Soc. Studies Gr. 8

This is a pdf of the Mexican american war packet with questions in it. 

PDF Version of the History Alive United States Textbook we use

really cool info graphic...not sure what we'd do with it, but excellent visual.

Black Seminoles history, John Horse

This is hysterical, even if it's just the intro video on this teacher's You Tube homepage...he also has a bunch of other videos, both in terms of content and skills....not sure whether I'd use it, but it's intriguing to think about when thinking about the flipped classroom...

Interesting categories here...middle schools are mentioned too.

AWesome upstander story about Sophie and Hans Scholl and their resistance to Nazi, and are executed after a trial. 

Way to do Civil War HW to expand knolwedge while at home

2013 incident in ALabama referencing "Trail of Tears", Round 2

This is actually some good stuff from the Dept of State, nice short easy to read (with some exceptions of word choice -- granary...)

"Good and Evil in the Presidency"

"Real Cost of a Denim Shirt"

a virtual 'teacher tour' of Gettysburg

short, to the point nice review of the LMG reading visually...

The elusive Alabama Slave Codes lesson that John had found.

Africans in America, Nat Turner 32:48-41:22

Africans in America, Denmark Vesey --whole clip, 7:33 minutes