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[mailto:owner-edinfo@inet.ed.gov] On Behalf Of Winters, Kirk
shared 50+ New Learning Resources at FREE:
MORE THAN 50 resources have been added to FREE, a website that
makes hundreds of learning resources from 40+ federal
organizations available (& searchable) in one place.
Below are titles, descriptions, & sponsoring agencies of the
new resources. (There are so many that we split them into
*two* messages.)
http://www.ed.gov/free/
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New Resources Added to the FREE Website
(Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
November 18 - December 15, 1999
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Art
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"Online Tours of the Gallery's Permanent Collection" offers
in-depth studies of artists & specific works, & "virtual walking
tours." (NGA)
http://www.nga.gov/onlinetours/onlinetr.htm
"Tilman Riemenschneider" (W'rzburg, Germany, 1483-1531) exhibits
50+ works of this artist, who demonstrated proficiency -- at the
beginning of his career -- in a variety of media, sculpting
limewood, alabaster, sandstone, & marble with equal facility.
(NGA)
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/tilmanintro.htm
"Teaching Resources: Loan Programs" features 150+ teaching
resources that are loaned free to educational institutions,
community groups, & individuals. Programs are designed to meet
national standards in visual arts. (NGA)
http://www.nga.gov/education/ep-main.htm
"Education Resources" provides free-loan educational materials,
programs, & resources for teachers, educational activities &
events, as well as internship & volunteer opportunities at the
Gallery. (NGA)
http://www.nga.gov/education/education.htm
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Foreign Language
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"Cultra Project" lets students in the U.S. communicate with
students from other countries. Students observe, analyze, &
compare cultures. (NEH)
http://web.mit.edu/french/cultura/
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Language Arts
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"Romantic Circles High School" is a real-time multi-user
environment that includes "online classrooms" designed & occupied
by classes across the country, a library of Romantic electronic
texts, a teachers' lounge, & shared spaces for special events &
social interaction. The class is meeting inside Villa Diodati, the
house that Lord Byron rented in the summer of 1816 & that served as
the impetus for Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." (NEH)
http://www.rc.umd.edu/rchs/index.html
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Science
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"Figure This!" offers interactive math problems families can use to
help children understand estimation, volume, & other important
mathematical concepts. (ED/NSF)
http://www.figurethis.org
"National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Kids'
Pages" teach children about the connection between their health &
the environment & encourage the pursuit of careers in health,
science, & the environment. The site includes brainteasers,
puzzles, stories, & science activities. (NIH)
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/home.htm
"Science@NASA" features the latest news in science. "Thursday's
Classroom" provides new lesson plans & activities based on a
current headline story & connects NASA's latest research & to the
classroom. Past topics include four facts about Christmas in
space, the Red Planet in 3D, much ado about Pluto, & more. (NASA)
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/
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Social Studies
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"After Reconstruction: Studying the Problems of African-Americans
in the South" encourages students to identify problems facing
African Americans immediately after Reconstruction. Students then
work in small groups to identify documents describing a particular
problem, consider opposing points of view, suggest a solution, &
present their research findings. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/rec/rhome.html
"America Dreams" offers lesson ideas & resources for investigating
what the American Dream has meant over the years from various
perspectives, including those of photographers, lawyers, poets,
politicians, comedians, musicians, & reporters. Classrooms across
the country are invited to contribute to a Student Gallery & to
post their dreams on a Wall of Dreams. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/dream/toc.html
"America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets" provides "song
sheets" (lyrics without music) for 4000 songs that were popular
before the advent of the phonograph & radio. During this time,
(1850-1870), song sheets were the way that many Americans learned
the latest songs. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amsshtml/amsshome.html
"American Wars in Asia Project" is a cross-cultural, cross-
disciplinary project at the University of Montana about how to
understand three of the wars the U.S. fought in Asia (Japan, Korea,
Vietnam). (NEH)
http://www.umt.edu/mansfield/AmWars/amwars.htm
"'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime': The Effects of the New Deal &
the Great Depression" examines primary sources -- from photographs
to oral histories recorded by the famous Federal Writers' Project
-- to develop a sense of the profound impact the Great Depression
had on people's lives. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson98/dime/intro.html
"Become a Historical Detective" challenges students to search for
evidence to support their answer to a question: Was Billy the Kid
really killed by Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner, New Mexico? (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/detectiv.html
"Child Labor in America" is a teaching unit that leads middle &
high school students through the process of critically examining
photographs (by Lewis Hine) as historical evidence. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson98/labor/plan.html
"Choices & Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg" aims to help
students understand the Gettysburg Campaign & the major actions of
the armies during each day of the battle, as well as the motives &
experiences of several participants in the battle. It offers
readings, maps, photos, & activities for students. (NPS)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/44gettys/44gettys.htm
"Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bombmaker" tells the story of a
complex, world-class physicist who became the driving force behind
the Soviet Union's race to develop the atomic bomb. (NEH)
http://www.pbs.org/opb/citizenk/
"The Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: the Hetch Hetchy
Controversy" is a two-part teaching unit about the controversy
among conservationists over a proposal to turn part of Yosemite
National Park into a dam to furnish water to San Francisco. The
first part explores the history of the conservation movement in
general, while the second links to primary records, such as
Congressional debates, of Hetch Hetchy itself. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/conser1/xroads.html
"Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War" deals with
America's transition from a republic, founded in opposition to
imperialism, to an empire. According to the site, "When a
declining Spain, beset by rebellion abroad, fell to American
expansionism, the U.S. inherited her colonies & suddenly emerged as
a world power. The experience & questions that the
Spanish/American War raised about foreign intervention echo
throughout the 20th century, as recent events in Kosovo show."
