Integrating Technology into your Social Studies CurriculumFootnote (browse historical documents~add annotations or comments to the documents~search for a name, date or event)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 HistoryAmerica's National ParksEgypt
All About ExplorersGames and SimulationsGeographyIndus ValleyLatitude & LongitudeMapsProjectsTimelinesUnited StatesPrimary History (includes Greeks, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Children of Britain, Children of WW2) What it was like to live in the Middle Ages (interactive)
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K-4 Curriculum Guide to SS Games | Everything Maps |
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Mapdango photos, news stories, current weather conditions, articles about the location, events happening in the area |
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Mya Mystery, Great Barrier Reef, King Cobra, Underground Railroad,
Lewis & Clark, Mummy Bundles, other archives
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Social Studies Portals
Social Studies Central (Glenn Wiebe collection of links)
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
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