Social Studies Projects & Resources
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NOTE TO USERS: Most of the sites provided in the education pages are either from government, non-profit, or educational agencies; however, some of the sites are commercial and are included because of the array of materials provided in the site. The education pages are provided as a public service and are not meant to endorse one site over another nor to endorse any commercial enterprise. Site suggestions are welcome, although all suggestions will go through a screening process. In order to suggest a site for inclusion, email the planning department webmaster. |
A comprehensive collection of teaching materials for K-12 social studies teachers and students, including materials on General History, Government and Politics, Geography, World History, News Sources, Global and International Studies, Cultural Diversity, and U.S. History.
Although this is a commercial site (and therefore is attempting to sell educational materials), the site provides a fairly extensive collection of online resources and teaching materials (including projects and instructional activities).
Hosted and maintained by Crossroads,Georgetown University affiliated program, the American Studies Web was originally created by David Phillips, a doctoral candidate at Yale University, in 1994. The American Studies Web represents one of the single best resources on the Web for subjects related to American Studies, Art & Material Culture, Regional and Environmental Studies, Sociology and Demographics, Philosophy & Religion, History, Economics, Political Science, and Literature and the Performing Arts.
Created and maintained by the faculty of the Arts and Humanities program at Goteborg University, in Sweden. Like the American Studies Web, the Wold Wide Web Virtual Library on the Humanities offers a broad range of materials on Archaeology, History, Philosophy, Religion, Art History, History of Science, and Literature and Language, albeit with a far more global emphasis.
A general reference site from the University of California, Santa Barbara, The Voice of the Shuttle website provides materials on a broad range of traditional (History, Art and Classical Studies, Literature, and Philosophy) and non-traditional subjects, including Cyberculture, Media Studies, Postindustrial Business Theory, and Music and Dance. In addition to subject pages, the Voice of the Shuttle site offers links to teaching resources, libraries and museums, and reference resources.
The site includes Historical Highlights of the U.S. House of Representatives, a virtual tour of National Statuary Hall, Election Information (including statistics) from 1920 to 1998, teaching materials, and specific information on legislation, House committees, and members of the House of Representatives.
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