Directions for this week’s activities and response include the following:

Our Interactive Resources

For this Practica, you will need to create a document where you will add a “screen captured image” of an interactive or simulation resource related to social studies. Steps to follow are described below.

A) First, investigate, explore, and play with some of the following interactive simulation resources:

Social Studies Central (Web address: http://socialstudiescentral.com/?q=content/online-interactive-simulations)

Utah Education Network Interactive (Web address: http://www.uen.org/7-12interactives/social_studies.shtml)

Geonet Interactive (Web address: http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/)

3rd World Farmer: (Web address: http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com/)

Games in Education Wiki: (Web address: http://gamesined.wikispaces.com/Global+Issues)

For handouts and simulation ideas that are not computer-based or reliant on the Internet see: http://www.tolerance.org/activities

B) Create a document that includes the following components.

1. Your name and resource title with a link to the source,

2. A short description (in your own words) of the interactive/simulation resource,

3. Examples of how educators could use the resource in a social studies classroom,

4. Make a text to text connection ~ share a quote from one of this module’s readings that connect to the interactive resource that you shared.