Teaching Ideas Using the Internet

 

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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.

http://schoolnet.connect.com

Thematic Units--Connecting Students--units in various subjects

http://www.connectingstudents.com/themes

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.htm##LessonPlans

http://smplanet.com/

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.surfnetkids.com

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

http://www.h-net.org/~highs/

Reading Quest Making Sense in Social Studies http://www.readingquest.org/ SCORE (California Resource Links and Activities for History)

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/

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

https://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.

http://www.adventure.com/

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

https://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 https://cynthiasparks.tripod.com/Sourcessumhand.htm