Teachers And Parents: Web Resources Relating To Early Maps National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London); Teaching with Historic maps (links to four 19th century US maps with commentary by James Akerman; http://www.maphistory.info/teachers.html
Extractions: NEW This page was created on 18 March 2002 and updated thereafter There are numerous sites offering links for teachers , on the one hand, or for maps on the other. Since there does not seem to be any site that brings together (for the benefit of teachers or parents) web-based educational materials relating to the history of maps , a systematic search was carried out on the web. No responsibility for the content of the sites linked below can be taken by the author of this page (who has no experience of teaching). 'Cartography Concepts: a Student's Guide to Mapmaking' Geography Resources (including sections on 'Maps', 'United States' and 'Games' - '4th and 5th Grade Student Research Resources') Heinemann Atlas. 'Cartography: The History and Nature of Mapmaking'
History Of Cartography Courses Course organisation and methodology; Teaching with historic maps Teaching with historic maps. NB. The Newberry Library website is currently underging http://www.maphistory.info/courses.html
Extractions: in the history of cartography (created by Tony Campbell and Mark Cohagen) This page attempts two things: to document what is currently being offered around the world; and, perhaps, to help create a 'virtual community' for teachers of this subject. It can thus serve as a shopping list for those seeking a course to join, while, simultaneously, helping those who are keeping the flame alive to maintain their awareness of teaching trends. The other pages on this 'Map History' site testify to the breadth and vigour of the history of cartography as an academic and recreational subject. Yet the lack of opportunities for formal academic apprenticeship, i.e. university courses, is, if anything, getting worse. A note on the qualifications for inclusion in this listing. Numerous Cartography and GIS courses start with a single lecture on mapping history. In other courses, maps serve a secondary, illustrative function. We hope that those concerned will understand why we have insisted here on a prominent role for non-current maps, though we are delighted to include courses given in any academic discipline.
Visual Resource Collection: Digital Image Resources Digital Image Resources. for teaching and research at UCSC List of the online map collections. maps are in .jpg format or in .sid (MrSID by LizardTech) http://library.ucsc.edu/slides/image_resources.html
Extractions: Museum and Library Collections 1. (UC only) The California Digital Library (CDL) has licensed several digital image collections (including more than 250,000 images) for UC-affiliates, and is making these collections available through Luna Insight software. You may access the collections if you have a UCSC campus internet connection, or have access to the campus proxy server. The Insight software is available either as a downloadable Java client, which offers or through a browser, which allows access to one collection at a time. (Note: Browser Insight does not work in Safari.) You can download the Java client at http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/insight.html
Lesson Plans EDUCATION FOR FREEDOM Lesson Plans for Teaching the First Amendment. More lesson plans can be found at historical and Cultural Geography Lesson Plans http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
Extractions: Academy Social Studies Curriculum Exchange Elementary School (K-5). 50 lesson plans for primary grade students. Academy Social Studies Curriculum Exchange Intermediate School (6-8). 80 lesson plans appropriate for grades 6-8. Academy Social Studies Curriculum Exchange High School (9-12). 95 lesson plans suitable for the high school level. Academy Miscellaneous Curriculum Exchange Elementary School (K-5). 36 miscellaneous lesson plans for students in grades k-5. Academy Miscellaneous Curriculum Exchange Intermediate School (6-8). 25 miscellaneous lesson plans for the middle school. Academy Miscellaneous Curriculum Exchange High School (9-12). 14 miscellaneous lesson plans for the 9-12 grades. Afghanistan:Land in Crisis. Afghanistan: Land in Crisis, presented by National Geograpic.Com., features news, background, online activities, teachers' guides, lesson plans, a regularly updated interactive map, photos, and a message board. Africa. Based on a PBS broadcast, the site includes: Africa for Kids where Fimi, a youngster from Nigeria serves as the guide to a variety of fun activities for elementary level students; Photoscope where older students can look at contemporary Africa in five photo essays; and Africa Challenge where students can show how much they know by playing a game. Also featured is Teacher Tools with four units on Africa.
