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Sites with content and resources for teaching social studies and/or history
Updated on May 08, 14
Created on Mar 10, 10
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Searchable database of Scholastic books that helps you find book levels, booktalks, lesson plans. You can also create and share book lists.
Students will travel back to the year 1860 and follow a young slave as he flees a Kentucky plantation for Canada along the Underground Railroad. Along the way, they can read or listen to the runaway slave describe his terrifying journey from slavery to freedom. They'll discover what life was like as a slave, encounter the dangers of the Underground Railroad, meet brave abolitionists who took great risks to help runaways, and compare life in the North and South.
This project is open to Fourth and Fifth Grade classrooms across the Commonwealth of Virginia. Our goal is to help students learn about the state of Virginia from each other! While all of the projects will be ongoing throughout the year, we will feature specific projects at different times - just to bring them to your attention. Please join in as often as you can!
A resource for photographs, maps and diagrams of the geology of the Commwealth
"Welcome to the Virginia Trekkers website where you’ll find video podcasts from each of the five regions of Virginia, plus lots of activities and games to review your Science and Social Studies SOLs. Come on! Let’s go trekkin’!"
This site is designed especially with the young learner in mind with its age-appropriate content and emphasis on visual and auditory learning. Glossopedia is the kind of site that you can leave open for students to explore and find a fast fact of the day, find their favorite image, or video Glossopedia Categories Geography and Places Nature and the Environment Technology Animals Earth and Space People and Cultures Human Body Chemistry Natural Forces This site is simple and visually pleasing. The font size is great for young learners. Words are hyperlinked to an audio pronunciation that is a real person, speaking really slowly at first then more quickly, and finally the written meaning of the word. Images and photos have a print button prominently displayed.
Online collections include: Adams Digital Collection, Adams Papers, Diaries of John Q Adams, Thomas Jefferson Digital Collection, Abolition documents
"This section helps students and teachers make effective use of primary sources. “Making Sense of Documents” provide strategies for analyzing online primary materials, with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources. “Scholars in Action” segments show how scholars puzzle out the meaning of different kinds of primary sources, allowing you to try to make sense of a document yourself then providing audio clips in which leading scholars interpret the document and discuss strategies for overall analysis."
76 items | 9 visits
Sites with content and resources for teaching social studies and/or history
Updated on May 08, 14
Created on Mar 10, 10
Category: Schools & Education
URL: