Sites for Social Studies Teachers
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Provides full-text online versions (that look like the originals) of great documents in United States and world history. There are also lesson plans ideas and teacher guides.
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Created by a first grade class, this Web site includes an on-line quiz, an animation that shows the addition of states to the USA, a picture gallery of President Lincoln, a treasure hunt, suggestions for further classroom activities, and additional links. A great resource for elementary classes. |
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Particularly a good site for government lessons |
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Online resources about geography and countries
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This site from the Library of Congress for children offers interactive activities and games covering the states, culture, history, and games in America |
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Resources on ancient Greece from the BBC for younger students (ages 4-11, they say)
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Authentic history lessons and activities for younger students (grades 2-7) tied to California curriculum standards
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Great activities, resources, and lessons for history |
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This website is a companion to the PBS series and offers lots of resources including videos on American history.
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Resources from the British Museum on different cultures of the world includingAfrica, the Americas, Asia, Britain, Egypt, Europe, Greece, Japan, the Near East, the Pacific, and Rome. Each page provides information on ancient cultures using items from the museum.
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Center for Teaching History with Technology
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Great resources for history teachers. |
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Information on cities and towns (even really small towns) in all fifty states. For smaller towns, this is mostly census data, but it is provided in a pleasing format. For larger cities there is information on culture, attractions, etc. |
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Information on history, culture, people, agriculture, etc. of Colonial Williamsburg.
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An entertaining explanation of the federal government for younger students
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Constitutional Rights Foundation
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Numerous activities and lessons for government. |
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Provides up-to-date information on the people, government, and economics of every nation in the world. Also provides online quizzes one each country
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This is a teacher-created Internet ready lesson which requires students to create a historic newspaper. Appropriate websites are provided.
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This website offers great historical accounts of a number of topics from a journalistic perspective. It is appropriate for high school students. |
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This site from PBS allows students to see what the President does during a typical day, how the government affects them, and to enter a voting booth.
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This website offers great resources and activities on early America including actual historic documents, a crossword puzzle, a quiz, movies, and music.
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Resources for world history including timelines, video clips, and virtual tours |
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Great interactive web adventures for students of all ages, including the Renaissance, Colonial America, slavery, Western expansion, and many more
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Connected to the PBS
documentary, this website offers great resources on great empires from
history including the Greeks, the Romans, Napoleon, Islam, Queen Victoria's
Empire, Egypt's Golden Empire, Peter & Paul and the Christian Revolution,
Martin Luther, Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire and The Medici: Godfathers
of the Renaissance. |
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This website offers first-hand accounts of great events in history.
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Web resources and links covering the Near East, China, India, Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Islam and Medieval Europe.
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This site for high school students, allows them to experience slavery through the eyes of those who lived it. Players take on the roles of an African American historical figure and work to escape to Canada, while being challenged by a series of events taken from authentic slave narratives.
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An online community for geography teachers. To join, you must submit two items, then you have access to everything submitted by others including maps, worksheets, websites, etc.
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This site from Eduplace has lots of great geography games for younger students.
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Tons of great maps, by continent, nation, etc. Also information on countries, climate, flags, plus a list of the top countries for almost any category you can imagine.
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A Who Wants to Be a Millionaire game for younger students covering elementary geography and map skills
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Links to all sorts of games for all regions of the world and all grade levels
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Maps, facts and figures about countries, and information on culture, history, etc. are all available on this site.
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World maps which can be customized to reflect political boundaries, climate, and other features. Also offers links to geography exercise dealing with the maps or regions you select. |
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Great interactive online quizzes identifying places by selecting them on a map. Would be a good SmartBoard activity.
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Links to numerous geography resources including games, quizzes, books, maps, etc.
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A Jeopardy type game covering basic globe and map skills (for younger students)
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This site from Bank Street College of Education, allows students to work with primary sources and answer questions questions. Additional primary resources can be accessed on the websites listed in the reference section. An extension activity allows students to investigate their family's own primary source materials and display them online. For middle school and high school students. |
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History Lesson Plans and Resources
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Lesson plans for most historical eras |
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Great resources on daily life of ancient cultures. |
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This site for George Mason University provides access to over 1,000 primary sources, information on how historians use such sources, and links to numerous websites.
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A history of the holidays from the history channel, including Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.
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This online newspaper for middle and high school students is created by The Washington Post. It provides articles, quizzes, and online activities.
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For grades 4-8, this site includes online games, interactive quizzes, current events, and online maps for students. There are also classroom activities.
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This British site offers online activities and lesson plans for geography. Also provides some nice online maps.
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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
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Great resource for world history - this is an interactive textbook covering most period and great events of world history with hyperlinks imbedded in the text to explain or amplify
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Students take the role for the captain of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia in this historical simulation for secondary school students. Requires Flash 5 of higher and provides free download. Students have to make decisions which will determine if the colony will survive.
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Allows students to explore a virtual castle (cartoon-like)
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This site from the Peace Corps allows younger students to explore the world ad provides online activities and games.
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This site, linked to the exhibit in Los Angeles of items from Tutankhamun's tomb provides extensive educational materials, including a biography and timelines, and also has numerous graphics.
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This site offers resources for younger students along with information on mummies. The highlight of the site is a virtual tour of Tut's tomb.
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Students work in groups of four or five to study the life and death of King Tut and determine whether he was murdered.
