Social Studies
Wesites
Http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com
This site offers assorted information, informational graphs, games and interact trivia quizes.
Http://www.awesomestories.com
Go here to find stories about history, famous trials,disasters and inspirations.
http://www.authentichistory.com
This site is comprised of images of artifacts, sounds, and written letters and diaries, from the antebellum period to 9/11.
http://www.scholar.library.coi.cuny.edu/westweb
On this site learn all about the American West. It has collections of primary and secondary documents and biographical resources.
http://marcopolo-education.org.
This site contains lesson plans, links, resources for economics, Geography, and humanities.
http://www.pbs.org
This site has lesson plans, teacher resources, games, activities and library media.
http://edsitement.neh.gov
This site contains indepth lesson plans on world history.
http://www.siteforteachers.com
This site has a list of websites for teacher resources. It contains activities, research databases, and teaching strategies for social studies.
http://www.un.org
Go here for the cyberschool bus, resources for flags of nations, freestuff for teachers. It contains info nation, and an UN intoduction.
http://kids.discovery.com
This site has discovery kids, games, adventures and you can explore by subject matter.
Software
GeoCycle USA
From Adventure software
Requirements: MAC OS, Windows 95/98/Me.
Learn about american geography, cities, and landmarks. Develop map reading, navigation, and physical geography skills, and read colorful satellite maps. This software takes you on a cycle trip across the USA so hold on for lots of learning.
Game
Clean Water: ages 8 to adult
This would be a great game for an environment lesson. It focuses on saving the ecological balance in lakes from water pollution.
Kit
Early Learning Skills
This kit contains a teachers guide, copymasters, flip book. wall map, and markers.
This kit would be used for mapping skills. It is a good reference tool and vocabulary tool. It has excellent visual aids for mapping.
Bibliographies
Brown, L. (1992). Dinosaurs to the Rescue: a guide to protecting our planet. New York: The Trumpet Club.
Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce the earth's mahor environmental problems and suggest ways children can help.
K-3 : This book would be good for environmental issues and how to show good citizenship and service to others.
DiSalvo, D. (2001). A Castle on Viola Street. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
A hardworking family gets their own house at last by joining a community program that restores old houses.
K-2: This book could be used as a community builder lesson and a service ot others lesson.
Marshall, J. (1989). The Three Little Pigs. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.
Retells the familiar tale in which one of the three brother pigs survives a wolf's attacks by using his head and planning well.
K-2: This book used with The True Story of the 3 Pigs/ by A. Wolf, is a good voting lesson, or debating lesson.
Scieszka, J. (1989). The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs/ by A. Wolf. New York Viking Kestral.
The wolf gives his won outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
K-3: This book has many lesson in it; trials, voting, debating and many others. Use this with the Three Little Pigs and you have all these things involved.
Waters, K. (1996). On the Mayflower. New York: Scholastic.
A twelve-year-old apprentice and a seven-year-old passenger experience the first voyage of the Mayflower.
K-3: This book involves the living conditions of the pilgrims on thier voyage to America, this could by used to introduce Thanksgiving and a history lesson about the pigrims and their voyage here.