Monday, November 15, 2010

I say Plymouth you say Plimouth

Here is a link to a great site from Scholastic about the first Thanksgiving.  It includes videos of the "passengers" of the Mayflower.

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/voyage/

5 comments:

  1. Or you could say Plimoth!
    Have you signed up for the live broadcast for tomorrow? • http://www.scholastic.com/thanksgivingwebcast

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  2. Great website for teaching about Thanksgiving treaditions, the people who started it and their life and journey to America. I liked that their were teacher's guides for different grade levels to build upon. And, since we are discussing accessibility issues - I would say this site has developed many different activities and offers many different ways to access all the information! Thanks for sharing...oh, you should tweet this website!

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  3. Helen,
    I didn't sign up. I think because it would have straddled two classes. I did use some of the personal videos and the students wanted more.

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  4. Amy,
    I agree that this site allows for different learners. I think I used it last year and it still had some bugs to work out. I was pleasantly surprised with the upgrades.

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  5. Great Site! I like the amount of varied media within the exploration of the voyage and the ship. When I clicked into Tour the Ship and saw that the passages had audio links that read the passages I was impressed. The addition of the sound bites increases the number of students that can access the information and become engaged by the rich history.

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