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Michelle Powell's List: Social Studies
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Jun 08, 13
This website has a selection of fiction books that supports SS topics, such as Civil War, WWI, Reconstruction. The categories are sorted by SS studies and grade level. Great resource
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May 15, 10
This is an accompanying powerpoint to help children understand the relationship between Japan and the USA. It builds background knowledge to why 1000 cranes were made for a little girl that suffered cancer.
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Apr 07, 10
Each of the ten Bill of Rights is portrayed simply and with a outline drawing to illustrate. Great!
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Apr 07, 10
This is a page which allows you to take a test about Harriet Tubman. There is information about her on the website, www.gardenofpraise.com.
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Apr 03, 10
This website has great resources for learning about American history from explorers and Native Americans to the Gold Rush.
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Apr 03, 10
This is a list of American historical documents: declaration of independence, bill of rights, articles of confederation, constitution, emancipation of proclamation, gettysburg address.
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Apr 03, 10
Lewis and Clark Expedition - President Thomas Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase. One page describing the Louisiana Purchase with comprehension questions.
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Apr 03, 10
This website is child-friendly with music and easy-read passages about famous historical figures and places.
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Mar 21, 10
This game poses questions about the law and asks if they are legal or illegal. Based on the Bill of Rights and their understanding of it, children decide. The correct answers are given with an explanation.
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Mar 06, 10
Under the Articles of Confederation, states had powers to act like separate countries. Without a stronger federal system, the new nation might fall apart.
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Mar 02, 10
This is a great powerpoint that asks questions and reviews all the necessary details regarding people and places for the Revolutionary War.
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Mar 02, 10
A biographical film of the life of George Washington. This is a movie in three parts. It is pictures, narrated in simple language that will help tell the story of George Washington, the Founding Father of the USA.
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Mar 01, 10
This is a great powerpoint presentation that shows the reasons the Revolution War began in a humorous and engaging way.
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Feb 20, 10
A private, non-profit educational and cultural organization established to preserve and share the Boston Tea Party history.
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Jan 15, 10
Conflicts between colonists and Native Americans erupted as the settlers spread out and took land by force.
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Jan 15, 10
The slave trade brought Africans to the colonies to serve as laborers.
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Jan 15, 10
William Penn received a land grant as payment of a debt from the Duke of York. He founded the colony of Pennsylvania on the principles of religious liberty and equality.
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Jan 15, 10
Colonial trade routes included passages through the West Indies and around the western coast of Africa.
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Jan 15, 10
Early Africans in the New World were originally put to work as indentured servants, but as the English needed cheaper labor to raise tobacco profits, so the servants became slaves.
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Jan 14, 10
Beginning in the 1600s, people of different backgrounds and countries settled in the American colonies. Many people chose to live near water.
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