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BIOGRAPHIES STATES GOVERNMENT GENERAL SS RESOURCES CURRENT EVENTS PIONEERS
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS NATIVE AMERICANS PRESIDENTS WOMEN EARLY AMERICA
WWII CIVIL
RIGHTS GENERAL HISTORY
SHIPS/TITANIC EXPLORERS
INVENTORS
MAPS/GEOGRAPHY
CIVIL WAR WORLD HISTORY/COUNTRIES LEGENDS
50 States - Great Research Tool!
State Unit Studies
http://www.easyfunschool.com/IndexStateUnits.html
Studying the US States
http://www.50states.com/tools
STATE UNIT STUDY
This is the second of the State Unit Studies. Complete the units and make a
United
States notebook. Look for a new state each week! http://homeschooling.about.com/library/weekly/aa083199.htm
GOVERNMENT
How
our laws are made
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.toc.html
Justice for Kids and Youth
This is the
site to learn about civil rights, the FBI, and other government issues.
Check out the Internet Do's and Don'ts section.
Ben’s Guide to US Government for Kids
Learn about our nation at your grade level. Test
your skills with the games and activities.
http://bensguide.gpo.gov
FirstGov for Kids
FirstGov
provides links to Federal kids' sites along with some of the best kids'
sites from other organizations all grouped by subject. Explore, learn, and have
fun!
http://www.kids.gov
GENERAL SOCIAL STUDIES RESOURCES AND TEACHING AIDS
Social Studies Center Offers k-8 resources and learning tools including the current events
challenge, history, maps, discussion forums, and bilingual resources.
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/
Historic
Events and Birthdates
What
happened in history on this date? Find out this and more.
CURRENT EVENTS
PIONEERS
Women of the Oregon Trail:
http://www.opb.org/womensvoices/
The Overland Trail
http://www.over-land.com/
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
Academic Info Ancient History
http://www.academicinfo.net/histanc.html
NATIVE AMERICANS
THE FIRST AMERICANS: YESTERDAY & TODAY: This excellent unit is written for late
elementary
students. It has model lesson plans on various subjects and a well-advised page on Respect
for
People & Cultures--Teaching To & About Native Americans.
http://204.98.1.2/isu/nativeam/respect.html
NATIVE AMERICANS IN LITERATURE: Elementary school level. How were Native Americans
portrayed in the past, and how are they portrayed now? This unit examines various media to
find factual info
on the First Americans. Children will learn to chart, organize, and analyze their info and
findings
http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/nativeamericans.html
FIRST NATIONS HISTORIES: 48 different tribes are listed here, includingNarragansett,
Huron, Wampanoag,
Abenaki, Iroquois, and many many more. Overviews are given, then click on the
tribal name to get more information,
resources, history, location, population, culture, languages, divisions, etc. An
altogether excellent resource.
http://www.dickshovel.com/Compacts.html
NATIVE AMERICAN FOOD AND RECIPES:
http://www.nativetech.org/food/
Making Native American Pinch Pots
http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/pinchpot.htm
Traditional Native American Game(All ages)
http://www4.bluemountain.com/eng/nativeamer/NAhideb7.html
Native American Wordsearch Puzzle (All ages)
http://freebies.miningco.com/library/words/blws020.htm
Big Long Man Gets the Tricksters! (All ages)
http://darsie.ucdavis.edu/tales/biglongman.html
Dream Catcher Instructions
http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/dreamcatcher.htm
Native American Georgraphy Quiz
http://www4.bluemountain.com/eng/nativeamer/NAusastate.html
How to Make Corn Husk Dolls (All ages with Adult Supervision)
http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/cornhusk.htm
Test Your Red White and Blue IQ (All ages)
http://www.osv.org/pages/jly4quiz.htm
PRESIDENTS
Visit the White house site to learn more about the first President of
the United States.
After you read all about him, take the quiz below and see how well you did.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html
George Washington Quiz (All ages) How much do you know about our Founding Father?
http://www.osv.org/gw/wquiz2.htm
American Presidents http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/nbk/prescont.html
Need information about a certain president? This site
has a biography for each
one of the United States presidents.
