Ohio's Place and first ohioans

Ohio's Place and First Ohioans

• Ohio History Central - An online encyclopedia of Ohio; includes an alphabetical list of events in Ohio History.

• The Evolution of Ohio - This site provides information about the eleven major territories in Ohio such as: economic patterns, population trends, migratory patterns, and historical information.

• Timeline - Teachers and/or students can use the site to create historical timelines of important events.

• Time Line Generator - This generator can be used to make a simple timeline of six events.

• Engaging Students with Primary Sources (Smithsonian) - A guide for teachers, includes brief introductions to using documents, photographs, oral histories, and objects for classroom learning.

• Social Studies Skills Tutor - Interactive tutorials on geographic literacy, visual literacy, critical thinking, and analyzing information.

• One State-Many Nations: Native Americans of Ohio - Videos and lesson plans covering prehistoric and historic Native American groups

• Ohio's Ancient People - Sample chapter from the Ohio as America online textbook from the Ohio History Connection

• Mound Builders and Native Americans in Early Central Ohio (Teaching Columbus) - Information about early Native American groups in central Ohio and photographs of sites and historic markers.

• Lesson Plan: Creating Timelines (Reading Rockets)

• Teaching with Timelines (Teaching History.org)

• Lesson Plan: Timeline Lesson Plan

• Lesson Plan: The Mystery of History: Original Sources

• Lesson Plan: History Detectives (PBS.org--see Using Primary Sources reproducibles0

• Lesson Plan: Comparing Cultures in Early Ohio

• Lesson Plan: Evaluating Online Sources: Is Everything on the Internet True? (BrainPop; requires sign-in)

• Lesson Plan: Evaluating Reliable Sources (Teaching Tolerance)

• Lesson Resource: State Giant Map Lesson Handbook (National Geographic Society)

• Lesson Plan: Greenway Lesson Plan (EPA)

• Lesson Plan: Sustainable Transportation (Green Education Foundation)

• Lesson Plan: Charts and Graphs Introduction

Lesson Resources:

• Virtual First Ohioans

• African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920

• Ohio Pix.org

• Ohio Memory.org

• Chronicling America

• Primary Source Analysis Tool for Student (Library of Congress)

• Transportation: Past, Present and Future Educator Digikit (Henry Ford Museum)

• Social Studies Charts & Graphs Quizlet

Books:

• Ohio Indians! A Kid's Look at Our State's Chiefs, Tribes, Reservations, Powwows, Lore and More From the Past & the Present

• Ohio’s Native Americans: A Kid's Look at Our State's Chiefs, Tribes, Reservations, Powwows, Lore, and More From the Past to the Present

• Ohio’s First Settlers

• The Adena, Hopewell, and Fort Ancient of Ohio

• Ohio Native Peoples

• Looking at Maps (Get Epic! Book; requires log in)

• Chesapeake Bay Wetlands (Get Epic! Book; requires log in)

Videos:

• Timelines for Kids: A Comprehensive Overview of Timelines for K-6 Students

• Primary & Secondary Sources (Studies Weekly)

• Historical Documents

• Understanding Primary & Secondary Sources

• Ohio Historical Society Appalachia Photos

• One State, Many Nations--Prehistoric Ohioans (PBS Western Reserve)

• A Burial Mound Mystery

• Compromise

• Compromise

• Ecology: Nature’s Delicate Balance (Get Epic! video; requires sign-in)

• Ohio River Pollution Control Standards Changing

Background Information:

• Book: Ohio History Resource Guide for Teachers

• Exploring Ohio: Geography, History, Government, Economics & More Through Project-Based Learning

• Book: An Illustrated Timeline of U.S. States

• Book: Ohio Timeline: A Chronology of Ohio History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend, Lore & More

• Book: Timeline: A Publication of the Ohio Historical Society

• What’s the Difference Between Primary and Secondary Sources?

• Primary and Secondary Sources

• Book: Getting to Know the Ohio River

• Timeline of Ohio History (Ohio History Central)

• Mound Building Cultures program Ohio History Central)

• Show Me, Tell Me About American Indian Culture program Ohio History Central)

• First Ohioans

• Museum in a Box program (Ohio History Central)

• Tribes of the Ohio River Valley

Websites:

• Native Knowledge 360° Education Initative (Smithsonian Institution)

• PaleoIndian Period

• Archaic Period

• Woodland Period

• Late Prehistoric Period

• Delaware Indians

• Miami Indians

• Ottawa Indians

• Seneca-Cayuga Indians

• Shawnee Indians

• Ohio Indian Wars

• Evaluating Online Sources: Helping Students Determine Trustworthiness, Readability, and

• Usefulness (Article)

• Identifying Reliable Sources and Citing Them (Article, Scholastic)

• Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Modifications (National Geographic)

• What is the Environmental Impact of Agriculture? (World Atlas)

• Investigating the Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Practices (U.S. Geological Survey)

• Transportation (Enviroliteracy Council)

• Deforestation Explained (National Geographic)

• Deforestation: Facts, Causes, Effects

• Ohio State University Article

• Teacher’s Guide: Ohio EPA

• Ohio Endangered Species (The Nature Conservancy)

• Wetlands Education for Teachers and Students (Ohio EPA)

• Diagrams, Timelines and Tables (Reading Rockets)