Social+Studies

Social Studies **Some great Social Studies Sites**


 * 1) [|www.History.com] - The history channel site, great information for teachers
 * 2) Google Earth- a great free program provided from Google that can really bring different parts of the world alive to your students. You can go back in time via this program and see what places looked like 10 years ago and even longer, there is a shipwreck mode to see where famous shipwrecks are around the globe, there is a 3-D mode that turns buildings into 3-D models and lastly, my favorite, there is a flight simluator mode where you can take an arial view of historical places.
 * 3) [|www.youtube.com] - great for old cartoons and videos for use in your classroom, great clips from movies you can download and insert directly into your presenations to bring them alive.
 * 4) [] - a great website with video and essays on many topics. I use this for background information for my students chapters they have to read.
 * 5) [] - Great site for lessons, games and lectures. From UK so it is really geared towards world history but has some really neat WWI and WWII information.
 * 6) [] - US History and Government information. Games, lectures and webquests.
 * 7) [] - powerpoints and notes slides for many history topics
 * 8) [] - good site for information and lessons. Newer one to me.
 * 9) [] trench warfare game

Lesson Ideas
 * 1) Birthdate Research Paper using History.com this day in History section [[file:Birth Date Paper.doc]]
 * 2) Google Earth Civil War virtual fieldtrip project [[file:Google Earth Civil War Tour.doc]]
 * 3) Inflation and Cost of Living worksheets using Inflation calculator [[file:Inflation and the cost of living in 1900 vs 2007.doc]]

Contact me for any further questions about anything Social Studies or technology related chris.renfrow@daviess.kyschools.us