• Jamestown Settlement and the "Starving Time" Interactive Textbook entry
  This site is a sample of the resources in Beyond Books Interactive Textbooks
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• Kid's Place
  Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: Illinois The Geonet link is a fantastic, interactive geography website. The students can go anywhere around the world, play games and take quizzes about any country or region. The site focuses on location, place and region, physical systems, human systems, environment/society for each country/continent, and the uses of geography. See bilingual glossary Rec. by Kira Stewart
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• Literacy Matters: Middle Grades and Secondary School
  The goal of the Literacy Matters project is to improve the literacy development of middle grades and secondary school students, especially those students who are struggling to succeed. The content within this web site focuses on what matters most in adolescent literacy development. The first two "matters" are adolescent literature and content area literacy. Literacy Matters seeks to reach three audiences.
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• MT KIDS
  Lewis and Clark: This site is part of a tourism site for the state of Montana. It has many photographs of the actual placesLewis and Clark visited. It also has some interactive Lewis and Clark games. Recommended for grades 3-5. Recommended by Mary Lynn Buckner
  Learn the story behind Montana's most mysterious ghost town and the production Montana made movies.
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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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• NYSED - Social Studies Learning Standards and Core Curriculum
  Select Corp pt. 1 for K-6 social studies understandings.
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• Prentice Hall
  Social Studies Skills Tutor
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• SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Cases Archive | PBS for JAMESTOWN scrool down
  Crime Scene Investigations Meet History, This site provides multiple online interactive lessons that explore the mysteries of historical deaths, for example the deaths in Jamestown. See lessons with team jigsaw applications to explore conflicting theories.
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• Social Studies for Kids
  Search this site for free resources for kids learning social studies. It includes lesson plans with online links to multiple resources related to the topic. This resource can provide lower reading levels for older learners.
  Social Studies for Kids is a site with articles, subjects, and tons of links for all subjects of social studies, with a focus on what kids and their teachers/parents are learning.
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• Social Studies--Teaching Toward Lasting Understanding: Terry Robinson
  Part of the NCA Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement Journal of School Improvement, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2003 Social Studies--Teaching Toward Lasting Understanding Part of the NCA Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement Journal of School Improvement, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2003 In this article Terry Robinson describes her journey toward teaching important understandings.
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• Teachers: Content Literacy
  Literacy Skills for the Social Studies Classroom The following sites feature information and strategies for helping students develop the reading and writing skills needed for success in the social studies classroom.
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• Teachers: Content Literacy
  The Reading section provides an introduction to why reading is important in the content areas and information on strategic reading. Choose from the links below to access classroom applications for the following reading techniques:
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• Teachers: Content Literacy
  In this section of Literacy Matters, we organize the Sites That Matter under two categories: writing to learn and writing to demonstrate knowledge.
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• Teachers' Domain: Inspiring Middle School Literacy (video)
  These self-paced classroom activities are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5–8. Each uses videos, interactive activities, note-taking, reading, and writing to present students with an engaging science or history topic.
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• Texas Social Studies Supervisors Association
  TSSSA promotes the common interest of social studies supervisors in curriculum, instruction, assessment, materials, research, and teacher training. This site is designed to provide professional social studies leaders with information, resources, and ideas for enhancing the education and performance of students.
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• The Center for Teaching History with Techology
  The Center for Teaching History with Technology aims to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses.
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• The Oregon Trail
  This interactive Oregon Trail Map shows how, where and why pioneers travelled from Missouri to Oregon in 1843. There are graphics for each major stopping point along the trail, along with interesting facts about the various locations and people. The writing is limited and focused in a way that should not be overwhelming for ESL students. Rec. by John Cronfel.
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• The U.S.-Mexican War . Interactive Timeline | PBS
  This interactive Mexican History Timeline has pictures and videos displaying critical events from 1519 to 2000. The main focus, however, is the key events of the Mexican-American War. It is in both English and Spanish. This is a PBS website that is very professional and loaded with resources. Each event on the timeline also has pop up information boxes that provide concise information about the event.Rec. by John Cronfel
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• THOMAS (Library of Congress)
  This website is from the Library of Congress and gives legislative information, in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson. Under “Current Activity” students can read what happened recently in Congress or what is on the house floor at the moment. Under “Learn” students can find out about the Supreme Court, the legislative process, the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. Constitution. There is a section for teachers with classroom activities and lesson plans. Rec. by Sharon Siciak
  The Library of Congress THOMAS site is the source for federal legislative information. THOMAS provides several options for finding bills, resolutions, and legislative histories from 1973 to the present. Legislative information can be searched across multiple Congresses. THOMAS is also the source for presidential nominations, treaties, committee reports, legislative resources f
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• Virginia Studies: Ready Resources for the Classroom (Social Studies)
  Complete Curriculum Framework for Social Studies: Includes standards, essential understandings, essential questions, essential knowledge and essesntial skills
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