Social+Studies

The Starter Sheets on this page are excellent tools to help teach various disciplines of Social Studies.

This website allows for students to listen to some of the most important speeches ever recorded in history. Example Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech. || BBC History Games is a site that allows for students to play historical games ranging from more recent history to ancient history. || This site contains information pertaining to the history of the Cherokee Nation with a look at their current and past culture. This site allows for students to be interactive with maps and historical documents. || This site shows a short news broadcast that is specifically geared for middle and high school students || C-span in the classroom allows students to become involved through primary source documents, videos, and other activities that allows for students to become more involved with civics. || This website has a game on it that is specifically for students to learn the processes and the causes of civic decision making. It allows for students to have a look into the world of civics who are inexperienced. || ==**C-net ** ==
 * [[file:AmericanRhetoric.pdf]]
 * [[file:Civic_Decision_Maker.pdf]]

This is a review and downloading website and has no historical value.

|| Students create an interactive map with an actual city that they then can journey through. Student then leave comments on their maps for other students to see. || Daily Me is a site that allows for students to find the front pages of a wide variety of news sources; while adding their favorite or most important pages to their own page. || This website provides a variety of primary and secondary documents in many different formats over a plethora of historical topics. || Discovery Education Streaming is a service that provides sources for teachers that meet state curriculum standards. This site includes audio files, images, videos, lesson plans, writing prompts, key words, and etc. etc. || This site allows for students to travel the world with an interactive atlas with simple and easy to use directions. || Econtalk is a weekly podcast that discusses solely how economics is seen and used in everyday life. || Fareed Zakaria is a CNN broadcaster who gives a weekly podcast on current international issues. || This site is a valuable because it allows for students to create maps interactively while being able to go to a specific region or something more broadly. They are able alter by adding or subtracting things from these maps to change the landscape. This allows for students to explore the different types of geography across the globe. || This website allows students to play a competitive game where they demonstrate their knowledge of geographical locations. || This website allows students to use general map features to see a satellite view of areas of the world. They can also take virtual tours and view the current weather of an area. || This website allows students to create a virtual tour of an area or location. Pictures can be given of the locations, and they can create a starting point and a stop along the way. || This website goes into great detail about the Cherokee Indian culture, traditions, and locations in the United States that they inhabited. || This website allows students to search any topic in history that they want to know more about. There are informational videos, articles, and games. || This website gives teachers primary resources of many different topics that they can use in their lessons. || This website gives students a step by step process of how to create a free online virtual tour of any place. || This website is useful for teachers and students to find primary resources to use for lessons, research papers, or reference. || This website gives teachers a list of historic land marks along with lesson plans on how to teach the importance of that particular place. || This website gives teachers full length videos as well as lesson plan ideas along with timelines, maps, and primary sources that follow the video content. || This website is useful for teachers, students and parents. There are lesson plans useful for teachers as well as resources for students and parents. || This website gives students the chance to test their geographical knowledge of different countries through a game of multiple choice questions. || This website gives students the ability to focus on a particular country and listen to video casts, viewing resources, and playing games. For teacher there are lesson plans available, and information on the counties for building new lesson plans. || This website gives teachers an abundance of other websites that have information and resources on the Civil Rights. || Students and teachers can create their own timelines on this site while also viewing others for instructional information. || This website allows students to view maps all over the world. They can also create their owns maps here. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * [[file:Discovery Ed Streaming.pdf]]
 * [[file:Geosense.pdf]]
 * [[file:Library_of_Congress.pdf]]
 * [[file:Smithsonian Museum Website.pdf]]
 * [[file:Zee_Maps.pdf]]

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