David Lavin's List: Social studies and Web 2.0 content list

This site outlines web 2.0 resources to use in the social studies classroom. It is organized so that you can easily access a variety of wikis and blogs for both teachers and students.

This website includes videos, video segments, images, and encyclopedia articles on a variety of topics. This is great for any subject. I use it often to introduce topics with short video segments.

Google organizes data from its database. It includes charts and data, which update constantly.

This website includes satellite images of the earth. Students can literally see their homes and cars from a birds eye view. It also allows students to view satellite images of sites they are studying.

This is a short clip on Youtube displaying an interactive Social Studies Lesson. The lesson includes clickers, laptops, and a whiteboard and simulates a class trip to Yellowstone National Park.

This site has categorized several of the social sciences (as well as other subjects). The subjects are organized so that you can easily access lessons, videos, movies, and text on topics within a subject.

This is a glogster site created by a freshman social studies teacher from Montana, Jason Neiffer. Jason had his students take a current events course that was previously paper-based and integrate web 2.0 resources to make the course up-to-date.

This website has links to various informational websites, videos, maps, charts, etc...related to the field of social studies. It is organized into three categories: history; govt/economics; and geography.

David Jakes created a slideshare presentation about how to use the Google apps to enhance the social studies curriculum. The slide show focuses on Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Forms, Google Maps, and Google Earth.

This site makes it easy to build, share, and explore virtual tours. You can turn digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps, images, and comments. It could be good for doing virtual field trips in social studies classrooms.

This site allows students to build an argument or description of an event, person, or historical period by placing items into a virtual drop box. Students can use anything from text files, to pictures or videos.

This is a fun website that I have used in my classroom already. It can work for many different subjects, but this is especially good for social studies. I had my students reenact historical events using their cartoons.

This is a slideshare presentation created by Jeremy Bruek. This presentation teachers about the web 2.0 learner and how elementary teachers can integrate social studies into the needs of the web 2.0 learner.

This is an excellent blog created by an 8th grade social studies teacher, Eric Langhorst. This link takes you to a presentation made by Eric in November, 2007 called "Using web 2.0 in the social studies classroom."

This site includes daily puzzles related to social studies. It could be great for daily warm up activities.

This website includes a variety of history trivia games. Each game also has a rating to help with selection.

This website includes games related to various educational topics. You can search by subject area or age range.

This is a fun study tool. My students are expected to memorize all 50 states in the U.S.A. and a map of Europe in my American Cultures II course. This was also great from my World Cultures course (when I taught it). We play in class and the students study with this site at home.

This blog discusses a new company, Inkling, which is trying to publish online textbooks. This would change education for students and teachers. It would likely lead to more use of web 2.0 resources.

A Blog done by Joselyn Todd on how to create a social studies project using web 2.0. This site includes hyperlinks to resources for both the students' and the teachers' use.