PRESIDENTS' DAY LINKS (3rd Monday in February)
http://www.easyfunschool.com/IndexPresidentUnits.html
President Unit Studies
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/tf-lb-pday.html
Presidents Day quiz
http://familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,1-4983,00.html
Presidents Day Activities, etc.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/presidents.html
Presidents of the US
http://www.123greetings.com/events/presidentsday/
President's Day Greeting Cards
Lists of US Presidents (All ages)
http://www.fujisan.demon.co.uk/USPresidents/preslist.htm
Learn About the First Ladies (All ages)
http://www.firstladies.org/
Distinguished Women of Past and Present. These are women who were writers,
educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists,
entertainers, and others. Search for
biographies of distinguished women by name
or by field.
http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/index.html
A LINK TO VOTES FOR WOMEN
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
EARLY AMERICA
A Visit to an Early American Village(All ages)
http://www.osv.org/tour/center.htm
The Countryside Exhibits (All ages)
http://www.osv.org/tour/milln.htm
ask Jack (All ages) Learn as much as you can about our Early American heritage.
http://www.osv.org/kids/askjack.htm
Early American Weaving
http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/weaving.htm
Life in Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/life/life.htm
http://www.aristotle.net/thanksgiving/
The World of Ben Franklin. He became famous for being a scientist, an
Inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher, a musician, and an
economist. Today, we honor Ben Franklin as one of our Founding Fathers and
as one of America's greatest citizens.
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
A LINK TO TEMPERENCE (7-12) Visit here for a look at the temperance movement.
This page provides links to material on American prohibition.
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/
WORLD WAR II
A LINK TO WWII
Explore the years we interned Japanese Americans
during World War Two with this online exhibit.
http://scuish.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/exhibit1.html
Anne Frank Online. More than 1,000,000 children under the age of 16 died
in
the
Holocaust. Anne Frank was one of them.
http://www.annefrank.com/
Civil Rights Time Line
http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/
Martin Luther King Jr. Seattle Times' online information about Martin
Luther King Jr. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/
Justice for Kids and Youth
This is the
site to learn about civil rights, the FBI, and other government issues.
Check out the Internet Do's and Don'ts section.
GENERAL HISTORY
Today in History
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
Way
Back—U.S. History for Kids
Imagine a world without television, internet
or electronic games! Turn the clock
back 100 years to learn about technology in 1900.
History
http://www.classicalhomeschooling.org/history/index.html
World
Fact Book
This site
is maintained by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US
government. Up-to-date information on the countries of the world.
A LINK TO HISTORY (7-12) Today in History: A list of what happened today
in history.
http://www.thehistorynet.com/today/today.htm
SHIPS/TITANIC AND OTHERS
Wreck of RMS Titanic
http://www.flash.net/~rfm/index.html
Titanic - Cameron's Vs. the Real RMS Titanic
http://personal.netwrx.net/dunner/titanic.htm
RMS Titanic, Inc. Online
http://titanic-online.com/
Titanic - AmCo Page
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/5527/
RMS Titanic
http://ccwww.iu5.org/titanic.htm
Titanic - The Ship Of Dreams.....
http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/TitanicMakingItCount/Main.html
RMS Titanic, Inc. - Titanic Gallery - The Archives
http://www.titanic-online.com/gallery/archives/
Titanic - The Night Lives On
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/titanicrules/welcome.htm
Titanic The History of the Ship
http://www.globaloutlet.com/store/titanic3.html
California Shipwrecks
http://shipwrecks.slc.ca.gov/
EXPLORERS
Two sites for the Vikings and Columbus.
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/viking.html
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/columbus.html
An A-Z listing of ALL the explorers, even ones no one has ever heard of.
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/alpha.html
Explorers of the World. There are those who dare to challenge the
boundaries of space, time, ignorance, and science. What kinds of people
chose a life of exploration, challenge, and discovery? What do you think
of the explorers at this site? Who do you admire the most?
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/explore.htm
A LINK TO EXPLORERS (7-12) This page has loads of links to information
on
discoverers and explorers, with data from prehistoric man through modern day.
