SECONDARY
Social Studies Resources
HISTORY GAMES:
Revolutionary Choices is an expansive and immersive strategy game in which the player is tasked with managing the Continential Army and winning the Revolutionary War.
What was it like to be a sailor in the 18th-century? Sponsored by the USS Constitution Museum, this game is a very in-depth simulation, allowing students to assume the role of a sailor aboard the USS Constitution. Along the way, students engage in the Constitution’s historical battles and learn firsthand about all of the things that go on beneath the hull to run a proper sailing ship in over a dozen minigames.
Players debate the some of the most famous Supreme Court cases such as texas v. Johnson, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Snyder v. Phelps in this critical thinking game.
Do you know how people become citizens of the United States? In Immigration Nation, you’ll help guide newcomers along their path to citizenship
Are you an expert on U.S. citizenship? Put your knowledge to the test
You control the budget of the federal government! You choose how federal revenues should be raised and how taxpayers’ money should be spent.
When Rivers Were Trails is a downloadable point-and-click adventure game about the impact of colonization on Indigenous communities in the 1890’s. The player follows the life of an Anishinaabeg who is placed from their traditional territory in Minnesota and heads west to California due to the impact of allotment acts on Indigenous communities.
RESEARCH SITES
& PRIMARY RESOURCES
& PRIMARY RESOURCES
Library of Congress:
An outstanding and invaluable site for American history and general studies. Contains primary and secondary documents, exhibits, map collections, prints and photographs, sound recordings and motion pictures
GREAT SITES TO CHECK OUT!
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
This Smithsonian website skillfully integrates Flash video and text to examine armed conflicts involving the U.S. from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq. Each conflict contains a brief video clip, statistical information, and a set of artifacts.
This Smithsonian website skillfully integrates Flash video and text to examine armed conflicts involving the U.S. from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq. Each conflict contains a brief video clip, statistical information, and a set of artifacts.