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National Educational
Computing Conference San Antonio, Texas, June 29-July 2
EDSITEment staff will be attending the conference as part of the Thinkfinity
exhibit booth. If you are going to be there
please stop by the booth and meet our staff.
JAM
Jazz Appreciation month.
New! EDSITEment's Literary
Glossary!
EDSITEment's history, partners, and content review process.
Indexes of lesson plans, features, and websites with common special
feature themes.
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Beginning
May 5, The
Presidents, part of the American Experience
series on PBS, explores the lives and times of the individuals who
have held the highest office in the land. One can look at the presidency
in the 20th century and through its office see the drama of contemporary
America—war, economic hardship, women's rights, race relations,
our triumphs and our tragedies—it is all there.
This series which is partially funded by the National Endowment
for the Humanities will cover the modern presidencies of FDR, Harry
Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy
Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Each of these films
will be available to watch online. The companion web site provides
overviews on the presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton,
the events that defined their tenure in office and their different
domestic and foreign policies. An interactive feature connects today's
election issues with past events by asking visitors to pick a question
such as "When is it okay to lie?" or "How to end
a war" and see how
several of our recent presidents answered it. Throughout
this election year, historians and poltical scientists will share
their thoughts on today's elections issues and compare them to those
of the past in
a series of podcasts.
EDSITEment has a number of new and existing lesson plans on FDR, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy which can be used in conjunction with the series. We have also selected some of the most useful of our reviewed websites on the Modern Presidency.
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Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage month by taking a trip to Asia with a host of original EDSITEment lesson plans and reviewed Internet resources. Read more . . .
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NEH-funded and other PBS features with relevant EDSITEment resources.
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Was this Atlantis?
 On
Wednesday evening, May 14, 2008
(and again on the 17th),
the PBS series "Secrets of the Dead" will air Sinking
Atlantis, about the Minoan civilization that is the original
source of the Atlantis legend. One theory is that the final blow
to a declining Minoan civilization was a volcanic eruption, as happened
with Roman Pompeii. EDSITEment has a lesson plan on Pompeii,
and another one on Greek
Mythology, a period contemporaneous with the Minoans. Study
other Minoan contemporaries with the lesson plans on Egypt’s
Pyramids, and Ancient
Mesopotamia, and view Minoan artifacts from the EDSITEment-reviewed
Timeline
of Art History.
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