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Bill of Rights Institute: Email and eLesson Preferences Form - 0 views
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complete website devoted to the Bill of Rights and the Freedoms contained therein. Sign up for monthly newsletters and lesson plans.
US Constitution Web Portal - 0 views
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for teachers and students grades 4 to 12! Tons of resources from the founding fathers to lesson plans.
The Great Famine in Ireland - 0 views
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This is another privately-run site. The chief qualification for the two men operating the site is that "both have lived in Ireland for their whole lives." This should be considered when using this site.
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The demographic section is interesting; it has a map showing where most of the potato farming took place. I didn't realize it was concentrated chiefly in the western part of Ireland.
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"The Potato" section provides a little bit of the science behind how the potato blight works - including a picture of a 'blighted' potato
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One more interesting website with lots of resources on the history of Ireland and its people; this specific site I've tagged is yet again regarding the potato blight. It some more images that could be used in the classroom.
Newseum | Events and Education - 0 views
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The Newseum offers a variety of resources for teachers including detailed lesson plans with worksheets, free tours for DC studetns and their chaperone, professional development opportunities for techers and educational classes for students and on topics including the First Amendment, Berlin Wall, Woodstock, and headlines of history. The lesson plans are thorough and easisly adapted. I am going to adapt one of their lesson on the First Ammendment called "You Can't Say That?"
Picturing U.S. History, Web Resources - 0 views
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Archival resources from museums, universities and other organizations.
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PBS Teachers | Resources For The Classroom - 0 views
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This is the best part of the site, in my opinion. You can communicate and share ideas and resources with other educators around the country and the world. This is what I would most likely you the site for.
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Smithsonian Education - Lesson Plans - History and Culture - 0 views
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The SI uses their extensive collections to provide teachers with excellent resources.
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The Smithsonian provides lesson plans about American and other cultures around the world, including Japanese internment, African American life, currency, and much more.
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Site provides activities on history and culture, straight from the Smithsonian Institute. Primarily geared toward elementary students, the Institute provides lesson plans from art to war to language.
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Lesson Plan: Historical Perspectives: Coming Home from War. PBS Teachers - Resources Fo... - 0 views
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The homecoming experiences of soldiers in World War II, Vietnam, and our current wars are very reflective and telling of national attitudes toward each respective war/conflict. This can help students put these events into a larger historical context.
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The phrase "Support the Troops" was everywhere a few years ago. Its usage has disappeared a little bit now, but what it really means is still very open for interpretation.
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As another tough topic to tackle in the high school social studies classroom, this multimedia-based PBS lesson plan aims to help students grades 9-12 understand the difficulties encountered by US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Television, internet, and many other factors have changed the way we view war and receive our veterans. The lesson plan examines the conditions faced by troops returning from not just Iraq and Afghanistan today, but also from Vietnam and World War II. Like the other collection of lesson plans I posted earlier, this is material that can be a little bit emotional, especially for students who have a family or friend connection to veterans.
Teaching Constitution Day - 0 views
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This site provides excellent lesson plans on the Constitution, but its limited focus makes it American History specific.
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Some lessons include "lesson audio" and "teacher audio" links. Clicking these links provides audio instructions to help the teacher prepare for the lesson.
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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.
Social Studies Lesson Plans and Resources - 1 views
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This site provides resources from the federal government, state governments, and information from TV stations and other websites to give teachers videos and other activities to differentiate instruction
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This site has links to the NCSS, as well as standards and curriculum frameworks. It also has a plethora of lesson plans and suggestions for teaching strategies
Geography Action! 2009 -- National Geographic - 6 views
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Choose a "Geography Action!" theme at right and be directed to a variety of primary and secondary sources (maps, lesson plans, video and audio resources, and pictures) relating to that theme.
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The site contains information on conservation, topography, human migration, and other relevant topics for geography teachers. A variety of supplemental maps also illustrate these concepts.
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Cultural and region specific information is broad, so while this site is valuable for geography teachers, it may not provide detailed enough information for history teachers.
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Terrorism: A War Without Borders - 0 views
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The Terrorism booklet provides a timeline, pre-video and post video activities, map activites, charts for students to fill in, and cooperative and differentiated learning activites.
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There is a research aspect at the end of the curriculum where students are expected to take the knowledge they have gained and apply it to a historical or contemporary organization/group that engages in terrorist acts.
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This curriculum provides various lesson plans, activities, graphic organizers, resources, and a video to have students connect world events to their own lives and others in their community, in relation to understanding global terrorism.
Street Law - 0 views
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This site provides teachers with lesson plans and other resources for teaching about the supreme court and other facets of law.
Napoleon - 0 views
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Check this out! It's one of the best European history sites for kids I've found. Challenging activities for all age groups. I would definitely use this in an elementary classroom as a "free time" activity or suggest it as a resource for students looking to write papers on the subject.
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Website with infinite information on the First and Second Napoleonic Empires.
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Even though Napoleon's empires often get skimmed over in world or European history courses, this website makes the subject worth an extra day or two. There are easily comprehended histories, research databases, pictures, and even a "kids' corner" that is accessible to even the most reluctant student.
ThisNation.com--Glossary - 0 views
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The glossary on this site is extensive but the definitions are straightforward and accessible. Could be a valuable resource for high school students seeking explanations of unfamiliar terms.
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Glossary is extensive and yet definitions are straightforward. Could be very helpful for students seeking explanations of unfamiliar terms.
American Art - 2 views
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Norman Rockwell Telling Stories Through January 2, 2011
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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.
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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.
Afrobarometer - 1 views
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Afrobarometer is the archive for a huge amount of statistical data about modern Africa. Most of this kind of data did not exist until about twenty years ago, and all of it is amazingly valuable. All sorts of political, social and economic data are gathered here.
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