Life in Ancient Greece

Use this link to conduct research and answer the questions we have generated as a class.

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/

The Great Depression

Use the links below to learn more about life during the Great Depression:

Stock Market Crash of 1929: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_stockmrkt_1.html

Dust Bowl: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ok/es_ok_dustbowl_1.html

Hoover Dam: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_dam_1.html

Federal Theater Project: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_wpa_1.html

Ancient Greece Geography

Use the following links to help complete your map of Ancient Greece:

http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/home.html

Ancient Egypt Newspaper Project

You and three partners will create, design, and publish a “current’ newspaper of Ancient Egypt.  Each section of your newspaper will need to include facts researched and learned about the different features of civilization of Ancient Egypt. 

Remember that you need to include the following:

Required Sections in Newspaper:

1. National News/Front Page with newspaper title and quote (motto)
2. Religious News
3. Art News
4. Government News
5. Business/Trade News
6. Want Ads/Advertisements

Suggestions/Ideas for Each Newspaper Page:

1. National News/Front Page with newspaper title and quote – major wars, major events
2. Religious News – stories about Egyptian gods, pharaohs that change religion
3. Art News – stories about artists or art or buildings created by Ancient Egyptians
4. Government News -  pharaohs giving or changing laws, change of power among pharaohs, how the empire
5. Business/Trade News -  treaties/agreements to trade with other empires, ways that Egyptians earned an income, social classes that became rich from business
6. Want Ads/Advertisements – creative want ads for help, selling items or skills that were well known in Ancient Egypt, advertisements for products made in Ancient Egypt, add pictures of products in ads 

Here are some helpful links that will help you complete your project:

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/index.html

Egyptian Gods: http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html

The Progressive Era: 8th Grade Exit Project

Internet Resources

As you begin to investigate your topic, you may want to use the Internet to spark new ideas. The following websites are central to the study of the Progressive Era:



Muckrakers
Overview: http://www.ushistory.org/us/42b.asp
Ida Tarbell Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1105.html

Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation: http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/ 

http://www.cr.nps.gov/logcabin/html/tr5.html

Speech to Congress: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/trconserv.htm

TheTheodoreRooseveltAssociation: http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/

Theodore Roosevelt in Film and Pictures: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/

The Indomitable President: http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/TR/TR_Campaigns_and_Elections.htm

George Waring
http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/when-the-white-wings-cleaned-up-new-york/
http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/2428/2487068/documents/doc_d19d01.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29892573

Settlement Houses

http://www.socialwelfarehistory.com/organizations/settlement-houses/
http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/settlementhouse.html

Jacob Riis

Museum of the City of New York Exhibit: http://www.mcny.org/riis2.htm 

Hypertext version of How the Other Half Lives: http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html 

Site on the Impact of Photography: http://www.masters-of-photography.com/R/riis/riis_articles2.html

Jane Addams

Link to the Jane Addams Museum: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/hull_house.html 

A Collection Of Addams’ Writing: http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/memory/index.html

Child Labor

Child Labor in America: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
About Child Labor: http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/what_is_child_labor.html

Political Cartoons

Cartoons of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/GAPECartoons.htm

Tenements

Lower East Side Tenement Museum: http://www.wnet.org/tenement/

Working Conditions in the Progressive Era

Inside an American Factory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

The Triangle Factory Fire: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ 

“Votes For Women” Suffrage Picture: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

Social Protest

Women and Social Movements: http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/index.html

Women’s Suffrage

Women’s Suffrage and the19th Amendment: 
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/home.html 

“Votes For Women” Suffrage Picture: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
Primary sources:  http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/womens-suffrage/
http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=18&review=yes

Temperance Movement

The Temperance and Prohibition Era: http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/
Prohibition: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441
18th Amendment: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxviii

Immigration Project

Use the links below to help you complete your project. To choose an immigrant group and learn more about them check out:

PBS
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/immigration/index-flash.html

Thinkquest
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/

The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/introduction.html

GRAPES of Mesopotamia

Directions: Create a poster with five sections detailing the GRAPES of Mesopotamia (except economy). Use the textbook, your notes and the resources provided below to conduct research for the project.

Geography
http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/geography.html
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/geography/home_set.html

Religion
Gods and Goddesses:
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/gods/home_set.html
Ziggurat:
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Ziggurat/

Arts and Achievements
Cuneiform:
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/home_set.html
http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/cuneiform.html
Art and Music:
http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/art.html

Political System
About Hammurabi:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/hammurabi.htm

Hammurabi's Laws:
http://www.phillipmartin.info/hammurabi/hammurabi_codeindex.htm

Government Images:
http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Ancient_Mesopotamia::sub::Government

Hammurabi's Code:
http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/hammurabi.html

Social Structure
http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/classes.html
Women:
http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/women.html

Religion in Mesopotamia

All ancient civilizations have a religious system - a set of beliefs, usually in a god or gods, together with forms of worship. We can learn a lot about what a civilization valued by learning about its religion. Click on the link below to learn more about religion in ancient Mesopotamia. Read the story and write a summary in your notebook of how and why humans were created according to the myth, then answer the two questions below the link.

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/gods/story/sto_set.html


1. Was creation planned or accidental? If planned, why? Who is responsible for creation?

2. What is the purpose of this creation story?

Using Food to Understand Time

How do we determine what year it is? In 525, a man named Dionysius Exiguus came up with the dating system that we still use today. He was a Christian and decided to keep track of years based on his religion. He chose the birth of Christ for the first year and called all time after it Anno Dommini (AD), which means "in the year of the lord." The time before the birth of Christ is referred to as Before Christ (BC).

Some historians today use different terms for these time periods, though the years are the same. They refer to the BC era as B.C.E., which stands for Before the Common Era. They refer to the A.D. era as C.E., which stands for the Common Era.

Today we are going to learn how to place events in chronological order on a timeline using both BC and AD dates. As a class, we will create a timeline of the history of food. To get started, go to the food timeline web site below. You will need to research one food from the BC era and one from the AD era. Write the name of the food and the of date its discovery on one side of an index card and a brief summary of what you read about it on the other side. We will use your card to construct a timeline as a class.

http://www.foodtimeline.org/

Early Humans: Adapting to New Enviroments

When early humans migrated out of Africa they entered new environments, with different landscapes, climates, plants, and animals. In order to survive, they needed to adapt to these changes. today, we are going to examine the archaeological evidence to discover how early humans adapted to their new environments. Your task is to determine what early humans needed to survive and how they got what they needed from their environment.


Use the link below to complete your classwork:

Interactive video: http://becominghuman.org/node/interactive-documentary

Article: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/human/tools.php