Many historical events have shaped our history. Perhaps your school is located in a place where famous historians brought about change or democracy. Perhaps you live where famous battles took place, or famous speeches were delivered, or land acquisitions were made. Maybe your community is named after one of these famous events.
Some of your relatives may have taken part in events of the most recent historical past. Perhaps your ancestors played a role. Many primary source accounts are available from the people who lived through the events. Share your knowledge, experiences, and research of your part of the World with other students.
If your school has done a project on one of these topics, we'd love to host it here for others to discover and learn from. If one of your ancestors played a role, please tell us about that too.
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| Project Title: Major Events of the Civil War | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Intermediate students in the Dr. R.H. Brown Middle School read articles, research events, and collaborate as they summarize what they have learned about the American Civil War. The students create an historical "voyage" of the major events and battles in Google Maps, combining social studies, language arts, and technology skills. Students read the book, Fields of Fury, by James McPherson, chose topics, and did follow up research, addressing the "Who, What, When, Where, and Why" of each event. Students did research on the WEB, used graphic organizers, and constructed written paragraphs with topic sentences, transitions, and closing statements. They used Google Image Search to find appropriate images and cited their sources. The students posted their final project in Google Maps and received three grades: research (language arts/social studies), written paragraphs (language arts), finished product in Google Maps (social studies). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Project Title: Slavery, Exploitation, and Slave Trade Routes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fifth grade students in Twin Creek Elementary School do research and learn about the exploitation of people and use of slave trade routes. Using Google Earth, students follow the routes, answer questions posed by their teacher, and draw conclusions about the history of slave trade, how and why it started, where it took place in the World, and discuss what they have learned. Follow the Google Earth kmz and learn more about Africa, England, Brazil, the Colonies, and more. Follow the routes of the slave ships and be an eyewitness to history as you explore the links and do research on the WEB. Culminating Activity - in kmz and in Google Docs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Project Title: My Reading Mapped For Schools | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Explore the interactive maps of George Stiller who has designed an instructional site with a focus on creating educational Google maps of historic events. Mr. Stiller’s purpose is to make learning history more interesting by providing interactive maps that allow teachers and students to find actual locations, link to Internet sites for additional information, access primary source documents, and read related eBooks. The interactive maps provide placemarkers that allow users to “click” their way through events and locations. Users can follow the paths of explorers, trace the action of famous battles, visit ancient lost cities, view nature’s wonders, discover sunken ships of the Atlantic, and more. In addition, Mr. Stiller provides links to videos, teaching materials by posted by academics, archives in the Library Of Congress, Internet resources, historical maps, historical images, Wikipedia pages, etc. Visit “My Reading Maps For Schools” to enjoy the rich content Mr. Stiller has provided as a resource for both teachers and students to enhance teaching and learning. Mr. Stiller has also included summaries, class assignments, discussion questions, and Internet resources for each map. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Project Title: Time Travel Enrichment Class Tours History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seventh graders study historical events that helped define our history. Dubbed the "Time Travel" project, students researched famous events and people such as D-Day, Amelia Earhart, the Transcontinential Railroad, Sherman's March to the Sea, Blackbeard, the Union Pacific Railroad, the Great Migration, Indian Wars of the Great Plains, and more. They use Google Earth to represent the different events. (Don't miss their "famous explorers" projects on the "Famous Explorers and Voyages Page" of this site which include Cortez, Columbus, Sir Francis Drake, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Marco Polo, and much more.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Project Title: Global Issues: The World Divided 29 Ways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| High school students studied global issues by researching different countries around the World. Students researched general information, statistics, economic issues, trade, unemployment rates, and current events for each country. They looked at the relationship the countries had with other countries and focused on the current events that took place in each country. A requirement for each student was that the events must have taken place between the years the students were born and the present. Therefore, the students were researching information that had taken place during their lifetimes. Students drew conclusions and made connections between the events that had taken place in the country they were researching and the impact of those events on other nations around the World. They summarized their findings by locating the countries and events in Google Earth, creating kmz files that explained the effects or consequences of those events, and creating lessons to share with their fellow classmates. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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