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My Top Ten Tools for Social Studies Teachers and Students

Try the Fact Check Explorer

Five Ideas for Using Comics in Social Studies Lessons

My Three Favorite Google Tools for Social Studies Teachers and Students

Tools for Asynchronously Collecting Stories

A Handy Tool to Help Students Create Their Own Virtual Museum Exhibitions

DIY Smithsonian Mini Exhibits

Best Job Ever - National Geographic Stories About Interesting Jobs

Dozens of Bell Ringers to Start Your Social Studies Lessons

Newspaper Navigator - A New Search Tool from the Library of Congress

Three Good Resources for Teaching Fact vs. Opinion

Three Interesting Resources for Students to Learn About Career Fields

Top Twelve Tools for Social Studies Teachers and Students

Top 5 Tools for Social Studies Teachers and Students (Non-Google Edition)

Top 5 Google Tools for Social Studies Teachers and Students

How to Find and Create Primary Source Lessons With DocsTeach

Ten Great Tech Tools for Social Studies Lessons

Teaching With Historical Newspapers - An LOC Webinar Recording

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Langscape - An Interactive Map of Languages

Make Trading Cards for Historical and Fictional Characters

How to Create a Map-based Story With StoryMap JS

5 Ways to Tell Stories With Maps

Interactive Map - The Battle of Gettysburg

A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of GettysburgNew technology has given us the chance to re-examine how the Civil War battle was won and lost

MrBettsClassMrBettsClass provides education and humor on all topics social studies related. As an official YouTube EDU channel, I'm dedicated to high quality, high energ...

Where On Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego? - A Great Geography Game

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History TechHistory, technology, and probably some other stuff

How to Use Canva to Create a Timeline

5 Good Tools for Creating Timelines

Ten Resources for Teaching and Learning About Pearl Harbor

What's Inside of Buckingham Palace and the White House?

17 Lessons in Teaching History With TechnologyThe best free technology for resources for teachers and students. Written by award-winning educator, Richard Byrne.

Teaching the Constitution With Political Cartoons - Webinar Recording

Free data & statistics, data collection, analysis, visualization and sharing - knoema.com

A Good Website for History TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Top 10 Museums Students Can Virtually ExploreFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

A Science, Math, and History Lesson in One Short Video Reactions is a YouTube channel produced by the American Chemical Society and PBS Digital Studios. The videos in the channel focus on expla...

A New LOC Online Collection - Theodore Roosevelt's Papers I have always found Theodore Roosevelt to be one of the most fascinating characters in U.S. History. That is why I was excited this mornin...

Here Is A Collection of Some Good Educational Resources for Social Studies TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

A Fun and Free State & Country Capital Identification Game Capital Toss is a free geography game from ABCya. The game has a state capitals mode and a country capitals mode. In both modes of the ga...

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Seterra - Hundreds of Interactive Geography Games in More Than 30 Languages Seterra is a service that offers interactive geography games in more than thirty languages. I used the service for years with some of my ...

8 Tools for Making Multimedia Timelines Creating timelines has been a go-to activity for history teachers since the beginning of history. When I made timelines as a student and i...

The Online Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States The Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond hosts the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States . This online ...

Your Life in Another CountryEver wanted to know what your life would be like if you lived somewhere else? Well, we can't know for sure, but we have a pretty dang good idea. Try out our "My Life In Another Country" tool for yourself!

5 Multimedia Projects for Social Studies ClassesIf you teach social studies and you're looking for a new project to engage your students this year, I have some suggestions for you. All of ...

Story maps

Here Is An Important Tool for History TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

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More Than 5,000 Historical Maps for Teachers and Students Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse has a collection of more than 5,000 historical maps . The maps are licensed for free down...

Find the Features of Digital Vaults in DocsTeach The U.S. National Archives used to have a great feature called the National Archives Digital Vaults. The Digital Vaults site offered great...

18 TED Ed Video Lessons Ideal for Social Studies ClassFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Identifying Cities from Historic Maps - A Geography Game Late last year The Guardian published a challenging geography quiz . The quiz presents historic maps of ten cities. You have to identify t...

Finding Old Maps OnlineOn Wednesday morning I shared a neat geography quiz that asks students to identify cities by looking at historic maps. In that blog post I ...

Nine Fun and Challenging Geography Games Yesterday, I shared the City-Guesser geography game. That game was just the latest in a long list of online geography games that I have tr...

Some of The Best YouTube Channels for Social Studies TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Headlines and Heroes - A New Resource from the Library of Congress The Library of Congress offers many excellent online resources for teachers and students. Even just following the LOC's Twitter account w...

Docs Teach Adds New Primary Sources About WWI Docs Teach is a fantastic resource for US History teachers that I have shared many times over the years. I like it so much that I include...

Create Your Own Geography Game With Mission Map QuestMission Map Quest is a free tool for creating geography games. The concept is simple, you create a series of clues that your students need ...

Two Must Have Resources for History TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

WikiWhere - A Challenging Map Game WikiWhere is a neat map-based trivia game. The goal of the game is to identify cities based on their descriptions. The descriptions come ...

Here Is A Good Educational Website for History TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

5 Good Resources for Teaching and Learning About the American Revolution This coming Monday is Patriots' Day. It is an official state holiday here in Maine, in Massachusetts, and in Wisconsin. The day commemorat...

A Collection of Some Good Resources for Social Studies Teachers and StudentsFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

7 Options for Creating Timelines Online - An Updated Comparison ChartMaking timelines is a go-to activity for many social studies teachers. When I made timelines as a student and in my first year or two of tea...