Lewis & Clark: For Educators: Teaching Units & Lesson Plans students will examine and analyze several historic maps of the era representing What can maps tell us about places and the people who make them? http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org/4_0_0/page_4_1_2_1_0.html
Extractions: Unit Table of Contents... Introduction STANDARDS Missouri Standards National Standards LESSON PLANS 1: Expedition's Purpose 2: Euro-American Maps of the West 3: Part 1: Sitting Rabbit's and Shehek-Shote's Maps 3: Part 2: Sitting Rabbit's and Shehek-Shote's Maps Culminating Performance Assessment Bibliography Middle School, Grades 6 - 8 In this four-lesson unit and culminating performance assessment, students will examine and analyze several historic maps of the era representing both the cultural perspectives of Euro-Americans and American Indians. Primary sources, including maps, a video interview, objects, and other documents, will be examined. Students start by mapping their neighborhood, then organize and compare historical information from maps using diagrams and charts, and, finally, in the role of a park ranger, develop a presentation on the characteristics of Euro-American and American Indian maps. Through this investigation students will come to the deeper understanding that a map tells us a great deal about its maker. Explore Connections to Today for this unit.
University Of Washington Libraries - Maps The layering of historic maps and datasets of address points collected from It provides a teaching and learning tool comprised of multiple data sets, http://www.lib.washington.edu/types/maps/
Extractions: "This world atlas includes an alphabetical list of countries and continents (below) or countries organized by continent and region. ... also includes maps and geographical information for U.S. states and territories, major world cities and oceans. ... This online atlas is part of the Geography at About.com site ..." AccessAsia crossroads. Maps
CyberBee: On The Road With CyberBee Over 800 historic maps make up this collection that is not limited to, Teaching with Historic Places suggests many engaging activities to do with http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/nov00/cybe0011.htm
Extractions: Find facts, figures, and statistical data on geography, people, history, and economy in the Countries from A to Z section. Maps of the World serves as a quick reference to full-color physical and political maps organized by regions. A nice linking feature allows you to toggle between the physical and political maps. Color Landform Atlas of the United States The Color Landform Atlas of the United States supplies a topographic, satellite, county outline, and postscript map for every state. An 1895 Rand McNally Atlas provides maps for states during that time period. On the 1895 maps, railroads are shown instead of roads because rails were the primary mode of transportation. States are listed alphabetically on the main page. The ease of use will appeal to students. Flags and Maps of the World
Extractions: Since its founding in 1907, the OAH has promoted "excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history." The 2005 OAH Annual Meeting is the perfect forum for scholars looking to enhance their professional skills and knowledge of teaching American history. A thread of sessions, focusing on teaching issues at all levels, will run throughout the four days of the meeting in the form of workshops, round tables, panel discussions, and other presentations. These sessions will address the use of primary sources, literature, and electronic media in the history classroom as well as other topics of interest to precollegiate teachers. State-of the-Field sessions, created to illuminate recent developments in specific areas of American history scholarship and teaching, are an excellent resource for all teachers, from precollegiate to university. New to the meeting? Attend our "First-Timer's Session" and learn how to navigate and make the most of the Annual Meeting. In our exhibit hall, find the latest in books, lesson plans, and other teaching materials written specifically for American history teachers. Be sure to drop by the Teacher Hospitality Corner, a space set aside for K-12 teachers to relax, refresh, and meet others, including OAH representatives. Visit with colleagues from all levels of teaching and make new connections at the Regional Receptions on Thursday evening. On Friday, pick one of the ten offsite sessions and see historic locations like Alcatraz and the Presidio, or take the time to explore the Bancroft Library or the Chinese Historical Society. Relax Friday evening with other precollegiate teachers at the Focus on Teaching reception. Saturday begins with the College Board AP breakfast and offers a luncheon for Focus on Teaching attendees, where Bruce Fehn of the University of Iowa will speak on "Privileging the Visual in Teaching American History."
