SOCIAL SCIENCES
Dr. Marty Levine, Professor of
Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson
plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find
useful. Includes lesson plans, teaching strategies, resources and links to other
great sites.
An extensive site providing access to a variety of resources for teaching about
ancient cultures. Indexes allow to sort sites by geographical location or by
subject.
This site includes information about the life and times of Anne Frank.
This extensive library includes audio interviews from servitors, written recollections,
works of literature, images and a variety of other resources depicting this dark period in
our history.
One of the better interactive map services on the WWW. Students can explore maps
of nearly any region, right down to location of their own home. Great site for
developing map reading skills.
The major purpose of this home page is to encourage
the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help
for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the
classroom.
Students can join expeditions to thrilling places around the world. Follow the
GlobaLearn explorers as they retrace routs of early explorers.
This site offers a lot of resources that can help K-12 students research their family
histories. An excellent introduction to genealogy research.
This home page is devoted to the professional issues concerning social studies educators.
It also contains a set of links organised around the ten themes for the Curriculum
Standards for Social Studies.
This outstanding site an interactive timeline, a photo tour of the civil rights
movement, biographical information and classroom ideas related to Martin Luther King and
his legacy.
The home page of the National Geographic Society contains wealth of information about
programs and publications of this organisation. Within the site, under Geography Education
you will find great ideas for lessons in geography.
This comprehensive site covers all aspects of ancient civilisations and provides hundreds
links to related sites. Keyword search available.
This site allows students to move around the world and retrieve information about various
countries.
This site contains a huge amount of information and data related to world social
issues. World Game's global simulation places you in charge of the world, with time
running out. See across boundaries-of geography, culture, economics, technology. More than
60 "world-ometers", clocks keep track of changing data right as you sit
watching.
This educational site allows students and teachers to put the events of the second
world war into perspective. Information about the war is organised chronologically.
This database is a collection of aerial photographs of sections of the planet's surface.
Students can easily move from one area to another and zoom in and out to visit
countries, cities and towns.
The site starts with reformation and works through the industrial, American and French
revolutions and continues through 19th century and the world wars. An excellent bank of
history images, music files and more.
This site provides an opportunity to explore the the castles origin, its history and its
inhabitants. It provides images of castles thoughout Europe.
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