photoswest.org/exhib/faves/faves.htm

you can find those great pictures of the early west at the link above

REAL PEOPLE......REAL STORIES

www.storycorps.net/listen/

www.presidentialtimeline.org/

please click this link first:

mybeautifulamerica.com/

now click the link below:

americathebeautiful.com/index.htm

--click on the link

memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Here's a picture of a bridge that used to be near Aspermont (close to Peacock). It was built in 1917.

Click here:
www.texasescapes.com/TexasBridges/Peacock-Texas-Salt-Fork-Brazos-River-Bridge.htm

Check out Texas Ghost towns here:

www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Texas_ghost_towns.htm

www.history.com/home.do?utm_source=google_content&utm_medium=CPC&utm_term=content_history+channel+map&utm_campaign=brand&keywords=content_history+channel+map&paidlink=1&ref_str=http%3A//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads%3Fclient%3Dca-pub-2546752751326586%26dt%3D1176139142933%26lmt%3D1172175864%26format%3D160x600_as%26output%3Dhtml%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.sheppardsoftware.com%252Fhistory.htm%26color_bg%3DFFFFFF%26color_text%3D000000%26color_link%3DE1771E%26color_url%3DFFA612%26color_border%3DFFFFFF%26ad_type%3Dtext_image%26ref%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.sheppardsoftware.com%252Fcontent%252Fanimals%252Farticles%252Fendangered_animals%252Famericasmostendangeredanimals.htm%26cc%3D405%26u_h%3D768%26u_w%3D1024%26u_ah%3D734%26u_aw%3D1024%26u_cd%3D32%26u_tz%3D-300%26u_his%3D5%26u_java%3Dtrue

www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=true&page=milestone

This great link was given to us by Mary Hollingsworth

Find what happened the year you were born.

Try to remember these:

www.theatlantic.com/doc/200612/influentials

If you learn these facts from Coach Davis, you'll always do well on history TAKS, etc.

Please click on the download button and choose "file, save as" to your desktop. NAME IT WITH YOUR NAME AND FACTS.

YOU MUST ALSO SAVE IT TO YOUR PLACE ON THE SERVER BECAUSE YOU'LL NEED IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR TIME AS A STUDENT.

NOW....
STARTING THURSDAY, FEB. 21ST

8TH GRADERS will do this in computer class every day until the TAKS tests are over.

(7TH GRADERS WILL ONLY DO THE 1ST DAY TEST)

You'll start a Word document called (my own words). This will be saved to your desktop, your place on the server, and to extra folder. (ON EXTRA FOLDER, IT'S CALLED "MY OWN WORDS")

You'll do 5 facts a day, followed by a test over them the next day.

Always keep saving to the SAME word document.

The Smithsonian Institution has been making and collecting photographs for over 150 years, and it now houses more than 13 million photographic images

photography.si.edu/

You can search for pictures here.

photography.si.edu/Search.aspx

Double click on each one of the 7

www.panoramas.dk/7-wonders/

HistoryAnimated.com brings you interactive Flash animations of key historical battles. Our animations cover entire wars, entire campaigns within wars, and individual battles. We strive for absolute historical accuracy in our animations of these battles.


www.historyanimated.com/

It is a ten minute animated movie of American history from 1789.

Please click the download button below and watch it.

How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. Want to see 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds? Ready, Set, Go!







www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html

Welcome to the Animated Atlas of African History! This map gives a year-by-year presentation of selected themes in the history of Africa between 1879 and 2002. Toggle buttons allow you to select which thematic layers to activate. Choices include:

After clicking below, then click VIEW on the bottom right of the page it takes you to.


www.brown.edu/Research/AAAH/

make a shortcut to this on your desktop.

oldbluewebdesigns.com/mybeautifulamerica.htm

YOU MUST click here first and do all 5 practice quizzes AND GIVE me the scores please.

Also email them to me at

sfry@haskell.esc14.net

YOU MUST EMAIL ME EVERY TIME YOU TAKE THE TEST, no matter how many times.
8th grade...make sure you've done all 5 before taking the comprehensive quiz at the end...You must show me BEFORE starting it:

(on each of the 5, keep trying until you make at least 80 on each one)

www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/taks/gr08/index.html

POTUS stands for Presidents of the United States. In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included.


www.ipl.org/div/potus/

Over 120,000 of the images in the collection have been digitized and are available for viewing online in the Digital Image Catalog (formerly Photoswest). The Digital Image Collection consists of prints and negatives that document the history of Colorado and the American West.

history.denverlibrary.org/sales/index.cfm

Over 120,000 of the images in the collection have been digitized and are available for viewing online in the Digital Image Catalog (formerly Photoswest). The Digital Image Collection consists of prints and negatives that document the history of Colorado and the American West.

www.archives.gov/global-pages/subject-index.html

TAKS practice

www.geocaching.com/
www.geocaching.com/seek/
www.geocaching.com/about/

Click download button to learn about Caching