Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

I’m taking one hundred students to San Francisco next week on one of our annual insane field trips.  We’ll be visiting the Museum of The African Diaspora, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Chinatown, and a variety of other places (I’ll be posting photos on my website).

In preparation for the trip, I thought I’d put together a collection of links for them to review on Tuesday.

You can also find more links on my Geography page.

You might also be interested in The Best Websites To Learn About California.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About San Francisco (and are accessible to English Language Learners) They are not in order of preference:

Learn about the Golden Gate Bridge with this lesson from the California Distance Learning Project. It’s designed for ELL’s, and includes follow-up activities.

A “talking story” for ELL’s will tell you more about the famous bridge.

Complete this cloze (gap-fill) exercise from Learn English Feel Good.

Learn more about San Francisco through this listening exercise which includes an audio slideshow.

The great site Soundguideweb has a good video on San Francisco with online activities for English Language Learners. It doesn’t appear to be viewable with Internet Explorer, though, so be sure to use the Firefox browser.

EL Civics offers a San Francisco Photo Tour for English Language Learners.

Lingual Net has a good online video tour of San Francisco, including comprehension activities, that is also designed for ELL’s. There’s a Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.

Walk This Way is a virtual journey into San Francisco’s Chinatown.

The San Francisco Chronicle has a page of photos and videos documenting Chinatown’s celebration of the Chinese New Year.

The same page has a series of Chinatown images.

A group of young people have put together A Kids Eye View of Chinatown.

Here’s a slideshow of San Francisco images.

Watch an animation of the construction of the new Bay Bridge that is being built.

Here’s another animation about the bridge’s construction.

The San Francisco Chronicle has a weekly series called Through The Lens. Each week it highlights their best photos of the San Francisco Bay Area.

You can’t talk about San Francisco without seeing photos of the 1906 Great Earthquake. Here’s some more information about that quake.

Here’s an interactive feature about preparing for an earthquakei n San Francisco.

Here’s a travel video giving an overview of San Francisco.

Open Road TV has a number of excellent San Francisco videos, including ones on Fisherman’s Wharf, a San Francisco Walking Tour, and Market Street.

You can talk a 3D Tour of San Francisco with Everyscape.

Here’s a simple slideshow of San Francisco’s main attractions. Here’s another similar one.

See panoramic images of San Francisco at 360 Cities.

Here are some more online videos of San Francisco – this time from GeoBeats.

A Weekend In San Francisco’s Mission District is a slideshow from The New York Times.

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco is a series of restored film clips of San Francisco — some from more than 100 years ago.

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