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Map Skills

October14

Definitions and Explanations:

Map Skills

Longitude & Latitude (Atlas)

Greenwich Meridian

On-Line Activities:

Be a Mapmaker

Maps that Teach

Longitude & Latitude Game

Abe Lincoln & Illinois

October9

Abe Lincoln

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

White House Bio

The History Place Timeline

A Lincoln Fact Page (site includes games, stories, & activities on right hand side)

The A. Lincoln Library

On-line Virtual Tours of A. Lincoln Sites

Robert Lincoln (Answers to…Is there anyone alive related to Abe Lincoln)

Illinois

Illinois Fact Page

Branches of Government

General Assembly of Illinois

Illinois Government

Civil War

October27

Online Learning

Civil War for Kids

Civil War

Kids Konnect: Civil War

Gettysburg National Military Park

Mrs. Huber’s Civil War for kids

Civil War for 5th grade

Primary Source Documents

Civil War Photographs

Underground Railroad

Virtual Quilt

Information for Reports and Biographies

Civil War Generals

Women of the Civil War

Women Spies

Guide for Research

Native Americans

September29

Kachina Dolls: site1, site2, site3

Native Americans: site1 , site2, site 3, site4, site5, site6, site7, site8

Housing: site1, site2

Languages: site1

Art: site1, site2, site3

Myths and Legends: site1, site2

Early Explorers

June6

Men listed by countries for which they sailed

Vikings

Eric the Red:Mariner’s

Leif Ericksson: Great Norwegian, Milllennium, Mariner’s

Portugal

Prince Henry the Navigator: Mr.Dowling, Encyclopedia.com , Enchanted Learning, Thinkquest, Mariner’s

Vasco da Gama: Web Project, Enchanted Learning, Elizabethan Era, Milllennium, Mariner’s, All About

Pedro Alvares Cabral: Elizabethan Era, Enchantd Learning

Spain

Christopher Columbus:  Elizabethan Era, Enchanted Learning, Milllennium, Mariner’s, All About

Amerigo Vespucci: Elizabethan Era, Milllennium

Vasco de Balboa: Elizabethan Era, Enchanted Learning. All About

Ferdinand Magellan: Elizabethan Era, Enchanted Learning, Milllennium, Mariner’s, All About

Bartholomeu Dias: Elizabethan Era, Mariner’s

Juan Ponce de Leon: Thnikquest, Elizabethan Era, Enchanted Learning All About

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo:

Hernando de Cortez: Elizabethan Era, Milllennium

Hernando de Soto: Elizabethan Era, Enchanted Learning,All About

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado: Elizabethan Era, Enchanted Learning

Italy

Marco Polo: Silk Road (AMNH) , Middle Ages, Milllennium

Giovanni Da Verrazzano: Elizabethan Era

Amerigo Vespucci: Elizabethan Era, Milllennium, All About

France

Estavanico: Elizabethan Era, Enchanted Learning

Jacques Cartier: Elizabethan Era, Mariner’s, All About

Samuel de Champlain: Elizabethan Era, Milllennium, Mariner’s, All About

Rene Sieur de LaSalle:Milllennium, Mariner’s

Jacques Marquette: Elizabethan Era,

England

John Cabot: Elizabethan Era, Enchanted Learning, Milllennium, Mariner’s, All About

Sebastion Cabot: Elizabethan Era, Enchanted Learning, Mariner’s

Sir Francis Drake: Elizabethan Era, Milllennium, Mariner’s, All About

Sir Walter Raleigh: Elizabethan Era, Mariner’s

Sir Humphrey Gilbert: Elizabethan Era

James Cook: Elizabethan Era, Milllennium, Mariner’s, Cook Society

Dutch

Henry Hudson: Elizabethan Era, Milllennium, Mariner’s,All About , Chadwick

The Ships

Caravels

Carrack

Navigators

Ship Types

The Tools

tools used by

General Websites

Enchanted Learning’s Explorers

The Elizabeth Era/The Age of Exploration

Explorers of the Millennium

Mariner’s Museum

All About Explorers

Kids Konnect ; Explorers

For Teachers

Explorers Activity Packet for teacher

Explorers Report

The 13 Original Colonies

April12

Interactive Maps:

Social Studies for Kids

Mr. Nussbaum

Settlements:

Roanoke: Kid Info,

Jamestown:  Quiz, Adventure, Virtual Tour, On the Trail GameJamestown 1607

Plymouth:  Read About Plantation, Scholastic, Mayflower,

Colonies:

13 Original Colonies: site1, site 2, , site4, site 5, site 6,

New England Colonies: kid info, Columbia, US history,

Mid-Atlantic Colonies:

Southern Colonies:

Topics of Interest:

Original Money of the Coloniessite 1, site 2, site 3, site4Housing site 1, site 2

Design a historic home

Clothing site1,

Colonial Towns: Williamsburg

Flags: site1

Children: site1

Famous People of the Colonies: site1

Daily Life: site1, site 2, site 3, site 4, site 3

Jobs: roots, lms, whps

Food: site1

Pastimes: site 1 site2, site 3

Religions: site1, site 2

Colonial Life: Colonial Times and People (thank you to Mrs.Owen’s class from Pine Central for sending this link in!) 

Cause of the Rev. War

March30

Loyalist: site1, site2, site3

Revolutionary War

March5

General Knowledge Sites:

http://www.multied.com/revolt/

http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/KSD/DE/research/revolution/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

Famous Patriots

George Washington smithsonian game

States and Capitals

January12

On-Line games (practice and learn all the US states and capitals)

50 States and Capitals

State and Capital Quiz (Quia)

State and Capital Quiz (I like 2 Learn)

State and Capital Quiz (Your Child Learns)

State andCapitals (sheppard software)

State and Capitals (funbrain)

Music Videos

States and Capitals Song (youtube video)

Wakko’s 50 States and Capitals (youtube video)