http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 18 May 2013 01:20:50 PDT Sat, 18 May 2013 01:20:50 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=77442 This site is based upon the PBS television special about the Mississippi River flood of 1927. It includes primary source documents, a sample Delta blues song about the flood, flood film clips, maps, and information from historians. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80518 American Journeys is a digital library of more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration. These documents include Viking sagas about Canada in AD 1000, diaries, maps, pictures, travel logs, and the Lewis and Clark expedition journals. Authors, besides Lewis and Clark, include Captain Cook, Leif Ericson, John Smith, LaSalle, Coronado, De Soto, and Columbus. The site provides both page images and the OCR text of pages, as well as a brief essay on the background of each document. Several types of search mechanisms -- field, keyword, and full text -- allow users to find passages on research topics. The site also contains a section of "Resources for Teachers." Here instructors will find suggested topics for student essays, lesson plans, and several short pieces that cover issues such as (a) how to talk about the world view and language of the explorers in the classroom and (b) finding other primary sources on early exploration. American Journeys is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day. One of its target audiences is high school students exploring National History Day's 2004 theme, "Exploration, Encounter & Exchange." http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77447 This site describes historical aspects of approximately 200 National Park Service sites. The "Teaching with Historic Places" section provides lesson plans. The "Links to the Past" section contains text, images, and links on topics in several categories including: archeology, architecture and engineering, cultural groups, cultural landscapes, historic buildings and structures, mapping, maritime, and military history, and national historical landmarks. Examples of the kinds of materials available through this site are information about all of the properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places, information on Civil War soldiers and sailors, and Ronald Lee's book on the Antiquities Act of 1906. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=311968 Aldo Leopold is considered by many to have been the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th Century. Leopold's legacy spans the disciplines of forestry, wildlife management, conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, private land management, environmental history, literature, education, esthetics, and ethics. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Aldo Leopold Archive houses the raw materials that document not only Leopold's rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=431365 History of chocolate explained in a 2 hour web cast that covers the history starting with the ancient Aztecs and moving to scientific information about the role of chocolate and health. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86099 Stellers classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the only scientific description from life of the Stellers sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), as well as the first scientific descriptions of the fur seal or sea bear (Callorhinus ursinus), Stellers sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris).Stellers sea cow was a sirenian, or manatee, inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. It was first discovered by Europeans in 1741 and rendered extinct by 1768. It was a 30-foot long, plant-eating aquatic mammal, weighing up to 12 tons, that lived in large herds on the coasts of Alaska and Kamchatka.Steller made his observations as part of Vitus Berings second voyage, during which the crew was shipwrecked for 9 months on Bering Island, from November 1741 to August 1742. This voyage was undertaken as part of the Great Northern Expedition, commissioned by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, to prosecute the exploration of the North Pacific and western North America.This English translation originally appeared in 1899, in an appendix to The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean, edited by David Starr Jordan, Part 3 (Washington, 1899), pp. 179218.A brief bibliography, links to online works and sites, and illustrations have been added by the present editor.The original Latin work was published in St. Petersburg in 1751. This English translation originally appeared in 1899, in an appendix to The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean, edited by David Starr Jordan, Part 3 (Washington, 1899), pp. 179218. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=620142 This course will focus on the history of mankind's relationship with the natural world. The student will examine how environmental factors have shaped the development and growth of civilizations around the world and analyze how these civilizations have altered their environments in positive and negative ways. By the end of the course, the student will better understand the reciprocal relationship between human beings and the natural environment and how this relationship has evolved throughout human history. This free course may be completed online at any time. See course site for detailed overview and learning outcomes. (History 364) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=532650 This is a PDF of a Goal Directed Instructional Design Plan that can be utilized as an introductory lesson to the concept of Nationalism for High School level students. This Design plan is intended to introduce the concepts and elements of Nationalism, while implementing technology and student led learning. This lesson plan indicates purpose of lesson, materials, objectives, assessment ect. Any history teacher who is unsure of how to introduce such a controversial topic to students of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds’ would benefit from this lesson. Students are allowed to take ownership of the lesson and incorporate technology skills into group presentations.This is a three page "Goal Directed Instructional Design Plan" in PDF format outlining the entirety of what this lesson encompasses. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83598 The Antiquities of Wisconsin, Increase A. Lapham's most important published work, was the result of his interest in the Indian effigy mounds found on Wisconsin's Landscape. His research for the work was funded by the American Antiquarian Society and it was published in the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge series. Antiquities includes 92 pages of text, illustrated with 61 wood engravings, and 55 lithographed plates. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83642 The field notes and plat maps of the public land survey of Wisconsin are a valuable resource for original land survey information, as well as for understanding Wisconsin's landscape history. The survey of Wisconsin was conducted between 1832 and 1866 by the federal General Land Office. This work established the township, range and section grid; the pattern upon which land ownership and land use is based. The survey records were transferred to the Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Lands after the original survey was completed.