Comment about apps

After seeking some apps and tools in the Internet for our class, I want to share with you my favourite ones.

Firstly, the best tool for computers or tablets is “History Pin”. This is an excellent tool for using at the classroom. History Pin is a webpage where you can search for a specific city or town and see immediately the most important historical facts of your search. Well, my field of expertise is History, and one of the most important objectives of the course is that students learn to preserve the historical heritage, that’s the reason why history pin is so useful, you can adapt the search to the period you’re studying and also, you can learn about the big cities of the world, or your own town and maybe write some new posts to this webpage to increase the knowledge of the historical heritage of your own town.

My second selection is a lesson plan for a whiteboard, and this is History and Geography: Making a New Nation. This lesson explains the colonisation of North America by the English people; this could be very useful because you can use it in different areas (History class and Geography class). It explains the organisation of the new colonies of North America and also the historical facts, with images, explanations, and activities for the whiteboard as creating a timeline.

My third selection is a plan for print, and it’s about The Structures of Nineteenth-Century Government. This is an important tool for the teacher because it gives you the structure of the lesson, the information and suggestions. Besides, you can print the lesson and there are links that guides you to the additional information to give to your students. It is very useful for planning a lesson because it includes the objectives and some activities you could do at the classroom.

Last but not least, the choice for an eBook or publication. I would choose the “Decisive Battles of the World”, maybe it is heavy-going for the students but in my point of view, this eBook could be very useful for an activity. For example, if we are studying the Napoleonic Empire, we can focus on the “Waterloo battle” and use this information for doing some exercises to contextualize what we are studying. The importance of this book is that it has all the important battles of the history, so we can adapt one fact for each period and increase the reading habit to the students but without saturating the student.