Videos - The Evolution of Republicans & Democrats

CNN Explains recently published a couple of videos explaining the origins and evolution of the modern Democratic and Republican parties. App...

A Short Explanation of Party Conventions

If you're discussing the Republican National Convention with your students this week, they might be wondering why conventions are held a...

Animated Drought Map

A couple of days ago when I walked into my local farmers union store (it's where I buy dog food, I'm not starting a farm) I noticed ...

Video - The Complexities of Gold

CNN's Explain It To Me video series attempts to take complex topics and break them down into clear explanations. One of the videos that ...

Explain It To Me Explains Iran

I'm kind of hooked on CNN's Explain It To Me series of videos. Each video offers a nice, succinct explanation of topics in the news...

Explain It To Me Explains Concussions

When I was playing sports in school I don't think anyone ever mentioned the word concussion to us. Subsequently, I'm sure that one o...

Two Short Tuesday Primary Videos

Very early this morning the first votes in the New Hampshire primary were cast. The town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire had nine voters sh...

CNN Rewinds 2011

In my last blog post I shared YouTube's year in review resource YouTube Rewind 2011. Here are a couple of serious year in review videos...

CNN Student News - Syria, Peace, and Drones

It has been a long time since I last mentioned CNN Student News so I think it's time to mention again that it is a great resource for t...

CNN Student News - World Leaders Meet

One of the things I love about the Internet is that almost everyday I find something new that I can use in one of my classes. This morning...

Unrest in the Arab World - Map and Timeline

Unrest in the Arab World is an interactive map and timeline from CNN. The timeline begins in December of 2010 and continues through August ...

CNN Student News Summer News Quiz

This week CNN Student News doesn't have a new episode (regular episodes will resume on August 15). Instead of a new video, this week CN...

135 Shuttle Launches in 135 Seconds

Last week I posted a bunch of resources ( here , here , and here ) about the final launch of NASA's Atlantis Shuttle. This morning I fou...

US Gulf Coast One Year Later

Next week will mark one year since the start of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico . Today's episode of CNN Student News offers a s...

What's a Motel Kid? Do You Have One in Your Classroom?

Last night I stumbled across a CNN video titled What's a Motel Kid ? The short video is in part about families who live in motel rooms b...

CNN Student News - Gas, Cars, and Peanuts

This morning's episode of CNN Student News has a couple of stories that students could find relevant to their lives and enjoy a lively ...

Libyan Civil War - Interactive Map and Videos

Last week the students in my Global Studies course began creating short videos to inform their classmates about current events in Egypt and ...

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Problem Explained

Over the last five days I've shared some resources for teaching and learning about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan (you can find tho...

Student Discussion Prompt - Texas Law Targets Sexting

Part of our responsibilities as educators today is to educate students about responsible cyber behavior. One of the more dangerous cyber beh...

CNN Student News - Protests in Egypt

Over the last few days I've had a lot of people ask me for resources about Egypt. The last 72 hours have been kind of hectic for me and ...