WWW Lesson Plans

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WWW Lesson Plans

• American Heritage Melissa Schreck
• People in Societies

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American heritage objectives

• The student will listen to and reconstruct the
  chronology of an historical narrative.
• The student will differentiate broad categories
  of historical time.
• The student will explore placing events on a time
  line.
• The student will raise questions about the past.
• These objectives are in accordance with the Ohio
  Model for a Competency-Based Program in Social
  Studies.

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American heritage

• Web Pages
• Library of Congress American Memory
  http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson.html
• Social Studies Site-Teacher Resources
  http//www.ncss.org/resources/
• History Network-American Westhttp//www.fortunecit
  y.com/victorian/goya/1060/
• Historical Text Archivehttp//www.geocities.com/At
  hens/Forum/9061/USA/usa.html
• Yahoo- U.S. Historyhttp//dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Human
  ities/History/U_S__History/
• Library of Congress
• http//Lcweb2.loc.gov/learn

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American Heritage

• Educational Web Adventures
• http//www.eduweb.com/adventure.html
• Teaching With Historic Places
• http//www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/
• Discovery Channel School-U.S. Historyhttp//school
  .discovery.com/schoolsearch/results/g1ralls13.html
  
• Chinese Americans-Lunar Calendarhttp//ericir.syr.
  edu/Projects/CHCP/calendar.html

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American heritage lesson plans

• History FirsthandPrimary Source Research in
  Elementary School Cory Brandt and Monica
  Edinger
• History Firsthand has been designed to provide
  elementary children with experiences which enable
  them to begin understanding primary sources.
  Students move from personal artifacts to the vast
  American Memory collections and learn how
  archival collections are organized, how to
  interpret artifacts and documents, how to use
  primary sources to tell a real story and how to
  do on-line research.
• -from the Library of Congress, American Memory
  page

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American heritage lesson plans

• Teacher Resource Site
• A RIVER LOST, a book about The Colville Tribe in
  Washington State has won the 1996 BUMBERSHOOT
  (Seattle's Art Festival) AWARD FOR BEST
  CHILDREN'S PUBLICATION. The story is a historical
  fiction about The Arrow Lake Band of The Colville
  Tribe, and the effect the building of Grand
  Coulee Dam had on them by obliterating their
  river, salmon, towns, and culture. The book is
  beautifully illustrated with culturally accurate
  paintings by tribal member, V. Smoker Marchand. A
  RIVER LOST has been well received by educators
  and fits into curriculums teaching History,
  Native Americans, Environmental Studies, or
  Multi-Cultural Themes. To complete the lesson
  plan, the students will read the story, locate
  the river on a map, and form discussion groups
  about the fate of this tribe.

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American heritage lesson plans

• History Network-The American West
• The occasion marking the transfer of Upper
  Louisiana from Spanish authority to French to the
  United States has been known as "Three Flags
  Day". Actually this took place during a two day
  period, March 9th and 10th 1804. Since St. Louis'
  population at that time was primarily French
  extraction, the French flag, was allowed to fly
  for one day prior to the transfer to the United
  States. Originally the area was first owned by
  France, then came under Spanish rule prior to
  1770, when the Spanish Lt. Governor, Pedro
  Piernas first arrived. Students will read about
  the Louisiana Purchase and Three Flags Day. We
  will eat some cajun-style food, and talk about
  the culture of Louisiana. Then we will create the
  flags that were flown.  

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American Heritage lesson plans

• Historical Text Archive
• Through this site, students will access LycosZone
  for kids to search for information concerning
  African-American leaders who were instrumental in
  our countrys development.

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American heritage lesson plans

• The "First Thanksgiving" Facts and Fancies
• The event we now know as "the First Thanksgiving"
  was in fact neither the first occurrence of our
  modern American holiday, nor was it even a
  'Thanksgiving" in the eyes of the Pilgrims who
  celebrated it. It was instead a traditional
  English harvest celebration to which the
  colonists invited Massasoit, the most important
  sachem among the Wamapanoag. It was only in the
  nineteenth century that this event became
  identified with the American Thanksgiving
  holiday. The students can search for more
  information on Thanksgiving, plan a Thanksgiving
  meal, and dress in colonial-style clothing.

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American heritage lesson plans

• Sample Sources tombstones Primary
• Write an obituary for a person memorialized on an
  old tombstone. Use information from the epitaph
  and research about the era in which the person
  lived. Research the meaning of stone carvings
  that appear on the tombstone. Study epidemic
  illnesses or other circumstances the might
  explain common causes of death at the time.

