*work-in-progress*
Resources for
Navigating the Information Tsunami:
Engaging Research Projects that Meet the Common Core State Standards
edited by Kristin Fontichiaro
Cherry Lake Publishing, 2012
Kindergarten: How
do we know what woolly mammoths were like if they don’t exist anymore?
PebbleGo database
Kindergarten: What can Tomie de Paola teach us about being a good author?
Tomie de Paola Web site
Books by Tomie de Paola
Kindergarten: What shapes can we find in our environment that are natural or made by humans?
Flickr Creative Commons Search Tool (to find sample photos)
Download Photo Story software (free; for Windows only)
First Grade: What makes an animal unique?
Blabberize.com
Sample Blabber Project
Instructional Video Tutorial About Blabberize.com
Other recommended Web sites:
Arkive
National Geographic Kids Creature Feature
NetTrekker
Brain Pop Jr.
PebbleGo
Grade 1: What can first graders do to keep our world clean and beautiful?
Clip Art: Blank Clock Face
I Don't Want to Clean My Room! game
Grade 1: How do we plan our activities and clothing for each season?
Paper doll template
PebbleGo Earth and Space Database (subscription)Download Photo Story software (free; for Windows only)
Grade 2: What President should we add to Mount Rushmore?
Facts4Me subscription database
Instructions for setting up a class wiki with Wikispaces
Instructions for setting up a wiki template
Wiki Template: Presidential Qualities
Author Jean Patrick's Web site
Grade 2: If rocks could talk, what stories would they tell us about the past?
Facts4Me subscription database
Rock Hounds - Rock Creations from the Franklin Institute
Fotobabble.com
Grade 3: How are animals connected via the food chain?
How do habitats impact animals?
Biome research template (wiki)
Animal research and story template (wiki)Biomes Research: Blue Planet Biomes
ComicLife software (for purchase)
Comic Software Online: Makebelievecomix.com (free)
Comic Software Online: Pixton.com (free)Instructions for setting up a class wiki with Wikispaces
Instructions for setting up a wiki template
Kid-Friendly Comics at Toon Book Reader (Professor Garfield Site)
PebbleGo.com (subscription database)
Grolier.com (subscription databse)
Find Creative Commons Images: Google Advanced Search (click the gear in the top-right corner to find)
Find Creative Commons Images: FlickrCC at Blue Mountains
Find Creative Commons Images on the Creative Commons site
Learn more about Creative Commons licenses
Grade 3:
Reference Site (almanac, atlas, encyclopedia, etc.): FactMonster
State Tourism Web Sites
Culturegrams.com (subscription)
Online subscription encyclopedias, such as Grolier.com or WorldBook.com
Grade 3: Recycling
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Sign
NIEHS Kids’ Pages: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Grade 4: Natural Disasters
Links to Grolier, World Book, eb.com
Links to SIRS Discoverer and eLibrary
http://enchantedlearning.com/newspaper/
· Some appropriate clips for students on natural disasters:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/education/2010/09/28/sn.0929.cnn—first 1:07 minutes)
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/education/2011/03/07/sn.0308.cnn—begin at 1:33, about 1 minute
Grade 4: Endangered Animals
List of popular endangered animals (with kid-friendly links that could be used for research): http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
Complete list of endangered animals: http://www.earthsendangered.com/list.asp
Online encyclopedia.
ARKive website: http://www.arkive.org
[f1]Fix numbering scheme and organize this a bit more so that all URLs are in seqence together
Cherry Lake’s Road to Recovery series (http://cherrylakepublishing.com/shop/show/10075)
Show public service announcements (PSAs) about endangered animals. WildAid has a number to choose from, featuring celebrities including Jane Goodall, Harrison Ford, Jackie Chan, and Yao Ming: http://www.youtube.com/user/WildAid. For an example starring children, try http://youtu.be/6rL0KHEVLMY . A student-created video can be found at http://youtu.be/_mo6AXLqN6k
(PebbleGo.com and Grolier.com’s Amazing Animals of the World are two good subscription options.)
