Teachers and Staff:  Social Studies

See also: Class subject resources, Social Studies; Online Subscription Databases

ClassBrain This educational resource site for students, parents, and teachers includes games, homework help, state reports, current news, and a free e-mail newsletter for kids. *Please note: This site contains advertising and links to advertising.  Provide direct links to content for student use. Students may not sign up for email newsletter in school.

http://classbrain.com/

Cold War Sites:

CNNinteractive

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/

The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world.

http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409

The Cuban Missle Crisis from Encarta

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761579929

                                                                                                                                   

The Cold War Museum interesting photos, posters and trivia game

http://www.coldwar.org/

The Soviet Archives Exhibit from the Library of Congress

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/entrance.html#tour

US News Online: Cold War Archive

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/991018/histarch.htm

Fallout Can Be Fun: How the Cold War Civil Defense Programs Became a Farce

http://slate.msn.com/id/2078892/

Civil Defense in Nebraska

http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0900/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0900/stories/0901_0130.html

PBS Red Files include the secret moon mission, sports wars, propaganda

http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/

CNN Cold War Teacher’s Guide, interactive, check the Culture section

http://turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/cw_start.html

Curricular Integration in grades k-8 is a collection of educational links organized by subject area.  Categories include art, language arts, math, music, physical education, science, social studies and special needs.  

   http://www.teachtech2kids.com/

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence  Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government are now easier to find. Subjects include:  Arts, Educational Technology, Foreign Languages, Health and Safety, Language Arts, Mathematics, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies and Vocational Education
  http://www.ed.gov/free/

Funbrain  Sponsored by the Learning Network, Funbrain features a variety of  games and quizzes covering a variety of subjects. 

  http://www.funbrain.com/

Global SchoolNet Foundation partners with schools, communities and businesses to provide collaborative educational, scientific and cultural learning activities that prepare students for the workforce and help them to become literate and responsible global citizens.  GSN is a not-for-profit 501©(3) organization, that has been linking classrooms around the world since 1984. Global SchoolNet's free membership program provides project-based learning support materials, resources, activities, lessons and special offers from Global SchoolNet partners.

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/index.html

Hero Sites:

Paul Harvey official website

http://www.paulharvey.com/

National Public Radio (search for heroes)

http://www.npr.org                                                                                                    

PBS (search for heroes)

http://www.pbs.org

Heroes and Icons from Time Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/

Time for Kids Heroes

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/heroes/index.html

Heroes of September 11th

Powerful photos that play in a slide show format to Mariah Carey’s Hero…worth downloading the plug in for the audio if the computer you are using does not play the music.

http://usa.corporateclicks.com/

Chief of State and Cabinet Members of  Foreign Governments

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/

CivilRights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.  Its mission is to serve as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the-minute civil rights news and information.

http://www.civilrights.org/

US Senate Leadership

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/senators/a_three_sections_with_teasers/leadership.htm

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators provides an incredible variety of material for classroom use covering too many topics to list!  Presented in a straight-forward, easy to use format you will find categorized lists of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. Sponsored by the Discovery Channel.

 http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

The Legacies Project is a literacy and learning resource from the New York State Archives and the Verizon Foundation focusing on the history of the Chinese and Latino populations in the Capital District, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and New York City.

http://www.nysarchives.org/projects/legacies

McREL, is a private, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to improve education through applied research and development. Hot links feature lesson plans, links and resources in the areas of The Arts, Behavioral/Social Sciences, Civics, Economics, Foreign Language, Geography, Health/PE, History, Language Arts (including ESL/ELL), Math, Multi/Interdisciplinary, Science, and Technology.

   http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/hotlinks.asp

MiddleSchool.Net is dedicated to helping middle school teachers and students integrate technology into their daily classroom activities. It is primarily a collection of links to internet resources in the following areas: Curriculum resources; Administrators and leaders; Support staff; Technology resources; Lesson plans & tutorials; Reference Materials; How to:Your personal and patient tutor; State and Foreign Educational standards; Professional development; Activities; Student test strategies and quizzes and more.

 http://www.middleschool.net/

National Council for the Social Studies

http://www.ncss.org/

Middle Ages Sites:

Annenberg/CPB(Corp. for Public Broadcasting)

Health background information

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/health.html

Georgetown University Search for Medieval resources by category

(no health, but many other topics for other curriculum areas)

http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

The Online Medieval and Classical Library from the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/

BBC- the Middle Ages including Anatomy and Surgery (check the links that appear in the center of the page as little books)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/medicine/nonint/menus/maphmenu.shtml

Medieval Technology Timeline

http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/Timeline.html

Primary Source Documents from Brigham Young University

http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/medren.html

Castle Learning Center…everything you wanted to know about castles!

http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castle6.htm

Daily life in Elizabethan England

http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html

        

The History of Medicine in the Middle Ages

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/classroom/gcse/medicine6.htm

Leonardo DaVinci’s Anatomy sketches

http://historymedren.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sinera.org%2Ftot-art%2Fcatala%2Fexpos%2Fdavinci%2Fnorth.html