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Geographical Perspectives
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Regions, Location, Place
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- Communities - Animated
Field trips to various parts of your community.
- Looking
After Each Other - A community is a very important place where people
do their jobs and look after each other. Worksheets are used for follow
up activities.
- Landform
Definitions - quiz to be answers whole class or printed out for
individual assignments.
- Landforms of
the World - (site may be blocked by some school filters)
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Map Skills
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- Finding
The Way - Learn how to find your way around the streets of Europe.
Investigate navigational tools, and how to make your own compass. Discover
how Dolphins navigate.
- Map
Skills - Maps show us many types of information. We can learn about
a country's landforms, weather, population…… almost anything
simply by reading a map!
- National
Atlas of the United States - Use this interactive service to draw
maps of various complexity.
- Map
Adventures - online lesson to guide young students in basic concepts
for visualizing objects from different perspectives and how to understand
and use maps symbols and scales.
- Maps,
maps, and more maps! - an index to map lessons and map quizzes
- Using
Map Scales - a lesson followed by interactive practice
- Can
You Read a Map? - quiz to be answers whole class or printed out
for individual assignments.
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Human Environment and Systems,
Effects on Society
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- I
am Responsible - Unit discussing responsibilities.
- Customs
Around the World - Brief introduction to numerous customs in each
season of the year.
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Process, Investigation
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- Orientometer
- Discover the directions in this interactive game.
- Climate
Map - Check out the climate of the world.
- Raw
Materials and the Finished Product - A worksheet in .pdf
format that matches the raw material with the finished product
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Historical And Cultural Perspectives.
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Time, Continuity, and Change
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- Native
Americans - Art, Daily Life, Maps, Pictures and Research.
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People, Places and Events
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- Learning
and Teaching about Native Americans -list of sites that focus on
teaching about Native Americans
- Southwest
Native Americans - Basic information about the Southwest Native
Americans.
- Florida's
Hidden Treasure, St. Augustine - Graphic and textual article about
St. Augustine.
- History
of St. Augustine - The story of the founding of St. Augustine.
- A
Colonial Family - Read about this family, then interact with movies,
questions, and photos. Answer questions about life in early times
- Explore the World
of Early America - Check out the original papers from early times;
from obits of famous Americans to maps to biographies and pictures.
- Colonial Times
- Thinkquest
- Life
on Plymouth Plantation - Interactive online lesson with many activities.
- Southern
Colonies - Multilink site about colonial times and people
- U.S. Territorial
Maps 1775-1920- Read and interpret maps on Western Expansion.
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Timelines
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- An Internet4Classrooms page devoted to timelines
- Reading
a Timeline - A timeline of events to interpret in a class lesson.
- Generate
your own timeline - A fantastic site to help students learn to read
a horizontal timeline. Each student can create his/her own timeline!
A timeline of school events could be created! Only the imagination limits
you!
- Martin Luther
King Timeline - His life events on a timeline.
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Civics and Government |
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Basic Concepts |
- Ben's Guide
to the U.S. Government- Basic Civics lessons about government, symbols,
judicial branches and more.
- PBS Kids
Democracy Project - How does government affect your life? Why do
we need government?
- How Laws
Are Made - Explanation of the process of lawmaking, tracking a bill
in progress.
- Stand
up for your Rights - Stories from the past on how individuals fought
for their rights.
- Three
Branches of Government - Online Quiz
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American Ideals, Citizenship
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- Core
Rights of Freedom - Great site individualizes each right for discussion.
- Citizenship
- All aspects of being a citizen covered.
- Being
a Good Citizen - Instill the virtue of citizenship by explaining
the difference between good and bad citizenship.
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Economic Perspectives |
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Production and Distribution |
- Production,
Distribution and Consumers - a lesson (in .pdf format) that
can be printed and discussed in class. Basic Fact Sheet on Economics.
- Goods
and Services - Online interactive lesson.
- Goods,
Services, and Producers - This lesson is designed to review the
concepts of goods, services, and producers
- Delivering
the Goods - Online interactive lesson on goods and products.
- Goods
- Online interactive quiz about goods. Another
Goods online Quiz
- Services
- Online interactive quiz about services.
- Resources
- Find the section of the picture that indicates the type of resource
addressed. Good interactive quiz.
- Basic
Third Grade Economics - quiz to be answers whole class or printed
out for individual assignments.
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Production Maps |
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Science, Technology, Society |
- Field Corn Production
Map - Use this map as a tool to help students read and analyze map
data.
- Jobs
and Housing Map - Compare jobs with where people live.
- Transportation
Timeline - See the changes throughout the year in the way people
travel from place to place.
- Population
Study - lesson on Population Crowding in the States. Students
will be reading information from graphs, analyzing data and making predictions
from the information gathered.
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