carol dobrowolski's List: Social Studies resources

This is one source of premade graphic organizers which can be printed and used with students in a variety of subject areas. A variety of organizers provided to assist with problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research, brainstorming, or helping structure any writing tasks.

This site is good for use in grade 7 social studies when studying fair trade practices and NGO's. There are lots of suggestions for how to make students aware of their role as global citizens, and making ethical choices as consumers.

This is an interesting site/game to support grade seven social studies concepts. By playing the game you actually donate free rice. According to the United Nations, a child dies every 6 seconds from hunger related causes. Though 10 grains of rice may seem like a small amount, it is important to remember that while you are playing, so are thousands of other people at the same time. It is everyone together that makes the difference. FreeRice has generated enough rice to feed millions of people since it started in October 2007.

National Geographic is an excellent resource for many subject areas, especially to support science and social studies curriculum. This is the home page, with a variety of links to a vast list of topics and categories. Excellent visuals as well.

This is a tool that can be used for students to create various types of graphs quickly. The students can individualize their results, edit and revise graphs, preview, save to their own source and then able to print final products.

This video is based on a National Geograpic study of what the "typical" person in the world today would be all about. What would this person look like, where would this person live? What would they have? Excellent to use with Social Studies unit on demographics and introduction to cultures and races. Good follow up to use the National Geographic article to support further discussion.