Social+Studies

=**Social Studies Resources**=

**Best of History Web Sites**
The name pretty much says it all. Best of History Web Sites by Ed Tech Teacher.org is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more. Users can search by historical period or topic through lesson plans, games, animations, maps, and research sites.

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**Social Studies Central**
Glenn Wiebe, a Kansas educator, created this website to provide resources with a focus on the Social Studies, to support teachers as they improve their instruction and to help educators engage kids in learning. You will find lesson plans, new websites, links to standards and assessment advice, technology integration resources and information about workshops and staff development.

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**Scribble Maps**
Created by Google to works with Google map. You can interactively write/draw/scribble on any Google map**,** then print it out. Includes place markers and a variety of neat options. No need for expensive classroom maps. Simply bring up the website and project it!

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MrDonn.org
Social Studies School Service offers this K-12 site with videos, images, and Power Point presentations featuring Mr. Donn and Maxie that can be used to supplement a lesson. You can also choose from complete lesson plans by subject matter.

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Free Technology for Teachers
Richard Byrne has put together this fantastic blog loaded with resources on how to use technology in the classroom; particularly the social studies classroom. The tools that he talks about are already hyperlinked so that you can click and go right to the resource. There is also a simple explanation on how a teacher might want to incorporate that tool into their classrooms. There are several Google tools in this blog, but users can decide for themselves that is useful and what is not.

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