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Lesson Plans Correlated
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- 9/11:
Lesson Plans and Resources
- Lesson plans from Scholastic,
ERIC, PBS, New York Times, National Council of Social Studies and many
more; plus, resources from alll major television networks, newspapers,
articles, background information, photos, personal stories, and much
more, all designed to help teachers deal with the one year anniversary
of a day that changed history. http://www.crf-usa.org/terror/terrorism_links.htm#lessons
Related site is All
Available Boats: Harbor Voices from 9/11, a series of interviews
with members of New York's maritime community and it documents their response
to the attack on the World Trade Center and their role in the subsequent
evacuation of Lower Manhattan. Because roads, bridges and subways were
blocked, water was the only way out. |
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- American
Memory Collection
- An outstanding collection
of primary resources from the Library of Congress. Click "
Learning Page" for lesson plans and ideas about how to use this
resource. Includes
art and music resources.
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Includes category entitled
curriculum fit, which relates the lesson to standards area. |
- Best
of History Websites
- This site, maintained by
a history teacher, is divided by historical period, and also includes
sub-sections for multimedia, lesson plans and research. It also includes
a special section entitled
teaching with technology, that explains how he teaches all
his classes with laptop computers. He includes a wide variety
of resources that have helped him do the job.
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Some, but
the list of resources is so extensive that the search is overwhelming |
- California
Digital Library
- An on-line archive of photographs,
manuscripts, letters, diaries, original works of art held in California
libraries. Many of these were previously only available only to scholars
on the site.
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- CongressLink
- Outstanding site provides
a variety of timely and changing links to information sources about
Congress, including elections, document archives, email addresses, lesson
plans and resources for the lesson plans.
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National Standards for Civics
and Government, Center for Civic Education, 1994. |
- Constitutional
Rights Foundation
- What are
your constitutional rights? This organization says it is dedicated to
telling you about those rights. Click "online lessons" to find lessons
on violence prevention, election-based lessons and more.
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- CyberLearning
World
- This site is maintained
by a social studies teacher in Hagerstown, Md., and contains links to
hundreds of helpful resources as well as lessons that he has used in
his classroom. Holocaust resources include a particularly moving personal
account.
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- EconoEdLink
- Lesson plans,
data, links and other online tools for teaching "the essential
principles of economics" to K-12 students. Site is sponsored by
the National Council on Economics Education, a member of the Marco Polo
consortium. http://www.econedlink.org/index.cfm
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Yes |
- Economics
Education Web
- Provides
support for teaching and learning economics in all forms and at all
levels. Lesson plans, resources from the University of Omaha, plus links
to other resources and lessons.
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Aligned to various state
and national standards. |
- EyeWitness
- Billed as "history
as seen by those who lived it," one of the most interesting things
on this site is audio clips of famous moments in history. Site also
contains verbal and pictorial vignettes about historic people, places
and events.
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- Fact
Monster
- Online almanac, dictionary,
encyclopedia, games, homework help and all sorts of other interactive
fun activities.Great for elementary kids.
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- Famous
Trials
- Transcripts, maps, pictures,
audio clips, primary documents and essays tell the stories of the Scopes
Trial, the Leopold/Loeb trial, Scottsboro Boys, My Lai Courts-martial,
Chicago Seven, Sacco-Vanzetti, O.J. Simpson and others. Created by a
Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School.
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- Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence
- This is a massive collection
of links to prize-winning, exciting resources in all subjects. Pick
your curricular areas and see what it has to offer.
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- The
History Place
- A changing and extensive
collection of essays, photos, audio clips and primary documents relating
to U.S. history and some world history.
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- InfoUSA
- This government site is
intended as a source of information about the U.S. for those living
in other countries. But it is such a vast store of information, that
it is worth a look for locals, too. Extended list of resources in a
wide variety of areas.
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- Museum
of Tolerance
- Includes
exhibits and primary resources, as well as lesson plans and suggestions
for teachers. On the same topic: Remember.org,
a Cybrary of the Holocaust includes audio and video clips, pictures,
essays, as well as lesson plans, message boards, and dozens of links
to other resources.
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- National
Budget Simulation
- Automated,
on-line game that allows user to tinker with large over-all tax and
expenditure categories, or, if time allows, get in and tinker big-time
within each category. Game gives the user a better understanding of
where the money goes, and how the government must set priorities. Contains
links to other budget resources.
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- The
Odyssey
- Students follow a team of
educators as they tour an area of the world: Middle East, India and
China, Mexico, Africa, Latin America, and the US (Native American issues.)
Site includes photos, text, video, and chat archives of past treks,
as well as lesson plans. Students also may interact with the team and
some prominent local figures via chat, email, polls and discussion boards.
FREE
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Yes, both site-based ( geographic
area) and theme based (global issues: indigenous people, youth and society,
etc).
K-6 and 7-12 |
Yes. National Education
Standards |
- Social
Studies Resources from the Department of Education at Cal State Fullerton
- A wide-ranging assortment
of links: one entire section deals with maps. Also, audio archives,
historical archeology, and others.
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Some of the sites include lesson
plans |
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- Social
Studies Resources from Lake Washington High School Social Studies Department
- A very useful site because
the links are grouped the way the subject often is taught. For instance,
U.S. History topics include: colonization, prelude to Civil War, Civil
War and Reconstruction, Industrialization and World Power, Early 20th
Century, etc.
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Some of the sites include lesson
plans |
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- Teaching
Steps to Tolerance
- A program
for teachers and students from the Museum of Tolerance. Includes teacher
workshops, lesson plans and resources.
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- Turn
of the Century Child
- An outstanding
lesson plan that uses primary resources to involve students in a study
of the life and times of children in the early 1900s. It also helps
students and teachers understand the incredible depth of material available
to them on the Internet, particularly the Library of Congress American
Memory Collection.
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- Holocaust
Era in Croatia
- Learn about this period
in history through photos, video and audio files, artifacts and personal
histories, from the collection of the United States Holocaust Museum
in Washington, D.C.
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- The
Mesoamerican Ballgame: The Sport of Life and Death
- Winner of the 2002 Best
Museum Site, this site allows users to tour the ancient world of Mesoamerica,
learn about the cultures, geography, environment and the famous life-or-death
ballgame that was widely played when the Olmec, Maya, Aztec and other
cultures of that period flourished.
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- WWW
Index of Native American Anthropology and Archeology Resouces
- Links to
expeditions, research, museums, magazine articles and sites.
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