Students examine the kingdoms of West Africa during the Middle Ages. They label maps and identify Africa's physical features, simulate the trading of gold, buy and sell goods using cowrie shells, and participate in a cultural safari day.

Go on a traveling adventure throughout Australia, Oceana, and Antarctica! This textbook excerpt offers a full unit of study that can easily be supplemented by extra projects or research materials. Learners study maps, read about...

Whether you are new to the mock trial format or have extensive experience with the program, you'll find much to learn from this teacher training manual that includes strategies for teaching the various aspects of court room trials.

What is and what will be the role of newspapers in the future? Keeping this essential question in mind, class members use print, electronic, and/or web editions of newspapers, to investigate topics that include financial...

Time to get started, and finish up! Budding business scholars get wise to the ways of beginning and ending e-mails. The fourth lesson in a series of nine career education and skills activities examines formal versus informal ways of...

A social network is an online community of people who use a website or app to communicate with each other by sharing comments, images, videos, resources, etc. This tutorial consists of four quests and, when you have completed it, you...

In this online course, students will learn all about different social networks such as Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ and how to stay in control of your information and stay safe.

Students learn about complex networks and how to use graphs to represent them. They also learn that graph theory is a useful part of mathematics for studying complex networks in diverse applications of science and engineering, including...

This resource compares oral history and in-depth interviews from two different areas and periods of immigration to the United States. Its goal is to complicate notions of migration as a unidirectional and permanent activity.

Clay Shirky shows how social media services such as Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, thus changing the nature of politics. [15:49]

In this tutorial, learn how to create and manage an Instagram account.

How can you take control of your digital identity? Learn about privacy in the cloud, managing your online profile, and digital dossiers. Resources include videos, quizzes, and ideas to discuss and explore.

From social media to massive financial institutions, we live within a web of networks. But how do they work? How does Googling a single word provide millions of results? Marc Samet investigates how these networks keep us connected and...

In this online course, students will learn all about the social network Facebook. They will learn how to set-up a Facebook account, keep the account safe, create a Facebook profile, find friends and family, and how to post messages,...

In this tutorial, learn how to create and maintain an account on this popular networking and career-focused social media site.

Learn how to create, use, and maintain a Facebook page, including understanding the social media site's privacy policies and settings.

In this tutorial, learn how to navigate the social media app that lets you send texts and make calls without using data.

The Internet has heavily shaped our notion of identity. On the Internet, people can create a multitude of personas, some of which can be created with false information. As you read, take notes on the ways in which people express their...

Is it possible to incorporate the sense of touch into the digital world? Katherine Kuchenbecker shares her work in the field of haptics, while discussing its potential to change fields such as gaming, museums, dentistry and stroke...

Looking for opportunities for your classroom to connect with others around the world and work together to learn about each other? Global SchoolNet was founded in 1984 and since then has been bringing educators and students together to...