Grade 4: Thanksgiving
1. Scholastic Online’s The First Thanksgiving at http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/
1. http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/history/first-thanksgiving/
Scholastic's Voyage on the Mayflower for Day One
This is America, Charlie Brown: Mayflower Voyagers Part 2 (from 9:00 in until the end - about 3 minutes total)
Scholastic Thanksgiving Web Quest
Plimoth Plantation Letters (Scholastic)
Grade 5: Letters to the Editor 4. Persuasive Map graphic organizer from the National Council of Teachers of English, in print or interactive format (http://bit.ly/ncte-persuasion-map)
6. Optional: access to Gale Opposing Viewpoints database (http://www.gale.cengage.com/InContext/viewpoints.htm), which could be used by
Day Three YouTube Video
Grade 5 :: Dust Bowl and Great Depression
Migrant Mother (http://www.weedpatchcamp.com/Migrant%20Mother/MMother.htm)
· (choose one from http://www.creativewriting-prompts.com/personal-narrative-graphic-organizer.html)
PBS American Experience online video:
Audio and Sound Effects
Graphic Organizer
YouTube Videos (try keepvid.com or zamzar.com to download at home if school access is blocked)
Multimedia Tools for Creating the Digital Personal Narrative
Research Sites for the Dust Bowl / Great Depression
Sites recommended by FindingDulcinea.com
Animoto, Voicethread, Microsoft Photo Story, PowerPoint’s Record Narration feature, Primary Access Movie Maker, VuVox, or Smilebox
Individual Primary Source Images for Days 1 and 2
· Okies on Route 66 to California
· Migrant Agricultural Worker’s Family (a photograph featuring Dorothea Lange’s famous Migrant Mother) (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.03054/)
· Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998018983/PP/)
· Oklahoma dust bowl refugees (http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsa/8b27000/8b27300/8b27316v.jpg)
· Wife and Children of a Sharecropper in Washington County, Arkansas (http://docsteach.org/documents/195845/detail)
· Migrant Woman at Suppertime (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/455806298/in/set-72157594333669521)
· A farmer’s son playing on one of the large soil drifts which threaten to cover up his home (http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsa/8b27000/8b27200/8b27289v.jpg)
· Dust is too much for this farmer’s son in Cimarron County, Oklahoma (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b38283/)
· Son of a Farmer in Dust Bowl Area (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c30123/)
· Depression: Unemployed Marchers (http://docsteach.org/documents/195658/detail)
· Depression: Breadlines: long line of people waiting to be fed (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/455806434/)
· Alabama Sharecropper Family in Depression (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/455806518/in/set-72157594333669521)
Sources for Dust Bowl Photographs
· The Library of Congress’ American Memory Project
· National Archives and Records Administration- http://archives.gov
· Digital Docs in a Box - http://www.digitaldocsinabox.org/images/GreatDepression/GreatDepressionImages.html
· Dust Bowl photographs: http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html
· The Library of Congress - American from the Great Depression to World War II - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
· The Library of Congress - Dust Bowl Migration Primary Source Set - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/dust-bowl-migration/
· The Library of Congress - Color Photographs from the Great Depression to WWII - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html
· National Archives and Records Administration - Picturing a Century: The Great Depression http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/galleries/greatdep.html
Resources for Teaching with Primary Sources
· Using Primary Sources - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/
· Themed Resource: The Great Depression - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/great-depression/
· Docs Teach - http://docsteach.org/
· This Great Nation will Endure: Photographs of the Great Depression Curriculum Guide - http://www.archives.gov/southeast/education/depression-curriculum/
· Teacher’s Guide and Analysis Tool - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html
· Library of Congress Primary Sources by State - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/states/
· Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/dust/index.html
Background Research Sites
· Research Guide to Dust Bowl to accompany Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse:, Including timeline, maps, images and audio. http://library.sussex.tec.nj.us/dacunto/Picturing%20the%20Unfamiliar/intro.htm
· Surviving the Dust Bowl from PBS- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl/
· Farming in the 1930s: Includes many pages on the drought, the dust bowl, and the impacts on the people of this time- http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_03.html
· Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: During The great Depression tousands of young people wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for help - http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm
· The Great Depression - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch9_p8.htm
Other Useful Documents and Websites
· Library of Congress: Copyright and Primary Sources
· Library of Congress: Citing Primary Sources
Additional Extensions
Additional Activities:
1. Create a Great Depression timeline: http://docsteach.org/activities/4063
1. Map the Dust Bowl: http://docsteach.org/activities/4314 or http://docsteach.org/activities/4311/detail
Compare Great Depression prices to today’s - http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-54463_19268_20778-52530--,00.html
Summer Safety Glog
Glogster Tutorials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMdmOfif2Eo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQGxSig8lAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lxTtalXb-I&feature=related
http://www.schooltube.com/video/4371a4c846be574a560a/Mrs%20Johnson%20Glogster%20Tutorial
