Resourse+List

__ Resource List __

__Games__ [] A website that contains American history games, and links for educators.

http://www.solpass.org/7ss/Games/WestwardExpansion.html A game about westward expansion

Risk Game about strategy, students can learn first hand what it takes to control the globe.

[] A good website that contains multiple games that involve students to think, and not memorize facts.

__ Books __ Wiesel, E. (1982). //Night//. United States and Canada: Bantam. Night is the Tale of Elie Wiesel in a concentration camp, during World War II. It is an autobiography.

Drehle, D. V. (2004). //Triangle: The Fire That Changed America//. New York: Grove Press. The book is about the worst workplace disaster in New York City, before 9/11. This revolutionized workplace safety.

Breen, T. H., & Innes, S. (1982). //Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676//. New York: Oxford University Press, USA. This book is about a time when white and blacks lived together in the seventeenth century, and how it changed.

Lemann, N. (2007). //Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War//. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book examines racial violence towards blacks that occurred in the South during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War

Rorabaugh, W. (1981). //The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition//. New York: Oxford University Press, USAThis book looks at the American going through alcoholic trends, and explains why. This book analyzes the phases of Alcoholism in America during the 1800’s.

Voltaire. (1998). //Candide and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)//. New York: Oxford University Press, USA. This is a book that came out during the Age of Enlightenment, that was satire about the 1700’s in Europe, mainly France.

[] The South Dakota Content Standards
 * __Standards__ **

[] The National Content Standards.

[] National History Standards

[] National Social Studies Standards

[] This has themes for multiples disciplines and includes lesson plans.
 * __ Thematic Units/Ideas __**

[] This site has different themes for multiple disciplines.

[] This is a publishing site that lists books to assist in teaching different themes.

**__Textbooks__** Carjuzaa, J. D., & Kellough, R. D. (2008). //Teaching in the Middle and Secondary Schools (9th Edition)// (9 ed.). Alexandria, VA: Prentice Hall. This textbook is about Teaching methods for middle and high school.

Company, H. M., Evtuhov, C., Goldfrank, D., Hughes, L., & Stites, R. (2003). //A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces// (1/e ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. This textbook is about everything that has to do with Russia from the first Russians to the Modern Day Russia.

Clay, M. M. (2006). //An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement: Revised Second Edition// (2 Revised ed.). Chicago: Heinemann. This book contains assessment tools for reading achievement in elementary school children.

Pierre Capital This would be a good way for the students to see how the state government operates.
 * __ Field Trip Locations __**

Court House Museum in Sioux Falls This is a great, free, museum containing a lot of early South Dakota history.

Museum of Oral History – USD basement of Dakota Hall This a great museum of recorded history, for the students to actually put a voice with history.

[|http://www.thinkfinity.org] A website that contains different lesson plan for all disciplines and age levels for teachers to use for free.
 * __ Unit/Lesson Plan Ideas __**

[] A website that contains possible lesson plans.

[] A website that is only for history, that contains lesson plans.

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sioux-treaty/activities.html Good Primary source doc website for Fort Laramie Treaty 1868

[|http://www.nytimes.com] This the news paper the New York Times website, but students can access articles as far back as 1850. This is a great resource for historians to see an event covered in the archives.
 * __ Internet Resources __**

[] This gives great activities for teachers to use.

[] This website is put on by Yale, it contains documents to view online going back to the 400 B.C.

[|http://www.netflix.com] This program does cost a monthly fee, but it contains a plethora of movie titles that pertain to History, or any other subject for that matter.

[] A documentary website for films.

[] This website contains visuals for Nazi propaganda, it contains a multitude.
 * __ Visuals __**

[] This website contains posters to purchase for the classroom.

[] This website has different classroom decorations, including posters, for purchase.

// Tora, Tora, Tora // This is a Historically accurate movie about the events leading up to Pearl Harbor and the attack itself.
 * __ DVD’s/Video __**

// Schindler’s List // Historically accurate movie about events during the Holocaust.

// Defiance // This movie is about a Jewish resistance movement during World War II, it is based on actual events and people.

// Dragon // This is a voice dictation system, you say it and it will do it.
 * __ Computer Software Titles __**

// Kurzweil // This is a system that reads back typed text, for those who are blind.