Sites for Educators
Social Studies & Art
FREE Resources in the Arts
Visit these web sites for information, activities, and resources for learning the arts.
FREE Resources -- The Constitution
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Visit these web sites for information, activities, and resources for learning about the Constitution.
FREE Resources: A Baker's Dozen for Social Studies
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Visit these web sites for information, activities, and resources for social studies.
Election 2004: U.S. Politics, Government and the Campaign
by Carol Holzberg
Get your students excited about national politics and the political leaders of this great nation by taking advantage of election resources available on the Web.
The Library of Congress Online for Educators
by Leni Donlan
The Library is an incredible resource that serves the government and the public with historic archives and current information. Visit it in person or online.
The Library of Congress Online for Educators
by Leni Donlan
The Library is an incredible resource that serves the government and the public with historic archives and current information. Visit it in person or online.
A Virtual Tour of Washington's Smithsonian Institution
by Gwen Solomon and Stan Solomon
The Smithsonian is the world's largest museum complex and it has awesome content. Take a virtual trip to find the education-specific assets of this incredible resource.
The Wright Brothers' 100th Anniversary
by Stan Solomon
Prepare for the Centennial of Flight anniversary with these web sites that take you back in history to the Wright Brothers' accomplishment, the first self-propelled heavier-than-air flight.
Using Virtual Learning Spaces to Promote Multiculturalism
By Zoevera Ann Jackson
Teachers and students can use virtual learning spaces to promote and/or explore multiculturalism in the classroom. Here are Web sites to use.
The History of the World at your Fingertips
By Susan Brooks-Young
A classroom Internet connection is a real boon in teaching and learning World History. Now students can quickly research a question or download the text of an important document without leaving the classroom. Teachers can interact with colleagues, find lesson plans, and access multimedia support materials that greatly enhance the curriculum. Whether you're teaching Ancient History, Modern History, or anything in between, you'll find something here for use in your classroom.
International Web Sites
By Carol S. Holzberg
School budgets can't accommodate fieldtrips to faraway places. Thanks to the Internet, however, children can take digital journeys to all of the world's most wonderful locations and to virtually any place in the world.
Resources for Teaching Art
By Roger Gottlieb & Ray Chimileski
Art teachers rejoice. The World Wide Web offers a goldmine of resources for K-12 art education. The General Resources, Standards, and Lesson Plans sections of this Web tour contain great leads. But also be sure to visit the Informative and Entertaining Sites section, which highlights sites that are a dream-come-true for art teachers and art-lovers.
Bringing the Curriculum to Life with the Arts
By Barbara Bray
Professional development programs that include the arts and technology bring curriculum to life. Teachers not only have hands-on experiences but they also have fun. Their enthusiasm transfers to the classroom. Here are some examples of resources, projects and programs that provide ideas on how teachers can integrate arts and technology across the curriculum.
Cultural Diversity and Gender Equity
By Carol S. Holzberg, PhD
Human diversity is best understood as cultural diversity, resulting from the interplay of gender, ethnic, linguistic, religious, economic, political and historical differences. Children in today's American classrooms come from culturally diverse backgrounds. To ensure that all students have equal opportunities for learning success, take advantage of the following Web resources to dispel some common myths and stereotypes about America's diverse ethic, religious, and cultural populations.
Digital Equity Resources Online
By Gwen Solomon
Digital Equity is a multi-faceted term that focuses on the equality of access to online resources, educational opportunities, and other technology-based advantages. Some Web sites are designed to inform about specific groups or strategies and others provide general information about many of the components that make up digital equity and provide research about them.
Online Learning: From Philosophy to Application
By Mary Delgado
Explore Web sites that will help you develop a strategy for online learning from developing a philosophy to determining scenarios for application. In other words, find out why we should to how we can.
The Age of Exploration
By Susan Brooks-Young
The Age of Exploration began in the 15th century and ultimately led to the development of vast colonial empires in the Americas and Asia, the ramifications of which are still felt today. This tour includes sites that provide general information about the Age of Exploration and sites with very specific orientations, such as biographies of explorers, the study of navigation, and cartography. The tour even includes a student-developed project that was a ThinkQuest Junior competition finalist in 2000; it serves as both a resource and a model for possible student activities.
Immigration
By Carol S. Holzberg, PhD
We are a nation of immigrants. Every year thousands of people emigrate to the United States in search of political freedom. Others come to take advantage of economic opportunity. More than 18 million people entered the U.S. between 1891 and 1920 through Ellis Island in New York harbor. Many others came through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay from 1910 to 1940. Carol points out Web sites that are great information resources for information about America's immigration policy, immigrant experience, and the important nation-building role that immigrants have played from the mid-19th century to the present.
Political Systems
By Carol Holzberg
American democracy is only one of many political systems. Encourage your students to harness the internet's vast databanks to learn more about political alternatives(past and present). Be sure to explain that every Web site has a political viewpoint or analytic bias. In some instances, the writer's agenda is obvious. At sites like CNN or MSNBC, however, the journalist's political values may be cloaked in the guise of objectivity that is every bit as political, but a loss less transparent.
Women's Suffrage
By Kim Carter
While American women have been allowed to stand for election in the United States since 1788, they were not given voting rights until 1920. The history(some would say herstory) of the 19th Amendment, which proclaims the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex, and the stories of the individuals who fought for the right are integral to understanding the past so that we may better shape the future. Kim offers the following web sites as starting points to explore women's legacy in our political process.
Social Studies/Geography Sites for Middle School
By Donna Graham
As a part of the Social Studies/Geography curriculum, students are often asked to do research involving maps, geographical locations and multicultural awareness. The following web sites have been used by middle school students and teachers as a resource.
Ken's Konnection 18: History, Social Studies, and Geography
By Ken Royal
Ken says that this History, Social Studies, and Geography Konnection was a pleasure to write. The sites reviewed are unequaled in their quality and quantity of useful links, lessons, and information. Many offer unique primary and secondary sources. All do the search work that most teachers don't have the time to do. So, whether you're looking for an online expedition, an historical reference, a lesson starter or topper, a Webquest idea, or a way to bring history to life for your students, you won't find better sources than these sites. You may even find a way to make your own lessons digitally interactive too.
Ken's Konnections #12 - History, Social Studies, and Cultures
By Ken Royal
The states, presidents, and history can be found here, along with The White House for Kids. You may find the primary source documents valuable. These Konnections will certainly help with any research assignment. There is also a site here with hundreds of lesson plans that will thrill any social studies teacher looking for a new idea or direction.
Resources on Slavery in Modern Western History
For Black History month and anytime, Roger offers these resources on and about slavery. All but the last of these sources are concerned with the enslavement of Africans and their lives in captivity in what is now the United States. The final source is on Nazi forced labor in the Netherlands, which shows that the human cruelty visited upon Africans beginning four centuries ago was almost as easily visited upon non-Germans earlier in this century.
United States Presidents and the Presidency
By Roger Gottlieb
For many students, U.S. presidents and the American Presidency are favorite research topics. Follow the links from this list of useful web resources for teacher and student use.
Native American Resources
By Roger Gottlieb
Roger identifies the most valuable resources for student and teacher research.for sources of information on Native American issues.
African American Resources
By Roger Gottlieb
Looking for resources for African American studies? These are sites with extensive and practical information.
Teaching & Learning About the Holocaust
By Amnon Till
The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of Jewish people and others in Europe by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Amnon point out many web sites with teaching materials, resources, museums, and more that are dedicated to the Holocaust.
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