Videos
Sample Lessons
Primary Source Documents
TOPIC
Whiteboard Lessons
Other
RESOURCES FOR 6TH GRADE CSOs
Government
Population
Data & US
www.census.gov
Census Bureau
http://www.tolerance.org/activity/census-activities
How a Bill
becomes a
Law
Structure of
the US
Congress
I'm Just a Bill School House Rocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFroMQlKiag
Learn 360 Video: How a Bill Becomes a Law (4:56)
Prezi http://prezi.com/ebqrhx82ezzx/copy-of-the-legislative-branch/
www.congressforkids.net
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Key Figures in
US
Government
www.biography.com
World War I
Events leading
to outbreak of
WWI:
Nationalism,
Imperialism,
Militarism
Role of
propaganda in
WWI
"Back in the Day - the Causes of WWI 4:16 video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htyue8xRS7M
Trench Warfare in WWI 7:52 video clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9iR0xJWFk
A Teenage Girl Explains the Causes of WWI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpBvUj3wXxY
http://junior.scholastic.com/resource/issues/BA127D7A-D90A-2EF69FC6FCC558B5483B/printables-20140722151458.pdf
Multiple examples of propaganda used during wartime. National Archives.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.ht
ml
Outcomes &
Effects of WWI:
League of Nations
and Treaty of
Versailles
Treaty of Versailles. http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/versailles.htm
League of Nations http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_league.html
Videos
Sample Lessons
Primary Source Documents
Whiteboard Lessons
Other
Great Depression
Economic
conditions postWWI
Causes of the
Great
Depression
worldwide
Political
response to
economic and
social conditions
in US and
Germany
Kids.gov: America’s Story: The Depression and World War II
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_subj.html
Public Broadcasting Service: The American Experience: 1930s Collection (video; see
the following links: The Crash of 1929, Riding the Rails, Surviving the Dust Bowl, The
Hoover Dam, The Civilian Conservation Corps)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/collections/1930s/
Library of Congress Themed Resources: The Great Depression
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/great-depression/students.html
http://prezi.com/8qtoydtsnrtl/causes-of-wwii-the-great-depression/
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute: The New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/
FDR fireside chat video clip http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/franklin-droosevelt/videos/fdr-delivers-first-firesidechat?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
Hyperinflation in Germany after WWI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlbgu-9fgdg
(1:56)
World War II
Totalitarianism
in Germany,
Italy, Japan, and
Soviet Union
Truman
Doctrine,
Marshall Plan,
North Atlantic
Treaty
Organization
(NATO), United
Nations,
Warsaw Pact,
European
Economic
Community
PowerPoint http://www.slideshare.net/cems7ss/the-rise-of-totalitarianism
Marshall Plan www.ushistory.org/us/52c.asp
Truman Doctrine http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp
Warsaw Pact http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-warsaw-pact-is-formed
NATO http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-warsaw-pact-is-formed
United Nations Established https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-VM0CzsJF0
Isolationism, Internationalism and the Truman Doctrine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLITu0Mlszw
Videos
Sample Lessons
Appeasement
and Isolationism
Primary Source Documents
Whiteboard Lessons
Other
The Policy of Appeasement
http://mrmartinsclassroom.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/causes-of-world-war-2.pdf
Isolationism
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/pdfs/for_educators/baker.from%20isolationi
sm%20to%20interventionism.pdf
Strong
leadership and
response to
conflict
Conflict resolution and the power of strong leadership WWII and International Conflict.
Teach 21 Unit. Over a week of prepared lessons.
http://wveis.k12.wv.us/Teach21/public/Iguide/Iguide.cfm?action=V1&tsele1=4&tsele2
=106&tsele3i=250
Facts, Figures, and links to additional articles dealing with overview of WWII
http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii
Primary Source Documents divided into categories dealing with WWII Avalon ProjectYale Law School. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp
US role in WWII
Video on American Soldiers in WWII. Learn 360. American Soldiers of WWII. (22
minutes)
Causes and Consequences of WWII: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/freelesson-plans/world-war-ii-causes-and-consequences.cfm
Quick history of evolution of human rights (10 minutes)
The Story of Human Rights. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh3BbLk5UIQ
Description for the purpose of the Declaration of Human Rights (5 minutes)
Human Rights
violations during
times of war
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTlrSYbCbHE
Japanese Internment Camps
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/japanese-internment.html
YouTube video clip (5:47) "Japanese Internment - This is the Enemy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkaQqzumMGE
Videos
Sample Lessons
Human Rights
violations during
times of war
US civilian
response to war
on the homefront
(Rose the
Riveter, victory
gardens,
rationing)
Primary Source Documents
Whiteboard Lessons
Other
Simplified version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Youth for Human Rights. http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-humanrights/universal-declaration-of-human-rights/articles-1-15.html
Multiple examples of propaganda used during wartime
National Archives.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.h
tml
Changing Gender Roles http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/resources/lesson10.pdf
WWII Wartime Posters Sample
Lesson http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/activities/wartimeposters/
Geographic
features that
influence US
safety and
encourage
isolation
Compare and
contrast
historical maps
Pearl Harbor. Analyzing FDR's Pearl Harbor Address .
www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education
Interactive lessons dealing with geography and WWII
History Channel. http://www.history.com/interactives/inside-wwii-interactive
9/11 Poems and Pictures:
http://www.9-11heroes.us/911-memorial-poems-c.php
Patriotism and
civil discourse in
http://www.celebrate-american-holidays.com/9-11-Poems.html
response to US
events (support
Rescue Dog Heroes Youtube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmkJKPxXc58
military during
wartime,
Vietnam
Pre-made lessons, links to videos, sound clips, pictures of the events of 9/11
protests, respect
for the flag)
9/11 memorial site. http://www.911memorial.org/teach-learn
Videos
Sample Lessons
Research
information on
an issue of
global concern
from multiple
points of view
Whiteboard Lessons
Other
Research projects such as: Nuclear Energy use, health concerns, disease spread &
origination, human rights, population, drug use & trafficking, pollution.....
