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Social Studies

Integrating Technology into your Social Studies Curriculum

Footnote (browse historical documents~add annotations or comments to the documents~search for a name, date or event)

Past/Present  Fresh approach to teaching social history to secondary school  students ~is a  digital video game where players live the lives of Americans from eras past.

American History

America's National Parks

Egypt

All About Explorers

Games and Simulations

Geography

Indus Valley

Latitude & Longitude


Maps



Projects

Timelines

United States


Primary History (includes Greeks, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Children of Britain, Children of WW2)
 
Stat Planet (Interactive data about our planet... Blog Review)

Smithsonian's History Exporer

eLECTIONS (Your Adventure in Polictics)
 
 
 
 

 

Economics

High School Money Game

 

 


 United States

Show the USA (data by state)
 
What's in the Wagon (Oregon Trail Activity)


Early US History

 
 
 

PBS Lessons

A sixteen part series of webisodes. You can use all of the webisodes in sequence or use just one episode as it fits your curriculum. The series and the games that accompany it could be good review resources or individualized learning experiences.  Links are below.

Scavenger Hunt Through History (use with above link)
 
 
 
 K-4 Curriculum Guide to SS Games  Everything Maps
 
 Mapdango
photos, news stories, current weather conditions,
articles about the location, events happening in the area
 Medieval Times
     
 Interactive History    
   

 United States

Mya Mystery, Great Barrier Reef, King Cobra, Underground Railroad,
Lewis & Clark, Mummy Bundles, other archives
 
 
 

     Web Rangers Explore Nat'l Parks
 Virtual Egypt    
     
     

Social Studies Portals

Social Studies Central (Glenn Wiebe collection of links)
Glenn's History Tech Blog is blocked @ school but check it out at home

History for Kids
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Kids Past
 

Lesson Plan Index organized by state

BBC Interactive History 


Time Capsule  (chest with items that kids research to narrow to a period in history)  

 
 Zip Skinny Info by Zip Code

World History

World History Curriculum (middle & high school)
 
 
 
 

Continents

Beyond Polar Bears & Penguins (Resources for teaching Arctic & Anarctic)
 
 

 
 
The Big Picture (news stories in photographs)

 
 
 
History Animated Revolutionary War, Civil War, Pacific War grades 6-12

The History Lab  The History Lab™ is an online template where teachers can build primary-sourse based lessons and activities for use by their students. Teachers can store their lessons in the History Lab database and retrieve or modify them at any time.  
The History Lab™ is free for use by all K-12 teachers and university professors who believe in the educational power of primary sources -- the raw materials of history -- and are seeking an effective, pedagogically sound way to incorporate them into their classes.


5th Grade Social Studies