• Do art critiquing the way the "pros" do! This site includes elements of art, principles of design, an art timeline, art vocabulary, and activities as well. Although Dialectic and Rhetoric students will gain the most benefit, Upper Grammar students could benefit with parental guidance.
• Use this site for great pictures when making lapbooks. Contributed by Sue.
• A vast resource for further research on 19th-Century Art. Click on 19th-Century Art.
• Excellent architecture sight: www.greatbuildings.com
• Recommended by Carol, this art history project book can be used in all four year-plans, as it goes through the 1980's. There are 80 projects in this book entitled Great Studio Projects in Art History, and is written by William Reid. ISBN 0825138523
• Here's real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
• Art history time line: there are two pages to this time line--page 1 is BC, page 2 is AD. There are many wonderful links to pictures of art from each period, as well as resources for further study. A gem! All ages can benefit.
• "This time line site is a bit of a pain to get around, but once you do, you'll glean great time line information on classical music." --from Christina, a Tapestry user.
• Maggie recommends this website, "The Music Chamber," that lists all of the composers according to time period. "We found it most helpful!"
• "Don't know if you've heard or participated in the Home Depot Kids' Workshops yet or not. But they are a blast. They give the child a complete project kit which includes everything they need for materials to build something. They have work tables set up with hammers, wood glue, screw drivers and anything else needed. Plus they give them a work apron & pins for completing the project. I took all three this morning with DH & he worked with the older two while I helped (big time) the younger. They were so proud of themselves." --From Susan in Florida
• Brenda, another user, wrote: I wanted to pass along a great site to everyone...www.puzzlemaker.com   You can put in a list of words, etc, and it will generate puzzles....everything from word searches, to crossword puzzles...codes, etc!!! They also have some really cool mazes which my younger ones love!! I have used it a lot for something fun to go along with what we are studying.....
• www.brainpop.com Educational site with free educational movies. You can watch two free per day. Good for review or to introduce a topic. The best ones I've seen are in the math section. Aimed at grades 3-8, but fun for all!- -Taken from a posting from our yahoogroups email loop by Barb.
  
  Peanut Butter Dough for mapwork:
• Materials: dough recipe, waxed paper, blue icing, green sprinkles, clear sprinkles, small chocolate chips, red candy strips (licorice strings), M&Ms.
  
  Use these symbols:
  blue icing - lakes and oceans
  green sprinkles - plains
  clear sprinkles - deserts
  chocolate chips - mountains
  red candy strips - rivers
  M&Ms - capitals
  
  Dough Recipe:
  2 c. smooth peanut butter
  2 1/2 c. powdered milk
  2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
  2 c. white corn syrup

Mix all ingredients together and put small portions on waxed paper. Makes about 25 small maps. See the Y2 Gallery page for examples of completed maps.

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Week 1: When John Adams Was President

• How to make a quill pen
• Grammer level coin counting game
• How to make a display board
• Information for your display board: John Adams and George III
• George Washington and John Adams coloring pages
• Neoclassicism

Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career

• Simple instructions for making your own crown
• Flora and fauna of France
• Build a Model of The Arc de Triomphe
• Basic French words and phrases
• Information for your display board: Napoleon and Horatio Nelson
• Arc de Triomphe
• Beethoven's Biography
• Listen to Beethoven's works
• Francisco Goya
• Napoleon Bonaparte coloring page
• Famous paintings of Napoleon:
  
• Puzzle of David's famous Coronation of Napoleon. Fun to do while listening to Romance music or read-alouds
• Napoleon
• Napoleon in His Study
• "Napoleon crossing the Alps"

Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution

• Make a pneumatic wheel using an extensive set of Legos. Scroll to the bottom of the page for pdf files to download.
• Make a battery
• Ideas for your invention project
• Information for your display board: Francis Cabot Lowell and Robert Fulton
• Steamboat Coloring page
• Instructions for making a cardboard loom

Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

• To find pictures for your Lewis & Clark collage, click here and then go to "natural history."
• Listen to streaming violin music at Naxos.com. If you'd like to find music by other composers, click on "composers" in the top toolbar.
• Make your own compass.
• Food Network has lots of great recipes for soups and stews.
• Here is one way to make moccasins.
• Information about Appaloosa horses.
• For your display board: Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Jefferson coloring page
• How to Dance a Minuet
• Monticello

Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court

• How to make a silhouette
• Practice counting money here.
• For your poster: Branches of Government
• For your display board: John Marshall
• Read about characteristics of Romantic music here.

Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812

• James Madison coloring page
• Lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner
• Songs of the War of 1812
• American flag etiquette
• Dining etiquette to learn if you are a hostess or host
• Make an American flag out of construction paper
• Sew Your Own American Flag
• For your poster: History of the American Flag
• Learn to play chess
• For your display board: James Madison
• Gioacchino Rossini

Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America

• South American recipes
• Apple recipes
• Franz Schubert
• Heather has graciously shared her tokens for the Congress of Vienna Reenactment. These are pdf files of Germany tokens, Italy tokens, and Prussia tokens.

Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere

• South American recipes
• How to Make a Clay Pot
• Another method for making a clay pot

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Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments

• Lyrics and music to "The Erie Canal."
• Diagrams of boats used on the Erie Canal. Great for children who wish to make models of barges or the canal itself.
• Chronology and bibliography of the Canal.
• Make a Pine Cone Bird Feeder
• Audubon's Birds of America
• Braille translator and alphabet (Click on "Braille Key")
• Louis Braille coloring page
• Lewis and Clark
• Biography of Johann Strauss, Sr.
• Biography of Johann Strauss, Jr.
• Listen to music by Chopin

Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy

• Make an Indian Headband
• Make an Indian Chief Headdress and Indian Vest
• Make Native American Moccasins
• Recipes: Corn Pone and Corn Fritter
• For your mini-poster: Sequoyah's alphabet
• Examples of dioramas
• From EnchantedLearning: Make a Totem Pole (using a cardboard tube)
• From FamilyFun: Make a Tin Can Totem Pole
• How to Carve a Totem Pole
• Native American Recipes
• Biography of Felix Mendelssohn. Follow links at bottom to read a more extensive biography, a list of his works, midi files, and more!

Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe

• From EnchantedLearning.com:Texas Flag Printout
• Texas State Flag
• Authentic Mexican Recipes
• The Ballad of Davy Crockett
• Scroll to the bottom of this page to learn how to make a faux fur coon skin cap.
• For your poster: History of the Bowie Knife
• Build a Model of the Alamo
• Read about, and listen to, the music of Hector Berlioz

Week 13: Victorian England

• Make a Pomander Ball
• Set up a High Tea
• Calling Card Etiquette
• Victorian Etiquette
• Augustus Pugin
• Victorian Parlor Games
• Make a Victorian hat

Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad

• Make a boomerang!
• Draw the Australian flag
• Australian Animals
• Frederic Chopin
• Pictures of the Great Barrier Reef

Week 15: Manifest Destiny

• Make corn recipes for your family
• Robert and Clara Schumann
• Enchanted Learning: Make a Rainstick or a Native American Rattle
• Make sock puppets

Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea

• Lots of wonderful mexican crafts found on this site.
• Franz Liszt
• Color the Mexican Flag
• Make a poncho
• Mexican Recipes
• Make a Pinata
• Make Papel Picado

Week 17: The Oregon Trail

• Oregon Trail Crafts
• Make a covered wagon!
• Native American recipes!
• Make Paper Dolls
• Richard Wagner

Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder

• Art of the Gold Rush. Lots of great lithographs, paintings, etc. All ages... but supervised! We've not looked at all the pictures on this site.
• Pictures of the Bodie Ghost town: a current museum preserves the look and feel of the Old West! All ages!
• A song of the Gold Rush: "The Days of '49"
• Build a simple model telegraph!
• Pony Express. Great site with information, more links, books, and more! All ages.
• T chart (pdf)

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Week 19: Westerners in Asia

• Make Chinese paper lanterns.
• Write Chinese numbers.
• Chinese jade
• From EnchantedLearning.com: The Japanese Flag
• Make your own Origami. Link contributed by Joanna from MA.
• From Wikipedia: Bamboo
• Learn about Chinese Calligraphy
• Online Calligraphy lessons
• Chinese Architecture
• Pictures of traditional Japanese architecture

Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War

• Hygiene education website
• For illustrations for your visual display about nursing, typing "nursing uniforms" into your search engine, and then click on the "images" tab.  You are sure to find quite a few!
• Information about nursing uniforms or at Wikipedia
• To find out educational requirements for nurses, type your state name and "educational requirements" into your search engine.
• Learn some first aid at FamilyDoctor.org or the Mayo Clinic
• The Charge of the Light Brigade

Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites

• Make your own decisions on this tour of the Underground Railroad interactive website by National Geographic.
• Historical underground railroad painting: Fugitives Arriving at Levi Coffin's Indiana Farm
• Find the nearest safe house in relation to your home, on this list of sites, by state. Take a field trip!
• Play hangman on "Events Leading up to the Civil War".

Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War

• Civil War clipart! Pictures of uniforms: print them off to make paper dolls, etc. Much, much more!
• Instructions on making a pretzel log cabin.
• Instructions for making your hot air balloon.
• Making a Civil War flag.
• Making a periscope.
• Picture of the Merrimack and Monitor.
• Coloring page of Abraham Lincoln.
• Did you know it took two photographers with careful hands to take a photo on the battlefield? Check out the process here, and other interesting tidbits on photos taken during the Civil War.
• See scenes from a one-man play about Matthew Brady's life.
• Actual photographs by Matthew Brady.
• Timeline and biography of Matthew Brady.
• Learn and hear Civil War songs! All ages.
• Civil War fife music. This site contributed by Kathy.
• Cindy shares a display that is available in Charleston, South Carolina. Touring The Hunley is only available on Saturdays and Sundays. This was the first submarine to ever sink an enemy ship, and efforts are now being made to acquire, recover, and preserve this vessel. Or, follow the link and see the activities available online.

Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War

• Civil War clipart! Pictures of uniforms: print them off to make paper dolls, etc. Much, much more!
• Civil War Potpourri: wander through this to find interesting & sometimes odd facts about the Civil War, from famous horses to Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation. D and R, Teacher Preview.
• How to make your own haversack
• Making your own top hat.
• Civil War photographs
• Weapons during the Civil War
• Battles of the Civil War
• The Gettysburg Address
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• Read the history and view the images of popular Currier and Ives Lithography Prints.
• Hear and learn songs of the Civil War.
• Battle Hymn of the Republic.
• Civil War Documents Quiz

Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War

• Excellent site for Transcontinental & Pacific Rail - check out loads of great pictures & info! Find how close it came to your town, by looking through authentic maps here. Railroad timeline, too. See the famous painting "The Last Spike".
• Lots of historic locomotive pictures!
• Facts about President's Day
•  For your mural: Information on Abraham Lincoln
• Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
• Reconstruction and its aftermath, including emancipation.
• Britannica articles on George Pullman and his cars, his town, and the Pullman Strike.
• P. T. Barnum: Visit the Barnum Museum for a field trip if you live near Bridgeport, CT.
• Make your own wanted posters

Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction

• Highly recommended Kid's Cowboy site with many activities.
• VERY wonderful site on Native American games. It's interactive: try online versions of many games played by tribes throughout the US. Shuttlecock was a Northwestern Indians game: start there!
• Learn to lasso! Try your hand at this harder-than-it-looks-skill.
• The Plains Indians and their dependence on buffalo. This site encompasses art and history. A Native American artist created this tapestry and kids are encouraged to think constructively in order to understand its meaning. Explanations and online matching activity are provided.
• Comanche legends (including one on how the buffalo got scattered on the earth). Parents, please preview.
• Nez Perce tribe.
• Shoshone-Bannock tribe.

Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars

• Edison's original bulb! Cool pic! What else did Edison invent?
• PBS's Edison site. Under "Special Features", link to listen to original Edison recordings.
• Do you like to sketch your own ideas for inventions? Check out Alexander Graham Bell's sketches!
• Any amateur inventors out there? Check out theses great interactive sites: Invent Now and The US Patent & Trademark office's Kids Page, full of games and fun.
• Surf through the very addictive site HowStuffWorks.com. Find out how all sorts of toys or computers or engines work...oh, and of course telephones and light bulbs!
• Light bulb history.

Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany

• Make a tin can Telephone
• Make a Pinhole camera: a great detailed project.
• Discovering Microbes
• George Eastman, the man who made Kodak
• Alexander Graham Bell
• The Great Chicago Fire

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Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires

• African Voices, a Smithsonian website. Parents, please preview or guide your student through this site.
• Explore the Wonders of Africa - kingdoms, architecture, and people groups. Parents, please guide through this PBS site, too.
• Make a Lion Mask out of a paper plate
• African Animal Paper bag puppets: Lion and Zebra
• Make an African mask or shield
• Write a letter to a missionary. This is a great site with good resorces
• Renoir's The Ball at the Moulin de la galette with an interactive tour of the painting
• Impressionist Art

Week 29: The Scramble for Empire

• Make a styrofoam cup drum
• Try African food and Recipes
• Tie-dye instructions
• Hand Dye cloth: Batik style
• Make an African drum out of things around the house
• Biography and works of Edgar Degas
• Anton Bruckner: An Introduction and sound clips

Week 30: Imperialism and Culture

• Ellis Island vurtiual tour
• Wonderful online handbook of the Statue of Liberty.  Click on "contents" on the left sidebar to get started!
• Make a paper Statue of Liberty
• Languages of South Africa
• Great Monet site.  Go to "Enter this site" to get to a great visual catalogue of his work!
• a Biography of Claude Monet
• a Biography of Camille Saint-Saens

Week 31: Waves of Immigrants

• Ellis Island vurtiual tour
• Wonderful online handbook of the Statue of Liberty.  Click on "contents" on the left sidebar to get started!
• Make a paper Statue of Liberty
• Great Monet site.  Go to "Enter this site" to get to a great visual catalogue of his work!
• a Biography of Claude Monet
• a Biography of Camille Saint-Saens

Week 32: Captains of Industry

• Oklahoma land rush
• Rags to Riches: Andrew Carnegie
• PBS birography of Andrew Carnegie
• The History of the game Monopoly
• Find the origen of your Surname
• Biography and work of Mary Cassatt
• Anton Dvorak: biography for kids
• Biography of Anton Dvorak

Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South

• Life in the late 1800's
• Rags to Riches: Andrew Carnegie
• PBS birography of Andrew Carnegie
• The Life of Paul Cezanne

Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards

• Life in the late 1800's
• Virtual Museum of Booker T. Washington
• Biography of Booker T. Washington
• The history of Sear, Roebuck and Co.
• Sear, Roebuck and Co. Catalog

Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women

• Helen Keller kids museum
• Sign language for Kids
• Marie Curie
• facts about Hawaii
• Biography of Georges Seurat
• Gabriel Faure: Biography and works

Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism

• George Washington Carver
• Peter Tchaikovsky Composers

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