Units By Grade:
Selected Web Sites
Links to Selected Websites
Second Grade: Environmental History
- Topic: Timelines
http://www.runet.edu/~wkovarik/hist1/timeline.new.html
(Place your cursor over one of the dates on the timeline to view environmental movement events from that period.)
- Topic: Maps
Clearinghouse of Historic U.S. Map sites
http://geography.about.com/msub12.htm
Maps -- University of Texas Library Online
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html#US
Conservation and Environment maps
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cnsvhome.html
Environmental History Timeline
http://www.runet.edu/~wkovarik/hist1/timeline.new.html
Mapping the national parks
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/nphtml/nphome.html
The National Parks – indexed by state and name
http://www.us-national-parks.net/
- Topic: General Resources
Land Use in North America (Topics in left-hand column on site page)
http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/
Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
Indexed Conservation Sites (scroll down for links)
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/
Environmental Photos 1891-1936
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/environ/history.html
Origins of the Conservation Movement
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/conserv/index.html
The Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/
OAH Environmental History
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/environment/
U.S. Forest Service
http://www.fs.fed.us/
http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Research/usfscoll/index.html
National Parks Service -- Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
Eyewitness to History
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html
- Topic: Rachel Carson
http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org/ecolinks.html#onl
http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org/
http://www.rachelcarson.org/
http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/carson/index.html
- Topic: Gifford Pinchot
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/PA_Env-Her/gifford_pinchot.htm
- Topic: Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/research/cartoons.htm
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/conservation.htm
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/burroughsTR.htm
- Topic: John Muir
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/
http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/muir/extracts.html
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/JMC/
- Topic: Political Cartoons
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/pc intro.html
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/politicalcartoons.html