Social Studies

MAPS:

• Homelessness Analytics: mapping and visualization with homelessness data

• World Bank World Development Indicators: global development indicators including national, regional and global estimates

• National Center for Education Statistics

  • National Climate Data Center: U.S. climate and data weather sets; current and historical data

  • Center For Disease Control and Prevention: health (public, environmental, global, territorial); workplace safety

• National Historic GIS

• U.S. Census: population, demographics

  • Amercian FactFinder - download economic, housing, demographic data from American Community Survey and others

  • Census data mapper: http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/maps/datamapper.html (Links to an external site.)

  • - create census-based maps by county from 2010 census

  • Reference Maps- search census maps by legislative boundary or geographic area

  • Thematic Maps - search maps by subject such as business, income, natural disaster, race & ethnicity, sex, total population

  • Includes single year data for all counties and school districts

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

https://www.loc.gov/maps/collections/

https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/map_sites.html

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/maps/citingmaps.html

National Geographic Atlas Explorer

David Rumsey Map Collections: The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 30 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1550 to the present.

Poptropica® is a virtual world in which kids explore and play in complete safety. Every month, millions of kids from around the world are entertained and informed by Poptropica's engaging quests, stories and games.Kids create a "Poptropican" character to travel the many Islands of Poptropica and use gaming literacy to enjoy a narrative that is often rooted in factual history. Problem-solving skills are honed as kids discover and solve mysteries unique to each Island.

"Poptropica is an online role-playing game, developed in 2007 by Pearson Education's Family Education Network, and targeted towards children aged 6 to 15. Poptropica was primarily the creation of Jeff Kinney, the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. As of 2015, he remains at the company as Creative Director.^[1]" (from Wikipedia)