Beth Verstraete's List: Social Studies

Grades 7 and 8. Fortify your constituional knowledge with this collection of federal resources.

www.free.ed.gov/HandSS.cfm - Preview

on 2009-04-22 and saved by 4 people

Grades 7 and 8. Country comparisons using graphs, maps. Huge database of world statistics. Reference site contains country statistics, maps, flags, graphs and pie charts.

www.nationmaster.com/index.php - Preview

on 2009-04-22 and saved by 536 people

Awesome Stories Ages 8 to ?. This site has many stories with word/picture links to enhance student understanding of science and history.

www.awesomestories.com - Preview

on 2009-04-23 and saved by 250 people

Age 8-14

www.smithsoniansource.org - Preview

on 2009-04-22 and saved by 24 people

Grades 5-8. An interactive timeline of Presidential history, presenting materials drawn from the Presidential Libraries.

www.presidentialtimeline.org - Preview

on 2009-04-22 and saved by 73 people

FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. We present the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at top universities, think tanks and conferences. We gather this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want.

fora.tv - Preview

on 2009-04-22 and saved by 369 people

Grades 5-8. Rare and ancient written works from libraries around the world.

www.wdl.org/en - Preview

on 2009-06-19 and saved by 589 people

Grades 5-8. Smithsonian launches online cultural heritage tours.

www.smithsonianeducation.org/...index.html - Preview

on 2009-06-19 and saved by 14 people