WWW Lesson Plans American Heritage Melissa Schreck People in Societies.

WWW Lesson Plans

• American Heritage Melissa Schreck

• People in Societies

American heritage objectives

• The student will listen to and reconstruct the chronology of an historical narrative.

• The student will differentiate broad categories of historical time.

• The student will explore placing events on a time line.

• The student will raise questions about the past.

• These objectives are in accordance with the Ohio Model for a Competency-Based Program in Social Studies.

American heritage

• Web Pages• Library of Congress American Memory

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson.html• Social Studies Site-Teacher Resources

http://www.ncss.org/resources/• History Network-American

Westhttp://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/goya/1060/• Historical Text

Archivehttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9061/USA/usa.html

• Yahoo- U.S. Historyhttp://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/

• Library of Congress http://Lcweb2.loc.gov/learn

American Heritage

• Educational Web Adventures http://www.eduweb.com/adventure.html• Teaching With Historic Places http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/• Discovery Channel School-U.S.

Historyhttp://school.discovery.com/schoolsearch/results/g1ralls13.html

• Chinese Americans-Lunar Calendarhttp://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/CHCP/calendar.html

American heritage lesson plans

• History FirsthandPrimary Source Research in Elementary School

Cory Brandt and Monica Edinger • History Firsthand has been designed to provide

elementary children with experiences which enable them to begin understanding primary sources. Students move from personal artifacts to the vast American Memory collections and learn how archival collections are organized, how to interpret artifacts and documents, how to use primary sources to tell a real story and how to do on-line research.

-from the Library of Congress, American Memory page


• Teacher Resource Site• A RIVER LOST, a book about The Colville Tribe in

Washington State has won the 1996 BUMBERSHOOT (Seattle's Art Festival) AWARD FOR BEST CHILDREN'S PUBLICATION. The story is a historical fiction about The Arrow Lake Band of The Colville Tribe, and the effect the building of Grand Coulee Dam had on them by obliterating their river, salmon, towns, and culture. The book is beautifully illustrated with culturally accurate paintings by tribal member, V. Smoker Marchand. A RIVER LOST has been well received by educators and fits into curriculums teaching: History, Native Americans, Environmental Studies, or Multi-Cultural Themes. To complete the lesson plan, the students will read the story, locate the river on a map, and form discussion groups about the fate of this tribe.


• History Network-The American West• The occasion marking the transfer of Upper Louisiana

from Spanish authority to French to the United States has been known as "Three Flags Day". Actually this took place during a two day period, March 9th and 10th 1804. Since St. Louis' population at that time was primarily French extraction, the French flag, was allowed to fly for one day prior to the transfer to the United States. Originally the area was first owned by France, then came under Spanish rule prior to 1770, when the Spanish Lt. Governor, Pedro Piernas first arrived. Students will read about the Louisiana Purchase and “Three Flags Day.” We will eat some cajun-style food, and talk about the culture of Louisiana. Then we will create the flags that were flown.

American Heritage lesson plans

• Historical Text Archive• Through this site, students will access LycosZone

for kids to search for information concerning African-American leaders who were instrumental in our country’s development.


• The "First Thanksgiving": Facts and Fancies

• The event we now know as "the First Thanksgiving" was in fact neither the first occurrence of our modern American holiday, nor was it even a 'Thanksgiving" in the eyes of the Pilgrims who celebrated it. It was instead a traditional English harvest celebration to which the colonists invited Massasoit, the most important sachem among the Wamapanoag. It was only in the nineteenth century that this event became identified with the American Thanksgiving holiday. The students can search for more information on Thanksgiving, plan a Thanksgiving meal, and dress in colonial-style clothing.


• Sample Sources: tombstones Primary• Write an obituary for a person memorialized on an old

tombstone. Use information from the epitaph and research about the era in which the person lived. Research the meaning of stone carvings that appear on the tombstone. Study epidemic illnesses or other circumstances the might explain common causes of death at the time.


•Gold Fever! Seattle Outfits the Klondike Gold Rush (55)

• Examine how the discovery of gold in the Canada's

remote Klondike region touched off the last great gold rush, creating an economic boom that changed the city of Seattle forever


The Real American Cowboy What sort of person was the cowboy? A maverick loner,

a man who was his own boss, the John Wayne figure of the movies? Real cowboys were nothing like their Hollywood counterparts. Often black, Hispanic, even female, the cowboy led a rough and lonely life, often left to himself on the American plains and responsible for large herds of cattle. Yet the cowboy remains an enduringly mythical figure to people around the world. Students will look up websites about cowboys and write a short paragraph with an illustration about the information they receive.


• Avoiding the Dreaded Smallpox• A smallpox epidemic has erupted in eighteenth-

century Virginia. Can you protect your family from this dreaded disease? Developed for Colonial Williamsburg's Electronic Field Trip program. Students may view this site as a class to find out more about this electronic field trip.


• The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a yearly calendar like the western calendar, except that the start of the lunar year is based on the cycles of the moon. Thus the beginning of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. Western cultures date the years from the birth of Jesus Christ (For example, 1994 means 1,994 years after the birth of Christ), and thus approach the progression of years from a linear point of view. In traditional China, dating methods were cyclical, meaning that the years repeat according to a pattern. The repetition is in increments of twelve years. The children will compare our traditional calendar to that of this culture to further understand the heritage of Asian-Americans.

People in societies objectives

• The student will recognize that citizens of the United States today can trace their origins.

• The student will identify various groups to which the learner belongs.

• The student will recognize that members of the community are affected by changes in the community that occur over time.

• These objectives are in accordance with the Ohio Model Competency-Based Program for Social Studies.

People in societiesWeb site & lessons

• http://www.towson.edu/coe/ssmd/GEOGK3-1.htm#geogk31top Geography: K-3rd Students will demonstrate an

understanding of geographic concepts and processes as needed to examine the role of culture, technology, and the environment in the location and distribution of human activities.

• http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst058.html

• PURPOSE: This lesson will encourage students to use the higher level thinking skills and will help them learn to better cooperate with their peers. It will also help students develop a respect for cultures different from their own

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People in societiesweb sites & lessons

• FAMOUS PERSON -- WHO AM I?

PURPOSE: The purpose of this activity is to review

various historical personalities studied.http://pbscyberschool.org/teach/lesson81_1.html This can be used to teach students the skills

they need to know for travel. It also teaches the students tolerance by fostering their knowledge and understanding of another

country's culture and customs.


• http://pbscyberschool.org/teach/lesson50_1.html• This lesson can be used to teach the five themes of

geography: • 1. Location • 2. Description of place • 3. Human-environment interaction • 4. Movement • 5. Regions • http://educate.si.edu/resources/lessons/siyc/

eskimo/page01.html• Identify materials used in several traditional

cultural objects. • Interpret possible functions of several traditional

cultural objects. • Bering Sea Eskimo People

People in societiesweb sites and lessons

• http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SS23.htm• After a lesson about Amish Communities, students will write a

paragraph describing similarities and differences between the two communities

• http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst058.html

• This lesson will encourage students to use the higher level thinking skills and will help them learn to better cooperate with their peers. It will also help students develop a respect for cultures different from their own.

• http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/japan/mdnjapan/LS22.html• Students will develop a design for their own family crest.

Students will then make a large model crest for their family.


• http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/searcher

• Children will identify specific characteristics of their own neighborhood and share the information with their classmates. This activity will enable children to see that other neighborhoods can be different from their own,

but also similar in many ways.

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