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Social Science Grades 5-8 History Resources Print and Media Altman,
Susan. (2001).
Extraordinary African-Americans: From Colonial to Contemporary
Times. New
York: Children’s Press.
288 p. 0516259628.
$17.00. This
is an excellent resource that is arranged chronologically.
It profiles more than 100 African-Americans and describes important
periods in African-American history, including the Harlem Renaissance,
Reconstruction, and more.
Each entry includes a black-and-white photograph or drawing of the
subject. Includes
Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Phillis Wheatley, and more. Audience:
Grades
5, 6, 7, 8 Subjects:
African-Americans
- Biography Standard:
1,
2, 3, 4 Strand: History
Fradin,
Dennis B. (1987).
The Massachusetts Colony (Thirteen Colonies)..
Chicago: Children’s Press.
190 p. 0516003860.
$24.00. A
history of the colony, which began with the settling of the Pilgrims in
Plymouth, until its becoming the sixth state of the Union. Includes brief
biographical sketches of individuals prominent in Massachusetts' history.
Each of the books in this series about the early colonies is easy
to read and well-illustrated. Audience:
Grades
5, 6, 7, 8 Subjects:
Massachusetts
History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Standard:
1,
2, 3 Strand:
History Knight,
James E. (1982).
Salem Days: Life in a Colonial Seaport (Adventures in Colonial
America).. Mahwah,
N.J. : Troll. 31
p. 0816748039. $8.00. A
young farm boy running away to sea in 1774 explores the Salem harbor while
waiting for his ship to sail. Audience:
Grades
5, 6, 7, 8 Subjects:
Salem
(Mass.) History, Shipping - Massachusetts – Salem, Seafaring life,
United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Standard:
1,
2 Strand:
History Knight,
James E. (1982).
Seventh and Walnut: Life in Colonial Philadelphia.
(Adventures in Colonial America).
Mahwah, N.J. : Troll.
31 p. 0816749744.
$8.00. A
night watchman who is also the town crier in colonial Philadelphia talks
about the daily life in the city, its leading citizens, and important
landmarks as he shows a visitor to Chestnut Street. Audience:
Grades
5, 6, 7, 8 Subjects:
Philadelphia,
Pa. – Social Life and Customs – To 1775 Standard:
1,
2 Strand:
History
Maestro,
Betsy. (1997). Exploration
and Conquest : the Americas After Columbus.
New York: Mulberry Books.
48 p. 0688154743.
$7.00. Describes
how the lives of America's native inhabitants are changed forever by
European explorers who claim the land and its resources for their
countries Audience:
Grades
3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Subjects:
America
– Discovery and Exploration Standard:
1,
2, 3 Strand:
History Maestro,
Betsy. (1997). The
Discovery of the Americas.
New York: Mulberry Books.
48
p. 0688115128.
$7.00. Discusses
both hypothetical and historical voyages of discovery to America by the
Phoenicians, Saint Brendan of Ireland, the Vikings, and such later
European navigators as Columbus, Cabot, and Magellan Audience:
Grades
3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Subjects:
America
– Discovery and Exploration Standard:
1,
2, 3 Strand:
History Santella,
Andrew. (2001).
The Plymouth Colony (We the People).
New York: Crabtree.
48
p. 075650046X. $22.00 Just
one title in this easy-to-read series that is illustrated with archival
photos, paintings, maps, and documents.
Other worthwhile titles include: The Jamestown Colony and The
Thirteen Colonies.
