Martin Luther King Jr. Timeline

http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools-c/pages/buckman/timeline/kingframe.html

Rating: 2, High!

Description: Students at Buckman School have been learning about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a book by Faith Ringgold called My Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King. They created pictures to share what they had learned with others. Standard K.6.1

Comments: The authority of this site will not be as high as that from academic sources but it is a wonderful model of student research.

Resource Type: Other.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 2105

Thanksgiving on the Net

http://www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This is a highly commercialized site, but it has some interesting secondary descriptions of the history of Thanksgiving including a page on the "National Day of Mourning" which is how some Native Americans view this traditional American holiday. Standards K.6.1, 1.3.2, 3.4.3, 5.3.2 and 5.4.3

Comments: Teachers, take a look at Caleb Johnson's Mayflower on the Web for a different view of the National Day of Mourning http://members.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 2954