Vermilion Parish 8th Grade Social Studies Unit 9 Interactives

"Raising the Bar"

Louisiana Site

• Louisiana for Kids Site!

Activity 1: Louisiana During World War II

• Activity 1 Louisiana During World War II SPAWN Interactive

• SPAWN PowerPoint Template Regular PowerPoint (Student responses can be typed in the white area..

• SPAWN MS Word Template (Download and students can type in the form)

• SPAWN Interactive

• Louisiana During World War II Region 8 Includes MS Word and PPT Templates

Activity 2: A Louisiana Specialty
 

• Interactive Higgins Boat PowerPoint (Correlates with lesson to the left. Students or teacher can type in white boxes.)

• Interactive Higgins Boat MS Word  (Correlates with lesson to the left. (Type in gray areas)

• The Higgins Landing Craft D-Day Project (Think Quest)

• Word template - "Higgins Production Challenge"

• A Louisiana Specialty   

Activity 3: Louisiana’s Governors (Long or Anti-Long)

• Huey Long (1928-1932) through John McKeithen* (1964-1972)

• Professor Know It All Interactive

• Professor Know It All Interactive PowerPoint Template Open the powerpoint, go to "Slide Show" and then click "view show".  Then the teacher or students can type directly in the white box during the presentation

• Professor Know It All MS Word Template (Students can download and type in the document)

• Read Write Think Venn Diagram 2 Circles 

• Read Write Think Venn Diagram 3 Circles 

  Venn Diagram Online Tool

  Venn PowerPoint Template (Can be downloaded for teachers or students)

  MS Word Venn Diagram Template (Can be downloaded for teachers or students)

• Holt Venn Diagram Students can type in chart

• ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Timeline

• Timeline (VP)

• Time Line Maker

• Timeline PPT

• Timeline MS Word Template

Activity 4:  Postwar Economy

• Learning Log Interactive

• Learning Log Interactive PowerPoint. Open PowerPoint, the go to "View Show" and students/teacher can type within the powerpoint while it is open.

• Learning Log MS Word (Download and students can type in the form)