Social Studies Links

For ALL grade levels, Google Earth is now housed completely online, so you don't need to load an application, extension, or program. To explore our world, click here:

Google Earth Online

First Grade

Job Report

Second Grade

• Asian Animals

  • Denver Public Zoo

  • The Animal Spot: Asian Animals

  • Smithsonian National Zoological Park: Asian Animals

  • Southeast Asian Rainforest Animals

Third Grade

• States Research Source Evaluation

• February 2018 Regions Videos to copy to student's Google Drive and export to WeVideo.

Fourth Grade

• History Colorado: Biographies of Notable Coloradans

• Colorado History/Famous Coloradans-Virtual Library

• Colorado State Archives: Colorado Biographies

• Colorado Women's Hall of Fame

• Links to Famous Coloradans

• American Memories (Library of Congress) Primary Sources

Fifth Grade

Colonial America

• Timeline of Colonial America with links to History Makers (Totally History)

Revolutionary War

• Simple Timeline of the U.S. Revolutionary War (Smithsonian Institution)

• In-depth Timeline of the U.S. Revolutionary War (ushistory.org)

• Liberty! The Road to the Revolution Game (PBS)

• Photographs or Interesting Items from the Revolutionary War (Smithsonian Institution)

• Interactive War of Independence Site (Smithsonian Institution)

• Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution (ushistory.org)

• American Revolution and Causes (History Place)

• Transition Words

• Voices of the American Revolution (ThinkQuest) (Click on Voices to open the information about people)

• Famous People in the American Revolution

• Bibliography Guide (How to Cite your Sources)

• Portraits of Early Americans (actual pictures or drawings of Historymakers)

Sample Project

• Graphic Organizer and Rubric for History Makers Powerpoint Presentation

• Sample Google Presentation (yours will be about a person who was important to the U.S. between 1492 and the end of the American Revolution)