12-7-2011 15 Sites for Studying Pearl Harbor Day

PEARL HARBOR DAY 

RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

1. Great audio/visual lesson with maps and photos from MSNBC - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29055379
2. The Attack on Pearl Harbor Interactive Map/Lesson from Holt - http://my.hrw.com/ss2/ss06_07_08/student/flash/huswwe_fd_peahar2/map_viewer.html
3. Meet the eyewitnesses from Scholastic - http://teacher.scholastic.com/pearl/index.htm
4. Amazing Thinkquest project about Pearl Harbor - http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112601/intro/intro_index.html
5. A short lesson from Pearson - http://www.phschool.com/atschool/ahon/history_interactive/mvl-8242/common_player.html
6. A photostory form Time - http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2052497,00.html
7. Pearl Harbor Facts videos on How Stuff Works - http://videos.howstuffworks.com/pearl-harbor-facts-videos-playlist.htm#video-42820
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on The History Place, read or listen - http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/fdr-infamy.htm
9. An Audio Visual Presentation from the Orange County Register - http://www2.ocregister.com/ocregister/sections/multimedia/?graphic=/pearlharbor07/main.swf
10. Time Photos: The Attack on Pearl Harbor - http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1691753,00.html
11. Pearl Harbor Day from Glencoe - http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/btt/pearl_harbor/timeline.shtml
12.  Pearl Harbor Museum - http://www.nps.gov/valr/index.htm
13. More Pictures - http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/pearl_harbor_69_years_ago_toda.html
14. Perhaps the best set of photographs from LIFE - http://www.life.com/gallery/53071/image/3201370/pearl-harbor-december-7-1941#index/0
15. A set of videos, including one whose audio is Roosevelt's speech from History.com - http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor/videos#attack-pearl-harbor

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Science and Math Resources:

http://thinkingblocks.com/index.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/section.cfm?id=slideshow
Fact practice – student first names only - https://www.xtramath.org/
http://www.tenmarks.com/tmother/teacher-index - Math practice
http://www.geogebra.org/cms/ - Download Geogebra for use on your whiteboard.
http://www.geogebratube.org/ - videos

Language Arts and Social Studies:

http://www.phatpoetry.com.au/
Political Cartoons - http://cybraryman.com/politicalcartoons.html
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/08/11/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-worlds-different-cultures/

Amazing Map Sites

http://www.animaps.com/#!home
http://www.weavinghistory.org/
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/mapping/outline-map/
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/mapping/interactive-map/
http://tripline.net/
http://www.buildamap.com/ - beta
http://scribblemaps.com
http://quikmaps.com/ - doodle on Google
http://www.umapper.com/
http://www.mapfaire.com/
http://www.geotrio.com/ - create tours

Related Arts:

Art and World Language - http://littlebirdtales.com/
http://www.pronunciator.com/ - 60 languages. 3 million lessons. 100% free. The world's largest language-learning service.
Art Images - http://arthist.umn.edu/aict/

Teacher Resources: All areas -

http://www.studyladder.com/teacher/start
http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/copyrightandfairuse.cfm
http://primaryschoolict.com/images.php?ie=UTF-8&filter=1&q=great+white+shark&safe=vss&imgtype=clipart&sa=+Safe+Search

Cool Techie Tools:

Caffein instant video chat room - http://www.caffein.tv/
Magisto – mash video clips - http://www.magisto.com/
PhotoCollect - http://photocollect.net/
Drop Event - http://dropevent.com/
Slide Staxx – limited slide show for pictures, video, and URLs, online content only -