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American History 2 Activities

I've scoured the web looking for activities to enrich our American history study. Below are listed all of the activities scheduled in over the course of a year. Please preview websites. The web is changing on a daily basis and what was totally innocent on a page one day, might not be the next.

One idea on how to handle websites for the year: make a folder of bookmarks on your browser of the sites you want your students to visit.

Click a choice below if you want a printable list with full web addresses.

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Microsoft Word 2007 list of activities (.docx)

Microsoft Word 97-2003 list of activities (.doc)

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This icon is for activities have a creative aspect to them. Think: crafts, things to make, draw, color, etc.

This icon is for websites to visit and explore. I am fairly picky about including websites. I usually like them to have some really interesting or "nifty" interaction, etc.

This icon is for things to listen to online: music, radio shows, historical recordings or sounds.

Videos, DVD's, Online vidoes and a multitude of printables are listed in the resources section.

Week	Activity	Type
1	Make a Civil War drum
1	Wooden doll paper doll
1	An Interactive Tour of Natchez
2	Make a thaumatrope
2	Interactive Civil War “Room in Time”
3	Make a whirligig
3	Caddie Woodlawn paper doll (1866 clothes)
3	Gettysburg virtual panorama
3	You are There old time radio program: The Battle of Gettysburg
4	You are There old time radio show: The Assassination of Lincoln
5	Civil War Jeopardy
6	The winds of change craft
6	Mr. President old time radio show: Andrew Johnson
7	Mr. President old time radio show: Grant
8	Build a sod house on the prairie interactive
8	Cavalcade of America Radio Show: Wild Bill Hickok The Last of Two Gun Justice
9	Make a light bulb experiment	Experiment
9	Mr. President old time radio show: Chester Allen Arthur
10	Wild West Cowboy Puppet
10	PBS Interactive History
10	Cavalcade of America radio show: Thomas Edison the Man
11	A Taste of Life on the Job (page 3 of the PDF)	Role-play
12	Welcome immigrants diorama
13	Mr. President old time radio show: Theodore Roosevelt
16	Biplane paper model
16	Mr. President old radio show: William Howard Taft
17	Titanic Journey (BBC)
18	Sterling North paper doll (boy from the story Rascal)
18	World War One (BBC) site
18	Mr. President old time radio show: Woodrow Wilson
19	Poppies WWI Craft
19	Online “picture book” of WWI
19	Ford Theatre Radio Program: Farewell to Arms
20	Listen to some 20’s music
20	Whispering Jack Smith
20	Bunny Berrigan
20	Mack and Miller – Ching-aLing’s jazz bazaar
20	I Caught Two Cods Cuddling
20	Eddi Elkins Orch – Who Cares
21	Original Charleston
21	Charleston (Fox Trot)
21	The Birth of the Blues
21	Puttin on the Ritz
21	Alone in the Rain
23	Lonely Island Hidden Alcatraz (PBS site)
23	Alcatrazhistory.com
23	Listen to “Brother Can You Spare a Dime”
23	Dorsey Brothers
23	Buck Rogers
23	Louis Armstrong - Muggles
23	Listen to some American music from the 30’s
24	Listen to one of FDR’s fireside chats about banking
25	Radio Show
26	Listen to an air raid siren
26	WWII Tales Activities
26	Cavalcade of America radio show: U Boat Prisoner
27	Make a Japanese fish kite
27	A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution
28	V-Mail
34	Walking on the Moon

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