Social Studies
- The Social Studies Place
- Apple Computer: Links to websites that are well worth visiting
- Online Learning Update: Developed by Ray Schroeder of the University of Illinois at Springfield.
- C-SPAN: Developed with the teacher in mind
- Facing History and Ourselves Program. This program, which deals with the Holocaust, by dealing with an historical topic, could be categorized as a history website. At the same time, the program deals with civic responsibility and group membership, which makes it appropriate to the study of civics/government and sociology.
- Information related to social studies and other subjects
- “The Teacher’s Source,” from PBS, where on this specific web page one may link to lesson plans pertaining to different facets of history, government and other aspects of social studies
- Marco Polo: For lessons in the areas of history, geography, economics, the arts, and philosophy and religion
- National Council for the Social Studies
- Newseum: The nation’s news museum found in Rosslyn, VA, which explores news issues of past and present and explores the role of the press in American life.
- Pacific Bell, called Blue Web’n: A library of links to “Blue Ribbon websites” in all subjects, including social studies and history and for all grades.
- PBS website for teachers
- PBS series “The American Experience”
- Social studies activities from Discovery Channel
- These websites of the Columbia Education Center have links to lesson plans in all subjects including social studies: http://www.col-ed.org/cur/ and http://youth.net/cec/cec.html
- UN Refugee Agency: Online lesson plans pertaining to refugee issues that tie into civic, geography, and history education
- University of Missouri-St. Louis
- WebQuest: Projects of all subject areas including social studies