Welcome to the Middle School Social Studies Resource Page
Smithsonian Resource for Educators- Search by keyword or State Standards
Darly Cagle's Cartoons political cartoon index
CNN Students News - Resources for both students and teachers.
New York Times Learning Network - News summaries and a news quiz.
PBS News Hour - News for students and lesson plans for teachers.
Time for Kids - Teacher's page. By Time magazine.
C-Span - Topics for the discussion of current events in the classroom.
The Cyber School Bus - United Nations education portal with information and activities for both current events and geography.
Teachable Moment - Activities and resources for the study of current events.
Current Events! - Lesson plans from Education World.
The Council on World Affairs of Canada - This site has study guides for many of the events in the news, and information on a model United Nations program.
Geography
Google Earth Lessons
- Uses of Google Earth in the classroom
Education@NationalGeographic - Online expeditions, lesson plans, free printable maps, and, of course, National Geographic products for sale.
Xpeditions - National Geographic site with virtual field trips, lesson plans, and maps.
National Geographic News - Current news of geography and other science and social studies topics.
My Wonderful World - A campaign by the National Geographic to improve student knowledge of geography. There are resources here for students, teachers, and parents.
Geography Lesson Plans - From Discovery School.
Geography Lesson Plans - From Education World.
Geography Home Page - From About.Com. There is quite a bit of geography information here.
World Mapper - These maps are resized based on the subject of interest such as population, age, tourism, exports and imports. By the University of Sheffield.
Nation Master - An excellent site for statistics from countries of the world. Your students will be able to compare education, income, oil consumption, life expectancy, and many other statistics. There are also maps and country information..
Teaching and Learning About Canada Geography and history of Canada.
The Asia Society - This is a good source of lesson plans for Asian countries.
StateMaster - This site has a wealth of statistics about the United States. There are statistics for education, health, finances, and much, much more. It can be used for both social studies and math classes.
Geology.Com - This site has maps and satellite images for the United States and the countries of the world.
K-12 Electronic Guide to African Resources on the Internet - By the African Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Lesson Plans - Plans for Pennsylvania geography from ProTeacher.
Geography Lesson Plans and Resources - A large collection of lesson plans for all grade levels.
Government
U.S. Government and Civic Lesson Plans - From Mr. Donn's Free Lesson Plans.
Government Lesson Plans - From Teachnology.
Elections and Voting Lesson Plans - From Teachology.
Congress Link - This site has lesson plans for the study of the US Congress. There also links to other lesson plan sites and to web quests. By the Dirkson Congressional Center.
USA.gov - The US government's information portal.
Government Agency Kids Pages - There are sites for kids (and some for teachers) from many US government departments and agencies.
Inauguration Day Activities - Lesson plans from Education World.
Constitution Day - Information and lesson plans for teaching about the US constitution.
The National Constitution Center - in Philadelphia. This site has lesson plans for study of the constitution.
Arizona State Government- Use this web site as a tool to track pending legislation, plus locate and contact individual legislators,
