Cesar Chavez And The Farm Workers
Posted onApril 25, 2012
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ON YOUR OWN
Watch this movie about Cesar Chavez and take the quizzes.
Watch this video about Chavez.
Learn about the short-handled hoe and make a museum “exhibit.”
Learn more about Cesar Chavez here.
WITH A PARTNER
Read more about Chavez.
Copy and paste this cloze on your Posterous blog and complete it.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
Americans Travel In Space
Posted onApril 23, 2012
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ON YOUR OWN
Watch this movie on the Apollo Project and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about the International Space Station and take the quizzes.
Watch these videos about the U.S. experiences in space travel.
Here’s more history of space travel.
Learn more about space travel here.
Learn more about space travel at the Animated History of The Space Program. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner to see the words that are spoken, and use the menu on the upper right to explore all the great activities.
In video: Nasa’s 50 years in space
Watch these videos.
WITH A PARTNER
From Gagarin to the space shuttle: A history of human spaceflight – interactive is from The Guardian.
Copy and paste this cloze about John Glenn on your Posterous blog and complete it.
Copy and paste this cloze about Sally Ride on your Posterous blog and complete it.
Complete this exercise on the first Moon Landing.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted onApril 21, 2012
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ON YOUR OWN
Watch these movies and take the quizzes:
Learn about Rosa Parks.
Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Listen To Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech and find the mistakes.
Watch this video of King
Here’s another video about King.
Watch this movie about the Civil Rights Movement.
If there’s time, you can watch the short videos on this page.
Learn about the Freedom Rides.
WITH A PARTNER
Read about King and answer the questions.
Read about the Civil Rights Movement and take Quiz 1 and Quiz 2.
Learn more about Martin Luther King here.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
America During The 1950′s
Posted onApril 20, 2012
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ON YOUR OWN
Learn about Technology in the 1950′s. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner so you can see the words that are being spoken.
Watch this slideshow about the 1950′s.
Watch this movie about Elvis Presley and take the quizzes.
African-Americans won the right to a good education in 1954. Watch this movie about the court case and take the quizzes.
Learn about school segregation in 1952.
Watch these videos about the polio vaccine that was made in the 1950′s.
Learn about Senator Joseph McCarthy and his attack on people he claimed were Communists.
Watch the videos on this page about issues in the 1950′s.
WITH A PARTNER
Read about President Harry Truman.
Read about President Dwight Eisenhower.
The Cold War
Posted onApril 13, 2012
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Learn about the Cuban Missle crisis. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
ON YOUR OWN
Watch this movie about The Cold War and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about the United Nations and take the quizzes.
Learn more about the United Nations here.
Watch this movie about The Korean War and take the quizzes.
Learn more about the Korean War.
Explore The Best Sites For Learning About The Korean War (& Tensions Since Then, Too).
Learn more about The Cold War.
Learn about Europe after World War II. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner so you can see the words that are spoken.
Learn about Southeast Asia in 1954,
Watch the videos on this page.
Watch some of these videos about The Cuban Missile Crisis.
Learn more about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Click on “subtitles” so you can see the words as they are spoken.
Look at this chart about the Cold War.
WITH A PARTNER
Take this test about what happened after World War II. Play this game, too.
Here’s another test about the Cold War.
And here’s one more test.
Learn about The Berlin Wall.
Two nice sites on the Berlin Wall are a series of photos from The Denver Post and aninteractive from The Guardian.
Read more about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Presidency and the Cold War
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
Brainpop Movie On The Cold War
The End Of World War II
Posted onMarch 24, 2012
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Complete this activity on what life was like in the U.S. during the war. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
Learn about the Marshall Plan. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
ON YOUR OWN
Look at this Second World War Timeline.
Watch these videos on World War II.
Inside World War II: A Global Perspective.
Watch these two movies about the Holocaust and take the quizzes:
Learn more about Anne Frank at
The Best Sites To Learn About Anne Frank
Learn more about The Holocaust.
Please read the first two paragraphs on this page about the Holocaust (click MP3 Listening so you can hear the words spoken). The do this exercise.
Watch these videos about The Holocaust.
Watch this with Spanish subtitles
Look at these resources:
The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust
Complete this activity about D-Day and watch the video.
Watch this movie about the Allied Victory.
Learn about the atomic bombings of Japan at:
The Best Resources For Learning About The Atomic Bombings Of Japan
If there’s time, go to The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust and look at the sites on that list.
Learn about the war in the Pacific at:
The Best Sites For Learning About The War In The Pacific
WITH A PARTNER
Read about World War II Remembered.
The History Channel has many short videos on the war, as does How Stuff Works.
Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago is a great set of images from The Boston Globe’s Big Picture.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
Spanish videos on World War II
Internment Of Japanese-Americans
Posted onMarch 23, 2012
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Complete this activity on Japanese Internment. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
ON YOUR OWN
Watch this video and do the three activities under “Explore.”
