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No Rest for the Weary - The New York Times on the Web
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
teach about our 16th president? Use this easy-to-follow lesson plan with your class. Share the interactives on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Rather than having students write reaction papers, have students complete a multi-media presentation, such as a PowerPoint or even a news broadcast. Share the video of the news broadcast on SchoolTube (reviewed here).You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Podcasts: Civil War Tours - civilwartraveler.com
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): civil war (144), gettysburg (26), lincoln (84)
In the Classroom
Share the podcasts on your projector or interactive whiteboard. (Download in advance to avoid delays). While listening to the podcast, project the map on the screen for students to view. After hearing a podcast have students create blog entries from the perspective of the soldiers at the battle. In younger grades, brainstorm ideas together before they start writing the blog entry. In the older grades, have a debate. Divide your class into two debate teams (Confederates or Union). Draw names randomly and allow the teams time to research the REASONS why they support their side of the war. For a shorter assignment, have a class discussion about how the Civil War and battles would have been different if the television (and YouTube) was around to broadcast the highlights of the battles. Would the war have ended more quickly or lasted longer? Why? Another idea: divide your class into groups and have the cooperative groups create local maps that highlight a location that has connections to Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War (if applicable).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Lincoln Bicentennial: 1809-2009 - Library of Congress
Grades
K to 12tag(s): civil war (144), gettysburg (26), gettysburg address (18), lincoln (84), presidents (123)
In the Classroom
Be sure to save this site in your favorites! Share the interactive timeline, online quiz, and podcasts using your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use this site for research about our 16th President. Have students create a blog from Lincoln's point of view (or from a slave's point of view AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation). Use the lesson plans designed for the grades that you teach. (Don't miss the history, language arts and writing, and art lessons).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Illinois Lincoln Bicentennial Commission - Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Grades
K to 12tag(s): illinois (8), lincoln (84), presidents (123)
In the Classroom
Use this site to take your middle and high school students on a walk in Lincoln's shoes. Share his home, legacy, photos, and more on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Try something new to excite your students about learning history: create a blog, wiki, video, website, or PowerPoint presentation.If you teach ANY level, don't miss the Celebration Ideas. There are activities listed for grades K-12. They are ready to go and mostly easy to do. There are 101 to choose from!
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One Life: The Mask of Lincoln - Smithsonian
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6 to 12tag(s): civil war (144), lincoln (84), oil (40), presidents (123)
In the Classroom
Use your interactive whiteboard or projector to take your students on the audio tour of the exhibit which features several podcasts. Art teachers, share the pictures with your students (especially the podcast about the cracked portrait). This site also provides some excellent research information. Have students work in cooperative learning groups to explore this site and then create a project: blog entry, wiki, video, PowerPoint, or something more "traditional."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Veterans History Project - Library of Congress
Grades
9 to 12To fully experience this site, you need Adobe Acrobat and Real Player. You can get both from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
tag(s): afghanistan (8), iraq (30), korea (18), resources (107), veterans (17), vietnam (34), world war 1 (55), world war 2 (142)
In the Classroom
Primary documents are a vital link between the students of today and the experiences of real people from the past. Students can access these interviews and accounts through searching by time period (WWI through the present), branch of service, gender, or POW status. As your class studies a particular conflict, assign students different accounts to research and then have them "portray" that person in a panel discussion about the war. Compare the experiences of persons filling similar roles across conflicts. Examine gender differences or the differences between those serving in the Navy and the Army. For a powerful long-term project, download the site's "field kit" and consider gathering new accounts for the project in your community.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Lincoln's 200th birthday coincides with Obama inauguration - The Earth Times
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): inauguration (11), lincoln (84)
In the Classroom
Share this article with your students. Have your class compare Lincoln and Obama. If they both had cellular phones, what do you think they might text to each other? Have students research the two men and then create a fictitious wiki that the men might have written back and forth to one another. Have students write their own articles comparing the two men.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Civil War@Smithsonian - Smithsonian
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7 to 12tag(s): abolition (7), civil war (144), lincoln (84), slavery (67)
In the Classroom
This site is an excellent addition to a unit on slavery and the Civil War OR an art class! Have students write captions for the pictures. Challenge students to create a blog entry from Lincoln, a slave, Mathew Brady, or someone else shown in pictures. What were they thinking? Why did they do what they did? How would life have been different if the Internet was around during the Civil War?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Shmoop Literature - Ellen Siminoff, et. al.
Grades
9 to 12While actually signing up (which is free) gives you the ability to "clip" files and keep them in a folder, you can access the majority of the information without signing up. Registration does require an email address. Tip: rather than using your personal or work email, create a free Gmail account to use for memberships.If you plan to have students register individually, you may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how to set up GMail subaccounts to use for any online membership service.
