Florida History Helps
Literature, Websites, and North Florida Field Trips
Florida Studies Weekly-State History
http://www.studiesweekly.com/Fourth-Grade-Social-Studies-Florida
This is a newspaper format publication that is delivered quarterly. Even if you order only one student set, you will receive a teacher guide as well.
Books-Fiction
- Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Florida Crackers, early 1900s)
- A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith (1858-1968)
- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Books-Non-Fiction
- Uniquely Florida (Heinemann State Studies)
- Florida History (Heinemann State Studies)
- Florida Native Peoples (Heinemann State Studies)
- The Seminole by Stefanie Takacs (A True Book)
- The Timucua Indians: A Native American Detective Story by Kelley G. Weitzel
Websites: Reference-
Websites: Especially for Kids-
Field Trips
History
St. Augustine
- Castillo de San Marcos http://www.nps.gov/CASA
- Old Florida Museum http://www.oldfloridamuseum.com/
9:30-4:00, 7 days a week
Special Homeschool Day yearly (moved to January in 2012)
- The Fountain of Youth (1513-Ponce de Leon landed)
- St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum (1874)
- St. Augustine Pirate and Treasure Museum
- Lightner Museum (built in 1887- 19th century exhibits)
- Oldest Schoolhouse
- Colonial Spanish Quarter (1740)
- Fort Matanzas National Monument
- Fort Mose (1738)
Fernandina
- Fort Clinch State Park (19th century)
Jacksonville
- Museum of Science and History (NE Florida History)
- Kingsley Plantation (1814-1837 Kingsley’s lived there)
- Fort Caroline National Monument (16th Century)
- Mandarin Museum (1875 homestead, 1911 store and post office)
- Camp Milton Historic Preserve (1864)
Lake City
- Olustee Battlefield and State Park (1864)
Tallahassee
- Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee
Forever Changed, La Florida (1513-1821-Opening 2013)
Phase 1- Opened March 2012
- Old Capitol Building (1845; 1902 appearance)-Florida Historic Capitol Museum
- Capitol Building
- Mission San Luis (1656-1704 western capital of Spanish Florida, 16th/17th century Mission)
- Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science (1880s Cracker farmstead, 1924 railroad caboose, 1890s schoolhouse, 1840s manor home)
White Springs
- Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park
Gainesville
- Morningside Nature Center Living History Farm (late 19th century)
- Dudley Farm History State Park (19th century working farm)
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park (1930s-Florida Cracker)
Natural History Field Trips
Gainesville
- Museum of Natural History
Jacksonville
- Pelotes Island – E. Dale Joyner Nature Preserve
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