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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.

Resources and activities for unit on Colonial America.

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.

Click the "Open KML" Link to view the tour in Google Earth

Lots of places to prepare for the GeoBee

How to use a wiki for the GeoBee

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

Geoquiz from BBC/PRI in text and audio format

A complete listing of all the World Wonders in a variety of categories

Can you identify all the continents, states, and provinces? Try GeoSpy and find out!

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?"

Two fun and educational interactive games: Merchants of the Great Exchange and Whose Lunch is it anyway. Numerous handouts for teachers of this unit.

Project idea using Google Sketchup for the colonies unit

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