Social+Studies+Links

=Links for Social Studies Teachers= //Online Resources for **Social Studies** Teachers//

If you discover an interesting resource that you'd like to share, you may add it to the top of the list. Login and click the EasyEdit button. **NEW!** [|//**With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition**//] Through a vast collection of articles, photographs, etc. the Library of Congress is offering an exhaustive exhibition in honor of the bicentennial celebration of President Abraham Lincoln. (3/23/09)

**NEW!** [|//**The Library of Congress As an Embodiment of the American Identity**//] is an 80 page online book exploring aspects of the American Identity such as monuments, architecture, and government are explored. Each section is accompanied by detailed photographs. (3/17/09)

**NEW!** [|//**The Farm Letters**//] is a project that is putting a complete collection of letters and diaries from a Minnesota family living through the Great Depression online. The letters and diaries portray the day to day life of the Linsey family as they try to survive during the Great Depression. (3/14/09)

** NEW! ** //**[|On Board the Titanic]**// is a virtual field trip produced by Discovery. To take the field trip students select one of five characters to be as they set sail on the Titanic. (3/5/09)

The [|//**National Geographic Channel**//]'s video page has some of the world's best documentary films, hundreds of videos that you can browse through, watch, and embed into your own blog or website. (3/5/09)

Browse the entire PBS [|//**American Experience**//] series featuring over 200 films. Watch full films online, download teacher’s guides, go behind the scenes, and learn more about your favorite films. (3/5/09)

[|//**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. (3/3/09) [|//**Tenement Museum**//] is an interactive virtual museum. Students select a male or female character for their passage from Europe to Ellis Island. (2/26/09) The National Archives [|//**Digital Vaults**//] has put together an amazing site where students can create digital content with primary resources. (2/22/09)

[|//**Aztec World**//], an exhibition first mounted by the Field Museum in 2008, provides concise briefings on key aspects of Aztec society (2/20/09)

[|//**Slide Map**//] is a good resource for Geography. Instead of relying on selected images in a book as examples of a country's physical and human geography, you can quickly access an ever expanding collection of images (2/20/09)

[|//**The Mask of Lincoln**//] impressive gallery of Lincoln portraits, all captioned with interesting historical sidebars. The famous cracked-plate image of Lincoln, taken shortly before his assassination, is included (2/12/09) [|//**SHOW®USA**//] choose a topic watch the states on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each state will represent the data for that topic (2/11/09)

[|//**Rome Reborn**//] is an international initiative whose goal is the creation of 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome (2/3/09) [|//**The Gilder Lehrman Institute**//] offers a growing variety of American history resources to assist teachers and students (2/1/09)

[|//**The Gold Rush - Lesson Plans and Resources**//] several resources for teaching about the California Gold Rush of 1849 (2/1/09)

//**[|Scavenger Hunt Through History]/[|Who Said That?]**// two multimedia games which incorporate fun visual and textual elements to provoke a deeper understanding of some of the pioneering figures and groundbreaking events in our nation's history (1/29/09)

Insert a topical widget like this from //[|PBS Teachers Activity Packs]// on your own blog, wiki, or Web site. (1/22/09)

[|//**SnagFilms.com**//] is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free (1/22/09)

//**[|US Library of Congress]**// website is a fantastic place to find digital copies of more than ten million primary sources (1/15/09)

[|//**Shmoop US History**//] See many sides of an issue. Understand how history is relevant today. **(1/13/09)**

[|//**Babelgum-History Channel**//]  free internet TV platform supported by advertising, combines the full-screen video quality of traditional television with the interactive capabilities of the internet, offering professionally produced programming on-demand (1/8/09) //**[|Saving Money in Plain English]**// A video introduction to the magic of compound interest and how it helps money grow over time. (1/7/09)

[|//**U.S. Government Manual: 2008-09 Edition**//] official manuals for most government departments and agencies (1/6/09)

// [|**Museum Box**]// 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. (1/2/09)

//** [|Picturing Modern America]**// interactive exercises designed to deepen students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern America 1880-1920 and build students' skills in analyzing primary sources, especially visual sources

[|//**Utah Education Network**//] Social Studies interactives for grades 7-12

//**[|Social Studies Central]**// is intended to provide resources with a focus on the Social Studies

//**[|The Center for Teaching History with Technology]**// a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses

//**[|Boston Tea Party]**// A better story cannot be found to foreshadow the coming Revolution.

© 2008 Thomas Boito