Searchable database of historical maps...
The world of politics, presidential races, and the campaign trail is revealed in our collection of text, audio, and images. In honor of the Presidential Inauguration this month, we have assembled lessons on a variety of topics, from political cartoons to historical songs to creating campaign posters. Explore The White House Historical Association: Classroom , where students and teachers can explore many arts-based activities, including a timeline of important musical events at the White House and a curatorial online gallery of paintings housed in the White House.
K-12 resource for students interested in Asian and Asian American culture and history. Provides classroom materials, games, and activities.
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids is brought to the World Wide Web as a service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). Ben's Guide serves as the educational component of GPO Access , GPO's service to provide the official online version of legislative and regulatory information. 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.
General Information on Teaching Resources, Electronic Field Trips, "A Day in the Life" Series, Study Visits, Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute, Classroom-Tested Lesson Plans and more!
The information and lesson plans in this guide will increase the studentˆås interest and appreciation of the cultural and natural heritage of Native Americans in Washington state and the United States. This project provides current, as well as historically correct, information that can be easily adapted or integrated into the Social Studies units of all public schools. These curriculum materials and lesson plans are designed to, (1) be user-friendly to high school teachers who do not have a background in Northwest tribal or Native American issues, and (2) be in alignment and in fulfillment of the relevant EALRˆås pertaining to each lesson.
Follow a family of 5 children as they travel around the world. Includes bios of the kids, journal entries, photos, and interviews with people around the world.
This is a simple project, offered to classes all over the world via the Internet. Your class commits to exchanging picture postcards (purchased, computer or handmade) with all other participants. This "Class to Class" exchange is appropriate for all ages, for public and private schools, for youth groups and for homeschools. We encourage participation from higher education, too!
The David Rumsey Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children’Äôs and manuscript maps. The online collection is an expanding cross section of images designed to highlight the depth and breadth of the collection.
GIS users can access several popular geographic data sets in a variety of formats that are downloadable for immediate use with your GIS software. You can preview these data sets and then download selected areas in a ready-to-use GIS format such as an ESRI shapefile. Some of the data may be downloaded for free while other data is not.
This is the premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.
Resources arranged by U.S. History and World History as well as by grade level.
These web pages focus on utilizing current news stories for educational purposes in working with adults. Teachers can use the lessons for group activities and students can work at their own pace for individualized learning. The "Featured Story" is an abbreviated news story of a current event, outlined and edited for easier reading.
The Encyclopedia of Days is a work in progress that includes descriptions of holidays from all over the world. Most of these holidays are grouped alphabetically by country, religion, or topic. Religous entries include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism. There are calendar related topics like epact and dominical letter.
Each Facts for Features consists of a collection of statistics pertinent to a particular holiday or special observance; they serve as background for reporters who write or broadcast feature stories. The data are gleaned from demographic and economic subject areas across the Census Bureau.
The Geography Network is a global network of geographic information users and providers. It provides the infrastructure needed to support the sharing of geographic information among data providers, service providers, and users around the world. Through the Geography Network, you can access many types of geographic content including dynamic maps, downloadable data, and more advanced Web services.
This site is for anyone interested in finding out or teaching about global issues. They aim to provide activities and information about global issues and share good and bad experiences of using the Internet as a resource for global education, particularly in school.
This site has links to lots of map resources.
Includes: The Siege of Charlestown, The Battle of Saratoga , Boston and its Environs - Circa 1800, The Siege of Quebec, The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Gen. Washington's Battle Engagements in 1776, North America - 1797, The 13 Colonies, The United States -- at the Peace Treaty of 1783, The Northwest Territory -- 1787, and The United States in 1800.
The Perry-Castaˆ±eda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin
History WORKS concentrates on building teachers' knowledge of six core themes of American History, each broad enough to encourage historical narratives and sequential patterns in history, not just moments in time: 1. Faces and Places: American History through Ohio Biography 2. Turning Points: The Constitution and American Democratic Institutions 3. The United States in the World: American Foreign Relations 4. Migration and Immigration: The Peopling of America 5. Common and Uncommon Cents: American Economic History 6. Differing Perspectives: Social Movements and Social Change
By involving over one hundred of the Columbus Public Schools' elementary school teachers, this program will contribute to a renewal of American history in the nation's 16th largest school district and will lead to increased student interest and achievement in American history. Over three years, History WORKS II: Building Foundations will increase teachers' understanding of two core themes in American history: 1. Changing Faces and Places: Exploration, Immigration, and Frontiers 2. Taking a Stand: The Power of Constitutional History
The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.
Great site for World History - includes areas for people, events, and maps.
Search the Learning to Give Web site for lessons and curriculum materials. The lessons, units, and materials that are part of the curriculum contain both academic content about philanthropy, and skill development activities that involve students in giving and serving their communities. Educators will find hundreds of teacher-created, standards-based lesson plans and resources with creative connections to service-learning, character education and civic engagement.
Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful.
Educator page leads to information on primary sources, lesson plans, profession-related web sites, and FAQs.
Everything you always wanted to know about the second half of the 16th Century in Elizabethan England!!
The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association's museum and library collections provide a rich resource for students of all ages. The material below has been developed by Massachusetts teacher teams and PVMA staff to provide access to the PVMA collections in alignment with the Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework. For more information about the curricula authors see Curriculum Credits.
Extensive list of resources for studying the Middle Ages.
Mr.Dowling's Electronic Passport is a journey through time and space. Educators can download lessons and homework assignments related to historical topics.
