Web Sites for Social Studies/Geography


White House for Kids
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/whlife/index.html

First Gov for Kids-Information on how our government works.  Hosted 
by the Federal Citizen Information Center.
http://www.kids.gov/

CIA Factbook-Almost any information you might want to know about 
another country can be found at this site created and maintained by the CIA.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

The History Channel's Media Archive of Great Speeches.  See the 
Martin Luther King Junior's I Have a Dream speech.
http://www.history.com/media.do

Tennessee History for Kids.  This site is slowly growing.  There are 
very few sites and books available to help students in learning about 
Tennessee history.  Tennessee history is no longer taught as a stand alone 
course in 
7th grade as it was for many years.  Tennessee history is now taught 
throughout students' years in schools at all grade levels.
http://tnhistoryforkids.org/

Virtual Egypt.  Interactive site about Egypt.
http://www.virtual-egypt.com/

Sheppard Software's site is a site that all of the 5th grade students 
at SBES have been visiting during computer lab time in order to reinforce 
the knowledge of the 50 states.  4th graders have also gone to the site but 
mainly for the map skills involved more so than memorizing the states.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

National Georgraphic sponsors the National Geography Bee held across 
the United States.  Every day 5 new questions from the geography bee are 
posted on this web site.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/

National Geographic's GeoSpy game.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy/

National Geographic Online's Underground Railroad Interactive site.  
Follow along the road to freedom and learn about the stops made by the 
fleeing slaves.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

Test your geography knowledge about the USA at this site.
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/usaquiz.html

Explore the States-Go on a Treasure Hunt through the U.S.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es

Another US Geography Quiz site.
http://scottbryce.com/us_geo/index2.htm

Where Is That? from Funbrain.com.
http://www.funbrain.com/where/

DiscoverySchool.com-Geo Game
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/geogame/index.html

GeoNet.
http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/

MapZone from the United Kingdom has many geography and map related 
activites.
http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/index.html

The Great Depression-This site lists many sites, activities and 
learning ideas about the Great Depression.
http://www.42explore2.com/depresn.htm

Build an Adobe Building!
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/onate/adobegame/index.html

Mix and Match Native American Dwellings
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/indians-mm.htm

First Americans Activities
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/activiti.htm

NativeTech's Games and Activities
http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php

Learning Economincs-Bartering Activity (Good for grades 3-5)
http://mathandecon.ncee.net/35/interactives/lesson7/

Learning Economics-Match Goods and Services (Good for grades 3-5)
http://mathandecon.ncee.net/35/interactives/lesson1/

Picturing Modern America.  Using your observation skills to decipher 
clues 
in photographs to help you learn and interpret history. (Grades 4 and up)
http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/

Liberty Kids from PBS Games and Activities-for American Revolution.
http://www.libertyskids.com/fungames.html

American Revolution activities from the Old Sturbridge Village web 
site.
http://www.osv.org/kids_zone/index.html

You be the historian!  Investigate and develop theories on what life 
was like. . .
http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/

PBS's Road to Revolution interactive game.
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html

Civil Rights-Scholastic Civil Rights Mystery to solve.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/start.asp?Game=2


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