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FROM Donna:
Opening the Door to Social Studies through Children's Literature
FROM Heidi:
For the second time in the history of the Winter Olympics, Japan is host to the games. The official Opening Ceremony is scheduled for 6 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Friday, Febuary 6. For the next 16 days, athletes from around the world will strive to join the ranks of Alberto Tomba, Bonnie Blair, Sonja Henie, Jean Claude Killy and Eric Heiden.
Official Olympic Games web site
The official City of Nagano Website
The city of Nagano, Japan provides a description of the seven Olympic venues.
Nagano Winter Olympic - The big Pachinko
Writer Eric Gingles gives his
coverage and personal views of the 1998 Winter Olympics and the city of
Nagano.
IFS Online
This online version of International Figure Skating Magazine
covers the world of competitive figure skating with photos, features and
news coverage.
CBS Sportsline Winter Olympics Coverage
CBS Sportsline devotes an entire
site to the 1998 Games. Get the latest results from CBS Sports. You can
also look up Olympians by sport or state and get profiles on them.
ESPN Sportzone
ESPN Sportzone provides up-to-the-minute Olympic coverage.
CNN/Sports Illustrated
CNN/SI also provides the latest results of competition.
Meet the Athletes
The IBM Surf Shack provides a site where the Olympic competitors can post their Home Pages. Send e-mail to your favorite athletes and read what other fans have to say.
US Ski Team Home Page
This is the official site of the US Ski and Snowboarding Teams.
IFS Online
This online version of International Figure Skating Magazine
covers the world of competitive figure skating with photos, features and
news coverage.
Speed Skating Canada
This fun and useful site contains information about the sport of speed skating, plus a look at the Canadian National Team.
The Luge Home Page
This fact-filled site gives a history of luge competition.
Hickok's Sports History: Biathlon
Sports writer Ralph Hickok gives an in-depth look at the combined cross country skiing and rifle shooting competition.
International Curling Information Network Group
There's more to this sport than simply sliding rocks across ice. These pages explain the rules and equipment of a sport that has appeared throughout the history of the Winter Olympics.
Bobsled Run
A member of the US Bobsled Team explains his sport.
The Hockey Nut
The Hockey Nut covers the NHL, European Leagues and
Olympic competition.
FROM Donna:
I found this neat kids olympic site. There is history,games to play, activities,postcards,coloring and stories about the people.
Kid's Plaza
I bought a huge map of the world at Office Depot for under three dollars and
used my clear contact paper and covered it. We put it in the hall and are
using stars every morning to mark the countries that made the medals for the
day before. It has seemed to help Ryan get a grip on the world better. Of
course he loves sports and so this makes it fun for him. We are using class
time for watching the Olympics at night and that has relaxed it here and we
are all enjoying the games as a family.
My son loved the movie Iron Will about a dog sled race and a boy who made it a thing to do for his family and loosing a farm. It was put out by Disney and is PG. It is a true-life story; he watches it a lot. Well yesterday on a loop a teacher sent this site on the 1998 Iditarod Race across Alaska. What a find!!!! I am making a whole study unit on this race. The history of the
race,the map of the race and the most wonderful day to day diary of a man
getting ready for this race!!I printed out the map and put it on the front
of a binder. I put the page with the distance and checkpoints on the back.
Than I printed out the history of the race, Than I am doing each day of his diary as a chapter. You learn to know his dogs, the trail,what they eat, the sunrise and lengh of days,and so much more. I am using the STEPS method to make the lesson plans by Charity Lovelace.
S- for skeleton....the backbone of the study
T- for teachers resources.....all the resources
E- for envision....all the possible activities and projects.
P- for plan....take all the above brainstorming and fit it into a plan to
fit your lesson planner.
S- for supplies....Take the time to have all the supplies you need for
history,math,litature,language arts,and art.
FROM Heidi:
One fun thing I did learn that is if you get the outdoor life TV channel they do daily updates. We were able to add the channel for a couple weeks to help follow the race. . It told alot of history & the kids found it really informative. The daily audio updates via email were neat too. Information on this below.
Last year Susan Butcher was one of the hosts on the show; she was not racing last year because she had a baby daughter and she didn't feel she could be a good mom and do the race so she decided to put her daughter first. My kids were impressed with that.
Official Iditarod radio network - On this site you can listen to actual audio race updates & interviews from last years race, including the winner crossing the finish line. Last year I was able to subscribe on this site & they e-mailed me one of these audio updates each day.
Anchorage Daily News- 97 daily race guide. This site has some audio clips too & a list of last years winners
Books about the Iditarod and dog sledding:
Books about Native Culture
Books about Alaska:
FROM Donna (cont.):
Seeds of
Change Garden
Sharing our differences,learning from each other.