Colorado Digitization Program David Rumsey historical Map Collection. Cartography History Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National Park http://www.cdpheritage.org/educator/cdp/links.cfm
Extractions: American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. The Learning Page has lessons, features, activities and tips and tricks for using these collections in your classroom. Artifacts and Analysis: A Teachers Guide to Interpreting Objects and Writing History United States History Study and teaching
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education Bloomington IN. Including Historic Places in the Social Studies Curriculum. ERIC Digest. Places have powerful stories to tell. They speak through relationships to their settings, their plan and design, their building materials, their atmosphere and ambience, their furniture, and other objects they contain. They can evoke the ghosts of the people who once lived and worked there. These places provide physical evidence of how broad currents of history affect even small communities. Supplemented with primary or secondary written and visual materials, they also teach such skills as observation, working with maps, interpreting visual evidence, evaluating bias, analysis, comparison and contrast, and problem-solving. Teaching with Historic Places, a program administered by the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places, offers a variety of ways to share this "power of place" with students across the nation. At the heart of the program is a series of more than 50 classroom-ready lesson plans based on historic places listed in the National Register. These lessons allow teachers to use historic places to bring the new standards in geography, history, and social studies into their classrooms. PROJECT BACKGROUND
CANADIAN HISTORY NEWS Whose History Should We teach? / Strategies and Ideas on making history Just outside of the village of Dresden, the Uncle Tom s Cabin Historic Site, http://northernblue.ca/cblog/
Social Studies Development Center TEACHING WITH HISTORIC PLACES AND THE CURRICULUM STANDARDS. Using maps helps students practice the skills of acquiring, processing, and reporting http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/placedig.htm
Extractions: Places have powerful stories to tell. They speak through relationships to their settings, their plan and design, their building materials, their atmosphere and ambience, their furniture, and other objects they contain. They can evoke the ghosts of the people who once lived and worked there. These places provide physical evidence of how broad currents of history affect even small communities. Supplemented with primary or secondary written and visual materials, they also teach such skills as observation, working with maps, interpreting visual evidence, evaluating bias, analysis, comparison and contrast, and problem-solving. Teaching with Historic Places, a program administered by the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places, offers a variety of ways to share this "power of place" with students across the nation. At the heart of the program is a series of more than 50 classroom-ready lesson plans based on historic places listed in the National Register. These lessons allow teachers to use historic places to bring the new standards in geography, history, and social studies into their classrooms. PROJECT BACKGROUND During the 1980s and early 1990s, many people interested in saving historic places came to see what was usually called "heritage education" as a way to: (1) use places as lively and challenging resources to enrich teaching and learning for students, (2) help teachers, preservationists, and others to work together in their communities, and, ultimately, (3) encourage and strengthen public commitment to preserving these places. A survey conducted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1990 identified more than 600 heritage education programs.
Your Interests: Teaching There are also many other unique historical documents that we have scanned in and What can we conclude about mapmaking at the time of Martha Ballard? http://www.dohistory.org/interests/i_teaching.html
Extractions: If you're interested in Welcome, Teachers Midwife Martha Ballard kept a diary from 1785 to 1812. Historian Laurel Ulrich analyzed the Ballard diary in her 1990 book, Through the eyes of these two authors, we have a direct look into a post-Revolutionary household on the Maine frontier. The detailed evidence has allowed historians to revise their thoughts about American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in New England. to supplement texts and give students a chance to work with selected primary sources, adding variety, excitement, and depth to classroom learning. From here, students may launch into their own investigations of local history. So, welcome. We hope that you find what you need. handwritten to a transcribed version. There are also many other unique historical documents that we have scanned in and transcribed. There are examples of how historians use such documents in their investigations. Looking further, you will find tools and guidance for your students when faced with doing history with primary sources.
Extractions: Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development Curriculum Development Materials Development Les Misérables and modern plays and operas, such as Dialogue of the Carmelites , to historical documents relating to World War II and the Holocaust. These documents include digitized photographs, newsreels from 1918 and 1945, and World War II radio broadcasts. The archive also provides testimonies and personal documents from individuals who own family plots in the cemetery. Subtitles, translations, or summaries in English were created for all the source materials in French, extending the use of the archive to a broad range of teachers and students. anza.uoregon.edu Faculty at a community college near Salem, Massachusetts, collaborated with other two-year and four-year college teachers, high school teachers, visiting Hawthorne specialists, and museum educators at the House of Seven Gables, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, to develop and test an interactive website for teaching about Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work. The website includes documents, art work, photographs, and artifacts to support the study of Hawthorne in literature, history, and American studies courses in high school and college. Textual materials on The Scarlet Letter The House of Seven Gables Young Goodman Brown hawthorneinsalem.org
MiddleWeb | Middle School Hot Links Your First Day of Teaching Harry and Rosemary Wong sum it all up for you in this Historic maps in K12 Classrooms Historic maps is a project of the http://www.middleweb.com/mw/aaHotLinks.html
