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Social Studies Online Resources. Jennifer Wood KIDS December 6/7, 2010 Raising Student Achievement Conference. Primary Sources. What is a primary source? http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/interactive/index.html Why use? What ways can you use? Where to find?
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Social Studies Online Resources Jennifer Wood KIDSDecember 6/7, 2010 Raising Student Achievement Conference
Primary Sources What is a primary source? http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/interactive/index.html Why use? What ways can you use? Where to find? http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/
Library of Congress American Memory www.loc.gov Searching for primary source Searching with a timeline http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/
Lessons, Activities, Presentations Teacher page Lesson plans http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/ Activities http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/ Thinkfinity Searching for online activities & lesson plans
Going a step further… Collection connection http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/hist-am-west/index.htmlCritical Thinking activities Questions… Arts & Humanities Writing prompt/short story starter Photo analysis
Searching by State Standard http://www.loc.gov/teachers/standards/index.php?PHPSESSID=a6a2144d649b05faf2b585372057537a&mystatename=IL&mygrade=9&mysubject=Social+Studies
US Government Judicial systemhttp://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=402&title= Congresshttp://www.tpscongress.org/index.php Virtual Congresshttp://www.tpscongress.org/teachers/activity.php?id=12 Democracy kidshttp://www.democracykids.org/demo_kids_1/main.swf The capitalhttp://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/landmark-lesson-united-states-capitol-building
World/Global Connections World Digital Library http://www.wdl.org/en/ Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ Mapshttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Maps Expedition Hall-National Geographichttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/
Cont’d National Geographichttp://www.mywonderfulworld.org/educators_action_kit.html E-Palshttp://www.epals.com/
More online activities… America’s libraryhttp://www.americaslibrary.gov/ If you were president- http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/games_quizzes/electiongame/game.asp Collection of online gameshttp://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/socst.html
Resources… The Barat Education Foundationhttp://www.barat-tps.org/homePage.php Digital Storytellinghttp://www.storycenter.org/ Document based questionshttp://www.dbqproject.com/ushistory.html