There is a cookbook to try,activities for the 4
seasons,history of
foods,garden activities and lesson plans. We enjoyed it.
Mini Lessons in Social Studies
FROM Natalie:
International Foods
One of the links takes you to a site that lists all types of food pages
from all over the world. Great for adventurous cooks or as a wonderful
addition to homeschool units!
History
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
The Black Death: Bubonic Plague
Slave Narratives - An Online Anthology
FROM TAGMAX List: Suggested Historical Fiction
Brady by Jean Fritz (underground railroad)
Early Thunder by Jean Fritz (American Revolutionary War)
also many others by Jean Fritz (The Cabin Faced West and others)!
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (slavery) (others by Paula Fox
are good, too!)
These two are not fiction, but are very good reading:
Undying Glory by Clinton Cox (Massachusetts 54th regiment)
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
One more on American Revolutionary War:
April Morning by Howard Melvin Fast (check out some others by Fast)
Johnny Tremain (excellent!, and if I remember correctly, deals in the
time frame you're looking for)
The Bronze Bow -(Elizabeth George Speare)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond- (Elizabeth George Speare)
The Diary of Ann Frank- (Holocaust story)
The Devil's Arithmetic (Holocaust story)
The Endless Steppe
Red Badge of Courage
As the Waltz was Ending - (Emma Macalik Butterworth)
Corrie Ten Boom (non-fiction) (Holocaust story)
For younger readers:
Jacob's Rescue (Holocaust story)- (Drucker and Halperin)
FROM Heidi:
The History Channel
Check out the History Channel Site They have a feature like this even have
some audio & video for some of the items. They also have an audio archive
"speech of the day feature"
FROM Donna:
Social Studies Lesson Plans
Here is the History/social studies page of lesson plans. For US History we
are doing the Oregon Trail. There is a lesson plan for this and I just got
some new ideas for it. This site has a lot of plans for US History.
World Civilization Lesson Plans and Units
American Civilization Lesson Plans and Units - Grades 1-6
Raising the Titanic
Discovery
Channel has a wonderful site on Raising The Titanic and check the schedules
for when it will be on TV. This is a good program.
Color Me Egypt: Just for Kids
Print and color pictures of Egyptian art and
monuments. Check out A History of Egypt for Kids to learn about ancient
Egyptian history and see photographs of famous sights.
Seminole Tribe of Florida
I lived in South Florida for 22 years and worked with the Seminole Indians
at the Big Cyprus Reservation. I cannot usually find much about the history
to show Ryan and the grandchildren and was thrilled to find this site.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Northern Plains Tribes Timeline
Native
American Thanksgiving
A MUST. It has history, lessons,recipies,projects. I did
a month
unit with this. We loved it!!!
Traditional Food - Health and Nutrition
More FROM Donna:
Oregon Trail Diary Lesson Plans
Fantastic Facts about the Oregon Trail
Tour Egypt
I love learning here and there is a kids site.
Presidents of the United States
Canadian
Unit Study
I love this site. It is a wonderful unit study on
Canada.
It has lesson plans for all ages and activity sheets to
print.
Raiders of the Lost Art
This takes 4 cultures and you are the archeologist and you explore medieval, Old West(a hunt),China, and Egypt
FROM Colleen:
Pilgrims
Today we were studying some history and came upon
Plymouth Rock and i decided to actually begin using the computer more for
homeschool. We found a really graphic, fun place to learn all about the Mayflower, Pilgrims, Indians, Plymouth. There are pictures, actual photos of tools, houses, people in costume, the inside of the ship, cooking utensils on and on. My 4 and 7 year old were enraptured. There's even the actual list of passengers--it was fun to read over the names--two brothers on the mayflower--one named Love, the other named Wrestling? Interesting.
Biographies
FROM Michele:
Christian Biographies Commemoration Calendar
FROM Donna:
Highway to Heaven? is the true life story of a Swedish family who took God's calling to serve Him seriously and did what He told them to do. You never know what can happen when you are in God's service!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Alphabetical Listing by Author
Famous People Mini-Curriculum Units
FROM Rachel:
Amelia Earhart
This is a site tracing the flight of Amelia Earhart through the current
day flight of Linda Finch. She takes off from California this morning.
Since we homeschool here we are using this as a unit study. The web
site is packed with great teaching aides and free info to download.
I'd love to connect with someone who is using this as a teaching tool
during the flight.
Geography
Introduction to Geography: Learning the Compass
Geo-Globe: Interactive Geography
E-scapes: Electronic Resources for the Study of Ancient Landscapes
National Geographic Map Machine - Downloadable maps
The Library of Congress Country Studies - Online study currently contains 85 countries
FROM Donna:
Economics and Geography Lessons for 32 Children's Books
Helping Your Child Learn Geography
Mathematics of Cartography(Maps)
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Last updated May 1, 1999.