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Stephanie Beer

EDSITEment - Lesson Plan - 2 views

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    • Stephanie Beer
      Stephanie Beer on 20 Sep 10
       
      This website provides links to various sources but provides reviews of most of them.
    • Stephanie Beer
      Stephanie Beer on 20 Sep 10
       
      This lesson plan allows students to study the American Revolution from the perspective of Native Americans which are a group often forgotten in the teaching of this event.
    • Stephanie Beer
      Stephanie Beer on 20 Sep 10
       
      I think this lesson could work well in either a middle or high school US History course. I would use it as a supplement a unit on the American Revolution
  • Stephanie Beer on 20 Sep 10
     
    This lesson plan allows students to try to put themselves in the shoes of Native Americans who became involved in European conflicts in colonial America such as the American Revolution and the Seven Years War. It provides an extensive lesson plan as well as background information for teachers on the topic.
Kenneth O'Regan

Professional Development Workshops / American Art - 0 views

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  • Kenneth O'Regan on 03 Oct 10
     
    "Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities Teaching History Through Art Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010 Time: 10:00a.m.-1:00p.m. Cost: $10 (more information) Learn how to use artworks as primary sources to teach American history and critical thinking. This workshop brings together the highlights of the collection used in American Art's history tours, including Young America, Lure of the West, and A House Divided. Come and get activity ideas to use in preparation for a tour or as stand-alone classroom lessons. This workshop will be offered again on February 12, 2011 and is available, by request, for groups of fifteen or more teachers. E-mail AmericanArtEducation@si.edu for more information."
  • Kenneth O'Regan on 03 Oct 10
     
    I can't make this event, but it could be really interesting!
Laura Wood

In Search of Tocqueville's Democracy in America - 0 views

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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      "American Journey", has a link to the dates of Tocqueville's trip to the States. Some of the dates are hyperlinked to his actual journal entries. Very simple and student friendly.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      "All About Alexis de Tocqueville" has quick facts and a timeline. Very simple for a superficial report or introductory/cursory outline.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      "Democracy in America" has very very very basic quotes from this text. I'm not sure that it would be useful for anything academic.
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      "Democracy in America Teaching Modules" links to C-SPANs Tocqueville lesson plans which are really just lesson plan ideas that we could develop as teachers. There are some good quotes in some of them but mostly they seem to just tell us what other (primary) sources to read.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
       
      "Journal Entries From Tocqueville's Trip" has a hyperlinked map that you can click on to see his journal entries in any specific state. This might be great if you were having different student groups talk about different areas during the antebellum period. Just a resource.
  • Laura Wood on 24 Sep 09
     
    C-SPAN's Tocquville page (as promised). Passages from "Democracy in America," a map of the route he traveled, references to his work, lesson plans and more!!
Kenneth O'Regan

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web - 2 views

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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "contains 1,000 primary documents in text, image, and audio that emphasize the experiences of "ordinary" Americans throughout U.S. history. All of the documents have been screened by historians and are accompanied by annotations that address their larger historical significance and context. Browse a list of documents sorted by time period, beginning with the earliest. Or visit the Advanced Search to quickly locate documents by topic, time period, keyword, or type of document."
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "helps students and teachers make effective use of primary sources. "Making Sense of Documents" provide detailed strategies for analyzing online primary materials (including film, music, numbers, photographs, advertisements, oral history, and letters and diaries) with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources. "Scholars in Action" segments show how scholars puzzle out the meaning of different kinds of primary sources (from cartoons to house inventories), allowing you to try to make sense of a document yourself and then providing audio clips in which leading scholars interpret the document and discuss strategies for overall analysis."
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "is our annotated guide to more than 850 useful websites for teaching U.S. history and social studies. We have carefully selected and screened each site for quality and provide a 1-paragraph annotation that summarizes its content, its strengths and weaknesses, and its utility for teachers. Information is provided on the type of resource (text, images, audio, and video) available. Browse sites by topic and time period or look through a list of some of our favorite sites. Or visit the Advanced Search to quickly locate WWW.History sites by topic, time period, keyword, kind of primary source, or type of resource. We also include extended scholarly web reviews as a regular feature of History Matters. In collaboration with the Journal of American History (JAH) we review approximately 25 websites per year. The reviews are co-published by the JAH and History Matters and appear in both venues. The archive page offers all featured web reviews."
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      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "Between 1997 and 2003, History Matters presented historical puzzles and quizzes. We are no longer adding new puzzles, but we include here an archive of 20 past puzzles that can be used in classrooms to inspire creative thinking and challenge assumptions."
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      This link has fantastic descriptions of what you can find in each of the sections of the site. I've posted some of the more exciting ones below but this site has a ton of useful history information . . .
  • Designed for high school and college teachers and students,
    • Kenneth O'Regan
      Kenneth O'Regan on 03 Oct 10
       
      I dont know how to undo or ignore the sticky notes of the previous user of this site...Ill post my own and I guess they will all just get mixed up.
  • Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
     
    From the website: History Matters is "a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Visible Knowledge Project. . . . Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence. We emphasize materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and actively involve students in analyzing and interpreting evidence."
  • Kenneth O'Regan on 03 Oct 10
     
    Well, it looks like a student in this group shared this in the past, but what a great website! I'll put up some more sticky notes. This website features a large number of primary source material of different media and is strong in its content. Beyond that, this site features information about the methods historians use (interesting to high school students, applicable to college students), a database of reviewed websites, lesson plans, syllabi, and teaching tips. A pretty comprehensive resource.
Kenneth O'Regan

