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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Draw Conclusions: History Analysis [Pdf]
Graphic organizers are provided to help analyze the importance of people in history and to place events in chronological order. Guiding questions are provided to help guide students
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Infer Character Traits and Support [Pdf]
Students can use this graphic organizer while making inferences about characters in a story or history text. Students will collect text evidence in the chart to support their character trait inferences.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Africa Photoscape
Fascinating slide show accompanied by an explanation of the current situation in Africa as well as the challenges facing the future. These slide shows cover conflict, urban Africa, the environment, AIDS, and women. This tool is useful to...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze Hist: Challenge, Choice, Changes [Pdf]
Students can use this chart to help them analyze the cause(s) and effect(s) of historical events. Students will identify historical events and then identify the effects that follow afterward. Extension questions are provided after the...
Other
Slide Player: Industry in Texas: Railroad, Lumber, Coal, and Oil
A narrated slideshow that is a summary of two chapters in a history text. It outlines the factors that led to the industrialization and urbanization of Texas, away from an agrarian economy. These included the growth of the railroad,...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Expand Story or History Text Based Dialog[pdf]
Students will use graphic organizers to help them make inferences about historical figures' feeings and motives. Students will summarize the information during an extension activity.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze a Story or History [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used to help students analyze a story or a historical event. Students will look closely at the story's characters or people involved in the historical event. Then they will summarize the story or event, and...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze History [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will help students analyze a historical event. Students will carefully analyze the historical event's context and then determine the causes and their effects.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Map a Story or a History [Pdf]
This graphic organizer provides a story map. Students can use this visual resource to help them record major plot events from a story or from a historical event.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Model How to Map Story or History Spanish[pdf]
Designed for students who speak Spanish, this graphic organizer provides a story map. Students can use this visual resource to help them record major plot events from a story or from a historical event.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Alberta Airphoto Collection, 1922 1956
The Alberta Airphoto Collection consists of around 30,000 public domain images from the University of Calgary Library's collection of airphotos. The images cover urban areas at various scales and years between 1924 and 1952. These...
Curated OER
Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Urban Hiarne (1641 1724)
A portrait of Urban Hiarne from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Israeli Population Statistics Table
A table sorting population demographics by religion, age, and urban centers.
Columbia University
The Song Dynasty in China (960 1279)
A look at the Song Dynasty that answers the question: "Does modernity begin with the Song dynasty?" Author discusses economic growth, commercialization, urbanization, and intellectual life while studying a 12th-century scroll.
Other
Metrocosm: Watch as the World's Cities Appear One by One Over 6,000 Years
Observe the rise of civilizations from 3500BC to the present with this "living" map. See where the first cities developed and watch as civilizations spread across the world.
Other
The Stoa Consortium: The City Eleusinion
The City Eleusinion was one of the most important sanctuaries in the religious life of the ancient Athenians. As the urban "branch" of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, the City Eleusinion played a key role in the initial...
Curated OER
Unesco: Mexico: Historic Centre of Morelia
Built in the 16th century, Morelia is an outstanding example of urban planning which combines the ideas of the Spanish Renaissance with the Mesoamerican experience. Well-adapted to the slopes of the hill site, its streets still follow...
Curated OER
Unesco: Norway: Bryggen
Bryggen, the old wharf of Bergen, is a reminder of the town’s importance as part of the Hanseatic League’s trading empire from the 14th to the mid-16th century. Many fires, the last in 1955, have ravaged the characteristic wooden houses...