Support+Websites+for+Historical+Fiction

=**Support Websites for Historical Information**=


 * Title: National Archives Learning Curve: Focus on FIlm**
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 * Description:** On Film is a jointly funded project by The National Archives and the South East Grid for Learning. This site presents film as a historical source and considers its advantages and disadvantages as evidence for the past. Like all historical sources films must be investigated and evaluated carefully. How far do they present an accurate record of an event and how far do they reflect the views of the film-maker, or indeed, the sponsor of the film?

Site: **Colonial Williamsburg: Past and Present: Podcasts** URL: [] Description: An extensive website with 100's of podcasts from the last 5 years. Ranging from information about specific citizens of Williamsburg to the Role of Women in Colonial times to how the area functions today. Podcasts can be searched by date and by content. Site: **Hard Core History** URL: [] Description: A site for high school and older students. This site jumps around through history, but provides some excellent topics for class discussion and further investigation. Each podcast hot lists the resources author, Dan Carlin, used to produce the material. The author provides information as well as his opinion about a variety of historical topics from the Punic Wars to The Eastern Front of World War II.

Site: **Anne Frank** URL: [] Description: This site is organized and supported by the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. This site provides a number of resources including a biography of the Franks, historical context of World War II, and a virtual tour of the annex with commentary by Ann herself. Terrific site to have students totally immerse themselves in the world of Anne Frank.

Site: **Cyber Sleuth Kids** (An Internet Search Guide for the K-12 Student) URL: [|http://cybersleuth-kids.com] Description: This website is similar to Kids Click! and includes categories of topics that students can use to research.

Site: **Digital History** URL: [] Description: An incredible website devoted to the history of the United States. Includes multimedia presentations, study guides, a teacher section, pictures and timelines. Excellent resource for non-fiction information.

Site: **EyeWitness to History**- history through the eyes of those who lived it. URL: [] Description: "Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming." A great introduction on the site itself that has tabs focusing on Ancient Civilizations, Middle Ages/Renaissance, 17th -20th century, Civil War, Old West, WWI and WWII. Wonderfully in depth site with pictures and many primary resources/quotes that drives home the humanity of the era. A great resource for key pieces audio history of the 20th century for example a podcast that is a real recording of a radio reporter providing and on eyewitness account of the Allied invasion of Europe.

Site: **The Great Depression,** a Great Disaster URL: [] Description: This is a site for kids made by kids. It outlines the Great Depression through research cited on the site. There are links for the New Deal (which does not work), FDR, the domino affect, a timeline, the stock market, a picture gallery, bibliography and activity quizzes. The language is kid friendly, has large font and is easy to understand.

Site: **Infomine** URL: [] Description: A virtual library of internet resources. It contains databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, an online library card catalog and numerous articles.

Site: **ipl2** URL: [|www.ipl.org] Description: ipl2 is the merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII). It contains excellent resources, as well as newspapers, and magazines. It even includes special teen and kids research sections.

Site: **Kids Click!** Web Search for Kids by Librarians URL: [|http://www.kidsclick.org] Description: Kids Click! is a great website that has information categorized so students can find information about particular topics.

Site: **KidsKonnect.com** URL: [|www.kidskonnect.com] Description: A safe internet gate way for kids.

Site: **Kidipede-History and Science for Middle School Kids** URL: [|www.historyforkids.org] Description: This site is an encyclopedia of history and science information for middle school students.

Site: **Life During the 18th Century: Colonial Williamsburg** URL: [] Description: An in depth website with TONS of resources for life in Colonial America, particularly Virginia. My personal favorite was the interactive game on dressing people (men and women) of the differing class levels. I am so GLAD I didn't have to put on that many different pieces of clothing.

Site: **Medieval Times** URL: [] Description: This site is wonderful for children who want to learn about medieval Europe. There are three main topics, power of the secular rulers, daily life, and power of the church. Each main topic has over 15 links to different aspects of the main idea. The links are kid friendly, written in easy to understand language with graphics for extra comprehension in some circumstances. Each link also has an “explore” category with other links, PowerPoint presentations and games about the same information.

Site: **PBS American Experience** URL: [] Description: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting supports and directs this site which links historical information on a variety of time periods to their vast library of documentaries. This particular site provide historical background for the racism and prejudice which haunted the American South until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. It is a great site to use as part of a web quest for students looking for historical background.

Site: **Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust** URL: [] Description:This site had a timeline, important people, the arts, teacher resources, and student resources. The timeline I looked at had inserted definition, web, and cross reference links.

Site: **ushistory.org** URL: [|http://www.ushistory.org] Description: This website was designed to share the American History of the Revolution and Colonial eras as well as Philadelphia.

Site: **Oracle Think Quest Education Foundation** URL: [] Description: Website for students and teachers with ideas for educational projects, competitions, and a library of over 7,000 websites.