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American Experience:
Ansel Adams:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/filmmore/ps.html
Citizen King:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/filmmore/ps.html
Jimmy Carter:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/filmmore/ps.html
Tupperware:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tupperware/filmmore/ps.html
Vietnam:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/reflect/index.html
War Letters:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wgbh/warletters
George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/filmmore/reference/primary/index.html
recommended web sites
Advanced Placement Digital Library
http://apdl.rice.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx
Just in time for Advanced Placement exams, check out these AP Biology, Chemistry, and Physics resources for a review. Resources are selected based on their educational merit in an AP or Pre-AP classroom. The outline of resources is based partly on the College Board's publications and also on the expert panel who selects resources. Registration is required but is free. Each selected resource has a rating according to content, graphics, layout, and user friendliness, a detailed review. Even if it isn't exam time, this is a great site to find supplementary resources to help you understand topics covered in most AP science classes.
Subject: Science & Technology
More Recommended Science & Technology Links
The Vietnam Project
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/index.htm
The Vietnam Project from Texas Tech University houses the Vietnam Archive, Vietnam Center, Vietnam Virtual Archive, and the Oral History Project. Within the Oral History Project, you'll find resources on how to conduct an interview and numerous audio clips of interviews with Vietnam veterans. Some interviews also have transcripts in pdf format and some interviews conducted during the 1970s. There is an image index, an extensive acronym database, and other reference databases. The link to teacher resources is currently under development but due to launch in the spring of 2004. There will be lesson plans for elementary, secondary, and college levels at http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/teachers/.
Subject: Social Studies
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The National Archives Digital Classroom
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/
Perhaps you are new to teaching with primary documents or you are using more DBQs (Document Based Questions) in the classroom. The Digital Classroom from the National Archives and Records Administration will show you how to teach with documents. Document analysis worksheets guide students through citing a source and thoughtful questions about why the document might have been written and how it might relate to US history at the time.
Subject: Social Studies
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Brown v. Board of Education Archive
http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/
The University of Michigan contains documents and images about Supreme Court cases; busing and school integration efforts in northern urban areas; school integration in the Ann Arbor Public School District; and recent resegregation issues in American schools. Additional resources are a bibliography, image gallery, and transcripts of oral arguments from the cases.
Subject: Social Studies
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Brown v. Board of Education: An American Legacy
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=34
May 17, 2004, will mark 50 years since the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that struck down segregation in public schools. Teaching Tolerance Magazine has a special online issue with a timeline of integration of schools, interviews with 14 commentators, activists, and educational leaders about the legacy and impact of Brown. There are links to activities, books, websites and films on Brown. Extensions to the theme of racism in schools include bullying and stereotyping still found in schools today.
Subject: Social Studies
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recommended books
Music For Alice
By Allen Say
Published March 2004
Grades: PreK-2; 3-5
Subjects: Social Studies
When Alice was young, she loved to dance, but life got in the way. World War II sent Alice and her husband to an assembly center with other Japanese Americans. When they are given the chance to farm rather than be sent to an internment camp, they take it even though neither has any farming experience. Say's beautifully illustrated story celebrates determination in the face of adversity.
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Under Fire: Untold Stories from the Front Line of the Iraq War
By Reuters Correspondents
Published January 2004
Grades: 9-12; Professional Development
Subjects: Social Studies
Fifteen Reuters correspondents provide first hand accounts of campaigns in the Iraq War. The collection includes a photo section, war chronology, outline of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and glossary of military terms.
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Double Vision: A Self Portrait
By Walter Abish
Published February 2004
Grades: 9-12; Professional Development
Subjects: Math; Science & Technology
The Novelist Walter Abish was born in Vienna in the 1930s. In this memoir, he reports his family's fantastic escape from the Nazis and adventures in France, Italy, and China. He recalls the past and reevaluates his understanding of his childhood experience in alternating chapters.
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