Complete with table of contents, index, and glossary. Audience:
Grades
4, 5, 6 Subjects:
Pilgrims
(New Plymouth Colony), Massachusetts – History – New Plymouth,
1620-1691 Standard:
1,
2 Strand:
History The
Close Up Foundation,(2000)
The Bill of Rights:A
User's Guide, 3rd ed
History Resources Skip to Print and Media Resources Web Sites Academic Affairs Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1998-2002. Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives Fascinating autobiographies, biographies and fictionalized tales of American slaves URL: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html Free Audience: grades 7 and up and Teacher Subjects: American Slave Stories Primary Source materials Standards: Standard2: Historical Understanding; Standard 3: Research, Evidence and Point of View Strand: History
Bravearrow,
The Stockbridge Munsee Tribe of Mohican Indians The Muh-he-ka-ne-ok (7/09/01) Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, CBC4Kids History of Inventions (7/13/01) Carter,
Heather, Arizona State University, Civil
War Journal Web quest (7/12/01) Civil War.com, CivilWar.com
(7/13/01) Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. 2002. Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Resources Great Colonial Williamsburg lesson plans, glossary, timeline, song, biographies, photos, engravings of the period, Stamp Act summary, list of taxed items and amounts, downloadable PDF file. URL: http://www.history.org/history/teaching/eftsched00.cfm Free under “Sample Field Trips” Audience:
5, 7, 8 and Teacher Subjects:
American Revolution, its Causes and Colonial Williamsburg Standard: Standard 1: Chronology and cause; Standard2: Historical Understanding; Standard 3: Research, Evidence and Point of View Strand: History Crystal, Ellie,
Ancient and Lost Civilizations – Native Americans (7/10/01) Deisch,
Patrick, Thomas
Edison’s Inventions Web (7/13/01) Digital Scriptorium, Special Collections Library, Duke University. February, 1997. African-American Women On-line Archival Collections Read the incredible personal letters of four African American women who lived in slavery. (primary sources) URL:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
Free Audience:
Grades 8 Subjects:
African American History and Slavery-U.S. Standards:
1, 2, 4 Strand: History
Evans, Jim
(Redland Unified School District), Civil War Gazette (7/10/01) Fears,
Curtis; Schmid,
Jim, The Battle of the Wilderness
(7/12/01) Lamb,
Judith, WEBQUEST:
All Men Are Created Equal...? (7/9/01)
This webquest
is designed for students to identify with persecuted groups throughout our nation’s
expansion and history. It uses The
Declaration of Independence to draw a contrast between equality and the situation of
the Cherokee’s Trail of Tears, the Japanese Internment, and African American Civil
Rights Issues. It includes all needed links
and instructions. Library of
Congress, American Memory Project: Historical
Collections for the National Digital Library (7/9/01) Library of
Congress, The Historian’s Sources (7/9/01) Library of
Congress, The Learning Page: Lessons
(7/9/01) Library of
Congress, Selected Civil War Photographs (7/13/01) Library of
Congress, Time Line of African American History, 1901-1925 (7/12/01) The Museum
of African American History/African American Heritage Trail (7/9/01) PBS Online, Classroom
Resources (7/9/01) Schlessinger
Media/ JWM Productions, Ancient Greece [videorecording] (1998) Smithsonian
Institution, Inventors and Innovation (7/13/01) Syracuse
University, Ask Eric Lesson Plans (7/10/01) Weiler, Matthew. 1995-1999. U.S. Historical Documents Archive – List of Documents This site is a great resource for primary source materials, from Columbus’s letter to the king and queen of Spain to the Federalist Papers to the 1979 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. URL: http://w3.one.net/%7Emweiler/ushda/list.htm Free Audience: grades 7 and up and Teacher Subjects: History Primary Source materials Standards: Standard 1: Chronology and cause; Standard2: Historical Understanding; Standard 3: Research, Evidence and Point of View Strand: History
U.S. Department
of Education, FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) (710/01) U.S National Archives and Records Administration. 2002.NARA | NAIL | Search Archival Holdings in NAIL Click on “NAIL digital copies search” for images of many primary source documents. Type in “abolition” and “Franklin” and see a letter from Benjamin Franklin on the abolition of slavery. Be sure to click on “Display Images” button. Then click on the image to enlarge. URL: http://www.archives.gov/research_room/nail/search_nail.html Free Audience: Grades 7 and up and Teacher Subjects: U.S. History Primary Source materials Standards: Standard 1: Chronology and cause; Standard2: Historical Understanding; Standard 3: Research, Evidence and Point of View Strand: History |
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Social Science Grades 5-8 Print and Media Geography
5-8 Adams,
Simon.
(2000).
World Religions : Discover the Religions That Have Shaped World
History
New York: Lorenz Books.
64 p.
0754805328
$13.00. Profiles
the world's religions, providing information on their gods, beliefs, and
customs Audience:
Grades
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Subjects:
Religion Standard:
5 Strand:
Geography 5-8 Corona,
Laurel.
(2002). Afghanistan.
San Diego: Lucent Books.
112
p. 1590182170.
$22.00. Discusses
Afghanistan from prehistory through the twentieth century, the rise and
fall of the Taliban and contemporary challenges. Discusses the people,
land, culture, history, and future of the nation of Afghanistan. Audience:
Grades
5, 6, 7, 8 Subjects:
Afghanistan Standard:
8,
9;
2,
5 Strand:
Geography, History 5-8 Docherty,
J.P.
(1999).
Iraq.
Philadelphia: Chelsea House Pub.
104
p.
0791049795.
$22.00. Explores
the people, history, culture, land, climate, and economy of Iraq, the
"Cradle of Civilization." Audience:
Grades
5, 6, 7, 8 Subjects:
Iraq Standard:
8,
9; 2,
5 Strand:
Geography, History 5-8 Menzel,
Peter.
(1995).
Material World.
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
255
p.
0871564378.
$40.00. A
fascinating look at the material possessions of families throughout the
world. These people have been determined ``average'' for their countries
and have agreed to have photographers move the contents of their houses
outside in order to create visible representations of their relative
standards of living. Each family represents one of 30 different
countries-some poor, some rich.
