K-12 Social Studies Resources
This site is a favorite of high school World Studies teachers. It has great classroom handouts, learning modules, active learning links, multi-media links, and reference rooms.
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Conceived in 1993, and online since 1998, Discovering Lewis & Clark is a hyperhistory in progress. It is enhanced by an average of at least one new interpretive episode each month, employing a variety of multimedia techniques. The site focuses on issues, values, discoveries and events relating to the Lewis & Clark Expedition, its preludes, and its aftermath up to the present time.
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National Endowment for the Humanities (click on the 'History & Social Studies' tab) is a great source for lesson plans and websites related to history and social studies.
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Information is well organized and in alphabetical order using key words such as state bird, state flower, etc. Easy to use and elementary student friendly.
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HippoCampus offers multimedia lessons and course materials to help you with your instruction, homework and studies. You can browse multimedia lessons or complete courses, and find help with the topics covered in popular textbooks. Multiple resources are available, for free, for the subjects of American Government, Psychology, and U.S. History.
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Welcome to NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. We want to be the web's one-stop resource for country statistics on everything from soldiers to wall plug voltages. You can also view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, use correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables, and refer to fully integrated encyclopedia with over one million articles.
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Nebraska Public Documents is a collaborative effort between the Nebraska Library Commission, the Nebraska State Historical Society, UNL, and UNO. This project provides free public access to digitized historic annual reports of state agencies in Nebraska for the use of students, scholars, and the general public.
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TeAchnology is an online teacher resource that includes lesson plans, printable worksheets, preformatted rubrics, printable generators, teaching tips and themes, while listing 256,000 reviewed sites. For history, click on the 'Subjects' tab and then 'Social Studies' or 'Daily History' and you will find a wealth of information from teaching tools to lesson plans and worksheets that relate to a variety of topics.
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This website contains historic primary source images and text as well as background information that provides historical, cultural, and literary context to significant events in American history. Additionally the site contains video and audio presentations utilizing professional actors impersonating historical figures and reenacting historical events. The site also contains lesson plans and curriculum units to help educators incorporate these materials in their classroom instruction. The site was developed over time by a collaboration of museums, libraries, individual educators and scholars, and school systems.
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Time Magazine for Kids is aimed at the K-8 grades, and can be used for a variety of topics--especially current events.
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Welcome to TweenTribune.com, a daily news site for tweens. Each day we post links to the day's most compelling news from a tween's perspective. Stories chosen for TweenTribune are selected by tweens working closely with professional journalists. Tweens can submit links to stories they'd like to share, submit their own stories and photos, and comment on the stories they read.
Other Useful Websites:
Wars & Conflicts
Liberty! The American Revolution
The War of 1812
U.S. Mexican War
The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War
World War I
The Korean War Project
The Wars for Vietnam
The Gulf War (Frontline)
The Persian Gulf War
Understanding the Iraq War (Sites to help provide students with the critical backstory)
Global Connections - the Middle East
Iraq and the War on Terror
Iraq - The Reach of War
Iraq's New Beginning
Eras of American History
The Guilded Age
People's Century - 1900-1999
Prosperity and Thrift - The Coolidge Era
America in the 1930's
Surviving the Dust Bowl
"We Didn't Start the Fire" - Billy Joel