WASHINGTON, D.C. – Throughout the upcoming Nationwide Historical past Day Finals, The Doughboy Basis, a nonprofit group dedicated to World Struggle I schooling, will probably be available to exhibit the facility of augmented actuality (AR) to immerse historical past lovers in WWI. Utilizing the Basis’s Augmented Actuality Apps, attendees registering on June 11 for the Nationwide Historical past Day Finals week can discover life-sized WWI-era plane and big timelines proper within the registration corridor on the College of Maryland, Faculty Park.
“It may be a problem to interact college students in classes about occasions that occurred greater than a century in the past,” mentioned Theo Mayer, chief technologist/program lead for the Doughboy Basis. “Making the topic experiential and interactive by means of smartphones and tablets that use the facility of AR brings the topic of World Struggle I to life for right this moment’s college students.”
Whereas Nationwide Historical past Day members will get a private introduction to the WWI Instructing Assets, educators wherever within the nation can use them to deliver historical past to life. Utilizing the assets, made obtainable by means of Verizon Revolutionary Studying HQ, educators and college students can immerse themselves in WWI historical past. They will expertise the wide-reaching results of the conflict by viewing it within the context of girls’s rights, immigrants’ experiences, Black and Native People struggles, propaganda, and the Invoice of Rights.
Along with the augmented actuality apps, the WWI Instructing Assets embody a sequence of documentaries referred to as “How WWI Modified America,” a 20-page eBook referred to as “The USA in WWI,” a wealth of main sources, scholar worksheets, and instructor guides.
“With a lot edtech targeted on STEM and STEAM topics, we’re excited to deliver these participating, modern, assets to humanities and historical past schooling,” added Mayer. “Whether or not lecturers are attending Nationwide Historical past Day or planning their classes for subsequent 12 months, we might be honored to see them benefit from these immersive, free assets to liven up a interval of American historical past that continues to be deeply related right this moment.”
For extra data, or to entry the WWI Instructing Assets, please go to Doughboy.org.
Concerning the Doughboy Basis
The Doughboy Basis is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group included within the District of Columbia in 2013 underneath the title “United States Basis for the Commemoration of the World Wars.” The Basis has as its imaginative and prescient to maintain religion with the American “Doughboy,” as troopers who fought in World Struggle I have been referred to as. To be taught extra, go to Doughboy.org.
About Verizon Revolutionary Studying HQ
Verizon Revolutionary Studying HQ is an award-winning, free schooling portal that makes next-gen studying instruments, together with a curated assortment of lesson plans, obtainable to all. By means of Verizon Revolutionary Studying HQ, Okay–12 educators nationwide achieve free entry to over 275 lesson plans, starting from supplemental turnkey classes to yearlong programs, with 20 corresponding augmented actuality (AR) and digital actuality (VR) apps. The schooling portal additionally gives educators with intensive coaching and assets, together with over 40 skilled improvement programs, to assist educators be taught new expertise and really feel extra assured integrating know-how into the training expertise. Educators can go to Verizon Revolutionary Studying HQ to enroll.
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Immersing viewers within the pages of historical past, this Sopwith Camel airplane is delivered to life utilizing Augmented Actuality, a part of the Doughboy Basis’s WWI Instructing Assets, that make WWI historical past an interactive expertise.
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