Content Pathfinder - World History Events

World Events - Time, Place & Details
A Content Pathfinder for Sixth Grade

NAME: Betsey Lee
SCHOOL: Brentmoor Elementary School - Mentor Schools
WORKSHOP LOCATION: Kent State ILILE Workshop - 3/9/04
RELATED PATHFINDER: Timeline of World Events
GRADE LEVEL: Sixth Grade
CURRICULUM/SUBJECT AREA: Social Studies - History, Geography, and Social Studies Skills and Methods; Library Media - Reference Skills and Bibliography Creation
SPECIFIC TOPIC: The exploration of World Events, recording the details, ordering them by date and placing location on a world map.

SUMMARY: Students will utilize print and electronic resources to provide summary information for selected world events from the 20th Century. The events will be placed chronologically on a timeline and the location noted on a world map. A bibliography will also be created according to a given format for all resources used.

CHECK THEM OUT! These books are in the Brentmoor Library!

GENERAL REFERENCE

REF 031 World Book Encyclopedia, 2002
REF 031.02 World Almanac Book of Facts, 2003
REF 912 RAN Rand McNally world atlas.

BERLIN WALL

900 KNI Knight, Margy Burns. Talking walls. Gardiner, ME : Tilbury House Publishers, 1992.

FIRST FLIGHT - WRIGHT BROTHERS

BIO GAI Gaines, Ann. Orville and Wilbur Wright. Vero Beach, Fla: Rourke Book, 2002.
BIO WRI Sabin, Louis. Wilbur and Orville Wright: the flight to adventure. Troll, 1983.

DISCOVERY OF KING TUT'S TOMB

930.1 AVI Avi-Yonah, Michael. Dig this! : how archaeologists uncover our past. Minn.: Runestone Press, 1993.
932 HAR Hart, George. Ancient Egypt. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1990.
932 REE Reeves, C. N. Into the mummy's tomb. New York, N.Y.: Scholastic/Madison Press, 1992.

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASINATION

973.922 DON Donnelly, Judy. Who shot the president?: the death of John F. Kennedy. New York: Random House, 1988.

BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR

940.54 STE Stein, R. Conrad. World War II in the Pacific: remember Pearl Harbor. Hillside, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1994.
940.54 TAN Tanaka, Shelley. Attack on Pearl Harbor : the true story of the day America entered World War II. New York : Hyperion Books For Children, 2001.

SINKING OF THE TITANIC

910 SHE Sherrow, Victoria. Titanic. New York : Scholastic Reference, 2002.
910 STE Stewart, David Evelyn. You wouldn't want to sail on the Titanic! : one voyage you'd rather not make. New York : Franklin Watts, 2001.
VD 910.4 SEC Secrets of the Titanic. National Geographic Society, 1987.

ASTRONAUTS WALK ON MOON

BIO ARM Westman, Paul. Neil Armstrong, space pioneer. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 1980.
629.4 STO Stott, Carole. Space exploration. London ; New York : Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
EPBK 629.45 DON Donnelly, Judy. Moonwalk : the first trip to the moon. New York : Random House, 1989.
PER ZOO Space exploration. Zoobook Magazine. Vol.13, Number 11, November 2003.

HINDENBURG EXPLOSION

629.133 MAJ Majoor, Mireille. Inside the Hindenburg. Boston: Little, Brown, 2000.

INFOhio Electronic Resources

http://www.infohio.org

*must get log in and password from school librarian

Use the Encylcopedia Brittanica*, Elementary/Student Encyclopedia
To Search for the Wright Brothers, J. F. Kennedy, Space Exploration, Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Hindenburg

Use Encylcopedia Brittanica*
To search for the Berlin Wall - watch the video clip to see the actual wall

Look at the following articles to find out more!

'Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!' (cover story) By: Robinson, Peter. American History, Oct2003, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p44, 6p, 3c; Reading Level (Lexile): 980; (AN 10473080)

Remembering JFK. By: McCabe, Suzanne. Junior Scholastic, 11/24/2003, Vol. 106 Issue 8, p6, 2p, 2c; Reading Level (Lexile): 990; (AN 11430416)

The 'Unsinkable,' the Unthinkable: What Sank the Titanic. By: Goldman, David. Biography, Dec2002, Vol. 6 Issue 12, p26, 2p, 4c, 3bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1170; (AN 8506476)

King Tut's Tomb, Buried Treasure, and the Mummy's Curse. By: Rompalske, Dorothy. Biography, Sep2000, Vol. 4 Issue 9, p80, 6p, 4c, 3bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1260; (AN 3502471)

The moon walkers. By: Gaffney, Timothy R.. Boys' Life, Jul94, Vol. 84 Issue 7, p18, 2p, 4c, 1bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 670; (AN 9406237787)

Web Sites

Eyewitness to History

Great Site for the Wright Brother's Flight, Titanic, King Tut's Tomb, Hindenburg Explosion, Pearl Harbor; includes audio clips.

About 20th Century Events

Events are arranged alphabetically, lots of wonderful links.

Pearl Harbor Remembered

Pearl Harbor Raid