• Sep. 12, 2005
C-SPAN Classroom
C-SPANClassroom.org, our new web site for Civics and U.S. Government teachers, launches today! C-SPAN Classroom worked with its Teaching Fellows this summer to create a site that would make it even easier for middle and high school civics and government teachers to bring C-SPAN video into their classrooms.
Our new site offers short clips of C-SPAN video and other resources such as PDFs and relevant links, organized by six major topic areas based on national and selected state standards:
--Principles of Government
--U.S. Constitution
--Legislative Branch
--Executive Branch
--Judicial Branch
--Political Participation
C-SPAN Classroom will update these video clips weekly, and sometimes daily, to provide Civics and U.S. Government teachers the most useful and topical content. Each of these video clips have also been linked to national and selected state standards.
View our new site here!
http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/
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• Sep. 2, 2005
teachology
Ignore the ads...
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/subject_matter/social_studies/
Now I don't have membership here but the free stuff is still a plethora of ideas! Resources, tools, discussion boards, free newsletter etc. Pick the subject you want and then the grade or age level you are interested in for specific ideas.
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• Sep. 2, 2005
PBS' Colonial House
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/teachers.html
Even if you haven't seen the series of shows you can still glean loads from the lesson plans and activities listed here. Geared toward grades 5-8 I am sure they could easily be adapted to younger and older students.
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• Sep. 2, 2005
BrainPOP
BrainPOP offers all subjects but this link will take you right to the social studies area. Now only 5 of the topics are free without membership but they include the Bill of Rights, Civil Rights, Map Skills, Political Beliefs and War. In each of those topics are a variety og activities for kids to do online. You can always sign up if they love it. They have a 14 day free trial you can give a whirl before subscribing.
See it at:
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/seeall/
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• Sep. 2, 2005
Quick Maps
Small GIF maps of the countries of the world, added to this site, one at a time, in order of demand including world and country COLORING maps.
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• Sep. 2, 2005
Outline Maps
Education Place's http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/ maps may be printed and copied for personal or classroom use.
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• Aug. 31, 2005
Owl & Mouse
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
Learn United States and World geography with Maps that Teach. Interactive maps to learn continents, countries, states, capitals, borders, physical features and cultural monuments. Learn the countries of different continents and their capitals with these fun and educational map puzzle games. Do you know where the evening news is coming from? Free Software!
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• Aug. 31, 2005
Maps
http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/charisse/maps.html
Don't be alarmed by the ratings you see here of kids/teens/mature teens. It is just for reading and interst levels only. i didn't see anyhting objectionable.
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• Aug. 31, 2005
Geo Spy
brings you http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy/
