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http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/ (A terrific website from Scholastic that lets you read about and listen to the story of a slave as he describes his life on a plantation and his escape on the Underground Railroad.) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/ (A website from the terrific PBS series, "Slavery and the Making of America." Includes some audio clips of slaves remembering what their lives were like.) http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/index-flash.html (Exploration of what life was like in New York in 1850. Fun activities and things to learn from PBS.) http://pbskids.org/stantonanthony/day_in_life.html (A website with games about what life was like in the 1800’s.) http://sheetmusic.berkeley.edu/courses/is182/papers/UGG/Quilt%20Codes.htm (All about quilting codes used by the slave.) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/ (National Geographic’s interactive site gives you a feel for what it would feel like to be a runaway slave.) http://www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/1829-1859 (The Library of Congress’s fun website for exploring American History. You can play games, read stuff, listen to music.) http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html (An website made by a 4th grade class with all sorts of things about Harriet Tubman – quizzes, crossword puzzles, pictures.) http://www.ket.org/underground/resources/segments01.htm (A website from Kentucky with movies that have historians talking about some of the people who worked on the Underground Railroad. This site has picture of some of the places we’ve talked about.) |
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