History

== Looking for an easy way to integrate technology into your curriculum? Try **This Day In History**. The additional resources are excellent sites with a variety of resources and topics for History instruction. ==

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History Essentials An interactive timeline to help your students unravel the past. //grades 2-6//

America on the Move America on the Move explores the role of transportation in American history. Visit communities wrestling with the changes that new transportation networks brought. See cities change, suburbs expand, and farms and factories become part of regional, national, and international economies. Meet people as they travel for work and pleasure, and as they move to new homes. //grades 5-12//

Digital History Digital History provides its readers with a massive list of materials including, but not limited to, a digital textbook and encyclopedia; images, pictures, interactive games and activities, and political cartoons (good for research or sheer enjoyment); lesson plans; primary documents; and a guide on writing and researching history. //grades 5-12//

=Thanksgiving - Plymouth Colony - Mayflower & Passengers= Pilgrims - Teacher Resources K-12 check this out for slideshows, printables, quizzes, food resources, social studies, literature, language arts, music,art, & technology integration.

=Plimoth Plantation - Wampanoag Homesite= Plimoth Plantation Visit an online living-history museum of 17th century Plymouth, Massachusetts. "//The Plimoth Plantation site allows visitors to tour the 1627 Pilgrim Village of New Plymouth, to see, as well as read about, the lives of the Pilgrims...In addition to the virtual tour, the site provides an abundance of historical information about Plymouth Colony, the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and the local Indians. Visitors can read the Mayflower Compact, study a list of the Mayflower's passengers , and learn why they set off on their voyage. Your students can learn about the Pilgrims' height and average life span and see the clothing of both Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians. Here, you'll discover the real story behind The Courtship of Miles Standish and learn such Pilgrim Trivia as the names of Plymouth Colony's first governor and its first baby."// retrieved from [|http://www.plimoth.org] November 17, 2009.

=Mayflower History= Mayflower History Comprehensive source of information about the Mayflower and its passengers,