Ruby Bridges: Learning About History From Primary Sources
Western Hemisphere: History, Geography, Economy, Government
Industrialization/Immigration (Also see 4th grade/SS/Industrial Growth & Expansion in 1800's)
New Nation & US Government: Constitution, Bill of Rights, New Nation, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence
See
details at New
York State Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Publications at
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/social.html
Resources last updated on 6\26\03
GeneralNationMaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/
County Watch
http://www.countrywatch.com/@school/
Human Rights Watch World Report 2003
http://www.hrw.org/wr2k3/
CIA Word Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
United Nations Countries at a Glance
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
Pick UN Member States and view their statistics - one at a time.
United Nations Infonation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/info.asp
Infonation allows you to view and compare statistical data for all UN member
states. You can select up to five countries for comparison from the menu.
International Children's Public Library
http://www.icdlbooks.org/framelibrary.html
The International Children's Digital Library is a place where kids all over the
world can find lots of books from many different countries. It's a place where
kids can read as much as they want without having to pay a lot of money or
travel very far to find the books. If you have a computer and access to the
Internet, you can see books from places like Croatia, Egypt, Japan, New Zealand,
the United States and more!
Shocking Geography
http://people.depauw.edu/djp/shock_maps/
BBC News Country Profile
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/country_profiles/html/
Your Nation
http://www.your-nation.com/
Quickly compare country's basic statistics.
The Hamburger Standard
http://www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml
Compare the economies of countries by the price of a Big Mac.
Anthropology Collection Database
http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/collections/collintro.htm
A Kid's Life In. . .
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/akidslifein.html
Portals to the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
The Library of Congress provides these links to countries for country reports,
travel, and genealogy. Larger countries have bigger, more diverse hotlists (more
links to information).
World Ceramics
http://www.artsmia.org/ceramics/chooser.html
Common Visions, Common Voices
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/commonvisions.html
Geared for high school but could be geared for elementary grades. The
borders that separate and connect different cultures often come into sharpest
relief when we focus on themes and motifs found in the literature or the visual
arts of several lands. With the Internet, students can discover such points of
intercultural contact for themselves, crossing borders that can lead them to a
broader perspective on the common vision human cultures share.
TourMaker Field Trip: The Temperate Forest Biome
http://www.field-trips.org/tours/sci/forest/_tourlaunch1.htm
eConflict World Encyclopedia
http://www.emulateme.com/preview.htm
GeoAmericas
http://www.geoamericas.com/
The GeoHistory Americas Map Folio provides a complete historical review of
the Americas from the earliest days of exploration to the present. There are 300
separate map layers in this electronic collection, which includes North America,
Central America and South America history.
Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Landscapes/home-e.html
Festivities of the Living and the Dead in the Americas
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Festiva1/en/
Communities across the Americas have long nurtured homegrown festivities of
historic, socio-cultural and economic importance. Tour ten popular and unique
festivities in five countries!
Anthems and Flags of the World
http://www.copcity.com/anthems/anthems.html
Windows in the World
http://www.field-trips.org/tours/cross/world/_tourlaunch1.htm
This module provides teachers and students with the framework to study other
countries and cultures from a personal perspective while incorporating a variety
of subject areas such as reading, writing, math, and social studies (including
geography, history and economics) into their virtual field trip.
Multiculturalpedia
http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~tokyo3/e/
Multiculturalpedia lets your students read about how people from many parts
of the globe celebrate exceptional events and follow everyday wisdom.
Children's Games from Around the World
http://www.rice.edu/projects/topics/edition11/games-section.htm
This site takes a look at timeless children's games, such as hopscotch and
marbles, and provides accounts on how these very games are played by kids across
the globe. Before sending your students out to recess, have them read these
stories that will to put a new spin on their old games and will highlight shared
experiences of kids everywhere.
Think: Opinions, Ideas and Commentary
http://www.opinion-pages.org
This site contains dozens of hyperlinks to editorial pages, opinion pages,
columns, commentary pages and Letters to the Editor pages from on-line Canadian
newspapers and English newspapers around the world.
Your Nation
http://www.your-nation.com/
Ever wonder which countries have the highest unemployment or lowest birth rates?
Drawing from the CIA Factbook and other sources, this tool allows you to compare
characteristics for two countries, find the top and bottom five countries for
any characteristic, or summarize data for a particular country. There are more
than 80 characteristics to choose from, from literacy to transportation to
technology.
Executive Planet Business Etiquette and Culture
http://www.executiveplanet.com/community/
Investigate the numerous aspects of business protocol, including gift-giving,
negotiating tactics, appointments, business entertaining, cross-cultural
communication.
The Big Wide World Webquest
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bww/
How does the Bid Wide World work? This webquest for K-4th graders has
students work in teams to study the globe, plants, animals, people, culture,
language and rules for how each subject works. Their findings are plotted on to
a relationship wheel and students are challenged to develop one grand theory of
how the world works.
US State Department Background Notes
http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/index.html
Choose a country and get the facts. Read about its history and find descriptions
of its politics, economy, foreign relations, and more. From the U.S. State
Department.
Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
When military or diplomats' families receive "traveling papers" to a
distant country, they look to the Department of the Army's Country Studies/Area
Handbooks to gain detailed information about their new residence. Currently
handbooks exist for 85 countries and are prepared by a multidisciplinary team of
social scientists. Learners can search for information about each country,
compare social and political life, and learn about current events.
Atlapedia
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/country_index.htm
Ethnic Costumes
http://www.costumes.org/pages/ethnolnk.htm
Traditional dress of the world.
World Flag Database
http://www.flags.ndirect.co.uk/mainindex.htm
Not only flags, but each page contains basic information on the country,
including its formal name, capital city, area, population, currency, languages,
and religions.
Geographic.org Country Profiles
http://www.geographic.org/countries/countries.html
Facts about countries.
COUNTRIES A - Z ATLAPEDIA ONLINE
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/country_index.htm
Facts about countries.
EducationWorld
http://www.education-world.com/soc_sci/geography/index.shtml
Facts about countries.
Leonard's Live Web Cam's
http://www.leonardsworlds.com/camera.html
A Family Oriented Travel, Entertainment and Educational Site Featuring Current
Outdoor Views of Cities Across The Globe Through The Lens of 3000+ WEB CAMS.
National Anthems of the World
http://www.emulateme.com/anthems/
National anthems are in MIDI file format.
On the meridian line
http://www.ontheline.org.uk/explore/journey/togo/toindex.htm
Explore different cultures in 8 countries that share the same meridian line
on the map. Begins with African country Topo.
ThinkQuest - Cultural Connections
http://library.thinkquest.org/50055/index.shtml
See what life is like in other countries of the world.
E-Conflict World Encyclopedia
http://www.emulateme.com/
"Eradicate Conflict by Increasing Cultural Awareness." Country
information from around the world. A resource for business, tourists, students
and teachers. The Internet's best source of country data!
Instrument Encyclopedia
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/enclpdia.html
This resource features musical instruments from around the world. Choose
browse and browse by geography to search by country.
The Hall of Geography
http://www.tenet.edu/academia/geog.html
Graphic regions of the world.
