Some of the most compelling Web sites on the Internet are those in which the authors try to convince you either that smoking is the great Satan or that it is a right which ranks up with breathing.
This activity will have students look at the issue of smoking, take a stand on it, and share their views with others in their class and out on the 'Net.
Grade 5 Objectives
- Students will use knowledge of American government and politics to make informal decisions about governing their communities.
- Students will use methods of social science investigation to answer questions about society
Grade 6 Objectives
- Students will use knowledge of American government and politics to make informal decisions about governing their communities.
- Students will use methods of social science investigation to answer questions about society
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- Welcome To The White House
- One of the more engaging government sites. Links to the President's speeches and schedule. Quite a bit of fluff, but nicely done fluff.
- Very classy Web server. Easy to navigate. As you might expect, lots of information but nothing controversial.
- Strangely, this is not a good site. The pages are dry and uninviting and much of the site is on Gopher servers (quick, go see them before everyone forgets what Gopher ever was).
- Plenty to feed the policy wonk in all of us. Al Gore Heaven.
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
- Very complete, interesting site with information on the creation of early American flags.
Library of Congress World Wide Web (LC Web) Home Page
- Michigan's Spencer Abraham. You can leave him an email message here, but he notes that if you want to receive a response, you'll need to write to him on paper. Hm.
Office of Senator Carl Levin - Michigan
The Constitution of the United States of America
- One of those references that you could just go to the library for, but it's nice to have it on your computer screen where you can copy and paste from it to your word processor.
- Tiger Map Server Browser
- This link lets you specify which community (incorporated in the 1990 census) you would like a map of. This is an amazingly interactive site, in terms of being able to customize map displays on a lot of geographical and demographical levels. A great site.
- U.S. Gazetteer
- The Gazetteer is the simple search engine linked to the Tiger Map Server.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences.
- American Memory from the Library of Congress
- American Memory consists of primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history. Most of these are from the Library's special collections. Things which until a few years ago, private citizens just could not see.
- A local realtor has put community profiles of local communities on the Web. He features MEAP scores prominently in these descriptions.
Questions? Comments? E-mail Jon Margerum-Leys or Bridget Dean