Free this week from CurrClick!
Amelia Earhart Lapbook
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Free Product of the Week from Homeschool E-Store
All About My Family Notebook
by NotebookingNook.com
Have your children create a notebook about the most important people in their lives, their family! Your child could interview individuals from your family to learn more about their heritage, add photos and write biographies of those who have passed on. There are pages for them to add personal information about themselves to pass down to their future children. They might choose to create a family tree on poster board or a wall with all the people they have learned about. Children love to hear stories about their family and this notebook could be a way to collect and keep these stories alive for future generations!
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Children learn as they draw and write history...your children bring history alive with their own creative hands!
If you love the Little House books... you'll love this extra special History Scribe book.
Instead of actual historical events and people, this History Scribe deals more with the ideas and events in the lives of the settlers. Such as deciding to leave the old country, how to prepare, the animals, chores and blessings and hardships the pioneers faced.
A great compliment to any unit studies on Pioneer Life.
Help with your timeline studies. Includes over 40 pages to illustrate and narrate. All History Scribe Books include a couple blank pages for any special topics you'd like to cover and maps of the region covered.
- The Old Country
- Decision to Leave
- The voyage to America
- Culture Shock
- Going West
- Preparing for the Journey
- The Covered Wagon
- The Big Woods
- The Log Cabin
- The Prairies
- The Sod Houses
- The Indians
- The Homestead Act
- The Pioneer Children
- Schools and learning
- Churches & Religion
- Hardship on the Prairies
- The Oregon Trail
- The Mormons & Utah
- Animals of the settlers
- Handcrafts
- Cooking and Housework
- Farming
- Family Life
- Celebrations
- Folk Tales and Legends
- The Swedes
- The Irish
- The Germans
- The Chinese
- The African Americans
- The Orphan Trains
Includes Maps of the Region and
Blank Pages for your own creations!
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Having said that...let me just say....I haven't reviewed all of these sites.
www.omn.org
www.archive.org
Be forwarned with youtube.com -- there is some not so good stuff here -- but there is also some great stuff! Watch WITH your children and search carefully...
www.youtube.
www.vpw.com
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Official education website of the 400th anniversary commemoration of the founding of
This site includes 88 FREE
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
When Thomas Jefferson dispatched Lewis and Clark to find a water route across North America and explore the uncharted West, he expected they'd encounter woolly mammoths, erupting volcanoes, and a mountain of pure salt. What they found was no less surprising. See it all on our journey: journal entries, historical photos, drawings, and more.
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Cyndi's List ... one of the original genealogy websites. Access it for FREE!
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This week at HomeschoolEStore.com
With Lee in Virginia: A Tale of the American Civil War by Henty Audio Books
You can download this Audio book absolutely free May 8th-14th by going to www.HomeschoolEStore.com
Few wars have been fought by each side with greater intensity of conviction in the rightness of its cause or with more abundant personal heroism than the War Between the States. The story begins with a great responsibility falling on Vincent Wingfield, the teenage son of a widowed Virginia plantation owner. Vincent must decide what course of action he should take when a problem arises on the plantation. Unlike many stories of this American war, Mr. Henty brings to it a European viewpoint that differs drastically from the current views on the nature and reasons for this struggle. Hentys "With Lee in Virginia" will introduce the reader to many of the famous battles of the 1860's along with learning much about the character of Robert E. Lee and his lieutenants.
A $20.00 Value!
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AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose is to help individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, and government web sites.
Sources held in archives, which document so much important first-hand information, are often not searchable by popular search engines. One needs to search within those institutional sites directly, using specific search phrases not readily discernible to non-scholars. The experience can be frustrating, resulting in researchers leaving sites without finding needed information.
AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take a site's users to places where those primary sources are found, and to which the site's users may otherwise not go. The author of each story is listed on the "chapters" page of the story. A link to the author provides more detailed information.
Additionally, we received this message from the International Society for Technology in Education: http://www.iste.org/ "Your site was recently selected by distinguished author James Lerman as one of the best Web sites for teachers on the Internet today. Mr. Lerman went through an exhaustive and rigorous process to select sites for his book 101 Best Web Sites for Teachers, published by the International Society for Technology in Education."
