History Fair

From Ms. Drake:

Can someone add the passwords for the media center websites?
Remember encyclopedias are NOT allowed to be cited, but it is a good place to start to understand an overview of your topic as well as key search terms.

This is just a reminder that we have access to several databases for you and your students to use for research, video clips in projects, etc. If you go to the Montford website and click on Media Center, you can go down to Research links and find them.

Here’s the quick link!
http://www.montford.leon.k12.fl.us/mediacenter.html

The Gale Database gives you access to LOTS of content specific databases or you can just do a search and it will automatically cross-search all of them. I encourage you to take a look at what is available, now that I am fairly certain we are able to keep all of them!

Of course, we all have access to the Florida Electronic Library (free) which also contains a wealth of resources.

As part of Pro-Quest, we have two databases. Historical Newspapers, which enables students to find the ever-elusive primary resources they need for history and science fairs. The database contains actual newspaper articles from the New York Times and goes back to the 1800’s. Also, there is CultureGrams, which takes the students to any of the 50 states as well as every country in the world, providing, information, recipes, video clips, photos, interviews with people who live there, sound clips of their national anthems, etc.

We, of course, have our online encyclopedia as well. Grolier Encyclopedias, offer a variety of encyclopedias for general research. Students are encouraged to use the encyclopedia to help them find effective search terms for their online research.

Now that I am sure we are going to keep these resources, I will update my brochure with all of the usernames and passwords the students will need when they are at home using them. Here at school, they will automatically be able to access the information.


Borrowed from:
http://resourcesforhistoryteachers.wikispaces.com/
Primary Sources

View the following multimedia presentation about using primary sources in historical inquiry from Virginia Tech University.

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• American Memory from the Library of Congress makes available the Library's collections under wide-ranging topic headings.
• DocsTeach from the National Archives allows teachers to create interactive activities using more than 3,000 primary source documents. See also Document Analysis with Students.
• The People's Vote on the most influential documents in American history.
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul Halsall at Fordham University. See also Internet Women's History Sourcebook.
• Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History includes both written and audio text.
• New Perspectives on the West, a library of primary source materials on the American west from the PBS series, The West.
• Finding World History, a database of primary sources and teaching resources for world history from George Mason University.
• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy, a collection of 3500 primary source documents from Yale University.
• Top 25 Documents from the CIA Reading Room, declassified information from the Central Intelligence Agency, made available under the Freedom of Information Act.
• United States Historical Census Data, population and economic statistical information for each decade between 1790 and 1960 made available by the University of Virginia.
• Military Atlases from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point provides resources for teaching about wars in American History.
• Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Direct has primary documents from the Library of Congress.
• African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts, from the Massachusetts Historical Society.
• People With a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History, from Paul Halsall at Fordham University.
• A Chronology of U. S. Historical Documents from the College of Law, University of Oklahoma.
• A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery offers portraits of writers, statesmen, inventors, artists, and scientists from American history.
• Primarily History, a collection of links to primary source material from college librarian Patricia McPherson.
• Many Pasts from the U. S. Course on the Web from George Mason University.
• Primary Resources in U. S. History & Literature from the National Humanities Center features documents, literary texts and works of art with notes and discussion questions.
• Talking History is a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources.
• Children & Youth in World History provides primary source and teaching resources for learning about the experiences of young people in history.
• National Jukebox features historical sound recordings from the Library of Congress.