Social Studies for the Intermediate Classroom

Monday, September 7, 2009

Welcome Teachers!

Welcome!
I am so glad to be with you today. I am looking forward to working with you this year. Below you will find resources to use in your classroom with social studies.

I also would like to give you a link to my new instructional technology website.
http://sites.google.com/site/tis2009site/home. I have placed a collection of links to my other blogs here and will be adding to this site periodically.

As always, If you need anything do not hesitate to call me.
Thanks for all you do,
Tina Barrett
859-625-6090 x 6658

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Economics

The Opportunity Cost of a Lifetime - "Economics assumes people do not have the resources do satisfy all of their wants. Therefore, we must make choices about how to allocate those resources."

Needs Vs Wants

Be a Consumer Hero (Caution: This free site is blocked by some filters)

Economic Boom

Supply and Demand - read a graph and answer questions - see what happens when the price of a product causes the demand to decrease

Establishment of a Money System - Dutch Colonists

What is Money - from KidsCorner

Bartering For Goods - resources for teacher and games and activities for students

Saving money: Mission Motherboard
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/quest/launch.html

Budgeting: Race for Radopolis
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/quest/launch.html

Webquest

Webquest:
Is a way to engage students in higher levels of cognition. Webquest lends to a great way to introduce cooperative learning.

Revolutionary War Heroes - Webquest - links are across the top to access the activities

Explorers of the Millennium - Thinkquest activity

crazy about colonial times http://users.rcn.com/ben.trottier/webquesLettRedwelcome.html

colonial America http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/colonial/

Let’s make a deal Colonial real estate http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/america/

Lost Conloy of Roanoke
http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/roanoke/

The mysterious letter: http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/jamestown/

If you made a million:
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_PreColonial.shtml

Map Skills and Geography

Maps That Teach - Learn United States and World geography with Maps that Teach. Interactive maps to learn continents, countries, states, capitals, borders, physical features and cultural monuments

Look up the latitude and longitude of states in the U.S.

Latitude and longitude online quiz

Find your Longitude - Interactive game

Map Adventures - Online lesson to guide young students in basic concepts for visualizing objects from different perspectives and how to understand and use maps.

West Nile Virus Maps- Practice on reading maps.

Map and Globe Quiz - Test your knowledge on identifying the parts of a map and a globe.

Map Skills Quiz - Online quiz to test knowledge of reading maps

U.S. Presidential Election Maps - Students can find the differences between the electoral and popular vote. Good for map reading skills

Interactive Climate Map - Move your cursor over a rectangle to see a climograph. Click on the rectangle to view information about the climate at that location

How to Read a Climograph - A climograph [climate-graph] is what scientists create to show a particular location's average temperature and precipitation during the year.

Climographs of Selected U.S. Cities - A climograph plots monthly average temperature and precipitation for some location. It provides a quick way of characterizing the climate of a particular place. To view a climograph for one of the U.S. cities listed, click on the city name or the corresponding dot on the map.

Building Climographs in Microsoft Excel - a tutorial on how to create your own climograph

Puzzle Maps Geography Game - From the United States section select; All States, Northeastern States, Southern States, Midwest and Great Plains States, and Mountain and Pacific States. As students drag the state images to the correct position a fact about the state is displayed and an animation is displayed typical of the state. Click on "Maybe Later," to go to the game. Each game has a "Read it to Me" button.

States Interactive Web Games -Learn the locations, capitals, abbreviations and over 500 important facts about our 50 states

Interactive U. S. Geography Activities - [this link opens on a new page] How well do you know the states of the United States?

Identify the 50 states - drag the name of the state to the state on the map - make sure the arrow is inside the state before releasing the name

GeoSpy - [this link opens on a new page] select the States and Provinces game, then click on United States to begin to identify the states.

Find your Longitude - interactive game

Longitude and Latitude - Explanation and class game to do on grid paper

Label Maps at iKnowThat.com - Note: this link takes you to an index of activities. Select any of the five entries in the Physical Features section, click on the green Maybe Later button to go to the activity, and then select either Puzzle or Labels to begin

World Continents and Oceans Games - Learn the world's continents and oceans with these five games

Interactive U. S. Geography Activities - an index of five geography quizzes which includes a quiz on rivers and lakes

Latitude and Longitude http://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/lat-long.htm
Enter two global coordinates and receive the crow's flight distance between the two or examine the distance between many large cities on the planet. Grades 5+

Native Americans

Trail of Tears - History of the event

Cherokee Removal Forts - Forts built for the express purpose of housing the Cherokee before their removal.

Trail of Tears - Brief history

Sioux Treaty of 1868 - Primary sources to review along with teaching resources and lesson plan.

Treaty of Fort Laramie - Primary source

American Indians and the Natural World - four different visions of living in and with the natural world (those of the Tlingit of the Northwest Coast, the Hopi of the Southwest, the Iroquois of the Northeast, and the Lakota of the Plains)

Ancient Architects of the Mississippi - Wonders of Geometric Precision, the earthworks of the lower Mississippi were centers of life long before the Europeans arrived in America.

The Creek Portraits Index - Before the camera was invented, artists were relied on to preserve images

Different Tribes - Compare daily life of Native American tribes from different regions and times. (Author - Laurie Ayers)

Empires Past: Aztecs - The Aztecs were in many ways more advanced than Cortez and his men

Map of the Eastern Indian Nations (1820) - Cherokee, Choctaw,Creek, and Seminole are illustrated

Maya/Aztec/Inca of the Lords of the Earth - the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Americas.

The Mayan Calendar - Among their other accomplishments, the ancient Mayas invented a calendar of remarkable accuracy and complexity.

Mound Builders - a general term referring to the American Indians who constructed various styles of earthen mounds for burial, residential and ceremonial purposes

The Sport of Life and Death - the Mesoamerican Ball game (an online journey into the ancient spectacle of athletes and gods)

First Nations: Histories - detailed histories of the nations living in early North America including the Cherokee, Creek and Shawnee

Marilee's Native Americans Resource - large list of Native American links

Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture - resource for teacher

Cherokee Nation - facts and information of the culture and lifestyle

Cherokee and Creek Nations - exploring the life and times of the Cherokee and Creek Nations

Native Americans - Daily Clothing

Native American - Have Fun with NativeTech's Online Interactive Games

Native Americans - Indigenous Food and Traditional Recipes

Native Americans - Pottery & Clay

Native Americans - Go on an adventure on the the plains of North America to discover just what kind of life you would have led if you were born to a Plains Indian tribe in the 19th century.s

U.S. Territorial Maps 1775-1920- Read and interpret maps on Western Expansion

The Ancient Aztecs - a ThinkQuest entry

A Line in the Sand - Native American land takeover.

Fight No More - Trials of the Native Americans - Click on the areas on the right.

Government and Civics

Executive Branches of Government

Judicial Branch of Government - ThinkQuest

Legislative Branch - Agencies, Senate, House of Representatives and more.

State Legislatures, State Laws and State Regulations

The Executive Branch

Local Level Judicial System - New York State judicial system

Who Rules America - Power at the Local Level

What’s It All About? - an Introduction to the First Amendment

Thirteenth Amendment

14th Amendment - defined and explained

Background of the 15th Amendment

Women's Fight for the Vote: The Nineteenth Amendment

Bill of Rights - Purpose of Bill of Rights

Constitution - Purpose of Constitution

Government in the United States - Online interactive quiz that is graded online to test knowledge of government.

How Laws Are Made - Explanation of the process of lawmaking, tracking a bill in progress

Three Branches of Government - ThinkQuest site

Three Branches of Government - Teaching guide and answer sheets

How a Bill Becomes a Law - Follow the steps to make a law.

Making A Bill into a Law - An educational iAdventure that teaches students how a bill becomes a law

Citizenship - All aspects of being a citizen covered

Core Rights of Freedom - Great site individualizes each right for discussion.

Child Rights - The Convention on the Rights of the Child has 54 articles which set out the rights of every child in the world."

Declaration of Independence - purpose of the document

Bill of Rights - amendments 1 through 10

Bill of Rights - quiz in the form of a Concentration matching activity

Bill of Rights - a Quia quiz

Bill of Rights: for Kids - in simple words, easy to understand

Bill of Rights: Flashcards - ten flashcards to be used as review

Bill of Rights Flashcards - from Flashcard Exchange, click on the Study tab to begin

Bill of Rights Match Game - select elementary or secondary version to start the game

Bill of Rights Match Game - select elementary or secondary version to start the game

Bill of Rights: Matching Exercise - ten questions, use drop down menu to identify each of the ten amendments

The Bill of Rights - from the National Archives

The Bill of Rights - a twenty question multiple choice quiz, graded online [Caution: Read the Bill of Rights before attempting to answer these questions]

Movement

Charts and Maps depicting Early America - Many maps and charts depicting happenings during the early colonial times

European Immigration - Description of reasons for emigration and changes they made in America.

Immigration - Coming to America - Interactive tour of Ellis Island - follow a boy through his journey to a new land.

Western Expansion - A multi link site with many resources - online activities, online lessons and informational sites

Westward Expansion - Welcome to "The Oregon Trail" web site--the award-winning story of the great western journey. Enjoy the adventure!

Westward Ho! - This lesson studies early United States territorial expansion and examines how westward movement of the pioneers affected the American Indians. Many resource links are offered that provide additional information.

Primary Sources

You be the Historian - Learn about life in the late 1700s based on the evidence presented in the activity

Primary Sources - Archive of many primary sources

Sioux Treaty of 1868 - Primary sources to review along with teaching resources and lesson plan.

Photo Library: The Economy - Caution: many clicks are required. However, this is a great source of primary data regarding the 1930's. [page opens in a new window]

Interview with an Old-Timer - What was it like growing up in Johnstown In the 1930s?

Eyewitness to History - asking family members about the history witnessed in their lifetimes

Photo Gallery - American History 102 - Explore primary sources and interpret pictures

Immigration
This collection of images, from The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, features 107 historical illustrations depicting immigration

Costume: 1890s, American
This collection of images, from The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, features 191 illustrations of late-19th-century American costume.

Smithsonian Source
This Web site, from the Smithsonian Institution, provides a collection of primary sources, videos, document-based questions and lesson plans http://smithsoniansource.org/