This post has 10 engaging ideas for using Jamboard in your class that will get your students working together, even though they may not be face to face.

Proposed on June 4, 1919, it took more than a year for the 48 states to ratify the 19th Amendment, which became law when the Secretary of State announced the completion of the ratification process on August 26, 1920, officially giving women in the U.S. the right to vote.

Say “Jigsaw” in some teaching circles and no one will bat an eyelash. It’s one of those techniques that has been with us so long, it is no longer seen as new. When considering methods to share in my collection of instructional strategies, I ignored it for a long time because I assumed most people already knew how to use it. Still, I figured it was worth including at some point.

When I finally sat down to review the steps of Jigsaw, I came across a few surprises.

68.77.89 is designed for students in grades 9-12. It provides a set of 12 learning activities in 4 modules that meet Common Core, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate standards. The activities can be used as a set designed to be used together, or in single modules as free-standing lessons.Students will read excerpts of relevant literature, listen and watch excerpts of oral histories, view excerpts of media of the time, and respond to compelling questions to stimulate deep class discussion.
Students will be challenged to apply the lessons from the experiences of Czechs and Slovaks to better understand issues of democracy today and their responsibility for preserving democracy for the future.

Every January, I launch a brand-new edition of my Teacher’s Guide to Tech. As challenging and time-consuming as it is to put this guide together every year, it’s also pretty magical. I find myself sitting at my keyboard with a million browser tabs open and it happens—that moment when I come across some idea that someone has brought into the world and I think Holy cow, this is good. The thought that someone saw a problem or a need in the world, and they used code to create something brand new to meet that need—that process, that realization of human creativity, is just incredible to me. I watch as these tools come and go and change over time and I marvel at the people behind them, the risks they take, their willingness to try new stuff and push their ideas out into the world.

This poem by Phillis Wheatley demonstrates how enslaved and free black people saw the American Revolution as an opportunity to end the systematic oppression of black people in the colonies. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women's contributions to the American past.

These objects were handmade by women to raise consciousness about and money for the abolition of slavery. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women’s contributions to the American past.

If you’ve read Norman Clark’s hypothetical day in the life of a physically distanced classroom, then you’ve probably started to worry about how faculty and other instructors might facilitate discussion, group work, and other forms of active learning this fall. If I’m standing at the front of the classroom with half or a third of my students in the room with me, but sitting six feet apart from each other and wearing masks, while the rest of my students are joining class by videoconference, what strategies might I employ to engage all of my students in meaningful learning?

We are all looking for practical strategies to make our teaching engaging and impactful during these unusual times. This crowd-sourced document outlines some common teaching goals and the face-to-face (F2F) active learning techniques often used to achieve those goals, along with corresponding approaches for online synchronous, online asynchronous, and physically-distanced settings.

A sculpture created by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage for the 1939 World's Fair. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women's contributions to the American past.

Quick tip activity ideas related to an Ancient Egyptian coffin for K-12 students.

An advertisement that demonstrates the immediate popularity and reach of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s masterwork. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women’s contributions to the American past.

EDSITEment brings online humanities resources directly to the classroom through exemplary lesson plans and student activities. EDSITEment develops AP level lessons based on primary source documents that cover the most frequently taught topics and themes in American history. Many of these lessons were developed by teachers and scholars associated with the City University of New York and Ashland University.

In this lesson, students will analyze the breadth of visual qualities -- including medium, color, shape, and other attributes -- of Thornton Dial’s Lost Cows and apply them to a broader understanding of hardship and perseverance in the Post-Civil Rights era South. They will learn about the life and career of Thornton Dial and consider whyand howthe visual arts can broaden understanding of the importance of material culture as a form of communication, record-keeping, and creative expression for African Americans in the rural South.

A video reenactment of a speech given by Black activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper at the Eleventh National Women’s Rights Convention in 1866. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women’s contributions to the American past.

In this volume, scholars and educators share resources to better teach the global perspective of America's movement west.  The iBook contains audio lectures, primary source documents, and lessons designed to engage students in inquiry and investigation.