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/
1492: An Ongoing Voyage: Columbus. An exhibit at the Library of Congress
that includes a section on Columbus, Man and Myth.
http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html
The Columbus Doors. Acting as a literal and figurative gateway to the
shrine of American history and mythology, the doors present a focal point
for the discussion of American public memory.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7ECAP/COLUMBUS/col1.html
This site uses a fun step-by-step exercise to teach kids about the
qualities
needed to be an inventor
http://mustang.coled.umn.edu/inventing/inventing.html
MAPS/GEOGRAPHY
CIA Kids’
Geography
This site is for geography
lovers! Test your knowledge of the physical and biological features of the
earth's surface.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/geography/index.html
Greatest Places
"Go on an
amazing journey to seven of the most
"geographically dynamic" locations on
earth. Includes postcards, desktop
pictures, and videos!"
Geographia
Geographia takes you to 5
different continents and many countries within. You're
just a click away from tons of
information for your geography reports.
A
quiz on Africa, Asia, and Europe in HTML or PDF format is available on this
site. http://www.nystromnet.com/lessonsandtips.html
This is a great activity for the classroom.
There are 15 pages of a map that creates
one large map when put together.
Students will be able to color this and assemble
it in the classroom.
http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/MA/MArepro.html
A
worksheet with terms about Mountains is provided on this site.
http://www.freeworksheets.com/fws/worksheet_frame.asp?cat=Science&sub_cat1=mountains&sub_cat2=mountains7&file=mount02.gif
Time Zones
http://geography.miningco.com/msub31.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
USA Maps
http://geography.about.com/msub36.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
World Maps
http://geography.about.com/msub1.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
Blank Outline Maps
http://geography.about.com/msub37.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
This interdisciplinary set of materials on mapping for grades 7-12 is
designed
to aid in teaching basic mapmaking and map-reading skills. It includes a teaching
guide, four activity sheets, and two
double-sided posters.
http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/Maps.html
A LINK FOR TEACHERS ARGUS or Activities and Readings in the Geography of the
United
States contains resource materials for teaching geographic perspectives in
various academic subjects.
http://www.aag.org/ARGUS/ARGUS.html
Altopedia
Online Maps
Excellent physical maps of all
countries in color!
http://www.atlapedia.com
Color Landform Atlas of the U.S.
Get relief, county or black and
white maps for any state.
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
Map Machine Atlas
Map, flags and
profiles for countries of the world and the United States.
Missouri Maps
State, city,
historic, and National Park printable maps of Missouri from the
Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection.
World
Wonder Map
Great place to go for
your geography homework. Just click on a region to
select the country you need.
Civil War Time Line
http://www.civilwar.com/timebot.htm
A LINK TO THE PAST (7-12)
Civil War Letters. Read letters from a solider
in the Civil War to his loved ones
back home. Rich with details.
http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html
Weather and Climate
http://geography.about.com/msub21.htm?pid=2820&cob=home
World History on the Web ... The History Beat
http://www.search-beat.com/worldhistory.htm
Welcome to Clans of Ireland - - discover your Irish heritage!
http://www.irishclans.com/
Irish History on the Web
http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~JDANA/irehist.html
Free Resources from Ireland Help yourself to free screen savers, Irish history reports,
Irish literature e-texts, Celtic clipart, Irish coats of arms, maps of Ireland, pictures,
Celtic fonts, genealogy information and a whole lot more.
http://www.ireland-information.com/
Pablo Picasso Learn about the life and times of one of the world's most
well-known artists.
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/6085/
LEGENDS
Legends
http://www.legends.dm.net/
BIOGRAPHIES
Edison National Historic Site. This national site has a nice "Kid's
Corner" with a large number of biographical pictorials of Thomas Edison.
http://www.nps.gov/edis/home.htm
Biography A & E Page. Has a searchable online database containing 15,000
international names, past and present. This is a commercial site for the
Biography television show. http://www.biography.com/
Mr. Showbiz Star Bios. This archive provides you with important
information about your favorite celebrities (and even your not-so-favorite
celebrities). You'll find biographies, credits, quotations, and such vital
facts as educational histories, real names, and astrological signs. Movie,
rock, and sports star biographies.
http://mrshowbiz.go.com/celebrities/index.html
Physics Around the World: Famous Scientists. Biographies of famous
scientists from the past and present.
http://www.physicsweb.org/resources/paw.phtml?k=Famous+Scientists&f=1&t=k
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