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Lesson Plans 9-12

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Lesson Plans: PreK-2 | 3 - 5 | 6 - 8 | 9 - 12

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Lesson Plans

• A Comparative Study Against Slavery Students create a slide show or Inspiration diagram depicting the differences and similarities between slave treatment based on slave narratives.
  
  
• Quadrant Analysis Students create a slide show depicting items found in their one square meter quadrant.

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Internet Lesson Plan

• American Memory
  http://memory.loc.gov/
  American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
  
  
• Ancient Egypt
  http://exn.ca/egypt/home.cfm
  This link will take you to a site that has several related links to information about ancient Egypt. The site also includes an online quiz as well as a link to book titles with synopsizes.
  
  
• California's Goldrush Country
  http://www.goldrush1849.com/
  A virtual tour of information about the California gold discovery, books about the gold rush, and opportunities to visit and experience this historic area of California.
  
  
• The Civil War and More
  http://www.civil-war-and-more.com/
  This site is a Civil War e-book that gives a detailed history of the Civil War including maps, original photos, and profiles.
  
  
• Classical Mythology
  http://www.princeton.edu/%7Erhwebb/myth.html
  This site was designed to provide convenient access to important mythological images (classical and later) , and to ancient sources from the Perseus Project Digital Library.
  
  
• The Declaration of Independence
  http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
  This is an online script of the Declaration of Independence in printed format, which makes it easy to read.
  
  
• Education First: Black History Activities
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
  Useful activities featuring Black History, created as models to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning.
  
  
• Encyclopedia Mythica
  http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html
  This is an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 6100 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.
  
  
• The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
  http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
  African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.
  
  
• From Revolution to Reconstruction
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/
  A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times. The main body of this hypertext project, which was started in 1994, comes from a number of USIA-publications.
  
  
• Geography IQ
  http://www.geographyiq.com/
  This site is loaded with links to maps as well as other information pertaining to the many worldwide countries that are included in the database.
  
  
• The History Globe
  http://www.historyglobe.com/
  The History Globe.com web site presents interactive areas for three historical periods. The Anglo-Apache Conflicts, The Oregon Trail section and the Jamestown Online Adventure.
  

• History Link 101
  http://historylink101.com/
  History Link 101 is a resource site for World History Classes. It is divided into six categories for each culture or time period. The categories are art, biographies, daily life, maps, pictures and research.
  
  

• HyperHistory Online
  http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
  This site contains information on people, history, events, and maps. You can look at the timeline and then clock it to bring up the info in a side window. Everything is color-coded so you can find your way around easily.
  
  
• K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet
  http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/
  Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html
  The design of this guide is to assist K-12 teachers, librarians, and students in locating on-line resources on Africa that can be used in the classroom for research and studies.
  
  
• Map Machine
  http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
  This site is good geography link to National Geographic's Map Machine, where the user has many options on choosing just the right map.
  
  
• Mummies
  http://exn.ca/mummies/home.cfm#Map/
  This is a site devoted to mummies, and includes stories, culture, books, as well as an online quiz. This site could be used in conjunction with a unit on ancient civilizations.
  
  
• Mystic Places
  http://exn.ca/mysticplaces/home.cfm/
  This link will take you to a site that will describe and show some of the most puzzling formations in the world. There is a great picture slide show as well as descriptions of books for further research.
  
  
• Napoleon in Egypt
  http://exn.ca/napoleon/egypt.cfm/
  This site is devoted to Napoleon's expeditions in Egypt. Also included are some related stories, such as the Battle of the Nile, and the Vice Admiral Lord Nelson, as well as the search for Napoleon's lost fleet.
  
  
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
  http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/
  An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust
  through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature.
  
  
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  http://www.ushmm.org/
  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
  
  
• Vincent Voice Library
  http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/
  Speeches, performances, lectures, interviews, broadcasts, etc. by over 50,000 persons from all walks of life recorded over 100 years.
  

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September 16, 2004

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