Social Studies Resources

Program Scripts: Assignment the World , What's In The News

 Countries of the World

• A to Z Atlapedia Online Information on countries of the world.
• Africa Online - Kids Only Learn about Africa, play games, find a keypal, etc.
• About Australia information is arranged by category on a national and state by state basis.
• Australia's Wildlife from Cairns On-Line Environmental Guide.
• CIA World Factbook 1996 Concise, recent data and information on countries of the world.
• City Net map-based guide to local and regional information on the WWW.
• Countries of the World via Yahoo
• Country Studies/Area Handbooks A continuing project of the Library of Congress--not all available yet.
• Current World Historical Information A full index from the University of Kansas on world information available on the Internet.
• Destinations travel guides for countries of the world.
• Electronic Embassy Provides information for all the Embassies in Washington, D.C. and links to embassies with web sites.
• Flags of the World with links to country information.
• Flags of the World with descriptions of the flags.
• History Online Resources and links developed for a 7th grade class.
• Virtual Tour of Guam
• Virtual Tourist Info. about countries.
• World Surfari Take a virtual tour through a different country every month.
• World War One Information about the people, places, and events of WWI.

United States

• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage Library of Congress exhibit.
• American Memory A special collection from the Library of Congress including photographs.
• Archiving Early America Contains early documents, a crossword puzzle, and a daily listing of what happened on the day in early American history.
• State Information Several locations that give state information, such as state birds, capital, etc.
• USA City Link lots of information about hundreds of cities and states.
• USA Counties 1996 geographic and Census data about every state and county in the US.
• Flags of the United States nice collection of state flags.
• Revolutionary War links
• From the Revolution to Reconstruction
• U.S. Civil War Center The goal of this site is to locate, index, and/or make available all Civil War information.
• Civil War Homepage Links to lots of information including rosters.
• Civil War Photographs From the Library of Congress collection.
• Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System Enter soldier's last name for names that match showing regimental unit.
• U.S. Historical Documents Famous documents from U.S. history, including the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
• Constitution of the United States of America An award winning web format of this document.
• The History Net Hundreds of articles and images from past and current history-related magazines.
• National Park Service Can select parks by name or state and find all kinds of information.
• Harry S. Truman Presidential Library Learn about our 33rd president.

Government

• Library of Congress Home Page
• Superintendent of Documents for government information.
• THOMAS U.S. Legislative Information.
• Whitehouse in Washington, DC.

Geography and Maps

• Distances Enter the names of two cities, what results is distance "as the crow flies", also gives longitude, latitude, population, and elevation of location.
• County Maps Missouri county maps from OSEDA.
• Mapblast street maps for most any U.S. address.
• MapQuest
• Road Maps go to road map, gives driving directions.
• Tiger Maps Online map server. Can search by name, including rivers, creeks, and zoom in and out.
• Postcards From Find out about different states as Ken and Priscilla Sarsfield travel.
• Resources for Travelers large annotated site with many links to all sorts of travel ideas.

Biography and Other

• Biography information on famous people from A&E Channel.
• Notable Citizens of Planet Earth basic biographical information on 25,000 notable men and women--searchable.
• Presidents of the United States Web site
• World's Great Explorers

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