Our Mission

The mission of Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones is to provide educators with teacher-tested, standards-based lesson plans and resources that will allow them to integrate everyone’s favorite archaeologist into classrooms across the curriculum. Too often, students complain of history as boring or uninspiring. They shouldn’t anymore! With teaching ideas designed to motivate and inspire, Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones can help you bring to life a variety of topics that will capture the imagination of your students.

This will always be a work in progress and we welcome all input as we strive to serve as a hub for the sharing of innovative and creative ideas that will benefit both teachers and students. So come along for the ride and don’t forget your whip and hat!

Sugar Masters in a New World

Smithsonian.com

2/1/2010

Until the discovery of the New World in the late 15th century, Europeans hungered for sugar. So precious was the commodity that a medieval burgher could only afford to consume one teaspoon of the sweet granules per year. And even in Europe’s early Renaissance courts, the wealthy and powerful regarded the refined sweetener as a delicious extravagance. When Queen Isabella of Castile sought a Christmas present for her daughters, she chose a small box brimming with sugar.

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Site Tutorials Now Available Thanks to CamStudio

7/6/2009

If you’ve ever checked out Indyintheclassroom.com and really spent some time here, you’ll know that our site is rather extensive, especially in the Young Indy section. We realize that our content can be overwhelming so we’ve created a series of video tutorials that highlight the main features of our website. We’re not trying to insult your abilities to navigate a website, but we want to make sure that visitors are using our site to its full potential. Click here to check out these tutorials.

The tutorials mentioned above were created using CamStudio, a free program that allows one to record what they see on their monitor. Please know that the quality seen in our tutorials is not how your CamStudio recordings will appear. Because we placed our tutorials on the web the videos had to be compressed, resulting in the grainy appearance you see. CamStudio can be an effective way to guide students through complicated assignments or for out of class communication. To download CamStudio click here.

Remembering the Internet- The Wayback Machine

5/23/2009

The Wayback Machine

Have you ever been teaching or having students work on a project and wished you could teach them about life in the early days of the internet? Now you can thanks to the Wayback Machine. This awesome internet archive catalogs websites and allows browsers to examine websites as they existed years ago. What did the first White House website look like? Use the Wayback Machine to find out. This archive helps students see just how far web technology has come in a very short time.

Construct Digital Posters with Glogster

5/3/2009

Are your students bored and tired of making bulky posters for presentations and projects? Have you reached your last nerve trying to store and handle oversized project boards? If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above then consider using Glogster to create digital posters.

A Sample Glog!

What are students saying about Young Indy?

4/15/2009

-“They [the films] gave us an inside look at how life actually was during the war and included all the famous people we learned about.”

-“I thought that the Young Indy episodes were very helpful in my visual learning and gave a great aspect as to what these times might have actually been like.”

-“Young Indy was helpful because it showed the whole scope of the war and allowed me to understand the large concepts of the war easily…”

-“They [the films] were helpful because they gave an entertaining, visual, and in-depth perspective of the war.”

Check out our newest section-- Indy Connections

4/4/2009

In this new section we find and present links to current event articles that relate to the real-life events, topics, and people found in The Adventures of Indiana Jones. Educators can use these current events to connect our past with the present day. To see the latest articles or find recent topics for a specific Indy chapter click here or use the navigation menu at the top of any webpage. Be sure to check back with us often, as we will be updating articles on a weekly basis!