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SOL Resources

History and Social Science Standards of Learning

• Web Resources from the Department of Education--index page that lists standards by grade level.  A listing of resources by SOL at each grade level.  The SOL is listed and under it is a listing of specific websites that offer information that pertains to the list standard.  This was compiled by the College of William and Mary and the Department of Education.

 Virginia SOL--online tests and links

• Created by a Northern Virginia Elementary School, this set of links provides by subject and grade level, practice tests online.  Additionally they supply links to web sites they found of interest.

SOL Links by Standard--University of Richmond

• A listing of resources by SOL at each grade level.  The SOL is listed and under it is a listing of specific websites that offer information that pertains to the list standard.   Additionally the sites are coded, lesson or activity sites, teacher information sites, student sites.

Texas Test of Basic Skills

• This is the location of the released items from the Texas Standards test.  There are many questions here in social studies.  Remember Harcourt Brace the author of our tests, writes the test for Texas also.  You may find some additional test items with the same format used in Virginia.

New York Regents Exam Site

• Here is the location of the released items for the New York Regents exam.  You may find some test items that will assist in working with your students in preparing them for the Virginia SOL tests.

Regent's Prep Web Site

• The goal of this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant.  Great list of links to subject matter information.

History Matters

• Welcome to History Matters, a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history.
• http://historymatters.gmu.edu/syllabi/syll_reag.html  syllabus loaded with web sites of use for US History 1877 to the present.

Global Studies

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listglobalstst.html
World History help from the Global Studies Regent's Exam.  You could go out and spend a lot of money on tutors or you could guide yourself to a review for the Global Studies Regents exam. Or you could do both. Try this. There are lots of practice questions, old Regents exams, reviews of topics and games to help you do well on the Global Regents.

World History Practice Tests

• http://www.phschool.com/curriculum_support/brief_review/global_history/index.html

• Welcome to PH@School's Brief Review in Global History and Geography Web site. Here you can test your knowledge with multiple-choice questions from actual Regents exams.

Test Prep

• Links page to sites taht offer test items, tips, and other ideas about test preparation.
• http://www.tier.net/scclibrary/testprep.htm

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