CONTINENTS
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002719/home.html
Picture/overview of continents.
Geographica
http://www.geographia.com/
Regions around the world.
License
Plates of the World
http://danshiki.oit.gatech.edu/~iadt3mk/index.html
The
CIA World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/indexgeo.html
Birthdays Around the World (Thinkquest)
http://library.thinkquest.org/10007/text/bdays.html
How different countries celebrate birthdays.
Wandering the
World Webquest
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq26/world.htm
You and your friends have a vacation next week!
You are going to travel to three different capital cities of the world.
Wonders of
the World (Webquest)
http://www.lfelem.lfc.edu/tech/DuBose/webquest/Schapira/Wonders_of_the_World_WebQu.html
The travel agency in your community would like to offer a Just For Kids Wonders
of the World promotion, and they need your help.
aneki.com
http://www.aneki.com/index.html
Country, Regional and World rankings
World Ceramics
http://www.artsmia.org/ceramics/chooser.html
GeoAmericas
http://www.geoamericas.com/
The GeoHistory Americas Map Folio provides a complete historical review of
the Americas from the earliest days of exploration to the present. There are 300
separate map layers in this electronic collection, which includes North America,
Central America and South America history.
Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Landscapes/home-e.html
Festivities of the Living and the Dead in the Americas
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Festiva1/en/
Communities across the Americas have long nurtured homegrown festivities of
historic, socio-cultural and economic importance. Tour ten popular and unique
festivities in five countries!
NationMaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/
County Watch
http://www.countrywatch.com/@school/
Human Rights Watch World Report 2003
http://www.hrw.org/wr2k3/
CIA Word Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
United Nations Countries at a Glance
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
Pick UN Member States and view their statistics - one at a time.
United Nations Infonation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/info.asp
Infonation allows you to view and compare statistical data for all UN member
states. You can select up to five countries for comparison from the menu.
International Children's Public Library
http://www.icdlbooks.org/framelibrary.html
The International Children's Digital Library is a place where kids all over the
world can find lots of books from many different countries. It's a place where
kids can read as much as they want without having to pay a lot of money or
travel very far to find the books. If you have a computer and access to the
Internet, you can see books from places like Croatia, Egypt, Japan, New Zealand,
the United States and more!
Shocking Geography
http://people.depauw.edu/djp/shock_maps/
BBC News Country Profile
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/country_profiles/html/
Your Nation
http://www.your-nation.com/
Quickly compare country's basic statistics.
The Hamburger Standard
http://www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml
Compare the economies of countries by the price of a Big Mac.
Anthropology Collection Database
http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/collections/collintro.htm
A Kid's Life In. . .
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/akidslifein.html
Portals to the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
The Library of Congress provides these links to countries for country reports,
travel, and genealogy. Larger countries have bigger, more diverse hotlists (more
links to information).
World Ceramics
http://www.artsmia.org/ceramics/chooser.html
Common Visions, Common Voices
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/commonvisions.html
Geared for high school but could be geared for elementary grades. The
borders that separate and connect different cultures often come into sharpest
relief when we focus on themes and motifs found in the literature or the visual
arts of several lands. With the Internet, students can discover such points of
intercultural contact for themselves, crossing borders that can lead them to a
broader perspective on the common vision human cultures share.
TourMaker Field Trip: The Temperate Forest Biome
http://www.field-trips.org/tours/sci/forest/_tourlaunch1.htm
eConflict World Encyclopedia
http://www.emulateme.com/preview.htm
GeoAmericas
http://www.geoamericas.com/
The GeoHistory Americas Map Folio provides a complete historical review of
the Americas from the earliest days of exploration to the present. There are 300
separate map layers in this electronic collection, which includes North America,
Central America and South America history.
Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Landscapes/home-e.html
Festivities of the Living and the Dead in the Americas
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Festiva1/en/
Communities across the Americas have long nurtured homegrown festivities of
historic, socio-cultural and economic importance. Tour ten popular and unique
festivities in five countries!
Anthems and Flags of the World
http://www.copcity.com/anthems/anthems.html
Windows in the World
http://www.field-trips.org/tours/cross/world/_tourlaunch1.htm
This module provides teachers and students with the framework to study other
countries and cultures from a personal perspective while incorporating a variety
of subject areas such as reading, writing, math, and social studies (including
geography, history and economics) into their virtual field trip.
Multiculturalpedia
http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~tokyo3/e/
Multiculturalpedia lets your students read about how people from many parts
of the globe celebrate exceptional events and follow everyday wisdom.
Children's Games from Around the World
http://www.rice.edu/projects/topics/edition11/games-section.htm
This site takes a look at timeless children's games, such as hopscotch and
marbles, and provides accounts on how these very games are played by kids across
the globe. Before sending your students out to recess, have them read these
stories that will to put a new spin on their old games and will highlight shared
experiences of kids everywhere.
Think: Opinions, Ideas and Commentary
http://www.opinion-pages.org
This site contains dozens of hyperlinks to editorial pages, opinion pages,
columns, commentary pages and Letters to the Editor pages from on-line Canadian
newspapers and English newspapers around the world.
Your Nation
http://www.your-nation.com/
Ever wonder which countries have the highest unemployment or lowest birth rates?
Drawing from the CIA Factbook and other sources, this tool allows you to compare
characteristics for two countries, find the top and bottom five countries for
any characteristic, or summarize data for a particular country. There are more
than 80 characteristics to choose from, from literacy to transportation to
technology.
Executive Planet Business Etiquette and Culture
http://www.executiveplanet.com/community/
Investigate the numerous aspects of business protocol, including gift-giving,
negotiating tactics, appointments, business entertaining, cross-cultural
communication.
The Big Wide World Webquest
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bww/
How does the Bid Wide World work? This webquest for K-4th graders has
students work in teams to study the globe, plants, animals, people, culture,
language and rules for how each subject works. Their findings are plotted on to
a relationship wheel and students are challenged to develop one grand theory of
how the world works.
US State Department Background Notes
http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/index.html
Choose a country and get the facts. Read about its history and find descriptions
of its politics, economy, foreign relations, and more. From the U.S. State
Department.
Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
When military or diplomats' families receive "traveling papers" to a
distant country, they look to the Department of the Army's Country Studies/Area
Handbooks to gain detailed information about their new residence. Currently
handbooks exist for 85 countries and are prepared by a multidisciplinary team of
social scientists. Learners can search for information about each country,
compare social and political life, and learn about current events.
Atlapedia
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/country_index.htm
Ethnic Costumes
http://www.costumes.org/pages/ethnolnk.htm
Traditional dress of the world.
World Flag Database
http://www.flags.ndirect.co.uk/mainindex.htm
Not only flags, but each page contains basic information on the country,
including its formal name, capital city, area, population, currency, languages,
and religions.
Geographic.org Country Profiles
http://www.geographic.org/countries/countries.html
Facts about countries.
COUNTRIES A - Z ATLAPEDIA ONLINE
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/country_index.htm
Facts about countries.
EducationWorld
http://www.education-world.com/soc_sci/geography/index.shtml
Facts about countries.
