Social+Studies

=Social Studies PLANNING PAGE=
 * [|Social Studies 21st Century Skills Map] (Partnership for 21st Century Skills)
 * [|NYLearns] (Social Studies Section)
 * Global Collaboration: [|ePals], [|CILC]

__Research__ ** Middle School Lesson Plans **
 * ReadWriteThink: [|Wading Through the Web: Teaching Internet Research Strategies]
 * ReadWriteThink: [|Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing]
 * ReadWriteThink: [|Students as Creators: Exploring Copyright]
 * ReadWriteThink: [|Students as Creators: Exploring Multimedia]
 * Saskatchewan School District: [|WSYWIG]

**Printable Resources** [|The 4 Ps.pdf] The 4 P's of Searching the Internet -- Tips for Effective Searching (Student and Teacher Pages)

[|The 5 Ws.pdf] The 5 W's of Evaluating an Internet Site (Student and Teacher Pages)


 * Student-Centered Activities**

Web Research Guide: Evaluating a Web Site (Source: McDougal Littell's [|Class Zone])
 * [|McDougal Littell's Class Zone Web Research Guide>]
 * [[image:http://21coaching.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://21coaching.wikispaces.com/file/view/evaluating_web_sites_guide-1.pdf"]] [|evaluating_web_sites_guide-1.pdf]


 * Suggested Sites**


 * [|UC Berkeley's Tutorial on Evaluating Websites]
 * [|Evaluation Worksheet from Tutorial]
 * [|Evaluation Checklist]
 * [|Madison, WI Metropolitan School District's Internet Detectives Page]
 * Resources for [|Evaluating] web sites
 * Resources for effective [|Search Strategies]

 Resources * Make sure to check these out!  __Tools__ (Save your favorite web sites to the web, to access on any computer) ||  __Here are more resources/tools courtesy of Mike Fisher (Erie 1 BOCES Coordinator): __
 * Site || Highlights ||
 * [|Bill of Rights Institute] || Resources and lesson plans for teachers and students, student contests and quizzes, blog, current events related to Bill of Rights ||
 * [|Biography.com Classroom] || Videos, study guides, features exhibits, projects for schools ||
 * [|Center for Civic Education] || Podcasts, free instructional materials, lesson plans, videos ||
 * [|Center for History and New Media] * || Primary sources, online teaching modules, instruction on critical thinking skills, technology tools, research tools, collections and exhibits ||
 * [|Center for Media & Learning] * || Teaching & learning resources, interactive digital projects with lessons & activities, documentaries with associated plans & activities, blog ||
 * [|Colonial Williamsburg Foundation] || Podcasts, interactive exhibits, online tour of the town, blog ||
 * [|Constitutional Rights Foundation] || Free registration for lesson plans, lectures, downloadable resources and activities ||
 * [|Digital History] || Multimedia, virtual exhibits, online texts, learning modules, lesson plans, resource guides, visual history, virtual reference room ||
 * [|National Archives Digital Classroom] || Lesson plans using primary sources, online worksheets, step-by-step research guide with handouts ||
 * [|National Archives Digital Vaults]* || Interactive site connected to National Archives that allows students to explore primary sources, take and create challenges, ||
 * [|National History Education Clearinghouse] || Lesson plans & resources, best practices section with videos, contest ||
 * [|Picturing America] || Studying America through art with links to lessons ||
 * [|Smithsonian Institution] * || Interactive exhibits, tons of resources ||
 * [|The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History] * || Primary source documents (including free high-resolution downloads) and recordings with accompanying lessons, visual aids, and learning tools organized by module; podcasts; videos; online exhibits ||
 * [|iCue] || Multimedia resources, activities, games ||
 * Common Web 2.0 Tools || What it is ||
 * [|Edublogs], [|Blogger] || Blog (short for web log, a website that works like a journal) ||
 * Wikispaces, [|pbwiki] || Wiki (collaborative document that acts like a web site) ||
 * [|Delicious], [|Diigo] || Social Bookmarking sites
 * [|Netvibes], [|Pageflakes] || RSS Aggregators (collect and manage all your subscriptions to podcasts, etc.) ||
 * Other Web 2.0 Tools || What it is ||
 * [|Wordle] || Turns document into key word cloud ||
 * [|Dipity] || Interactive timeline tool ||
 * [|Spectra Visual Newsreader] || Interactive search of news headlines ||
 * [|Doodle Buzz] || Interactive search of news headlines ||
 * [|DBQ's and Essential Questions Page]
 * [|Museum Box] - This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.
 * [|National Atlas]
 * [|Historical Scene Investigation]
 * [|Footnote.com] : The world wide web is well known for providing students (and everyone else) around the world with access to millions of primary source documents. If you know where to look, that is! Sometimes the very best documents are kept under lock and key - they simply aren’t available on the web. In situations like that, you need a special resource. Today, we’re taking a look at one such resource, one of the best commercial providers of primary source documents - [|footnote.com]. Footnote.com is a nifty web front-end to some of the most important documents in this history of the United States. Their [|partnership with the US National Archives] gives them access to an incredible library of historically significant artifacts (as well as many that aren’t particularly significant but are nonetheless fascinating). It is a subscription based service, but fortunately, their [|free section] is fully functional and loaded with important historical documents. What I like best about it is the interface:
 * || [[image:http://www.ncs-tech.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/footnote.jpg caption="footnote.jpg"]] ||
 * footnote.jpg ||  ||
 * footnote.jpg ||

It’s very slick, powered by Macromedia Flash, and allows users to annotate directly on stored documents. You can zoom in for detail, save images in your personal library, and even connect them to others, all with the free basic account. This is where you see the real power of this tool. Individuals can add to the body of knowledge - [|in this case, an image of the U.S. Constitution] - by including links, helpful text, explanations and more. It’s all about the network; users have profiles that link them to their comments and to each other. It’s truly remarkable. With an interactive whiteboard, you could easily captivate an entire class with this thing! (from: [] )


 * [|Flashcard Exchange] (History)
 * [|Historic Tale Construction Kit]
 * [|PBS NewsHour Extra]
 * [|Analyze Primary Docs w/ Image Detective]
 * [|Analyzing Political Cartoons]

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