Research
Sweet Search Social Studies / Sweet Search Biographies - A search engine for students that returns websites which have been evaluated by research experts
Primary Source Documents
World Digital Library - A project of the U.S. Library of Congress, which makes available on the Internet and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures. The site includes documents arranged using the format of interactive timelines and maps.
Economics
Econ Ed Link - A website from the Council for Economic Education with lesson plans and resources for teaching economics and personal finance
iCivics - Civics games and activities
iCivics - Civics games and activities
Current Events
10 x 10 - A visual current events site, every hour the site aggregates the most frequently used words from the news and matches them with images. Click on an image and it lists all the news stories with the same topic and provides links to the original news article
News Map - A map of news stories, with the more important news stories in larger font
News Map - A map of news stories, with the more important news stories in larger font
Geography
Geo Cam - Live streaming camera feeds from various locations around the world.
GeoSense - Geography game
Geoguessr - Geography game using Google Earth, provides a street view image of a random location and students guess the location of the image.
GeoSense - Geography game
Geoguessr - Geography game using Google Earth, provides a street view image of a random location and students guess the location of the image.
History
US HIstory
HSI: Historical Scene Investigation - Designed for social studies teachers who need a strong pedagogical mechanism for bringing primary sources into their classroom. This site provides an historical question and primary source documents to aide students in answering the provided question.
Zoom In Lessons - Helps students build literacy and historical thinking skills through “deep dives” into primary and secondary sources.
Who Am I? - Select a mystery character. Then find the objects that hold the key to their identity. Are you up for a challenge?
Zoom In Lessons - Helps students build literacy and historical thinking skills through “deep dives” into primary and secondary sources.
Who Am I? - Select a mystery character. Then find the objects that hold the key to their identity. Are you up for a challenge?
World History
Teaching History - Content and lessons for the history classroom
Smithsonian's History Explorer - A website with lesson plans, interactives, multimedia, and resources for the history classroom
History Engine - College students from around the country share their academically rigorous work with their classmates, other students, and researchers by publishing their work on this database to provide a more detailed picture of American life.
History Pin - Collection of historical images provided by users, searchable by place and topic
Google News Newspapers - A collection of newspaper through history
Context U - Puts historical events into global context. Currently just has the American Civil War available.
Docs Teach - Activities and documents from the National Archives
Beyond the Bubble - History assessments that go beyond fact recall to historical thinking, assessments fit within Common Core Standards and come with rubrics.
Sea of Liberty - Assign students primary source readings and track their progress
Historiana - Repository of primary source material organized thematically
Historgraphy - A visual timeline organizing all historical events documented in Wikipedia. Viewers choose a time period and the number of dots available on the screen change. All dots can be hovered over for an image, title and year of the event. Dots can be clicked on to enlarge image, see related events and navigate to the relevant page in Wikipedia.