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American History: From Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium WebsiteAmerican History: From Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium Website
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Independence Hall Association
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7th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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14 days
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American History: From Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium

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Need an online resource to supplement the paper textbook in your classroom? An all-encompassing website covers historical events throughout the last half of the second millenium, leading right up to the third. From the pre-Columbian tribes in North America to the tenets of Ben Franklin, all the way up to the contentious election of George W. Bush in 2000, this resource covers a large swath of American history.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

american history, benjamin franklin, native american culture, native american history, european exploration, the mayflower, the american revolution, alexander hamilton, andrew jackson, manifest destiny, slavery, the united states civil war, john f. kennedy, richard nixon, the cold war, world war i, world war ii, the vietnam war, ronald reagan, feminism

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Assign each learner to research one section of the website and present their findings to the class during a final review
  • Create a worksheet in which scholars read a section and answer questions as they read

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires devices with Internet access
  • Chapters end at the year 2000

Pros

  • Easy to navigate through different subjects on the website
  • Includes interesting extra information that makes learning more meaningful

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.9-10.1 RH.11-12.1

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