Economic
impact of
technology on
world regions
throughout
history
Learn 360. Bombing of Hiroshima Past and Present (50 minutes)
Cite evidence of
US and Soviet
Union
dominance
following WWII
US Policy of
Containment
Primary Source Documents
http://prezi.com/zfqoc5orm6hs/origins-of-the-cold-war/
Containment www.ushistory.org/us/52c.asp
Cold War
Cold War videos, images, and documents.
History Channel. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war
Cold War:
The Cold War Primary Source
Korean
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/printable/section.asp?id=11
conflict,
Vietnam,
Cuban Missile
YouTube video "Kennedy Addresses the Nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis" (3:04)
Crisis, &
Space Race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50RNAbmy3M
YouTube video "Cuban Missile Crisis Documentary" (14:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPfRSna7_PM
Communism
in China
Communism in China. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKRKzrnIQP0
Videos
Sample Lessons
Primary Source Documents
Whiteboard Lessons
Other
Pictures http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1631993_1383208,00.html
Berlin Wall
YouTube video "The Berlin Wall during the Cold War" (6:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSwmBacyIP4
Role of
strong
leadership in
ending Cold
War
Pros and
Cons of
Nuclear
Power
Communism,
Socialism, &
Capitalism
www.trumanlibrary.org
Views of JFK Sample Lesson
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/views-of-jfk.cfm
YouTube video "Cold War Nuclear Arms Race" (5:19)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqBP7RQvpxs&list=PLn3T7GkTLMLR1W0AzMGDtjC
dpLh0Eiuyz
http://prezi.com/qktla-sb-jyt/copy-of-capitalism-socialism-and-communismanswers-to-the-great-depression/
Forms of Government http://prezi.com/utitldqeifue/forms-of-government/
Global Interactions
OPEC http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=664&type=educator
World Trade American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/stories/
Organizations
and Global
http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history
Relief
Programs
YouTube video "Root Shock American Red Cross" (4:46).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PeXf6jgHDc
UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/
Doctors Without Borders http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
YouTube video "Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders" (2:07).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53TQ4qiun-E
Videos
Sample Lessons
World Time
Zone Map
Effects of
major
waterways
on
transportatio
n and trade
Primary Source Documents
Whiteboard Lessons
Other
Interactive Time Zone Map. http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
www.eriecanal.org
www.eriecanalway.gov
http://www.epodunk.com/routes/erie-canal/start.html
Civil Rights Movement
Development
of Civil Rights
for minority
groups in the
US
Civil Rights Movement Primary Source Documents
Eyes on the Prize. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/sources/index.html
Alabama Department of Education.
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/rights.html
Site for completing research on Civil Rights activists/events
Civil Rights Digital Library. http://crdl.usg.edu/?Welcome
Freedom Riders http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites/freedom-riders
Key figures
and events in
Civil Rights
movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/martin-luther-king-jr-
and-power-nonviolence
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/the-civil-rightsmovement.cfm
The End of the Civil Rights Movement? Sample Lesson
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/the-end-of-the-civil-rightsmovement.cfm
Videos
Sample Lessons
Primary Source Documents
Whiteboard Lessons
Other
Middle Eastern Conflicts
Role of
natural
resources in
Middle
Eastern
conflicts
Role of
geopolitics in
historic
events
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/questions/resource/index.html
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/65/geopolitics
Key figures in
Middle
YouTube video "Operation Desert Storm - Start of Gulf War" (2:27)
Eastern
conflicts & US http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8gE_WKl8Dg
reaction to
conflicts
Renewable
and nonrenewable
resources
and factors
that effect
them
PowerPoint education.jlab.org/jsat/powerpoint/0708_renewable_nonrenewable.ppt
YouTube video "Energy - Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources" (15:02)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVg20H-bA4
NAFTA and
effects on US
economy
Prezi http://prezi.com/vhonh-wrwmys/copy-of-nafta/
Government
economic
policy Regan
era through
today
Reaganomics http://www.ushistory.org/us/59b.asp
http://www.naftanow.org/
Apps
HC WWI Lite: Hosts a Gallery of Primary Documents and Review Game
HC WWII Lite: Hosts a Gallery of Primary Documents and Review Game
HC Cold War Lite: Hosts a Gallery of Primary Documents and Review Game
US History Timeline: Timeline to click on a variety of events
Videos
Sample Lessons
Primary Source Documents
Whiteboard Lessons
Other
American History Pearson Games: Practice games to review material
McGraw Hill US Timeline: visual images and information
Scholastic Magazines: access to current events through JR Scholastic (must have a paid log in)
CRM: Civil Rights Movement game to practice CRM
Socrativ: response clicker system with email answers/grades
Read, Write, Think Trading Cards: Create a card of person, place, object, event, vocabulary
Puppet Pals II: Create a puppet show using characters such as Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln etc
Prezi: App to show powerpoints
Review Games Websites
www.brainpop.com
www.sheppardsoftware.com