Leanna Prater
Diana Hendrix
Dayna Lykins
Technology Resource Teachers
Fayette County Schools, KY

Workshop Presented at 
Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference March 2005

Links for Workshop  

 

           

 

Thanks for attending the workshop at the Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference this year.  I hope that the resources you find here will assist you in providing exciting educational experiences for your students that they will remember for the rest of their lives. 

 

 
Book Resources
Web Resources

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Links for KTLC Workshop

University Use of the "virtual" world- Illinois State College of Education- Use of Online Gaming simulation within the classroom

Elements of A Successful Educational Simulation-article

Fireside Chat With Fischer
KY Mining Activity

EXPLORERS

Fantastic Voyage
1628 Across the Continent

COLONIAL AMERICA

Colonial Trades-information site for Storypath
Jamestown On-Line-interactive site
Investigating the First Thanksgiving
American History Net Simulations-interactive site

Revolutionary War

Boston Massacre- Great Interactive Site

CIVIL WAR

Underground Railroad
Flight to Freedom (virtual simulation/role playing)

WESTWARD EXPANSION

Westward Ho!-interactive class project
The Dakota Experience
Go West with Lewis and Clark-interactive site

Government

Immigrant Rights Throughout History

OTHER

Colonial House

Life as the President-interactive site

Child Labor Activity-Lesson
Manifest Destiny Simulation -Lesson
Electronic United Nation -interactive class project
You Be the Historian- activity
Trading Around the World

And More (Including other content areas)

EduWeb Adventures (a variety of grades/content)

Adventures at Dry Creek (fossils)

The Mystery Spot (health)
Check writing (math/life skills)
Lemonade Stand (math/economics)
Explore a Pond (virtual pond/ science)
The Great Plant Escape (Science)
Various Science Simulation Lessons 
SimScience- Virtual Simulations (Science)
Camp Life Virtual Civil War Museum
Crisis At Fort Sumter (Resource-High School/College Sim)
Space Simulation Information
Grade 5 Lessons from Teaching American History
Mapmaker Activity
Hydrovents (simulation for 6-8) use with MarcoPolo Lesson
Volcano Simulation
World War II  Thinkquest
SimMummy (Mummy Simulation Class Lesson)
Multiple Lessons including Space Simulation
Role Play Simulation Demos
Virtual Earth Lab- Riverdeep requires free simplayer download
Eyewitness History (photos, sound links,etc)
Simforest (forest simulator and teaching unit)
Design your own Satellite (a site from eduweb)
Wildfire Simulator
Low Life Labs (robotics)
PDA Participatory Simulations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Resources

Storypath Units, developed by Margrit McGuire
Purchase Units through SRA
Grade Levels 1 - 6
Storypath takes on social studies learning adventures with 19 social studies units. Designed to last four to six weeks, each unit can be used individually, in combination, or as replacement topics to existing social studies curriculums. Because students confront problems typically faced by the people they portray in Storypath, they learn to use higher order thinking skills or organize ideas, define issues and problems, consider alternatives, and make decisions.

History Alive, Teacher's Curriculum Institute
Information available from TCI

American History Simulations, Teacher Created Materials
Ordering Information

Can't You Make Them Behave, King George, by Jean Fritz

Encounter, by Jane Yolen

 

 

 

 

 


Web Resources

Storypath
Website from Seattle University
A Nation Divided (part 1- pdf file)
A Nation Divided (part 2-pdf file)
Links to support A Nation Divided Episodes
Civil Rights Movement (pdf file)

History Alive
Enrichment Essays
Literature Connections

 

Exploring American History
Sample Units

 

Rock Band Simulation
Ordering Information

 

Integration Ideas

Exploration:

Spice Trades
Explorers Time Machine- Who is the best leader

Web Quest:  The Missing Trunks

Colonial America

Bye George, I'm Out of Here

The Road to Revolution

Don't Start the Revolution Without Me

 

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UCLA's Website

Fayette County's website

 

 

 

 

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