Sunday, November 06, 2005

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Timeline 1541-2001 from the Library of Congress. Includes primary documents, photographs, and questions for discussion for grades 6-12.
  • Thanksgiving Timeline from LOC

  • Additional Thanksgiving resources from Library of Congress.
  • Thanksgiving in American Memory

  • Plimoth 1621 from Scholastic for Grades K-8.
  • The First Thanksgiving: Plimoth 1621

  • You Are the Historian for Grades 3-6. Interactive site designed to dispel myths around "The First Thanksgiving."
  • You Are the Historian

  • Turkey Activity from Starfall for Grades K-2. Create turkey picture and print.
  • Turkey Activity from Starfall
  • Thursday, November 03, 2005

    Online Interactive Mathematics

    Use these dynamic display tools to demonstrate math relationships in ways that static pictures and words cannot.

    Interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives for mathematics instruction. Pre-k to Grade 12.
  • National Library of Virtual Mathematics

  • Interactive math and science tools and activities from Shodar Education Foundation.
  • Shodar Interactivate

  • Create a Graph from National Center for Education Statistics
  • The New Create a Graph

  • Harcourt Interactive E-Lab for grades 3-8.
  • Harcourt Mathematics eLab

  • Cut-the-Knot Interactive Mathematics Activities. Includes Calculus, Geometry, Combinatorics, and more.
  • Cut-the-Knot Interactive Mathematics
  • Tuesday, November 01, 2005

    The Rosa Parks Bus

    Take a virtual tour of the Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum. Read the story behind the bus, view a timeline, and step on the bus with a 360° view of the restored interior. Click on Save America's Treasures Grant Supports Bus Restoration to find the link to images of bus and restored interior.
  • The Rosa Parks Bus

  • This diagram shows where Rosa Parks was seated from the National Archives and Records Administration
  • Bus diagram from NARA

  • Teaching With Documents Using the Arrest Records of Rosa Parks from NARA
  • Arrest Records of Rosa Parks Lesson Plan

  • Scholastic feature includes an interview with Rosa Parks for elementary grades
  • Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights