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http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/ss/ssmaps/index.html
There are climate, capitals, physical, and political outline maps with longitude and latitude for the world and for individual countries. Students and teachers could use this site to download maps for their reports and multimedia presentations.
Recommended for: Teachers and students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5-12.
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research
http://www.vtourist.com/vt/
Virtual Tourist is a map-based interface to City-Net, the Web's most extensive library of local and regional information. "Virtually Tour" the World, and find general information, tourist guides, and pictures for thousands of places. Students can travel the world via the computer, locate sites of interest, download maps and information for reports and multimedia presentations.
Recommended for: Teachers and students
Age/grade Level: Grades 5 through adult.
Category: Student Research, General Information, & Curriculum & Instruction
http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Ftbend/rivers.html
Students in Texas used a river study project to explore the history, community, and geography of their region. There are also links with other schools who were studying their local river systems throughout the United States. The site is model for a local geography/history project.
Recommended for: Teachers and students
Age/grade Level: Grades 5-12
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research
http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/egypt.html
This site has wonderful pictures of some of Ancient Egypt's most well known locations such as Abu Simbel, Dendura, and Luxor. By clicking on the small pictures, a larger version will open. There is also a written history of each area. There is also a clickable map where each of these areas canal so be accessed, but it takes a long time to load. Both areas have strong points - the map shows the relationship of the cities
Recommended for: Students and teachers.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 6 and up.
Category: Student and Teacher Research
Around the World: Countries: United States: History
http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Countries/United_States/History/
Brief descriptor of content focus and key features: This site has links to just about every aspect of US History (part of Yahooligans). If students or teachers need additional information on the Oregon Trail, local /state/national history information or student history projects this is an excellent location. It is easy to navigate through and well organized.
Recommended for both teachers and students.
Recommended for grades 5-12 & adult
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research, General Information
Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
http://www.ucsc.edu/civil-war-letters/home.html
These letters are part of a collection written by an Iowa Infantrysoldier over a three year period ending in August, 1865. After reading these letters students can write their own from the point of view of any war. Students can also search the American Civil War Homepage for letters written by other soldiers, Confederate or Union, from another state. They can write an essay comparing the different experiences and explain how each perspective was similar or different.
Recommended for: Students and teachers.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5 to 12.
Category: Student Research & Curriculum & Instruction
Civil War Poetry and Music Home Page
http://www.erols.com/kfraser/
This page links to both poetry and music of the War Between the States. Students can compare the poetry of the Confederates and Union soldier. Students can learn the importance of music as a source of entertainment and as a voice of feelings in the Civil War. They could locate actual audio recordings of these songs and compare them to the songs of another war.
Recommended for: Teachers and students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5-12
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research
Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page
http://rs6.loc.gov/cwphome.html
This page has links to Civil War photos. There is an especially interesting section on how these photos were actually made. This would be a good lesson on photography or on ways of recording world events through the decades and how that changes perspectives( seeing the actual people and sites).
Recommended for: Teachers and students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5-12
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research
http://www.abest.com/~cklose/caprsmal.htm
This is the story of a Charleston slave who piloted the ship Planter to freedom during the Civil War. After reading this historical tale of heroism students could research other Afro-Americans military and civilian heroes of this war and compare Afro-Americans involvement in the Civil War with those of World War II or the Vietnam War.
Recommended for: Teachers and students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5-8.
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research
The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow.html
A narrative and electronic archive to this project examines both sides of the Civil War. Students can do research other similar Civil War communities and do a comparative project using this one as an good example.
Recommended for: Teachers and students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5-12.
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research
http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.html
This is a hypertext version of an American History on-line textbook from the colonial period until modern times. The main body of this hypertext comes from An Outline of American History , but all links to original sources or articles about details have been prepared for this project in HTML by a number of contributors. Students may contribute to history textbook and actually be on-line historians.
Recommended for: Teachers and students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5-8.
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research
American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
This Library of Congress site includes primary source material relating to American culture and history and an educator's section on how to use the resources. Students research U.S History topics and find original information for their reports.
