Social Studies in Hand
July 7, 2005
Lexington, South Carolina
learninginhand.com/notes
Description:
Discussion groups, practice by doing, and teaching others are methods that lead to high retention of information. Learn about innovative activities you can conduct with handhelds that use these methods to teach social studies concepts like economics and history in fun and effective ways!
eBooks
eReader
http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/15002
Download eBooks for Social Studies
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html
http://www.memoware.org/Quizzes
Quizzes
Quizzler
Take and make multiple choice quizzes.
http://www.pocketmobility.com/quizzler/quizzler.html
Download Free Quizzes
http://www.pocketmobility.com/quizzler/quizsignup.html
Prisoner’s Dilemma
Tit for Tat
Palm only
Players decide to cooperate with or defect against one another to earn points.
http://education.mit.edu/pda/icooperation.htm
The Prisoner’s Dilemma Explained
http://www.taumoda.com/web/PD/library/prisoner2.html
Economics
Day Trader
Palm only
Buy and sell six different stocks to make money.
http://palmgear.com/
Lemonade Stand
Pocket PC only
Try to make as much money as possible by operating a lemonade stand. Decide how many glasses to make and how much to spend on advertising based on the weather forecast.
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=10098
Inflation
InflationMaster
Palm only
Enter a dollar value for any year since 1914 and find how much money that would be today or vice versa.
http://www.freewarepalm.com/calculator/inflationmaster.shtml
Animations
Sketchy
Animate drawings and text. Part of GoKnow’s Handheld Learning Environment.
http://www.goknow.com/Products/Sketchy/
Learn
More
Social Studies Software for Palm
Palm only
http://learninginhand.com/palmsoftware/socialstudies.html
Social Studies Software for Pocket PC
Pocket PC only
http://learninginhand.com/ppcsoftware/socialstudies.html
Social Sudies is Fun! Incorporating Palm Handheld Computers into Social Studies
Article by Tony Petersen in the Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learing Newsletter
http://www.macul.org/newsletter/2003/summer2003/socialstudies.html
Handhelds
for Teachers & Administrators
by Janet Caughlin and Tony Vincent
www.tomsnyder.com/Products/product.asp?SKU=JANHAN
Handhelds
in Omaha Video
teachingnow.org/watchTV.php?id=32
Tony's
List of Web Links
learninginhand.com/links
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