Stories that may be of special interest in the coming days/weeks:
1. During the late evening of April 14th, 1912, the Titanic struck an
iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank during the early morning of
April 15. Our story includes pictures (including the iceberg likely
involved in the collision), testimony (from survivors and rescue crews) and
much more. See primary sources from Ireland, the UK, Canada and the US.
http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/titanic/the_titanic_ch1.htm
2. President Abraham Lincoln was shot on the evening of April 14th, in
1865. He died of the assassin's bullet on April 15. Hours before the
shooting, the President told his bodyguard he thought he might be
killed. Our story links to many primary sources including pictures,
drawings, documents written by the President and transcripts from the
conspirators' trial.
http://www.awesomestories.com/history/abraham_lincoln/abraham_lincoln_ch1.htm
3. April 18th was the 100th anniversary of the San Francisco
earthquake and fire. This story features eyewitness accounts, national-archive
photographs and moving film plus many more primary sources.
Additionally, to help students better understand how earthquakes occur, we link
to animations and graphics which explain the process.
4. The History Channel is currently featuring a series on "10 Days
That Unexpectedly Changed America." One of the episodes features the
shocking assassination of President William McKinley in September of 1901.
After the death of the popular leader, Theodore Roosevelt (sworn-in as
McKinley's second-term vice president only six months before) moved
into the White House, ushering in the modern era. Our story about
McKinley, and his assassin, includes pictures, contemporary news accounts,
movies made by Thomas Edison's company, and many more primary sources.
http://www.awesomestories.com/history/president_mckinley/president_mckinley_ch1.htm
Another episode in the series features "Einstein's Letter" (of August
2, 1939) to President Roosevelt. Later calling that letter the greatest
mistake of his life, Einstein urged FDR to think about nuclear energy
as a way to combat the Nazis - and to harness the power of the atom
before Hitler's scientists created an atomic bomb. FDR took action,
ushering in the "nuclear age" wherein countries still argue (or wage war)
over "yellowcake" and "weapons of mass destruction," and governments
(sometimes in secret, like the "Manhattan Project") control certain
scientific processes. Our story about "Einstein's Letter" explains nuclear
energy and covers the beginning of the "atomic age," including chapters on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
http://www.awesomestories.com/history/einsteins_letter/einsteins_letter_ch1.htm
5. Now on DVD: The opening scenes of "The Lion, The Witch and The
Wardrobe" recreate the anguish British families endured in World War II.
http://www.awesomestories.com/history/children_war/children_war_ch1.htm
With links to archives (like Britain's Imperial War Museum), this story
(beginning with chapter 4) highlights why so many families sent their
children - with their teachers - into the countryside, thereby avoiding
the terror of "The London Blitz."
6. Also on DVD: "King Kong" features a computer-generated 25-foot
gorilla, dinosaurs (including "raptors") and scenes depicting the
anguished years of the Great Depression. With links to primary sources (from
the Library of Congress and the U.S. National Archives), see what life
was like during the 1930s. With movies from ARKive, in chapter 11, see
gorillas in their natural habitat. And, with links to the famous
dinosaur "Sue" - whose fossilized remains are now at Chicago's Field Museum
- examine the enormous teeth and skull of a gigantic T-Rex.
http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/king_kong/king_kong_ch1.htm
7. Fears continue to grow about a potential flu pandemic. This time
it is "bird flu" which worries health officials. Why are they so
concerned? Because, among other reasons, they have studied the horrifying
pandemic "Spanish Flu" which killed untold millions of people around the
world during, and immediately after, World War I.
http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/spanish_flu/spanish_flu_ch1.htm
8. The Wright Brothers' first powered-flight took place at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina. From links to national-archive pictures of that first
flight (when the brothers flew OUTSIDE their plane in freezing
weather), and many NASA animations (showing how airplanes actually fly), learn
why the National Park Services curator at Kitty Hawk National
Historical Park has said: "Before the Wright Brothers, no one in aviation did
anything fundamentally right. Since the Wright Brothers, no one has done
anything fundamentally different."
http://www.awesomestories.com/history/history_flight/history_flight_ch1.htm
(The first six chapters of this "History of Flight" story focus on the
Wright Brothers.)
