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Social Studies

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Mission US

Test your knowledge of history as you race against the clock.  Revolutionary War and Underground Railroad

 

SHOW - A New Way to Look at the World

Great visual for demographics of the US, world and Japan.  The map changes the sizes of the states relative to the demographics of the individual states.

The Living Room Canidate

Digital archives and information about presidential canidates

National Geographic Education

Activities for teachers from NG

Scribble Maps

Create overlays on Google Maps, annotate and more...

Maps of War

Get real information locations about wars

Chronology of US Historical Documents

Altapedia

Full color physical and political maps from countries around the world. Also, facts, statistics, etc.

Smithsonian's History Explorer

Includes activities linked to national history standards

History Net

A ton of historical information

America on the Move

Historical tours of American history

Teaching History

Sponsored by the National History Education Clearinghouse and includes teaching materials and content.

Mulitcultural Subjects

Lesson plan links for a wide variety of multicultural topics.

StateMaster

This site has a wealth of statistics about the United States. There are statistics for education, health, finances, and much, much more. It can be used for both social studies and math classes

Teachable Moment

Activites and resources for the study of current events.

Political Cartoonists Index

Teacher's guide for using professional political cartoons in the classroom.

C-span Classroom

Free primary source materials for social studies teachers. 

Outreach World

A comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom.

National Council for the Social Studies 

Playing History

Free historical games with a seachable database.

Radio Diaries

Works with people to document their own lives for public radio: teenagers, seniors, prison inmates and others whose voices are rarely heard.

100 Top Map Sites

History News Network

Goal is to put current events into historical perspective.

Famous Moments in American History

Short films of noteworthy events.

DocsTeach

Bring history to life through primary documents.

Dynamic Maps

Nationalatlas.gov™ contains a remarkable range of products and services to meet the diverse needs of people who are looking for maps and geographic information about America. Dynamic maps are innovative illustrations of geographic phenomena.

Revolution

A game sponsored by the education arcade.

Gapminder

Shows statistics for a fact-based world.

Worldmapper

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 700 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters.

Museum Box

This is a very good site for history teachers who like to challenge their students to defend different viewpoints throughout history.

The Price of Freedom

Chronicles Americans at war.

History World

Horrible Histories

Funny BBC videos of historical events.

History Teaching Institute

Through the Univeristy of Ohio

The National Archives Experience

Native American Activity

AwesomeStories

This website offers videos and audio clips of stories as well as chapters or entire books for students to read about a large variety of subjects. Historical works include links to pictures of primary sources.

Panoramio

Geo-located photos!  Just type in a location and see photos and map of that place!

Thoora

What the world is talking about...immediately updated news stories of current events.

Footnote

View historical text, documents and photos.

Immigration Sites:

Interactive Ellis Island

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop1.htm

http://search.ancestry.com/search/category.aspx?cat=40&o_xid=21837&o_lid=21837

http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp

 

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