Beth Verstraete's List: Social Studies

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

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.

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

Age 8-14

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

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.

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

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