Be aware this site is still in Beta. The content is frequently updated, so be sure to check back! Some of the activities at the site require Flash. You can get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
tag(s): literature (272), poetry (219)
In the Classroom
Because the style of writing is informal, this is a great site to use for those difficult to explain qualities such as tone and writing style with students. Visit the site together and discuss some of the "brain snacks," experience some of the short video clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector, or talk about the constructive use of a site like this without plagiarizing.Share one of the slide shows on a projector or interactive whiteboard as you introduce a unit or allow students to use portions of the slide shows as part of their own presentations on a specific author or literature topic.
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TeachersFirst: Lesson Ideas for Lincoln - TeachersFirst
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1 to 12tag(s): civil war (144), debate (46), lincoln (84), presidents (123)
In the Classroom
No matter what subject you teach, you can find something to fit in your plans for Presidents Day or the Lincoln Bicentennial. Use these ideas and adapt at will. You can even email an idea to your teacher colleague to save a friend time!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Online NewsHour: Inaugural Fashion - PBS
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): fashion (10), inauguration (11)
In the Classroom
Share the pictures of the gowns on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students research an inaugural ceremony and write a blog entry (from the first lady of their choice) discussing the inaugural ceremony (and what they wore). Or have your budding journalists write a mock-commentary on the political "message" sent by a chosen first lady via her fashion choices.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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A New Birth of Freedom - Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
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K to 12tag(s): inauguration (11), lincoln (84)
In the Classroom
Assign a student "pre-inaugural reporter" from the class each day during the month of January to share the latest news and plans about the Inauguration. Have cooperative learning groups compare historical information on inaugurations. Then have the students write a paper or blog entry explaining what their own inauguration would be like if they were ever elected president.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Inauguration Day Events - Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
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3 to 10tag(s): inauguration (11)
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Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector on Inauguration Day. Divide your class into nine groups and have each group learn about one of the "events" of the day. Have the groups share their "event" with the class on a PowerPoint.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Martin Luther King - Leaders and Revolutionaries - Time, Inc.
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6 to 12tag(s): africa (168), african american (109), civil rights (119), martin luther king (36)
In the Classroom
Use this site for research about King. Create a class wiki for students to discuss and compare the lives and legacies of Martin Luther King, Jr and Barack Obama. What characteristics do the men share? How are they different?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NewsHour Extra Lesson Plan: What is the Role of Civil Disobedience - PBS
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): civil rights (119)
In the Classroom
Encouraging students to think of disobedience (of any kind) as a positive force for change will delight some students and confuse and trouble others. Depending upon their age and their intellectual and moral development, teachers should be prepared for these varied reactions. Although there is brief mention in the lesson plan of Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war protestor, there is no discussion of other contemporary issues related to terrorism, freedom versus security, or privacy. Teachers should also be prepared to have these topics enter the discussion. The historical quotes would make good bulletin board fodder or discussion (either verbal or written) prompts. Maybe try one on your class blog!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Virtual Freedom Shrine - National Exchange Club
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7 to 12tag(s): bill of rights (28), constitution (88), presidents (123), speech (89), speeches (19)
In the Classroom
Have each student in your class research one of these documents or speeches. Challenge students to create a multi-media presentation: PowerPoint, blog, wiki, or video. Share these documents around Martin Luther King's birthday or President's Day.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Remembering Jim Crow - Minnesota Public Radio
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6 to 12tag(s): africa (168), african american (109), civil rights (119), racism (15), segregation (16)
In the Classroom
Try this one along with Martin Luther King, Black History, or American history activities. Share the images and audio on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students write captions for the pictures or a blog entry from the perspective of the individuals in the photos.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Martin Luther King Papers Project - Stanford University
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6 to 12tag(s): 1960s (26), africa (168), african american (109), civil rights (119), martin luther king (36)
In the Classroom
Use this site for research about King. Share the videos on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students create their own videos about Martin Luther King, Jr. Be sure to check out the lesson plans: they are detailed and simple to use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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African Americans- Biography, Autobiography, and History - Yale University
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9 to 12tag(s): africa (168), african american (109), civil rights (119), slavery (67)
In the Classroom
Use this site for research projects. Divide your class into cooperative learning groups and have each group research one of the five resources (and people) highlighted.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Powerful Days in Black and White - Kodak
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4 to 12tag(s): africa (168), african american (109), civil rights (119), martin luther king (36)
In the Classroom
Share the photos on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Discuss the pictures as a class. What were the lives of those in the photos like? Have students choose one photo that was the most powerful and write a journal entry about that photo.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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