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The following web links will be useful throughout the school year for a number of academic areas. Students will be directed to these links at different times during our studies to explore their world.
Reading:
Historical Fiction - Time Periods - WEBLINK-
http://www.ducksters.com/history/
United States LinksClick on the link below to play the states and capitals game.Click on the link below to watch the Tour the States video.Click on the link below to play Conquer the States game.Click on the link below to play Capital Toss.Click on the link below to play Geography Capital game.Click on the link below to play the Oregon Trail Game...GOOD LUCK!Social Studies - American History
A Day in History: http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/
Black History: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
Columbus - The Door to American History: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/COLUMBUS/colhome.html
The History Place: http://www.historyplace.com/index.html
Those Were the Days: http://www.440.com/twtd/today.html
Today in History: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
Early Exploration and Settlements
Vikings: http://www.viking1000.org/
Vikings: They got here first, but why didn't they stay? : http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/north/nor-i/thule/thu-020e.htm
Leif Ericsson: http://www.usa-people-search.com/content-leif-ericson-and-the-discovery-of-america.aspx
Columbus: http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/
Journal of Columbus' Voyage: http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/Explorers.html#1492
The Explorations of Christopher Columbus: http://www.mariner.org/age/columbus.html
John Cabot: http://www.cabot.ac.uk/Matthew/landfall.htm
John Cabot: http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/cabot.html
Jamestown Settlement: http://www.col.k12.me.us/documents/teacher/socialst/jamestown.html
Plimoth Plantation: http://www.plimoth.org Brief History of the Mayflower: http://members.aol.com/calebj/ship.html
Journey West
Images of the American West: http://www.treasurenet.com/images/americanwest/
The Gold Rush: http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/home.html
The Oregon Trail: http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
Welcome to the West: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs000/w010_001.htm
The Revolutionary War
American Independence: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html
Benedict Arnold: http://earlyamerica.com/review/fall97/arnold.html
Gallery of Spy Letters: http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/index-gallery.html
Hotlist of the Revolutionary War: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/bookmarks.html
Liberty! The American Revolution: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/ Major Events of the Revolutionary War: http://www.multied.com/revolt/battles.html
Maps of the Revolutionary War: http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/American%20Revolution/ARToC.htm
Spy Letters of the American Revolution: http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/ The American Revolution: http://www.mce.k12tn.net/revolutionary_war/american_revolution.htm
The American Revolution: http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/ The American Revolution: http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/amrevol.html
The American Revolution: http://www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu/coakhist/amrev.html
The American Revolution: http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/War/EMAmRev.htm
The American Revolution: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ibex/archive/IDOT/idot4.htm
The American Revolution Essays: http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays.html
Women of the American Revolution: http://info-center.ccit.arizona.edu/~ws/ws200/fall97/grp11/part7.htm
Women of the American Revolution: http://www.needham.mec.edu/t_links/tc00/pc00/
The Civil War
Boys in the Civil War: http://www.civilwarhome.com/boysinwar.htm
Chamberlain's Medal of Honor & Bracelet: http://www.curtislibrary.com/pejepscot/jlcmedl.htm
Civil War for Kids: http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/cwar.htm
Civil War Links: http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
Civil War Selection Navigation Bar: http://www.civilwar.com/navbar.htm
Colonel Joshua Chamberlain: http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/aramsey/civil/chamberlain.html
Flight to Freedom: http://academic.bowdoin.edu/flighttofreedom/intro.shtml
Historical Image Collection: http://www.treasurenet.com/images/
Images of Children from the Civil War Era: http://www.edc.org/CCT/NDL/1999/lessons/teams/24/images.htm
Official Home Page of Joshua Chamberlain: http://www.joshuachamberlain.com/ Selected Civil War Photographs: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html
Soul of the Lion: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: http://world.std.com/~khebert/index.htm
Student Civil War Trivia Questions: http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/aramsey/civil/studenttrivia.html
The American Civil War Homepage: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
The Underground Railroad: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/
History of the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin: http://historyalive.weac.org/
Presidents
A collection of biographies and photographs from the official White House Site. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
This web site, created for the television series, contains a complete video archive of all American Presidents: Life Portraits programming, plus these additional resources: Biographical facts, Key events of each presidency, Presidential places, and Reference material: http://www.americanpresidents.org/
Welcome! In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site. http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/ This area is an index on the presidents of the United States and contains information and documents of their speeches, writings, biographies and anything else related to their person or the office they are holding. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/ Presidential portraits http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html
Portraits of Presidents from the National Gallery: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/travpres/index6.htm
Basic information about the presidents: http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/