Library & Information Science,
Course 262: Resources for Young Adults.
Dr. David Loertscher
Spring, 2001
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Teacher Guides
• ERIC Digest (W5t.pdf) "Learning History Through Children's Literature." ED 435586, September, 2000.• Professional book: Cooper, Gail and Garry Cooper. Virtual Field Trips. Libraries Unlimited, 1997. Help young people take a field trip to many sites and time periods in the world via the Internet. Included are historic times, countries of the world the nautral world, outer space, culture and sports, art museums, mathematics and logic, history and natural history, science and industry, libraries and resource centerson-line classes and schools, and famous people.
• Professional book: Garfield, Gary M. and Suzanne McDonough. Dig That Site: Exploring Archaeology, History, and Civilization on the Internet. Libraries Unlimited, 1997. Numerous lesson plans for studying places and time periods through Internet sites.
Bibliographies
• Professional book: Adamson, Lynda G. Literature Connections to American History, 7-12: Resources to Enhance and Entice. Libraries Unlimited, 1998. An extensive annotated bibliography to books, CD-ROM and video resources arranged first by time period and then by grade level.• Professional book: Adamson, Lynda G. Literature Connections to American History, K-6 Resources to Enhance and Entice. Libraries Unlimited, 1998. An extensive annotated bibliography to books, CD-ROM and video resources arranged first by time period and then by grade level.
• The National Council of the Social Studies Bibliography
• Bibliography: The National Council of the Social Studies does a fine annual list: Notable Social Studies Books for Young People, 1999. Books for teens are included.
Great Web Sites
• The History Channel web site numerous connections to materials such as This Day in History, Important Events, Chronologies, trivial thoughts, holidays, programming of the History Channel.• The Library of Congress' American Memory Collection is a gigantic source for primary source materials for American history and culture. It is fast becoming The site for students and scholars studying American history through primary source materials. - also read about the site in this professional article (w5k.pdf): Singleton, Laurel R. and James R. Giese. "American Memory: Using Library of Congress Online Resources to Enhance History Teaching," Social Studies, March, 1998, p. 142-44.
• The SCORE site (in California) is a faboulous web site for the schools of California at every grade level. Contains Resources, activities, bibliographis, links, Internet classrooms, professional development, and more. Good for public librarians trying to support history projects.
• The American Library Association's 700+ Great Websites for Children lists many fine historical resources complete with links to those sites.
• The Yale Law School has created The Avalon Project which is a wonderful collection of historically important documents dateing from the 16th century to the 1990- complete with a great deal of background information on each document.
• Find out what happened on a particular day in history from Today-in-History.
• Search the Internet Public Library for materials on politics and history. Some fantastic web sites are listed here.
The West
• Annotated bibliography (w5h.pdf): Rochman, Hazel and Sally Estes. "How the West Was Won - in Children's Books," Booklist, June 1 & 15, 1997, p. 1700-1. - Covers both finction and nonfiction.• Professional article (w5l.pdf): Nugent, Walter. "Western History, New and Not So New," OAH Magazine of History, Fall, 1994, p. 5-9. - Discusses the evolution of historical writing about the West across time citing a number of historical works that reflect differing points of view.
• Readers Theatre. (w5s.pdf) Loertscher, David V. Rescue! A Reader's Theatre of the First Rescue Party of the Donner Party, 1847. Adapted from various retellings.
Civil War
• Professional article (w5f.pdf): Shawhan, Joanne Parnes. "The Civil War Online," Learning & Leading With Technology, vol. 25, no. 8, May, 1998, p. 22-27. - Numerous primary source materials and other great sites for teaching the Civil War are noted in this article about teaching.• Student project: Rusty Sheets (Aug. 98) has created a site for young people doing research on the Civil war. Links and bibliographies to good stuff!
Film and History
• Professional article (w5i.pdf): Carnes, Mark C. "Hollywood History," American Heritage, September, 1995, p. 74-84. - "The author sent dozens of historians to the movies to find out how much and how well films could teach us about the past.
Women in History
• Website: Women in History (Herstory). Kay E Vandergrift from Rutgers University has written a short essay about the need to emphasis women in history and recommended a list of biographies about women.• Website: National Women's History Project. The goals and events of the project are presented in this home page, as well as links to many other resources.
Millenium Stuff
Time-Life's List of People and Events of the Last 1000 Years
California History Commercial Sources
• California History web page done by Stevenson Publishers lists many resources and materials to purchase designed for children studying California history.
• The Museum of San Francisco home page contains many informative documents about the history of the gold rush and other historical events into the 20th century.
This page was last revised on Jan. 2001