Social Studies
A to Z Encyclopedia
This site is a searchable encyclopedia
with information in History, Geography, and Science.
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/
Afghanistan
This site deals frankly with the current chaos within
Afghanistan, the result of continuing strife and poverty. It has
up-to-date news of the country, along with weather, geography, culture, and
politics.
http://www.afghan-web.com
Atlapedia Online: Countries A to Z
On this site, one can access information
on countries of the world, including location, climate, people, religion,
languages, currency, modern history, industries, and much more.
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/country_index.htm
Bangladesh
This site serves as a gateway to this country's
governmental sites, including the National Tourism Organization. Other
sections of the site cover the economy, constitution, budget, and government.
http://www.bangladesh.gov.bd/
Bhutan
This colorful site, maintained by the Bhutan Tourism
Corporation Ltd., provides an ecellent introduvtion to this mountainous kingdom
high in the Himalayas that has been compared by many to the fictional land of
Shangri-La.
http://www.kingdomofbhutan.com
QuizHub
This site was created especially for
elementary and middle school students looking for fun and educational content on
the Web.It has four components: Topic Guides, Learning Activities, Updated Daily, and
Feature Sites. Topic Guides includes information about things such as
endangered species and sky watching, as well as numerous foreign language
dictionaries. Learning Activities ahs a world flag quiz logic puzzles, and
scrambled words. In Updated Daily, you'll find current event information
and a daily news quiz.
http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
Lesson Plans and Resources for
Social Studies Teachers
This site has links to hundreds of social
studies lesson plans, online activities, standards, newsgroups, and more.
Lesson plans are listed alphabetically by title and are accompanied by a short
paragraph description of the site. Examples of lesson titles are
Hammurabi's Codem Mock Trial, The Titanic, and Children Then and Now.
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/
The Library of Congress Country Studies
The extensive Country Studies/Area
Handbook information is now online. Click on any country name to read
extensive information about its geography, culture, history, economy and more.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Nation by Nation
Search an alphabetical listing of
countries for information on government, human rights, news, history, geography,
people and links to more information.
http://www.nationbynation.com/
NationalGeographic.com
A Web site on a range of geography topics
from the creators of the National Geographic magazine.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
News and Newspapers
Up-to-date news from many different newspapers
around the world as well as news in such categories as, U.S. Local, World,
Sports, Political, Weather, and more. There is also a search feature for
searching for specific articles.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/News.html
Social Studies Resources
This page, from Indiana University, is designed for K-12 social studies teachers
and students. It also has information and topics that are useful to pre-service
social studies instructors and students. The World Wide Web offers almost
unlimited opportunities for social studies education and which will benefit both
the novice and the experienced Web user.
http://education.indiana.edu/~socialst/
The World Factbook
Put the CIA to work for you on this
online atlas which has basic information on the countries of the world.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
World History
This is a great site for timelines and
information on World history.
http://www.worldhistory.com/