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Williamsburg For Teachers - The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Grades
3 to 8
tag(s): colonial america (97), williamsburg (8)
In the Classroom
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Charlestown Navy Yard - Boston National Historical Park
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3 to 8tag(s): boston (11), colonial america (97)
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The History of the Pilgrims - Cape Cod National Seashore
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3 to 8tag(s): colonial america (97)
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A Teacher's Heritage Education Handbook - National Park Service
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3 to 8tag(s): colonial america (97), roanoke (6)
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Search for the Lost Colony - National Park Service
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3 to 8tag(s): colonial america (97), roanoke (6)
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The Roanoke Voyages - A Mystery Story for Young People - National Park Service
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3 to 8tag(s): colonial america (97), roanoke (6)
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Fort Raleigh National Historical Site - The National Park Service
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3 to 8tag(s): colonial america (97), roanoke (6)
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Pyramids: The Inside Story - NOVA: PBS
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5 to 12tag(s): archeology (26), egypt (59), pyramids (24)
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Use the lesson plan to build a scale model of a pyramid in your classroom or assign your students to explore the pyramids and collect information to compare them to burial customs of other ancient civilizations. You will definitely want to make this site available as a link from your teacher web page for further exploration. Teachers of gifted could use this as a springboard for an entire Egypt unit.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fort Matanzas National Monument Map
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3 to 8tag(s): colonial america (97)
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Fort Caroline Map - TeachersFirst
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3 to 8tag(s): colonial america (97), map skills (69)
In the Classroom
Get an interactive whiteboard and share this map with your students. Use the map to help your students understand Colonial America and how to read a map. Share this and other sections of the TeachersFirst Colonial America tour as part of your study of the colonies so students can see what these historic locations look like today.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Castillo de San Marcos National Monument - National Park Service Department of the Interior
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3 to 8tag(s): colonial america (97), virtual field trips (139)
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Fort Matanzas
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3 to 8tag(s): colonial america (97)
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Colonial Williamsburg: Virtual Tours of the Town - Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): colonial america (97), virtual field trips (139), williamsburg (8)
In the Classroom
If you have a whiteboard or projector, you will have a captivated class. Individual or paired computer experience will allow your students to walk through the streets on their own. How about having a cyber-scavenger hunt? You will need to walk through the town yourself to find tidbits along the way, then later, ask the students to find them. They must give you the location where they were found.Younger students will need to be shown how to cyber-walk through the streets. You can ask them to report to you about the citizens they meet along the way. Ask students to draw their own colonial town based upon a layout like Williamsburg.
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Colonial Williamsburg Lesson Plans - Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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4 to 8tag(s): colonial america (97), williamsburg (8)
In the Classroom
These resources make it easy to plan an entire unit on life in Williamsburg, from Daily Life to in the History in Practice which includes Research Methods. This unit is so massive you could divide students into small groups to read and research one topic under the categories and use a multimedia tool to present their findings to the class. Use Genially, reviewed here for this presentation since students can choose the type of tool for the presentation (slide presentations, interactive images, videos, infographics, more). While you are at this page, sign up for the free e-newsletter to keep up to date on offerings to teachers from Williamsburg. Make sure you visit the More Resources for additional information to enhance your lessons like Primary Sources Content Lessons, How a Bill Becomes a Law Debate Activity, and several others.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Art Presentations - Free Club Web
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K to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): colors (63), costumes (4), impressionism (5), native americans (129), symmetry (31), van gogh (8)
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Try these ready-to-go PowerPoint presentations on an interactive whiteboard or projector in your classroom. Some may also be well-suited for individual students to run on a single classroom computer for individua; exploration. There are games, resources and a lot of information.The site includes a disclaimer asking to be notified if users find any unauthorized, copyrighted material. TeachersFirst recommends that you NOT download copies but instead use them online, just in case.
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Mythology - Myvocabulary.com
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5 to 12tag(s): greek (45)
In the Classroom
Use this site to reinforce and support vocabulary as you study Mythology. Share the word puzzles on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students create their own word activities from the same vocabulary list, such as matching or ranking challenges for their peers to try on the interactive whiteboard.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Academy of Achievement - Academy of Achievement
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5 to 12tag(s): charactered (86), heroes (23), pioneers (13), social skills (23)
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If you assign any kind of "hero," "pioneer," or "leader" biography project, this site is a fabulous resource for students. The list of achievers includes many who may not be instantly recognizable to students and therefore provide more potential for discovery. In addition, the site is large enough and well-enough organized that students can start with this site and "dig" for a possible achiever to research, either by achievement area or by character trait. The site includes a diverse group of achievers, so is also useful if you're doing Women's History or Black History projects. Include this site on your teacher web page for students and parents to access as a reference.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure - PBS & Candide Media Works, Inc.
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): authors (113)
In the Classroom
Use this as a group activity in a lesson on Hemingway: the man and the author to involve students and make them responsible for sharing the information with each other. Clicking on "Classroom" at the bottom of the page will take you to a several lessons created by English teacher, Betsy Norris. These lessons are geared for grades 6-8, language arts and social studies. This site could be useful across a wide grade range.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Art Access - Art Institute of Chicago
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Take a few minutes to explore the art of a continent, country, or time period you introduce through social studies or literature. Include this site on your teacher web page as you study these related topics to students and parents can access it outside of class even if you do not have enough time to devote a full lesson. The images are not very large, so viewing on individual computers or using a projector that has a zoom function would help you share with a class. Teachers will like the creativity of some of the "family" activities and may want to use them at school or suggest them in a newsletter or on your web page.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Google Drive - Google
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): editing (90), slides (37), spreadsheets (21), Storage (7)
In the Classroom
A "tour" and simple-to-understand directions make this site easy to use. Have your students set up collaborative groups for projects, lab data, and more. Or set them up yourself, giving them specific passwords to access their "space." Help your gifted students stay organized (and collaborate) using this tool. Users are normally invited to "join" via an email message. This may be problematic for many schools that do not permit student email access on school premises. Note that notifications sent by Google Docs may also land in "junk mail" folders or be blocked by spam filters. We suggest that you experiment with a small group of students to determine what will work in your particular situation. One option is to set up the groups with the teacher as a "member" but have students work from home, using their personal email addresses, for group projects. Make sure you are protecting the safety of student work and identity, and that you are in compliance with your school's Acceptable Use Policy. Anything students can do on a single computer, they can do collaboratively on Google Docs, accessing their work from any online computer.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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