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Social Studies Resources

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Grade-Level Specific Resources

6th Grade SS Resources 
7th Grade SS Resources 
8th Grade SS Resources 

 

General Social Studies Resources

 

Ancestry Classroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dig! and Faces Magazines

World History through Archeaology and World Cultures magazines

See Ms. Dextre for login information

 


America in Class from the National Humanities Center

Designed to promote the analytical skills called for in the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and literacy in history and social studies. Primary/secondary

Digital Public Library of America

Good quality resources are free to access for all. Find primary resources in a variety of formats.

 

“Histography" is interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. *Pulls information from Wikipedia and other resources.

CIA World FactBook

Read country profiles, see flags of the world, learn conversion rates for all countries, look at maps of the world's countries. The Central Intelligence Agency updates this site regularly.

Library Of Congress American Memory

Look here for excellent primary resources, including music, photos, documents and oral history projects. This Library of Congress is America's public library.

Historical Thinking Matters

Primary resource documents to assist students in finding the bigger story behind well-know historical events.

Census Fact Finder     

Chronicling America: Digitized U.S. Newspapers from 1690-present

Search by state, county and year. Zoom in to read text on this primary resource database from LOC. 


Fodor's 

World-renouned travel site that seeks "to hire local writers who know their destinations better than anyone else. Our worldwide team of over 700 travel writers bring you the latest, most accurate coverage, and like trusted companions, reveal local treasures and everything you need to know before you arrive."

Lonely Planet

Started in 1970, Lonely Planet is now a world leader in independent travel publishing. Read feedback from thousands of worldwide travelers, see pictures from all over the planet and read all about it.

OpenCulture
Great primary resource! High-quality cultural & educational audiovisual media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content . See 3D models of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

Excellent primary resource for WWII era video, audio and photos. All images are public domain! Hear FDR's fireside chats, presidential lectures, the Vatican and British and German relations. Searchable database.

 

The Vincent Voice Library  Collection

Michigan State University offers a large online collection of archived audio clips from the past.  Primary resource

 

Google Arts & Culture  

 

 

Primary Resource

American Panorama Project

An Atlas of U.S. History

Interactive Maps

 

 primary resource

National Archives 

These PRIMARY resources and tools are perfect for your next research project for any US history connections. 

National Geographic Kids

Interesting facts, news, clips, cool pictures, quality information about countries around the world.

 

NC Primary Resources
Public domain primary resources offered free on the Library of Congress
American Memory site.

World Atlas

This site is a little busy, but it has a lot of great map resources for students, parents and teachers.

National Park Service

Raleigh Historic Sites

 

National Park Service

Main Page

 

Today in History

Library of Congress

 

Primary Resources

Museum of America and the Sea

Peace Corps Challenge

Photogrammar from Yale University 

 
interactive FSA-OWI photo collection map 

Do you think you know the world around you?
Challenge yourself to play the game that takes you all over the world.  

 

ProCon

Our purpose is to provide resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias. We research issues that are controversial and important, and we present them in a balanced, comprehensive, straightforward, transparent, and primarily pro-con format at no charge.

 

 

   

Trip Advisor

World Digital Library

Amazing collection in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Use the timeline to find artifacts from a specific time period.

 

Veteran's History Project

 

   

 

 

For Teachers 

SLJ: Teaching Inquiry with Primary Resources     
     

 

 

 

 

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