* NEW LESSON PLAN * THE PUBLIC’S VIEW OF CONGRESS: A STUDY IN CONTRASTS THROUGH FILM During The Dirksen Center's annual Congress in the Classroom® workshop...
Computer Resources for Language Learning (CORELL) http://www.ucam.edu/corell <http://www.ucam.edu/corell> is an international, peer reviewed e-journal which...
INTRODUCTION TO THE CONSTITUTION & TRIVIA This section of Congress for Kids covers the history of the Constitution of the United States. It includes...
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CONGRESS IN THE CLASSROOM 2009 * Deadline: April 15, 2009 * Congress in the Classroom is a national, award-winning education program...
The Dirksen Congressional Center of Pekin, Il -- http://www.dirksencongressionalcenter.org -- has partnered with Federal Network, Inc. of Washington, DC --...
* NEW LESSON PLAN * THE SAGA OF THE MONEY TRAIL: DEVELOPING THE FEDERAL BUDGET During The Dirksen Congressional Center's annual Congress in the Classroom®...
This grant announcement is being re-sent to inform all list members of the upcoming deadline. Thank you! * GRANTS: CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH AWARDS * DEADLINE:...
'Designing activities for the 2.0 Language Classroom' (A Comenius professional development course) In conjunction with the Utrecht University Summer School the...
* NEW LESSON PLAN * Standing Committee Chest: Understanding the Standing Committees of Congress During The Dirksen Center's annual Congress in the Classroom®...
Hi everyone! I've been an English teacher for 16 years and I've just heard of webquest. I'm veeeeeeeeeeeeeery interested in learning more about it. Hope we can...
Macmillan's online English learning resource site Onestopenglish <http://www.onestopenglish.com/index.asp?catid=59495> has a series of city WebQuests ...
Does anyone have or know where some good examples of student-designed webquests are? I am doing an assignment on constructionist use of WebQuests ie. having...
The Dirksen Center's site for kids -- Congress for Kids -- http://www.congressforkids.net -- gives you access to interactive, fun-filled experiences designed...
That's the topic of a webinar sponsored by Discovery Education tonight (4pm Eastern Time). Here's the description: The WebQuest model has been around since...
* NEW LESSON PLAN * Elect me! Creating a Campaign Platform and Advertisement During The Dirksen Congressional Center's annual Congress in the Classroom®...
* Online Course: Congress in the Classroom Online * September 12, 2007, marked the official debut of The Dirksen Congressional Center's new online version of...
* NEW * TheCongressBlog: News About Congress for Teachers and Students We at The Dirksen Congressional Center look forward to entering the blogosphere world....
* NEW * Dirksen Center Special Projects Over the years, The Dirksen Center has developed a series of multi-media projects rich in Web-based resources on a...
* NEW * "FACING THE POST-WAR WORLD: EVERETT M. DIRKSEN ABROAD, 1945" On February 21, 1945, then Congressman Dirksen set out on a world trip that would take him...
The Press Series of the Robert H. Michel Papers consists largely of documents which contain legislative issue information given by Michel's office to the...
Many list members are probably also members of one or more Ning communities. The presence of educators there is pretty noticeable. For that reason, i've set up...
Last night on Tapped In I rolled out some preliminary thoughts about a new taxonomy of constructivist tasks. When it's finished, it will be baked into a set of...
SPECIAL! Rethinking the WebQuest Taskonomy - How do you create an authentic task that requires higher level thinking and is strongly tied to the curriculum?...
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