Resources

Discovery Education http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ homework helper http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/socialstudies/social_studies_homework_help.html?campaign=DE&CFID=1952002&CFTOKEN=79523642

Guess the Spot https://www.geoguessr.com/free

How well do you know landmarks? Test your knowledge!

History Channel http://www.history.com/ Search, read, view

Let Khan Academy help you think like a historian. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history

Explore Nat Geo https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ You'll get hooked on the photo of the day

Congress begins on January 3!

www.senate.gov

www.house.gov

Twitter:

C-SPAN created Twitter lists that aggregate updates from various members of Congress.

Representatives - http://twitter.com/cspan/lists/u-s-representatives

See the members of this list here - http://twitter.com/cspan/u-s-representatives/members

Senators - http://twitter.com/cspan/senators

See the members of this list here - http://twitter.com/cspan/senators/members

Congressional Reporters - http://twitter.com/cspan/congressional-media

See the members of this list here - http://twitter.com/cspan/congressional-media/members

To investigate primary source documents https://www.gilderlehrman.org/ https://www.loc.gov/ https://www.archives.gov/

Historical fiction https://newsela.com/

Inspire students to make a difference https://icivics.com/

https://sheg.stanford.edu/ Civic reasoning Stanford History Ed Group https://www.si.edu/ Our Nation’s rich heritage - Smithsonian Institute

Google Docs to write about inquiry, draft, edit, and publish.

Kidspast. NatGeo, PBS, HistoryChannel, CrashCourse, NCSS, BBC, SCORE,,

ILGA.gov, House.gov, Senate.gov, WhiteHouse.gov, POTUS.com, Supreme Court.gov