Social Studies - Links for Teachers

 

Advanced Placement on History Teachers.net

Center for Teaching History With Technology

C-Span Classroom - free resources for teaching Civics and U. S. Government

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoons Index

DBQs

Do History - an interactive primary document case study of Martha Ballard

Document Based Questions - The Basics 

The Learning Page

Primary Source Materials and Document Based Questions - an Internet Hotlist on DBQ

Primary Sources Pathfinder - incredible list by Joyce Valenza

Teaching With Documents

Teaching with Primary Sources Program  at LOC

 

EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web - Marcopolo and the National Endowment for the Arts

Fed Stats - a search engine for federal statistics

Media Literacy - Media Construction of War

News Sources on the Web - search using intitle:tsunami  to get more specific articles

AlltheWeb News - Newspaper sources world wide, usually free for the last week of news.

Daypop.com - Searches 59,000 news sites and weblogs.  Add /archive/news to get news from 2002 - current.

Google News - Includes regional national and world.

InfoTrac Databases - Newspapers and Magazines on Sabino's database

Rocket News - includes newspapers, media and quality weblogs.

Search 22 - A meta search that searches the other news search tools like Google and Rocket.

Topix.net - Allows you to locate regional news and then by clicking on a story see how it was revised by another paper.

Pima County Public Library - Databases -Newspapers

Primary Source Documents

AMDOCS - Documents for the Study of America History

Digitized Primary American History Sources

National Archives and Records Administration - NARA

Teaching With Documents

 

Reading Quest - content reading strategies in social studies

Schools of California: Online Resources for Education

Social Education Magazine  (sabino)

Stage a Debate

Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History

Timeline Maker

Timeline Widget - see the example at MIT

Touring the American Memory Collection

U.S. Census Bureau - searchable by city, county or zip code.

Virtual School History Websites

Web Site Evaluation of Information

Criteria for Evaluation Information Sources

How to Read a Web Address 

Web Site Evaluation - Berkley  and background

What's For Real on the Web?

World History Web Site Evaluation Tool