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This map helps students visualize the time, significance, and location of hundreds of events in American history. -
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Personal broadcast by Mrs. D and her 9th grade American history students, powered by GCast. -
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The Institute maintains this website to serve as a portal for American history on the Web; to offer high-quality educational material for teachers, students, historians, and the public; and to provide up-to-date information about the Institute's programs and activities. -
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"The American Library Association (ALA) named the Bill of Rights Institute a best free reference site of 2007 on October 9, 2007... Web sites were evaluated based on the quality of content on the webpage, availability, ease of use, whether the content is up-to-date. The ALA recognized the Bill of Rights Institute and other winners for the 'uniqueness of the resource as a whole.'" -
1voteThis is not technically fiction, but it’s a classic memoir of a family with 12 children growing up in the early 20th century. The parents are efficiency experts, and the father has developed schemes for making their home run smoothly. The book provides insight into the lifestyles of the era, and it is written in a funny, entertaining style. Certain chapters could stand alone for use in class.
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1voteThis website is based on the work of Harvard history professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife’s Tale focused on an ordinary midwife, Martha Ballard, who lived in Maine in the late 1700s. Ulrich pieced together a full story of the midwife’s life and her world based on a diary that she left behind. The website emphasizes the techniques that Ulrich used.
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1voteTwo different, paid, Constitution and American Government-related summer programs for teachers. A great opportunity to gain some teaching skills in knowledge in a great city while also receiving money for your effort!
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1voteOne of the best history/social studies based museums I've ever seen. Great website with plenty of tools for teaching if you can't make it to Philly to check out the museum itself.
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