Grades 4 to 7 Web Sites:
Index:
Geography
Social Studies
Links to Lesson Plans
Geography:
Coal Mining Webquest - Designed for Grade Five Students in British Columbia from Seaview Elementary.
Community Learning Network Links on rocks, minerals and mining.
Lightning Web site for children to explore the weather phenomena of lightning.
The Watershed Game We all depend on water for survival, but water is a scarce resource. Only one percent of all water on earth is freshwater! How can we keep this water pure and fresh? In this online simulation game, students are give an opportunity to find out.
Many things happen in a watershed that affect the quality of the water. In this simulation, students are presented with many different situations and scenarios on which they must make decisions. Students can then see the impact of that decision and how it effects the watershed.
CIA Site: Geography and History
History:
Heritage for Kids
http:// www.heritagebc.ca/kids/Sponsored by Heritage BC, this site contains a number of links and resourses for K-12 students concerning BC Heritage.
Statistics Canada - Stats Can offers teachers many articles, educational resources, tabular data on Canada's economy, land, people, and government, conference information and links to other sites.
National Archives of Canada - Learn more about Canada through the visual collections at this site.
Elections Canada - Offers a range of useful and informative tools that will help you plan your activities relating to Canadian citizenship.
Canada's Digital Collections - 400 web sites related to Canada's history, geography, science, technology, and culture. Includes curriculum units, classroom activities, quizzes and games.
National Library of Canada - Collections on Canadian topics, including music, history, and literature.
Kids' Stop - Learn more about the Aboriginal people in Canada.
CBC Program - Canada: A People's History. Access to information, games, and resources for educators of all grades.
The Memory Project - Canadian stories of passages to Canada, peace and war, and heroes and heroism.
Parks Canada - Visually explore Canada's heritage sites through their 3D tours and digital image collection.
Inventors - The Community Learning Network provides access to invention links.
First Nations - Fort Nelson Aboriginal Project which explores the people, places, culture and environment of the Cree and Dene of northern BC.
Virtual Museum of Canada - Canadian exhibits, images gallery, fun and games section, and teachers' centre.
Roman Open Air Museum
http://www.villa-rustica.de/tour/toure.htmlThe Roman Open Air Museum occupies an old Roman Villa located in southwestern Germany. Originally built around the First Century AD, the villa was occupied for about 200 years. When Roman rule ended in the area, the villa was abandoned to rot, decay and become overgrown with trees and shrubs from the surrounding woods. 1700 years later it was discovered by accident and is in the process of being restored.
The museum website has a detailed description of the villa, a virtual tour through the site and surrounding area and a description of the Roman occupation of the area.
This site is an excellent resource for Social Studies, Grade 7.
Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome http://www.iath.virginia.edu/rome/ This is "an interactive cartographic history of the relationships between hydrological and hydraulic systems and their impact on the urban development of Rome, Italy." It examines the intersections between natural elements (such as the Tiber River) and constructed elements (such as aqueducts). Features a timeline, a build-your-own-map feature, 3-D models for viewing the topography of Rome, and primary texts and other documents. From the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.
Links to Lesson Plans:
Community Learning Network (CLN) This site to help K-12 teachers integrate tecnology into their lessons There are over 4300 educational resources available here.
Encarta Lesson Plans Under the social studies categories many lesson plans are available for K-12 socials teachers. The site is well organized and covers many topics.
Social Studies Links - Lessons and Activities for grade level, recommended books, web sites, grant and conference information and media literacy.
National Geographic - National Geographic Society Products for the classroom, geography education program, five themes of geography, and information regarding professional organizations.
CNN Millenium Series this site offers the program outlines and teacher support material for the series that is currently running on CNN Sunday nights and is repeated on the History channel on Tuesday nights.
Wide Horizons - Lesson plans in World History, including Prehistory, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Kush, Israelites, Greece, China, India and Rome.
Award Winning Lesson Plan Site - Dr. Marty Levine, from California, has developed a web site that includes lesson plans and teaching strategies, online activities, and professional information for teachers.
CNN Millenium Series this site offers the program outlines and teacher support material for the series that ran on CNN Sunday nights and was repeated on the History channel on Tuesday nights.
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