Technology and Data and Tools and Resources

 Ebony McKiver I explored some activities from ArcGIS and StoryMaps that I used in AP Human Geography, but I never learned how to create one myself. Did you provide a workshop on this topic?

I have not used any of those tools.  For digital timelines, I use Peardeck, which my School Provides.  It has a function where students use colored dots to label events 1-5.  In Nearpod, I can upload images and have students drag them on the screen to them in order..

I have not used the sites you mentioned though I have used World Book timelines which can be a bit clumsy but end up looking good.

The UN and World Bank has really good charts and data that I provide my students. For example, my womens history class just looked at this website https://genderdata.worldbank.org/en/data-stories/a-tale-of-old-and-new-gender-gaps. The students were able to see the charts and the explanations to help them. 

I have used Geo-Inquires which I believe uses ArcGIS but the lessons are already made with questions. I really love using them because students are interacting with maps, data, graphs, and more. I really like the D-Day, Dust Bowl, Voting, death penalty, and Pearl Harbor lessons. I have had great success with them in both 8th grade civics and 7th grader US history. Hoping there are some I can use now in World 1 and 2. 

I used ArcGIS StoryMaps for a lesson on D-Day that the students loved.  Other than Peardeck and Nearpod I have started to use LucidSpark.  I like to do thinking routines in my class on posters but the problem is that they don't last too long.  This software alows you and your class to do these types of activities online in an easy to access functionality that you can come back to over the year.  

Patrick O'Brien (a7981acb-5498-4bfa-9296-6c639c7477a0) would you be able to share the ArcGiS Story Map lesson?

I've tried to use ArcGIC StoryMaps a couple of times, but never gotten it to work well. Does anyone who has used it successfully have any go-to resources? 

I have never used TimelineJS, but I have used timetoast.com for students to create annotated timelines. Years ago, I had my World I students create an annotated timeline about ancient and classical Greece, including 5 events that they thought were the most significant. Students were required to write an 'ID' essentially with a topic sentence, a description of the event, and the significance. I think this would be a good review idea for my AP World students for the AP Exam, in which I would have students pick 10 events from the year, or from each time period to select as the most important in groups. I have also dabbled with ArcGIS however, I prefer GoogleMaps to create annotated maps.