Group 2: Humanities: Social Studies
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Teacher Blogs
- General: Social Studies Alive
- Civics: Citizen U
- Economics: Economics Educators, Aplia,
- History: A History Teacher, History Tech, Teaching Civil War with Technology, The History Teacher's Attic
The Classics
Do your students know "the classics" in your field? Do they know the best starting point for quality information?
Teacher Resources: PBS Social Studies (filter by topic), EDSITEment , Thinkfinity, National Geographic
- Economics: Econoclass, Econedlink, The Economist
- History: Smithsonian's History Explorer
Student Resources: National Geographic Magazine, FactCheck.org
- Government: NPR: Politics
- Law: Avalon Project
- US History: Ad Access
- World History: BBC History of the World, History Channel,
Multimedia
Teaching Resources
- Civics and Government: Teacherdomain
- Economics: Teacherdomain
- Geography: Teacherdomain
- U.S. History: Teacherdomain
- World History: Teacherdomain
Student Resources
- Civics and Government: American Politics, Shmoop, PBS LearningMedia
- Economics: Shmoop, PBS LearningMedia
- Geography: PBS LearningMedia
- U.S. History: Shmoop, PBS LearningMedia, Ease History, StoryCorps
- World History: PBS Nova, PBS LearningMedia
Video Resources
- C-Span: government video
- The Center on Congress at IU: YouTube Channel: teaching materials
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Connor Prairie Museum: YouTube Channel
- Corporation for National & Community Service: YouTube Channel
- CNN Student News: news for students
- Culture Talk: interviews from around the world
- Current: cultural and current news
- Dept of Interior: YouTube Channel
- FBI: YouTube Channel
- FORA: social issues and topics
- Historic Mount Vernon: YouTube Channel
- History Channel: history topics
- HouseHub: YouTube Channel
- iCue: history and current issues
- National Archives: YouTube Channel
- National Geographic: YouTube Channel
- Reuters Video: global news
- Senate Hub: YouTube Channel
- Smithsonian Video
- Smithsonian: YouTube Channel
- Smithsonian: National Museum of American History: YouTube Channel
- Smithsonian: American Indian: YouTube Channel
- StoryCorps: oral histories
- United Nations: YouTube Channel
- US Courts: YouTube Channel
- US Dept of State: YouTube Channel
- US Government: YouTube Channel
- The Week in Rap: new in rap format
- The Whitehouse: YouTube Channel
Student Video Productions
- No Vote, No Voice
- Anne Frank in Our Hearts
- Eva Mozes Kor: A Story of Forgiveness
- The Package
- The 254 Year Old Boy
Interactives and Social Media
Interactives
- General: PBS LearningMedia, Conflict Map Game, Nuclear Weapons Game, Red Cross Game
- Civics and Government: PBS Interactives, Democracies in the World, Architect's Virtual Capitol, Top Secret America, To Lie or Not Lie
- Culture, Sociology & Psychology: PBS Interactives, Autism Quiz, Mind Lab, This Emotional Life, The Responsibility Project, Brainstretcher, Photofit Me, Photographic Memory Test,
- Economics: PBS Interactives, Trade Theory Game, Economics
- Geography: PBS Interactives, National Geographic, BBC: Dimensions
- U.S. History: PBS Interactives (check topics for more), John Smith Historical Map Interactive, Freedom Riders, History Games, Historical and Cultural Contexts
- World History: PBS Nova, PBS Interactives (check topics for more), 19th Century France, Out My Window, Tiziano Project, Collapse, Great Thinkers, Industrial Revolution in Britain, Middle Ages, Renaissance
Tools
- DocsTeach from National Archives
- Historypin
- Life Timeline
- National Archives: Create a Movie
- Propaganda Filmaker
- Acrostic Poem, Alphabet Organizer, BioCube, CD/DVD Creator, Comic Creator, Comparison Map, Compare/Contrast, Crossword Puzzles, Diamante Poem, Doodle Splash, Drama Map, Essay Map, FlipBook, Graphic Map, Letter Generator, Persuasion Map, Profile Publisher, Timeline, 2 Circle Venn, 3 Circle Venn, Word Matrix
Topical Ideas
Background information and links to quality websites, activities, webquests, and teaching materials
- 1968
- 50 States of the US
- advertising
- ancient Africa
- ancient China
- ancient Egypt
- ancient Rome
- archaeology
- architecture
- Aztecs
- biographies
- Buffalo Soldiers
- capital punishment
- castles
- Christmas around the World
- Cinco de Mayo
- civil rights
- Civil War
- codes, ciphers & secret messages
- colonial life
- disaster, castastrophe, & calamity
- drought
- economics
- elections
- entrepreneur
- explorers
- Fifty States of the US
- floods & flooding
- ghosts, ghouls & goblins
- Gold Rush
- The Great Depression
- Harlem Renaissance
- historical maps
- Holocaust
- immigration
- Incas
- industrial revolution
- inventors and inventions
- iron & steel
- Japanese-American Internment
- King, Martin Luther Jr.
- labor movement
- latino-hispanic heritage
- Lewis and Clark
- maps
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Maya
- Mesopotamia
- money
- mountain men
- mysterious & unexplained
- mythology
- Native Americans
- Negro baseball leagues
- Nuclear Age
- Old West
- Olympic Games
- oral history
- orphan trains
- Oregon trail
- patriotism
- peacemakers
- pioneer life
- polls and surveys
- pony express
- pottery
- prairies
- prehistoric people
- Presidents of the United States
- radio
- railroads
- Religions of the World
- Renaissance
- Revolutionary War
- Roman Empire
- Salem Witch Trials
- Santa Fe Trail
- September 11, 2001
- shelters
- ships and boats
- sled dog racing
- States of the US
- television
- terrorism
- Trail of Tears
- underground railroad
- US States
- Vietnam War
- Vikings
- wagons & other horse-drawn vehicles
- War of 1812
- Women's Suffrage Movement
- World War I
- World War II
Use the links on the left to move through this online workshop.