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Nate Merrill

Worldology - 1 views

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    Worldology.com was conceived with the objective of making history and geopolitics (the relationship and dynamic between geography and politics) more easily digestible and understandable. As one who has long been interested in this topic, I have been intrigued by the possibility of more imaginative ways to bring this field of understanding to life. This led to the idea of graphical and interactive maps to enable myself and others to more acutely visualize the evolution of nations and cultures. As the creator of Worldology.com, I have found that maps have been very useful in simplifying and deepening my understanding of historical events, along with long-standing and on-going dynamics between various nations. However, most published content about important events throughout history are not accompanied by an event-specific map. With this in mind, I envisioned an application that provided an event-specific map for key developments throughout history, along with an expanded geographical view, in order to comprehend the region-wide context. For interactivity, mouseovers were imbedded so the visitor could access more detailed information of key events, along with added graphics for further illumination. Then, you can toggle back and forth between time frames, to gain a feel of the evolution of the geopolitical landscape over time. For example, in the Europe History Interactive Map, you can click back and forth through major time periods, gaining an overview of how tribes, kingdoms, empires and nation-states fluctuated throughout time. During the Middle Ages for instance, you can simultaneously see how the Frankish Empire (Western/Central Europe), Byzantine Empire (Greece) and Rus Principalities (Russia) evolved concurrently with one another. Then, you can mouseover the information buttons to learn more. You can even switch to the "Show Borders" view in order to see modern European borders overlayed upon long-ago political entities. I hope to eventually cover the entire
Megan Jaquette

World War II in Europe | maps - 0 views

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    This is a great audio-visual representation of the German occupation of Europe during World War II.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Mapping History - Hundreds of Animated and interactive maps of hi... - 0 views

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    Excellent collection of animated and interactive maps about the history of the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
Nate Merrill

Omniatlas Maps - 0 views

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    Historical Maps of Europe, Russia and China
Jonathon Gordon

BBC - History: World War Two - 1 views

  • The causes, events and people of the most destructive war in history.
    • Jonathon Gordon
       
      Very straight-forward as to what the website has to offer. The different sections make searching for specific information very easy. 
  • World War Two: Summary Outline of Key Events - A guide to the key events of World War Two.
    • Jonathon Gordon
       
      The outline is another great feature. It has a great rundown of World War Two's key events. 
  • The Ending of World War One - Germany had high hopes of winning World War One - especially after astonishing advances early in1918. The Rise of Adolf Hitler - From aimless drifter to brutal dictator, by Jeremy Noakes Hitler's Leadership Style by Dr Geoffrey Megargee Nazi Propaganda by Professor David Welch Japan's Quest for Empire 1931 - 1945 by Dr Susan Townsend Countdown to World War Two: Monday 28 August 1939 by Mark Fielder
    • Jonathon Gordon
       
      The majority of the information comes from historical novels, biographies of important figures, and scholarly works on the various subjects. 
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  • Why Churchill Lost in 1945 Labour's landslide in the 1945 general election remains one of the greatest shocks in British political history. How did Churchill fail to win? By Dr Paul Addison.
  • Post-war Reconstruction and Retribution
    • Jonathon Gordon
       
      The site is extremely useful for teachers who teach modern World history or American history because it provides in depth information on all the theaters of the war, including post-war reconstruction.
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    This website through BBC has great information on World War II including video, picture, and interactive information. It provides teachers with credible information to use in their classrooms. 
Kenneth O'Regan

"What Can You Get By Warre": Powhatan Exchanges Views With Captain John Smith, 1608" - 1 views

  • “What Can You Get By Warre”: Powhatan Exchanges Views With Captain John Smith, 1608" Captain John Smith was a soldier and adventurer in Europe and Asia before he became involved in the Virginia Company’s plan to establish a settlement in North America. He was aboard one of the three ships that reached Virginia in April 1607. The first settlers, ill prepared for life in the harsh environment, had few useful skills but great expectations of easy profits. They suffered from disease, malnutrition, and frequent attacks by Indians in the early years; over one half died the first winter. Smith took over Jamestown’s government amid this chaos and death; he explored the region and traded for desperately needed supplies with the Indians. Smith recognized the need to establish peaceful relations with the powerful Powhatan Indians of the coastal region, and he traded English manufactured goods for much needed Indian corn. Smith recounted this exchange with the Indian leader Powhatan in his 1624 Historyie.
    • Kenneth O'Regan
       
      Interesting read that is also relevant to what we have been looking at in Mann lately, too. Im a big fan of the use of the original language.
Lauren Olson

Europe's colonial expansion : colonization of Africa, colonization of Asia… - 0 views

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      I particularly like the formats of these maps. The only disappointing part is that the maps only cover 1820-1939. It would be interesting to see colonalism covered in some of these contexts as well
Lindsay Andreas

Constitutional Convention - 0 views

  • How did the delegates to the Convention resolve their differences of opinion through compromise?
    • Lindsay Andreas
       
      This is an excellent essential question for an entire unit because you can tie this directly back to prior lessons on the Continental Congress.
  • Assess the foundations and principles that led to the development of the Constitution.
    • Lindsay Andreas
       
      This is for Utah, but I would assume a similar objective/standard would be covered in DCPS.
  • A biographical list of our founding fathers.
    • Lindsay Andreas
       
      The National Constitution Center has an excellent biographical list of all of those that attended the convention, you can search by interactive map. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were not at the Constitutional Convention, as they were serving as ambassadors in Europe.
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  • This lesson should be taught after the Articles of Confederation are taught. Students should have a knowledge of what the Articles of Confederation were and why they failed to work.
    • Lindsay Andreas
       
      This is a time when chronological teaching is most helpful because the Article of Confederations is the entire basis for the Constitution and that connection should be a main emphasis. The movie 1776 is an excellent way to teach the Articles because it is a musical, which helps the students remember the people, which can be confusing. It is also a way to incorporate multiple intelligences.
  • Make sure to arrange groups so that struggling students will be included into stronger groups. If a large number of these students are present, the entire activity can be done in a group discussion format.
    • Lindsay Andreas
       
      Since we had our whole discussion about differentiation recently, I thought it was helpful that the lesson planners added a separate section for this.
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    I will be teaching the Era of the Constitution this upcoming Wednesday. When I was in US history in high school we did a cool simulation where we played the roles of the convention's members and I thought this was a pretty good lesson plan for doing such an activity.
jbdrury

EuroDocs - 2 views

    • jbdrury
       
      These are the links for seperating the resource pages by time period, below they are broken down by country.
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      I am particularly favorable to this page: The European Digital Library, because of its rich collection of digitized documents.
    • jbdrury
       
      Each of the links here are very useful and technically more user-friendly; however I continue to bookmark this page because it has provided such a simple, straight-forward and extensive collection of links.
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    In looking for primary sources and documents for lesson plans, I have noticed that most of the search results center on U.S. history and its related documents. I wanted to find a website that might provide links to a broader collection of documents on world history. This website has links to European historical documents, broken down by country as well as time period. Each link leads to a collection of other links where one can search for primary documents. It's admittedly a bit curious that this website is the product of an employee of Brigham Young University; I cannot tell if this bears any reflection on websites that are linked here, but the collection is extensive.
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