History

1. The order of significant events in Ohio and the United States can be shown on a timeline.

2. Primary and secondary sources can be used to create historical narratives.

1. Ohio Time Line   Order of events in Ohio
2. Constitution Time Line  (Flash)  Outstanding
3. Ohio History Time Line
4. An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio history time line
5. Ohio Time Line of State History
6. U.S. History Time Line
7. American History Time Line
8. United States Time Line
9. U.S. History Time Line  (Fact Monster)
10. Creating the Constitution Outstanding presentation of the foundation of our country.
11. The Constitution - Flash Presentation
12. The Constitution --  Interactive presentation.
13. The Constitution -- Interactive Quiz
14. The Original American Minds that created the Constitution.
15. Bill of Rights interactive game 4 star
16. Comparison of Various State Preambles with the United States Constitution Preamble.
17. So help me God- Reflection on the Military Oath
18. The Time Machine - This U.S. Mint site has twelve hyperlinked dates, each one tells a story. Outstanding!  
19. An index of timelines
20. Customize your own timeline - This free service is offered by OurTimeLines.com. They request that webmasters not link to the timeline generator. Therefore you must go to the bottom of their page where you see the phrase, Ready to check it out? Just... Click Here!
21. Make your own Timeline, thanks to Teachnology - (scroll past the membership information) Their generator can be used to make time lines of up to 9 events of your choice. Select either a horizontal or vertical timeline.
22. Ohio History Central (resource site)
23. The Evolution of Ohio
24. Ohio's Prehistory Timeline
25. Freedom Timeline (printable PDF)
26. Events in Ohio History
27. Timeline Generator Tool
28. Timeline Resources
29. Ohio Historical Resources
30. Teaching with Documents
31. Book on the history of Darke County
32. Video-Pledge of Allegiance Each line is explained in this video.  The video is presented by U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Eric Montgomery  4 Star
33.  Video The American Flag   presented by Lt. Robert Doyle United States Marine Corps.
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3. Various groups of people have lived in Ohio over time including prehistoric and historic American Indians, migrating settlers and immigrants. Interactions among these groups have resulted in both cooperation and conflict.

4. The 13 colonies came together around a common cause of liberty and justice, uniting to fight for independence during the American Revolution and to form a new nation.

5. The Northwest Ordinance established a process for the creation of new states and specified democratic ideals to be incorporated in the states of the Northwest Territory.

6. The inability to resolve standing issues with Great Britain and ongoing conflicts with American Indians led the United States into the War of 1812. Victory in the Battle of Lake Erie contributed to American success in the war.

7. Sectional issues divided the United States after the War of 1812. Ohio played a key role in these issues, particularly with the anti-slavery movement and the Underground Railroad.

8. Many technological innovations that originated in Ohio benefited the United States.

1. Ohio History Temper Mound
2. Daily Life in Ohio up to 1903  This site uses pages of information, pictures, and primary sources to explain the everyday experiences of Ohioans and emphasizes their home and family life.
3. The Underground Railroad  An interactive map to see the Slave States and the Free States during the Civil War. Also shows the path that people followed for the Underground Railroad.
4. Information on Prehistory of Ohio
5. Historic American Indian lessons
6. Frontier Conflict lessons
7. What Is It? To find out more about daily life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pictures of everyday items are shown. Students try to guess what each one is and how it was used. Then they can click on the picture to find out what it is and neat information about it.
8. How America Began (printal PDF)
9. Colonial America lesson ideas
10. Colonial America Lesson Packet (prinable PDF)
11. Many links to lessons and resources over American Revolution
12. Northwest Ordinance lesson (printable PDF)
13. Northwest Ordinance lesson plan
14. Treaty of Greenville lesson
15. Resources for Northwest Ordinance
16. America on the Move  At this excellent site you can read about how transportation shaped the lives, landscapes, culture, and communities of America. You can examine the changes brought by transportation networks, play some cool games, and check out lots of other resources from the National Museum of American History. There are also excellent teacher guides available for each section.
17. War of 1812 Unit (printable PDF)
18. Info on Oliver Perry and Battle of Lake Erie
19. Webquest over the War of 1812
20. Re-living History War of 1812
21. War of 1812 Website
22. More Famous People
23. Anti-slavery Information from Ohio
24. Lesson resources for Underground Railroad
25. How to create an Undercover Power Point presentation
26. Cultural Groups in Ohio  PDF
27. Ohio History Central
28. People of the Past   PDF
29. Along the Ohio trail  PDF
30. The order of significant events in Ohio  PDF

31. An Archaeological History of Northeast Ohio

32.  Technology and Innovation from Ohio
33. Ohio Inventors (printable PDF lesson)
34. How Ohioians Changed the World
35. Ohio Connections to Transportation Innovations
36. Activities on Canals and Transportation
37. Video on Progress of Transportation
38. Ohio and Erie Canal Lessons
39. Impact of Railroads lesson

     

Geography

9. A map scale and cardinal and intermediate directions can be used to describe the relative location of physical and human characteristics of Ohio and the United States.

