Using Technology in the Elementary Social Studies Classroom
General Social Studies Links:
Lipscomb's
Social Studies Links
Civics
and Government Links
Geography
Links
Website Evaluation:
Discovery
Channel
ALA-
Selection Criteria
Practice Sites:
Briggs vs. Elliot (3.4.1, 5.3.2-current—3-8.6, 5-5.3—proposed)
1. Other
cases
2. What
happened in Little Rock Arkansas?
3. Brown
vs. Board case summaries
Primary Sources:
American
Memory
National
Archives
National Women's History Museum
History
Channel
Valley
of the Shadow
Simulations/ Games:
Ben's Guide
to US Government
George Washington
(Portrait for Kids)
National
Geographic Kids
US
Mint's Site for Kids
Privacy Playground (3 little pigs)
Software used in workshop (Furman)
South Carolina Geographic Alliance (main page)
America Rock - lesson using
3D Atlas - how to buy (out of print now)
Software Providers:
Tom Snyder
Productions
Broderbund
Sunburst
Virtual Field Trips:
Kids Castle
South
Carolina State House
Volcano
World Virtual Field Trips
White House for Kids
Tramline-Virtual Field Trips
Local Field Trips:
Historic
Sites of Greenville County
Historic Columbia
South
Carolina Department of Archives and History
Analyzing Photographs:
Library
of Congress
Education
World Article
National
Archives
Sound Files/ Music:
Variety
Recording/ Library of Congress
Patriotic Songs
iTunes
Other Sites of Interest:
The One
Computer Classroom
Marco Polo
Know It All.Org (SCETV)
Portaportal
Our Timelines
Digital History
Document Analysis
Worksheet
Center
for Southern African-American Music (CSAM)
Furman Workshop Pictures
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Lesson Plans (Lexington 2)
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The
Roles of the Governor (2nd)
Introduction
to Gullah Culture (3rd)
Cotton
Gin (3rd)
Jamestown
vs. Plymouth (4th)
WWI
(5th)
Lesson Plans (Sangaree Middle
School)
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Middleton Place Field Trip (K,2)
Branches of Government (3rd)
Stock Market Crash (5th)
Constitutions (7th)