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Students:
Language Arts
Wacky
Web Tales
Enjoy hours of fun making your own stories on the screen.
All you have to do is choose your story and add nouns,
verbs, adjectives and adverbs to personalize it.
Giggle
Poetry
Enjoy the silly poetry of Bruce Lansky.
PBS
Kids
An array of games, stories, music, and learning activities
for kids. Many from popular PBS programs.
Between
the Lions
Stories, online games and printable offline activity sheets
for beginning readers. From PBS.
Students:
Social Studies
The
White House for Kids
Learn about the White House and the President through fun
and exciting activities.
States
Web Games
Learn the locations, capitals, abbreviations and over 500
important facts about our 50 states.
fiftystates.com
Teaching and learning resources on all fifty
states.
What
is the capital city of ...
?
An interactive game that helps students learn capital
cities.
Maps/Collections
National
Geographic MapMachine
Find numerous types of maps of countries and continents
worldwide.
National
Geographic One-Stop
Research
As the name implies, a searching tool for numerous online
resources.
Library
of Congress Map Collections: 1500 &endash;
2003
Part of the famous Library of Congress American Memories
Collection
How
Far Is It?
An interactive tool that allows users to calculate the
distance between two places.
Free
Blank Outline Maps of the Countries and Continents of the
World
A great resource for social studies teachers.
Houghtin
Mifflin Outline Maps
Another great resource for social studies
teachers.
fiftystates.com
Blank Outline State Maps
Another great resource for social studies
teachers.
World
War II Poster Collection
The Government Publications Department at Northwestern
University Library has a comprehensive collection of over
300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset
of war through 1945.
Albert
Hoxie Slide Collection Online
Database
A work in progress online database of the Albert Hoxie Slide
Collection owned by the UCLA Department of History. The
Albert Hoxie Slide Collection consists of over 160,000
slides taken by Albert Hoxie of art and architecture from
all periods and from around the world, but focusing mainly
on Western Civilization. The 160,000 slides are a result of
Albert Hoxie's annual photography trips around the
world.
Social
Studies Resources for Teachers and Students
Digital
Classroom
To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use
archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom
provides materials from the National Archives and methods
for teaching with primary sources.
GeoExplorer
Geography Portal is your guide to Geography on the
web.
World
History and Geography
A resource for high school teachers of world history and
geography.
World
Geography Quiz
Improve your Geography Skills with a fun interactive Quiz.
Each Geography quiz covers the countries of a continent or
geographic area of the world.
GovSpot
Government and civics information portal that simplifies the
search for online regional, state, national and
international government resources including election
information.
The
Civic Mind: The Source for Civics Education and
Information
Civics lessons for communities and classrooms
AP
Government Links
Links to resources for Advanced Placement U.S. Government
students doing research.
Geology
Labs On-Line
Virtual Earthquake, Virtual Dating, Virtual Coast.
Interactive computer programs designed to demonstrate
geologic concepts. Itended to enhance the learning and
teaching of Geology and other Earth Science courses at the
College and High School AP level.
The
Learning Web by the U.S. Geological
Survey
Sections for students, teachers and explorers (anyone
interested in natural sciences).
U.S.
Geological Survey
A searchable site about the work of the U.S. Geological
Survey
Our
Documents
Featuring 100 milestone documents of American history from
the National Archives. Includes images of original primary
source documents, lesson plans, teacher and student
competitions, and educational resources.
CongressLink:
Know your Congress
A site that educates about Congress, the Constitution, the
legislative process (long and short versions), current
Congressional leadership, and Congressional staff
positions.
History
Matters
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S.
History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web
resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S.
history.
National
History Day
Non-profit academic program designed to promote the study of
history. Includes information on upcoming contests and
participation, past winners, and recommended links to
history resources.
Best
History Websites
A portal created for students, history educators, and
general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated
for usefulness and accuracy, that will help you study or
teach a wide variety of topics and periods in
History.
Adventure
Learning Foundation
Creates curricula which follow online adventure learning
expeditions as they travel around the world. Includes
resources for use in the K-12 classroom.
American
President: Presidential History
Resources
Includes lesson plans, web resources, essays, historical
documents, and a glossary.
TimeLab
2000
Presented by the History Channel, this is the official site
for the TimeLab 2000 segues with the write-ups available
publicly for most.
Social
Studies
This page is designed for K-12 social studies teachers and
students. It also has information and topics that are useful
to pre-service social studies instructors and students. The
World Wide Web offers almost unlimited opportunities for
social studies education and we hope that this page will
benefit both the novice and the experienced Web
user.
Cultural
/ Educational Artefacts
Created by teachers for teachers. Give students the
opportunity to learn about history by feeling and touching
actual parts of history.
Study
Guide for Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History
Project
This study guide serves as a supplement to the radio series,
Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History project. This
resource for teachers includes lesson plans, background on
oral history collection, instructions for video interviews
and web page construction, and links to oral history
archives.
Repositories
of Primary Sources
A listing of over 4000 web-sites describing holdings of
manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs,
and other primary sources for the research
scholar.
WebbieWorld:
History Education
Small annotated directory of websites of interest to
students and educators.
Smithsonian
Education
The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
provides leadership in education at the Smithsonian and
produces a variety of programs, services, and resources for
the education and museum communities.
The
Copernicus Education
Gateway
EdGate collaborates with the K-12 educational community to
improve student achievement by providing user-friendly,
secure and personalized access to a vast array of
high-quality, organized Internet resources and
tools.
George
Lucas Educational
Foundation
A storyteller for education, GLEF profiles how teachers and
students around the country are enacting many inspiring
stories and transforming their schools, often with a strong
assist from technology. Edutopia.
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