Social Studies

Related Links

Digital History

A well organized site with primary source documents, interactive timeline, visual history, a section for teachers, multi-media resources, and more!

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

Teaching History

A National History Education Clearinghouse- connecting history educators to content resources, teaching materials, strategies, and news for transforming history education.

http://www.teachinghistory.org

Global History and Geography

An online resource guide with video resources, essay strategies, and other resources.

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/ghgonline/home.html

Window into Global History

Lesson Plans and a video bank for global history.

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/wideangle/index.html

New York State Archive of Images

http://www.archives.nysed.gov/education/ed_web.shtml

Throughout the Ages: A visual document resource

http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/throughout/

Fact Checked.org

A nonpartisan site that scrutinizes political statements, misleading advertising claims. It also offers lessons plans and guides for teaching critical thinking, the proper use of sources, and hot recognize deceptive arguments.

http://www.factchecked.org

Our Documents

A website launched by the National Archives and Records Administration. This website has collected and archived the most important documents of American history into a central spot.

http://www.ourdocuments.Gov

history interactives

short interactives about the Middle Ages, Renaissance, the collapse of four ancient civilizations, and an interactive United States History Map

http://www.learner.org/interactives

Ancient Rome 3-D

Google Earth has added a 3-D simulation of ancient Rome.

http://earth.google.com/rome

Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People's History

The site features over 75 free, down-loadable teaching activities for middle and high school classrooms to bring "a people's history to the classroom.

http://www.zinnedproject.org/

Our Courts

Play Argument Wars by arguing landmark Supreme Court cases and evaluate supports for key arguments. There are also numerous new lesson plans for teachers, including a two-week persuasive writing unit.

http://www.ourcourts.org/

Mapping History

Interactive maps from a variety of historical periods.

http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/