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“This experience has been very meaningful to me as a classroom teacher.  My eyes have been opened-up to presenting different sides of recorded history and developing strategies to select materials that are meaningful for my students.” 

Bill Robbins, Lulu Ross Elementary






http://www2.worldbook.com/features/whm/html/whm010.html
This website serves as an historical overview of women’s suffrage.  It includes photographs from the Library of Congress as well as an interactive quiz of the leading women figures between 1848-1928.  In addition there are links to important essays regarding the movement.

http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/
Sponsored by PBS, this website provides information regarding civil rights issues.  They include:  women and the right to vote, school desegregation, and religious freedom.  A number of activities regarding civil rights are geared towards students: (1) an interview with Melba Beals, one of original African-American, Little Rock’s Central High students, (2) an interactive quiz regarding civil rights, and (3) an interactive quiz of who’s who in civil rights.

http://www.historyplace.com/index.html
History Place is an award-winning website that features a multitude of resources for teachers and students.  It provides homework help, highlighted photos and speeches of the week, information, time lines, and photographs regarding child labor, women’s suffrage, among other topics. 

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/
This division of the Library of Congress website has photographs and prints available regarding many historical events including the fight for women’s right to vote (1850 –1920).

http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/suffrage.htm
This website provides the chronological order of the world’s women’s suffrage movement.

http://www.archives.gov/welcome/index.html
This government website has a variety of teaching resources including a digital library, lesson plans, document and photograph analysis tools, and documents pertinent to American history.

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_suffrage_list.htm
This site has biographies of notable women of the women’s suffrage movement, quotes by women, a picture gallery, a quiz regarding women’s suffrage, and a section of today in women’s history.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Twork.htm
This provides information about child labor laws and resources as well as a debate activity of children working in textile companies in the early part of the 19th century.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/child_labor/for_teachers/index.asp?CR=Grolier&article=knowledge
Scholastic has information regarding child labor around the world.  It provides historical information about child labor.  In addition, it highlights views of children’s lives in Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey, and Indonesia and the work they do - today.  Furthermore, it provides country facts for those five countries and a child labor map.  Also available are classroom activities such as a quiz, video clips, and a scavenger hunt.  There is a separate teacher’s area as well.

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/labor
Time For Kids’ website has information regarding child labor abuses around the world and ideas on how to help with this situation.  In addition, it has resources regarding the history of child labor, the major child labor abuses, and child labor laws in the United States.


 
           

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