Helpful Links

This list will grow throughout the course of the school year. My goal is to put the proper tools in your hands.

Google Classroom Intro

We will be using Google Classroom/ apps for education to host all major classroom assignments. These powerful tools have been proven to improve student engagement, reseach capabilities, and overall productivity.

classroom.google.com/h

Cool Tools

HISTORY | Watch Full Episodes of Your Favorite ShowsWatch full episodes of your favorite HISTORY series, and dive into thousands of historical articles and videos. To know History is to know life.

EasyBib: The Free Automatic Bibliography Composer

Trading Card Creator - ReadWriteThinkThis tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.

iCivicsFree Lesson Plans and Games for Learning Civics

Links by Class

8th Grade

8th Grade Flashcards- (Click the blue words next to these directions.) Chapter 4 The American Revolution Grade 8

ICivics

https://www.icivics.org/

Colonial Currency Conversions

http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/money/denom.html

The History Channel

http://www.history.com/

The National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/

Mariners Museum

http://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/wp-content/themes/agesofex/games/explorer/

Jamestown

http://www.virtualjamestown.org/page2.html

Project Gutenberg

This website contains free e-texts and historic documents that can be used for research papers.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:History_Bookshelf

Age of Jefferson Flash Cards

http://www.flashcardmachine.com/1798541/8f5k

Online Textbook

http://my.hrw.com

New Social Studies Blog

http://pitmanpublic.schoolinsites.com/?DivisionID=12578&DepartmentID=12960&SubDepartmentID=5796&ToggleSideNav=ShowAll

Digital History Database: University of Houston

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

History Scene Investigation Activity

http://web.wm.edu/hsi

Civil War Baseball

http://alexandriava.gov/historic/fortward/default.aspx?id=40132#playing

"Fakebook" for Historic People

This page allows you to generate fictional Facebook pages for famous people from history.

http://www.classtools.net/

Trading Card Generator

This site will allow you to generate trading cards for important people, topic, and events discussed in this class.

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/trading-card-creator-30056.html

Primary Source Analysis

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/primary-source-analysis-tool/

6th Grade Links

Cave Paintings

http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/fr/00.xml

Sumerian gods

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html#adad

Ziggurats

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/ziggurats/explore/exp_set.html

Write your name in cuneiform

http://www.penn.museum/cgi/cuneiform.cgi

Pyramid Builder

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/pyramid_challenge/index.shtml

Mummies!

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/mummy.html

Khufu's Great Pyramid

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/

Investigating a Death in Rome

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/death_rome/index.shtml

Online Textbook

http://my.hrw.com

Building the Pyramids

This website will allow you to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza.

http://my.hrw.com/ss_2012/ms_whist12/eactivities/Animation/pyramid_anim/wh04_pyramid.html

New Social Studies Blog

http://pitmanpublic.schoolinsites.com/?DivisionID=12578&DepartmentID=12960&SubDepartmentID=5796&ToggleSideNav=ShowAll

Greek Gods

http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/index.html

Hindu gods

http://www.usefulcharts.com/religion/main-hindu-gods-chart.html

Egypt Scavenger Hunt

Use this website to complete the Egyptian Social Heirarchy webquest.

http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/special/lifeas/index.html

Write your name in Hieroglyphics

http://penn.museum/cgi/hieroglyphsreal.php

7th Grade Links

African Art/ Masks: University of Virginia

http://static.lib.virginia.edu/artsandmedia/artmuseum/africanart/Exhibition.html

African Mask Meanings: University of Virginia

http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/VirtualExhibitions/african/intro.html

African Mask Traveling Exhibition

http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cultur/tervuren/tera02e.shtml

African Masks

http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/exhibiti/masks.htm

Modern African Mask Re-creations w/ descriptions

This site contains an assortment of African mask replicas that were created by modern artists. This site provides interesting information about tribes and mask purposes.

http://arttribal.com/collections/masks/mask

African Masks by Region

http://www.artnetweb.com/guggenheim/africa/sahelsav.html

Catapults

http://www.virtualtrebuchet.com/

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