WEBSITES: Ken Burns' America Resource Madness!

[Ryan Goble]

Visitors to the Ken Burns America website will find an interactive map and timeline featuring images, videos andaudio files that have been included in various programs produced by Ken Burns. The display can be filtered according to media type, era, theme, location and Ken Burns film title. Most of the videos and images include a link to relatedlesson plans, which can also be found on the classroom resources page. The lessons are developed for grades 7–12 but are adaptable to other grade levels. The educational materials are designed to cover academic subjects other than history—such as English and language arts, music, art, economics and mathematics—as well as to support critical thinking and reasoning, problem solving, creativity and innovation, media literacy, communication andcollaboration and other life skills.

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Click Here to Access Free Classroom Resources