SOCIAL STUDIES

Teacher websites:

Mr. Steven Banks, Mr. Tracy Grant, Mr. Brian Rose, Mr., Mr. Corey Williams, Mr.Dimitri Przeslawski

Current Events and News

Curriculum Links

General

• Smithsonian Libraries Image collection

• Library of Congress

• National Endowment of the Humanities - EDSITEment

Civics

• Dollar Street: families in the world by income

• We the People : a Civics & Media Literacy Resource from Scholastic Magazine

• World Affairs 2018 Almanac : NYT Upfront Magazine World Affairs 2018 Almanac with interactive Atlas

US History

• InMotion: The African American Migration Experience (interactive map about African American History)

• 2Day in History

• 50 Core Documents that tell America's Story - Primary Sources

• US History: Major events listed by decade

• Westward Expansion- a collection of sites

• Smithsonian- "Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II"

• Library of Congress: Civil War Maps

Civil War - Battles:

• Gale in Context database (in Schoology)

• History Reference Center - U.S. History-Civil War (library website)

• History.com

• Battle of Antietam - Antietam on the web

Civil War- online resources:

• National Park Service - Civil War Archaeology Collection

• National Archives - DocsTeach - Civil War

Supreme Court Cases

• Oyez: Chicago Kent Law School (search by case)

• Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court (Street Law, Inc. and the The Supreme Court Historical Society)

• Supreme Court Cases - Primary Sources -TeachingAmericanHistory.com

• Street Law, Inc. Case Summaries

• Supreme Court Cases - Primary Sources - Find Law

• Annenberg Classroom

Maya, Inca, Aztec Project:

• History channel: The Mayan

• Incas

• History channel: The Aztecs

• US History: world view of the Ancient Mayan

• Deciphering Mayan glyphs

• The Inca Empire: children of the sun

• The Aztec World

• Aztecs vs. Cortez: Clash of two worlds

Ancient History:

• interactive world map showing the shifting of Pangea over millions of years

Ancient Egypt: