History Fair 2014 Topic Ideas

http://www.chicagohistoryfair.org/history-fair/history-fair-a-nhd-theme/nhd-suggested-topics.html

http://www.nhd.org/annualtheme.htm and click on sample topics.

A new picture of Lincoln? You decide.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Interactive_Seeking_Abraham_Lincoln_at_the_Gettysburg_Address.html

Progressive Era Essay

 

To address content, writing, and the common core standards we will be using documents to support a five paragraph essay.  The task is to choose three worthy reforms from the Progressive Era and fund them with money given to you by your fictional aunt.  Examples and documents are used in class.  

Suggested reform causes include: deforestation/conservation, child labor, suffrage, and food safety.  

Here is what your essay should look like:
I. Introduction: Background, thesis & roadmap
II. Body Paragraph #1: Reform #1, evidence & argument
III. Body Paragraph #2: Reform #2, evidence & argument
IV. Body Paragraph #3: Reform #3, evidence & argument
V. Conclusion: why you choose what you did

When you finish you can work on the Ch 19 Enrichment materials (see posts below) and/or watch CNN Student News.

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50 States Geography Enhancement

We'll started working on the geography of the 50 states in class with our suffrage map.  If you want to or need to practice, here are some sites to practice for your enhancement grade.  

The easiest game is this one, which will give you choices between states:

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/Quiz/states-and-capitals-2.html

If you’re not at school, you can play the computer based geo game (that you remember from last year) online at:

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/us-puzzle.html

 An easy game and a good place to start if you don't know your states well:

http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/unitedstates.html

A fairly tough game where you need to type in the names of all 50 states while looking at an outline map:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/states.php

Challenging game using a satellite map that you drag the outline of the states onto:

A really tough one with a satellite map and outlines of the states:
http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/fiftystates2.jsp

And this site has games at all levels:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

Finally, the History Channel site about all the states. Lots of info and hunt around for some fun and challenging games.

http://www.history.com/topics/states

Good luck! Which one is your favorite? What's your best score. Be prepared to share your thoughts and scores in class.

Broken links? Other study sites? Let me know.

Chapter 19 Enchancement Activities

 

Worksheet  

• The table on the back of your suffrage map.

Online Activities

• Explore Chapter 19
• Test, Quizzes, and Flashcards 
• Make your own activities?

Videos

This video, by John Green of Crash Course, gives a great overview of the time.   
The videos in this series are aimed at high school/college-aged students (and therefore contain some more mature analysis and humor, so put your mature-young-adult cap on) but they do an exciting job.
Crash Course #26: The Gilded Age
 

 
This next video is a creative reading (voice altered) of an excerpt from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (and some questions).  Part of this is on your Jungle worksheet.  The part that's read here can be found on pages 654 & 655 of your textbook and Sinclair's entire book can be found online.
Excerpt:

 
Here's a short documentary. (Hosted off-site)

It's never too soon to start thinking about history fair.  Here is an example of a documentary project on The Jungle: