2009
Have Fun with Living History - Free streaming history videos & activities
American history is best served hot and there are lots of ways to warm up to it. At HFwH, we bring free streaming video, interactive presentations, and links to many other resources to bring history alive.
Go a step beyond the social studies or history classroom and use all your senses to connect with American History through audio, video, and living history.
2008
Welcome to The Monticello Classroom!
Resources and activities for unit on Colonial America.
2007
On the Trail of John Smith
Follow John Smith as he helps establish the Jamestown colony, explores the Chesapeake Bay, and meets local Native Americans in this new interactive adventure. Great for differentiation: audio narration with animated story and embedded learning games occur withing within the story.
Google Earth Virtual Tours
Click the "Open KML" Link to view the tour in Google Earth
My Wonderful World--More to Explore for Kids
Lots of places to prepare for the GeoBee
World Atlas
by 1 other (via)Highest lowest biggest smallest tallest deepest oldest youngest Continents Countries Cities Dependencies Deserts Islands Lakes Mountains Oceans Provinces Rivers Seas and more list by World Atlas
Geo Quiz Archive
Geoquiz from BBC/PRI in text and audio format
The Seven World Wonders
(via)A complete listing of all the World Wonders in a variety of categories
Geospy -- National Geographic Kids
(via)Can you identify all the continents, states, and provinces? Try GeoSpy and find out!
A Colonial Family and Community
(via)Be a history detective. Go back in time and investigate the daily lives of the Daggetts, a colonial family from northeastern Connecticut. Collect clues to uncover answers to 7 questions about colonial life in the 1700s. Then prove your skills as a history detective by discovering "What's wrong with this picture?"
Merchants of the Great Exchange | EXPLORATION through the AGES
Two fun and educational interactive games: Merchants of the Great Exchange and Whose Lunch is it anyway. Numerous handouts for teachers of this unit.
Designing With SketchUp Infowiki - Models of Villages
Project idea using Google Sketchup for the colonies unit
2006
Colonial Williamsburg: Past and Present: Podcasts
These enhanced audio files feature special interviews and photos available only to our Web users. Listen to programs on your computer, or download and listen later on your MP3 player.
Lloyd Dobyns is your host as you go "behind the scenes" to meet interpreters, chefs, tradesmen, musicians, historians, curators, and more.
New Podcasts are added weekly. (To subscribe, paste this url into your podcast software or RSS reader: http://www.history.org/media/rssfeeds_cw.xml).
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