A

'Activities'
Adams John and Abigail
'Advertising'
Alamo
Al Capone
'Amazing Americans'
America in Color from 1939-1943
American Dream
'American Revolution'
'American West'
Amish
'Animations and Movies'
Armes à feu

B

BILL Buffalo
'Bill of Rights'
'Black people'
Boston
'Boston Tea Party'

C

CARSON Kit
'Cartoons'
Christopher Columbus
Cinéma
Civilisation américaine
'Civil Rights'
'Civil War'
'Colonial Period'
Columbus Christopher
Constitution
'Constitution Day'
'Cowboys'

D

'Declaration of Independence'
Dollar

E

'Early Americas'
Elections
'Ellis Island'
'Encyclopaedia'
Esclavage
Espionnage
'Events in 2003'

F

FRANKLIN Benjamin

G

'Games'
'Gold Rush'
'Government'
'Great Depression'
Guerre de Sécession

H

Hip-hop
'Hippie (The Year of the -')
'History' (US) - General Resources

I

Immigration (civilisation)
Immigration (histoire)
'Independence Day'
Indiens

J

JAMES Jesse
Jazz
'July 4th'

K

Kennedy
Kennedy (The 20th Century)
King (Martin Luther -)
Ku Klux Klan

L

Lincoln
'Listening'
Los Angeles

M

MacArthur
'Maps'
Marilyn MONROE
Martin Luther King
McCarthyism
Menaces
Mormons
'Movies and Animations'

N

'Native Americans'
New York
Noirs

O

'Oklahoma City Bombing'
Ouest américain

P

PAINE Thomas
Peine de mort
'Pledge of Allegiance'
Pocahontas
Pony Express
Posters
'Presidents' (Games)
'Presidents' Day'
Prohibition

Q

R

'Resources'
Roswell
Ruée versl'or

S

'Salem Witch Trials'
'September 11, 2001'
Sites-ressources
'Sixties'
'Slavery'
'Songs'
'Stories'
Suffragettes
'Symbols'

T

Terrorisme
'Thirteen Colonies'
'Time Line Generators'
'Twentieth century'

U

'Uncle Sam'
'US History' - General Resources

V

'Vietnam War'
Vingtième siècle
'Vocabulary'

W

'Wars with American Involvement'
Washington, DC
WASHINGTON George
'Webquests'
'West (The -' )

X

Y

'Year of the Hippie (The -')

Z

 

• American History Glossary (Social Studies for Kids)

• The Colonial Dictionary (germantownacademy)
  "Students in third grade have been learning about the colonial period in America. As they discover the meanings of vocabulary words, they enter these definitions onto web pages of our Colonial Alphabet."
  
  

• Civil War Terms and People - (quia.com)
  "Reviewing key people and terms of the civil war."

• The USA - a webquest
  prepared by Brigitte Rempenault (Académie de Versailles)
  - with Teacher's Notes

  

• Webquests with Teacher's Notes (onestopenglish) :
  
  
  • Los Angeles Webquest : Visiting the Universal Studios theme park, finding out about 'hard-boiled' fiction and Ebonics along with some Hollywood stars.
    
    
  • New York Webquest : Suzanne Vega and tour around the city.
    
    
  • Boston Webquest : The Boston Tea Party, British and American English, a Boston tour and Edgar Allen Poe.

   

• A webquest on SLAVERY (with the answers)
  "Explore the ways that slavery has been woven into the fabric of societies in America and around the world." (e-teacher)
  
  

• Ellis Island Webquest (Ac. Orléans-Tours) :
  "In the following WebQuest, you will adopt one of two roles: the role of a new immigrant, or the role of an immigration officer. Your goal is to write a page from your diary about this experience."
  
  

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scavenger Hunt
  
  

• A webquest : Martin Luther King, Jr. - One Man's Quest for Equality
  
  

• Treasure Hunts (answer key) :
  Black History for 4th grade and below,
  for 5th and 6th graders,
  for 5th and 6th graders,
  for 9th graders and above.

