Internet+Sites

Tabatha's Sites:

[] **Summary:** This website provides great information about the history of St. Augustine. It uses an interactive timeline that students could use to learn about different time periods. When using the timeline students would explore information about the time period, pictures related to that time, and artifacts.
 * __St. Augustine: America’s Ancient City__ **

[] **Summary:** This website covers the history of the Fountain of Youth as well as gives wonderful pictures of it. On this site information about the Spanish claim to Florida can be found as well as timelines that give all kinds of information, general and specific, about St. Augustine. The rest of this site would be very helpful in planning a field trip with fourth graders to St. Augustine.
 * __Ponce de Leon’s World Famous Fountain of Youth__ **

[] **Summary:** This is a wonderful website that gives a brief history of the oldest schoolhouse in the USA. This website offers an abundance of information about St. Augustine as well as the schoolhouse history. Teachers could use this site to take students on virtual tours through different parts of St. Augustine if they are unable to have a field trip.
 * __Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse in the USA__ **

[] **Summary:** The Trolley Tour website is a wonderful website to get general information about each historical sight in St. Augustine. This website offers a brief history of everything from the Fountain of Youth to the Old Jail house. Students could print out the map and follow along the trolley route to learn about the different historical sites in St. Augustine.
 * __Old Town Trolley Tours__ **

__**The Lightner Museum **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 121%;">**Summary:** This website gives the wonderful history of the former Hotel Alcazar and now the Lightner Museum. It provides virtual tours of the museum as well as old photos from when it was the Hotel. The museum offers many rooms like the music room, the science room, and many others to catch the attention of all students.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lauren's Sites:
<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a very clean and very informational website that will be great for the students to find information about Fort Mose. One of the features of this website that I liked the most was the chronology timeline of Fort Mose Events. This will give the students a great way to look at what happened during what times at Fort Mose.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This website is not as informational as the first one I mentioned but this one has great information on the patriot war and even gives maps of Fort Mose and St. Augustine. This website would probably be better off for using in the fourth and fifth grades. This website is about the rediscover of Fort Mose by a historian and gives historical facts about the finding.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This website is part of the PBS station and is titled Africans in America. This article gives a brief summary of Fort Mose where its located, what it was used for, and who was in charge of it. This is not a huge exploration for the students but it does give the students a brief summary of the historic site.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This website is from the Florida Museum of Natural History is part of the Historical Archaeology. This section of the website gives archaeological findings from Fort Mose or as the website called it “America’s Black Colonial Fortress of Freedom.” This website is good for students if they want find interesting facts about things that were found on the Fort Mose land.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is another website that is great if the students want to find information on the findings at Fort Mose. This website is actually from the //Archaeology// magazine were an article was written about the legacy of Fort Mose. This page only has a small summary and if you were to use this in a classroom you will also need to use other websites to go with it so that they have places to find more information.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This website is good if you want to give your students the chance of looking up information in an encyclopedia format without actually having them use an encyclopedia. This website gives you a picture from the fort back in the day and then gives a brief summary about Fort Mose from when it got started to where it talks about the runaways and so forth.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 132%;">Kelly's Sites: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Website Address: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pirates/ports.html
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Name of Site: ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 132%;">National Geographic
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Summary: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> This website is perfect when introducing the theme about pirates, offering informational backgrounds about pirates all around the world, and fun interactive games, such as: “Black Beard: Terror at Sea” and “High Seas Adventure.”


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Name of Site: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Treasure Hunt
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Website Address: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/mapp.htm
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Summary: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> This website offers an interactive game about buried treasure along the coast of a deserted island. Children are encouraged to play the interactive game and search for the treasure along the island’s mountains, caves, and lakes, while solving problems and puzzles along the way.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Name of Site: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Pirate’s Realm
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Website Address: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://www.thepiratesrealm.com/games/pirate%20games.html
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Summary: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Offering plenty of interactive pirate games, The Pirate’s Realm provides interesting and fun games for children of all ages.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Name of Site: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> A to Z Kids Stuff
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Website Address: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/pirates.html
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Summary: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Learn how to build compasses, maps, and treasure chests from this informational website. The website also provides poems and lists of books that offers interesting information about pirates.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Name of Site: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Florida’s Fabulous Treasures
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Website Address: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://www.treasurelore.com/florida/florida_treasure.htm
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Summary: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Information about Florida pirates, buried treasure, and ancient shipwrecks—this website provides a plethora of information about Floridian pirate history. Although a bit wordy, this website could be used as a resource tool when introducing about Florida and it’s history with pirates.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Name of Site: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Aid to Saint Augustine after the Pirate Attack
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Website Address: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://www.staugustinehistoricalsociety.org/aidcombined.pdf
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Summary: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> This article might be too advanced for fourth graders, however a condensed version certainly could be used in the classroom. This article provides factual information about the pirate attacks during the years 1668-1670.