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SOCIAL STUDIES
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NATIONAL ATLAS Maps from the National Atlas show features such as state boudaries and capitals,and rivers and lakes.
NEWBERRY HISTORIC MAPS For k-12 teachers and students: high quality images of historic map documents illustrate the geographical dimensins of American History.
GEOSENSE Online, one-two player geography based game.
U.S. CENSUS DATA This colorful site connects students to national, state,regional information with click-on map interface.
WORLD OF MAPS Commercial access to thousands of maps and travel books for world-wide destinations-especially Canada.
 
EDUCATION RESOURCES Find out about many topics such as history of mapmaking or the holocaust.
STATES AND CAPITALS Here you can find the capitol of each state, flag, bird, date of statehood, and order, state flower, tree and song.
THE WORLD FACT BOOK Maps of Countries, information on boundaries, climate, natural resources, flag, terrian, gov't, economy, and transportation.
IOWA HISTORY Learn about the State Historical Society of Iowa as a museum of Historical artifacts for Iowans.
BRINGING HISTORY HOME BHH is a curriculum for educators teaching in the K-6th grades.
AMERICAN INDIAN EXHIBITIONS A virtual tour of the National Museum of the Indian Exhibitions: Creation's Journey and All Roads are Good
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION America's Treasure house for learning. A resource collection of American treasure house of historical artifacts and natural collections.
SOCIAL STUDIES BOOKMARKS A starting point for teachers to link to 1200 sites with information about African American History, Asian, European resources.
WORLD BOOK RESOURCE CENTER This site from World Book has educator connections, lesson links, resources, and free material.
NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY This timely site recognizes and celebrates women's accomplishments.
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH RESOURCES A site full of excellent new and featured resources about females in history.
THE HISTORY CHANNEL This site is popular for study guides, classroom resources, multimedia exhibits, and famous speeches.
SHADOW OF THE VALLEY Compare two Cival War historical sites of battle, life, struggle,learning, and culture.
BLACK INVENTOR ONLINE MUSEUM This site provides biographical sketches, and photographs of more than 50 inventors.
AVIATION: FROM SAND DUNES TO SONIC BOOMS Features 100 aircraft, airfields, research labs, military installations, battle sites, launch facilities, & other places that tell about people &events that made the U.S a world leader in aviation.
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG Learn about and explore sites about our country's journey for freedom.
HOLOCAUST Organized by theme, this site uses text, historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips to provide an overview of the Holocaust.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Presents a travel itinerary of 58 historic places across Arizona, Colorado, & New Mexico. I
DISCOVER ATLANTA GEORGIA A travel itinerary of 70 places that tell the story of Atlanta- Its picturesque homes & skyscrapers, tales of former slaves, educators, authors, & millionaires who shaped it.
THREE HISTORIC NEVADA CITIES: CARSON CITY, RENO, VIRGINIA CITY Tells the story of three cities established after the Comstock Lode discovery in 1859 brought a "reverse migration" from California.
KIDS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Secondary school students, but an important aspect of this election: high school students have blazed the campaign trails alongside in the presidential.
U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS: AMERICA COMMUNITY SERVICE SURVEY Very interesting site, with relatively up-to-date information on the changing demographics around the United States.
INFO AND MEMORABILIA ABOUT U.S. PRESIDENTS Winners share the limelight with the defeated in this exibit of U.S presidential campaign memorabilia drawn primarily from the holdings of the Duke University Special Collections Library.
HOW STUFF WORKS This site was recently selected as the "Reference Site of the Year" for current and practical content on everyday equipment, technological tools, weather, and nutrition.
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT Junior Acheivement uses hands-on experiences to help young people understand the ecomomics of life.
CHARACTER COUNTS CHARACTER COUNTS! Is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian character education framework that teaches the Six Pillars Of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
E PALS SITE This one has language options and different book club and other options on the site that could be neat for the children to explore with their E-pals.
JASON PROJECT Join the thrill of global discovery and exploration as students and teachers particioate in an amazing around the world electric connection for classroom communication and projects.
GLOBAL SCHOOL NET FOUNDATION Global SchoolNet, a leader in international online education since 1984, is dedicated to partnering with school, communities and businesses to provide callaborative education and cultural learning activites that prepare students for the workforce and help them to become liberate and responsible global citizens.
IECC IECC is a free service to help teachers link with partners in other countries and cultures for email classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.
FUN SOCIAL STUDIES The Child-friendly newsletter includes worksheets related to the president topic, lesson plans, competions, and much more!
CNN HOMEPAGE Current and archived news coverage of national and world events.
ABC ARTS ONLINE WINGED SCANDALS Designed for children age 6 to 12. Delightful site teaching aid. From Austrailian Broadcasting Coporation, takes visitors through the world of Greek mythology with a number of Flash-enabled movies, intriguing games, and quizzes.
HEARD MUSEUM PHOENIX AZ. This site promotes appreciation and respect for Native American people and their culture heritage or with emphasis on the traditional cultures of the Greater Southwest and the envolving Native American Fine Art Movement .
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SOCIAL STUDIES Social studies educators teach students the content of knowledge, intellectual skills, and democracy.
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND The Teacher Leader Network a program of Southeast Center for Teaching Quality has an on going discussion of No Child Left Behind, with some links to related sites.
TEACHERS PLACE IN CYBERSPACE Designed for k-8 teachers as an interactive of more than12,000 lesson plans, reproductible materials, interactive web site activities, research and reference tools, teacher resources, and author interviews.
QUALITY OF FIELD TRIPS Some teachers created and some students created.
PHOTO VAULT This incredible colorful site is a virtual wonder of photos of anmials, cities, countreis, disasters, insects, plants, monuments, landforms, even amphibians and reptiles.
SOCIAL STUDIES LESSON PLANS The Academy Curricular Exchange has grades k-5 lesson plans authored by teachers.
VIRTUAL FIELD SITES High quality traveling exhibits on the go!
SOCIAL STUDIES LESSON PLANS The Academy Curricular Exchange has grades 6-8 lesson plans authored by teachers.