Middle+School+Social+Studies


 * Maps**

[|Animated Atlas]- Interactive map that goes through the growth of the United States

[|Digital History Interactive Map and Timeline]-created by University of Houston

[|United States History Map]- Interactive Map


 * Search Engines**:

[|Natural Disasters Custom Search]


 * Web Sites**

[|Active History] – consists of 186 Google Earth files with fly-over tours, 3D images, place marks, and overlays. You can search the list by grade level, topic, time period, or file type

[|Afghanistan] – a narrated tour of Afghanistan in Google Earth (you may need to upload the plug-in)

[|Avalon Project] – a resource from Yale University that provides digital copies of documents in U.S. History; a good resource for primary documents

[|CNN Student News] – 10 minute news programs with maps and discussion guides

[|Geocube]- based on the principle of the Rubik's Cube the online resource has six faces with 54 topics covering Living Together, Shrinking Planet, Exploring our World, Useful Geographies, Earth from all Angles, Fascinating Earth with each face encompassing 9 separate topics.

[|Google Books] – thousands of books and documents in the public domain 

[|Google Earth Hacks] – consists of 199 Google Earth overlays featuring notable sites for WWI and WWII

Google Earth History Tours

[|History Animated] – a series of three animations for the American Revolution, U.S. Civil War and U. S. Pacific Campaign in WWII, each animation provides captions, strategies, results and consequences

[|Kids Past] is an elementary site for World History and offers games that correspond to the text.  [|National Archives] – provides a daily document of history for each day (RSS feed available)

[|Playing History] – over 100 games for civics, geography, U.S. and world history; click on a word in the word cloud to choose games; I did find some misspellings on this site

[|Rader's Kapili.com] - geography lessons

[|XTimeline] – a web based timeline; create, collaborate and share timelines with text, videos and pictures

[|**World History**]- a mash- up of maps and timelines where one can search for location and date for people, events or images. Icons on the maps may be clicked on to learn more about a person, event, etc.

[|**World War II**]- a list of 10 great resources for teaching and learning World War II