Mr.
Fehr’s
Social Studies
Links
Bookmarks
All Black headings should link you back to the top
History Resources:
Homework center
Educational Games
by likes of Smithsonian and Nobel Prize website
World Atlas
Virtual Museum-
New site that is recommended
Digital History
Accumedia AP wire service photos
United streaming- Movies for all
subjects on Line-password is only for AISD employees, but worth subscribing to.
Digital
Classroom- links to each U.S. Era
Eyewitness to History- Primary
sources from eyewitnesses of different time periods.
World Book for Kids
http://www.ed.gov/free/s-forlan.html
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/ - a general
link page for all teachers and students
United States history Primary
sources
A and E clssroom website-Teachers and
students check it out
Mr. Donn's Social
studies Lesson and Links-One of the best on the web:o)Great resource for U.S. History and World
multiple links
k-12 Resource – ok site, improving though
all so slowly
Nystrom's
teacher resource page- Easy to use and comprehensive
Links
to American and World History Sites
Modern History
SourceBook
http--www.infoplease.com-world.html –super encyclopedia w/ links
Ask Jeeves for Teachers!
Teacher of Social studies Resource
Pre-testing in dif subjects by Salem , Ohio School
TAKS review website- Great to check standards and get examples of test questions.
OFCN's Academy Curricular Exchange - Social Studies
FunBrain.com - The Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8 Teachers and Kids
Education World® Where Educators Go To Learn
HandSpeak_ A Sign Language Dictionary Online
Civil War and Reconstruction
Webquest question help
Civil
War Matching Game
Civil
War Webquest- w/ questions- Some links don’t work, so use links
below
Civil War by
students
North and South and
their differences
National Geographic's Experience the Underground Railroad- Underground Railroad Great site, but not comprehensive
Underground Railroad- Maps and stories
18 Presidiential election of 1860 with map
States that seceded from the union
Civil War Causes, Timelines, Statistics, Flags, & Maps
Causes of the Civil War and statistics
Reference Library for the Civil War - reference library for Civil War
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/- Nice timeline with links
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tl1861.html- Library of Congress’s pictures
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
Civil War Webquest
– Made by Mrs. Tatum class at Woodlawn Elem.
Education World® _ Lesson Planning Center _ Lesson Plans _ Civil War Slang
Education World ® - Lesson Planning Skills Page_ CIVIL WAR DEATHS
White Southerners' Defense of Slaveholding
Group One_ _The Danger of Insurrection_
Group Two_ _Freedom and Slavery_
Group Three_ _Northern Free Negroes and Southern Slaves_
Southern Defense of Slaveholding
The Valley of the Shadow_ Two Communities in the American Civil War
Westward Expansion
Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark
Lost in the Grand Canyon –John Wesley Powell PBS
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Native American Links-
Comprehensive Site
Coal Mine Canyon on the Navajo Reservation
Women
in History
Women's History Sourcebook
Meet History's Most _Outrageous_ Women!
Children's Encyclopedia of Women
The National Women's Hall of Fame
American History_ New
Scholarship on Women
National Women's History Project
The Quest for Equality_ Women's History
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
U.S. History
Quick
Powerpoint over early settlements
George
Washington- Biography
Fort Necessity and Washington the
beginning of the changing of the world
Ben Franklin Autobiography
Ben Franklin Timeline
Thinkquest-American
Revolution- Has
Crosswords and word searches
My Brother Sam is
Dead Webquest- Revolutionary
War Story that is based on facts
My
Brother Sam is Dead research material and links
Jonny Trumain Webquest
Revolutionary War fun site
War for Independence and more
Spies
of the Revolution- Webquest Fun webquest
Revolution Links
The
Grievences of the Revolutionary War -Webquest
Revolutionary
Battlefields Webquest
Timeline of the Revoultion
and much more
U.S.
History.Com
The Timepage -Colonial website very nice
Early American Maps all the maps for early American history.
Pre 1800 Maps pre 1800 maps collection
Presidential
History
Revolution to
Reconstruction
U.S. History comprehensive site-
great
Biography maker and War site
Weaknesses
of Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
and its weaknesses-historical essay
Civil War Center
Colonial History web site- Great site!!! Early history- I like it
Explorers
A-Z-great reference site
Traces Lewis and Clarks Journey
Revolutionary War Links
Johnny Tremain- Look at events in that time- A webquest
WELCOME TO ARCHIVING EARLY AMERICA
Home Page American Memory from the Library of Congress
Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page
THE FIRST POLICTICAL CARTOONS - Archiving Early America
OFCN's Academy Curricular Exchange - Social Studies
USA Outline of American History (1990)
Industrial Revolution Improvement in transportation
U.S. History 2
Oklahoma
Land Rush Westward Migration
Images
of the Oklahoma Land Rush
US Immigration history page
Industrial Revolution Improvement in transportation
Native American Boarding Schools
Carlisle Indian Schoool More Carlisle Indian School
You Teach the Decades- Chance for student to teach the 20th cent. Webquest
Gilded Age- A webquest for the gilded Age. A very good one at that!
