Good morning from Maine where the first signs of fall appeared this week. Yesterday, while walking past my neighbor's house I stopped dead in my tracks at the sight of two red maple leaves on his lawn. Despite it being 82F and humid while I...
Google's Ngram Viewer is a search tool that students can use to explore the use of words and names in books published between 1800 and 2019. The Ngram Viewer shows users a graph illustrating the first appearance of a word or name in literature and...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Alissa Alteri Shea. One thing I love about teaching is that no matter how difficult the previous school year may have been, August always offers us the invitation to begin again. This year that is true, unlike any...
Earlier this week Google announced the launch of a new autosave feature in Google Forms. As I wrote on Tuesday, teachers and students have been asking for this feature for years. That's why I haven't been surprised by the number of emails that I've gotten...
DocsTeach has been one of my go-to places for U.S. History lessons since the day that I first discovered it years ago. Not only does DocsTeach host a large, curated collection of primary source documents it also offers templates for developing online activities about those...
Earlier this week I wrote about and published a video about how to use Google Scholar to research inventions and their inventors. Case law research is a third aspect of Google Scholar that can be helpful to student researchers. The case law search function in Google...
This week Google finally added a feature to Google Forms that teachers and students have requested for years. You can now save your work in progress when answering questions in Google Forms!Google Forms will now save students' work in progress when they are completing a...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Cindy Shapiro. At the start of this school year, many teachers and students were entirely engaged in remote learning. With no shared history, building relationships became a greater challenge: how does a teacher connect with students in...
The closure of Google Expeditions at the end of June was a real disappointment for many teachers. Google has pushed Google Arts & Culture as the alternative to Expeditions, but it's just not the same. That's left a lot of people to look for more...
