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This website features a series of 16 half-hour videos which play from the web in a quarter screen view. Video titles include Native Voices, Utopian Promise, Masculine Heroes, Gothic Undercurrents, Slavery and Freedom and more. The site requires a (one-time) registration and log in for viewing. Registration is free. This is upper level material and only the videos may be of use for High School.
http://www.learner.org/resources/series164.html
Teachers and students may download Audacity software for FREE at this site. Audacity is a free program that allows students to create blogs so that teachers may incorporate them into their curriculum.
http://www.download.com/Audacity/3000-2170_4-10058117.html
This is a web-based bibliography tool that is fast and easy to use. Students can build a citation page is a snap with this tool.
http://www.bibme.org/
This is a field diary of Alaice Cuningham Fletcher who set out in 1881 to study the life of the Sioux women. It includes wonderful folktales and photographs of Native Americans.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/fletcher.htm
Register your class for an online field trip to Colonial Williamsburg! There are seven individual electronic field trips that you may register for or one rate for all field trips. Individual trips for the 2007 - 2008 school year at $120. The set of seven trips is $500. Each field trip incorporates many activities beyond the set date of the electronic field trip. A segment titled Web Adventures is available to your class throughout the year with the paid field trip. It provides web-based interactive activities and videos to extend learning. A special section titled, "In Their Own Words," uses primary sources to teach students more about the period. Each trip has opportunities for students to use email, online voting and a forum to actively participate in the experience. Students may have their individual questions regarding colonial times answered by history experts by posting or emailing questions. Each field trip is aligned to National Standards of Learning in History and a bibiliography are included. A Teacher's Guide, additional internet links, TV broadcast and an online video preview to show prior to the field trip are also included.
Field trip dates are scheduled from October through April. The 2007 - 2008 schedule is available at http://www.history.org/History/teaching/eft.cfm. This year's lessons include: Jamestown Unearthed, Emissaries of Peace, Founders or Traitors?, For Ready Money, No Master Over Me, Treasure Keepers,
The Industrious Tradesmen. For a small price, your students can truly experience Colonial Williamsburg! Technical support is provided throughout the school year to make your experience a success. Purchase orders are accepted.
http://www.history.org/History/teaching/tips/intro.cfm?Ref=Sample&bSideNav=1
This is an interactive website that uses humor and storytelling to help kids ages 8-13 learn about places and cultures around the world through a wide range of subjects, including geography, math, science, music and history.
http://www.fffbi.com
This website has free templates to use for websites or wordpress designs.
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/
This site has interactive games for geography.
http://www.actionquiz.com/c.php?h=geo
Learn how to do the basics so you are comfortable teaching with Google Earth.
Suitable for Lectures, Presentations, whole class discussions, etc. Also includes mini-lessons - Lesson starters for looking at various topics.
http://gelessons.com/lessons/
This is a lesson plan that focuses on drama, art, social studies and language arts. Students will evaluate and examine the life of a frontiersman by looking at various artworks and examining primary source documents. They will complete various activities including writing and performing an original skit.
http://catlinclassroom.si.edu/lessonplans/cq-aplan.html
Interactive games for children & resources for teachers.
http://www.kiddonet.com/gb/
Kidport is an Internet-based educational service designed to help K-8 students excel in school. It provides a unique, multi-step program to create empowered learners, not simply good students.
http://www.kidport.com/default.htm
This website is packed with over 600 documents exploring the French Revolution. Students can browse through images, texts, songs, and a time line to learn more about the French Revolution. This site has 12 topical essays, 250 images, 350 text documents, 13 songs, 13 maps, a time line, and a glossary.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/
This website can be helpful to students and teachers. It contains broad information for general art resources, information and careers in art.
http://www.academicinfo.net/subarts.html
View lessons and activities by selecting a grade range and topic. Areas covered include Art, Health and Fitness, Math, Reading and Language Arts, Science and Technology, Social Studies, Early Childhood, Library Media and Technology Coordinators.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/