Teaching Ideas Using the Internet
Hot Link Copy of
this Document
http://cynthiasparks.tripod.com/summer.htm
General Teacher Resources
Internet Content
for the Classroom--Marco Polo Gateway
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/index.aspx
The History
Channel http://www.historychannel.com/
Innovative
Classroom--Lesson ideas, activities for students, time
management in the
classroom. Great set of certificates to
use with
students (go to
Archive, Certificates).
http://www.innovativeclassroom.com/
Core Knowledge
Lesson Plans
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/K.htm
History Links http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/history.html
History and Social
Studies for K-12 Teachers
http://my.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
Eduplace by
Houghton Mifflin http://www.eduplace.com/index.html
Free
Stuff for History and Social Studies
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/freehistory/
School
Net--Gateway to lesson plans, units, activities in various subject areas.
Thematic
Units--Connecting Students--units in various subjects
http://www.connectingstudents.com/themes
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.htm##LessonPlans
http://people2.clarityconnect.com/webpages/kdarsons/oconunit/index.html
Virtual
tours--index of sites http://www.virtualfreesites.com/us-gov.html
Sites for Kids
http://www.smplanet.com/kids/history.html
Biography
Maker
http://www/bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker2.htm
Lesson plan sites
for Social Studies/History
http://www.smplanet.com/teachers/hotlists.html
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/k-12.html
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Teaching
Strategies
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html#TeachingStrategies
High School
Net—Online Social Studies Curriculum Resource
Reading Quest
Making Sense in Social Studies http://www.readingquest.org/
SCORE (California Resource Links and Activities for History)
Teacher Lesson
Ideas Site
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/resources_sharp/socialstudies.html
What Do Maps Show?
Lessons
http://mac.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/teachers-packets/mapshow/mapshowindex.html
Social Studies
Heaven (Links to resources)
http://www.salem.k12.va.us/shs/ss/otherhistory.html
Social Studies
School Service Online Activities
http://catalog.socialstudies.com/c/@6Ef1iNuk8T2ZA/Pages/activities.html
Social Studies
Sources http://education.indiana.edu/~socialst/
Spartacus—British
Online History Resource http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
Yahooligans Links
Page for History and Social Science
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/school_bell/social_studies/
Hitchhikers Guide to American History
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/guide/guide.html
ABC Teach http://www.abcteach.com/
The History
Guide http://www.historyguide.org/
HyperHistory http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
History/Social
Studies for K-12 Teachers http://execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
School History
Online from Great Britain http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/
History
Alive! http://www.historyalive.com/default.asp
Graphic Organizers
http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html
SCORE –Organizer Chart (Excellent Resource)
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm
Organizers
http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/
Graphic Organizers
http://www.bakersfield.org/keswp/organizers.html
Lesson Plans
http://n103dept.matc.edu/faculty/sorensen/Lesson11/
Graphic Organizers
http://tlc.ai.org/graphorg.htm
Economics
Global Grocery
List http://www.landmark-project.com/ggl/index.html
Check out the
economics of food prices—16 years of data.
US Mint for Kids http://www.usmint.gov/kids/flashIndex.cfm
Economics Is Fun
http://members.tripod.com/cindysparks
Gateway at Cornell
University
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/ArtSocGatewat/economics.html
Elementary
Economics SOL/Literature Connections
Excellent site
with links to lessons that integrate literature and the economics strand of the
Virginia Standards of Learning
http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webunits/economics/lessonplans.html
Economics/Literature
Connections
The Goat in the
Rug
http://ecedweb.unamaha.edu/lit_goat.htm
Can’t You Make Them
Behave, King George?
http://www.mcps.k12.ms.us/curriculum/socialstd/grade5/Cant_Behave.html
Novels with
Literature connections
http://members.aol.com/DonnAmCiv/Literature
Mr. Donn’s History
Site http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/American.html
Connections for 32
books to the Economics Strand
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/Econ_Geog.html
Civics Connections
Congress for Kids http://www.congressforkids.net/
Center for Civic
Education http://www.civiced.org/index.php
Ben’s Guide http://bensguide.gpo.gov/ Civics web site
full of ideas, lessons, activities. Fully
teaches the branches of government.
Knowledge
Adventure Home Page--Lesson ideas, games, and activities.
