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About the Site
Edhelper.com is an educational resource web site for students and teachers. This page is a part of Edhelper's geography section which features maps, written information, and activities on global geography.
Lesson Objectives
Students will use the internet to print out an unlabeled map of the United States of America. Students will locate their home state and label it. Students will identify and label the states that border their home state.
Suggested Additional Activities
Have students label the rest of the map of the United States. They may consult internet or library resources to help them. Have them color the maps when they have completed the labels. Have students return to the main page, scroll down and click on their home state. Have them do one of the activities or play one of the games on this page.
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About the Site
This Web site is a part of the University of Florida's fine arts department web space. It contains instructions for a mapmaking activity and links to other map resources.
Lesson Objectives
Suggested Additional Activities
Have students click on the hypertext link Community Maps Project at the bottom of the web page. Then have them click on Gallery, where they can explore the work of the Community Maps project. Ask students to pretend that they have hidden a treasure somewhere. Have them make their own treasure maps based upon the area in which they live.
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About the Site
At this Web site, students can learn about what ants eat and how they gather their food. Detailed photographs and illustrations accompany the explanations. In addition, there is a chronological account of an ant carrying a cricket to its nest, told with photographs and captions.
What to Do
Help students navigate the site as directed. Read aloud and explain text if needed. Invite students to click highlighted names to see closeups of the ant species. Encourage students to share their ideas. What surprises them about ant behavior?
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About the Site
This Web site offers 26 facts about ants, one for each letter of the alphabet. Students can learn about how ants are helpful to the environment, how they find and gather food, how they communicate with each other, and more. You may wish to preview the site to select specific facts to share with students.
What to Do
Read the facts with students. Invite them to share their observations. If you prefer, arrange students into groups and have each group research a section of facts. Groups can then make oral presentations. You may want students to create and illustrate their own ant alphabet to display on a bulletin board.
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| Different Perspectives |
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About the Site
At this Web site, students can learn about the strikingly different daily lives of five mid-19th century American children. The profiles include an African American boy, a frontier girl, a Native American boy, an Irish immigrant boy, and an upperclass girl. Students can participate in interactive quizzes as they learn about the children's work, schooling, housing, and recreational activities. The Public Broadcasting Service maintains the PBS Kids site Not for Ourselves Alone, where this activity appears.
What to Do
Help students navigate and read the site as directed. You may want to assign a different group of students to study each person's life. Groups can then make presentations to the class. They might enjoy playing the role of their profiled person and accompanying their presentation with pictures and props. After students have completed their research and presentations, engage them in a discussion about the lives of 19th century children compared to their own. Ask how 8-year-olds living in different parts of the United States today would have different perspectives.
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About the Site
This interactive activity gives students the opportunity to compare their lifestyles and perspectives with those of an American family from the late 1700s. Students can click clues to explore household appliances and other objects that the family owned, and can find out how the objects have helped historians understand more about the family's lifestyle. Next, students are given questions that prompt them to compare modern life with this family's life. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History maintains this Web site.
What to Do
Help students navigate the site as directed. As students explore the clues, discuss the questions with them and invite them to share their observations. You may prefer to divide the clues among groups of students. Each group can present a brief summary to the class.
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