Railroad

UP Photo Gallery

Transcontinental Railroad - Driving the Last Spike - 1869

American Experience Transcontinental Railroad Teacher's Guide

CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

Transportation Transcontinental Railroad eThemes eMINTS

Immigration

Immigration Webquest

Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today

Irish Immigration

Thinkquest

Irish Potato Famine

Big Apple History

Suffolk Web-Immigration

Yahoo Kids- Immigration

Immigrants Speak in Their Own Words

World War I

World War I Webquest

Women's Suffrage

Scholastic: Women's Suffrage

National Archives: Teaching with the Documents

Great Depression

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt

The Past 25 Years  1980-2005

Step One: Create a timeline that includes ten of these events. (Get extra credit by including all of the events and dates in your timeline.)

Step Two: As a group choose 5 of the above listed events to research. (Make sure to include the what, when, where, when, why, and how of each event.)

Step Three: Create 5 more slides sharing other areas of interest during this time period.

Our Government

As the election is quickly approaching, we are taking a closer look at how the United States Government is formed and the different jobs within our government. You can also learn about the duties of Government Officials with the tools listed.

Web Quest on three branches of government.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/3branches/front.htm

Explore the United States Government with this online tutorial.
http://congressforkids.net/index.htm

And the Winner Is...

 Students have task that they will be completing in their efforts to become more informed citizens. You can view the Presidential Profiles the students created.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

http://www.42explore2.com/presidt.htm

http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/election04/

World War II

Students are becoming experts on different aspects of WWII. They will then be designing and participating in Ed.Voicethreads about the period.

Code Talkers

WWII Navajo Code Talkers

Navajo Code Talkers

Concentration Camps

The United States Holocaust Museum

Holocaust Encyclopedia

My Story: We Remember Anne Frank

Hiroshima

Hiroshima: A Survivor Story

Pearl Harbor

My Story: Pearl Harbor

Remembering Pearl Harbor

Home Front

American Home Front

Japanese Internment Camp

Children of the Camp

Japanese Internment Camps and Their Effects