Look at these pictures from one of the camps.
World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans
WITH A PARTNER
Read more about Japanese-American internment camps.
Read more on this website.
Read even more here.
Generations of Japanese Americans were scarred by WWII internments is from The Sacramento Bee.
Executive Order 9066: Japanese American internment in World War II is a photo gallery from The L.A. Times (February 19th is the anniversary of the Order).
ON YOUR OWN
One of the major reasons Japanese Americans were put into camps was because other Americans were afraid that they might help Japan in the war against the United States. In other words, it was an example of people doing bad things to other people because of fear.
Have you ever done something bad to someone else because you were afraid (Start a fight? Say something nasty to someone?)? Has a person you know ever done something bad to someone else because they were afraid? What happened?
Has someone ever done something bad to you or your family because you think they were afraid of you?
Write your answers on your website.
World War II Begins
Posted onMarch 20, 2012
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Learn about Adolf Hitler in this activity. Get the code from Mr Ferlazzo.
ON YOUR OWN
Watch this movie about the causes of World War II and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about World War II and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about Adolf Hitler and take the quizzes.
Learn about what happened in the War in 1941. Click on “Go” when you get to the page. Be sure to click on the lower-left corner to see the words as they are spoken.
Learn about the war in Europe and Africa. Click on “Go” when you get to the page.
Learn about the war in the Pacific.
Watch this video of Adolf Hitler.
Learn about Albert Einstein and take the quizzes.
Explore these sites about Pearl Harbor:
EL Civics has A Pearl Harbor Day Lesson
Holt, Rinehart & Winston have a Pearl Harbor Interactive.
Scholastic has another interactive on the Pearl Harbor attack.
National Geographic has its well-known Remembering Pearl Harbor site.
This is a very accessible Thinkquest site developed by students about Pearl Harbor.
Learn About Pearl Harbor comes from Pearson.
The National Park Service has many good photos of the Arizona Memorial and ones that were taken on the day of the attack.
TIME Magazine has a photographic timeline of the event.
How Stuff Works has a series of online videos about Pearl Harbor and its aftermath.
You can find the transcript and audio, along with images, of President Roosevelt’s “Infamy” speech at the History Place.
Attack on Pearl Harbor is an interactive graphic from the Orange County Register.
Glencoe has some online clozes (fill-in-the-blanks) on Pearl Harbor.
Learn about Albert Einstein and take the quizzes.
WITH A PARTNER
Read about the causes of World War II.
Complete this cloze and then this quiz.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW
Brainpop Causes Of World War II
The Great Depression
Posted onMarch 15, 2012
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Go to FDR and The New Deal. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
Go to African-Americans and the New Deal. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
ON YOUR OWN
Watch this move about what caused the Great Depression and take the quizzes.
Watch this second movie about the Great Depression and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about The New Deal and take the quizzes.
Learn more about The Great Depression. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner so you can read the words as they are spoken.
Look at these color photographs of the Great Depression.
Watch this movie about Eleanor Roosevelt and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about Franklin Roosevelt and take the quizzes.
Watch this slideshow about the Great Depression.
Watch these videos about The Great Depression.
Take this test about the Depression.
Take a virtual field trip in The Great Depression.
Watch this video about The Great Depression.
Voices From The Great Depression
Watch this movie about Franklin Roosevelt and The New Deal. Take the quizzes, please.
Read about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Watch this video about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Watch this movie about Amelia Earhart and take the quizzes.
Read about Amelia Earhart.
Learn about the Tennessee Valley Authority.
WITH A PARTNER
Read more about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Read more about The Great Depression.
Take this quiz on The Great Depression.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
The 1920′s Bring Change
Posted onMarch 12, 2012
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Learn About The Harlem Renaissance (Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo)
Learn about Voting Rights For Women. Get the code from Mr. Ferlazzo.
ON YOUR OWN
Look at these videos about the 1920′s.
Learn about the beginning of Communism in Russia.
Watch this movie about Communism and take the quizzes.
Learn about “Prohibition.”
Watch these two videos to learn about the “Roaring Twenties”
Learn about the Harlem Renaissance and take the quizzes.
Learn about Louis Armstrong and take the quizzes.
Watch this movie about the Scopes Monkey Trial and take the quizzes.
Listen to this presentation on income levels in the U.S. Be sure to click on the lower left hand corner so you can see the words as they are spoken.
Learn about the Boulder Dam.
Learn about Assembly Lines and take the quizzes.
Watch all the videos on this page — if there’s time.
Look at pictures from “The Roaring Twenties.”
WITH A PARTNER
Read more about Prohibition.
With your partner, try to answer these questions about prohibition. You can use the website to find the answers.
Do you think prohibition was a good idea? Why or why not? Write your answer on your website after talking about it with your partner.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:
Watch this movie about Louis Armstrong.
