Social Studies Resources
Museum Box
This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.
Images of American Political History
A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History.
History Interactives - Annenberg Media
"Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas.
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
UNFORKIDS.COM---Providing flags, maps, and lesson plans to study the world. 1,967 downloadable files from 192 countries and the United Nations are available in Adobe Acrobat, PowerPoint and Word formats. One thing that’s useful about the maps is that they are detailed enough for college students to use, but simple enough for elementary school students to understand. The maps and flags at UNFORKIDS.COM can be enlarged on most printers.
Digital History:“Using new technologies to enhance teaching and learning,” Digital History includes a variety of primary and secondary documents, maps, images, audio archives of speeches and lectures by historians, a database of more than 1,500 annotated links, and a rich interactive timeline.
MasteryMaze is a LEARNING COMMUNITY SITE! The goal of this site is to combine content management with a little social networking to create a space on the web where teachers and students can work together to achieve MASTERY in the classroom!
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
Very cool site that shows famous voyages and also gives information... http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/features/011/Wanderlust/
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