http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 21 May 2013 18:55:19 PDT Tue, 21 May 2013 18:55:19 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77441 This site contains information about the March 25, 1911 fire in the New York City factory of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company and the resulting investigations and reforms. The fire killed 146 immigrant workers, most of whom were women. The materials include original documents, oral histories, and photographs held by Cornell University Library, a bibliography, lists of victims and witnesses, audio interviews with three fire survivors, and tips for student projects. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77415 This site covers the making and unmaking of the mill village system for textile manufacturing in the Piedmont region of the U.S. South between 1880 and 1934. It includes oral history resources, images, and text based upon the 1987 book of the same name. The web site covers the following topics: life on the land, mill village and factory, work and protest. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77438 This site provides an introduction to the Great Depression of the 1930s and the New Deal. It includes lesson plans, ideas for research projects, links to curriculum materials, and a searchable document library and photo gallery containing over 20,000 items. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=298407 This web site uses the experience of Illinois at the end of the nineteenth century to illuminate larger themes in U.S. history during the Gilded Age. The site provides analytical essays, primary source material, bibliographies, and lesson plans on major themes and events of the period. It also provides a few video lectures by historians. The site authors claim that these resources not only introduce site users to information about the period, but also introduce them to scholars' major interpretive themes and debates and help users formulate their own historical questions for research. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555387 This class presents an analysis of the development of housing models and their urban implications in Paris, London, and New York City from the seventeenth century to the present. The focus will be on three models: the French hotel, the London row house, and the New York City tenement and apartment building. Other topics covered will include twentieth-century housing reform movements and work by the London County Council, CIAM, and American public housing agencies. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=392430 According to the "Project Overview," Digital Durham "offers students, teachers, and researchers a range of primary sources with which they can investigate the economic, social, cultural, and political history of a post-bellum southern community.״ These include a variety of letters written by elite members of the community, as well as ״entries from Atlas Rigsbee's general store ledger [that] together with data from the 1880 census provide a view into the social experience of those Durham citizens who have not left written documents. Taken together the new materials on Digital Durham touch on over 600 topics including African American business enterprise, the emergence of textiles, tobacco production and marketing, child labor, prohibition, evangelical revivalism, nineteenth-century medical practices, women's experience of childbirth, and public and private education.״The site has six main pages: ״Home," "Project Overview," "Browse Collection,״ ״Reference," "Teachers' Corner," and "In the News.״ The "Teachers' Corner contains a general introduction into using the searchable census material on the site along with two lesson plans, one designed for fourth grade and one for eighth grade. On the "Reference" page, there are links to ״The Geography of the Piedmont Region," a ״Glossary of terms used in the 1880 census of Durham, North Carolina," and "Census Help .״ "In the News" has links to articles discussing the Digital Durham Project. People can browse the collection using the Library of Congress Subject Headings or by eight main categories, including maps, business records, personal papers, and photographs. Users can also search the collection. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=620093 The history of economic thought represents a wide diversity of theories within the discipline, but all economists address these three basic questions: what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom. The student will learn that without a clear sense of the discussions and debates that took place among economists of the past, the modern economist lacks a complete perspective. By examining the history of economic thought, the student will be able to categorize and classify thoughts and ideas and will begin to understand how to think like an economist. This free course may be completed online at any time. See course site for detailed overview and learning outcomes. (Economics 301) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=515303 משימה זו מלמדת על ההשפעות של משברים כלכליים על המדינה והחברה. הפעילות פותחה לכיתות ט' ועוסקת במשבר הכלכלי הגדול שפקד את ארצות הברית בסוף שנות העשרים של המאה הקודמת תוך כדי השוואה למשבר מניות הבנקים שארע בארץ בשנות השמונים. מופיע במדור פעילויות מתוקשבות של פרוייקט כתו״ם. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=520296 פעילות זו מיועדת לתלמידים לקויי למידה ובה עונים התלמידים על שאלות המתייחסות לטקסט בספר הלימוד "מסע אל העבר: מימי הביניים ועד העת החדשה״, יחידה 3 (״ערים, קהילות יהודיות ומדינות באירופה "), פרק א' (״העיר בימי הביניים והקהילה היהודית "), עמ' 102. הפעילות עוסקת בגילדות המיקצועיות שהוקמו בעיר בימי הביניים. משך הפעילות כ45 דקות. מופיע במאגר תלתן. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=421045 מאמר מבוא לסקירה הסטורית של התפתחות כלכלת ישראל, מתוך הספר "כלכלת ישראל : התפתחות, מאפיינים, מדיניות״.