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school edition
where administradors can look at what there doing
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Capital cities of the world page
I love the world edition for countries. It would be great to have a section of capital cities of the world. Focusing on information about the city using the five themes of geography
5 votes -
Worksheets , cities space (like the states area)
Work sheets:
Asks questions
Asks you where a city is (map is on work sheet)
Etc
Cite area:
Where you. An do research on cites (just like the states space)And the license plate hunt would be cool go have on here!
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Graphic organizers/scavenger hunts/Activity templates.
Ex: US Maps. Gr 1-5 will choose a state, complete info for each category (Did you know? Motto, etc) in a graphic organizer. Students can then make postcards using the activity template and share them with the class.
(Library K-5 teacher).7 votes -
1 vote
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13 votes
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Make it so the photos/slideshows/videos/interviews/famous people/recipies/flags/graphs and tables all have the same interface.
Make it so the photos/slideshows/videos/interviews/famous people/recipes/flags/graphs all have the same way to go to the country.
4 votes -
The National Parks CultureGrams
"The National Parks CulutreGrams"
I wonder if there could be a category for the National Parks.15 votes -
5 votes
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cooking
making sections on baking
4 votes -
Include more interviews of students of students from the United States.
Hi CultureGrams,
My students were studying the interviews of students from around the world. They were creating a poll to compare interviewees favorite sports and subjects in school and their own classroom polls. They were so disappointed when there was not one interview of a student from the United States!
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Incorporate the Lesson activities into the Culture Gram database
Incorporate the Lesson activities into the CultureGram database. Make the 200+ page PDF with teaching activities into hyperlink related to the specific content/lesson. Also, incorporate more activities that are Distance Learning friendly.
6 votes -
Update the lesson plans.
Please incorporate virtual tools and update the lesson plans. For example, my county uses pear deck, screencastify, flipgrid and tons of other distance learning tools. The lessons haven't been updated in years.
4 votes -
Animals Edition
It would be about all animals that live in the while. When you click the Animals Edition button, it would take you to a map. There would then be a exotic animals, insects, birds, warm blood, cold blood, and endangered animals buttons. For example, if you click the endangered animals button, it would take you to all the endagered animals. You click on one of them and then it would show where it is located in the world, the sound it makes, and abotu how many there are left. This would be about the same with the other animals. I…
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Search for countries by language
As a teacher librarian, I promote CultureGrams to the world language teachers at my school. They often want students to do research on countries or people from countries where their target language is spoken. It would be very helpful for students to be able to search by language spoken. I think they would be surprised to see all the countries where French or Spanish is spoken.
18 votes -
Charts & Graphs downloadable in other formats
I do a lot of teacher trainings on how to use CultureGrams in the classroom. The teachers are very excited about having the ability to have their students create comparison charts and graphs. However, sharing their creations out is problematic. Would it be possible to add a feature so that charts and graphs could be downloadable in formats such as jpeg and png? CultureGrams is a statewide resources for our K-12 students, so I know this feature would be useful for many teachers and students in Iowa. Also, it would be helpful to have curriculum correlation with the Iowa Core…
7 votes -
Adding an indigenous cultures section
It would be nice to have a section for the many unique indigenous nations.
27 votes -
We would like the ability to log into Office 365 on Culturegrams and directly save to One Drive.
We use Office 365 for our platform, and it would be nice to login to Culturegrams and directly save information to our one drive.
32 votes -
Highlight text with read aloud and more images in each section, make it more visually appealing
The text should be highlighted as it reads along, More images for each topic, make it more palatable for younger and struggling readers (ENL, ELL, etc.)
5 votes -
Virus
Having info available for faculty to be able to see what is happening with the virus in our International student's home countries to better understand their stress.
5 votes
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