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 Social Studies Sites ALIVE! CHECK THIS OUT... Experience the WONDER when classroom learning & technology become intertwined with live, real-world expeditions and adventures.

 

 Social Studies An American Time Capsule - Three Centuries of Broadsides & Other Printed Ephemera" presents posters, notices, advertisements, proclamations, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, & business cards from the American Revolution, slavery, the western land rush, the Civil War, woman suffrage, & the Industrial Revolution.

 

 Social Studies Arctic Studies Center - Provides resources on museum exhibitions, including Viking expeditions, the Kennewick man controversy, masks & dances of the various Indian groups, & native animals.

 

 Social Studies Black Heritage Trail Map - Map of a 1.6 mile guided tour in Boston. The site contains links to 12 residences, meeting houses, schools, & monuments. It includes information about the Underground Railroad, biographies of famous fugitive slaves from Boston, & a timeline of Abolitionist activity.

 

 Social Studies Black History Month at Lower Cape May Regional
Social Studies Blue Web'n Learning Applications - Web Based Tutorials, Activities, Projects, Lesson Plans, Resources, References & Tools

 

 Social Studies Cia World Factbook

 

 Social Studies Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian - Offers guidebooks & source directories on many topics in anthropology, with special concentrations on archeology & Native Americans. The site also contains directories of organizations & periodicals dealing with anthropology. There are links to further material on the Smithsonian's work & exhibitions in this area.

 

 Social Studies Flapper Station (1920s)

 

 Social Studies Holocaust Sites
Social Studies Hyper-History - Helps depict world events simultaneoulsy. The timeline covers 3,000 years of world history and include 400 lifelines and 24 colorful historic maps.

 

 Social Studies The Jason Project - This online expedition takes students on electronic field trips broadcast in real-time via telecommunications. Past trips have included excursions to Iceland and Yellowstone National Park. Detailed teachers guides are available.

 

 Social Studies Louvre

 

 Social Studies Map Collections: 1544-1996 - Thousands of digitized online maps. The collections are broken into 7 categories: cities & towns, conservation & environment, discovery & exploration, immigration & settlement, military battles & campaigns, transportation & communication, & general maps.

 

 Social Studies Oliphant's Anthem - Commemorates the recent acquisition of 60 cartoon drawings, sketchbooks, & illustrations of one of America's most popular editorial cartoonists. This exhibition documents Oliphant's efforts to refine his style through prints, painting, & sculpture.

 

 Social Studies Origins of American Animation - Offers 21 animated films & 2 fragments, which span the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, & cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings. They point to a connection between newspaper comic strips & early animated films, as represented by Keeping Up With the Joneses, Krazy Kat, & The Katzenjammer Kids.

 

 Social Studies Places in the News - Gives maps of a geographic locations currently in the news.
Social Studies Scholastic News Online - Provides daily, age-appropriate news reports covering topics as diverse as sheep cloning and the national Basketball Association labor dispute.

 

 Social Studies Schoolyard Landscape Exploration: Finding a Landscape - An observation-based activity that uses the schoolyard to increase student awareness of what is in a landscape.

 

 Social Studies South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs for the Robert Runyon Collection - Consists of over 8,000 items, including glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, & postcards, representing the life's work of commercial photographer Robert Runyon (1881-1968). His photographs document the history & development of South Texas & the border, including the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Fort Brown around World War I, & the growth & development of the Rio Grande Valley.

 

 Social Studies Teaching With Time Capsules - A classroom exercise for building a time capsule & registering it with the International Time Capsule Society in Atlanta. The site gives instructions on what to include & exclude from the capsule, what to make or buy for putting the capsule together, & how to register it.

 

 Social Studies Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress - Contains over 20,000 digitized images of various letters, memoranda, notes, & drafts of documents, books, papers, letters, & manuscripts of the third President, as well as correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, & manuscripts. The installment deals with
Jefferson's general correspondence, dating from 1621-1789, & documents relating to Virginia history, from 1606-1737.

 

 Social Studies Today in History - What Happened on This Date?

 

 Social Studies Top Ten Newspapers

 

 Social Studies Valley Forge Military Academy Project - Mrs. Prettyman's Class

 

 Social Studies Vicksburg National Military Park - A guide for teachers taking their students to the site of the important Civil War campaign. The guide brings to bear the viewpoints of the arts, language arts, mathematics, science, & social studies as they pertain to this campaign.

 

 Social Studies William P. Gottlieb: Photographs for the Golden Age of Jazz - Includes 2,000 digital images taken by writer-photographer William P. Gottlieb. From 1938-1948, the "Golden Age of Jazz," swing reached its peak & modern jazz developed. While on assignment for
the Washington Post, Down Beat magazine, & Record Changer, Gottlieb photographed & interviewed jazz pioneers primarily in Washington, D.C., & New York City..

 

 Social Studies Vicksburg National Military Park - A guide for teachers taking their students to the site of the important Civil War campaign.

 

 Social Studies Work of Charles & Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention - Brings together the sources of the Eameses' inspiration, the personal documents of their lives, & the finished products of their work. According to the exhibit, "Charles & Ray Eames practiced design at its most virtuous & its most expansive. From the 1940s to the 1970s, their furniture, toys, buildings, films, exhibitions & books aimed to improve society -- not only functionally, but culturally & intellectually as well." The Eames chair is only the best known of their designs.
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