Social+Studies+Websites

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Here are some random, yet wonderful sites related to Social Studies concepts:
http://nationalatlas.gov/ http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/search/?q=*&selected_facets=supplemental_curriculum_hierarchy_nodes%3A62e1f8fc-e836-4f15-8130-9c6f1927720b&selected_facets=grades_exact%3AK&selected_facets=grades_exact%3A1&selected_facets=grades_exact%3A2&selected_facets=resource_distribution_type_exact%3A0&display=K-2 - PBS Learning Media Resources for Social Studies [] - Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project (Follow them on Pinterest!) http://d97unitedstatesregions.wikispaces.com/ - amazing wikispace designed to teach Regions of the USA http://www.usps.com/communications/community/classroom.htm - United States Postal Service Kits [|www.floridamemory.com] - Florida Memory Project http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/default.htm - Exploring Florida http://memory.loc.gov/index.html - American Memory [|http://authentichistory.com] - The Authentic History Center [|www.thehistorycenter.org] - Orange County Regional History Center [|http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com] - Eyewitness: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It http://etc.usf.edu/maps/ - MAPS Etc. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_americas.html - Historical Maps http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp - Making of America http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php - The American Presidency Project http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm - The American Civil War http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/index.htm - First World War Primary Documents http://www.ibiblio.org/pha - World War II Resources http://digitalhistory.uh.edu/ - Digital History [|http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu] - History Matters http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html - Google Earth for Educators http://www.googlelittrips.com/ - Google Lit Trips [|http://nj-history.org] - New Jersey History [|http://americanpresidents.org] - American Presidents info./multimedia [|http://historicalthinkingmatters.org] - Thematic Units and resources K-12 [|http://historynow.org] - Teaching Resources http://waring.ed.ucf.edu/web_sites/index.html - Dr. Waring's website (multiple quality sources noted) http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha - Oral History Association [|www.ohs.org.uk/] - Oral History Society http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices - Library of Congress: Voices from the Days of Slavery [|www.weeklyreader.com] - The Weekly Reader website http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/ - Archives of WW 1, the Korean War and the Cold War [|www.ussnewyork.com] - USS New York homepage (the ship built from the steel of the World Trade Center) http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers - Time for Kids magazine classroom home page http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/index.jsp - Scholastic News magazine home page (Click teachers then Scholastic News online) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/ - Educators main homepage http://www.omart.org/ - The Resource Center at the Orlando Museum of Art allows all UCF students to its resources FREE of charge. __www.loc.gov__  - Library of Congress main page; American Memory Section contains maps, photos, documents, audio and video resource s

__ www.cfmemory.org __ - Central Florida Memory Project; Florida Stories, as well as lists of photos, maps, letters, essays, etc. __ [|http://www.gilderlehrman.org] __ - Gilder Lehrman; search "The Collection" for rare documents (nearly every president and significant historical event is represented); "For Teachers and Students" section has wonderful resources. __ http://www.cfhf.net/orlando/index1.htm __ - Orlando Visual History; a great resource for Orlando history! [|www.nationalmockelection.org] - The National Student/Parent Mock Election Website; click on curriculum for ideas, games www.whitehouse.gov - Virtual Field Trip of the White House and much more www.keypals.com - Electronic (E-mail) Pen Pals www.epals.com - Electronic (E-mail) Pen Pals [|http://www.web66.coled.umn.edu] - Electronic (E-mail) Pen Pals www.kidlink.org - Classroom Information Exchange www.classroom.net - Classroom Information Exchange http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland - Ellis Island Online Tour http://ellisisland.org/immexp/index.asp - Immigration timeline and bios [|http://www.thinkquest.org/en/] - Create an online class project here! http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html - Life in NY between 1870-1935 [|http://www.capital.net/~alta/tour.htm] - Virtual tour of Ellis Island