Travel Through Time With Technology

Presented by: Jamie Burch and Amy Johns

Interactive sites: Engage your students in Social Studies events from the past.

• CyberHunt: Surf the Web for fascinating facts to conquer these quiz and puzzle challenges.
• Global Trek: Visit various countries and keep an online journal of your travels.
• History Mystery: After viewing your clues, click the links to find the answers. After filling in the answers you get to  move on to the next clue.
• Order In the Court: Students have the opportunity to participate in a mock trial to learn about the colonial justice system first hand.
• Liberty's Kids: Be a Reporter,  an interactive newsletter that students can open, edit and print.
• History Detective: Travel through time and investigate daily life during the 1700's.
• Westward Movement: Travel West with Lewis and Clark and make decisions about your trip.
• Lewis and Clark: Interactive Trail Map
• Presidents Day: This site includes a Webquest, Kidspiration, Inspiration and Timeliner activities about the Presidents of the United States.
• Online Civil War Museums: 5th grade student created web pages that provide the research they completed about the Civil War. 2004 Civil War Museums
• Revolutionary War Scavenger Hunt: 
• Revolutionary War Battle Site Tour: Webquest designed to introduce students to the various battle sites of the war.
• Revolutionary War Spies Webquest: Students will find and read letters written by spies during the war.
• Multimedia Timeline of attacks on Pearl Harbor: Photos, footage, first hand accounts, and narration.
• The Holocaust: Interactive map of the events leading up to the Holocaust
• Regions of the United States: US Embassy provides a clickable map of the US regions and information about the individual states.
• Regions Defined: This site provides information about the regions of the United States.
• Regions Quiz: Each quiz has 13 -26 questions focused on a particular region.
• History and Folk Life of the Kentucky Frontier: Learn about clothing, crafts, chores, health and more when you visit this site.

Activities: Each of the following activities could be adapted for use with any state.

• Kidspiration activity: Name the six regions of Kentucky and list a geographical feature of each region. Open as a Kidspiration template or as a  PDF file.
• Inspiration activity: name the six regions of Kentucky, list a geographical feature and two facts about that region. Open as a Inspiration template or as a PDF file.
• Regions of Kentucky: Student created web project on the Regions of Kentucky.
• Regions of Kentucky: a simple student created webpage about the regions of Kentucky.

Handouts:

• Session Handout: Includes websites reviewed during the session
• FrontPage: Simple directions to use with your students to set up their webpage when creating Online Museums.