Leonard's Live Web Cam's
http://www.leonardsworlds.com/camera.html
A Family Oriented Travel, Entertainment and Educational Site Featuring Current
Outdoor Views of Cities Across The Globe Through The Lens of 3000+ WEB CAMS.
National Anthems of the World
http://www.emulateme.com/anthems/
National anthems are in MIDI file format.
On the meridian line
http://www.ontheline.org.uk/explore/journey/togo/toindex.htm
Explore different cultures in 8 countries that share the same meridian line
on the map. Begins with African country Topo.
ThinkQuest - Cultural Connections
http://library.thinkquest.org/50055/index.shtml
See what life is like in other countries of the world.
E-Conflict World Encyclopedia
http://www.emulateme.com/
"Eradicate Conflict by Increasing Cultural Awareness." Country
information from around the world. A resource for business, tourists, students
and teachers. The Internet's best source of country data!
Instrument Encyclopedia
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/enclpdia.html
This resource features musical instruments from around the world. Choose
browse and browse by geography to search by country.
The Hall of Geography
http://www.tenet.edu/academia/geog.html
Graphic regions of the world.
CONTINENTS
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002719/home.html
Picture/overview of continents.
Geographica
http://www.geographia.com/
Regions around the world.
License
Plates of the World
http://danshiki.oit.gatech.edu/~iadt3mk/index.html
The
CIA World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/indexgeo.html
Birthdays Around the World (Thinkquest)
http://library.thinkquest.org/10007/text/bdays.html
How different countries celebrate birthdays.
Wandering the
World Webquest
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq26/world.htm
You and your friends have a vacation next week!
You are going to travel to three different capital cities of the world.
Wonders of
the World (Webquest)
http://www.lfelem.lfc.edu/tech/DuBose/webquest/Schapira/Wonders_of_the_World_WebQu.html
The travel agency in your community would like to offer a Just For Kids Wonders
of the World promotion, and they need your help.
aneki.com
http://www.aneki.com/index.html
Country, Regional and World rankings
World Ceramics
http://www.artsmia.org/ceramics/chooser.html
GeoAmericas
http://www.geoamericas.com/
The GeoHistory Americas Map Folio provides a complete historical review of
the Americas from the earliest days of exploration to the present. There are 300
separate map layers in this electronic collection, which includes North America,
Central America and South America history.
Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Landscapes/home-e.html
Festivities of the Living and the Dead in the Americas
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Festiva1/en/
Communities across the Americas have long nurtured homegrown festivities of
historic, socio-cultural and economic importance. Tour ten popular and unique
festivities in five countries!
CIA Word Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
United Nations Countries at a Glance
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
Pick UN Member States and view their statistics - one at a time.
United Nations Infonation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/info.asp
Infonation allows you to view and compare statistical data for all UN member
states. You can select up to five countries for comparison from the menu.
International Children's Public Library
http://www.icdlbooks.org/framelibrary.html
The International Children's Digital Library is a place where kids all over the
world can find lots of books from many different countries. It's a place where
kids can read as much as they want without having to pay a lot of money or
travel very far to find the books. If you have a computer and access to the
Internet, you can see books from places like Croatia, Egypt, Japan, New Zealand,
the United States and more!
United States
42Explore: 50 States
http://www.42explore.com/50states.htm
Road Trip Through Washington
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/studentgal/onlineresearch/4th/index.htm
(Created for Washington but could be adapted for all states.) Have you ever
experienced a road trip? Well, here's your chance! You and your family want to
take a summer vacation in Washington State. Your family members are much too
busy to plan for such a trip, so they have elected you to research and plan the
family summer vacation. You will soon discover that Washington is a very diverse
state with many different physical features, climates, and activities.
The National Atlas of the United States
http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/natlasstart.asp
FedStas Homepage
http://www.fedstats.gov/
The 50 States
http://www.teachersfirst.com/share/states/
State Population Projections
http://illuminations.nctm.org///lessonplans/3-5/data2/index.html
American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
"American FactFinder is your source for population, housing, economic
and geographic data from Census 2000, the 1990 Census, the 1997 Economic Census,
and the American Community Survey."
America's Library
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
This Web site is brought to you from the Library of Congress in
Washington, D.C., the largest library in the world and the nation's library
BEST STATE U.S.A. The Mission WebQuest
http://www.wcs.edu/pes/webquest.htm
Best Places
http://www.bestplaces.net/
Almost 20 years ago Bert Sperling developed a program entitled "Places, USA"
that allowed people to enter their preferences to find ideal places to live.
This site is the extension of that vision, and it allows students to compare
more than 3,000 different cities in a variety of ways. Check out the school
statistics for some interesting data for educators.
American Fact Finder
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
From the U.S. Census bureau, this site offers tables and maps for states,
counties, cities, towns, American Indian reservations,
metropolitan areas and zip codes. Based on the year 2000 census data,
students can make all kinds of comparisons between states that encourage
critical thinking and higher level data analysis skills.
CensusScope
http://www.censusscope.org/index.html
CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic
trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN)
at the University of Michigan. With eye-catching graphics and exportable
trend data, CensusScope is designed for generalists and specialists.
The Currency Gallery
http://www.currencygallery.org/
The Currency Gallery is an on-line museum that contains images of U.S.paper
money and provides the history of U.S. currency. This site is easy to read and
the images are very clear. Students could use this site to research the
history of U.S. currency and see wonderful images of the currency. This
site also includes information about the printing process.
Demographic Data Viewer
http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddviewer/ddv20/index.html
Global Grocery List
http://landmark-project.com/ggl/index.html
Students share local grocery prices to build a growing table of data to be
used in social studies, science, health, mathematics, and other disciplines.
Global Grocery List is a long standing project that generates real, peer
collected data for student computation, analysis, and conclusion-building within
the context of social studies, science, mathematics and other disciplines.
CensusScope
http://www.censusscope.org/
CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic
trends
US Census Bureau, FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/kids/funfacts/funfacts.html
KIDS COUNT 2002 Data Book
Online
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/kc2002/
A national and state-by-state online database that allows you to
generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles to
track the status of children in the U.S.
Demographic Data Viewer
http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddviewer/ddv20/index.html
The Demography HomePage is part of an initiative to identify, document, and
provide simple access to demographic information concerning The United States of
America.
CensusScope
http://www.censusscope.org/
CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends.
Students can use it to better understand graphs and the power of explaining
complex data in a graphic form. Maps are used to demonstrate demographics on a
county-by-county level.
World Ceramics
http://www.artsmia.org/ceramics/chooser.html
Language of the Land
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/land/
From the Library of Congress: " From Robert Frost's New England farms to
John Steinbeck's California valley to Eudora Welty's Mississippi Delta,
authors have described the American landscape to evoke a strong sense of
place. They have peopled our land with memorable characters and woven
into their works the regional traits of a dynamic culture. Using the
metaphor of a journey, Language of the Land: Journey into Literary
America examines the following literary heritage though maps,
photographs, and the works of American authors from a variety of
periods."
America's Library
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
Meet Amazing Americans...Join America at Play...Jump Back in Time...Explore the
States...See, Hear and Sing on this engaging Library of Congress Web site.
