Annotated Bibliography

Technology in the Classroom

1. Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome! (2020, December 1). Kahoot!
https://kahoot.com/

This website allows teachers to create their own quiz/assessment for their classroom.
Kahoot can be used anytime to assess their students. Before or after a lesson or after a
test. Kahoot allows students to answer the questions by using their cellphones to answer.
The website allows teachers to see how many students get the answer correct or incorrect.
It gives back the data quickly and teachers can use it to assess their lessons.

2. Crash Course. (n.d.). Https://Thecrashcourse.Com/. https://thecrashcourse.com/

Crash Course is a great website to use when students may need a little more information
and clarification. The website has many different sections of history to learn from; World
History, US History, European History. Teachers can use this website as a review for
students before a quiz or test. The website will make it easy for students to understand
any information they did not remember from the lesson.

Primary Documents

3. Home | Library of Congress. (n.d.). The Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/

The Library of Congress is an amazing website to use for primary documents. This
website offers teachers a variety of materials to help them effectively use primary sources
from the Library's digital collections in the classroom. Teachers can use this website for
almost any lesson when looking at primary sources.

4. DocsTeach. (n.d.). Docsteach. https://www.docsteach.org/

This website has thousands of primary sources, from letters to photographs to maps, this
website has it all. This website allows teachers to view the primary documents, discover
new activities other teachers use, and create fun and engaging activities. This website will
help teachers create a website based on the source they choose.

Inquiry Based/Controversial Issues

5. Investigating US History. (n.d.). Investigating History.

https://investigatinghistory.ashp.cuny.edu/index.php

This website has multiple interactive activities where students can analyze primary
source materials and interpret them for meaning. This website will help teachers with
activities to use during their lessons.This website lets students do the work and inquiry
 about primary documents that the website provides. The website has many primary
sources for teachers to use.

6. History Lessons. (n.d.). Stanford History Education Group.

https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons?f%5B0%5D=topic%3A8#main-content#main-
content#main-content

This website provides full lesson plans that can be used for many different topics. They
can be downloaded or printed off as well. This website has a plethora of activities that
can be used in a lesson plan. It is very easy to use and can help in any lesson plan topic.
History lessons can be very useful if a teacher is struggling to create a lesson plan.

Culturally Relevant Instruction

7. Culturally Responsive Teaching | Teaching Diverse Learners. (n.d.). Culturally

Responsive Teaching. https://www.brown.edu/academics/education-alliance/teaching-
diverse-learners/strategies-0/culturally-responsive-teaching-0

Brown University gives seven different ways for culturally responsive teaching. This
website can help teachers learn to teach to a diverse classroom. It is important for a
teacher to be able to teach around the students’ culture so that they want to be there. The
website also gives resources that will help teachers engage students with using
multicultural lessons.

8. Burnham, K. (2020, August 25). Culturally Responsive Teaching: 5 Strategies for

Educators. Northeastern University Graduate Programs.
https://www.northeastern.edu/graduate/blog/culturally-responsive-teaching-strategies/

Northeastern University creates five strategies to help teachers with culturally responsive
teaching. This website explains what is culturally responsive teaching, what the
difference between culturally responsive vs traditional teaching methods and why it is
important to teach culturally responsive. This will help teachers when creating lessons
plans and teaching in the future.

Discourse/Discussion materials

9. 7 Teacher Discourse Moves That Let The Kids Talk! (n.d.). Teacher Created Materials -
Created by Teachers For Teachers.
https://www.teachercreatedmaterials.com/blog/article/7-teacher-discourse-moves-that-let-
the-kids-talk/

This website gives seven ways teachers can improve their classroom and have students
engage more. These ways can be beneficial when debating or having students clarify their
answer.
Differentiation

10. Tomlinson, C. A. (2017). How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse

Classrooms (3rd ed.). ASCD.

This book written by Carol Ann Tomlinson explains how teachers can differentiate
instruction for the students. Students learn differently and have different abilities when it
comes to schooling and Tomlinson covers the fundamentals of differentiation. She makes
strategies and guidelines for teachers to use when teaching a diverse class. This book
helps teachers think about how to help each and every student.