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Beginning Learners: *Early Native Americans *Europeans coming to this continent *The Pilgrim Story *The 13 Colonies |
Intermediate Learners: *American Revolution *Westward Expansion
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Advanced Learners: *Civil War *Immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s
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Some of our activities the week of September 8th:
Beginning our individual American History projects
Some of the projects starting this week include:
Early Native American Projects -
Writing color poems after listening to the Native American stories, Rainbow Crow and The Bird of Many Colors
Cloth weaving
American Revolution Projects -
Learning about the "Bill of Rights" and starting its project
Finishing up researching about heroes of the American Revolution and beginning research on famous American Revolutionaries to make "Biography cards"
American Civil War Projects -
Working on Civil War individual/partner projects
Some interesting links (more will be coming)
Make your own family website at ourstory.com
American Revolution websites: http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/amrevol.html
Great website with lots of activities and games: http://independence.nyhistory.org/museum/kids_page.cgi?rm=home
A website put together by another class: The Civil War for Kids
More American Civil war information site: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/civilwar.htm
A cool website with quizzes about the American Civil War: http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110546/