Social Studies Sites

Academy of Achievement @ http://www.achievement.org/

Adbusters: Culturejammers Headquarters @ http://www.adbusters.org/home/

American Experience @ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/

American Memory @ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

American Presidents: Life Portraits @ http://www.americanpresidents.org/

American Social & Cultural History @ http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/start.htm

The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum @ http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/olympics/

Best of History Web Sites @ http://besthistorysites.net/

Blue Web’n Applications: Social Studies Directory @ http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/contentarea.cfm?cid=8

Canada’s School.Net Learning Resources @ http://www.schoolnet.ca/home/e/resources/index.asp

Colombia Education Center Lesson Plans @ http://www.col-ed.org/cur/index.html

Contacting Congress @ http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

Conversations with History @ http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

Critical Evaluation Information @ http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Digital History @ http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

The Early American Review @ http://earlyamerica.com/review/

Eartheasy @ http://eartheasy.com/homepage.htm

EDSITEment History and Social Studies @ http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subjectArea=3

Exhibitions from the LOC @ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/

Exploring Ancient World Cultures @ http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm

Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence @ http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html

Global SchoolNet Projects Registry @ http://www.gsn.org/GSH/pr/index.cfm

Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad @ http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html

Historical Voices @ http://www.historicalvoices.org/

The History Makers @ http://www.thehistorymakers.com/

Infonation (Statistical Data) @ http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/menu/advanced.asp

Intercultural Email Classroom Connections @ http://teaching.com/IECC/

Internet Scavenger Hunts @ http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/internethunts.html#ss

Jackie Robinson & Other Baseball Highlights @ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/

Journey Back in Time to Ancient Rome @ http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/

Just for Teachers Resources (by Ed.gov) @ http://www.ed.gov/teachers/landing.jhtml?src=el

The Learning Page: American Memory @ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html

Lesson Plans & Resources for Social Studies Teachers @ http://www.csun.edu/%7Ehcedu013/index.html

Library of Congress Social Studies Resources @ http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Memories @ http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/chatback/english/memories/memories.html

Neb. DOE SS Resources @ http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/

National Council for History Education (NCHE) @ http://www.garlandind.com/nche/

National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) @ http://www.ncss.org/

National Geographic Homepage @ http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html

Nova Online/Pyramids: The Inside Story @ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/

Odden’s Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping @ http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.php

One Hundred Years Towards Suffrage @ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html

Our Documents @ http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&

Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia @ http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage

Patchwork of African American Life @ http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/index.html

The Peace Corps World Wide Schools @ http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/index.html

PBS Social Studies Teaching @ http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/soc_stud.htm

SchoolNet’s Grassroots Collaborative Learning Projects Gallery @ http://www.schoolnet.ca/grassroots/e/project.centre/project-search.asp

S.C.O.R.E. History/Social Science @ http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/

Selected Civil War Photograph Collection @ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

The Smithsonian Homepage @ http://www.si.edu/

Stately Knowledge @ http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/

Tellecollaborate @ http://nschubert.home.mchsi.com/

Thinkquest Winners @ http://www.thinkquest.org/library/index.html

Thomas: Legislative Information from the LOC @ http://thomas.loc.gov/

Timeline of the Civil War @ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html

Treasures (Great Britain) @ http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

Web Inquiry Projects @ http://edweb.sdsu.edu/wip/

WebQuests @ http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

The WebQuest Portal @ http://webquest.org/

Windows on the World @ http://www.britishcouncil.org/wotw/

Women’s Suffrage in 20^th Century America @ http://edweb.sdsu.edu/wip/examples/suffrage/index.htm

World Genealogy Web for Kids @ http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ewgwkids/

World Scavenger Hunts @ http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr113.shtml

The Underground Railroad @ http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/