• A scavenger hunt - Remembering September 11, 2001
  - What do you know about it ? - PDF (Education World)
  
  

• Independence Day - a webquest -
  "In the first activity you will investigate Independence Day in the United States.
  In activities 2 and 3 you'll discover what other countries celebrate their independence in July."
  (onestopenglish)

• American History - PowerPoint Presentations (pppst.com)
  Explorers - Civil War - Government -
  Native Americans - Industrial/Immigration - Geography -
  Colonial Times - Great Depression - Patriotic Symbols -
  Revolutionary War - Civil Rights - Multicultural -
  Western Expansion - World Wars - Many More
  
  
  
• The symbols of US Government - interactive exercise (Ac. Paris)
  
  

• My America - activités sur les symboles des USA (field-trips)
  Stop 1-Welcome to the My America Field Trip!
  Stop 2-Star-Spangled Banner
  Stop 3-History of the Flag
  Stop 4-July 4th
  Stop 5-The History of the Pledge of Allegiance
  Stop 6-Statue of Liberty
  Stop 7-About the Statue of Liberty
  Stop 8-Ellis Island & Immigration
  Stop 9-American Indians
  Stop 10-Reservation Map
  Stop 11-"American" Wildlife
  Stop 12-Bald Eagle
  Stop 13-American Bison
  Stop 14-Wild Horses
  Stop 15-Mount Rushmore
  Stop 16-Crazy Horse (Tashunkewitko)
  Stop 17-American History
  Stop 18-Goodbye & Thanks for Coming!

Sites-ressources :

• Charters of Freedom (archives.gov)
  "This interactive site developed by the National Archives features the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights, as well as information on how they were created and their impact." (Education World)

  

• HippoCampus
  brings "high-quality multimedia content provided by top educators"
  Subjects :
  American Government - Biology - Environmental Science - Religion - US History...
  (hippocampus.org)

  

• Constitution Day : Page de ressources (educationworld.com)
  
  

• Constitution Day - Resources for Educators (gmc.edu)
  Constitution Day Background - The Constitution - Classroom Activities, Discussion Starters, and Lesson Plans -
  Searchable Lesson Plan Sites

• Constitution Day - September 17th (constitutionday.us)

  

Activities TO PRINT :

• US Constitution - word search to print (thepotters.com)

Lesson plans :

• America's Freedom Documents! (educationworld.com)
  "Education World presents ten lesson plans for teaching about three important freedom documents
  - the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
  Included: Activities that involve students in creating time lines and posters, writing new amendments, and much more!"

INTERACTIVE games :

• Creating the United States: Word Search
  "A quick way to get acquainted with some of the words related to the founding documents of the United States."
  (myloc.gov)

Videos :

• Creating the Constitution - with subtitles (TeacherTube)

  

• Creating the United States: Word Search
  "A quick way to get acquainted with some of the words related to the founding documents of the United States."
  (myloc.gov)

• A Day in the Life : History game - interactive (pbskids.org)
  "Are you ready to walk a mile in someone else s shoes?
  Imagine what it would be like to live in another time, in another place, as some other person.
  How would your life be the same or different compared to today?
  See how you would survive a day in the life of one of these nineteenth-century boys and girls."
  - African-American Boy
  - Frontier Girl
  - Native American Boy
  - Irish Immigrant Boy
  - Upper-class Girl
  
• American History Games (gamequarium)

• Christopher Columbus - a game -
  "Do you know enough to make your teacher walk the plank ?"
  
  

• Presidents of the Twentieth Century Crossword - interactive (surnetkids)

• Name that President - (Primary Games)
  "Look at the picture of the President and click on his name.
  This game has 10 questions."
  
