Good morning, welcome to our Homeschool Resources: Geography and History. If you have used any of these resources leave me a comment and let me know what you thought of the resources and why.
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GeorgiaStandards.org – World Studies Video Dictionary
Grades 5 and up, with parental supervision The Georgia Department of Education offers this terrific free “Video Dictionary” to help students learn Social Studies.
When you get to the site you’ll see a menu of over 30 topics that include:
- African Savanna
- Anti-Semitism
- Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
- Cortes
- Ganges River
- Great Barrier Reef
- Incas
- Montezuma II
- NAFTA – North American Free Trade Agreement
- Ottoman Empire
- Simon Bolivar
- The Cultural Revolution
- Toussaint L’Ouverture
- Treaty of Versailles
- And more!
Click on a topic of interest, and watch a professionally produced, well-narrated video that explains the term, its history, and its relevance – all accompanied by a montage of film clips, illustrations, and photographs.
These videos are a great way to introduce the people, cultures, countries, and events that have impacted our world.
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Grades 4-12, with parental supervision
This is a most remarkable website for the study of history as it presents eyewitness accounts of historical events that have occurred throughout the world.
You can read journal entries from ancient times through today, see illustrations, paintings, drawings, and photographs depicting world events, and listen to recordings of historical voices of the 20th century. The historical eras these primary sources cover include:
- Ancient World – for example, an eyewitness account of the destruction of the Roman town of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
- Middle Ages/Renaissance – for example, an eyewitness account of the ravages of the Black Death plague of 1348 that killed 25-50% of the European population.
- 17th Century – for example, an eyewitness account of The Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
- 18th Century – for example, an eyewitness account of the execution of Nathan Hale in 1776 who said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
- 19th Century – for example, an eyewitness account of the inhumane conditions aboard a slave ship in 1829.
- Civil War – for example, an eyewitness account of the Surrender at Appomattox.
- Old West – for example, an eyewitness account of the death of Billy the Kid in 1881.
- 20th Century – for example, an eyewitness account of the discovery of King Tut’s Tomb in 1922.
- And other eras including World War I and World War II.
Also available at the site is a feature titled “It Happened This Month.” You can read eyewitness accounts of historical events that took place during this month in history.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