1. Temperate Zone maps - North America - South America - Europe - Asia
2. Which Direction Should I Go?
3. Getting Lost
4. Compass Lesson Resources
5. Where in the World is Ohio?
6. Map Adventure Lesson 7 - Map Scale
7. Create A map   Design a Town Map and printout  PDF
8. Create A map   Design a treasure map and Printout  PDF
9. World Map  The map has physics implemented so it can quickly be scrolled from one part to another with a flick of the finger on the whiteboard – tap again to stop the scroll.  Mark points of interest using the 3 different colored map pins.
10. Can You Read a Map? - Use a map to answer questions
11. Where is Japan - Students use the four cardinal directions to find real places on a map. (Author - Sandi King)
12. Types of Maps  This fantastic site has loads of information on maps, types of maps, and legends, including online lessons, pictures, diagrams, labs, a dictionary, a review test, and a printable teacher guide in Acrobat format.
13. Weather Map game  In this game the student has to place five weather symbols on a map to show the appropriate condition in five cities. The cities are randomly generated each time so the game can be played over and over. UK
14. How Maps Work This web page uses colorful animations to illustrate how maps relate to their real-life places and objects
15.  Map Games   You will find quite a few games that will allow the students to learn and have fun at the same time.  You will find map games for many different grade levels.  Please choose the correct one for you.  THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING SITE.
16. Maps and Mapping

10. The economic development of the United States continues to influence and be influenced by agriculture, industry and natural resources in Ohio.

11. The regions of the United States known as the North, South and West developed in the early 1800s largely based on their physical environments and economies.

1. Daily life  Influenced by surroundings.
2. Farm Aid   Website showing problems and solving them.
3. Ohio Markets (printable PDF lesson)
4. Current Ohio Economics Report (content resource)
5. Why Does Ohio Specialize and Trade? (printable PDF lesson)
6. Improvements in Transportation and Increase in Expansion (content resource)
7. Info on Growth of Regionalization (content resource)
    

1. Different Tribes - Compare daily life of Native American tribes from different regions and times. (Author - Laurie Ayers)
2.  Checking for clues  What conclusions can you draw based on this evidence? ... Human Record Humans Record Changes The records and activities of people provide information about Illinois environments and climate.
3. Changes in Ohio Environments (printable PDF lesson)
4. People and Endangered Species
5. Really Wild Animals
6. Bird Bath
7. Moving People Products and ideas
8. Systems of transportation
9. Global envision
10. Global Transformations
11. Reaching out to diverse populations

12. Understanding Culture and Diversity in Building Communities

13. Cultural Groups in Ohio Lessons (printable PDF lesson)
14. Human Migration: The Story of a Community's Culture  (also in third grade)
15. Community Cultural Trunk (needs modified from Utah)  (also in third grade)
16. Journey to Cultural Competence - TLC                      Discuss cultural competence and why it is especially important in health care. ... *Includes American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, ...
17. Improvements in Transportation and Increase in Expansion

     

1.  A balancing act    This student activity explores the local community showing that community members “have social and political responsibilities and that individuals make the community a better place by solving problems
2. Exploring our Community
3. Community Lessons
4. Creating a Community
5. Spoon Full of Rights
6. Responsibilities and Rights
7. We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution
8. Rights and Responsibilities Smart Board lessons
9. Introduction Unit of Rights and Responsibilities (printable PDF lesson)
10. Rights and Responsibilities (printable PDF lesson)
11. Being an Informed Voter (printable PDF lesson)
12. Compromise and the Constitution
13. Constitution Convention
14. Compromise of the Century (content resource)

     

1. Being a Responsible Citizen
2. Laws what are they good for?
3. Necessity of rules and laws
4. Judges in the Classroom
5. Creating a Bill of Rights in Space
6. Candy Game (printable PDF lesson)
7. No Animals Allowed on School Grounds (printable PDF lesson) - Power point to go with the lesson
8. Planet Lawlessness (printable PDF lesson)
9. The First Amendment (printable PDF lesson)
10. Resources for Teaching First Amendment
11. What's It All About?
12. Blogging the Bill of Rights (printable PDF lesson)
13. Exercising My First Amendment Freedoms (printable PDF lesson)
14. First Amendment Rights individual lessons
15. Bill of Rights Printable Chart

     

     

Roles and Systems of Government

20. A constitution is a written plan for government. Democratic constitutions provide the framework for government in Ohio and the United States.

21. The Ohio Constitution and the U.S. Constitution separate the major responsibilities of government among three branches.

1. Government is a body that has authority
2. Separation of Powers       make decisions about governing O- develop ideas for laws and the ... in the community can have the power to invent, create and then enforce laws at their .... Ministers control government departments and authorities that enforce statute law.
3. The Invaders (printable PDF lesson)
4. Constitution for Kids  (resource info)
5. Civics Today    Citizens agree to follow a set of rules and to accept a government's authority. Government is needed to make and enforce laws and decisions for its citizens. ... With such a large population, the United States must have a representative
6. Crossword Puzzle
7. Balancing Three Branches at Once
8. Ben's Guide to the Branches of Government
9. Resources for Branches of Government

    

Economic Decision Making and Skills
 

22. Tables and charts help people to understand information and issues. Tables organize information in columns and rows. Charts organize information in a variety of visual formats (pictures, diagrams, graphs).

1. Popcorn Economics
2. Going Camping
3. Competition Pizza
4. Colonial Workers Web  PDF
5. Market to Market
6. Old Toy - New Market
7. How Much is that Doggy
8. Family Charts and Graph Printable activity

Production and
Consumption

23. Entrepreneurs organize productive resources and take risks to make a profit and compete with other producers.

1. 1. Little Bill the Producer! - This lesson (from EconEd Link) teaches the most basic vocabulary about production. People who make goods and provide services are called producers.
2. Popcorn Economics
3. Going Camping
4. Competition Pizza
5. Colonial Workers Web  PDF
6. Market to Market
7. Old Toy - New Market
8. How Much is that Doggy
9. What Makes an Entrepreneur?
10. Entrepreneur Classroom Activities
11. I Can Be an Entrepreneur

     

1. Old Toy - New Market
2. How Much is that Doggy
3. Money comes and Money goes
4. Clickety Clack, Let's Keep Track
5. One Hen
6. ABC's of Savings
7. Money Comes and Goes