ES Social Studies

BrianPop is not just science, nor just a website, it is both website and app and covers all academic subjects. The premise is a set of instructional videos that explain complex ideas easily in a fun way.

Are you looking for a great free site on current events that is catered towards kids? Time for Kids is just that site. This site would be a great place for students to go when they "finish early", or even kept as a rotational piece of a center. Teachers can also find value highlighting articles that are topical and having classroom discussions.

Junior Safe Search itself is a general tool that allows for students to search things on the net in a more controlled and "safe" environment. This link however will bring you to "This Day in History" via the Junior Safe Search. Teachers can check it daily as a routine conversation starter, or give it to students as a research tool.

Kiddle, the visual search engine for kids that is powered by editors and Google safe search, allows kids to do a Web, images, news or video search. Once a child enters a query into the search bar, Kiddle will pull up a list of related links. The first one to three results will include safe sites and pages that are written specifically for kids that are handpicked and checked by the editors.

Planet Geo is a free app in which your students can become the masters of geography. It is very colorful and the maps are interactive. This is suited mostly for lower primary students but older kids can easily learn with it as well.

Social Studies Friendzy is a fun and interactive app that makes learning about Social Studies easy. Kids can learn Social Studies lessons while playing alone, with friends, or with other kids around the world.

This app is full of relevant information on a range of topics that may align with your social studies goals. These talks can be shown to the whole class or played for small groups who are studying a particular topic.

Stack the Countries makes learning about the world fun. You can watch the countries actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game. It helps you learn facts about 193 countries, including their capitals, landmarks, major cities, continents, border countries, languages, flags and country shapes in the context of a fun game with various levels.