Curriculum Websites

INVENTIONS:

• 3M Science of Everyday Life  (Design a wind turbine:  click on Virtual Labs > Wind Energy)  
• Ed Heads Simple Machines  (Choose a game to play about simple machines)  
• COSI- The Essence of Simple Machines  (Finding simple machines and putting them to work) 
• Museum of Science and Industry  (Game with Twitch- use simple machines to solve a problem)   
• Project Arrow  (Inventions of the Civil War)  
• Foss Web Levers and Pulleys    
• Brain Pop  (finding simple machines) 
• A Guide to Simple Machines Used in Cars 

INVENTION RESEARCH SITES: 

• A Learning Online 
• History Detectives  
• Big Design 

 

Civil War

Biographies:

• PBS Civil War 
• Civil War Biographies 
• Civil War Trust 
• eHistory Archive 

Civil War Simulation Resources

• Union and Confederate Militias and their regiments

 

Colonial America

 

• Colonial Williamsburg... Where History Lives
• Cyber Hunt: Colonial America
• Early American Newsletters
• Interactive Colonial Sites
• Social Studies for Kids
• Tradesmen in Colonial America
• The 13 Colonies  
• The Colonial Period  
• The Land of the Brave  

 

Explorers

 

• Discoverers Web: Alphabetical list
• European Explorers
• European Explorers of the New World
• Explorers-EnchantedLearning.com
• Explorers
• Explorers Hall of Fame
• Explorers-Kids Konnect
• MultCtyLibrary - Explorers
• Yahooligans! - Explorers

 

Lewis and Clark

 

• Cyberhunt Kids
• Lewis and Clark, Plants and Animals
• Lewis and Clark Journals: Table of Contents
• Discovering Lewis and Clark
• Go West with Lewis and Clark
• PBS - Lewis and Clark: Into the Unknown
• National Geo: Lewis & Clark Journey Log
• Lewis and Clark Journals
• Lewis and Clark Journals (Virginia.edu)

 

Oregon Trail

 

• Play the Original Awesome Oregon Trail Game (1990) 
• Play the 1992 Version of Oregon Trial  
• Download original Oregon Trail Game
• Oregon Trail Website
• Westward Trail (Oregon Trail Simulation)
• Oregon Territory and Pioneers
• Multnomah County Library Oregon Trail Links