Social+Studies

Social Studies Links
 * [|American Memory, The Library of Congress] Provides free and open access to historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video.
 * [|Library of Congress]
 * [|**Blue Web’n Applications: Social Studies**]
 * [|**CED**]
 * [|**Digital History**]
 * [|**EDSITEment History and Social Studies**]
 * [|**Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers**]
 * [|**National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places**]
 * [|**PBS Social Studies Teaching**]
 * [|**S.C.O.R.E. History/Social Science**]
 * [|**The Learning Page: American Memory**]
 * [|**The Peace Corps World Wide Schools**]
 * [|**Thinkquest Winners**]
 * [|**The Civil War Letters of Galutia** **York**]
 * [|**The Timeline of the Civil War**]
 * [|**Selected Civil War Photograph Collection**]
 * [|**Underground Railroad**]

** Additional Social Studies Resources on the Internet  **

[|**Academy of Achievement**] An outstanding online “museum” with exhibits on achievers from all walks of society. It includes profiles, biographies, and online interviews available as text or with audio/video. Visit "Steps to Success" to see and hear quotes from well-known people on topics such as vision, integrity, and courage.

[|**Adbusters: Culturejammers Headquarters**] A location to help your middle school and high school students develop critical media literacy insights about the commercial world around them. [|**American Cultural History**] A series of web guides to the decades of the 20th century. Basic facts and photos as well as guides on areas such as art, fashion, education, music, and events.

[|**American Experience**] An excellent site related to the PBS series. Contains teacher sections, including guides for using the programs in class, as well as archives for information and materials on past programs.

[|**American Presidents Life Portraits**] is a companion site to C-Span’s TV series. It contains presidential biographies, important events of each presidency, presidential places, and references. Teacher guides, lesson plans, and video clips make this is very useful site.

[|**Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids**] Organized by grade level this site includes links to many U.S. government sites. Also includes information on getting and using documents from the Government Printing Office.

[|**Contacting the Congress**] Use this location to quickly send any of the members of the U.S. Congress an email message about your concerns. It may also be used to request information for units you are planning.

[|**Conversations with History**] Read or view (with streaming video) this series of unedited interviews with distinguished men and women from around the world, produced by the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. You can search for interviews by name, topic, or year. This site also has information on CWS – Connecting Students to the World, a program designed to increase collaboration between UCB and other educational institutions.

[|**Cybrary of the Holocaust**] This cyber library of resources includes audio interviews from survivors, written recollections by survivors, works of literature, images, and a wide array of resources depict this dark period in our history to ensure that we do not forget.

[|**The Early American Review**] An online journal highlighting the people, issues, and events of eighteenth-century America. A wonderful scholarly resource for high school students in an American history course.

[|**Exploring Ancient World Cultures**]consists of “an introductory, on-line, college-level ‘textbook’ of ancient world cultures, constructed around a series of cultural pages consisting of: The Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe. The site contains an anthology, chronology, essays, maps, and an interactive quiz for each of the cultures.

[|**First Gov for Kids**] An excellent directory from the government’s Federal Citizen Information Center Organized by topics, including Global Village, Careers, History, Money, Arts, and many more. Includes a scavenger hunt. Many sites are suitable for younger students.

[|**Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence**] ED.gov’s link to free resources, sorted by topic and with a featured site of the week.

[|**Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad**] Designed by students in Mrs. Taverna’s second grade class, this site includes a timeline, a quiz, character sketches, and crossword puzzles about Harriet Tubman. Also included are activity ideas for incorporating the content into the classroom as part of an interactive lesson plan.

[|**The History Makers**] is an oral history archive dedicated to preserving African American history. Included are photos and text and features in areas such as business, civics, education, entertainment, and style.

[|**Historical Voices**] As they say, “a rich set of both online exhibits and educational curricula, utilizing audio files as a key component of these resources.” Includes various galleries of speeches, interviews, and audio versions of events. An excellent section on teaching with audio clips.

[|**Infonation**] This site allows you to view and compare statistical data for all United Nations member states.

[|**Journey Back in Time to Ancient Rome**] A WebQuest intended for upper elementary and middle school students using a jigsaw approach. Students use teamwork and the Internet to explore Ancient Rome and learn about daily life, myths, and government. Each person learns one piece of the puzzle and then comes back together to better understand the topic.

[|**Just for Teachers**]ED.gov’s site for educational resources including links to government documents, 30,000 lesson ideas, and reports and readings for teachers.

[|**Letters Home from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War**] These letters home bring to life the struggles of a country and the experiences of an individual. Nice primary source documents for the study of U.S. History. Lesson ideas are included.

[|**My Hero**] The site for elementary and middle school students allows you to read about heroes, many of whom come from history, and submit their own stories. Heroes can be famous individuals or parents.

[|**National Council for History Education**] A non-profit organization for promoting history in schools and society. Click their history file and resources links to visit related sites. Also contains archives for their newsletter, “History Matters.”

[|**National Council for Social Studies**] Many excellent sources and resources for teachers, organized by the ten themes of the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. Visit the [|**standards page**], too.

[|**National Geographic Society Homepage**] The homepage of the National Geographic Society provides a wealth of information for students related to the programming and books of this organization. Within the site is a great location for [|**lesson ideas on geography**]. Also located at this site are maps that may be printed out by students for reports.

[|**Nova Online/Pyramids: The Inside Story**] Take a guided tour inside the great pyramids of Giza, read about the history of these magnificent wonders, share the recent discoveries of archeologists, and come away with a new appreciation for the accomplishments of this ancient civilization. A great site for any class studying ancient Egypt.

[|**Odeon’s The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping**] Search for online maps, find resources for buying paper maps, or browse Oden’s Bookmarks for maps and other resources by country. [|**Our Documents**] This government source has links to primary source documents, special features, tools for teachers, and a news and events link. Be sure to visit their Related Resources for links to other excellent sites.

[|**Oyez – U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia**] Listen to over 2000 hours of audio recordings from the Supreme Court. This includes all audio since 1995 with some selections from previous years. Check out the tour of the Supreme Court Building.

[|**Patchwork of African American Life**] This exceptional site contains six separate resources for the study of African-American issues: a hotlist of links to important resources on the Internet, an interactive treasure hunt, a subject sampler, a WebQuest on the Little Rock 9, a WebQuest on the Tuskegee Tragedy, and a video conference.

[|**The Smithsonian Homepage**] The Smithsonian Institution calls itself “The nation’s treasure house for learning.” This site certainly does it justice. Many outstanding links to the wonderful resources of this fine institution.

[|**Stately Knowledge**] Includes facts, information, and a map of every state. Includes a quiz on state capitals.

[|**Treasures**] The British Library’s site of digitized “treasures.” It contains a limited number of documents at this time, but fascinating primary material such as the Gutenberg Bible and Leonardo’s Notebook make this site worth a visit.

[|**The White House for Kids**] Click on Kids to take a tour. Find out about holidays, and “meet” the presidents and first ladies.

[|**World Gen Web**] is a good place for students to begin exploring genealogy and family roots.

Information and Links gathered from "[|Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times]", 4th Edition, Donald J. Leu, Deborah Diadium Leu, and Julie Coiro