Roberts Elementary

Pages on the American Revolution:

Timeline of Events

Years: Pre-1775

Years: 1775 to 1777

Years: 1778 to 1789

Books about the American Revolution

Other links on the American Revolution

from http://www.kidport.com/reflib/usahistory/americanrevolution/amerrevolution.htm


United States Government Websites:

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/index.html (Ben’s guide to the government)

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/lawmaking/index.html (how laws are made)

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/3branches/3bgovt.htm (branches of govt. quiz)

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/bill.html  (Bill of Rights movie)

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/meet.html  (Meet your government)

http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX506c725178615342646467&t=Government  (democracy video)

http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX4b0c055401704b78645506&t=Government  (government video)

The Constitution 

How Laws are Made

Constitution Game


Westward Expansion Websites:
Oregon Trail Game

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/lcflash.htm  (Lewis and Clark resources)

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/history/trails.htm 

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/HistorySubjects/railroad.html  (movies on railroads)

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/bell1.html  (telegraph movie)

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/lp.html (Louisiana Purchase)

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/HistorySubjects/pioneerFrontier.html  (several videos on Westward Expansion)

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/texas.html  (our Texas heritage)

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/goldRush.html  (California Gold Rush)

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/pioneer.html  (Oregon Trail)

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/invaders.html

Interactive Map of Land Acquisition:

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g5s_u5/index.html   

Westward Expansion

http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie2.html

http://teachers.emints.org/mathysl/missouri.html#Westward%20Expansion

Map of the United States in 1803

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/maps/louisianapurchase/colormap.htm

Louisiana Purchase

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/1800/louisianapurchase/index.shtml?p 

http://www.civics-online.org/library/formatted/images/lpurchase.html 

http://simeonca.org/ourpages/auto/2007/11/15/1195148886303/Louisiana%20Purchase.ppt 

http://americanhistory.mrdonn.org/louisianapurchase.html

Lewis and Clark Homepage

http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/HomePage/HomePage.htm 

http://www.lewisclark.net/timeline/index.html

Scholastic Lewis and Clark Activity

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/lewis_clark/ 

Lewis and Clark Venture West

http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-channel.asp?ChannelID=400

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/lcflash.htm 

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/l/lewisandclark.shtml?p 

http://www.ballard-tighe.com/eaweb/interactiveonline/activities/ea5_2.swf 

http://nationalgeographic.com/west/main/html 

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/games/LewisClarkAdventure/ 

http://monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/packinglist.html 

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/index.html 

http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/Activities&Kids/Quizzes/Quizzes.htm 

Acquisition of Texas

The Mexican-American War

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/mexicanamericanwar1.htm 

“Remember the Alamo”

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/alamodef.htm 

Battle of San Jacinto

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/sanjacintodef.htm 

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/guadalupehidalgodef.htm 

Oregon Trail Map

http://www.historyglobe.com/ot/otmap1.htm 

http://skenoyer.org/west.html 

The Gold Rush

http://www.huntington.org/Education/GoldRush/index.html

http://teachers.emints.org/mathysl/missouri.html#Gold%20Rush 

http://calgoldrush.com/ 

b. Describe the impact of the steamboat, the steam locomotive, and the telegraph on life in America.

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/industrial_nation/invention_timeline2.htm 

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/industrial_nation/inventions.htm 

Abolition and Suffrage

SS4H7 The student will examine the main ideas of the abolitionist and suffrage movements.

Timeline of Women's Suffrage

http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/Files/Documents/Timelines/WomensRightstimeline.pdf

a. Discuss biographies of Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Biography of Harriett Tubman

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/harriettubman1.htm

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/tubman/index.shtml?p

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/tubman/printoutnopicture.shtml?p

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j1.html

Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/people/s/stanton/index.shtml?p

Webquest

Major Landforms of U.S.A

Major Rivers of U.S.A 

Physical map of U.S.A


Daniel Boone

Brief Summary

BerksWeb

Enchanted Learning

Timeline

 Meet famous Amerians-  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/index.html

Social Studies Resources!


Click this link for Georgia Social Studies Standards or visit one of these other Social Studies websites!
(credit to Niki Pope)