Social+Studies

Social Studies

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Web Links
You can request to join and add to the CFF Social Studies wiki. This site is edited by Soc. Studies teachers across the state. CFF Social Studies Wiki, has tons of sites and resources. http://cffsocialstudies.wikispaces.com/

http://www.izzit.org/events.
 * = Current Events Lessons

Flash cards from vocab http://www.flashcardexchange.com/ ||= Flash video on various topics http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/usgovernmentandlaw/ || http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/ta/ ||= Geography quizzes http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/afrquiz.html || CFF Social Studies. Lesson examples and a variety of social studies resources. ||= http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm Get current headlines || 3-D tour of ancient rome ||= History via maps and movies... http://www.mapsofwar.com/ || CFF Social Studies. Lesson examples and a variety of social studies resources.
 * = Political Cartoons
 * = http://cffsocialstudies.wikispaces.com/
 * = http://earth.google.com/rome/
 * = http://cffsocialstudies.wikispaces.com/

http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm Get current headlines

http://earth.google.com/rome/ 3-D tour of ancient rome

http://www.mindmeister.com/ “Collaborative Online Mind Mapping”

http://www.freepoverty.com/ Geography game

NewsMania – The News Trivia Game as Fresh as Today’s Headlines http://www.newseum.org/newsmania/

http://www.mywebspiration.com/intro.php Inspiration on the web

http://www.miniature-earth.com/me_english.htm If the human population was only 100 people…. Population statistics broken down.

http://wordia.com/

http://www.timerime.com/ Makes timelines

http://wordle.net Create graphics of your vocabulary

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/resource.htm Holocaust resources

http://www.frankwbaker.com/bias.htm Evaluate bias in the media

http://www.viygo.com/ ( time line site)

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline/ ( Another Timeline creation site)

http://datadragon.com/day/select.shtml ( this day in music)

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html ( this day in history)

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do ( another day in history)

http://www.legalzoom.com/legal-articles/article11331.html (top ten frivolous law suits)

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/how-much-are-frivolous-lawsuits-really-costing-you-95/ ( frivolous law suit cost)

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0410.mencimer.html (costs of law suits) ||= http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv17n3/reg17n3-hayward.html ( law suits)

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp Newspaper generator

Battle Simulations: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/launch_gms_battle_waterloo.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/

http://www.history.com/civilwar/shermansmarch/

ttp://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/

Magazine with military history and films of battle reenactments

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/articles.php?cat=42

http://www.military.com/LeaderShipTest/1,16183,main.htm,,00.html: Students take a test to see which military leader they are most like.

http://www.downloadlearning.com/topics/5/ Interactive Military History

Virtual Field Tripshttp://www.blendedschools.net/resources/fieldtrip.html

Trade Game http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/economics/

Conflict Map http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/peace/conflictmap/index.html

http://www.breathingearth.net/ Breathing Earth: Global Population and CO2 production

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp newspaper generator ||

Files
A word doc containing most of the links above.