Where is That?
http://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html
FUNBRAIN will show you maps.For each screen, identify the correct country (or
state). Check the correct box or type in the name (spelling counts). If you
select level 5, you will also have to type in the name of the country's or
state's capital. Also world maps.
The
CIA World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Lots of statistics on almost all of the countries in the world--from the CIA.
CBC Archives
http://archives.cbc.ca/
On this Web site you'll find a selection of radio and television clips from
the Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Postcards Across America
http://www.sd33.bc.ca/OurSchools/Strathcona/Postcard.html
POSTCARDS ACROSS CANADA is a project used to teach students about our
country while connecting them with other students. We sent postcards to 36 other
classes across Canada in February 2002.
Canada's Regions
http://www.mhcbe.ab.ca/ict/Projects/CanadaRegions/RegionsOfCanada.htm
You and your team live in the same region and have been hired by the
government of Canada to attract immigrants to your region.
Digital Saskatchewan
http://wblrd.sk.ca/~digital_sask/
Teachers may use the resources of Digital Saskatchewan to stimulate interest
in Saskatchewan studies and to create presentations and instructional materials
for their classrooms.
Virtual Reality Panoramas: British Colombia
http://www.virtualguidebooks.com/GeographicLists/Localities_TOC.html#BC
Images Canada
http://www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html
Gander Academy, Canada
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/canada.htm
Canada
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=7103
Made in Canada
http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/canada/
Ganger Academy's Canada Theme Page
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/canada.htm
Canadian Timeline
http://www.micromedia.on.ca/Timeline/TIMELINE.htm
This timeline of important dates in Canadian history is browseable by
National Gallery of Canada
http://varley.gallery.ca/ng/
Canadian Field Trip
http://www.davidson.k12.nc.us/webquests/canada/canada.htm
One of the countries in the Western Hemisphere that fifth graders study is
Canada. The geography of Canada's provinces and territories is similar to the
geography of the United States in some instances but there are also differences.
This WebQuest will provide students an opportunity to explore Canada and
discover these likenesses and differences.
Canadian Studies WebQuest
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq118/
Students select only the most appealing information about their province to
create a travel brochure.
Virtual Museum of Inuit Art
http://culturel.org/NUNAVUT/anglais/index.html
Once you start to tour the Virtual Museum of Inuit Art, you'll never
Think: Opinions, Ideas and Commentary
http://www.opinion-pages.org/canada.htm
This site contains dozens of hyperlinks to editorial pages, opinion pages,
columns, commentary pages and Letters to the Editor pages from on-line Canadian
newspapers and English newspapers around the world.
Hatchet (Canada) Webquest
http://www.nevada.edu/~marna/msaweb.htm
We are assembling an expeditionary force to explore the Canadian Wilderness, to
verify the accuracy and detail of Brian Robeson’s (you remember, the kid who’s
plane crashed in the Canadian wilds) story. Along the way, we must factually
document our own journey.
Canada
http://www.cesa8.k12.wi.us/it/webquests/canada/index.html
Your job, as a group, is to plan a one week vacation for a family of four. The
family consists of a father, mother, a teenage boy, and a five year old girl.
Canada (WebQuest)
http://www.cesa8.k12.wi.us/it/webquests/canada/index.html
Your job, as a group, is to plan a one week vacation for a family of four. The
family consists of a father, mother, a teenage boy, and a five year old girl.
Canadien Studies Webquest
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq118/
As employees of a reputable travel firm you have been asked to create travel
brochures for each of Canada’s provinces.
Virtual Exhibits from the Virtual Museum of Canada
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Exhibits/index.html
View Canada in terms of the artwork of Canada and the Americas, historic
Canada (WebQuest)
http://www.k-lschools.org/webquest/canada/canada.htm
Good links for every region or do the WebQuest: Working with a partner you will
enter the contest "Canada's Best". You will research one province or
territory and be prepared to present your research information to the Canadian
Department of Tourism.
Canadian Information on the Internet
http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/dsp-psd/Reference/cgii_index-e.html
Canadian Cultural Sites Database Search
http://WWW.CultureNet.UCalgary.CA/cnet/db/sites/index-en.html
All the sites found in this directory speak about arts and culture activity in
Canada.
Maple Square
http://maplesquare.com/
Searchable directory of sites providing information on Canada.
Hatchet
WebQuest
http://www.nevada.edu/~marna/msaweb.htm
We are assembling an expeditionary force to explore the Canadian Wilderness, to
verify the accuracy and detail of Brian Robeson’s (you remember, the kid who’s
plane crashed in the Canadian wilds) story. Along the way, we must factually
document our own journey.
A Tribute to Canada
http://home.ican.net/~marlatt/craig/
A Tribute to Canada is over 200 pages of information about Canada - its
government, history, facts, people, security, geography, provinces, symbols and
more. Browse through statistics, maps, and photographs and then choose from
dozens of fact sheets to download to your computer. S
The Atlas of Canadian Communities
http://ellesmere.ccm.emr.ca/ourhome/ourhome/selectio.html
This digital atlas is a tool for Canadian students to show their perceptions of
the communities in which they live.
About
Canada
http://infoservice.gc.ca/canadiana/cdaind_e.html
Information about Canada, its people, environment and history. Not only will you
get interesting facts about Canada, you can even test your knowledge with fun
quizzes.
Canada
Electronic Passport
http://www.mrdowling.com/709canada.html
Canada is a democracy, but their government is slightly different from America’s
government. Canada has a parliamentary system of government.
Canadian
Landscapes
http://sts.gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/tsdweb/landf_new.asp
This collection of photos of Canadian Landscapes and landforms is presented as a
public service to illustrate the great diversity of Canadian scenery. Brief
geological explanations provide insight on how the features developed.
Come
to Canada Webquest
http://www.siue.edu/~jandris/north/canada.html
You and your team members are a staff of social scientists working on a
special assignment to attract immigrants to the Canada province or territory
assigned to your team. You will examine aspects of social science and geography
as to what would attract people to live, work, and rear a family in your
province.
Parks
Canada - Virtual Tour
http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/thesite/virtual_e.cfm
Take a tour of Canada's parks on this awesome site. Decide where you want to
explore and view videos and photos of the area.
Introduction
to Ottawa
http://www.canajun.com/ottawa/tourism/pictures/intro/index.htm
Tour the Rideau Canal, Ottawa River, and the Supreme Court of Canada without
leaving your room.
Tour
Canada From Space
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/imgserv/tour/toure.html
Tour Canada from space with the Canada Center for Remote Imaging. Check out
views of all the provinces and read about what's being shown there.
The
Nunavut Handbook
http://www.arctic-travel.com/index.html
Travel guide for this new Canadian territory. Includes facts about the Nunavut
people and wildlife, pictures, a virtual tour, and more
Virtual
Reality Panoramas of Vancouver Island
http://GeoImages.Berkeley.EDU/GeoImages/QTVR/VancouverIsland/VancouverIsland.html
Do
You Have What It Takes?
http://www.tvo.org/eh/thegame.html
Explore a map of Canada and learn cool facts about the country while you hunt
for pesky mosquitoes.
