HISTORY+GRADE+4

=PREHISTORY= Useful Websites www.atapuerca.com Offical website. For teacher information. [] Mostly UK based information, but it has interesting facts, games and things to do for children. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/ Has interesting information and clips from the BBC programme “Walking with Beasts”, showing human evolution from the first hominid to modern man. http://www.kidskonnect.com/content/view/277/27/ All the information you'll ever need to teach this topic. Made for kids. http://www.becominghuman.org/ Online documentary. Excellent resource and teaching ideas. http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/beasts/beasts.html Mostly about prehistoric beasts, but has some interesting fact files that would interest most children. http://www.classzone.com/net_explorations/U1/U1_main.cfm Everything you wanted to know about cave paintings. http://www.hbschool.com/activity/cavepaintings/cavepaintings.html Another cave painting site. = = =ANCIENT HISTORY= http://ancienthistory.pppst.com/index.html Free presentations in Power Point and some interactive activities. www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids/ Games and information for kids about Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Celts… http://ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/Egyptlife.html Complete information about different aspects of Ancient Egypt: daily life, gods, pyramids… www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/ Useful website with pictures and information about Ancient Egypt. http://ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/Greeklife.html Complete information about different aspects of Ancient Greece: daily life, main cities, myths… http://ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/Romelife.html Complete information about different aspects of Ancient Rome: Rome as a Kingdom, Rome as a Republic and Rome as an Empire. www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/ Website with a lot of information about ancient Rome: food, clothes, economy, art… http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210200/ancient_rome/online _activities.htm Some activities about Rome, including an online test to revise the Roman Empire. www.historyonthenet.com/Romans/romansmain.htm Information about Rome and interesting worksheets.

=THE MIDDLE AGES=

http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org/index.html Excellent site for children to research on medieval life and much more. ·  http://www.historyonthenet.com/Medieval_Life /medievallifemain.htm Comprehensive site on food, housing, clothing, and more on medieval times. ·  http://karenswhimsy.com/medievalclothes. shtm Large illustration of medieval clothing ·  http://www.teachnet.ie/mmorrin/resource/pupi l.htm ·  Child friendly site featuring life in the Middle Ages. ·  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/anglosaxons/life /lifeind6.shtml Illustrated information on Saxons, and other early Middle Ages settlers in the U.K.  · http://medievalcastles.stormthecastle.com/par ts-of-a-medieval-castle.htm Parts of a castle. Make a paper castle. ·  http://www.mrdowling.com/703-plague.html Information on the bubonic plague. ·  http://historymedren.about.com/library/weekly /aa061898.htm

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= EARLY MIDDLE AGES =

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= = = = =THE MODERN AGE=


 * http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/spain/madrid/escorial/escorial.html**
 * http://www.feelmadrid.com/elescorial.html**
 * http://www.museodelprado.es/en/visit-the-museum/15-**
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 * http://www.museodelprado.es/en/visit-the-museum/15-masterpieces/work-**
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=THE CONTEMPORARY AGE=

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/jenner/index.shtml#focus
Interactive site about famous people who contributed to improve the conditions of life in the Contemporary Age.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
Site with interesting photographs about the effects of the Second Industrial Revolution in childhood.

http://historyonthenet.com/WW1/ww1main.htm http://historyonthenet.com/WW2/ww2main.htm Site to know the two World Wars in depth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/warhome/warhome_intro.shtml Interactive website about English homes during wartime: Very interesting and necessary to understand way of life during the Second World War.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/ A complete archive of the Second World War. It contains a timeline, information, testimonies and photographs of this topic.

http://www.xmission.com/~dderhak/recipe/spainhistory.htm The main events of the History of Spain. Information for teachers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/history/ Website with lots of audios about different facts and events that took place during the 20th Century.