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Chapter 1: The Land We Call Home
Google Maps
The Google Maps website provides interactive maps of the globe, including Colorado.
maps.google.com
National Geographic Kids
This site contains interactive geography games that kids will love to play.
kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids
WorldAtlas.com
This website contains maps of the world.
www.worldatlas.com
Zero Footprint for Kids
This site has a game that helps kids find out how environmentally friendly they are and explores five topics: transportation, what you eat, home and school, what you use, and what you throw away.
www.zerofootprintfoundation.org/kids-parents-teachers/kids-calculators
Chapter 2: American Indians
Glogster
This site provides a free interface for teachers and students to create digital, interactive posters.
www.glogster.com
Museum Box
On this site, teachers and students can create museum boxes about different topics. Each box can store text, images, video, and sound.
museumbox.e2bn.org
NationalParkService.org
On this site, you can find information on the Ancestral Peubloan peoples along with maps, pictures of artifacts, and fun facts about the native people.
www.nationalparkservice.org
Prezi
Prezi is online software that allows teachers and students to create eye-popping presentations for free.
prezi.com
Chapter 3: Explorers and Fur Traders
Education World
This site offers information for teachers on a variety of topics, including using debate in the lower grades.
www.educationworld.com
Enchanted Learning
An explorers link for students is available on this site.
www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
The Fur Trapper
This site provides historical photographs, maps, and links to a variety of topics from the chapter.
www.thefurtrapper.com
The Mariner's Museum
This site has an excellent online exhibit called "Exploration through the Ages," where students can learn more about early explorers and their tools.
www.marinersmuseum.org
ThinkQuest
This site has a section titled "Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World." Students can locate information about explorers.
www.thinkquest.org/en
Chapter 4: Moving West
Museum Box
On this site, teacher and students can create museum boxes about different topics. Each box can store text, images, video, and sound.
museumbox.e2bn.org
PBS The Gold Rush
This website includes a game called Strike it Rich! Students can participate in prospecting and gold mining as a fictional character who lived in the 1800s. Use with the Technology activity in lesson 3.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush
YouTube: The Sand Creek Massacre Parts I and II
This site contains video clips that describe the causes and effects of the Sand Creek Massacre.
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+sand+creek+massacre+part++2&aq=f
Chapter 5: A Changing Colorado
Animated Engines
This site includes animated diagrams of how steam engines work.
www.animatedengines.com
BigHugeLabs
This site offers a wide selection of fun activities to do with your photos or other images.
bighugelabs.com
Casey at the Bat
This site includes the historic and popular poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer.
www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_case.shtml
PBS Transcontinental Railroad
This site includes a timeline of events for the building of the railroad, a gallery of photos, an interactive map, and teacher resources to help engage students in this subject.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr
Chapter 6: Colorado in the 20th Century
Camp Harmony Exhibit
This site tells the story of Japanese Americans in the Camp Harmony internment camp during World War II.
www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit
Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp
This site contains letters from Japanese American children to their friend and librarian while they were in internment camps during World War II, describing their experiences.
www.janm.org/exhibits/breed/title.htm
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
This site contains letters that children wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm
National Geographic
This website includes images of many different animals to be used in the Become a Better Reader activity in Lesson 1.
animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals
PBS: It's Not Fair
Students can learn about equality using this interactive website.
pbskids.org/wayback/fair/index.html
PBS:Surviving the Dust Bowl
This site contains a short video about the experiences of how Americans survived during the Dust Bowl.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl
Chapter 7: Modren Colorado
Colorado.gov
This is the official website of the state of Colorado.
www.colorado.gov
Kids Health - What is Diversity?
This is a very kid-friendly site that describes diversity, what it is, why it is beneficial, and the challenges of diversity.
www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=286&id=2345
PBS Kids: Connect the World
This site has a fun interactive card game that introduces children to some of the cultural diversity throughout the world.
pbskids.org/arthur/games/connectworld/connectworld.html
Chapter 8: Economics and You
Bureau of Labor Statistics
This website is designed to help students find jobs that interest them by asking them what they like to do.
www.bls.gov
Glogster
This site provides a free interface for teachers and students to create digital, interactive posters.
www.glogster.com
Hands on Banking
Students will learn about budgeting and saving through a fun, interactive financial literacy program. There is also a corresponding instructional resource manual you can download to get the most learning from this site!
www.handsonbanking.org/HOB_kids_en.html
Chapter 9: Government for All of Us
Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government
Students can have a great time learning more about the government with this site! Ben teaches students about different parts of the government, and there are some interactive games students will enjoy playing.
bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/index.html
Colorado's Elected Officials
Use this site to see who is currently serving Colorado.
www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CO-Portal/CXP/1165693060260
Three Ring Government
Watch this online video from SchoolHouse Rock. This is a great way to show students the three rings, or branches, of government that manage our country.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5I2KFENjS8
Tic Tac Taxes
Learn more about why we have taxes and how they help our country. This site is intended to be a lesson plan tool for teachers.
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=370&page=studen