  

• Exploring the Early Americas
  "features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. It provides insight into indigenous cultures, the drama of the encounters between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, and the pivotal changes caused by the meeting of the American and European worlds..."
  + Interactives
  (loc.gov)

  

• The Crucible
  "The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play written in the early 1950s during the time of McCarthyism, when the government blacklisted accused communists."
  + Film adaptations
  (Wikipedia)
  
  

• Witch-hunt
  "A witch-hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and mob lynching, but in historical instances
  also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials.
  The classical period of witch-hunts in Europe falls into the Early Modern period or about 1450 to 1700, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation
  and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in tens of thousands of executions...
  The term "witch-hunt" is often used to refer to similarly panic-induced searches for perceived wrong-doers other than witches.
  The best known example is probably the McCarthyist search for communists during the Cold War..."
  (Wikipedia)

  

• The Witches Curse - Les Sorcières de Salem (PBS)

  

• Salem Witch Trials (school.discovery)
  
  
  
  

  with The story of the Witch Hunt - a FLASH movie :

  

  
  
  
• Salem Witchcraft Trials Word Search - interactive (surfnetkids.com)

• JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS - with maps, a timeline, teacher's guide... (PBS)

  

• John Adams (Wikipedia)

• Abigail Adams (Wikipedia)

• The 13 American Colonies (socialstudiesforkids)
  'This fun, illustrated article describes the 13 American Colonies in detail, from economics to religion to agriculture to revolution.
  Also includes a clickable map with links to individual descriptions of each colony and a list of the first European settlements in North America.'
  
  

• Life in the 13 American Colonies (socialstudiesforkids)
  Compared to Life Today : Church / School / Farm / Park / Food
  
  
  

• Carte "View an animation that shows the addition of states to the USA." (siec.k12.in.us)

• Thirteen Colonies Crossword - to print (members.aol.com/kidcross)

 

• Benjamin FRANKLIN : America Celebrates his 300th Birthday (PBS)
  - with a timeline and a teacher's guide

  

• A Quick Biography of Benjamin Franklin - with fun and games (ushistory.org)

  

• Benjamin Franklin (Ben's Guide)

  

• U.S. one hundred-dollar bill (Wikipedia)

  

• 5 Neat Facts About The Declaration of Independence
  (neatorama.com)

• HippoCampus
  brings "high-quality multimedia content provided by top educators"
  Subjects :
  American Government - Biology - Environmental Science - Religion - US History...
  (hippocampus.org)

  

• America's Freedom Documents! (educationworld.com)
  "Education World presents ten lesson plans for teaching about three important freedom documents
  - the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
  Included: Activities that involve students in creating time lines and posters, writing new amendments, and much more!"

• A User's Guide to the Declaration of Independence (founding.com)
  with a timeline / a glossary / issues :
  I. Race and the American Founding
  II. Property Rights and the American Founding
  III. Property Requirements for Voting and the American Founding
  IV. Immigration Restrictions and the American Founding...
  "Do you have a question about the Declaration of Independence or the American Founding? You can ask an expert from the Claremont Institute."
  
  

• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record (hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu)
  "The thousand images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery."

• Lest We Forget, The Triumph Over Slavery "explores the transatlantic slave trade." (digital.nypl.org)
  
  
  
  
  
• A webquest on SLAVERY (with the answers)
  "Explore the ways that slavery has been woven into the fabric of societies in America and around the world."
  (e-teacher)
  
  
  
  
• Folk Songs About Juneteenth and Slavery (nwfolk.com)

• XP Pony Express Home Station (xphomestation.com) -
  "Ranked among the most remarkable feats to come out of the 1860 American West, the Pony Express was in service from April 1860 to November 1861. Its primary mission was to deliver mail and news between St. Joseph, Missouri, and San Francisco, California."
  Riders - History - Museums - Statues - Stations - NPEA - Pony Tales - QUIZ - etc...
  
  

• Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 - Beautiful photos
  (blogs.denverpost.com)

  

• The Mormons (PBS)
  - Watch the trailer
  - Check back on Monday, April 30 (2007) :

  An interactive map on the Mormons' westward trek; Profiles of key people and events in Mormon history; The extended interviews with leaders and members of the church,leading writers and historians, and supporters and critics; Teachers Guides on Mormon history and the issues of religion,politics and the separation of church and state...

