Social Studies

Publishers

• Social Studies Center This site from Houghton Mifflin contains projects, activities, and online maps.  (Adobe Acrobat needed for maps)
• McGraw-Hill Social Studies Page Includes web linked activities, lesson plans, and more.
• Glencoe Social Studies
   
• Nashoba Virtual Library Links
• Webquests for Social Studies (Grade 9-12)
  - The French Revolution 3/04
  - Cold War
• Apple iLife for Social Studies
      - The Soundtrack of One's Life
      - Protest Music Video
• Treasure Hunts
  - An Internet-Based Treasure Hunt on Black History
• International Affairs - Mr. Cullinance
  - Geneva Convention - Prisoners of War
  - Geneva Conventions - Protocol I

History and Museums

• Computer Museums
• National Air and Science History
• American Antiquarian Society
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Natural History Museum
• Museum of Science, Boston
• The Natural History Museum, London
• Guggenheim Museum
• Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

American History

• American History Sites - Native American resources, American historical document collections, university projects, and national resources such as the National Archives/Library of Congress.
• American Memory from Library of Congress
• Presidents of the United States
• Revolutionary War
• World War I
• World War II
• Women in American History
• Social Studies Around the Web - United States

Justice and Law

• StreetLaw.com
• StreetLaw.org - provides practical, participatory education about law
• Street Law / Glencoe
• FindLaw for Students
• Court TV
• Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
• Worcester DA
• Mass.gov
• Mass Trial Courts Law Library
• Internet Law Library
• Law for Kids
• History and Technology - Virtual Field Trip
   
• Tom Snyder - Decisions Decisions (Death Penalty) Other Topics
• ThinkQuest Anatomy of a Murder:  - A Trip Through Our Nation's Legal Justice System
• Equal Protection Under the Law - Webquest
• Jeopardy (download ppt file) Constitutional Law Review (matrix) make your own!

General

• Landmarks for Schools - Social Studies Links
• SLATE - Strategic Learning and Teaching Environment.
  A web tool that helps teachers construct web pages designed to help their students achieve one or more specific instructional objectives.
• Women's History Resources
• Today-in-History Historic events and birthdates. Deathdates, MIA's, events in religious history, religious holidays, and Thought for the Day.
• Today in History American Memory Project. Information from the archives of the Library of Congress. View timelines and historic images, read primary-source documents about the great events and movements in American history.
• World War: An Inquiry Style Lesson on the WWW
• History Channel Hot List
• History Net

Misc Links

• BrainPop Social Studies
• Project Teach Tufts University Partnership
• Social Studies Medford, MA
• MassBalance  simulates the current Fiscal
  Year 2004 budget crisis, beginning with an approximate budget shortfall of $3.2 billion.
• Classical Intelligence Test - Queendom.com  May 03
• AnyDay in History Look up information on any day in history.
• The Concord Review Publishes exemplary history essays by secondary students.
• CNN Interactive Up to the minute breaking news
• Decisions, Decisions Online Experience amazing discussions in your class from this FREE site.
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• Encyclopedia of Women's History Written by and for the K12 community. Write and read entries!
• Explorers of the World "Those who dare to dream . . . Those who dare to challenge the boundaries... of space, time, ignorance and science."
• Folklore and Mythology Archives Archives of popular American beliefs and superstitions, western U.S. folklore, American folk medicine, folk songs, and more.
• The History Channel Lots of great info and great speeches.
• International Olympic Committee Lots of Olympic information!
• Museum Mania! Make libraries and museums fun with this site and its treasure hunts.
• National Council for Social Studies Resources for teachers, students and parents.
• National History Day Promoting the study of history in the schools.
• NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources Over 1000 links of medieval information.
• NewsHub A summary of today's news, updates, etc. It is updated every 15 minutes.
• The New York Times Learning Network Lots of support for learning about current events.
• Our Town Web Project Neat Project for social studies.
  Students create web pages about their town.
• The Smithsonian Institution
• Social Studies Bookmarks Links to more than 1000 sites with info on African American history, Asian resources, election links, European history and more!
• Social Studies Resources from Macomb ISD
• Those Were the Days An annotated list of things that happened on this day in history.
• Today's Top Story from Scholastic.
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• Television News Archive from Vanderbilt University. An online database including summaries of network evening news programs as well as special reports.
• World Kids Voyage Contact schools from around the world.
• Xpeditions from National Geographic