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Finding Information

Link to Little Explorers dictionary Little Explorers Dictionary
Link to KidRex
KidRex Search engine with kid-appropriate results
Link to Famous Americans index Famous Americans: Pictures and summaries of various Famous People with links to more information.
George Washington

Garden of Praise: Famous Leaders: Biographies for Kids (Multi-Ligual)

 
Link to Information Age Inquiry
 Information Age Inquiry: How to investigate a topic using the new tools of our times.
GGLto
 GGLto: Make your own google search tools
American Journeys American Journeys- Primary Documents in American History
Interactive Lessons
 Interactive Lessons: Links to multimedia on specifics in many subjects.
Libraries - online sources of information

eJournal USA
E Journal USA - Multicultural Literature of the United States in multiple languages - administered by the Department of State
Library of Congress
 The largest library in the world with much of its resources digitized.
News: Index of major sites for news including tv stations and major newspapers.
Link to CIA World Factbook
 CIA World Factbook website with facts, maps, flags and more, on all individual countries in the world
  Treaties between the Natives and the Government

Creating Reports and Projects

Link to Primary Access Primary Access: Online tool to create multimedia reports from primary sources.

Citation Machine: Online tool to create the proper citations at the end of your paper.

 
  Student Hacks: Research Resources
Link to Test Research
 Test Research: Wikispaces A place where students can build their major research papers (e.g. IB Projects/Papers) with timely input from the teacher or mentor
Link to Toondoo ToonDoo: An online tool to create comic pictures and scenes.
Link to Magic Studio
 Magic Studio Use this website to create a timeline, then add music, pictures and videos.
Link to Pixton resources
 Pixton - Use this website to make interactive stories in comic form online.

BrushterThe Kids' Zone from the National Gallery of Art lets you create your own abstract art online.

News and Current Events

An important part of social studies in keeping up with the news and current events around the school, the state, the country and around the world.

NEWS Library
Search news sources and articles.		 Lesson Plan: Track the President/ Governor/ Mayor Make A Halloween Newsletter

 

A weekly lesson: Each student uses a different source, downloads and prints a news story, studies it, and then makes an oral or written report to the class including showing where on a world map the event happened.

 

News Directory Associated Press CNN Student News (Middle School) Huffington Post USA Today New York Times
Washington Post Los Angeles Times Chicago Tribune Philadelphia Inquirer Detroit News Online Seattle Times
Baltimore Sun Richmond Times-Dispatch Atlanta Journal-Constitution Penn LiveCentral Pa News Dallas Morning News Montgomery Advertiser

National News
CNN CBS MSNBC ABC PBS BBC News Fox News

News From Africa
Modern Ghana Newsite The Ghanaian Journal

Science News
Live Science NSF Science News Discover Magazine Blogs on Discover Magazine

NEWS Report: Report weekly on an event or story in the news. Lesson Plan for Tracking the President's Actions Newspapers and Current Periodicals Primary Access Multimedia Reports See Debate
discuss current topics with other students.

Page created June 13, 2008. Anne Pemberton. Updated Thu, Dec 1, 2011 | Mon November 1, 2010. AP.