Cape
Breton Scenic Tour
http://capebretonet.com/Scenic_Tour/
Watch this poetic slide show and learn about the island that is part of Nova
Scotia.
Prince
and Eddy's Island Adventures
http://www.gov.pe.ca/kids/index.php3
FOLLOW PRINCE AND EDDY on their adventures in and around Prince Edward Island by
reading (and listening to!) their comic tales.
Images
of the Canadian Rockies
http://www.frontrange.ab.ca/Media/
See photos of these mountains. Check out the list of virtual reality images at
http://GeoImages.Berkeley.EDU/GeoImages/QTVR/CanadianRockies/CanadianRockies.html
InfoNiagra
- Canadian Side
http://www.infoniagara.com/d-att-canadian.html
Photos of the American Falls and a link to pics on the Canadian side.
Labrador
and Newfoundland
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7800/gallery.html
Variety of pictures from this Canadian province.
Mysteries
at the Montreal Museum of Art
http://www.mdq.org/english/enigmes/index.htm
Interactive game invites players to become experts in art as they discover the
museum's collections.
Quebec
Biodiversity Website
http://www.redpath-museum.mcgill.ca/Qbp/introe.html
Learn about the animals of Quebec.
Virtual
Reality Panoramas of the Yukon Territory Canada
http://GeoImages.Berkeley.EDU/GeoImages/QTVR/Yukon/Yukon.html
Tour
Yukon - Canada's True North
http://www.touryukon.com/
Virtual
Reality Images - Canada
http://WWW-GeoImages.Berkeley.EDU/GeoImages/QTVR/QTVR.html#Canada
Montreal
Cam
http://www.montrealcam.com/en-sommaire.html
Webcam pictures of 10 popular tourist sites in Greater Montreal, captured live
24 hours a day. Includes the Biodome, downtown, the South Shore, the park des
Iles, and more.
Niagara
Falls Cam
http://www.fallsview.com/English/pages/fallscam.shtml
From the Sheraton Fallsview Hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Ski
Resort Cameras - Canada
http://www.rsn.com/cams/
Flags
of Canada
http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/ca.html
CIA
World Factbook - Canada
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ca.html#Trans
Canada
History
http://www.canadahistory.com/
Canadian
History Timeline
http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/time/history-challenge/winner1/timelineframe.html
Find out what's happening in Canada from the age of the dinosaurs to the present
day.
Canada
and Its Providences
http://GeoNames.NRCan.gc.ca/english/schoolnet/prov.html#NOVA
Info about each province, including a picture of its flag.
Amazing
British Columbia Time Machine
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/index.htm
Everything you would want to know about British Columbia.
The
New Nunavut
http://www.harcourtschool.com/newsbreak/nunavut.html
Nunavut was once part of Canada's Northwest Territories.
YOU
BE THE TRAVEL AGENT: A Social Studies Webquest on Canada
http://olp.swlauriersb.qc.ca/webquest/travelwq.htm
You are a travel agent working for The World Wide Web Travel Agency. The agency
has asked you to create a "travel page" on a Canadian province.
Canada
A Family Vacation (Webquest)
http://www.cesa8.k12.wi.us/it/webquests/canada/index.html
After researching the assigned region, your group will plan the family's
vacation.
Canada's
Best (Webquest)
http://k-lschools.org/webquest/canada/canada.htm
Working with a partner you will enter the contest "Canada's Best". You
will research one province or territory and be prepared to present your research
information
Canada's
Aquatic Environments
http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/index.asp
Explore the habitats, animals, and plants that comprise Canada's beautiful
aquatic environments. This online text book also links to abstracts of current
research being conducted in Canada.
Western Hemisphere: Latin
America
Global Kid Connections
http://teacher.scholastic.com/glokid/mexico/index.htm
Global Kid Connections: Argentina
http://teacher.scholastic.com/glokid/argentin/index.htm
Cinco de Mayo WebQuest
http://www.zianet.com/cjcox/edutech4learning/cinco.html
The feature reporter for our town is on vacation. Our class has been called upon to be "cub" reporters to cover the May article on Cinco de Mayo. You will gather information and present your own personal understanding about the history of Cinco de Mayo.
Tropical America
http://www.tropicalamerica.com/
a free online game that explores 500 years of Latin American history. Tropical America conceptualized by Los Angeles high school students and artists, explores a rich and painful past unknown to the children of those immigrant families who left the region. Twenty-five Latino students spent two years learning to design the online game. In the process, they unearthed their Latin American roots and embarked on their own discovery of the Americas.
Virtual Picture Books
A Primary source guide to Mexico
Companion sites to the Rosen primary source materials.
I am a Mexican American
Companion sites to the Rosen primary source materials.
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/mexico.htm
Corridos Sin Fronteras (Ballads Without Borders)
Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition about a staple of Mexican music, the corrido, or ballad.
UtahLink Field Trip: South America
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=7102
Open links to countries as a new window (right click and choose "open as new window") to eliminate double frame.
CareUSA: Virtual Field Trips
http://www.careusa.org/features/vfts.asp
The Greatest Places on Earth
http://www.greatestplaces.org/
World Ceramics
http://www.artsmia.org/ceramics/chooser.html
Ancient Latin America
http://emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/latinamerica/geography/index.shtml
This map shows the main bio-cultural areas of Latin America. Click on a
specific area for an enlarged map of the area, which will include information
about it's land formations, climate, plants, and animals
Latin American Culture: Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/americartes/visual/lessons/dayofthedead.html
The class will study Day of the Dead customs in Mexico, Central America, and
South America. Students will read about the customs and set up our own
"altar" in remembrance of our departed loved ones. This lesson is a
part of our AmericArtes mini-site, celebrating the arts of Latin America.
AmericaArtes
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/americartes/artsedge.html
Latin America Trek: Time Machine
http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/latinamerica/kidstimeguat.html
Latin America
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
You may have to dig around for age appropriate links but seem to have
everything.
Time for Kids: Mexico
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/0,6709,176084,00.html
Time For Kids: Brazil
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/0,6709,190784,00.html
Geographia: Latin America
http://www.geographia.com/indx05.htm
Meet
Mexico
http://www.demon.co.uk/mexuk/meet_mex/
Take a Trip to Latin America
http://schools.wcpss.net/Bugg/latinam.html
You and a friend are going to visit a family friend in a Latin American Country.
Before you pack your bags, you need to learn as much as you can about the
country in order to prepare for your trip and impress your friend's family.
Mexico Para Ninos
http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/index_kids.html
This site is truly Mexico para Ninos, and in addition to Spanish, the
site includes English, French and Italian translations. Students can
explore the states of Mexico as well as the government and history.
Diversity not only covers plants and wildlife, but the indigenous
peoples of Mexico. Cultural information on Mexican mythology, foods,
games and music can be found throughout the site.
Rainforest Vacations?
http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webquests/rainforest/home.htm
HELP! The native chief and community elders of a village deep in the heart of
the Ecuadorian rainforest really need your expert opinions on a very important
decision they face. They are trying to decide whether or not to allow ecotourism
in their native village and area of the rainforest.
Discovering Peru: Food, Clothing, Shelter
http://web.mala.bc.ca/webquests3/peruque/peruque/index.htm
You are going with your family on a holiday to South America.
