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Geographical Perspectives
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Regions, Location, Place
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- Facts and symbols
of the States - Detailed information about every state
- Regions
of the United States - Quizzes on each region. Click on the region
you wish to learn about.
- Regions
of the United States - Details about the regions
- Regions
of the United States - An iAdventure for fourth graders designed
to promote awareness of the different
regions of the United States.
- Regional
Climates - Climate information on the regions plus an online quiz
at the end.
- Oceans and Continents
- quia quiz
- Countries
and Continents - Print out outline maps of the areas
- Conquer the Continents
- Students have one minute to identify as many countries as possible
from the continent he or she chooses.
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Map Skills
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- 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!
- Map
Wizard - Students plot longitude or latitude. Stimulate children
to visualize and understand complex relationships between environments,
places, and people. Learn to read topographic maps and much more.
- Map
Adventures - online lesson to guide young students in basic concepts
for visualizing objects from different perspectives and how to understand
and use maps
- National
Atlas of the United States - Use this interactive service to draw
maps of various complexity.
- Jeopardy Map Game -
Geographical and map parts quiz
- Geography and Map Skill
Quiz - Answer the questions online - game show style
- Map Skills -PDF
file ; Use the map and legend on this page to answer the following questions.
- Lesson
plans for 4th and 5th graders - Learning map skills
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Human Environment and Systems,
Effects on Society
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- How the
Industrial Revolution affected Families - The Plight of Women's
Work in the Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
- Technology
Changes in the Home - Take a look at this fantastic visual discussing
the coming of technology in home use. This is a time line in the form
of a Shockwave image that changes as you pull the slider to the left
or right. For any year, you can get information about any object in
the image by placing your mouse cursor over the part of the image you
are interested in.
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Historical And Cultural Perspectives.
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Timelines
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- An Internet4Classrooms page devoted to timelines
- Timeline
Travels - Inventions from 1976-2000
- Food Timeline - Track food
from the beginning of time
- Timelines
& Date Keys for Fast track to America's Past - Timelines from
the 1400s to the present. Good teaching tools on reading timelines.
- History
of Inventions - Great timeline tool to use for lessons and discovery!
- Civil
War for Kids - Timelines, Biographies of Leaders, Mapping Skills
and much more
- Thanksgiving
Unit and Timeline - Follow the Pilgrims from the time they left
for the New World to the First Thanksgiving.
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Time, Continuity, and Change
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- America's
Story - (read about Amazing Americans) Visit "Join America at Play,"
where you'll see a film of an early break-dancer from 1898. Ever hear
of a "cloth sandwich"? You'll know what I'm talking about when you read
the stories in this section. Many stories from the past
- A
Colonial Family - Read about this family, then interact with movies,
questions, and photos. Answer questions about life in early times
- Children
in Colonial America - webquest
- Colonial
America - Activities with lessons and quizzes.
- Revolutionary War - Causes,
Battles, Biographies, and more
- Growth of a Nation
- (Shockwave needed) An animated movie time line of the thirteen colonies
entering into the U.S. (Animated Atlas.Com)
- Life
on Plymouth Plantation - Interactive online lesson with many activities
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People, Places and Events
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- Native
Americans - Art, Daily Life, Maps, Pictures and Research
- Native
Americans - Go on an adventure on the the plains of North America
to discover just what kind of life you would have led if you were born
to a Plains Indian tribe in the 19th century.
- Who are
the Native Americans? - An iAdventure learning activity about Native
Americans
- Explore the World
of Early America - Check out the original papers from early times;
from obituaries of famous Americans to maps to biographies and pictures.
- U.S. Territorial
Maps 1775-1920- Read and interpret maps on Western Expansion
- Revolutionary
War Heroes - Webquest
- Explorers
of the Millennium
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Cultures, Cultural Perspectives
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- Historical
Tidbits - How Native Americans helped Lewis and Clark.
- American Heritage Project
- How Immigrants impacted the U.S.
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