Jesse

This video on the Khan website is fantastic in showing flow in time for teaching American History. It goes through a time line and explains what was happening in this time using maps in an interactive way. You can ask the students to take notes while watching, or ask them what stands out. The presentation is very bright and colourful, and good at gaining attention. It is useful because the video is on YouTube so students can go back and watch the video in their own time whenever they want, and it supports knowledge they will be learning through text books, exercises and films. The video is very interactive in itself, using the cursor to go over maps, images and text on the side describing what is happening. If you click on the screen capture above it links to the video. If you are keen for other history topics, click here