Tables associated with the photographs provide statistical
portraits of the families and their nations; photographers' notes on their
specific projects enlighten the viewer. Audience:
Grades
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Adult Subjects:
Material
culture, Economic Development, Family, Lifestyles Standard:
8,
9;
11, Strand:
Geography, Economics 5-8 Rogers,
Dr. Alisdair.
(1999).
The Illustrated World Atlas. New York: Crabtree.
80
p. 0865058970.
$23.00. This
beautifully illustrated atlas divides the world into 15 regions, each
featuring people and places, nature, farming and industry, population and
statistics, and flags.
Audience:
Grades
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Subjects:
Geography,
Atlases Standard:
7,
8, 9;
14;
5, 6 Strand:
Geography, Economics, History 5-8
Geography Resources Skip to Print and Media Resources Web Sites Author Unknown
2 September 2002 Title: Contour
Maps with Dogs tails National
Geographic This lesson will teach teachers how to have your students craft miniature mountains from lumps of clay. They will then translate their mountains into topographic maps. These maps will include vital features and information such as date, orientation, grid, scale, title, author, index, legend, and source http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g68/dogstails.html Audience:
Teacher Grades 6-8 Standard #1
From a contour map, build a model that shows the physical features and the
location of wildlife/plants. Earth s Structure- Learning
Standard Describe the
layers of the solid earth, including the lithosphere, the hot
convectioning mantle and the dense metallic core.
Author Unknown
9 September 2002 Title: National
Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service Bathymetry ,
Topography and Relief This site
contains many excellent topographic diagrams of all features of the Earth. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/relief.html Audience:
Grades 5-12 Subject:
Maps Standard #1
From a contour map, build a model that shows the physical features
and the location of wildlife/plants.
Author Unknown
15 August 2002 Title: Terraserver Fun site for students to learn about maps. They are able to see a close up aerial view of their home. Audience:
Grades 5-8 Subject:
Maps Standard #1 Obtain a topographic relief and a corresponding paper contour map of a coastal area (preferably in Massachusetts). Use both types of map to demonstrate the changes in the coastline that would occur if sea level were to rise by various amounts. Crystal,
Ellie, Ancient and Lost Civilizations – Native Americans (7/10/01) Library
of Congress, American Memory Project: Historical
Collections for the National Digital Library (7/9/01) Author Johnson,
Scott 12
August 2002 Earth Science lesson
plans This is a fun
and easy web site for teachers to illustrate convergent, divergent and
transfer boundaries.
It shows how Pangaea changed from the past to the present http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/lesson.html Audience:
Teacher Subject: Plate
Tectonics Standard:
#5 Describe how the
movement of the earths crustal plates causes both slow changes in the
earth s surface (e.g. formation of mountains and ocean basins) and rapid
ones (e.g. volcanic eruptions and earthquakes).
Library
of Congress, The Learning Page: Lessons
(7/9/01)
Melanson, Linda 23 August 2002 Global Environmental Coastal Changes: Cause and Effect: A hands-on Approach Primary Style This contains good but simple lessons to teach convection in the Earth's Mantle, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Differentiate among radiation, conduction and convection the three mechanisms by which heat is transferred though the Earth's system. http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/6/97.06.01.x.html#f Audience Grades
5-8 Subject Heat Transfer in the Earth System Standard:
#5 Describe how the
movement of the earths crustal plates causes both slow changes in the
earth's surface (e.g. formation of mountains and ocean basins) and rapid
ones (e.g. volcanic eruptions and earthquakes). National
Geographic, Xpeditions (7/13/01) PBS
Online, Classroom Resources (7/9/01) Syracuse
University, Ask Eric Lesson Plans (7/10/01) U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. 2001. CIA World Factbook 2001 This excellent site provides country maps, flags and a rich array of information on many countries worldwide. Easy to use, but current issues updated only up to early 2001. URL:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Free Audience:
Grade 5 and up U.S.
Department of Education, FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) (710/01)
Author USGS
20 August 2002 Title: What
do maps show This is an
excellent site for teachers with 5 different lesson plans on how to teach
map skills http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/mapsshow_guide.htm#include Subject:
Maps Standard #1
From a contour map, build a model that shows the physical features and the
location of wildlife/plants. |
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Social Science Grades 5-8 Economics Resources Print and Media Castagna,
Christian ; Willgoos, Robert, Supply &
Demand [videorecording] SVE
& Churchill Media, c1999.
Economics Resources Skip to Print and Media Resources Web Sites
Library
of Congress, The Learning Page: Lessons
(7/9/01) PBS
Online, Classroom Resources (7/9/01) Syracuse
University, Ask Eric Lesson Plans (7/10/01) U.S.
Department of Education, FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) (710/01) |
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Social Science Grades 5-8 Civics and Government Resources Print and Media The
Close Up Foundation,(2000)
The Bill of Rights:A
User's Guide, 3rd ed |