Recommended for: Teachers and students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5-12
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html
There are many topics to choose from on this page, but the "White House History and Tours" section is especially good. By clicking on the icon, you arrive at a cut-away drawing of the White House with each room labeled. By clicking on the room name, a new page opens with a picture of the room and it's history. Another good section is "The Briefing Room." By selecting this icon, the top news events of the day are accessed.
Recommended for: Teachers and students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5 -12 .
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research, & General Information
http://www.mountvernon.org/education/
This page has a great deal of good information about our first President. A section that will be especially useful is one dealing with "fact or fiction." In this section, many of the myths surrounding President Washington are answered. There is also a good lesson plan included, and excerpts from journal entries he wrote - one as he was leaving his home to become the President of the United States. Students will find his concerns for his own abilities make him seem more human.
Recommended for: teachers but there are parts appropriate for students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5 -Adult .
Category: Student Research, & General Information
Scavenger Hunt Using the Boston Freedom Trail
http://leap.yale.edu/lclc/hunt/bosfreet911.html
This site is especially for 9-11 year olds, but any middle school student would enjoy the challenge. It is written in the format of a scavenger hunt, with different links included in the hints of where to find the answers. Students will get a good look at different locations in Boston while also having the opportunity to use the Internet to find solutions to this puzzle.
Recommended for: Students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5-8.
Category: Student Research and Fun
http://pharos.bu.edu/Egypt/Wonders/list.html
Have you wished you could see these magnificent sights? Well you still can by opening this WWW site. By clicking on each of the pictures, you can get more information on each location. Most people cannot even name them! Students could be broken into 7 groups and after doing research on their chosen "wonder," groups could share drawings or models of their location in a "Seven Wonders" extravaganza!
Recommended for: Students and teachers
Age/Grade Level: Grades 6-8 .
Category: Student Research
http://www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_mainpage.html
This is part of Grolier's on-line service. This location includes a wealth of information from a summary of the war, biographies, QuickTime movies, and photographs of the war. This is an excellent resource for instruction as well as student research.
Recommended for: Students and teachers
Age/Grade Level: Grades 6-8 .
Category: Student Research and teacher instruction and information
http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/classroom.html
This site has a wealth of information the is accessible and helpful for students and teachers. On their homepage is a link to the History Channel's calendar. Here viewers can find programs for the current month. At the bottom of the page are several more highlights including "This Day in History." Teachers as well as students will be able to find something special that happened every day of the year.
Recommended for: Teachers and students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 5-Adult.
Category: Curriculum & Instruction
Help solve the mystery surrounding King Tut and another Pharaoh, Queen Hapshetsut
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/egypt/Intro1Screen.html
This site is formatted after the "choose your own adventure" style books. It starts with a meeting with King Tut, and he is trying to solve a mystery. As students click through their choices, they will find many words highlighted which will take them to a glossary of explanations. This is a fun way for students to feel that they are a part of the ancient Egyptian civilization. Have a great time with this site!
Recommended for: Students and Teachers.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 6-8.
Category: Student Research and enjoyment!
Learning Using Primary Resources
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/primary.html
This site has been compiled from a group of educators who gave suggestions on how to use primary sources such as photos and objects to really make history come alive for students. There are MANY great ideas that teachers can readily use in their own classrooms.
Recommended for: Teachers.
Age/Grade Level: Grades 4-8.
Category: Curriculum and Instruction Ideas
http://sun.kent.wednet.edu:80/curriculum/soc_studies/soc_studies.html
This site is organized by grade level. Teachers can easily assess their grade link and curriculum resources by categories. This is one of the best sites for easy access for resources, lessons, activities, and etc. In the teacher resources there are project ideas and lesson plans.
Recommended for: Teachers and students.
Age/Grade Level: Grades K-12.
Category: Curriculum & Instruction, Student Research
http://www.ncrel.org/ncrtec/picture.htm
This page helps you find pictures, maps, and other graphical resources on the Internet that might be useful to teachers and students. You can search for a single word, or combinations such as "Africa" and "Mammal".
Recommended for: Teachers and Students.
Age/Grade: Grades K-12
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