In preparation for your trip you are asked to search for interesting facts about
the countries you will visit.
XPeditions Locator Booth
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/2/x4/xpedition4.html
Locate areas of south America given clues.
Andes Expedition: Searching for Inca Secrets
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/andes/
Five centuries ago, a teenaged girl was sacrificed to the Inca gods on a
mountaintop in Peru. Anthropologist Johan Reinhard discovered her preserved body
in 1995.
1998 Human Rights Reports
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1998_hrp_report/98hrp_report_ara.html
U.S. Department of State's annual country-by-country report on human rights
practices. S
Culture of the Andes
http://www.andes.org/
Pictures, songs, features on Quechua (the native language of the Andes), crafts,
and more topics related to culture in the Andean region of South America.
Latin America
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9061/latin/latam.html
Click on the National Histories sections.
CAPTAIN DODGE'S TRUNK
http://webby.umeedu.maine.edu/coehd/Captain_Dodge's_Trunk/
Mr. Beane, the Curator of the Maine State Museum, has just received a trunk from
the Castine home of Sea Captain Linwood Dodge containing several items of
unknown origin. The sea captain is known to have traveled extensively throughout
the world. During his voyages he collected a variety of objects to remind him of
the areas he visited. These items have been kept for years in his sea chest. The
staff at the museum does not recognize what they are, where they are from, and
what they represented to the captain. Mr. Beane has come to your school to ask
your assistance.
Mayan Games
http://users.ccnet.com/~laplaza/maya/maya.htm
Solve these Mayan math puzzles and learn about Mayan mathematics at the same
time. Levels get progressively harder.
My
Visit to Latin America Web resources for creating a Multimedia Scrapbook on
Latin America
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/scraplatinamde2.html
Imagine that you are on a trip to your
favorite place in Latin America. Your job is to come back from your trip with
lots of things to show and teach people back home what you learned!
Web
Quest: Latin America
http://www2.lhric.org/henhud/webquest/LAT.HTM
Your parents have just told you that you will be moving to a country in Latin
America. They want you to help them pick what country your family should move
to. Once you have decided what country to move to, you must write a letter to
your parents telling them about that specific country.
Collapse:
Why do Civilizations Fall?
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/
Mesopotamia,
Teotihuacan, Chaco Canyon - they were once flourishing, vibrant communities that
have all but disappeared from Earth. Explore theories on what caused these
cities to collapse and learn how scientists find and assemble clues of the past
in this site.
Culture
Debates
http://www.teachtsp2.com/cdonline/
Choose
a debate from six cultural topics facing the Mentawai tribe: appearance,
ecotourism, education, land, medicine, and technology.
42Explore: Pioneer Life
http://www.42explore.com/pioneer.htm
42Explore: Oregon Trail
http://www.42explore.com/oregon.htm
By the Great Horn Spoon! A Gold Rush Adventure
http://library.thinkquest.org/50048/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=1126
Dig into an exciting learning exploration of the California Gold Rush
through Sid Fleischman's historical novel, By the Great Horn
Spoon!
Economic Spotter: Lewis and Clark's Expedition Faces
Scarcity
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM314
Be a Geography Detective
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/02/g35/detective.html
Students will make observations and draw conclusions about
historical landscapes to learn more about geography and
our relationship with the land. Uses lanscape settings
Lewis & Clark would have encountered.
The Oregon Trail, a Virtual Tour
http://www.historyglobe.com/ot/otmap1.htm
Emigration Extravaganza: Oregon Trail
http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/tlapages/veglio_quest.htm
Your wagon train members will have one opportunity to get prepared and
gather as much information as you can to help you beat the odds and make it to
Go West Young Man
http://bayless.mints.more.net/Miller/gowest/LessonTemplate.html
The President has chosen you to go on the Lewis and
Clark expedition. You will be doing research and preparing brochures and
PowerPoint presentations to show the President what you found out. Students work
in groups of 3-4 and are assigned a specific role in the group.
The Oregon Trail Field Trip
http://www.field-trips.org/ss/otrail/
Who Wants to Be a Pioneer
http://k12.albemarle.org/murrayelem/white/Frontier/home.html
Use primary sources to generate quiz questions about the westward movement.
Lewis & Clark: Language Chain
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/class/idx_lan.html
Do you have what it takes to be a translator? If Lewis and Cameahwait are unable
to understand each other, the Corps may have to give up and turn back!
Lewis & Clark: Into the Unknown
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/into/index.html
You're leading the expedition now.
Lewis & Clark@nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/main.html
Lewis and his colleague William Clark have chosen a special team for the
journey, and you’re invited! Up to the challenge? Then sign on.
Trails Project Timeline
http://trails.kcmsd.k12.mo.us/timeline.html
Post what you think is an important event in Western Movement for everyone to
see.
America's Old West
http://library.thinkquest.org/3708/gold.htm
You are entering a gold mine left over from the California gold rush in 1849.
Each screen will give you choices: which direction to go or action to take. As
you progress, you will discover different things, including five artifacts. Each
artifact gives you a glimpse into a different aspect of life in the Old West. If
you get lost, don't get discouraged, there's a map hidden inside. Good luck!
Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art
http://www.wildlifeart.org/arttales/frontier.html
Imagine yourself as a frontier explorer, two hundred years ago. Through your
words and their artworks, people back home will learn more about the American
West. And post your work for others to see.
Go West Young Artist
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/gowest/
This ArtEdventure is a journey back in time and across the American landscape.
You'll meet half a dozen great American artists and learn about their work. Some
of what they say is inspired by their words and writings—you can read actual
quotes in the In The Artist's Words box. Other conversations you'll have are
fictionalized—the events are true but the words are invented, based on
interpretations by art historians.
On the Oregon Trail
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=323
Work with primary documents and latter-day photographs to
recapture the experience of traveling on the Oregon Trail.
On This Day With Lewis and Clark
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=297
Looking at historic maps of the West, students can begin to
appreciate the immensity and mystery of the mission Lewis
and Clark accepted.
Life on the Great Plains
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=265
Examine the history and geography of a region that has been at the heart
of the American experience.
Updating the Lewis & Clark Journals
http://www.nwrel.org/teachlewisandclark/home.html
New Perspectives on the West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/lesson_plans/
The classroom resources gathered here are designed to help you use this Web
site, other material on the Internet, and The West videos for a study of
the United States' westward expansion in the Nineteenth Century. This
multidisciplinary unit of lessons addresses a variety of subject areas,
including history, language arts, fine arts, and science.These materials are
designed for middle and high school students (grades 6-12), although extension
suggestions may help you modify them for younger students.
If You Were a Pioneer on the Oregon
Trail
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/pioneer.html
In this lesson, students compare imagined travel experiences of their own with
the actual experiences of 19th-century pioneers. After creating, as a class,
oral stories about contemporary cross-country journeys, students learn about the
experiences of the emigrants who traveled on the Oregon Trail. They then create
works of historical fiction in the form of picture books, drawing upon the
information they have learned.
Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/oregon.html
In this lesson, students compare imagined travel experiences of their own
with the actual experiences of 19th-century pioneers. After writing stories
about contemporary cross-country journeys, students learn about the experiences
of the emigrants who traveled on the Oregon Trail. They then create works of
historical fiction in the form of picture books or letters, drawing upon the
information they have learned.
On the Oregon trail
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/oregon_trail.html
In this lesson, students work with primary documents
and latter-day photographs to recapture the experience of traveling on the
Oregon Trail.
Frontier House
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/
The Oregon Trail Field Trip
http://www.field-trips.org/ss/otrail/
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/lewis.html
Westward Ho!
http://www.cyberbee.com/wwho/
Load those wagons! Kiss the kin goodbye! Get ready for adventure, drama, comedy,
tragedy, and fantastic learning as we hit the Oregon Trail and head out west!
Back for its ninth year, this simulated journey allows classes to travel the
trail as part of the Westward HO! Wagon Train. In classrooms across the country,
collaborative families, based on real families from America's past, make daily
decisions (travel and fate scenarios are provided by the project moderators)
that will influence their safe arrival in Oregon. Register your class from Oct
5, 2001 - Jan 14, 2002. Project runs from January 14 - February 22, 2002
Who Wants to be a Pioneer?
http://k12.albemarle.org/murrayelem/white/Frontier/home.html
Using information obtained from the Internet, student teams, known as Wagon
Trains, will construct questions in the style of those found on "Who Wants
to be a Millionaire?"
Westward Ho! Shall We Go?
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/sessions/westwardho/
Westward Ho!, Shall we go? It is 1830 in Wahoo, Kentucky. You and your
family have been called to a town meetin' by Mr. Imin Charge, the mayor of
Wahoo. All townsfolk must come prepared to share their decision of whether they
will stay or head west. Westward Ho! Will you go?
Westward Ho!
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/sessions/westwardho/
Westward Ho!, Shall we go? It is 1830 in Wahoo,Kentucky. You and your family
have been called to a town meetin' by Mr. Imin Charge, the mayor of Wahoo. All
townsfolk must come prepared to share their decision of whether they will stay
or head west. Westward Ho! Will you go?
Oregon Trail
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq58/page1.htm
Your group will be required to make a list of supplies that your family will be
taking on the trip. You will be required to justify why you need each
item. As an individual, you will be required to write five journal entries
detailing your life on this trip west.
Adventure into the Unknown...A WebQuest on the Lewis and
Clark Expedition
http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webquests/lewisclark/
From the Top of the Rocky Mountains to the depths of the Missouri River, the
Western United States is calling out to you, "Come discover my many
mysteries!" It is your job to become an expert member of Lewis and
Clark's Corps of Discovery.
Overland: Links to Trails West
http://www.over-land.com/trwest.html
I usually don't like to post a collection of links but this one contains
EVERYTHING you'd ever want to know on the Westward Movement on the Internet.
Incredible!
All About the Oregon Trail
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html
Moving West (Treasure Hunt)
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/huntwestwardda.html
You will find out some interesting tidbits of information about the Oregon
Trail, pioneers, and those famous explorers, Lewis and Clark.
Gold Rush Players (Webquest)
http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/edt628/ouray/index.html
You will produce, stage, direct, cast and costume a play about the real and
rollicking Gold Rush in California.
Donner Online (Scrapbook)
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/index.html
"Donner Online" is a type of Web-based activity in which you learn
about a topic by collecting information, images, and insights from the Internet,
and then you "paste" them into a multimedia Scrapbook (a HyperStudio
stack or a Web page) to share your learning with others.
Wagons Ho! (Sampler)
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/samwagonshal.html
In order to understand what motivated these pioneer emigrants to undertake such
a trip we will explore the trail by Internet.
Heritage Gateway
http://heritage.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/index.hts
Mormon settlement.
The Westward Movement
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/T2ARP/quest/journeys/westlessons.html#lesson%201
Complete unit on westward expansion.
Oregon Trail (Web Based Activities)
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/oregon.htm
Front Page News: The Oregon Trail and the California Gold
Rush (WebQuest)
http://php.ucs.indiana.edu/~skammeye/webquest.html
Knowing that you are the star reporter, your boss gives you the choice of either
writing an article about The California Gold Rush or The Oregon Trail. You must
hurry and decide...the wagon leaves in two days!
Westward Ho! (Online Unit)
http://www.internet-catalyst.org/projects/WWHO/wwho.html
Back for its ninth year, this simulated journey allows classes to travel the
trail as part of the Westward HO! Wagon Train. In classrooms across the country,
collaborative families, based on real families from America's past, make daily
decisions (travel and fate scenarios are provided by the project moderators)
that will influence their safe arrival in Oregon.
An Overland Journey (WebQuest)
http://www.web-and-flow.com/members/sberger/pioneer/webquest.htm
Plan an overland journey to the American West of the mid 1800's. Through your
individual roles, you will decide on a route, what form of transportation you
will use, your food supplies, and the other necessary supplies and equipment.
You will need to meet and decide as a group to make sure it is a workable plan.
Oregon Trail Diary Project
http://169.244.159.208/otdiary.htm
Explore these web sites and come to a decision on who you would like to read
about. Then you need to take the information you have gathered and write a
newspaper article about this person.
Westward Expansion (WebQuest)
http://www.roundrockisd.org/cdfulkes/webquest/west/Default.htm
Westward Movement/Gold Rush (Webquest) TrackStar: A Historical View of Westward Expansion TrackStar: Traveling West Wagon's West Webquest Adventure into the Unknown: A Webquest on the Lewis and Clarke Expedition
http://www.nhptv.org/kn/nhema/webquest/westward.htm
Small group research projects that will introduce students to the westward
movement and gold rush time period utilizing both print and electronic
resources.
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/main/track_text.php3?track_id=959
Sites and questions that will focus on several trails and expeditions.
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/main/track_text.php3?track_id=496
Sites and questions relating to Westward Expansion of the United States.
http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webquests/oregon/oregon.htm
Your task is to pretend that you are a member of a group of pioneers selected by
the government to complete the Oregon Trail. On your journey you must gather
information about different aspects of the trail. The information gathered will
be compiled into a report which will be sent back East so that the U.S.
government and others can learn more about The Oregon Trail.
http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webquests/lewisclark/
Captain Lewis and Clark are still looking for a few good volunteers to go along
on their adventure into the wilderness. Will you be brave enough to join
them? They will be leaving soon. Hurry and pack your bags.
Don't forget to bring all the paper you can and a writing utensil in order to
record the amazing new spectacles you'll see. You should be prepared to
take notes on what you do; after all, your fellow travellers are depending on
you. By making a game/map of your adventure, you will be revealing the
secrets of the unknown world to the rest of America!
Discovering Lewis & Clark
http://www.lewis-clark.org/
Frontier House
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/
Caribou Gold Rush
http://cariboogoldrush.entirety.ca/site/en/index.php
Exploration and Settlement Map
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/united_states/Exploration_1835.jpg
From 1835 - 1850.
