Websites to Support the New Curriculum
Grade 8: Cluster 5
Shaping the Modern World (Circa 1400 to 1850)
Learning Experience
8.5.1
World Overview (1400-1850)
8.5.1 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
8.5.1 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Renaissance:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/
Renaissance, Exploring Leonardo:
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
4-2 Explore, Age of Exploration, World Mariners:
http://www.42explore.com/index.htm
(research by topic)
The Age of Enlightenment, Historical Background:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/lumiere/documents/files/cadre_historique.html
African Slave Trade:
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/slavery/a/Slavery101.htm
Electronic Passport, The Enlightenment:
http://www.mrdowling.com/705-enlightenment.html
Nature of the Industrial Revolution:
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0858817.html
The Student’s Friend, Part 2, Unit 2, the 1700s: Age of Enlightenment and Revolution: www.studentsfriend.com/sf/part2see/part2-2.html
(excellent summary of the American Revolution, “Glorious Revolution” and British Parliament, and French Revolution)
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/#
Electronic Passport, French Revolution:
http://www.mrdowling.com/705-frenchrevolution.html
PBS Liberty! The American Revolution:
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/index.html
The American Revolution Homepage:
http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/INDEX2.HTM
Wikipedia, Origins of Parliamentary Democracy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Parliament
#Origins_of_Parliamentary_Democracy
8.5.1 APPLYING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
Learning Experience
8.5.2
Global Exploration
8.5.2 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
8.5.2 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
The European Voyages of Exploration: The Sugar and Slave Trades:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/Trade.html
Metropolitan Museum, Gold of the Indies:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ingd/hd_ingd.htm
Metropolitan Museum, The Portuguese in Africa:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/agex/hd_agex.htm
Metropolitan Museum, Europe and the Age of Exploration:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/expl/hd_expl.htm
The Mariners’ Museum, Age of Exploration Timeline:
http://www.mariner.org/age/histexp.html
1492: An Ongoing Voyage:
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html
European Voyages of Exploration: Religion and Exploration:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/relex.html
Renaissance Exploration and Trade, Become a Spice Trader:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/spicetrade/
National Library of Canada, Kids’ Site, Explorers’ Index:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/explorers/kids/h3-220-e.html
National Maritime Museum; Explorers and Leaders:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/sea-and-ships/facts/explorers-and-leaders/
(Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Sir John Franklin, John Cabot)
The Mariner’s Museum; Biographies of Explorers and Associated People: http://www.mariner.org/age/biohist.html#jcabot
European Explorers:
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/explorer.htm
(select explorer – organized by country of origin)
Christopher Columbus:
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/excolumbus.htm
Explorers of the World:
http://hpedsb.on.ca/smood/explore/links.htm
Discoverers Web, The Age of Discovery:
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/index.html
ThinkQuest, Explorers’ Hall of Fame:
http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/hall_of_fame.html
European Voyages of Exploration, Communicating with Indigenous Populations:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/communicate.html
The European Voyages of Exploration, the 15th and 16th centuries:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/
European Exploration and Colonization, Pacific Islands Context:
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/psc/piceuropean.html
European Exploration of the Southeast and the Caribbean:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/outline/07-exploration/
8.5.2 APPLYING STRATEGIES
Medieval Sourcebook, Christopher Columbus, Extracts from Journal:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html
Captain James Cook, Extracts from the Journals, The 2nd Voyage, A Voyage toward the South Pole:
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7557/cook2.html
From Revolution to Reconstruction, Documents, Samuel de Champlain, Voyages, 1604:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1601-1650/champlain/voyag.htm
From Revolution to Reconstruction, Documents: Letter of Amerigo Vespucci, 1497 :
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1400-1500/columbus/amerigo.htm
The Avalon Project: Privileges and Prerogatives granted by their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus, 1492:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/colum.htm
Discoverers’ Web, Primary Sources: Additional Instructions for Lt. James Cook:
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7557/secret.html
IMDB Movies, Amistad, Plot Outline:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/
The Connecticut Historical Society, Amistad Exhibition:
http://www.chs.org/exhib/amistad.htm
(interactive historical exhibit on the Amistad incident)
The map onUnited Nations and Decolonization:
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpi/decolonization/main.htm
Learning Experience
8.5.3
Renaissance and Reformation
8.5.3 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
WebQuest News:
http://webquest.org/
Okanagan University College, WebQuests:
http://www.ouc.bc.ca/tltc/tr/webquest/default.htm
Metropolitan Museum, Timeline of art History, European Art in the Renaissance:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=16
The National Gallery UK, Collection by artist:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/artist/default.htm
Art History, Renaissance and Baroque:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html
Art History Resources on the Web, 15th Century Renaissance Art:
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks2.html
Art History Resources on the Web, 16th Century Renaissance Art:
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTH16thcentury.html
8.5.3 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Leonardo da Vinci:
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/
Metropolitan Museum, Timeline of art History, European Art in the Renaissance:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=16
Electronic Passport, Renaissance:
http://www.mrdowling.com/704renaissance.html
PBS, Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance:
http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/
Renaissance, Exploring Leonardo:
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
The National Gallery UK, Collection by artist:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/artist/default.htm
Virtual Renaissance:
http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/VirtualRen.html
Art History, Renaissance and Baroque:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html
Renaissance:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/
Sixteenth Century English Renaissance Literature: http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/renaissanceinfo.htm
Rabelais:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rabela.htm
Global History, Science and Technology, Introduction:
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/science/index.cfm
Andreas Vesalius:
http://hsc.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/texth.htm
The Galileo Project:
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/
History Channel.com, Galileo:
http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=88151
History Channel, Renaissance:
http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=109733
Perspective drawing:
http://mathforum.org/sum95/math_and/perspective/perspect.html
8.5.3 APPLYING STRATEGIES
Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare for Kids:
http://www.folger.edu/education/kids/kidshome.asp
(includes Shakespeare Scripts for Kids adapted from excerpts of various plays)
PBS In Search of Shakespeare:
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/theshow/theshow265.html
(information on the life and times of Shakespeare and activities to accompany the PBS program series)
Learning Experience
8.5.4
Industrial Revolution
8.5.4 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
8.5.4 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Galileo Tour, Telescope:
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/galtele.html
CBC for Kids, History of Invention, Telescope :
http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/telescope.html
Sir Isaac Newton:
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/newton.html
The Open Door Website, Steamships:
http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/033.html
Inventor Johannes Gutenberg:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/gutenberg.htm
Leonardo, Renaissance Man, Inventor:
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/inventor.html
The Great Idea Finder, Inventor Profile:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventors.htm
Andreas Vesalius:
http://oz.plymouth.edu/~biology/history/vesalius.html
Antony von Leeuwenhoek :
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.html
The Industrial Revolution:
http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/001.html
8.5.4 APPLYING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended