Resources to engage students in the Constitution, current events and civic learning.
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Timelines.com: Discover, Record and Share History with Timelines - 1 views
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This site does not rely on any specific sources, but rather affirms the chronology of historical events.
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I would use this source as a way to determine the most important events to discuss throughout a unit.
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Some teachers might ask students to create timelines, and this site would be helpful in assessing their accuracy. Otherwise it would be useful for teachers in developing their units.
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National Constitution Center: Educators - 0 views
www.constitutioncenter.org/ncc_edu_Educators.aspx
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Under "Classroom resources," teachers can find print resources links to sites that provide students with the tools they need to better understand the context and content of the Constitution
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This site uses decades of commentary and sites from other organizations to provide the most access points to students to promote a good learning environment for them all.
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In an American History or American Government class, this site would prove extremely useful to better my students understanding of the dense, old, and vague language of the Constituion.
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Truman Library - Social Studies web sites - 1 views
www.trumanlibrary.org/...sites.htm
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress has a website where released U.S. History items may be found
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A website on the flags of the world
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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.
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Newseum | For Students NOT Visiting the Newseum - 2 views
www.newseum.org/...index.html
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The Newseum site provides lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school teachers. The lessons focus on first amendment rights and the role of media in society. Links to other online resources allow teachers to find supplemental materials for other lesson plans and units. The site also contains a number of primary sources.
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Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government - 1 views
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This site provides animated maps that show the spread of religion, imperialism, democracy, etc. over time. The site also includes links to a variety of other animated maps on sites like BBC that cover a wide range of subjects. These animated maps provide visual context for lessons and units, and can be used as visual access points for content.
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UnderstandingPrejudice.org - 1 views
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This site could be used by teachers as a baseline, to discover their own prejudices and learn hwo to avoid them BEFORE teaching their class. There are many different "quizzes" on the site which claim to measure your level of prejudice/knowledge of it. Then they offer links about how to deal with these issues in the classroom. This site is a good way for teachers to start thinking about these issues, and is a good resource of some of these issues come up in a classroom and he or she does not know how to deal with it.
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This site is valuable because it gets teachers to consider the issue of pejudice in the classroom and offers them resources on dealing with this tricky issue. Because the site does not have lesson plans, per se, it could not be used for daily lessons in the class. However, the teacher could have the students look through the website and take some of the quizzes, and use this as a launching point for a discussion of these issues in his or her class. Therefore, this site could be an incredible valuable tool to teachers as a resource and as jumping-off point for a discussion on prejudice and other related issues.
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TeachNet: Lesson Plans for High School: History / Social Studies - 1 views
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The sources for this site are other teachers around the world who post their lesson plans. This is good, because it has plans from real teachers and real classrooms so they are very knowlegable in what they are doing.
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However, one bad thing about the site sources is that primary sources are generally not included in the lesson plan, so you would have to find those on your own.
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The problem with the lesson plans is that they are not listed in any particular order and are all large plans that take a long time to complete. As such, this site could be used to find a project that you want your class to do, but it could not be used on a regular basis because you won't always have time to do the long projects as listed here.
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This site could be valuable for social studies teachers because it offers lesson plans written by teachers, covering a wide range of topics and suited for different couuntries. However, this diversity also means that not everything important is covered, and as such the site should only be used as an occasional supplement, not a basic source for your lesson plans.
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NationsIllustrated.com - The World in Pictures - 5 views
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National Postal Museum - 1 views
www.postalmuseum.si.edu/...4b_curriculum.html
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Smithsonian Teaching Sources - 2 views
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Artifacts —the objects we make and use—give history its tangible form. They can be as important and useful as primary sources as are correspondence, pieces of legislation, and other documents. Studied together, artifacts and documents help students understand the complexity of any historical question.
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The Civil War . In the Classroom | PBS - 1 views
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s you view portions of the series in your classroom, your students will meet men and women, many no older than they, for whom the war was a very personal experience. They will meet individuals like Elisha Hunt Rhodes and Sam Watkins who were just ordinary young men thrust into extraordinary circumstances that changed their lives forever. They will als
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multidisciplinary lesson plans newly created by award-winning educators; and activity ideas from teachers who have been using the video series for years.
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Popular Songs in American History - 2 views
contemplator.com/america
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Professional Development Workshops / American Art - 0 views
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"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."
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Popular Songs in American History - 1 views
www.contemplator.com/america
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This site features recordings of popular songs from various periods of American history, organized by century and searchable by song title. For each song, the site has not only an audio file but also lyrics and background information on the origins of the song.
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Background information on songs includes helpful links to additional sites with information about places where and people from whom the songs originated.
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ThisNation.com--Rutherford B. Hayes - 1 views
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Media gallery for the ThisNation.com site has links to illustrations and reproductions of primary source documents. Also includes a presidents' gallery with links to brief biographical information and copies of inaugural and state of the union addresses for most, if not all, U.S. presidents.
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Media gallery has links to illustrations and reproductions of primary source documents. Also includes a presidents' gallery with links to brief biographical information, copies of inaugural addresses, and copies of state of the union addresses for most, if not all, U.S. presidents.
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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.
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"What Can You Get By Warre": Powhatan Exchanges Views With Captain John Smith, 1608" - 1 views
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“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.
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History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web - 2 views
historymatters.gmu.edu
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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Designed for high school and college teachers and students,
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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."
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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.
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