U.S. History Historical website Census material by decade
Ellis Island Search page
Ellis Island history page
Historical Text on the Panama Canal
An article on current child labor
Practices
Social Reformers of the Progressive Era
Great Depression Webquest
1920's and 1930's good links and pics
Panama Canal
Treaty- then and today
Iwo Jima and WWII
Cold War Links
Fact Monster about
the Cold War
Korean War
through today-
Rock and Roll and more-The 50’s and 60’s
60's link political and social
Washington Irving and W.E.B. DuBious webquest
Texas
Texas
Online
Texas Ranger
Texas History link-password protect- Educonnect site with free
trial good site. NHAS teachers see me
for password.
Proteacher Texas resource page, includes several math pages (like math is actually important :o)
Texas Native American
website-
James Fannin
http://www.lsjunction.com/people/fannin.htm
http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/goliadspohn.htm
Juan Seguin
http://www.theoldwestwebride.com/txt5/jseguin.html
http://gotexas.about.com/library/weekly/aa111500b.htm?iam=savvy&terms=%2Bjames+%2Bfannin
The Texas Constitution
A Texas Crossword
Puzzle
Set Your sites on Texas-
Convince a Northern
Industry to locate in a Texas
Texas
Expansion cowboys and more
Great resource for U.S. History and World multiple links
Historical Commission
of
Geography
Outline maps
Climate Zones of the World
United States geography- As
related to agriculture
Geography
quiz which covers the basics
Kashmir India V.
Pakistan
NAFTA short-comings
Aborignes of
Australia
Cyber-slueth for kids
and teachers – click on geography then go from there.
A great game for testing
overall geographic skills of students 4-adult
The weather dude-learn weather in music w/ lyrics
A
great site to introduce geographic basic vocabulary 3-8th
Creating
a Travel brochure- Webquest for Geography, BCIS or Economic
China Today a 6th grade webquest
Great Lesson
Plans for developing mapping skills
CIA factbook-statistical
info on the world- good for
any social studies class.
Geography Education @ nationalgeographic.com –Nationl geographic. Do I need to say anymore.
Rainforest Map Printout - EnchantedLearning.com
Explorers A-Z-great reference site
ED348317 Apr 92 Teaching About the Voyages of Columbus
The Explorations of Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus Man and Myth
Introduction to Archaeology (ANTH 110_310)
Aborignes of
Australia
The Sun will Never Set on the
British Empire
Ancient Civilizations
Ancient
Egypt British Museum_This is a current and great site!!! I am telling you go
to this site NOW!!!
Ancient Greece- New Great site
Egyptian Links and info-Colorful site
Roman Links and facts
Go Greece.com-Greece History and more.
What is so
“Wonderful” about the past?- Webquest -Which
of the seven wonders would you rebuild?
Build an
Ancient Mesopotamian City-Webquest
Exhibits Collection -- Collapse
Exhibits Collection -- Garbage
Exploring Ancient world Resource/Links Chronologically, thematically, culturally
Mesopotamia Art and Archaeology
Archeology in the Southwest and more
An article on collapse of the Anasazi
Mali as an Ancient Civilization/interactive
NOVA Online_Pyramids_Follow the Excavation
NOVA Online_Pyramids -- The Inside Story
Mongols – There impact webquest
Julius Caesar- A
biography
A brief History of
Greece and Rome-a good reference page for a webquest
Ancient Olympics @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
Medieval Sourcebook Introduction
Mr Donn's Ancient History Page
Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
Original Medieval Sourcebook – Great resource
Medieval Source- Resource links for Elementary on up. (I mean way up)
Medieval Japan- Create a newspaper
Technology Spies- Webquest on what the Europeans saw of Chinese
technology in the
1500’s
Exploring
Explorers A-Z-great reference site
Explorers
Webquest about the
Cyber-slueth for kids-Glad I found this site. Explore the explorers
Explorers site-Not comprehensive but has a few you don’t think of.
ED348317 Apr 92 Teaching About the Voyages of Columbus
The Explorations of Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus Man and Myth
U.S.history of Discovery and Exploration
Discovers web-An incredible plethora of sites
The sun will never set on the British Empire
Progressive Era web page for learners and teacher-great site
Washington Irving and WEB Dubois-How they should be remembered- A WEBQUEST
Timeline webpage of Progressive Era
American Library of the Progressive Era
Political and humorous cartoons from the Progressive Era
American Chronology of the Progressive Era- Has Jane Addams on this site
Links on the gilded Age and the Progressive Era-Sorted for you
Gilded Age- A webquest for the gilded Age. A very good one at that!