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/images.html
Santa Fe Trail Sites Aerial Photographs
http://www.stjohnks.net/santafetrail/spacepix/aspacelinkpage.html
Emigrant Road: An Oregon Trail Adventure
http://www.emigrantroad.com/trailguide01.html
8 photographic guides. Be sure to follow the tiny links on the bottom.
Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West,
1849 to present
http://www.CalHum.ORG/sfmoma-crossing/gallery.html
Images of the American West
http://www.treasurenet.com/images/americanwest/
Go West, Young Artist
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/play.html
It's 1870, and explorers and artists are discovering the wonders of the American
West. Travel westward and meet six landscape artists to learn the basics of
landscape composition.
Heritage Gateway: Pioneer Multimedia
http://heritage.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/images.hts?type=104&id=0
Quicktime movies showing Mormon pioneer life.
Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West
http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/
A cooperative project of several organizations, this site provides access to
Lewis and Clark maps, with related activities and lesson plans.
Updating the Lewis & Clark Journals
http://www.nwrel.org/teachlewisandclark/home.html
Jump Back In Time: Westward Movement
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/1829-1859
On This Day With Lewis and Clark
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=297
Looking at historic maps of the West, students can begin to
appreciate the immensity and mystery of the mission Lewis and Clark accepted. As
"experts" investigating specific subjects assigned to Lewis by
President Jefferson, students will conduct careful research. Reading brief diary
entries of the men of the Corps will spark the interest of students as they
relive the discoveries of the original participants.
Oregon Trail
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/
TourMaker Field Trips: Oregon Trail
http://www.field-trips.org/tours/ss/otrail/_tourlaunch1.htm
Frontier House
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/
In Search of the Oregon Trail
http://www.pbs.org/opb/oregontrail/teacher/index.html
California as I Saw It
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
Crossing the Plains, 1865
http://www.ibiscom.com/plains.htm
Diary of Sarah Raymond, one of those who made the journey along with her father,
mother and brothers.
Pioneers
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6400/default.htm
Our web page will provide information about the pioneers who traveled not only
to Oregon on the Oregon Trail and the Natchez Trace to Texas but all early
American Pioneers.
New Perspectives on
the West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
Trail of Hope: The
Story of the Mormon Trail
http://www.pbs.org/trailofhope/stories.html
Tails From the
Trail
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MaderaMethod/tales_trail.html
5th graders from California ford the Chowchilla River as they follow the Pioneer
Trail.
The Louisiana
Purchase
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/originals/loupurch.html
A brief description of the Louisiana Purchase. Click on the link at the bottom
of the page to read a transcript.
Deciphering Old
Handwriting
http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html
How to Speak 19th
Century
http://celt.net/ferguson/vocab.htm
Pioneer Life
http://www.geocities.com/vickiwahl/index.html
Settler Sayings
http://eaves.math.utk.edu/~williams/Pioneer/sayings1.html
Finding Food
http://eaves.math.utk.edu/~williams/Pioneer/food.html
Diseases &
Remedies
http://eaves.math.utk.edu/~williams/Pioneer/disease.html
Industrialization/Immigration (Also see 4th grade/SS/Industrial Growth & Expansion in 1800's)
42Explore: Industrialization
http://www.42explore.com/industrial.htm
42Explore: Immigration
http://www.42explore.com/migration.htm
Statue of Liberty : Lady Liberty Welcomes Immigrants "Home"
http://www.nyhistory.org/ladyliberty.html
New York Immigration : Making a New Life in a New Land : materials and resources
http://www.nyhistory.org/newland.html
New York Immigrants : One City - Two Worlds: The Rich and Poor of the City
http://www.nyhistory.org/richandpoor.html
By contrasting photographs documenting the lives of the rich and poor,
students will see the profound contrasts that existed within the same city
during the same time period.
Meet the Immigrants
http://www.lubbock.k12.tx.us/Webquests/MeetImmigrants/index.htm
Iimagine you are an immigrant to the United States, and there are unfriendly
people where you are going, maybe there aren't even highways, you don't speak
the same language, and you can only take along some food and one of two of your
favorite possessions. You are going to become one of these immigrants, and you
will tell your story as a participant in a panel discussion on a simulated
television program. We are interested in hearing about your experiences and
learning what it was like to be a stranger in a foreign land.
A New Life: Coming to America
http://hale.pepperdine.edu/~klwehner/A%20New%20Life.htm
You belong to the American Players Acting Company and your group has been
selected to present a play for the Heritage Festival in Los Angeles. The play
will be an original production that you will research, write and perform. It
needs to focus on a group of immigrants who arrive at the Ellis Island port of
entry.
Immigrants in New York 1870-1915
http://teacher.scholastic.com/webquest/ushist/usnyimm.htm
Freedom: A History of US. Webisode 10: Yearning to Breathe Free
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web10/segment1.html
Freedom: A History of US. Webisode 8: Who's Land is This?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web08/segment7.html
New York's Melting Pot Culture
http://www.rcbmlinks.com/nysh/nymc/
Companion sites to the Rosen PrimarySource materials.
Where I Come From
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=309
In this lesson, students take research into their heritage
a step beyond the construction of a family tree, traveling through cyberspace to
find out what's happening in their ancestral homelands today and explore their
sense of connection to these places in their past.
The Power and the People, 1898 - 1914
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode4/e4_mm.html
Imagine that you have volunteered to help restore an old movie house as an
historic landmark. In a closet in a back room, you stumble upon a dusty, old
shelf full of film reels. The labels are hard to read, but if you click on them,
the movies will take you back to the old New York of the turn of the century,
the early days of motion pictures.
New Yorkers Celebrated the Opening of the Williamsburg Bridge
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/pages/jb_1219_wilbridge_1.html
New York Subway System Opened for Business
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/pages/jb_1027_subway_1.html
The First Immigrant Landed on Ellis Island
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/pages/jb_0101_ellis_1.html
Post of Entry: Immigration
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/port/start.html
On this journey, you will assume the role of historical detective and search
for clues to America's past in American Memory, the historical collections of
the Library of Congress. You will investigate photographs and eyewitness
accounts of immigrant life in America.
Child Labor In America
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/labor/plan.html
Children have always worked, often exploited and under less than healthy
conditions. Industrialization, the Great Depression and the vast influx of poor
immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, made it easy to justify the work of
young children. To gain a true understanding of child labor, both as an
historical and social issue, students should examine the worlds of real working
children. This unit asks students to critically examine, respond to and report
on photographs as historical evidence. Students will discover the work of
reformer/photographer Lewis Hine, whose photographs give the issue of child
labor a dramatic personal relevance and illustrate the impact of photojournalism
in the course of American history.
Who Really Built America?
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/built/index.html
Students are immersed in primary source materials that relate to child labor
in America from 1880-1920 to gain a personal perspective of how work affected
the American child within a rapidly growing industrial society. Designed for
older students but can be modified.
Images of our People
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/westnew/overview.html
Different peoples have contributed to the history of the western United
States. To gain an understanding and appreciation of this history, students
investigate the region's cultures and identify the contributions that each make
to the whole. This unit leads students to recognize cultural elements through
the analysis of photographs from American Memory. Using thematic galleries of
photographs, students develop questions about the photos for further research
into the region's history and culture
Immigration
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html
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