[LM_NET] LM_NET Re: Query: Soc Studies picture bks for hi school?

[Carole Bos <bosc@GVSU.EDU>]

Here are suggestions for pictures to enrich high school social studies classes, per 
your request.

1.  Pre-history pictures:  In this story, "Mummies:  Bodies Tell Tales," 
http://www.awesomestories.com/history/mummies/mummies_ch1.htm  students can take a 
virtual journey back in time to the "Iron Age" and the "Copper Age," among others, 
where they will see incredibly well-preserved mummies, the clothes they wore and, 
in some instances, the tools/weapons they used.

2.  3500 BC - 500 BC Asia:  Although not exactly Asia, this story about Hammurabi 
and his Law Code (written about 3,700 years ago) may be interesting:  
http://www.awesomestories.com/biography/hammurabi/code_hammurabi_ch1.htm  (Students 
can even "write like a Babylonian" - using English-to-cuneiform.)

3.  Although it's about 200 years later than your prescribed Asian dates, this 
story about Alexander the Great's conquests in Asia may also be interesting.  It 
will take students to the places he journeyed (believed, by him and others, to be 
"the end of the world) and conquered.   
http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/alexander_great/alexander_great_ch1.htm     

The site is subscription-based but is free to all schools, libraries and educators. 
 Simply request an academic membership at the site's main URL:  
http://www.awesomestories.com/

Carole Bos, J.D
Grand Valley State University
Dean's Advisory Board

>>> "Gray, Susan" <sgray@GREENVILLE.K12.SC.US> 10/07/05 2:34 PM >>>
I have had a request and have racked my brain plus searched the Internet to no 
avail. 

2 different teachers have asked me to suggest picture books related to 

(1)- pre-history up to the renaissance  and 

(2)- 3500 BC -500 B.C. Asia.   These will be used to enrich high school social 
studies classes.  I am usually pretty good at this, but I am stumped. Suggestions, 
Please? 

 
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