This project offers a fun and exciting way to learn geography and map skills plus provide an increased social awareness of schools/communities around the world. The children will develop and enhance their communication skills by exchanging Electronic Postcards with schools from around the world.
Locate nearly any place on Earth, find country facts, and search and print historical, weather, and population maps, and more with our dynamic atlas.
Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards’Äîand to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life.
Called "one of the last bastions of serious journalism on TV" by the AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN, NOW goes beyond the noisy churn of the news cycle and gives viewers the context to explore their relationship with the larger world. In an era where commercial values in journalism risk overwhelming democratic values and corporate interests can prevail over the public interest, NOW continues to stand apart as what THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR called the "one program going against the grain."
Using the Ohio Social Studies Academic Content Standards, the Ohio Historical Society has tailored educational programs to enhance subject matter that is sometimes difficult to convey in the classroom. In this web site, teachers of history and social studies will find online resources, field trip information, distance learning opportunities, and lesson plans.
Pictures from around the globe taken by some of the over 150,000 Peace Corps volunteers while they were on their assignments.
Welcome to Puzzles Of The Earth, a comprehensive web site dedicated to teaching the relatively young geography theory of Plate Tectonics which is responsible for many of the geographical features and events found in our lives. They have worked hard to bring to screen a wide array of useful geography knowledge. In addition to presenting their information on a lesson guide, they also added several other interactive features like quizzes, games and a discussion board for a fuller experience of this site.
Picture books are used to invite students to engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender. These books ’Äúshow how people can begin to take action on important social issues . . . and help us question why certain groups are positioned as ’Äòothers’Äô’Äù(Harste, 2000, p.507). They challenge students to confront the injustice of social barriers that separate human beings from one another and to examine the role of prejudice and stereotypes in sustaining these barriers.
Current Events for Kids - with links for Teachers, Kids and Parents. Includes reproducible extension activities...
Direct access to the vast educational resources of the museum, including online activities, and lesson ideas for teachers.
Non-profit organization in Colorado provides publications, programs, cultural projects, and monthly featured lesson plans. Very forward-thinking site.
Lesson plans and project activities in a range of areas including ancient worlds, geography and multimedia studies.
Lots of links to online lesson plans and other materials for Social Studies teachers. Most of the resources list the grade level.
Contained within this site are thousands of links to on-line resources about the constitution, hundreds of book references to specific constitution areas and a free downloadable off-line study guide. All of this is free for you to enjoy and learn from.
Wonderful list of links to all sorts of sites that teachers will find helpful in the classroom.
This generator can be used to make time lines of up to 9 events of your choice.
Welcome to a website designed to bring world cultures to your fingertips. This website is to be a resource for students to teach other students about cultures by entering information into a wiki. This telecollaborative project is easy, fun, and most importantly a way for students to teach one another about the worlds beautiful cultures.
Some people think elementary school students should be coloring inside the lines, circling words in a search, or copying sentences from the board. Maybe that's okay, but we'd rather you figure out what life's all about. You know, what about this earth we live on and share with all the plants and animals. Also, what about people who live far away? What are their lives like? These aren't easy questions so you'll be working as a group to combine your ideas. Be sure to read the evaluation rubric for this WebQuest before going on to The Big Question and Your Task.
Lots of links to resources about the European Enlightenment.
Ever wonder what the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Dolley Madison made her ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? Food is the fun part of social studies! The tricky part is finding recipes you can make in a modern kitchen, with ingredients bought at your local supermarket and bring into school to share with your class. This page is for you! We are also stocking up on teacher and parent resources.
American history, world history, and geography sections are available. Short lessons, activities, online quizzes, geography scavenger hunts, and more make studying history fun.
The site contains selected maps from the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota.
This page is intended to provide a convenient and comprehensive set of links to all Internet resources worldwide which deal with aspects of medieval science, both in Western and other cultures.
Medium aevum -- Medieval or The Middle Ages. We think of knights in shining armor, lavish banquets, wandering minstrels, kings, queens, bishops, monks, pilgrims, and glorious pageantry. In film and in literature, medieval life seems heroic, entertaining, and romantic. In reality, life in the Middle Ages, a period that extended from approximately the fifth century to the fifteenth century in Western Europe, was sometimes all these things, as well as harsh, uncertain, and often dangerous.
The goal of creating a "perfect" government is the specific focus of this WebQuest. You will apply the ideas of the Enlightenment to construct a government based on progress, reason and rational thought that will ensure equality and justice for all.
Everything you want to know about the lif and time of Ben Franklin from the Franklin Institute Online.
A site with links to lots of historical timelines.
Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance provides educators with free educational materials that promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity in the classroom and beyond. Our magazine and curriculum kits have earned Oscar nominations, an Academy Award, and more than a dozen honors from the Association of Educational Publishers (EdPress) including the Golden Lamp Award.
Good list of sites for teaching about U.S. Government - arranged by subject.
Paul Loeb has spent thirty years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment - asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain. The author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time, Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy & Action on the American Campus, Nuclear Culture and Hope in Hard Times, his new book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While, will be published in 2004. On Nov. 4, 2003, he appeared on a live, interactive CET broadcast to discuss civic engagement with students and the educational community. The broadcasts are a collaborative effort of CET, The Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation and Northern Kentucky University's Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement. They are funded by KnowledgeWorks Foundation and NKU's Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement, with additional support from WGBH.
Some of the curriculum units are geared to students in the middle to junior high school years. There are ten such units presented as a series called SPINDLE STORIES. Other units are used in both Junior High and High School classes - and sometimes at the college level.
The Website for the history, science and engineering of cryptanalysis in World War II; created by Tony Sale.