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History
By exploring history, we seek to understand the lives of people who lived
in the past. Historians--the people who study history--try to piece together
a realistic picture of life in previous years by examining the writings
and artifacts belonging to different time periods.
It is commonly understood that learning about the past is fundamental
to an understanding of the present. History provides a context for evaluating
contemporary culture and all its institutions.
The study of history provides us with a framework for understanding and
appreciating the human condition. Beyond this, the study of history is
enjoyable. It combines the excitement of exploration with the pleasure
of discovery.
Places To Go | People To See | Things To Do | Teacher Resources | Bibliography
Places To Go
HyperHistory
Online
HyperHistory presents 3,000 years of world history with a combination
of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps. Over 2,000 files
are interconnected throughout the site. In addition to that HyperHistory
provides several hundred links to the World Wide Web.
WebChron:
Historical and Cross-Cultural Chronologies
This ongoing project, created by the instructors and students at North
Park University in Chicago, contains a series of linked timelines that
depict world, regional, and cross-cultural history. Within time lines
there are both links to related chronologies as well as links to articles
and related web sites.
Images
of the Century
Life Magazine photographers brought the world home to millions of people
in the 20th century. Here are 10 of their most dramatic images. Each image
is accompanied by an audio commentary from the photographer or veteran
Life picture editor Bobbi Baker Burrows.
American Memory Project
The Library of Congress's American Memory Project contains multimedia
collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving
pictures, and text related to American History.
People To See
Time 100
People of the 20th Century
This site features Time Magazine's list of "those individuals who--for
better or worse--most influenced the last 100 years. They are broken
down
into five fields of endeavor: Leaders & Revolutionaries, Artists &
Entertainers, Builders & Titans, Scientists & Thinkers, and Heroes
& Icons.
Conversations
with History
Read unedited transcribed interviews with distinguished men and women
from all over the world at this site. They reminisce about their participation
in great events, and they share their perspectives on the past and reflect
on what the future may hold.
Academy of Achievement
Meet the 20th century leaders, discoverers and creators who shaped the
world in which we live.
National Women's
Hall of Fame
Explore the biographies of The Hall's inductees, learn about the history
of the women's movement, tour a photo gallery, and nominate choices for
future inductees.
Things To Do
Scope Systems:
Any Day in History Site
Ever wondered what historical events happened or what historical figures
were born on your birthdate? You can find out here.
AlternaTime
Browse the past by exploring this collection of timelines on the web.
My History is America's
History
"Follow your family's story and you will discover America's history"
is the lead sentence of this site sponsored by the National Endowment
for the Humanities. The site provides information and resources for discovering
and documenting your personal genealogy.
EyeWitness
Explore history through the eyes of those who lived it at this site that
illuminates the past through personal narratives and other first-hand
sources.
World
History Archives
Find documents to support
the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective.
Teacher Resources
Educator's Reference Desk History Lesson Plans
An assortment of history lesson plans for various ages.
Edsitement
History Lesson Plans
History lesson plans from Edsitement.
Historical
Atlas
The main purpose of producing an historical atlas is to familiarize students
with the changes that have occurred in national boundaries over the last
few centuries, due mainly to revolutions. Secondary purposes include introducing
students to a number of different atlas types and helping them learn boundaries,
locations, and regions of the assigned countries and areas of the world.
Utah
Centennial Studies
The Utah Centennial Studies lessons were developed as a collaborative
project between the Utah State Office of Education, the Utah Heritage
Foundation and Bureau of Land Management through a grant from the Utah
Statehood Centennial Commission. The purpose of the project was to provide
teachers with creative, innovative lessons on a wide variety of Utah history
topics and issues. The lessons, which can be adapted to students of any
grade level, range from process-centered instruction to community based
learning: from Utah's rich historical past to our present statehood centennial
celebration.
Utah:
Then and Now
Utah has had many different peoples who have called it home. This unit
of study covers Utah's peoples up to the time that the transcontinental
railroad connected the 2 coasts of the United States in 1869.
A
Pioneer Journal
This lesson, written for fourth graders, has students apply the knowledge
they have of the pioneer journey along the Mormon Trail to a creative
writing exercise in which they fictionally describe the events of the
journey in their own words.
Research
Project: Native Americans in Utah History
For this fourth grade research project, students will research the basic
cultural information available on the various Native American Cultures
of Utah, including historical time, shelters, weapons, tools, and foods
and methods of obtaining foods.
Family
Tree
Written for fourth graders, this lesson has students compile a four-generation
family tree, create a family crest, and write a brief autobiography with
pictures included.
Taking
the Witness Stand: Describing Historical Events From A First-Person Perspective
In this lesson, students will identify a pivotal event in world history
that they would have liked to have witnessed. They will then research
this event and write a first-person account of it as if they had been
present.
Teaching
with Historic Places
Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National
Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history,
social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created
a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic
places into the classroom.
Travel
Back to Colonial Times
Travel back to Colonial times using this webquest designed for fifth grade
students. Their task is to prepare travel information for vacationers
who will be traveling back into the colonial time period in a new time
travel machine.
You
Teach the Decades
Students will create, organize and present a complete multimedia lesson
regarding a decade's worth of history.
WebQuests
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