WWI
WWI Time Line- Good place to
start, comprehensive, but not overwhelming. The
Treaty of Versialles
WWII
World War II Casualty Maps
World War two
Casualty chart
World War two history
– Heavy European influence
British perspective of the war
Japan
and Manchuria
Manchuria in WW II - What happened in Manchuria ?
Benito Mussulini
Hirohito
and Japan
Iwo Jima and WWII
Interviews from Veterans
- History Channel web site teaches kids how to interview veterans, and has many
fine examples.
World War II perspective-
A webquest
WWII links and info-good place to start a
webquest
World War II Posters: Powers of Persuasion
Resource listing for WWII-primary sources
for WWII
World War II in Europe
Timeline –simple and
easy to follow.
European History of
WWII- Has good links and info but has those annoying frames.
Children
of the Holocaust-Webquest
The Avalon Project : World War II : Documents-primary
sources-great for research
WW2 Timeline start-created
by a class of sharp kids. Well worth
looking into!
World War II in Ukraine-The people who
suffered from both ends of the war.
Battle of the Bulge
– Informative, but it has a guys diary on this site (cool)
The Battle of the Bulge
(Ardennes Offensive)-Comprehensive site with cool maps
Navajo code Talkers in WWII-
Has the actual code on this site
Benito Mussolini
Biography
Decision
to drop the BOMB- A webquest
Attack
on Hiroshima- a webquest
Government
Iroquois
constitution and what it brought to American Government
Famous court cost
Justice Learning center-Basic constitution on up
American
Presidents
Federalist Papers-Library of Congress
Looks who
Footing the Bill- A look at the nation debt
Rock The Vote- current
issues defended in a self created T.V. AD.
Lesson
dealing with freedom of speech
Searching for
China- Webquest that helps determine policy toward
Immigration Today-
Analyze and determine laws should be changed. Webquest
North Western University-Looks at
Supreme Court – (supreme court cases on the docket)
A list of Supreme Court
Cases – A Thinkquest project by students in N.J.
Supreme Court cases
summarized Social Studies Help.com
Constitutional Amendments 11-27
An Outline of American Government - 1
Economics
Economic Forecasting on the web
U.S. and EU go bannanas over trade –Economic webquest
Economic Forecasting on the web- Economic Webquest
Salary- comparison of salary in dif. locations
Economic Test site
Kidz Bank- An economic basics for kids of all ages.
Economic quiz for kids
cyber-slueth for economics- Links to economic calculators and more.
Look who's
footing the bill- A good webquest about our debt
Investing for kids and all ages-
Games of teaching
Understanding Basic
economics
A Comparative Advantage
in Economics
B. Comparative
advantage- Illustrated as athletics
Comparitive and
absolute advantage for an African country
Economic
forecasting webquest
Currency converter of any country
to Dollars
Travel
Computer/Clipart
Computer
Vocabulary online quiz
Usable
school clip art for many subjects-I used it on my webquest!
Free backgrounds for
webpages
Computer
Vocabulary online quiz
Html Authoring made easy Web
monkey easy to use.
Microsoft Image Gallery
Icon Bazaar
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Microsoft Office - Microsoft FrontPage
Making Animated GIFs (part 1 of 3)
clip art fun
The Teacher's Desk, Main Directory
Kids sites:
Web Site Index for Microsoft and Educators
Africans in America-Part 3-The Haitian Revolution
What is the Teacher Leadership Project - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Learning
Differences on line
LD OnLine_ Learning Disabilities Information & Resources
Homes
Potter-Randall Appraisal District
Autobytel.com - We’re changing the way America buys cars
Links to many fine
examples of Webquests
We didn’t start the Fire- Use of Billy Joel’s song to research and write (LA,SS-7th)
Washington
Irving and WEB Dubois- How should they be remembered?
A great "How to set up webquest page" by Spartanburg School District
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Civil War Webquest- Made by AISD
Build an Ancient Mesopotamian City
Gilded Age- Very nice webquest
Economic Forecasting on the web
Creating a Travel brochure-Geography, BCIS or Economics
Attack
on Hiroshima- a webquest
China Today a 6th grade webquest
Creating an Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus – A webquest
Immigration Today- Analyze and determine laws should be changed.
Lewis and
Clark-
Pick a Texas City for a new Factory
Searching for
China- Webquest that helps determine policy toward
Rock The Vote- current issues defended in a self created T.V. AD.
Medieval Japan- Create a newspaper
Looks who Footing the Bill- A look at the nation debt.
Set Your sites on Texas-
Convince a Northern
Industry to locate in a Texas
Learn
the Latin American Countries
Technology Spies- Webquest on what
the Europeans saw of Chinese technology in the 1500’s
Johnny Tremain- Look at events in that time
You Teach
the Decades- Chance
for student to teach the teacher about the 20th cent.
What is so
“Wonderful” about the past?- Which of the seven wonders would You rebuild?
New Links in
the last week also can be found within the designated category.
Computer
Vocabulary online quiz
