American History

Take some time and review maps and review how to use a map.  We will identify directions, the equator, the prime meridian, longitude, latitude, continents and oceans.

• Map Skills - test information you should learn about map keys, legends, longitude, latitude and more

  

• Lesson plans to use for mapping skills

Now compare maps prior to 1492 and current day maps.  Discuss and identify new technologies that allow for exploration.

Identify countries that explored routes to the New World- what was there motivation for exploration?

• Roanoke

• More about Roanoke

• Jamestown one minute about Jamestown history

• Click Here to watch video of key characters of Jamestown's development

• Plymouth

• Jamestown game

Identify the leaders
Identify the reasons Europeans left for the New World
Identify successes and failures of early settlements

• American Biographies http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/index.html
      video of early settlements from Annenberg website

Travel back in time - Identify the 13 original colonies

• Travel in time back to the colonial days

• Children in colonial days

• US MINT has a time travel game that shows how colonial people used shillings for money at first Great Resource click here

Identify the New England states, the middle and southern colonies

• Animated atlas showing the states entrance to the United States EXCELLENT VISUAL OF STATES

• Compare colonial regions according to climate, occupations, types of government, religions, and structure

•  Steps toward the Revolutionary war-

• The US MINT has a time travel game that discusses The American Revolution CLICK HERE

• Schoolhouse Rock about American Revolution - Click here

• French Indian War

• Taxation without Representation

• Boston Tea Party

• Video about what led to the Revolution

• Discovery channel - Assignment Discovery :  Revolution

Identify characteristics of a loyalist and a patriot

Identify the First Continental Congress -

Movie about the Declaration to declare independence - Short Historical

• Redcoats are coming?

• Paul Revere's Ride- Click Here

• Schoolhouse Rock- shot heard round the world

• The Shot heard round the world  1775 Click Here

• Lexington and Concord

• Second Continental Congress

• Declaration of Independence

  • Molly Pitcher - An American hero-1778

  

  Lewis and Clark expedition 1803

  Native Americans and Lewis and Clark- song called Fight no more Forever

  US MINT TIME TRAVEL GAME AND INFO about the coin series CLICK HERE

   

War of 1812 Click here

Civil War time 1863 click here

Civil War story about whippoorwill and the battles - Click Here music video

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