Social Studies

History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/ This is a reference tool that is a commercial site. This site can be used by teachers 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. The website has been revised recently and has won several prestigious awards. For example, the website was selected by Lightspan's Study Web as one of the best educational resources on the web by researchers.
Social Studies http://www.kidsvista.com/socialstudies/index.html This is a content resource site that is a commercial site. Its purpose is to present students with a subset of the web that is very simple to navigate, and contains information targeted at K- 12 levels. Each subject section, contains a list of links to information that is understandable and interesting to school kids. The links on the pages are updated on a weekly basis to keep the information current.
Education Place http://www.eduplace This is a content resource site that is a commercial site maintained by Houghton Mifflin (a textbook company). Education Place: Elementary resources for teachers, students, and parents. Includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies Centers, Intervention, Professional Development, searchable activity database, educational games, and textbook support.providing quality online educational resources!Welcome to Education Place, the comprehensive Web site produced by Houghton Mifflin School Division which publishes a variety of educational materials, including textbooks, resource materials, and technology, for K-8 teachers and students. Launched in January 1996, Education Place is the longest running Web site of any educational publisher. With more than 18,000 pages of engaging content to explore, visitors to award-winning Education Place can delve further into the subjects they most enjoy to find helpful teaching resources, educational games, discussion forums, and more. Education Place extends the School Division's commitment to quality learning through our additional sites, Kids' Place and Parents' Place. The Social Studies Center: social studies-related resources that include textbook support, an interactive geography game, outline maps, a discussion forum, History Update, and Current Events.
Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teacher http://www.csun.edu/%7ehcedu013/index.html This is a lesson plans site for teachers maintained by Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University. He has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful. This site has won top site awards by Planet Education, Education Index, an excellence award by the School page, and is updated on a regular basis.
Mr. Cassutto's Cyberlearning-World http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/ This is an Internet Project site that can be used by teachers. This site contains tons of useful information any middle school history/social studies teacher. Mr. Cassutto, a 7th grade history teacher, provides a very educational internet resource through this particular site. The site contains links to everything from teaching with rock music to a holocaust lesson plan. This site is a must see for all history educators. It is very well organized and put together. Also, this internet project tool seems very credible due to its large number of resources.
History K-2
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