POTUS (President
of the United States) http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
PBS Kids Democracy
Project http://www.pbs.org/democracy/kids/
Bill of Rights Rap
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/3416/socialstud.html#Government
White House for
Kids http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/
History and Geography
Links to History
and Government sites
http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/American.html
http://www.clearvue.com/rsocial.html
http://members.tripod.com/~RWallsTeacher/index-3.html
The Fifty States http://www.50states.com/
Hypertext of
American History http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/
African Studies
Resources K-12
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html
Library of
Congress American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/
Library of
Congress America’s Story
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
Archiving Early
America http://www.earlyamerica.com/
Angel Island: Immigration through the Pacific gateway
http://www.internationalchannel.com/education/angelisland/
Ellis Island
Immigration http://www.internationalchannel.com/education/ellis/
Adventures in
History, Art and Science http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/adventure.php
Susan B. Anthony
House http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/
Talk To Famous
People from the Past http://www.talkingto.co.uk/
Technology
Timeline http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=7092
American Civil War
Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
The First Thanksgiving http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/index.htm
The History Place http://www.historyplace.com/
The Pony Express http://www.xphomestation.com/frm-history.html
The Degree Confluence Report http://www.confluence.org/index.php
The
goal of the site/project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer
degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location.
Journey on the
Oregon Trail
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq58/page1.htm
End of the Oregon
Trail http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/histhome.html
Along the Oregon
Trail http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Sites.html
Explorers from
Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/indexa.shtml
CNN for Kids http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/fyi/
Colonial Hall http://www.colonialhall.com/
Colonial
Williamsburg Website http://www.history.org/History/index.cfm
Colonial
Williamsburg WebQuest
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/Colonial%20Williamsburg/index.html
Awesome Stories http://www.awesomestories.com/index2.htm
This site
interactively allows users to examine the actual documents, pictures, graphics,
and other primary resources that are the backbone of the story. This site is
fascinating. It takes categories (such as history, biography, disasters, etc)
and then lists events, people... that fall into those generic categories and
gives authentic information about those events, people - primary resources!!
Great Books Online http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
Ben Franklin: Glimpses of the Man http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
Bits of History
Online http://www.schoolmarm.org/historybits/
this library was designed for students or anyone interested in
conducting historical research.
Boundaries of the
United States Animation
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.html
Images
of the West
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/FRONTIER/Image/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/lesson_plans/lesson05.htm
lesson plan
In Search of
Heroes http://www.graceproducts.com/
Jamestown Online
Adventure http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
Liberty (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
Life As A Slave
WebQuest http://www.davidson.k12.nc.us/webquests/slavequ/slavequ.htm
Abraham
Lincoln: Timeline for Kids http://www.berwickacademy.org/lincoln/lincoln.htm
Martin Luther
King, Jr. A Tribute http://www.life.com/Life/mlk/
Seattle Times King
Site http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/index.html
Outline Maps http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/maps.htm
Transcontinental
Railroad http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=253
World War II
Eyewitness: Pearl Harbor http://teacher.scholastic.com/pearl/index.htm
Anne
Frank WebQuest
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq11/afrank.htm
Diary of Anne
Frank WebQuest
http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/webquest/gruber/default.htm
Anne Frank: A WebQuest
http://corydon.shcsc.k12.in.us/academic/al/Anne/anne.htm
World War II and
the Atomic Bomb http://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/A-bomb/History/Damages.html
Documents of
Freedom
http://ushist.org/documents/index.html
Sole mates: The History of Shoes http://www.centuryinshoes.com/intro.html
NYC Tenement
Museum http://www.wnet.org/archive/tenement
National Kids
Trust http://www.trustkids.org
National Archive
of Speeches through American History http://douglas.speech.nwu.edu
The History Place http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/
Liberty: The American Revolution (PBS Series) http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
Marching Tour of
the American Revolution http://www.ushistory.org/march/index.html
The Underground
Railroad http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/
US Geography
Interactive http://www.scottbryce.com/us_geo/
Harriet Tubman and
the Underground Railroad http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html
Journey thru
Slavery: Africans in American (PBS
Series) http://www.pbs.org/wghh/aia
Fast Facts
Geography http://www.theus50.com/
Walk Through the
American Revolution http://www.mce.k12tn.net/revolutionary_war/american_revolution.htm
Westward Bound http://www.sd129.org/goodwin/index.htm
National
Geographic Xpeditions http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/
Poetry and Music
of the War Between the States http://users.erols.com/kfraser/
Popular Songs in
American History http://www.contemplator.com/america/index.html
Review
Virginia Studies
Practice Tests for the Virginia SOL to 1861 http://www.virginiasol.com/test/1861.htm
Virginia Studies
Practice Tests 1861-Present
http://virginiasol.com/test/civwar.htm
Check Out Primary
Sources http://cynthiasparks.tripod.com/Sourcessumhand.htm