rice: Build Vocab & Feed the Hungry
  • Boggle Game Generator
  • Henry Doorly Zoo's Zoo From Home
  • Set: Play the Online Version
  • Logic Grid Puzzles from Brainzilla
  • Online Logic Puzzles
  • Brain Games from Sheppard Software
  • BizKids Financial Literacy Games
  • The Kid Should See This
  • GeoGuessr
  • TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
  • Vsauce: Videos to make you say, "Hmmmm."
  • Get the Math
  • Literature Map: Find Authors You'll Love!
  • Guys Read: Great books suggestions for guys & maybe some girls too!
  • Teacher Vision Educational Games
  • Funbrain Educational Games
  • Math Puzzles at plus.maths.org
  • Epic Reads: Find a great book here!
  • NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
  • Jigzone: Online Jigsaw Puzzles
  • Visuwords Online Graphic Dictionary
  • Number 2: SAT & ACT practice tests
  • Hooda Math Escape Games
  • Wordle
  • Play Chess Here!
  • Window Swap
  • Wordle Unlimited

Middle Level Education Information

  • Literacy Logs Bring Rigor to the Classroom
  • Nancie Atwell Demystifies Reading Workshop
  • Teachers' Favorite Digital Gadgets

Mrs. Edlin's List of Awesome

  • The Wave at Kinnick Stadium
  • sitting around the firepit in fall
  • when my dog has a good dream and wags her tail in her sleep
  • waking up in the night and realizing that it's not morning and you have a lot of time left to sleep
  • having an even number in the bag of Ritz Bits Cheese
  • Cadbury Mini Eggs
  • lightning bugs
  • putting in the last piece of a puzzle
  • fireworks
  • snow
  • sea glass
  • The Sound of Music
  • books
  • rainbows
  • the Iowa State Fair
  • the quiet of a museum
  • Broadway Musicals
  • white Tic Tacs
  • digging in the dirt
  • babies' laughter
  • clouds
  • the smell right after it starts to rain
  • being the first one to use the new jar of peanut butter
  • new car smell
  • pancakes
  • Sharpies
  • my Kindle
  • movies with lots of previews
  • air conditioning

Labels

  • 4-year Plans (4)
  • 7th grade science (1)
  • American Education Week (1)
  • Anne Frank (1)
  • bibliographies (1)
  • blogs (12)
  • book trailers (1)
  • booktalks (23)
  • Breakout Box (1)
  • bullying (1)
  • Bye Bye Birdie (3)
  • calendar (1)
  • career exploration (1)
  • Character Analysis (1)
  • chess (1)
  • Class Act Comics (1)
  • coding (3)
  • comics/cartoons/graphic novels (4)
  • commas (1)
  • comments (2)
  • Computer Science (2)
  • Consumer Testing (2)
  • contests (4)
  • Create-A-Country (1)
  • cricket (3)
  • Critical Concepts (11)
  • deadlines (23)
  • Deep Thinking Friday (42)
  • design-an-ad (1)
  • Differences in Learning (5)
  • digital citizenship (1)
  • documentaries (10)
  • Drama (20)
  • DWA (1)
  • Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • Education Foundation (1)
  • Elaborated Communication (1)
  • End of the Year Evaluation (2)
  • English 8 (2)
  • Epidemics (3)
  • Fibonacci (2)
  • Fiddler on the Roof (1)
  • field trip (7)
  • financial literacy (1)
  • Geocaching (1)
  • GOAL (128)
  • goals (1)
  • Goodreads (8)
  • grabbers (2)
  • grammar (1)
  • Great Ocean Rescue (5)
  • Halloween (1)
  • Hannibal (2)
  • Harry Potter (2)
  • historical fiction (2)
  • History Day (22)
  • Holocaust (8)
  • Homecoming (2)
  • Images of Greatness (23)
  • Independent Research Projects (19)
  • Inventions (2)
  • Iowa Youth Institute (1)
  • Just For Fun (1)
  • Language Arts (83)
  • Letters About Literature (2)
  • literature circles (14)
  • Little Mermaid Jr. (1)
  • logic puzzle (1)
  • Mandarin Chinese (4)
  • Mark Twain (4)
  • memoir (1)
  • Mock Trial (6)
  • models and design (3)
  • mystery (1)
  • Nauvoo (2)
  • New Year (1)
  • NUPoints (15)
  • One Word (1)
  • Oral Interpretation (1)
  • parts of speech (1)
  • pen pal program (1)
  • persuasive paper (2)
  • Poe (1)
  • poetry (1)
  • punctuation (2)
  • quarantine (3)
  • Rabid Readers Book Club (1)
  • read-aloud (1)
  • reading (4)
  • Reading Contract (1)
  • Reading Survey (1)
  • Red Ribbon Week (1)
  • reflection (5)
  • research (2)
  • Rubik's Cube (3)
  • Science Fair (4)
  • science fiction (2)
  • sentence diagrams (1)
  • Shakespeare (3)
  • Shark Tank (1)
  • short story unit (1)
  • Spelling (63)
  • sports and games around the world (2)
  • STEM (1)
  • stock market (3)
  • stop-motion animation (4)
  • student work (1)
  • Stuff (2)
  • TED (2)
  • Tell-Tale Heart (1)
  • Temple Grandin (2)
  • thesis statements (1)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1)
  • tolerance (1)
  • Ultimate Vacation (1)
  • VoiceThread (1)
  • Web 2.0 (1)
  • Weekly Preview (77)
  • welcome back (1)
  • Westward Expansion (5)
  • wordle (6)
  • words of wisdom (2)
  • Writer's Workshop (10)

Gifted Education Information

  • Movies That Feature Gifted Kids (and Adults)
  • Vocabulary Development for Gifted Students
  • Myths about Giftedness
  • What does it mean to be gifted?: see what different sources have to say
  • Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
Picture Window theme. Theme images by ElementalImaging. Powered by Blogger.