Social+Studies

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Discovery Education
Discovery Education streaming Plus integrates seamlessly into any curriculum with [|9,000 full-length videos] segmented into 71,000 content-specific clips tied directly state and national standards. = =
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=Quizlet eats flashcards for breakfast= Quizlet helps **you and your friends learn vocabulary**. You make a list of words, and we teach them to you. Feeling lazy? Your friends can share their lists with you. **You'll never use flashcards again.** Plus, it's **free**.

http://quizlet.com/

http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/portfolio.php //"eduweb provided a unique combination of technical expertise, understanding of the web audience, commitment to high-quality content and true artistry."//

== [|Multimedia resources & professional development for America's preK-12 educators.]

= = =THINKFINITY.ORG - a Verizon Company= An unlimited supply of useful lessons for the classroom http://thinkfinity.org/home.aspx

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Click on the graphics for great tools for your classroom.



Are you looking for interactive activities for your math, English, art, social studies, or science students? Why not take a look at: http://www.learner.org/interactives/

These lessons integrate digital media with social studies content. You can view a list of modules organized: [|Alphabetically] [|By social studies methods] [|By K-12 social studies content areas]. [|Elementary lessons]

These collections contain digitized primary source documents arranged and presented around a single theme.

[|The Industrial Revolution] [|Civil War Stereotypes] [|Using //Uncle Tom's Cabin// to Explore Slavery] [|Virtual Quilt Making] [|Who Wants to Be a Pioneer?] [|Investigating Massive Resistance in Charlottesville, VA (1954-1964) as a Historian!] [|**Teaching the Holocaust with the Internet**] This guide has been designed to assist teachers in designing their own Holocaust curriculum. There are hundreds of Holocaust websites offering teacher resources, so the amount of available information can be overwhelming. Rather than providing an annotated list of Holocaust websites, which can easily be found elsewhere, this site has concentrated on four websites that I have found to be well-designed, up-to-date and helpful. Drawing from these sites, this page will provide step-by-step suggestions for designing a Holocaust curriculum.

===NationalGeographic.com - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards—and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/===

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===FactCheckEd.org is an educational resource for high school teachers and students. It’s designed to help students learn to cut through the fog of misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages they’re bombarded with every day. Our site is a sister to the award-winning Annenberg Political Fact Check, which goes by the Internet address FactCheck.org. and monitors the factual accuracy of what is said in the nation’s political arena." http://www.factchecked.org/===