Website Summaries

History.com American Revolution This website includes videos, documents,

and written sources over the American Revolution, Founding Fathers of the
United States, Sons of Liberty, Spy Rings, and many others. This is a source
rich website for students to start research and learn more about the
American Revolution.
BritishBattles.com This website includes battles, training, maps, and
written sources over the American Revolution. In fact, it has a drop down
menu of many battles over the American Revolution with extra sources and
websites to go to. This is a source rich website for students to start research
and learn more about the American Revolution.
The History Place American Revolution This website goes step by step in
chronological order of the American Revolution. It has pictures and other
sources to go to for further information. This is a website to start looking for
a topic and can give insight into each step of the conflict.

Compare/Contrast Teaching Idea

Websites give a lot of information about any number of subjects: its
infinite what one can do when utilizing the internet as a tool. Students first
source for research currently is the internetsadly it is not the library, my
research place of choice. Out of necessity students are required to both
access, evaluate, and use information in a short amount of time. Therefore
to become internet literate, as a teacher, I will use the Compare/Contrast
method of teaching. This method is simple and can be evaluated in any
number of ways. The students are given the websites above. The first step
in the evaluation process is to view the websites, search for similarities and
differences in regards to the information. The second step is to write down
the similarities and differences in a rough paragraph. The third step is to
evaluate the information by searching for other sources that confirm or
change the information given and write those down as well. The final step is
to evaluate their findings, the sources, and the information with what they
found out and what they thought they knew. This can be done through many
different mediums, whichever the student prefers.
This is a relatively easy practice but it will aid the student in evaluating
the information they view when researching. It can also alert them to bias in
the website authors on how certain information is used and what information
is left out; all of which is relevant in this information world.

References
A&E Networks. 2015. History.com. Retrieved from
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution
BritishBattles.com Retrieved from http://www.britishbattles.com/americanrevolution.htm
The History Place. 1998. Historyplace.com. Retrieved from
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/
Websites for Teachers
KERA: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/teachers.html
Education World: http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr218.shtml
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/war-forindependence/resources/teaching-revolution