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Current
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History
Detectives
Students
use their sleuthing skills to figure
out when and where historical events took place. |
Middle
Ages
Discover what it was like to live during the Middle Ages. |
Ben's
Guide
to US Government
Provides a basic
introduction to the Federal Government in a user-friendly format.
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Geography
Zone
The world’s largest online geography quiz
challenges visitors to locate randomly selected countries.
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Math
In Daily Life
Put your decision-making skills to the test by deciding whether buying
or leasing a new car is right for you, and predict how much money you
can save for your retirement. |
Scholastic Online
Activities
Browse
and download online and interactive activities from Scholastic.com for
all subject areas and grade levels. |
Interactive
United
States
History
Map
Students can become a geography whiz as
they learn how the United States was settled. |
Open Vault
Online
access to unique and historically important content produced by public
television station WGBH.
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Newseum
View
today's front page of any major newspaper in the country. |
Design
Your Own Flag
Using the digital art on this site, you can make your
own
flag. |
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National
Geographic
Young
Explorer
Listen
to and/or read the latest issues of this terrific student magazine
online for free. Accomplanying lessons, worksheets and
activities.
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Flocabulary
Flocabulary
contains educational raps and hip-hop
music
for
history
topics. |
Renaissance
Join us as we explore the Renaissance and discover the forces that
drove this rebirth in Europe. |
Historic Tale
Construction Kit
Create historic tale cartoons or comics set
in medieval times. |
National Geographic
MapMachine
Click on the world
map to choose a location and zoom in to see as close up as individual
houses.
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Virsona
A
Virsona is a Virtual Persona. The interface looks like an IM or text
conversation, but it allows you to chat with anyone from history or
literature. |
Circle of Stories
Listen to Native
Americans tell stories about their traditions, beliefs and
relationships with the land. Find
corresponding lesson plans. |
Collapse
Explore the collapse of four ancient civilizations.
Learn how archaeologists find and interpret evidence. |
Democracy Project
Set up like a
"choose your own adventure", kids make choices as President for the day. |
Google Earth
Lessons
Lesson Plans for
all subject areas using Google Earth. |
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Week
in Rap
Every
Friday, Flocabulary’s
hip-hop artists
produce a two-minute music video summarizing the major news stories of
the
week.
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Eye
witness
to
history
Sound bytes from the 20th
century
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Historical
and
Cultural
Contexts
Sharpen your investigative skills to decipher when and where a
historical event took place, and use clues for cracking questions. |
ZIPskinny
Enter
any ZIP code to see U.S. Census data and comparisons with neighboring
ZIP's. |
National
Atlas
A free
website
with interactive
maps and a
MapMaker
tool for
creating U.S. and world maps with nearly limitless
layers
of mapping information.
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Behind the News
is a
fantastic Australian site that helps students learn about
current issues and events around the world. Each week a new episode is
released comprising of about 5 different stories, each under 5 minutes
long.
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Footnote
Browse
and upload original documents.
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ImageDetectiveUse
this exercise to build students' skills in analyzing historical
documents.
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Enter a topic and receive
current news articles from around the world!
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News for kids, by kids.
You
can even post your students' news stories!
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Provides high-quality, multimedia
content on general education subjects to high school and college
students free of charge.
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Dogonews
Fodder,
cool sites and global news for young minds.
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