Hernandez Middle School website
Round Rock ISD website
Resources for Further Learning (optional):
U.S. History & Geography -- Get ready for 8th grade!
Map games -- http://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3003 -- Start with "The U.S.: 50 States." There are also other topics (scroll down to see a list of choices). Also, you might need to zoom out, so you can see the whole map at once.
Our Documents -- 100 important documents in the history of the United States
The National Park Service -- nps.gov
Constitutions of Texas
Texas Constitutions 1824-1876, made available online by the UT Law School (Click "Browse Texas Constitutions" to see a list of constitutions to choose from.) https://tarltonapps.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/
Civil Rights era & LBJ
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park www.nps.gov/lyjo/index.htm
LBJ Presidential Library & Museum http://www.lbjlibrary.org/
World War II
National World War 2 Museum, activities for kids http://www.nationalww2museum.org/see-hear/kids-corner.html
National Museum of the Pacific War, Fredericksburg, TX http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/
Number of people who died in WWII -- video / animated graphs -- www.fallen.io/ww2/
Great Depression
The Living New Deal -- Learn about New Deal projects that are still around today, such as the Round Rock water tower and the San Antonio River Walk. https://livingnewdeal.org/us/tx/
Cotton, Cattle, and Railroad Era
National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University http://www.depts.ttu.edu/nrhc/
Civil War
-- The South has Seceded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDgbXqxe7SQ
-- How to load and fire a Civil War musket http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/4594
-- Map of areas controlled by the Union and the Confederacy every day during the Civil War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBr3QeVPv2M
-- The Emancipation Proclamation -- President Abraham Lincoln issued an order freeing the slaves … well, kinda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6RABxiwqXo
-- Civil War Soldiers’ Food http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/4596
-- Andersonville Prison -- An infamous prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia where the Confederate army held captured Union soldiers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCdCcC1x3nA
-- Female soldiers in the Civil War -- A very large majority of Civil War soldiers were male ... but not all. http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/untold-stories/female-soldiers-in-the-civil.html
Government
iCivics games about government https://www.icivics.org/games/%20do-i-have-right
Texas Revolution
Texas Independence & Washington-on-the-Brazos, from the Star of the Republic Museum http://txindependence.org/index.php
Official website of the Alamo historic site http://www.thealamo.org/
Alamo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAMZQlAQAyQ&list=PLATw7uLIPbt94_N_ft_0bOLhuo-KPR3Ep
Spanish Missions
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park https://www.nps.gov/saan/index.htm
Explorers -- La Salle and the shipwreck of La Belle
-- The Bullock Museum in Austin, where La Belle is on display http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/la-belle/the-exhibit
-- NOVA (TV show on PBS that had an episode about La Salle and the excavation of his shipwreck) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lasalle/
-- The Corderie Royale (former royal facility in France that outfitted La Salle’s ships -- It is now a museum.) http://www.corderie-royale.com/visite/corderie-royale/ (FYI: This website is in French.)
Video about the Corderie Royale, including reconstruction of historic ships: http://www.corderie-royale.com/visite/corderie-royale/corderie-royale-en-video/