Teacher Resources

Flori­da His­tor­i­cal Sites 

Field trips to his­tor­i­cal sites are an excel­lent and excit­ing way for you to enhance your stu­dents’ learn­ing and appre­ci­a­tion for their state’s past. Flori­da has many beau­ti­ful­ly restored his­tor­i­cal sites through­out the state — one may be in your neigh­bor­hood! You can take your stu­dents here and they can see what life was like 150 years or more ago. These trips are fun, excit­ing, and edu­ca­tion­al and they are a way to make his­to­ry come to life for students.

Click here for a list of the ones we know have active pro­grams geared to younger audi­ences. Please email us if you know of addi­tion­al sites that should be list­ed here.

Flori­da Teacher Resources

We’ve put togeth­er sev­er­al resources for specif­i­cal­ly for those teach­ing in Florida.

This list of resources was gath­ered in 2011 from actu­al Flori­da teach­ers who use in them in their classrooms.

The Flori­da Sun­shine State Stan­dards are broad state­ments that describe what your stu­dents should know and be able to do at every grade lev­el. They cov­er sev­en con­tent areas: social stud­ies, sci­ence, lan­guage arts, health/physical edu­ca­tion, the arts, for­eign lan­guage, and math­e­mat­ics. A Land Remem­bered has been rec­og­nized as an excel­lent tool to use to meet these standards.

For your ref­er­ence and con­ve­nience, you can find them on this page.

A Land Remem­bered Goes To School, our ele­men­tary lev­el teacher guide, has been coor­di­nat­ed with the Sun­shine State Stan­dards, as has the Mid­dle School Teacher’s Guide.

His­to­ry Time Lines

His­to­ry time lines pro­vide a record of events in the order of their occur­rence and detail the sequence of relat­ed his­tor­i­cal events in chrono­log­i­cal order. They enable a fast under­stand­ing of rel­e­vant and key dates, events, peo­ple and places. We’ve put togeth­er an exten­sive col­lec­tion of time lines on Flori­da and Amer­i­can his­to­ry here.

Activ­i­ties

A Land Remem­bered Vocab­u­lary List from WildClassroom.net

Stu­dent Projects For A Land Remem­bered from WildClassroom.net

Great web­sites for Chil­dren from the Amer­i­can Library Association

A Land Remem­bered Cross­word Puzzle

Char­ac­ters from A Land Remembered

Flori­da Fish & Wildlife Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion Activities

Get Out­doors Florid Activ­i­ty Tips Activ­i­ty Tips (Find links for many oth­er great resources and activ­i­ty ideas at Get Out­doors Flori­da)

Wildlife View­ing Adventures

Read­ing Lists

We found sev­er­al read­ing list and links with great ideas of books to read.

Videos About Flori­da History

Here is a grow­ing col­lec­tion of videos about Flori­da History.

Teach­ing With His­tor­i­cal Fiction

Through his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, stu­dents gain more than knowl­edge of his­tor­i­cal facts, they devel­op an under­stand­ing of the emo­tions and human­ness of his­to­ry as they iden­ti­fy with a novel’s char­ac­ters. We’ve found two won­der­ful essays we share with you here.