Webliography
Curriculum Standards- Students will
exhibit an understanding of the dynamic interaction between human events
and the state, region, or country in which they occur.
Students will demonstrate basic
geographic knowledge through identifying and locating major physical and
political features on globes and maps.
1.. Prehistoric Tennessee-http://www.geobop.com/paleozoo/World/NA/US/TN/index.htm
Internet Teaching Tools
This site is all about Prehistoric Tennessee. It also has links to all the other states and what they were like 1,000’s of years ago. It tells all about Tennessee’s geology and many other facts. It would be great for a class project on any state’s geology. It tells all about the fossil’s of the states and when they were found.
This site even talks about the dinosaurs in Tennessee!
This site is great for any student and teacher.
Lesson Plans and Units
This site offers a unique lesson plan for elementary school students. It is specifically for students in the 3-5 grades. This lesson involves social studies, and language arts. This site also has many other lesson plans for the social studies field. This resource would be very useful to teachers who are teaching about settling in different parts of the country and why our ancestors settled where they did. I also enjoyed the fact that the students were told to read a book by Laura Ingles Wilder to get the full effect of picking up and settling to a different part of the country.
I found this site to be very interesting.
It was very credible with all the specific parts of a lesson plan.
Kay McGough of St. Mary’s School in Edgerton, Ohio, contributed classroom
ideas for this lesson plan. It is also on the National Geographic
web page, so you know that it has credibility from the magazine.
3.History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers- http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
Content Resources
The purpose of this site is for teachers to find the content information that they need. It can also be used by students to find background information on different subjects. The site’s main point is to get teachers and students to use the Internet as a resource tool. It is broken up into many different subjects ranging from archeology to creative applications.
This is site is supported by the Social Studies
School Service. It has won many awards including the Britannica Internet
Guild Award and a featured page in the Lightspan’s Study Web.
4.States and
Capitals- www.50states.com
Webliography
This site is just a list of all the 50 states in alphabetical order. You click on the state, and it takes you to different links that all are about the state. This site is perfect for elementary school children because it is easy to read, and easy to navigate around because there isn’t much to the main page.
Ray Weber of Santa Clarita, California, made this site. He lists the dates that it was last updated and has an email address where you can contact him. All the links of information are by credible corporations also. This site also has links to the commonwealths and territories of the United States also.
Content Resources
This web site’s purpose is to tell the viewers of the presidents of the United States of America.
This site offers teachers and students a chance to find lots of information about the presidents of out country. This site would be useful to teachers because the can make lesson plans by this site, or make a project by this site. It offers interesting pictures of the articles that used to belong to different presidents. The site has pictures of the presidents, all you have to do is click on them to find out more. It has information such as which presidents died in the White House to all the presidents’ campaigns.
This site is made by The National Museum of American
History Smithsonian. This site has many links to interesting pictures
of what is actually in the museum. I think this would be a fun project
for students in elementary school to look up the presidents, and see what
they actually liked and did.
6.Tennessee: 4th grade Unit of Practice -http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?external=http://www.nashville.k12.tn.us/CurriculumAwards/Cole/Tennessee.html&original=http://www.proteacher.com/090145.shtml&title=Tennessee%20Fourth%20Grade%20Unit%20of%20Practice
Lesson Plan and Units
This site is a lesson plan for fourth graders
on Tennessee history. It is specifically to be used by teachers,
so they can use this lesson plan in their classrooms with their students.
The point of the lesson is to get an understanding of Tennessee history
and also learn how to use the World Wide Web.
This Unit of Practice was created by Donna Jackson
and Mark Mason from Cole Elementary. I found this lesson plan through
ProTeacher.com. This lesson plan has won curriculum awards such as
the Technology Literacy Grant Curriculum Awards.
7.Virtual Jamestown-http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/
Internet Projects
Virtual Jamestown is a digital research-teaching-learning project to explore the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and 'the Virginia experiment.' As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary celebration in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony." The site features teaching materials, public records, maps, images, court records, first-hand accounts such as letters, court and labor contracts, a timeline, primary and secondary source bibliographies, and other resources useful to students, teachers, and researchers.
This site is perfect for a school project on colonization, and it would take the children to a place they had never been before and they don’t even have to leave the classroom. The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy supported this project with an initial planning grant in 1997. It also provided discretionary funds for compiling a working bibliography of primary sources.
8.BJ Pinchbeck’s History Homework Helper-http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/bjhistory.html
Homework Help Page
The point in this site is to offer a collaboration of other useful sites to help children with their homework.
This site has many other helpful sites for children who need help with their homework. It offers help in general history, American history, ancient history, and world history. It has links to over 40 websites that will help children with their homework.
This site is actually part of the Discoveryschool.com page, which is made by the Discovery Channel. All the links are up to date and working correctly.
9.All Aboard for Jamestown-WebQuest***** http://wapiti.pvs.k12.nm.us/~Computer/jamestow.htm
Internet Teaching Tools
This site is designed to push the child to go farther than they have in the past. This is an example of how life was really like in Jamestown. The project gives the child a situation, and they have to report back to the teacher the information they found. They get to use tools on the Internet to find the facts they are looking for. Webquest gives links to the exact site the teacher wants them to use, so they’re not just surfing on the Internet.
A teacher made this site, and the neat thing is YOU can make them too. You can put one of your special lesson plans on the Internet with Webquest. This project and many others can be found on the Webquest site.
10.An American Thanksgiving-http://www.night.net/thanksgiving
Internet Projects
This site is made up to teach students to learn about the first Thanksgiving and what happened during this time. This site has many different aspects of it, there is the First Thanksgiving, which takes you to other pages to explain items from Mayflower Compact to George Washington, There is also Thanksgiving Fun which has different Thanksgiving games for your students to play.
This site was made by the Not Just For Kids website
and is very accurate in their facts. This site is very fun, not just
for students but also for teachers!
Graphics from this page came from www.hoxie.org