9. The U.S. National Archives and the Library of Congress have
digitized a wealth of primary sources on America's Westward Expansion. Our
story profiles some of those holdings, together with annotated maps and
pictures of pioneers, Native Americans and the transcontinental
railroad. http://www.awesomestories.com/history/go_west/go_west_ch1.htm
TO SEARCH AwesomeStories: Soon we will have a Google-powered search
engine as part of the site. In the meantime, since Google has indexed
AwesomeStories so well, you can search the site directly on Google by
including "awesomestories" in the search phrase. For example:
awesomestories+black death; awesomestories+d-day; awesomestories+potato famine; awesomestories+segregation; awesomestories+jim crow; etc.
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES: Because some educators cannot receive
HTML-version newsletters by email, they have requested an on-line archive. That
is now available, beginning with February '06 newsletters. Click here
to view them. http://www.awesomestories.com/signup.htm
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
Digital History is committed to providing high-quality historical resources for teachers and students for free and without advertising. We have been fortunate to develop partnerships with a number of archives and museums that share this vision and have granted us permission to draw upon their resources.
We have created a host of new resources that allow students to do history.
These include:
Annotated documents in Asian American history
Supplementing our extensive collections of texts in African American,
Mexican American, and Native American history, Asian American Voices includes a timeline of Asian American History, biographies of key individuals, and a guide to Asian American history resources on the World Wide Web.
Our site includes a massive collection of pre-1923 copyright-free music plus links to other historical music that is available on the World Wide Web. Among the hundreds of pieces included on our site are spirituals, Tin Pan Alley songs, parlor music, folk songs, band music, and songs of the Civil War, World War I, and World War II.
These are inquiry-based, interactive modules designed to give students the opportunity to do history: to conduct research, analyze primary sources, and draw their own conclusions.
There are units on such subjects as: Zheng He, Timbuctu, Cahokia, Columbus and the Columbian exchange, fugitive slave and indentured servant advertisements, Pocahontas, Squanto, music and the American Revolution, the Alamo, Indian removal, children and the westward movement, children and the Civil War, the late 19th century West, turn of the century, photography as history, lynching, Worlds Fairs and history, and children of the Great Depression, and many other topics.
User-Created Online American History Exhibitions
Students and teachers can create multimedia presentation featuring
historical images from our extensive database, which currently contains over 600 photographs, art works, and digitized letters. Users can easily incorporate their own text in their exhibitions. These presentationscan be e-mailed, downloaded, or saved on our servers.
Trailers of Historically Significant Films
Hollywood has shaped our most vivid images of the historical past. Our collection of film trailers allows users to see how the film studios promoted the films that are most deeply impressed in our collective imagination.
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Ancient Civilization - Egyptian and Roman history
http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/egyptian.html
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From www.homeschooling.about.com
Introducing the FREE email course 'Our 50 Great States'! From Delaware to Hawaii, learn about all 50 states in the order they were admitted to the Union. At the end of 25 weeks (2 states per week), you'll have a United States Notebook filled with information about each state; and, if you're up for the challenge, you will try recipes from all 50 states. Will you join me on the journey?
Print the United States map and color each state as you study it. Keep the map at the front of your notebook for use with each state.
Print the State Information Sheet for each state and fill in the information as you find it.
