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

11-22-2011 - Primary and Secondary Sources

Maps, Timelines, Documents, and Movies for students to peruse and use.

a.      Compare Skeletons throughout evolution - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/compare-skeletons.html

b.      David Rumsey Map Collection - http://www.davidrumsey.com/

c.       Life Photo Timelines - http://www.life.com/timeline

d.      http://www.timemaps.com/home/time-map/ - The big picture of world History.

e.      http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/index.html - Timeline - Sources from History

f.        http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/#/object_li6X6vc1SMSJfJ2BhOdB0A - A History of the World Interactive Timeline

g.      The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy - http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

h.      The Travel Film Archive - http://www.travelfilmarchive.com/home.php

i.        Digital Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/index.html

j.        Fed Flix: Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org/details/FedFlix

k.       Teaching Tolerance - http://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/teaching-tolerance