Listed
below are articles, technology-integrated lesson plans, and websites that
include the information of
integrating computers into the classrooms and curriculum
for the subjects, Social Studies.
Curiculum
Ideas at cyberbee.com - Social Studies: intergrates the Internet into
your classroom curriculum
Mapquest
: It explores interactive maps for cities and towns worldwide, generate
detailed door-to-door driving
directions with TripQuest, and customize and save maps.
MIT
Geographic Database : Students can have keyword searching for geographic
information on locations
mostly within the United States.
TerraServer--Microsoft
's link to satellite images; check out any spot on the globe from
space
Demographic Data Viewer 3.0 will map states, counties, and census tracts.
U.S. States/ A
pdf file that contains a
map for each state divided into counties
GeoNet
Game
Geography
World
Economics
and Geography Lessons - Elementary
The
Mystery of the Mission Museum: This is a virtual reality project
developed at SDSU's Department of
Educational Technology. It is designed for
the 4th-grade level and includes dozens of manipulable objects,
"interviews" with Mission Indians and Spaniards,
demonstrations of 18th- and 19th-century crafts, and authentic
Mission era texts and music. The virtual reality Mission
Museum CD-ROM serves as an environment in which your
students can play the role of museum guides. This
website also provides descriptive information, lesson plans,
and an order form.
Hyper
History Online : This website provides 2 000 files covering 3 000 years
of world history.
Best
History Websites
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures
The
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
History
Channel : Archive of famous speeches, including audio files. Some of
them changed the course of history
in some part of our world.
History
and Politics out loud provides Audio file speeches from the 20th century,
e.g. Watergate transcripts, Martin
Luther King Jr. speeches and FDR's inaugural speech.
The
technology-based Social Studies Lesson Plans : This website provide
several technology-based Social
Studies lesson plans
Social
Studies Web Resources : This site provides links and ideas for lesson
planning using the Web.
Infoplease:
World; United
States; History and
Government; Infoplease4Teacher
CSS
Journal: Computers in the Social Studies: This online magazine, published
six times a year, is devoted to the
integration and use of computers in social studies instruction.
Most articles are available in full on the site.
Last
updated: June 4, 2003.
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