Social Studies

links students of all ages to Internet-based, interactive activities that "teach" about Congress, the federal government, and civic duty.

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(see especially for teachers, the Learning Page)

Economics

The Stock Market Game™ (SMG), the original and premier educational program that stimulates learning about economics, finance, and the American economic system

Current Events

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It explains how to record a special 10 minute program in the wee hours of the morning to use with the kids that day.

Time for Kids has a news ticker as a banner at the top of their page. Two or three stories give an elementary age story about current events.

Underneath the lesson of the day, there is a current events exercise for grades 3-5.

History (many sites include access to primary resources)

The American Memory section includes a large number of digitized historical collections in both audio and visual formats.

Access to famous speeches, images, primary source documents. Primary-source lesson plans and activities can be found in the Digital Classroom section of the site.

Provides links to the event, cultures, and places of the nation’s past, such as Civil War battlefields, landmarks, and museum collections.

Major events in women’s rights from the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 through the passage of the19th Amendment in 1920.

One Northern and one Southern community using the backdrop of the Civil War. Documents, photos, military records, and maps. Lesson plans (7-12 grades) in the Teaching Materials section.

Connections to thousands of sites in U.S. history. U.S. section is organized chronologically.

Allows access to a vast array of maps, documents, and curricular materials on Native American History.

Includes "This Day in History," which provides information on general history topics. Also includes ideas for lesson plans and projects.

Allows for exploration through objects in the museum’s collections and exhibits and study of primary and secondary sources.

Gallery of presidential portraits and sounds of the presidents. Primary source photographs.

(Teaching with Historic Places)

(Virtual Ellis Island Tour)

(Crisis at Fort Sumter)

Teaching Resources

Includes resources to assist you in planning and linking your lessons to the Illinois State Standards.

Contains weekly lessons focused on a wide range of topics, mostly related to current news events.

(folk and fairy tales from countries throughout the world)

Geography

(geography games)

Social Studies Education Sites

Social Studies Content Sites

Finding and Evaluating Technology for Social Studies

Child Friendly Sites/Search Engines for Kids