It’s Thursday, and time for Social Sciences and I would like to ask you to check out the Recommended Website: Homeschool Resource: Historyworld. If you have used this website leave me a comment and let me know what you thought of it and why.
Age Range: 10-18 (Grades 5-12 with parental supervision)
| This website, written by Bamber Gascoigne from the United Kingdom, provides about 300 interactive world history narratives and over 10,000 events in searchable timelines. The narratives present information in a concise manner and contain in-text links to other topics. The timelines allow visitors to easily search for specific events relating to a topic during a specific time. When you arrive at the website use the menu at the top to select whether you want to read “Histories”, explore “Timelines”, take a “Quiz”, or select “More . . .” to choose: Encyclopedia of Britain – Browse over 5000 entries on the history, culture, and life of Britain Welcome History of Medicine – Discover the history of medicine from the world’s largest medical charity Places in History-Global – Explore the global-plotted Google Maps and see what events happened where Places in History-Local – Examine this ongoing project using Google Maps to find exact positions of historical sites. When arriving at the “Histories” page, you can search alphabetically for historical topics across the globe from Aegean Civilization to Zoroastrianism. Some narrations include images and the in-text links give visitors the opportunity to build on their understanding of events, people, and concepts. After selecting “Timelines” from the menu, you are able to enter a specific topic and/or year into the search engine. Use the “Historyworld Timelines” text link under the search box to be taken to the “Single-Subject Timelines” page for a list of pre-set timelines. Timeline entries have clickable icons on either side of them that when selected open to Google search engine pages for relevant topics, associated images, related entries from Historyworld, links to other timelines, or Google maps. There are currently two quizzes available to take: Quiz – Take this timed quiz to test yourself on your historical knowledgeThenWhatNext – Challenge yourself to put people or events in the correct order.This ad-supported website provides a great overview of history around the world without a lot of distracting bells and whistles. (Note: Parents AS ALWAYS should preview the site to determine suitability of content.) |
| Thank you, Glenda, Charlie and David Cates |