• Brigham Young Leads the Mormons West
  "An illustrated information sheet about the westward journey of the Mormons to Salt Lake Valley under the leadership of Brigham Young. Includes differentiated activities."
  (History on the Net)
  
  

• The Mormon Exodus to the Rocky Mountains - with a map (nps.gov)
  
  

• The Mormons Crossword (History on the Net)

• Memorable Utah Events
  "A poster produced in 1943 to show the most memorable events in the history of Utah."
  (History on the Net)

• See American Dream - a film

• American Dream
  "Une séquence sur les différentes facettes du "rêve américain", perçu à travers des films, des chansons et des poèmes."
  (Pascale Catoire - Ac. Orléans-Tours)

• American dream (Wikipedia) :
  1 History of the American dream
  2 A time of plenty
  3 The American dream today
  4 Criticism of the American dream...

• What is the American Dream? (history) :
  A. Values and Ideals
  B. Why is understanding what the American dream is important?
  C. How has the dream, our ideological roots, been created?
  D. Mayflower Compact - 1620
  E. John Locke - English Enlightenment Thinker (1600's)
  (socialstudieshelp)

• America , a song by Neil Diamond (The American Dream)

• Rare Color Photos from The Great Depression
  They "were compiled by the Farm Services Administration from 1939 and 1944...
  All told, there are some 1,600 pictures which are now available online thanks to the Library of Congress.
  The photos, which depict small town life, industry and recreational activities during the Great Depression included in a 2006 exhibit "Bound for Glory: America in Color."
  (huffingtonpost.com)

  

History :

• Suffrage and the Women Behind It - a slideshow
  (history.com)

• National Women's History Museum: Woman Suffrage Cyber Exhibit
  - with a Quiz
  (nwhm.org)
  
  

 

Activities :

• Image Detective
  "Read an image closely. Think critically about turn of the century America....
  Use this exercise to build students' skills in analyzing historical documents...
  Choose a picture to start :
  Immigration / Growing Cities / Industrialization / The West / Leisure and Amusement / Progressive Reform / Women and Suffrage / Children / World War I
  Method :
  Pose a question - Gather clues - Get background info - Draw a conclusion - See what others think
  (edc.org)
  
  

 

Webquests :

• Female suffrage in the world - a webquest
  (ac-grenoble.fr/college/bauges.le-chatelard)

  

• Summer of Love (PBS)
  "a striking picture of San Francisco during the summer of 1967
  - from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos, unsanitary conditions, and widespread drug use that ultimately signaled the end.
  Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco examine the social and cultural forces that sparked the mass migration."

• The Year of the Hippie (PBS)
  "They were called junior-grade Hipsters - "hippies" for short.
  This new group embraced a non-traditional lifestyle and moved into the Haight Ashbury neighborhood in record numbers.
  Watch videos from 1966 and 1967 - the year of the hippie."

• Teacher's Guide (PBS)
  (American Experience)

  

• 2003 Month-By-Month -
  "Highlights of key events of the year, organized month by month, in three categories for easy reference."
  (infoplease)
  
  

• New York Blackout (2003) - a lesson plan by Annie GWYNN (Académie de Dijon)

• Emergence of Advertising in America : 1850 - 1920 (scriptorium.lib.duke.edu)
  (over 9,000 images, with database information, and a timeline)
  
  

• THE AMISH WEBQUEST - Testez vos connaissances (Académie de Caen)

Related pages :

WASHINGTON, DC - Presidents' Day

• Washington, D.C. (Wikipedia)

• Why Is New York City Called "The Big Apple"? (gonyc.about.com)

  

• Around The Big Apple
  "A series of citations, quotations, and evidence on the true origins of a New York City nickname, with additional material on other words
  and terms associated with the city."
  (barrypopik.com)

• New York Blackout - a lesson plan (Annie Gwynn)

• New York Blackout - interactive activities (Laurence Bernard - Ac. Martinique)

• SLAVERY in NEW YORK (slaveryinnewyork.org)
  NY Historical Society's exhibit on the years before NY abolition in 1827.
  "The Education section provides materials written for middle school children that include
  a teacher's guide, informational articles, fact sheet, glossary, photo cards, life stories, and more."
  (Education World)
  
  

• Big Apple History (PBS Kids)
  Don't forget to drag the taxi cab!

