Additional Resources For Students

If you'd like to explore the reaction to the Lincoln Assassination, here's a great way. In fact, if you'd like to help WORK on the project, here's a great way. New Hampton Middle School has done a lot of work on transcribing for this project. Feel free to be part of the Chickasaw tradition and transcribe a document or two. You even get permanent credit on their website!!! Choose a document, and start deciphering the wording. I have links to untranscribed documents below, as well as links to the whole project.

Mt. Vernon will do Facebook Live streams with interesting things from Mt. Vernon. They will be at 11am every Monday-Friday Press Release from Mt. Vernon (George Washington's Home)

World War II Museum in New Orleans has over 200 different past live streamed videos available about MANY different World War 2 topics. https://livestream.com/nww2m. They are also doing live streams on their Facebook page. This is a cool one of Thursday and Friday the 26th and 27th of March, 11am

https://www.facebook.com/WWIIMuseum/

The American Battlefield Trust has a Gettysburg Battlefield virtual tour. https://www.battlefields.org/visit/virtual-tours/gettysburg-360-virtual-tour

Museum of Natural History virtual tours of their exhibits. https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour

Musuem of Air and Space online resources: https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/online

National Museum live web cams of animals- https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams

Check out Twitter for the Penguin adventures at Shedd Aquarium https://twitter.com/shedd_aquarium/status/1239661654629023747

Virtual Tours of National Parks if you are interested National Parks tours links

Science related: National Weather Service storm spotter classes. https://www.weather.gov/arx/skywarn_schedule

When you just need to relax and watch penguins...here you go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IisHeJRXU3M&feature=youtu.be

If Pandas are more your thing, here's the Atlanta Zoo's Giant Panda cam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6wbfVWVk8Q&feature=youtu.be

And if you want more than that, here's 4 live cameras at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams

And polar bears in the Netherlands if you are interested. https://explore.org/livecams/polar-bears/polar-bear-ouwehand-twin-cubs-cam-2

This museum is AMAZING! The Museum of the American Revolution! https://www.amrevmuseum.org/education-museum/students-and-teachers/virtual-field-trip

C-SPAN is opening up their classroom resources.

https://www.c-span.org/classroom/

Columbus to the Revolution, C-SPAN has some resources for you!

Wanna know what's happened in the past on this day? Here you go!!

Wanna see stuff from 1789-1877? Here's a place for that!

Do you enjoy topics from 1877-1945....we got ya covered!!

You're into modern era stuff? Here you go!!!

C-SPAN resources that are state-specific

The Louve, in Paris has some virtual tours. Put on your beret, eat some crepes, and let's see what Paris has to offer! https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne

Check out Yellowstone National Park for a virtual tour of some of their most famous land forms. https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/virtualtours.htm

Here's Colonial Williamsburg. There's not a ton going on at the moment, but you can see live shots of Williamsburg. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/webcams/

Check out Ellis Island! http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/webcast.htm

Jamestown, where the first successful European colonists settled, has a few opportunities for you. Virtual tours and every Monday they will have an Artifact of the Day where they will post a pic of the artifact, and then reveal it's purpose on Tuesday. https://historicjamestowne.org/archaeology/map-of-discoveries/ https://historicjamestowne.org/archaeology/map-of-discoveries/