American Art - 2 views

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  • Norman Rockwell Telling Stories Through January 2, 2011
  • Kenneth O'Regan on 03 Oct 10
     
    This is the front page of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This website is a lot more than just the site for an art museum. Inside, you can find information about current exhibits, collections, upcoming events, teacher resources, and much more. Over the next few months there are also some special events for high school teachers, including one on October 16th titled "Teaching History through Art." I think it is easy, in most high schools, to forget the importance of art in our society and how it can give a glimpse of our cultural history.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    How might teachers use this site?
  • Kenneth O'Regan on 04 Oct 10
     
    Art can define elements of our history. I would probably be better able to answer this question if I could attend the seminar on October 16th. Taking a look at a few of the featured exhibitions on the main page of the site, we can already make some history connections. Consider the current Norman Rockwell exhibition. Rockwell provides excellent visualizations of idealized, traditional American society in a broad period, roughly 1913 to shortly before his death in 1978. Rockwell paintings could be used in any kind of lesson plan dealing with either of the World Wars, the Boy Scouts, or the rise of middle-class America in the 1950s. Another lead exhibit on the page is titled The Pond, by an artist whose name currently escapes me. Taking a look at the photos of a pond somewhere in Maryland in the 1980s, the pictures tell a story of forgotten parts of the American wild that are surrounded by urbanization and industry.
tcornett

War & Expansion: Crash Course US History #17 - YouTube - 0 views

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  • tcornett on 05 Apr 16
     
    In which John Green teaches you about the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s, and the expansion of the United States into the western end of North America. In this episode of Crash Course, US territory finally reaches from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean. After Oregon was secured from the UK and the southwest was ceded by Mexico, that is. Famous Americans abound in this episode, including James K Polk (Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump), Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, and Winfield Scott. You'll also learn about the California Gold Rush of 1848, and California's admission as a state, which necessitated the Compromise of 1850. Once more slavery is a crucial issue. Something is going to have to be done about slavery, I think. Maybe it will come to a head next week.
Alan Edwards

Race & Place: An African American Community - 0 views

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      Alan Edwards on 09 Oct 09
       
      This website was created and maintained by the Virginia Center for Digital History, the Carter Woodson Center for African and Afro-American Studies, and the University of Virginia. You can contact these folks about the project via email.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 09 Oct 09
       
      The site emphasizes a great holistic approach to studying an African American community in Virginia after the fall of the Confederate States of America and up through the first half of the twentieth century. They include oral histories, maps of Charlottesville, census reports, city records, political materials, personal papers of residents, newspapers (including two African American papers), as well as images.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 09 Oct 09
       
      For educators, I think this might be a great way to teach Jim Crow and/or Reconstruction in the South through exploratory web quests. If the students have access to computers in a school, they could investigate the website at their own pace and answer essential questions or pose questions themselves for others to answer. Also, teachers could use the primary sources as classroom aides for their students to examine.
Maria Mahon

Picturing America Home Page - 1 views

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  • Maria Mahon on 02 Sep 09
     
    I first thought I would combine my love of art and history by someday working on projects like this.... creating teaching kits or sets of images that can be used in classroom education. This one provides images for classrooms or libraries based on American-inspired themes.
tcornett

EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War and Reconstructio... - 0 views

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  • tcornett on 05 Apr 16
     
    Slavery and African Americans in Antebellum America  |  Causes of the War  |  Abraham Lincoln and the Course of the War  |  The Art and Literature of the Civil War  |  Reconstruction and After in Art and Culture  |  Related EDSITEment Websites
Kenneth O'Regan

Truman Library - Social Studies web sites - 1 views

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  • The National Assessment of Educational Progress has a website where released U.S. History items may be found
    • Kenneth O'Regan
      Kenneth O'Regan on 04 Oct 10
       
      Some items on this site might not be entirely up to date. It appears to me that this link is no longer active.
  • A website on the flags of the world
    • Kenneth O'Regan
      Kenneth O'Regan on 04 Oct 10
       
      Other websites, like this one, seem to be a little bit suspect. Use discretion.
  • Kenneth O'Regan on 04 Oct 10
     
    Say what you will about Harry Truman, but his library website has a vast cache of social studies links and resources, organized by topic. Some of the items go beyond social studies and into the realm of homework help and other teaching strategies. You may need to a dig a little bit to find exactly what you are looking for, but you can probably somehow get to it from here.
Sarah Franquemont

Teaching Constitution Day - 0 views

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    • Sarah Franquemont
      Sarah Franquemont on 20 Sep 10
       
      This site provides excellent lesson plans on the Constitution, but its limited focus makes it American History specific.
    • Sarah Franquemont
      Sarah Franquemont on 20 Sep 10
       
      Some lessons include "lesson audio" and "teacher audio" links.  Clicking these links provides audio instructions to help the teacher prepare for the lesson.
  • Sarah Franquemont on 20 Sep 10
     
    This website provides lesson plans for every grade level on the content and significance of the U.S. Constitution. Lesson plans are designed for civic education and are meant to be implemented on Constitution Day (September 17th). This site is a resource for American History teachers teaching the Constitution.
Adrea Lawrence

American Society for Ethnohistory | Promoting the Interdisciplary Investigation of the ... - 0 views

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  • Adrea Lawrence on 24 Jun 08
     
    The American Society for Ethnohistory website containing information regarding, the Society, its membership, annuual meetings, ethnohistory journal, web resources, links, teaching aids, references and much much more.
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