United States History

Web site on American History: Topics that go across many units in this course:

Interactive Games related to American History: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/games/games.cfm (various objectives--depending on the gam selected)

Digital History: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ Links to the timeline, multimedia (movies, games), etc. that are helpful and well labeled. (9.1-9.5)

Whitehouse Interactive Timeline: Pick a time period and view the president who is in office, presidential milestones, white house visitors and cultural events beyond the white house for any of the following periods: 1800 through present day. Photo and video links are also provided on the timeline. (9.1-9.5)
http://www.history.com/classroom/whitehouse/index.html

America’s Story from the Great American Web Site: Good Web Site—Not much in the interactive area, but something teachers might be interested in—different ages to select from, activities etc. (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6)
http://www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi

American History of Art from New England: Explore areas & time periods in American History through artifacts. Students can create their own artifact collection for a certain time period and put their collection on a timeline of events that happened during the timeline period they input. Also, classroom activities and visual literacy activity with the artifacts in the collection provide a wealth of opportunity for a teacher willing to dig in and be creative.
http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/home.html
Possible Objective alignment: 9.1.3,

CNN Interactive Timeline for 80 days that changed the world: An interactive timeline with events that become clickable links that take you to web pages on the selected event.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/80.days/

Civil War: Great interactive site on finding clues to the identity of civil war players.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/resources/whoami/whoami.html

UNIT 1

Unit 1 Expansion of American Industry (Industrial Revolution), Politics 1870-1915, Gilded Age, Social Movement, Immigration and Urban Life 1870-1915

America on the Move: Transportation in America 1876-Present. How transportation has changed America. An interactive timeline, interactive games and activities:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/games/
Objective 9.1.1 addressed

Digital History Timeline: Use the slider at the bottom of the screen to pick a time period and on the map will appear icons for political/diplomatic; social/economic, and cultural events that happened during that time period. You can then click on the icon and a new browser window will appear with a web site related to the event.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineN.cfm


Monopoly Game On-line: Students can play a modern day demo of Monopoly which is interactive, rolling dice, etc. The history of Monopoly and how it evolved in the 20’s is also given. (9.1.2)
http://www.hasbro.com/monopoly/



Unit 4

Anne Frank the Writer: an Unfinished Story This website presents an indepth look at her writings through the use of a narrated exhibition, interviews, an opportunity for site users to respond, artifacts from the museum, and links to other recommended sites. Produced by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/af/htmlsite/
(Obj 9.4.7)

UNIT 5
Unit 5: Civil Rights Movement, Kennedy & Johnson Years—Vietnam, Women’s Movement:
Way Back: US History for kids—women’s rights and civil rights interactive site.
http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/index.html (OBJ 9.5.1, 9.5.8)

Teacher’s Domain Multimedia Collection:
Users must register (free service) but it is worth the effort. Video clips, interviews, etc. on a variety of topics. The site is not interactive, but a wealth of multimedia resources are available.(OBJ 9.5.1)
http://www.teachersdomain.org/9-12/soc/ush/civil/index.html

Renaissance:
http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/index2.cfm
Highly interactive, educational site about art of the Renaissance from the Allentown Art Museum.

http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu

World War 1:Trench Warfare
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/trenchwarfare.shtml
Experience the danger of a First World War battle. Can you win the day, or will you be responsible for thousands of deaths?

World War When?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/worldwarwhen.shtml


The Cold War”
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/games/
Test your knowledge of the key players and history.

Civil Rights:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline/civil_01.html

Critically Investigating Primary Documents (Photographs)
http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/image_detective/index.html