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Geographical Perspectives
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Regions, Location, Place
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- Regions of the
United States - These regions are cultural units rather than governmental
units - formed by history and geography and shaped by the economics,
literature and folkways that all the parts of a region share. Natural
resource information and more for each region
- Facts and symbols
of the States Detailed information about every state
- Boundaries
of the United States -Watch an animation of the changing boundaries
of the United States from 1650 to 1907
- Continents
and Oceans - quiz to be answers whole class or printed out for individual
assignments.
- Landform
Definitions - quiz to be answers whole class or printed out for
individual assignments.
- Geographic
Regions of North America - quiz to be answers whole class or printed
out for individual assignments.
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Map Skills
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- Maps That Teach
- Learn United States and World geography with Maps that Teach. Interactive
maps to learn continents, countries, states, capitals, borders, physical
features and cultural monuments
- Look up
the latitude and longitude of states in the U.S.
- Latitude
and longitude online quiz
- Find your
Longitude - Interactive game
- 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!
- Topo
Bingo - This exercise is intended to familiarize students with topographic
maps, the symbols used on them, and some basic topographic features.
Instructions and game pieces are available for printing out for the
class
- Map
Wizard - (Plot longitude or latitude) This site can stimulate children
to visualize and understand complex relationships between environments,
places, and people. Students can 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.
- What
do Maps Show - Several activities are presented to assist in teaching
the concepts of reading maps
- West Nile Virus Maps-
Practice on reading maps.
- Topographic
Maps - Learn the symbols of this map.
- Exploring
Maps - Students will learn basic map-making and map-reading skills
and will see how maps can answer fundamental geographic questions: "Where
am I?" "What else is here?" "Where am I going?"
- Map and Globe Quiz
- Test your knowledge on identifying the parts of a map and a globe.
- Map Skills Quiz -
Online quiz to test knowledge of reading maps
- Map Skills -
Use the map and legend on this page to answer the following questions.
- Mapping Quiz - Do
you know the parts of a map?
- U.S.
Presidential Election Maps - Students can find the differences between
the electoral and popular vote. Good for map reading skills
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Movement
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- Charts
and Maps depicting Early America - Many maps and charts depicting
happenings during the early colonial times
- European
Immigration - Description of reasons for emigration and changes
they made in America.
- Immigration
- Coming to America - Interactive tour of Ellis Island - follow
a boy through his journey to a new land.
- Immigration
Webquest - learn about the greatest human migration period in the
United States history
- Immigration
Resources - pictures, statistics and more
- Photo
Gallery - American History 102 - Explore primary sources and interpret
pictures
- Western Expansion
- A multi link site with many resources - online activities, online
lessons and informational sites
- Westward
Expansion - Welcome to "The Oregon Trail" web site--the award-winning
story of the great western journey. Enjoy the adventure!
- Westward Ho! - This
lesson studies early United States territorial expansion and examines
how westward movement of the pioneers affected the American Indians.
Many resource links are offered that provide additional information.
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Historical And Cultural Perspectives.
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Timelines
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An
Internet4Classrooms page devoted to timelines
- Civil
War for Kids - Timelines, Biographies of Leaders, Mapping Skills
and much more
- 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
- Timeline
of Russia - Track Russian history along this timeline
- Timeline
Travels - Inventions from 1976-2000
- Industrial
Revolution - from 1700 to 1899
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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
- Growth of a Nation
- (Shockwave needed) An animated movie time line of the thirteen colonies
entering into the U.S. (Animated Atlas.Com)

- Revolutionary War - Causes,
Battles, Biographies, and more
- American
Revolution - lessons, activities and more.
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People, Places Events
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- Analyzing
Visual Clues - Examine the pictures and find clues to help answer
the questions.
- Interpret
primary source documents - Examine the artifacts draw some conclusions
about the history of the American farm and what its future may be in
our country
- Pre-Civil
War Review - Excellent online quiz review of people and events
- What
do you See? - America in pictures. Evaluate what you see and answer
the questions about the picture. Answers provided on a different web
page
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