|
Social Studies
General Sites |
Government and Civics |
Culture and Society |
Economics |
Geography |
Historical Perspective
General Sites
- American Presidents
- This site has everything you ever wanted to know about the American presidents. It includes teacher guides, reference material, key events of each presidency, and more.
- Biographical Dictionary
- This searchable dictionary includes more than 28,000 individuals from ancient times to the present.
- Biography.com
- Lots of great biographies from past to present and covers all areas of studies. Lesson plans are also available to use with individual biography sections.
Level - High School, Middle School
- Kentucky Kids Project
- Fourth grade students from across Kentucky participated in a Home State project. Students researched various aspects of the Commonwealth. These include but are not limited to history, economy, geography, culture. Students will enjoy seeing what other fourth graders have found and created. Included are a jeopardy game to test learning about Kentucky from the website.
Government and Civics
- 50 States
- This site has fast facts, capitals, trivia and other information about each state.
- Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
- "This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben's Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids."
- Kids Voting USA
- This website contains links for social studies teachers and ideas for involving children in the political process.
- POTUS - Presidents of the United States
- This link comes from the Internet Public Library and provides background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents
Culture and Society
- AskAsia
- AskAsia offers a variety of educational resources for the K-12 classroom, with lesson plans, readings and resource center locator. All lessons, images and maps have been copyright-cleared and may be downloaded for use in the classroom.
- Kids @ National Geographic
- National Geographic's site designed for kids. Contains great information on the world.
- Kids World 2000
- A compilation of kid-friendly Internet sites on topics including geography, government, science, sports, and fun.
- Multicultural Pavilion
- This website contains resources and teaching tools for multicultural curriculum activities.
- UN CyberSchoolBus
- The United Nations have created this wonderful educational site to help students learn the UN and other countries.
- The World Almanac for Kids
- This is a kid's version of the World Almanac. It includes information on
all countries.
Economics
- Corn Curriculum
- This site is produced by the National Corn Growers Association and has lessons for the classroom on corn.
- Economic Education Web
- This mega site includes teaching materials, online lessons and activities, teaching ideas for integrating the web into the classroom, online journals and documents and more.
- Econopolis!
- Students learn all about economics as they visit the community of Econopolis.
- EduStock
- Free real time stock market simulation for high school students learning what the stock market is and how it works.
Geography
- National Geographic
- This site from the National Geographic Society includes lesson plans, maps and geography links.
- Postcards from America
- This website lists all kinds of information about each of the 50 states in an easy to read and graphic format.
Historical Perspective
- American Civil War
- This website provides general resources, biographical information, histories
and bibliographies, documentary records, images, information about battles
and campaigns, regimental histories and much,much more.
- American Memory
- "American Memory is a web site created by the Library of Congress. It provides
public access to over five million historical items, presented in over 80
thematic collections through the World Wide Web. These items reflect the collective
American memory, its history and culture. The items include unique and rare
documents, photographs, films, and audio recordings." Teachers be sure to
look at the Leaning page linked below.
- American Memory
Learning Page
- "This web site was created to assist educators as they use the American
Memory web site to teach about United States history and culture. The site
provides tips and tricks for using the American Memory collections, as well
as frameworks, activities, and lessons that provide context for their use.
It will be useful to life-long learners of all ages."
- Ancient
History, Legend & Myth - Focus on the Near East
- A listing of other websites, this site is good for articles and other myth
and folklore information on the Near East. Includes links to chronologies,
articles, archeological information, museums and myths.
Level - High School
Recommended by - Jerry Parks
- History Channel
- You can print out lesson plans to go with the topics. Ask your school library
to record certain programs and build a great video collection.
Level - High School
- Kentuckiana
Digital Library
- Explore and search for primary historical resources from the special collections
and archives of Kentucky. Find full civil war diaries of Kentucky soldiers,
photos of appalachia by Doris Ullmann, oral history transctripts, old recordings
of kentucky fiddlers, and more.
- Kentucky Association of Teachers
of History
- "KATH is an interdisciplinary service organization for all those concerned
about improving the quality of history education in Kentucky. Members include
elementary, middle school, high school, and college and university teachers,
as well as administrators and public historians."
- National
Archives
- This site from the National Archives contains reproducible copies of primary
historical documents from the Archives and teaching activities to use with
the documents.
- Teaching with
Primary Sources
- Developed by the Archive Resource Center, this page has links to a discussion
group and three federal agencies's pages on how to teach using their resources.
Do you know of a good website for social science that
should be included? Suggest
a Website!
Last Updated:
Friday, 15-Aug-2008 15:08:19 EDT
|