(NEH)
http://www.pbs.org/crucible/
"Doing the Decades, 1890-1941: Group Investigations in 20th
Century U.S. History" is a two-month team research project for
9-10th graders that uses Library of Congress resources to focus
on long-term change in U.S. history. Students gather, analyze,
& evaluate primary & secondary sources; develop their own
conclusions; & refine their writing. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/week/whome.html
"Early Virginia Religious Petitions" presents images of 423
petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 &
1802. The petitions concern such topics as the historic debate
over the separation of church & state, the rights of dissenters
such as Quakers & Baptists, the sale & division of property in the
established church, & the dissolution of unpopular vestries. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/repehtml/repehome.html
"Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online"
is an effort to locate & make available all surviving manuscripts &
printed texts from this 52-year friendship based on a mutual
commitment to establish "perfect political equality among all
classes of citizens." (NEH)
http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/
"Enhancing a Poetry Unit" is a teaching unit that leads students to
the famous Federal Writers' Project & gets them started writing
"found poems." Among the examples is a free verse poem written
after reading an account of surviving the Blizzard of 1888. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson98/poetry/poem.html
"First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920" is a
compilation of printed texts of the 19th-century American South
from the viewpoint of Southerners. There are diaries,
autobiographies, memoirs, & travel accounts not only of prominent
individuals but also of women, ex-slaves, enlisted men, laborers, &
Native Americans. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html
"The Frankish Building: A Reflection of the Success of Ontario,
California" helps students see the impact of the Chaffey brothers &
Charles Frankish on Ontario, California. Students also compare
that impact with the effect of important individuals in their own
community's history. (NPS)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/43frankish/43frankish.htm
"From Jim Crow to Linda Brown: A Retrospective of the African-
American Experience, 1897-1953" helps students understand themes of
African American life in the first half of the 20th century &
explore to what extent the African American experience was
"separate but equal." Among the activities, students examine
Plessy v. Ferguson (1897) & simulate the 1898 meeting of the
Afro-American Council. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/crow/crowhome.html
"The Great Depression & the 1990s" asks students to research a
modern government program having roots in the New Deal. Following
their research, students participate in a congressional forum where
they debate which programs should be continued. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/depress/overview.html
"Griffith in Context: A Multimedia Exploration Analysis of D.W.
Griffith's 'Birth of A Nation'" provides an overview of a CD-ROM
that makes the film's cultural & cinematic impact tangible. (NEH)
http://griffith-in-context.gatech.edu/
"Growing into Public Service: William Howard Taft's Boyhood Home"
examines the family & setting in Cincinnati where the 27th
President & Chief Justice of the Supreme Court grew up. It
includes readings, maps, photos, & activities for students. (NPS)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/15taft/15taft.htm
"In Congress Assembled: Continuity & Change in the Governing of
the U.S." provides four teaching units linked to American history
readings. Topics include drafting the Constitution, adding the
Bill of Rights, comparing certain issues then & now, & how the
early Congress proclaimed holidays. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/constitu/conintro.html
"Learning About Immigration through Oral History" is a lesson plan
where a team of middle-school students search the Library of
Congress website & other resources to learn how to conduct oral
history interviews. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/oh1/ammem.html
"Mapping Margery Kempe" is a digital library of resources for
studying the 15th century cultural & societal context of "The Book
of Margery Kempe." (NEH)
http://sterling.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/kempe/
"The Mathew Brady Bunch: Civil War Newspapers" offers 1000
annotated photographs ranging from portraits to battle scenes.
