1.
Play the Jamestown Online Adventure
- In 1606, some 105 adventurers set off from England to try and establish
the first permanent English colony in the New World.The early years
of the colony were nearly a total disaster due to the poor choices of
the colonists. Can you do better than the colonists? In the Jamestown
Online Adventure you become the captain and make the important decisions.
Click here to play
the adventure.
2.
Bring immigrants to America - Take
this quiz and help immigrants come to America. Students see a map
of the world and each time they answer a question correctly immigrants
from another country immigrate to the US. A map of the US then shows
which region of the country those immigrants settled in.
3.
Rewrite the Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence -
Take a look at this
edited copy of the original Declaration of Independence and see
if you agree with the suggestions given by others, or Thomas Jefferson's
original words. When you're finished, you can compare your version to
the printed document.
4.
Play the USA Map Jigsaw Games - These
games are excellent for playing with a SmartBoard! There are five
levels of games that consist of dragging the US states to their correct
places on the map.
5.
Discover Lewis & Clark - The mission of this
site is to become the most comprehensive and useful Lewis and Clark
website on the Internet. It's doing a pretty good job! There are ten
different sections of this site, including the corps, journal entries,
geography, and technology.
6.
Integrate technology and geography - This
resource page from eSchoolNews has links to several articles with
information
to help you integrate GIS and other geospatial technologies into your
classroom.
7.
Watch Great
Wall Across the Yangtze - Snagfilms has become another
site that I use to find video for my class. It is full of free films
(not necessarily for the classroom) that you can stream or Snag and
embed into your website (see below). I showed my fifth graders the first
five minutes of the Great Wall Across
the Yangtze, a film about the Three Gorges Dam being built in
China that is to be completed this year. It is a very controversial
engineering project and it made for a great
discussion in class.
8.Test
your global IQ
- How much do you know about our wonderful world? Test your geosmarts
with these
online tools! I particularly like the Roper Survey of Geography
Literacy because your students can see how students across the country
answered each question.
9.
Take a virtual tour of a tenement - Experience the history of
a tenement in New York City by taking this
virtual tour from the Tenement Museum in NYC. Your students will
be able to enter the tenement from the outside, ascend the stairs and
see the conditions that many immigrants had to endure when they came
to America.
10.
Read about the life of a slave in America - A series of articles
about the
experience of African Americans during the institution of slavery.
