There are several apps you might want to consider either for yourself or for your classroom. The links below will take you to sites that regularly recommend these kinds of apps.
An RSS Feed enables you to automatically receive news items and blog postings. See the links below for more information.
Twitter can also be a useful online resource for keeping current on a wide range of topics. Consider the following sites to direct you to useful Twitter accounts.
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Who to Follow? Social Studies Twitter Accounts Suggestions from Channel One News |
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Top Twitter Accounts for Social Studies Teachers Compiled by My Town Tutors |
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Social Studies Teachers A lengthy list of Twitter accounts compiled via a PB Wiki |
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Newsela Newsela is a data base of current events stories for classroom use. It has topical categories and tries to assign a reading level to each story to help with differentiation of nonfiction reading. |
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American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) Covers children's books, lesson plans, films, and other items related to the topic of American Indians and/or how this topic is taught. |
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Book Savors Reviews of newer and older books. Recommendations for using the text in writing or reading. |
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I.N.K. - Interesting Nonfiction for Kids Unique nonfiction authors and books. Sunsetted in 2014. |
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Waking Brain Cells Covers book reviews and other children's and YA literature news. |
Here is a great list of sites about children's literature in general.