Social Studies Links
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Enter your name as you would pronounce it and see it in hieroglyphics!
Go West Across America with Lewis & Clark. Go West Across America with Lewis & Clark is a National Geographic Society site which allows middle and high school students to join the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. Their goal is to chart rivers, make friends with natives, open the West to trade, and look for a Northwest Passage. Additional features include a map to trace their progress, excerpts from the explorers' diaries, and a forum to share their own adventures with others online.
Jamestown Online Adventure.The year is 1607. You are the captain of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia in this Flash-based historical simulation for secondary school students. Will your colony survive and prosper or will it become another 'Lost Colony'?
Mr. Neals's Virtual Classroom includes powerpoints on a variety of topics.
Revolutionary War: Fun Zone. Online games and activities relating to the American Revolution for middle school students. Java capable browser required.
Social Studies Electronic Fieldtrips (LETSNet). Developed by a collaborative team at Michigan State University, the site provides teachers and students (K-12) with online units. Each lesson within the unit contains: a brief description, objectives, materials and resources, activity description, and Internet resources
Virtual Middle School Library ( a page of links)
Journey to the Ballot Box - Election 2000 -- In this Internet project supported by "The Learning Space," classrooms across the United States will work together to determine the outcome of each state's presidential election as based on samples of other participating classrooms. As the project proceeds, classes will look at the presidential campaign issues and statistics and predict winners. Get your kids involved in the 2000 elections! (Also check out Yahoo Politics.)
Primary Source Material from the National Archive -- To encourage teachers of students at all levels touse archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources. Includes information on workshops and summer institutes for educators and opportunities for collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration's education program.
Political Cartoons--Peg Cagle is a middle school teacher in Los Angeles. Her husband Daryl is a syndicated cartoonist and vice president of the National Cartoonists Society. Daryl maintains a website full of nationally syndicated cartoons by many artists, including several Pulitzer Prize winners. Peg and Daryl have created lesson plans that suggest ways teachers can use editorial cartoons to increase student interest in current events. It's all free and great fun, too! And it includes a teacher's guide. See, for example, middle school current events
This Day In History Find out what happened on any day of the year, including: This Day in Automotive History - This Day in Civil War History - This Day in Crime History - This Day in Literary History - This Day in Old West History - This Day in Technology History - This Day in Vietnam War History - This Day in Wall Street History - This Day in Cold War History - This Day in Entertainment History, and more
WorldAtlas.com An atlas of maps, flags, geography facts, lists and more, on most every destination on the planet!
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Online Games
Mr. Nussbaum links to social studies games