Favorite Websites
Video
Images
Googling History
Creating Projects with Primary & Secondary Sources
Geography
Maps and Map Skills
- New York Times Immigration interactive map – Learn about where various groups of immigrants came from
- Google Maps Mania – What happens when you combine maps and information
- Stat Planet
- ScribbleMaps
- Gapminder–
- KMLFactBook
- ClassZone Maps
Games
- Travel IQ Challenge – Try to locate the places in this game. It gets more difficult as the game goes on
- Sheppard Software Geography Games – They also have other social studies materials
- Rethinking Schools Online – Try to see how many countries you can place on the map
- I like to Learn–
- Kids Geography Games:
- Purpose Games
History:
- National Park Service Web Rangers
- Smithsonian Virtual Tour
- Studying the Holocaust
- Harpers Weekly Online
- Discovering Lewis & Clark
- Civil War Preservation Trust
- Faces of the Civil War
Current Events:
- Today’s Front Pages – Newspaper from pages from around the country and the world
- Newsmap– Sort and filter news color coded blocks that represent articles on the Internet
- News Map– click on the country and retrieve a list of articles about that nation
- BBC NewsMap– Click on the marker and get the link to the story
- Cable in the Classroom
Timelines:
- Dipity – grabs items from other sites and compiles them on a timeline:
- Timetoast – create and share timelines:
- Hyperhistory
- History Tours