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Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?

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While plenty of schools have experimented with short lessons conducted in virtual reality, this new school, called Optima Academy Online, has embraced the technology as a primary mode of course delivery. For students at a new Florida-based charter school, entering the classroom means strapping on a VR headset.

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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

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Topics covered include citizenship, governance, civil rights, the constitution, politics and public policy, state and local governments, media, news literacy, and many more. 5- Debequest DBQuest 'guides students through the examination of major questions in civics and history utilizing primary sources. These include: 1.

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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” In MS and HS, it expands to cover science, mathematics, civics, economics, and maybe geography.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

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In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. They’re not just glaringly missing from formal education research and policy decisions, but also limited to reductive stereotypes in common public understanding.

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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Subjects covered include history, physics, psychology, chemistry, computer science, life sciences, mathematics, geography, education, business, law, environment, energy, and many more. JSTOR JSTOR is a research and academic platform that provides access to over 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources.

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Best Online History Games

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Source: mission-us.org Besides history games, Mission US also offers various educational resources to use with students in class including document-based activities, vocabulary builders, writing prompts, review questions, primary source documents, suggestions for further reading and research, and many more.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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I went to university to study geography, then started a master’s in meteorology. I was also taking classes in remote sensing and GIS which I found very exciting, so I transitioned back to geography and focused on climatology for my master’s thesis. I’ve been working for the EPA for 30 years, and it’s been a great career.