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This site on the U.S. Supreme Court offers teaching resources for landmark cases. Lesson plans offer a multitude of activities including moot court, role play, and political cartoon analysis. Reading materials are offered on three different levels, including a level appropriate for ESL students.
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Lesson Plans & Teaching Strategies
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Lesson plans for all grades in social studies |
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This site from the Michigan State University College of Education provides lesson plans for social studies K-12.
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History resources including American Memory and Exhibitions and cybercasts which can be viewed with RealPlayer
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From the Northern Illinois University library, this site provides a wealth of primary source materials on Lincoln's life before the presidency. Students can view speeches, letters, and images. |
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This site from National Geographic allows you to view interactive current maps which show population, climate, etc. or to view historical maps. It also allows you to customize and print maps |
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Online geography games (would be great activities for a SmartBoard) |
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Lesson plans and resources for history. |
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Excellent information on culture in the Middle Ages |
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Links for teachers and students. |
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A great interactive game about how mummies are made. |
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Offers interactive and dynamic maps of the United States. You can customize a map by viewing cities, counties, bodies of water, economic, geographic, and ecological features. |
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Games, activities, and experiments for younger students from National Geographic |
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National Geographic Homework Help
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Information and games on numerous science and geography topics
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Links to websites on numerous tribes and other topics dealing with Native Americans |
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A site from the British Natural History Museum provides lots of resources on nature and ecology. There are some great interactive activities such as Sounds Like Nature, which makes music from sounds in certain habitats, and Virtual Wonders. |
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WebSiteOne(sm) and The Scriptorium Center for Christian Antiquities have developed "Odyssey in Egypt," an interactive archaeological dig for middle school students. The site managers create, manage, transmit, and serve up pictures and text from Egypt on a weekly basis. |
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This site from two museums allows students to examine artifacts and explore ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Near East; the ancient Americas; and sub-Saharan Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries. For elementary and middle school students. |
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Lots of great resources on Oklahoma geography and ecology |
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Online economics lesson plans for elementary, middle school and high school from James Madison University. |
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Numerous history resources including movies, interactive maps and battlefields, timelines, and many authentic history projects. The film on Pearl Harbor is excellent |
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This website from Scholastic offers great resources for any era in American history from the Colonial period to world War II. Select the era, and you can read journals from those who lived at the time, design a home with appropriate furnishings for the time, make arts and crafts of the era, and write a journal entry as if you were living in the era. |
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Great interactive online activities for younger students including building a sod house, exploring documents and artifacts to be a historian yourself, and learning about Native American language and art |
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This site, dealing the the U.S. Supreme Court, offers a virtual tour, history of the court, current news on the court including the docket and recent decisions. It also offers a searchable multi-media database which provides digital audio clips of arguments in numerous cases and abstracts for all cases. An excellent research tool for older students. |
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This site from NOVA allows students to take virtual tours of the pyramids, learn about hieroglyphics, and study the science of the pyramids, their history, and their consrtuction. |
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This site for from National Geographic offers video, a timeline, interactive maps, first-hand accounts, and numerous resources dealing with the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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This British site provides some great online lessons and resources for history |
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Over 500 websites linked to California state curriculum standards for history and social studies. |
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The Shoah Foundation records the stories of survivors of the holocaust. Video interviews of survivors are featured, and an online exhibit is available which changes regularly. Currently featured are stories of survivors from Auschwitz. |
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Uses free Macromedia Shockwave software to provide interactive lessons and quizzes on the political world, the physical world and the historical world |
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A wealth of information on each of the 50 states including all the common facts like population and state motto, flag, etc., but with links to information on all sorts of items such as tourism and state government |
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Online activities to learn more about the states, including geography, interesting facts, capitals, etc. |
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In addition to giving a history of the court and a description of how the court works with audio clips, the site provides some excellent resources for teachers and students. Lesson plans and activities are available for landmark cases. There is also a link for all cases dealing with students and their rights. |
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This site from the
National Humanities Center offers online thematic lessons for secondary
social studies teachers. Each theme offers essays by leading scholars
offering content overviews, discussion guidance, bibliographies, online
resources, and primary sources. |
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This site gives teenagers information about the Presidency, Congress, the Supreme Court and state government. |
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Every sort of resource you can imagine on the Valley of the Kings...maps, architectural features, archaeological articles, artifacts, etc. |
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Home page of the British Parliament. This site offers interesting historical documents. |
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The link to all current data on the U.S. including population, characteristics of population, economic factors, and any other data which is addressed in the U.S. census |
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Flash cards, word search, concentration and matching games help students learn the U.S. capitals |
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Provides lessons using online primary source documents on the Civil War, Jamestown, Slavery, and Dolly Madison |
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This site from P.B.S. offers games, interviews, biographies, and other activities on civil rights, women's rights, technology, justice, travel, flight, and others |
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All sorts of maps, including map outlines and map tests which can be printed. Offers information on distances between two places, flags, currency, etc. Can search for countries or bodies of water. |
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Although this is actually an online course from Washington State University on world civilizations, this site offers free resources to anyone including learning modules, an online anthology, and other course materials. |
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An interactive world map which gives information on population, climate, languages, etc. for each country, also has country rankings for various geographic, population and economic features |
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A fabulous interactive geography site from National Geographic. You have to see it to appreciate all that is available. Covers the world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, and the uses of geography. |
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Middle and high school students examine primary source documents to determine what life was like 200 years ago for Thomas and Elizabeth Springer's family in New Castle, Delaware. |
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Links checked 12/19/05 |
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