Monuments and Historic Places
Crazy Horse
http://www.crazyhorse.org/ Official Site: Crazy Horse Memorial, the world’s largest sculpture, now in progress, is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota on US Highway 16/385 just 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore.
http://www.roadsidephotos.com/sd/sd16.htm - Good site for pictures - shows the progress over 16 years.
Washington, D.C Virtual Tours
“Washington, D.C.” Video Tour -- www.unitedstreaming.com Use your United Streaming login to view this movie - Washington, D.C.. 100% Educational Videos. 1998. unitedstreaming. 16 February 2006 <http://www.unitedstreaming.com/> Travel to Washington, D.C., to tour the Capitol, the White House, and Supreme Court, and then continue exploring the nation's history with visits to the Lincoln, Washington
Click this link and log in to go to the video http://www.unitedstreaming.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=25093bdd-a497-472f-b345-604242aa8244&tabDisplay=myContent
Government Monument Tours
1) Washington DC Tour – Mall Map http://wwworig.nhusd.k12.ca.us/the_mall/washington_dc.html Click to download the Graphic Organizer for this Web activity...
2) Alternate Tour – DC Interactive Map http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/tour-old.html
Presidents
Click http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/white_house_101/ - Click the “Our Presidents” box (with Abraham Lincoln’s picture) on the right side of the page. This is the new site for kids currently being updated and revised by the Obama staff…
Another good biography site is: http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/index.html - click the picture of a president to read his biography
Click here to see a Flag Timeline and count the stars as the states are added: http://www.ushistory.org/Betsy/flagfact.html
Click links to go to Coloring Pages of Presidents to print http://www.kidscolorpages.com/presidents.htm or http://www.makingfriends.com/color/presidents_coloring_pages.htm - rt click > select Print Picture
Tours
NOTE: These sites (Life in the White House history & tours and the US Capitol Tour) are not currently available as the New Administration updates the government web pages. We are working on getting them back from archived web files:
White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/whtour/ online tour of the White House, the First Family's Home -- click on the links to view the different rooms of the White House.
Life in the White House History Tour – 360 Panorama tours http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/whtour/360index.html
US Capitol Tour - http://www.senate.gov/vtour/index.html an interactive, user friendly, comprehensive and integrated multimedia tour of the U.S. Capitol. It includes panorama views and historical information about the rooms of the U.S. Capitol, as well as, information about the objects found in those rooms.
Live Web Cam – See Washington DC Live!
Welcome to Washington, D.C.! - http://www.earthcam.com/usa/dc/metrosquare/ This EarthCam camera is your free ticket to the majesty and history of the Capital of the United States of America.