Extractions: MiddleWeb's Hot Links Archive If you encounter a bad link, which you certainly will from time to time, we'll be glad to help you track down the website or webpage you're interested in. All we ask is that you copy our entry, paste it into an email , and include the words "bad link" in your subject line. - Sponsored by Stenhouse Publishers - "It isn't often that a book reviewer finds a book so compelling that he or she would pay for it Deeper Reading is one of those rare gems" (Education Book Reviews). Help your students conquer challenging texts with this collection of classroom-tested comprehension strategies. Click here to read Chapter 1: Why Reading Is Like Baseball. The Age of Exploration Teachers and students learning about the Age of Exploration will find this interesting. The site explores the use of four navigational instruments that were used by Spanish explorations in North America: the Quadrant, Astrolabe, Octant, and Chronometer. Positive Classroom Discipline Your First Day of Teaching Classroom Management World History Matters ... Eco-Classrooms Hands on the Land is to provide a national network of field classrooms to enhance kindergarten through high school student-learning. The site is designed primarily for teachers and program providers (rated A+ by
Fletcher Library - Database Finder - Resources By Type Provides digital access to historic maps of towns and cities in Arizona. more a chronology of US Women s History, teaching tools with lesson ideas and a http://library.west.asu.edu/dbfinder/ResourceType.cfm?Type=Image&viewtype=subjec
Teaching Faulkner, Southeast Missouri State University home center for faulkner studies teaching faulkner Faulkner s Map of On Faulkner s fictional historical map Sutpen s Hundred is a tiny, http://www.semo.edu/cfs/teaching/index_4817.htm
Extractions: Robert Hamblin Reading Absalom, Absalom! Most critics have interpreted Faulkner's title as an ironic commentary on the Sutpen family history. As John Hagopian has pointed out, the Sutpen narrative parallels the biblical story of David and Absalom in the emphasis on "revolt, incest, and fratricide," but it differs in that Faulkner's David, unlike the biblical one, is unable to feel love and compassion for his rebellious son. Hagopian views this key difference as "the main point of the Sutpen story.3 Just as the biblical allusion of the title extends Sutpen's regional, temporal story into the realms of the universal, the mythic, and the timeless, so too does the map that ends the novel. Like the title, the map functions at three different levels: the realistic, the ironic, and the symbolic. In this connection, however, Faulkner's map, like his title, functions ironically. All of the personal quests in Absalom, Absalom! end in futility and failure. Bon dies, unacknowledged by his father; Sutpen dies, frustrated in his design; Henry dies, outcast and condemned; Quentin will soon die, still troubled and confused about the meaning of existence. Faulkner's map, like the plot of the novel it underscores and supports, is, so far as it is a map of history and the human condition, a map charting failed ambitions and pointing the way to death. Had Faulkner chosen an epigraph for his drawing, it might well have been the quotation from Shakespeare alluded to earlier, the one he used for the title of his second-greatest novel:
Primary Sources Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources About.com Historic maps http//geography.miningco.com/cs/historicmaps/. American Memory maps Collection http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/primary.html
Extractions: Primary Sources Supreme Court/Legal Speeches General American Presidents ... For Mrs. Whitlock What is a primary source? A primary source is first hand evidence. It was there at the time of an event. It is contemporary to the period being studied. Examples of primary sources are speeches, letters, songs, legislation, court decisions, journals/diaries, interviews, artifacts, autobiographies, and photographs. More about primary sources: Why Study History Through Primary Sources? (Fordham) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/robinson-sources.html How to Read a Primary Source (Bowdoin) http://academic.bowdoin.edu/WritingGuides/ Library Research Using Primary Sources (Berkeley) http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html Primary Sources Research (Yale) http://www.library.yale.edu/ref/err/primsrcs.htm Using Primary Sources on the Web http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA NARA 100 Milestone Documents http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?page=milestone American Memory Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Classroom Activities historical markers identify and designate a place where something of The county map could be displayed in the classroom and marker sites noted on it. http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/teachingstrategies.htm
Extractions: CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES FOR USING HISTORICAL MARKERS Historical markers identify and designate a place where something of significance occurred. They are useful in the study of history because they clearly illustrate, "history happened here." Too often, students think of history as something in the long ago past that happened to people with whom they have no connection. Here are some ideas to change that thinking through the use of historical markers in the classroom. A template has been prepared to use in conjunction with several of these activities. Make Your Own Marker Ask the class to write the text for a historical marker for the classroom. Without giving them too many instructions, tell them they can include a physical description of the room, describe its use in the school, how the classroom was important in the life of the school, write about the people who used the classroom, or any information they might know about the "site." The marker text should be limited to a paragraph. Ask students to read aloud their paragraphs or choose several to read aloud. The purpose of this exercise is to get students thinking about historical significance, to connect them with local history, and to teach them how to state things concisely. To conclude the activity, ask students to imagine that someone well-known in the community's history (or suggest some well-known person) attended school and used the same classroom. How would that affect what is written on their marker?
Extractions: This book emphasizes the drama and action that's at the heart of America's epic story. It incorporates the National Standards for History. The full span of American history is covered - the discoveries, the personalities, the wars, the scientific and technological triumphs, the rough-and-tumble political campaigns, and all the other ingredients that add up to make a colorful and exciting chronicle. Timelines, ideas for fascinating Internet projects, and the author's light narrative style are just a few of the ingredients that make this a history book students will enjoy reading.
