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Mr. Wood's History Day Calendar
Please Note Curriculum Changes for 2012-2013: Because of the adoption of new state standards for the social studies, the new MPS seventh grade social studies course is "U.S. Studies From 1800." The new MPS eighth grade social studies course is "Global Studies." Last year's MPS seventh graders had "World Studies," so in this transitional year, both the seventh graders and eighth graders in MPS will study "U.S. Studies from 1800." Next year (2013-2014) MPS seventh graders will study "U.S. Studies from 1800" and MPS eighth graders will study "Global Studies."
Current Event Form (doc) Current Event Form (pdf)
Map Practice Games: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm
World News Links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/ http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/pages/topics/
Natural Disaster Project Word Natural Disaster Project PDF
Some Natural Disaster Project Ideas 2013:
Minnesota Armistice Day Blizzard 1940 Schoolchildren's Blizzard or School Children's Blizzard or Children's Blizzard (Midwestern USA) 1888 Blizzard of 1888 (Eastern USA)
Hinkley Fire
The Locust (grasshopper) Plagues of 1874 and 1875
Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004 Japan Tsunami 2011
Earthquake, Tangshan, China, 1976 Earthquake Haiti 2010
Louisiana Flood, 1927 Johnstown Flood, 1889
Hurricane Katrina (August 2005) Hurricane Hugo SE United States, 1989 Galveston Hurricane, 1900 Hurricane Sandy (November 2012)
Montserrat Volcano Vesuvius/Pompeii Volcano Krakatoa Volcano Irish Potato Famine The Dust Bowl, Great Plains, 1930’s
1974 Super Tornado Outbreak 2011 Joplin, Missouri Tornado
Country Report
Country Report (MSWord)
Culture Grams: http://online.culturegrams.com/world/index.php
CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
U.S. State Department: http://travel.state.gov/
Lonely Planet http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations
World Population Data: http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2012/world-population-data-sheet/world-map.aspx#/map/population
NY Times Topics: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/
U. S. History and World Studies Current Event Links: http://www.nytimes.com/ http://www.startribune.com http://www.minnpost.com ThreeSixty: Election Stories by High School Students
http://lt.umn.edu/geothentic/
http://lakeharriet.mpls.k12.mn.us/uploads/dish_report_fall2011.pdf
http://lakeharriet.mpls.k12.mn.us/uploads/dish_report_fall2011.doc http://www.thinkfinity.org/welcome