Second Grade
Unit 1 | Selected Websites
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/ - U.S. Forest Service
http://www.fs.fed.us/ - National Parks Service -- Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/ - Eyewitness to History
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html
Topic: Rachel Carlson
- http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org/
- http://www.rachelcarson.org/
- http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/carson/index.html
Topic: Gifford Pinchot
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
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