Students become reporters, assigned to sort through photos to find
one that will bring the war to life for their readers. They write
a newspaper article based on their chosen photograph & publish it
on the web. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson98/brady/home.html
"The New Deal: North Carolina's Reconstruction?" invites students
to interview imaginary North Carolina residents who lived during
the Reconstruction and Depression eras. Each interview is
historically accurate & supports a thesis that answers a question:
"Was the New Deal North Carolina's Reconstruction?" This site
includes more than two dozen examples of student interviews. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/newdeal/lesson.html
"New Netherland Project" is an effort to transcribe, translate, &
publish all Dutch documents in New York repositories relating to
the 17th century colony of New Netherland. Among the highlights is
a letter from Peter Schaghen to directors of the West India Company
announcing the purchase of Manhattan. (NEH)
http://www.nnp.org/
"New York: A Documentary Film" investigates 400 years of New York
City's rich & varied history as a laboratory of modern life.
Visitors are introduced to 12 little-known locations in the city,
can sit in the back of an animated New York cab driven by a
bantering celebrity, or explore the views of 32 luminaries who
discuss the city that inspired them. (NEH)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/
"Photojournalism: A Record of War" explores how & why war has been
photographed & affords students an opportunity to see bias within
war reporting. In addition to analyzing war photographs, students
learn about Mathew Brady's process for photographing the Civil War
& how photographic equipment has improved over time. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/photo/home.html
"Port of Entry: Immigration" lets 6-12th graders assume the role
of historical detective & travel back in time to the turn of the
century. As historical detectives, they search for clues to the
past in photos from immigrant neighborhoods of New York & read the
stories of immigrants documented through personal interviews in the
Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/port/teacher.html
"Prehistoric Puzzles" helps students investigate the prehistory of
the African continent. The site includes learning modules on diet,
subsistence, ceramic artifact analysis, & other topics. (NEH)
http://www.indiana.edu/~puzzles/
"Race & Place: An African American Community the Jim Crow South"
recreates the contours of the African American community in
Charlottesville, Virginia, during the start of this century.
Narratives provide historical analysis as well as archival content,
including newsclippings from the "Only Negro Weekly," hundreds of
early 20th century photos of African Americans, & more. (NEH)
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/afam/cvilleenter.html
"Reservation Controversies" is built around two scenarios that help
students understand issues related to American Indian reservations.
Under one scenario, set in 1973, the student plays the role of
agent for a Comanche Indian reservation. Under a contemporary
scenario, the student is cast as a new congressional intern who has
received a letter from the his congresswoman asking for help on
issues related to casinos on reservations. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/reservation/teacher.html
"The Star-Spangled Banner" unlocks the history behind the 186-year-old
banner, which inspired the National Anthem & became a symbol for the
U.S. Students may use this site to learn about the War of 1812; the
poem that became the national anthem; the people who made, used, &
preserved the flag; & the symbolism of the American flag. (SI)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/ssb/
"Theodore Roosevelt: His Life & Times on Film" features 104 short
films which record events in Roosevelt's life from the Spanish-American
War in 1898 to his death in 1919. In addition to scenes of Roosevelt,
these films include views of world figures, politicians, monarchs, &
friends & family members. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/trfhome.html
"To Market To Market" helps students sharpen their observation &
interpretation skills by inviting them to examine images from the
turn of the centuries, circa 1900 & circa 2000. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/market/main.html
"Turn of the Century First Ladies: Who's That Lady?" is an online
"bowl event" where teams of students compete by naming First Ladies
who appear in a slideshow. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/lady/index.html
"Using Oral History to Explore the Lives of Everyday Americans"
lets students examine social history topics through interviews
recounting the lives of ordinary Americans. Students also develop
their own research questions & conduct oral history interviews with
members of their communities. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html
"Virtual Jamestown" provides an open doorway to explore the history
of the Jamestown settlement. The site features historical
documents including laws, census data, contracts, state papers,
maps, contemporary writings, & art. (NEH)
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/
"We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln,
Emancipation, & the Civil War presents 200 sheet-music compositions
representing Lincoln & the war as reflected in popular music. This
collection spans the years from Lincoln's presidential campaign in
1859 through the centenary of his birth in 1909. (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html
"Web de Anza" is an interactive environment for studying Spain's
exploration & colonization of "Alta California" (1774-1776).
Diaries & letters (available in both English & Spanish), maps &
trail routes, drawing & photos all recreate a living timeline of
the past & provide primary documents & multimedia resources
covering Juan Bautista de Anza's two expeditions to what would
become San Francisco. (NEH)
http://anza.uoregon.edu/
"What Do You See?" is a lesson in which students analyze a single
Civil War photograph & then find & analyze related images. The aim
is to help students see relationships between the Civil War &
American industrialization. (LOC)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson97/civilwar/hinesday.html
Acronyms
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ED -- U.S. Department of Education
LOC -- Library of Congress
NASA -- National Aeronautics & Space Administration
NEH -- National Endowment of the Humanities
NIH -- National Institutes of Health
NSF -- National Science Foundation
NGA -- National Gallery of Art
NPS -- National Park Service
LOC -- Library of Congress
SI -- Smithsonian Institution
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