Social Studies Resources on the Internet

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Recommended News Sites On the Internet

BBC News
www.reuters.com
www.cnn.com
The Weather Channel weather for Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 19046
New York Times
National Public Radio
www.msnbc.com

Social Studies Favorites

Primary Sources & Documents

U.S. Government

www.FirstGov.gov - the official US Government gateway
Executive: The White House
Legislative
- www.house.gov
- www.senate.gov
- THOMAS -- U.S. Legislation on the Internet
Judicial
- US Supreme Court
- Supreme Court Decisions
CSPAN's AmericanPresidents.org
FedStats Federal Statistics

World History & Current Events

American History

Pennsylvania History

Current Issues

Maps!

To find your way around the USA, we recommend maps.yahoo.com or www.mapquest.com
To see the world as it looks from space (and find your house in Jenkintown), visit terraserver.microsoft.com
For excellent atlas quality maps, see Maps @ nationalgeographic.com
CIA World Factbook (& Maps)
Atlapedia Online

General

ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB
The History Channel
Social Studies School Service Links (a listing like this one of many Social Studies-related topics)
Those Were the Days, Today in History
For free online translation between English and other languages, try babelfish.altavista.com (do you know what a Babelfish is?) HINT: For a laugh, type something in English, translate it to another language, then copy the translation (highlight and CTRL-C), paste it back into the translation window, and translate it back into English