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As seen in http://www.storiesofgreatlives.com/
Mayflower painting © Mike Haywood, used with permission.
http://www.mikehaywoodart.co.uk/mayflower.html
William Bradford (1590-1657)1590 Born in Austerfield, England
1609 Bradford arrives in Amsterdam
1613 Marries Dorothy May
1620 Mayflower voyage to Plymouth
Dorothy dies
1621 Elected Governor, holding the position for most of the rest of his life
1623 Marries Alice Southworth
1630 Begins writing in journal which became Of Plymouth Plantation
1657 William Bradford diesPlaces to visit:
PILGRIM HALL MUSEUM (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
Among treasures on display:
William Bradford's Bible
William Brewster's chair
Plymouth Rock
Only portrait of a Pilgrim painted from life - Edward Winslow
Website: www.pilgrimhall.orgALDEN HOUSE HISTORIC SITE (Duxbury, Massachusetts)
Property owned exclusively by Alden family members since the 1620's.
The website has a virtual tour.
Website: www.alden.orgPLYMOUTH PLANTATION (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
Re-creation of Plymouth Plantation.
The website has a virtual tour.
Website: www.plimoth.orgBest website links:
www.mayflowerhistory.com
Passenger list with brief biographies.Activities for Children:
Make a paper model of the Mayflower
Order a full color paper model to cut and assemble
Resources for further study:
Consists of more than 40 books written by the Pilgrims, or those who knew them; along with 25 historical documents, a complete 1611 Geneva Bible, a complete scan of the handwritten manuscript Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, the works of pastor John Robinson, and much, much more! Nearly 5000 pages of primary source material.
Mayflower History Reference Collection CD-ROM
Of Plymouth Plantation Most of what we know about the Pilgrims comes from this book which is William Bradford's journal.
Of Plymouth PlantationMourt's Relation
This book was probably authored by Bradford and covers more of a description of what day-to-day life was like in Plymouth. It leaves out the suffering and has more of an adventurous feel because it was used as a "brochure" in England to attract more settlers. For an easier read of this account, check out "Homes In The Wilderness." Mourt's Relation
Books For Children
Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?
Find out the true story behind Plymouth Rock. A fun read.
Who's That Stepping on Plymouth RockHomes In The Wilderness
A modern translation of Mourt's Relation. Used copies can be a bit pricey, but you should be able to find a copy in your local library. Homes In The Wilderness
William Bradford, Rock of Plymouth
A very good recent biography of William Bradford. Written for young readers, but interesting enough for adults. Covers much more than the basic "Thanksgiving Day" story.
William Bradford, Rock of Plymouth
Stories of the Pilgrims
This has been a favorite since the early 1900's. There have been several revisions. Check out your library.
Stories of the Pilgrims
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Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History An invaluable collection of historical works which contributed to the formation of American politics, culture, and ideals The following is a massive collection of the literature and documents which were most relevant to the colonists' lives in America. If it isn't here, it probably is not available online anywhere. ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE (500 B.C.-1800 A.D.) (Use Your Browser's FIND Function to Search this Library)
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Online Activities about Tradesmen in Colonial America made by a 4th grade class in NY.
Tradesmen in Colonial America
The Colonial period of America's history began when Spanish setters came to live in the colonies in 1565. The period ended when we became the United States of America by beating the British in the American Revolutionary War. During that time the Colonists had little to export as trading partners with England so they had to make what they needed to survive. Eventually they had enough money to pay those skilled craftsmen to make what they needed. You are about to meet some of these tradesmen. We hope you enjoy visiting this period in our history.
Fourth Grade 2003-2004
Pocantico Hills School
Sleepy Hollow, NY
Click here -->> http://www.pocanticohills.org/tradesmen/tradesmen.htm
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Online Activities about The Wright Brothers made by a 2nd Grade class in NY:
Meet the Wright Brothers
We've been learning all about the Wright Brothers. We did lots of reading, researching, and experimenting. Wilbur and Orville Wright were two very special inventors. We learned that they were the first people to fly an engine powered plane. We learned that they made bicycles in Dayton, Ohio. We learned that they made history on December 17, 1903 at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. We wrote two stories for you to read. We wrote questions for a quiz. We are very proud of our work! We really hope you enjoy our website.
by Andrea, Caroline, Charlie & Nicholas
2nd Grade - 2002-2003
Pocantico Hills School, Sleepy Hollow, NY
click here-->> http://www.pocanticohills.org/wright/wright.htm