  

• New York Webquest (onestopenglish.com)

• The Price of Freedom : Americans at War
  "a Smithsonian multimedia interactive on each war in United States’ history.
  Videos (with transcript) , images and text are included."
  (americanhistory.si.edu)

  

   

• Guerre du côté américain : propagande et affiches de guerre - 'War on the American side'
  Séquence / Séances / Documents et ressources
  "Le but de cette séquence est d'étudier quelques temps forts de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, vus du côté américain et d'étudier la propagande à travers des affiches de guerre. Le lien avec les contenus culturels du programme du palier 2 " l'ici et l'ailleurs " est clair : une histoire partagée ici et là-bas, des deux côtés de l'Atlantique (WWII). Objectif : considérer cet événement historique du point de vue de l'autre, percevoir les caractéristiques culturelles d'un peuple au travers d'un événement vécu conjointement, mesurer ainsi les différences, les ressemblances, les singularités des uns et des autres.
  Travail transdisciplinaire anglais/histoire-géographie/B2I qui s'inscrit parfaitement dans la sensibilisation à la DNL qui sera ensuite enseignée en lycée."
  (emilangues.education.fr)

  

   

• Pearl Harbor - A video (National Geographic)
  "Multimedia Map and Time Line:
  Photos, footage, firsthand accounts, and narration bring the attack on Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, to life moment by moment, target by target."
  
  
  
• Timeline of Wars with American Involvement - from Colonial Times to the Present (about.com)

• The Price of Freedom: Americans at War (americanhistory.si.edu)
  Smithsonian s interactive site about the nation s military history.

  

• I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag , a song by Country Joe McDonald and the Fish (songfacts.com)
  "This is a satire of US government attitudes toward the Vietnam War."

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• AMERICAN FRONTIERS
  "Explore major events in America's westward expansion."
  (PBS)
  
  
• Kit Carson
  "To some, he was one of America's greatest heroes: a brave and loyal guide who laid out a path for the westward-moving nation, an Indian tracker who
  could follow any trail, and a fearless warrior featured in dozens of best-selling novels. But to others, Christopher "Kit" Carson was a villain who waged a merciless crusade against Native Americans. In the end, his contradictions would define his legacy - and tell the true story of how the West was won."
  (PBS)

  
  
  

  Kit Carson (1809-1868)
  He "was an American frontiersman."
  (Wikipedia)

• Buffalo Bill
  "In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York city. It was one of the most elaborate shows on earth: there
  were cowboys and Indians, sharp shooters including the famed Annie Oakley, hundreds of horses, buffalo, elk and donkeys, and more than two hundred
  cast members, all moving about in a sweeping western landscape of mountains and plains. Soon after the show's stunning success in New York, it would go on to dazzle crowds in London, Paris, Rome and Barcelona, cementing the legend of the Wild West in the minds of people around the globe. Behind the extravaganza was one man -- a meager plainsman turned international celebrity and frontier hero, whose meteoric rise to fame was made possible only by his genius, and his hucksterism. His name was William Cody,better known to the world as Buffalo Bill."
  (PBS)

  
  
  

  Buffalo Bill (1846-1917)
  He "was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman."
  (Wikipedia)

• Billy the Kid : Video + Interactive game : Hangman
  Activity created by Renée Maufroid.

  

• THE WESTERNIZER - What kind of person would you have been in the American West? - an interactive quiz
  (PBS)

  

• New Perspectives on the WEST
  People - Places - Events - Resources - Lesson plans - Interactive Games and Quizzes
  (PBS)

• Ghosts of the Past.... - Analyzing the Wild, Wild West (bsd.k12.in.us)
  "You must learn about the times and historical figures of the "Wild West" in American history, and then choose a character that you find especially interesting to research further. You will write a short paper about your character and then use this person as the basis for your presentation..."

• Remember The Alamo
  Timeline / Maps / People and Events...
  (PBS)

  

• The Alamo (thealamo.org)
  "Letters home and first-hand battle accounts written by members of the Alamo garrison can be found in In Their Own Words.
  Just for Kids is a collection of online Alamo games, such as word search and sliding puzzles.
  History Hunt is a fill-in-the-blank quiz found in Educational Resources/Visiting the Alamo.
  The Battle recounts history, with a chronology, a page about The Defenders, and a section exploding Myths and Misconceptions." (surfnetkids.com)