The Massachusetts Story (3rd Grade)

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  Let's Begin

  50states.com

  www.50states.com/massachusetts.htm

  Dig: The Archaeology Magazine for Kids

  www.digonsite.com/

  Family Tree Kids!

  kids.familytreemagazine.com/kids/FamilyTreeForm.asp

  National Archives

  www.archives.gov/research/

  Massachusetts Historical Society

  www.masshist.org/

  Chapter 1: The Land We Call Home

  Geology.com—Massachusetts

  geology.com/states/massachusetts.shtml

  Living a Greener Life

  www.livingagreenerlife.com/green-info-for-kids.html

  Massachusetts’ Climate and Weather—Daukas.com

  www.daukas.com/Geoscience/MAtour/CW/background.html

  Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

  www.mass.gov/dep/

  Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife

  www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/index.htm

  The Nature Conservancy—Massachusetts

  www.nature.org

  Netstate—Geography of Massachusetts

  www.netstate.com/states/geography/ma_geography.htm

  WorldAtlas.com

  www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/imageg.htm

  Chapter 2: The First People

  First People—The Legends

  www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Legends-AB.html

  KidsGardening—Create a Three Sisters Garden

  www.kidsgardening.org/classroom-projects/creating-three-sisters-garden

  Living in Two Worlds—Building a Wetu

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz0RuH8heMU

  Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

  mashpeewampanoagtribe.com/

  Native Languages of the Americas—Wampanoag Facts and Language

  • www.bigorrin.org/wampanoag_kids.htm
  • www.native-languages.org/wampanoag.htm

  Plimoth Plantation—Wampanoag Homesite

  www.plimoth.org/what-see-do/wampanoag-homesite

  Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head

  www.wampanoagtribe.net/pages/index

  Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project

  www.wlrp.org/

  Chapter 3: Pilgrims and Puritans

  Architect of the Capitol—“Embarkation of the Pilgrims”

  http://www.aoc.gov

  Digital History—The Puritan Mind

  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us4.cfm

  Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings

  http://www.puritansermons.com/toc.htm

  Historic Map of New England

  http://luna.library.cmu.edu

  History.com—The Pilgrims

  http://www.history.com/topics/pilgrims

  MayflowerHistory.com

  http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

  National Park Service—Cape Cod

  http://www.nps.gov/caco/historyculture/pilgrims.htm

  The New England Primer, 1777 Edition

  http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/nep/1777

  Plimoth Plantation—Just for Kids

  http://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids

  Plimoth.org—The First Thanksgiving

  http://www.plimoth.org/media/olc/intro.html

  Representative Poetry Online—Anne Bradstreet

  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/bradstreet-anne

  Salem Witch Trials—Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

  http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html

  Scholastic—The First Thanksgiving

  http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/

  Teaching American History—The Enlarged Salem Covenant

  http://teachingamericanhistory.org

  Chapter 4: Massachusetts in the American Revolution

  National Archives—The Charters of Freedom

  www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/

  America the Story of Us—The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiIFRCk1hxY

  Historical Scene Investigation (HSI)

  web.wm.edu/hsi/about.html

  History.com—America in the British Empire

  www.history.com/topics/america-in-the-british-empire

  Liberty Kids

  libertyskids.com/index.html

  Massachusetts Historical Society—The Coming of the American Revolution

  www.masshist.org/revolution/topics.php

  Library of Congress—The American Revolution and the New Nation

  http://www.loc.gov

  Mission US—Mission 1: For Crown or Colony?

  www.mission-us.org/

  National Archives and Records Administration

  www.archives.gov/

  PBS.org—Liberty! The American Revolution

  www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

  Teaching American History Document Library—Founding Era

  teachingamericanhistory.org/library/founding/

  “Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration”

  www.schooltube.com/video/e1895c4c1683c3124733/

  Chapter 5: Your Hometown

  Bill of Rights

  www.ratical.org/co-globalize/BillOfRights.html

  Congress for Kids

  http://congressforkids.net

  EconData.Net—Regional Economic Data

  http://www.econdata.net/

  Federal Reserve Bank of New York—Econ Explorers Club

  http://www.ny.frb.org/education/elemiddleschool.html

  Global Youth Action Network

  http://gyan.tigweb.org/

  PBS Kids—Budgeting for Kids

  http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/money/managing/article6.html

  ThinkQuest—Welcome to Econopolis and Making $cents of Money

  Kids Voting USA

  http://kidsvotingusa.org/

  Youth Service America

  www.ysa.org/

  • http://library.thinkquest.org/3901/
  • http://library.thinkquest.org/J003358F/
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