- Awesome Library Social Studies Links
Awesome Library organizes the Web with 28,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. This is the social studies link
The Awesome Library organizes 31,000 carefully reviewed K-12 education resources, the top 5 percent for teachers, students, parents, and librarians. It includes a search engine.
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- Best of History Web Sites
Find the best history sites for time periods in history, maps, general resources, Maps, Lesson Plans/Activities and research and Multimedia. This page lists the multimedia resources. See sidebar for others.
Over 1200 websites, lesson plans, teacher guides, and activities. Recommended by Chronicle of Higher Education, NCSS, NY Public Library, BBC, and Princeton.
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- Digital History (Multimedia and Interactive Historical Resources)
This site includes the Flash Movie "An Overview of American History" Dr. Steven Mintz shares his perspectives on the major themes in our country's past. See multiple other history links.
Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.
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- ReadingQuest: Making Sense in Social Studies
ReadingQuest challenges you to think about what students should know or be able to do and, perhaps more importantly, what it looks like when they are engaging the content towards the purpose of that lesson. While designed with social studies in mind, teachers of any content area can find the strategies and the process useful and helpful. Links to great reading strategies.
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- Social Studies Downloads by Region XIII Education Service Center
Powerpoint presentations, Lessons, Reading strategies, Graphic Organizers, Word wall, Word Categorizaton activities, and many other excellent resources for social studies teachers.
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- Weston Public Schools History and Social Studies Standards
This school district has written big ideas/understandings for the standards they deem to be the most critical.
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- BBC - History - History for Kids
This site developed by BBC contains many resources attractive to kids. It is aligned with British standards, but contains many useful links. See the many other historical links.
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- BBC NEWS | Country Profiles
Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio or video clips from BBC archives.
BBC Country Profiles: instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
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- CIA - The World Factbook
CIA Factbook contains detailed information on every country in the world. The information is well organized and easily accessible. Great Site Recommended by Michael Petrov
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- Colorín Colorado :: Content Resources: Social Studies
Content Resources: Social Studies Links for teaching Social studies to ELLs collected by Colorin Colorado
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- Country Reports
This site provides support for students who are asked to do a report on a country. It would be beneficial for intermediate and JH students as well as ELLs
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- Digital History: Using new technologies to enhance teaching and research
Explorations are inquiry-based, interactive modules designed to give students the opportunity to do history: to conduct research, analyze primary sources, and draw their own conclusions. See other links.
Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.
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- FRONTLINE/WORLD | PBS
This PBS site provides numerous 10-30 minute online videos on various topics from around the world. The site is organized by continent or by theme and new videos are posted monthly. The videos can be used by themselves or used as introductions to units or themes. Rec. by Matthew Guglielmi
FRONTLINE/World - Stories from a small planet - FRONTLINE turns its lens on the global community and brings a new generation of video journalists to television and the web.
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- Games, Stories, News, Animals, Pictures, Postcards--National Geographic Kids
This site offers multiple resources from National Geographic for Kids, videos, games, kid-friendly information related to science and social studies.
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- High School Social Studies: Interactive
This site offers multiple links to interactive sites for high school social studies.
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- History Teaching Ideas (from the United Kingdom)
The table below contains links to (and descriptions of) all of the History ideas on this site. There are also links to some wonderful History toys and games, recommended books about History, and some links to other useful History sites.
Find free History teaching ideas, activities and resources for your primary and secondary classroom.
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- NARA on Google Video
Google has digitized 103 historic films from the National Archives and made them available on the Web. The pilot project, which may be expanded, includes such gems as newsreels from World Wars I and II, video of the moon landing and Depression-era films about the national parks and public works projects.
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- PowerPoint presentations for Social Studies
Jefferson County Schools The content of these presentations are provided by teachers for social studies across the grade levels.
Education, Jefferson County, Tennessee, K-12
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- Prentice Hall
Social Studies Skills Tutor
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- Region XIII Education Service Center
Links for Social Studies collected and recommended by Region XIII Education Service Center
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