Great websites for social studies teachers

[Gail Hennessey]

I've found these sites to be very helpful in teaching Social Studies, perhaps you will, too.

Gail Hennessey
http://www.gailhennessey.com



Great Websites to help you in the Social Studies Classroom

Compiled by Gail Hennessey (9/06)

Using Primary documents:

http://www.lewis-clark.org/index.htm

http://www.outerbanks.com/wrightbrothers/photographs/

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/wright/group_a.html

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/dynaweb/adaccess/war/@Generic__CollectionView?DwebQuery=%27Illustration--Drawing%27 (primary source of posters from WW2) such as: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/adaccess/W/W00/W0073-72dpi.jpeg

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/

Websites of interest.

http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/regions

http://www.factmonster.com

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/abc/

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/index.html (maps)



http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/ (lesson plans)



http://www.mccollam.com/fun/geoquiz/ (interactive map quiz activities)



http://www.mccollam.com/fun/geoquiz/ (Cont. Drift )



http://tfk.factmonster.com/spot/99geography1.html#quiz (geography)



http://www.quia.com/mc/92530.html (land form activity-terms)



http://library.thinkquest.org/10157/geoglobe.html?tqskip1=1 (geography activities)



http://www.theodora.com/maps (great source of maps)



http://www.educationworld.com



http://historywired.si.edu/index.html# (see items in America’s attic-Smithsonian)



http://www.guardians.net (Egypt)



http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/categories.cfm (helpful site for teachers, sites, lessons)



http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html (countries of the world)



http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/iso3166.html (flags of the world)



http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/index.shtml (info on countries of the world) and

http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/flagtag/frm_ft_intro.asp?score=0&screen_height=900 (flag tag)



http://www.focusmm.com/index.htm



http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/ (“You be the historian”, making inferences from artifacts)



http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/;jsessionid=B26690D4FBCC85A90873E98DAB6D12A7 (very helpful site for information on topics in social studies)



http://www.epals.com/ (penpals from around the world)



http://ology.amnh.org/ (learn about scientist such as paleontologist and archaeologists)



http://www.internet4classrooms.com/daily_dose.htm and

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/subject_area.htm (great source of materials)



http://www.hometown.aol.com/sitnbquiet/history.htm (great resources such as “Food Timeline”)



http://www.pppst.com/ancienthistory.htmlFree power point lessons on topics in Ancient History



Online News sites:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

[wig]

Gail's site has some outstanding activities, also!!!!!

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Creative social studies lessons for grades 7-12
www.learningcenterusa.net

Creative social studies lessons for grades 5-6
www.thesocialstudiescompany.com

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Thanks Gail! I also like the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/index.html
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/

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If it helps, UK-based teachers can get discounts on Ordnance Survey Maps, etc. on the website http://www.dash4it.co.uk by using the code EDVC5267V.

Might be interesting if you're into UK Geography, etc, I guess...?

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I found this website as I looked through the ones you posted Gail. It has review games for high school students. They look like I can use them after lessons to fill the gaps between my lesson and the bell.

www.onelessthing.net

[klkatz]

and primary source documents... free.

http://USHistorySite.com

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I noticed the topic and figured I'd share the following website - www.socialstudieslessons.com. I was searching the net for lesson ideas back in the summer in preparation for this school year but wasn't finding anything worthwhile. Slightly frustrated, I just decided to type socialstudieslessons.com into my browser to see if anything would come up and I lucked out. It's a an actual company's website though...not a free lesson plans site, but they have a ton of professionally done lessons for a number of areas within the field of social studies. I started out using their American history program in September and half a school year later, I am really happy with how it's going. The lesson books (at least the ones I'm using) have a bunch of neat activities for students. Each comes with answer keys and directions on how to execute the lesson. There's only so much you can do to spice up history, but my kids have responded quite well and enjoy the break from lectures. The lessons are organized nicely and include a lot of information compared to much of what I was seeing after perusing many other lesson plans sites.

I don't know if any of you out there will find this website and their materials useful, too, but I just figured I'd share my experience. Hopefully it'll end up helping a few fellow teachers.

[jakesmith]

Thanks....
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I noticed the topic and figured I'd share the following website - www.socialstudieslessons.com. I was searching the net for lesson ideas back in the summer in preparation for this school year but wasn't finding anything worthwhile. Slightly frustrated, I just decided to type socialstudieslessons.com into my browser to see if anything would come up and I lucked out. It's a an actual company's website though...not a free lesson plans site, but they have a ton of professionally done lessons for a number of areas within the field of social studies. I started out using their American history program in September and half a school year later, I am really happy with how it's going. The lesson books (at least the ones I'm using) have a bunch of neat activities for students. Each comes with answer keys and directions on how to execute the lesson. There's only so much you can do to spice up history, but my kids have responded quite well and enjoy the break from lectures. The lessons are organized nicely and include a lot of information compared to much of what I was seeing after perusing many other lesson plans sites.

I don't know if any of you out there will find this website and their materials useful, too, but I just figured I'd share my experience. Hopefully it'll end up helping a few fellow teachers.


Checked out socialstudieslessons.com. It's a nice site. Probably going to give them a shot with one book to see if I like it. THANKS!