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American heritage lesson plans

• Gold Fever! Seattle Outfits the Klondike Gold
  Rush (55)
• Examine how the discovery of gold in the Canada's
  remote Klondike region touched off the last great
  gold rush, creating an economic boom that changed
  the city of Seattle forever

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American heritage lesson plans

• The Real American Cowboy
• What sort of person was the cowboy? A maverick
  loner, a man who was his own boss, the John Wayne
  figure of the movies? Real cowboys were nothing
  like their Hollywood counterparts. Often black,
  Hispanic, even female, the cowboy led a rough and
  lonely life, often left to himself on the
  American plains and responsible for large herds
  of cattle. Yet the cowboy remains an enduringly
  mythical figure to people around the world.
  Students will look up websites about cowboys and
  write a short paragraph with an illustration
  about the information they receive.

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American heritage lesson plans

• Avoiding the Dreaded Smallpox
• A smallpox epidemic has erupted in
  eighteenth-century Virginia. Can you protect your
  family from this dreaded disease? Developed for
  Colonial Williamsburg's Electronic Field Trip
  program. Students may view this site as a class
  to find out more about this electronic field
  trip.

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American heritage lesson plans

• The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a yearly calendar
  like the western calendar, except that the start
  of the lunar year is based on the cycles of the
  moon. Thus the beginning of the year can fall
  anywhere between late January and the middle of
  February. Western cultures date the years from
  the birth of Jesus Christ (For example, 1994
  means 1,994 years after the birth of Christ), and
  thus approach the progression of years from a
  linear point of view. In traditional China,
  dating methods were cyclical, meaning that the
  years repeat according to a pattern. The
  repetition is in increments of twelve years. The
  children will compare our traditional calendar to
  that of this culture to further understand the
  heritage of Asian-Americans.

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People in societies objectives

• The student will recognize that citizens of the
  United States today can trace their origins.
• The student will identify various groups to which
  the learner belongs.
• The student will recognize that members of the
  community are affected by changes in the
  community that occur over time.
• These objectives are in accordance with the Ohio
  Model Competency-Based Program for Social Studies.

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People in societiesWeb site lessons

• http//www.towson.edu/coe/ssmd/GEOGK3-1.htmgeogk3
  1top
• Geography K-3rd Students will demonstrate an
  understanding of geographic concepts and
  processes as needed to examine the role of
  culture, technology, and the environment in the
  location and distribution of human activities.
• http//ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/
  cecsst058.html
• PURPOSE This lesson will encourage students to
  use the higher level thinking skills and will
  help them learn to better cooperate with their
  peers. It will also help students develop a
  respect for cultures different from their own
• gopher//bvsd.k12.co.us/00/Educational_Resources/L
  esson_Plans/Big20Sky/social_studies/CECsst.3909
  092B

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People in societiesweb sites lessons

• FAMOUS PERSON -- WHO AM I?
• PURPOSE The purpose of this activity is to
  review various historical personalities studied.
• http//pbscyberschool.org/teach/lesson81_1.html
• This can be used to teach students the skills
  they need to know for travel. It also teaches the
  students tolerance by fostering their knowledge
  and understanding of another country's culture
  and customs.

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People in societiesweb sites lessons

• http//pbscyberschool.org/teach/lesson50_1.html
• This lesson can be used to teach the five themes
  of geography
• 1. Location
• 2. Description of place
• 3. Human-environment interaction
• 4. Movement
• 5. Regions
• http//educate.si.edu/resources/lessons/siyc/eskim
  o/page01.html
• Identify materials used in several traditional
  cultural objects.
• Interpret possible functions of several
  traditional cultural objects.
• Bering Sea Eskimo People

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People in societiesweb sites and lessons

• http//www.lessonplanspage.com/SS23.htm
• After a lesson about Amish Communities, students
  will write a paragraph describing similarities
  and differences between the two communities
• http//ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/
  cecsst058.html
• This lesson will encourage students to use the
  higher level thinking skills and will help them
  learn to better cooperate with their peers. It
  will also help students develop a respect for
  cultures different from their own.
• http//www.indiana.edu/japan/japan/mdnjapan/LS22.
  html
• Students will develop a design for their own
  family crest. Students will then make a large
  model crest for their family.

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People in societiesweb sites lessons

• http//www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/searcher
• Children will identify specific characteristics
  of their own neighborhood and share the
  information with their classmates. This activity
  will enable children to see that other
  neighborhoods can be different from their own,
  but also similar in many ways.

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