Echoes of the Great War - Online WWI Exhibition Echoes of the Great War is a fantastic collection of videos, audio recordings, and pictures about WWI. This online exhibition created by ...

A Handy Infographic Featuring Some of The Best YouTube Channels for Social Studies TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Three Tools for Combining Maps With Timelines Creating timelines whose events are directly connected to a map display is a good way for students to see correlations between locations a...

YoungzineNews and more for the Young

5 Ways to Use Comics in Social Studies Lessons Creating cartoons and comic strips can be a fun way for students to show their understanding of events and concepts. For the student who i...

Here Is An Excellent Website for History and Social Studies TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

5 Ed Tech Tools Social Studies Teachers Should Try This Year On a regular basis I receive emails from teachers that go something like this, "we recently got new (insert hardware here) for our student...

300+ Free Economics Lessons, Videos, and Educational Games Econ Ed Link hosts hundreds of lesson plans and interactive games for teaching students about a wide range of topics in economics. Teache...

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A Multimedia Timeline of WWII in Europe Last week I shared National Geographic's excellent multimedia timeline of the Pacific Theater of WWII. National Geographic offers a simi...

Three Sites That Help Students Compare the Size of Countries and States Over the weekend Open Culture featured one of my favorite websites to use in geography classes. That website is called The True Size Of.....

8 Web Tools for Creating Multimedia Timelines

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world-geography-games.com-- 51 games!

Google Arts and Culture: Today we are going to continue exploring Google Arts and Culture . We have already looked at the history of the project as well as the...

Outline Maps - Simple Geography Games for All Outline Maps offers a free set of geography games. The site contains games about Africa, South America, Europe, the United States, and th...

Reading Through HistoryReading Through History was set up by a group of western Oklahoma social studies teachers. Our purpose is to create meaningful content that combines the subj...

Two Good Tools for Creating Interactive Timelines Earlier this week I received an email from a reader named Ashley who wrote, "My classes have been reading Girl in Hyacinth Blue , a revers...

10 Good Resources for Geography Awareness WeekThis week is Geography Awareness Week . As academically-themed weeks go, this ons is my favorite. For as long as I can remember I have enjoy...

Games to Sharpen Geography Skills These games provide students with fun and engaging ways to learn geography. They are a good way for students to explore new places on their...

About this Collection - Ulysses S. Grant PapersThe papers of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), army officer and eighteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 50,000 items dating from 1819-1974, with the bulk falling in the period 1843-1885. They include general and family correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, messages, military records, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other papers. The collection relates to Grant's service in the Mexican War...

Top 6 Resources to Teach About Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park made headlines recently after a meeting the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry where researc...

The Mercator Problem

Simple HistoryWelcome to the Official Simple History Channel. Created by Daniel Turner. Witness how people lived throughout history: their culture, developments in technol...

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timelinesTVVideo journeys through time. View all the videos on interactive timelines at: www.timelines.tv

15 Good YouTube Channels for Social Studies TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

417 History and Civics Lessons In One Place On Friday I featured Tom Richey's YouTube channel which is full of great content for Advanced Placement U.S. and European History students...

Three Good Resources for Learning About Careers One of my favorite things about working and living in a small community is that I get to see what many of my former students are doing aft...

CharticoCreate Beautiful Bar Charts

15 Great YouTube Channels for Social Studies TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

18 Great TED Ed Video Lessons for Social Studies TeachersFree resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

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11 Websites and Apps for Social Studies Reading Passages - Class Tech Tips

Free Technology for Teachers: Four Social Studies Lessons You Can Update With Comics

FREE Printables from MakeBeliefsComix.com!

7 Great YouTube Channels for Social Studies Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Our Online History Library Is Now Yours for Free! | Making History-- Colonial Williamsburg video field trips

Student Discovery Sets - For Teachers (Library of Congress)

7 FREE Mobile & Web Tools from the National Archives - Class Tech Tips

7 Excellent YouTube Channels for Social Studies Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OurStory-- From The Smithsonian

British museums interactive sites and activities

Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Good Google Tools for Social Studies Students

Some Very Good Educational Resources for Social Studies Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Museum of the World

Free Technology for Teachers: Create and Share Collections of Educational Resources from the Smithsonian Museums

Free Technology for Teachers: 10 Good Video Sources for Social Studies Teachers and Students

A Day in the Life of Americans | FlowingData

A Race of DiscoveryFollow in the footsteps of famous explorer's with Travelbag's historical Google Maps tool.

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5 Excellent Resources for Social Studies Class

Go Social studies Go --Social Studies Book alternative

Ships -- drive a ship around the world

15 apps and websites for primary sources

Knomea world data atlas

infinity of Nations - Smithsonian Native American Quest Game

10 sources for Primary Source Documents

Seven Good Teaching Resources from the Library of Congress and the National Archives

Free iBooks from the Library of Congress

ck12.org -- books practice and games

Kahn Academy

Spatial History Project Stanford University images and maps

22 Culture Websites

14 Websites for 4th Grade Culture

5 Google Chrome Apps for Social Studies Teachers

Museum of Obsolete Objects

CSpan Bell ringer videos to start class

Historypin’s global community of people, groups and institutions gather and share the history of the places that matter to them, using collections of photographs, documents, sounds and moving images to start conversations and trigger memories.

Virtual Tours & Webcams

Google Cultural Institute

Webrangers from the national park service - games

10 Useful History and Geography Apps

Iditarod Sled dog race--Curriculum for the Classroom – Teacher Categories –

Some Excellent Virtual Field Trip Resources, including lots from Google Maps

Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways To Look At The World As A Village

17 Websites for the Social Studies Classroom | Class Tech Tips

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