Social Studies Resources

Photographs of places and people.

Geography, history, current events, timelines and much more

Free Social Studies worksheets, Games and Quizzes

A set of native language phonetic inventories so that you can perform some contrastive analyses.

Guess The Country Flag. Play an interactive game based on Google Maps Service. Try to guess the correct country below the flag.

Free tools to allow you to measure, save and send maps to other people.

A daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world. Recognizes a cultural event, and not necessarily a day when businesses are closed.

Never warp your brain with timezone maths again.

Maps of the world showing energy, minerals, agriculture, livestock, economy, population, religion, conflict and health.

History for kids.

History maps, timelines and multimedia encyclopedia telling the story of each and every civilization in world history. Navigate geographically and through history to see a visual overview of the world or a continent or region, and in-depth information about a civilization, places and events.

The Textbook of the 21st Century. The mission of History Cat is simple: change the way students learn about history.

History Lessons

This site aggregates info on free historical games, interactives and simulations on the web, in a simple, searchable database making it easy to find, rate, and review historical games. There are currently 130 shared games.

A dynamic and graphic approach to teaching history. Using a series of cross-referenced flowcharts and over 100 multimedia lectures to help students see history as a dynamic process of causes and effects, not just a meaningless list of names and dates.

The over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps Rumsey Historical Maps site have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps; in addition, there are a few maps from collections with which he collaborates.

Browse the timeline of war and conflict across the globe.

Access to the Australian National Archives

Engage students with Interactive Lesson Plans, PowerPoints, and Games that help students to understand history.