Index of EDSITEment Student Interactives
Interactives and student LaunchPads related to EDSITEment lesson plans and features.
History and Social Studies
Ancient History
Egypt’s Pyramids: Monuments with a Message:
- British Museum:
- Odyssey Online:
The Emergence and Evolution of the Cuneiform Writing System in Ancient Mesopotamia
Hammurabi’s Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
Student LaunchPads
The Alphabet is Historic
300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae: Herodotus’ Real History
Images and Marathon interactive page
You can just scroll down on this page, or use anchor links (all on same page):
Student LaunchPads
Medieval History
Following the Great Wall of China
Trekking to Timbuktu—Student Version
On the Road with Marco Polo
The Path of the Black Death
Student LaunchPads:
Colonial Era to late 19th Century American History
The American War for Independence
A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum America
Abraham Lincoln on the American Union: “A Word Fitly Spoken”
The American Civil War: A “Terrible Swift Sword”
Having Fun: Leisure and Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Student LaunchPads
20th Century American History
The United States and Europe: From Neutrality to War, 1921-1941
The Road to Pearl Harbor: The United States and East Asia, 1915-1941
“The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force”: The United States in World War II
American Diplomacy in World War II
The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949
“Police Action”: The Korean War, 1950-1953
“The Missiles of October”: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
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Literature & Language Arts
International
Morality “Tails” East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales
Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays
Fairy Tales
The Magical World of Russian Fairy Tales
A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice'
Early Language Arts
What’s In A Name?
Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
Student LaunchPads
Modern Era
Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral
Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
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Visual Arts & Art History
Miscellaneous Visual Arts
Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant Class in Edo Period Japan
Horse of a Different Color: An Introduction to Color in the Visual Arts
Student LaunchPads
Picturing America
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción and the Spanish Mission in the New World
Picture Lincoln
Student LaunchPad
Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series: Removing the Mask
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere—Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
Student LaunchPads
Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech—Know It When You See It
Martin Puryear’s Ladder for Booker T. Washington
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