http://allsafetycards.com and select a card that represents an airline served by the closest airport. Display one using an opaque or data projector. You can also show Delta Airlines’ in-flight safety video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgpzUo_kbFY
Wiki Template for Research
6. Optional: access to Gale Opposing Viewpoints database (http://www.gale.cengage.com/InContext/viewpoints.htm), which could be used by
Day Three YouTube Video
Grade 5 :: Dust Bowl and Great Depression
Migrant Mother (http://www.weedpatchcamp.com/Migrant%20Mother/MMother.htm)
· (choose one from http://www.creativewriting-prompts.com/personal-narrative-graphic-organizer.html)
PBS American Experience online video:
Audio and Sound Effects
Graphic Organizer
YouTube Videos (try keepvid.com or zamzar.com to download at home if school access is blocked)
Multimedia Tools for Creating the Digital Personal Narrative
- Animoto
- VoiceThread
- Microsoft Photo Story (for Windows only)
- PowerPoint (use the Record Narration feature)
- Primary Access Movie Maker
- VuVox
- Smilebox
Research Sites for the Dust Bowl / Great Depression
Sites recommended by FindingDulcinea.com
Animoto, Voicethread, Microsoft Photo Story, PowerPoint’s Record Narration feature, Primary Access Movie Maker, VuVox, or Smilebox
Individual Primary Source Images for Days 1 and 2
· Okies on Route 66 to California
· Migrant Agricultural Worker’s Family (a photograph featuring Dorothea Lange’s famous Migrant Mother) (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.03054/)
· Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998018983/PP/)
· Oklahoma dust bowl refugees (http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsa/8b27000/8b27300/8b27316v.jpg)
· Wife and Children of a Sharecropper in Washington County, Arkansas (http://docsteach.org/documents/195845/detail)
· Migrant Woman at Suppertime (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/455806298/in/set-72157594333669521)
· A farmer’s son playing on one of the large soil drifts which threaten to cover up his home (http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsa/8b27000/8b27200/8b27289v.jpg)
· Dust is too much for this farmer’s son in Cimarron County, Oklahoma (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b38283/)
· Son of a Farmer in Dust Bowl Area (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c30123/)
· Depression: Unemployed Marchers (http://docsteach.org/documents/195658/detail)
· Depression: Breadlines: long line of people waiting to be fed (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/455806434/)
· Alabama Sharecropper Family in Depression (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/455806518/in/set-72157594333669521)
Sources for Dust Bowl Photographs
· The Library of Congress’ American Memory Project
· National Archives and Records Administration- http://archives.gov
· Digital Docs in a Box - http://www.digitaldocsinabox.org/images/GreatDepression/GreatDepressionImages.html
· Dust Bowl photographs: http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html
· The Library of Congress - American from the Great Depression to World War II - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
· The Library of Congress - Dust Bowl Migration Primary Source Set - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/dust-bowl-migration/
· The Library of Congress - Color Photographs from the Great Depression to WWII - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html
· National Archives and Records Administration - Picturing a Century: The Great Depression http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/galleries/greatdep.html
Resources for Teaching with Primary Sources
· Using Primary Sources - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/
· Themed Resource: The Great Depression - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/great-depression/
· Docs Teach - http://docsteach.org/
· This Great Nation will Endure: Photographs of the Great Depression Curriculum Guide - http://www.archives.gov/southeast/education/depression-curriculum/
· Teacher’s Guide and Analysis Tool - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html
· Library of Congress Primary Sources by State - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/states/
· Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/dust/index.html
Background Research Sites
· Research Guide to Dust Bowl to accompany Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse:, Including timeline, maps, images and audio. http://library.sussex.tec.nj.us/dacunto/Picturing%20the%20Unfamiliar/intro.htm
· Surviving the Dust Bowl from PBS- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl/
· Farming in the 1930s: Includes many pages on the drought, the dust bowl, and the impacts on the people of this time- http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_03.html
· Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: During The great Depression tousands of young people wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for help - http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm
· The Great Depression - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch9_p8.htm
Other Useful Documents and Websites
· Library of Congress: Copyright and Primary Sources
· Library of Congress: Citing Primary Sources
Additional Extensions
Additional Activities:
1. Create a Great Depression timeline: http://docsteach.org/activities/4063
1. Map the Dust Bowl: http://docsteach.org/activities/4314 or http://docsteach.org/activities/4311/detail
Compare Great Depression prices to today’s - http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-54463_19268_20778-52530--,00.html
Summer Safety Glog
Glogster Tutorials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMdmOfif2Eo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQGxSig8lAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lxTtalXb-I&feature=related
http://www.schooltube.com/video/4371a4c846be574a560a/Mrs%20Johnson%20Glogster%20Tutorial
http://allsafetycards.com and select a card that represents an airline served by the closest airport. Display one using an opaque or data projector. You can also show Delta Airlines’ in-flight safety video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgpzUo_kbFY
Wiki Template for Research