Social Studies Core Curriculum Website Links

Social Studies Core Curriculum Website Links

Meeting GPSC’s Criteria for Georgia Teachers

(Taken from the GPSC QCC Site)

Title:Ben's Guide to Government
Annotation:Resource site for teachers and student use. Includes information, on branches of government, how laws are made, historical documents, the election process, citizenship, and more. Also, includes a glossary of government terms and activities for students. (Entered 11/25/2002 8:29:04 PM)
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Title:Branches of Government
Annotation:Teachers may utilize this site to enhance the students' knowledge of government and challenge the students' web surfing skills to answer questions. Content includes internet based scavenger hunt. (Entered 7/22/1999)
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Title:Civics Online
Annotation:Collaborative Internet project with links for parents, students, and teachers. Includes primary source materials, learning tools, and professional development resources to enhance the teaching of civics to students. (Entered 11/25/2002 8:28:11 PM)
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Title:Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
Annotation:Information on the rules of conduct, responsibilities and duties of the members of the House. This is a great site for extension or enrichment. (Entered 6/14/2000 3:42:02 PM)
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Title:First Government for Kids
Annotation:Reference site for students that includes links to other sites that will help students gain an understanding of our federal government. Students can learn about American symbols and their meanings, how they can become involved in their government, trivia about American Presidents, etc. (Entered 11/25/2002 8:29:45 PM)
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Title:Inside the White House
Annotation:Give students a chance to become President for a day as they experience the White House and make choices from their own perspective as President. This is a wonderful interactive site for students. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:19:47 PM)
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Title:Making a Law!
Annotation:In this lesson students explore how a law becomes a law, then suggest a new law for their classroom that must follow a similar route from idea to bill to law! (Entered 7/12/2000 5:02:12 PM)
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Title:The House of Representatives
Annotation:Students can access current House activities such as the status of bills and amendments. Students can also research the legislative process. This is a great site for current events lessons on Congress. (Entered 6/14/2000 3:41:12 PM)
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Title:Tour Branches of the US Government
Annotation:This virtual tour will guide the student through the buildings that house the three branches of government. Lots of links to government related sites. (Entered 7/12/2000 5:01:49 PM)
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Title:1930's Dust Bowl
Annotation:Excerpts from the book, The Dust Bowl, Men, Dirt, and Depression by Paul Bonnifield. Content focuses on farming in the Panhandle area and the Dust Bowl storms. (Entered 12/2/2002 10:10:58 AM)
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Title:Documenting the Great Depression
Annotation:Hundred of photos of the Great Depression on this site help one to understand the effects it had on people's lives. See Hooverville's and depression refugee camps. See also pictures of the programs started under the New Deal. (Entered 12/2/2002 10:09:40 AM)
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Title:Posters from the WPA
Annotation:Review hundreds of posters that reflect the programs of President Roosevelt's New Deal. Helps students to understand the purposes of the programs. (Entered 12/2/2002 10:12:57 AM)
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Title:The Depression News
Annotation:Written in newspaper style this reference site includes information on labor unions of this time period, the arts, entertainment, home styles, and programs to help provide relief to the unemployed. Good pictures included. (Entered 12/2/2002 10:06:04 AM)
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Title:The Dust Bowl Diary
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Title:The Great Depression
Annotation:Develop understanding of the causes and effects of the Great Depression on this site. Also describes life for various types of workers during this time period. Includes a timeline of events, too. (Entered 12/2/2002 10:05:16 AM)
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Title:The Great Depression and the New Deal
Annotation:Familiarize your students and yourself with the terminology of the Great Depression with the comprehensive glossary on this site. Content also includes causes of the Great Depression, the philosophies of Presidents' Hoover and Roosevelt, and the successes and failures of the New Deal. (Entered 12/2/2002 10:06:52 AM)
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Title:The Wall Street Crash
Annotation:Gather information on this site on the Wall Street Crash initially. Then see how one event led to another to result in the Great Depression. Gain understanding of how the effects of it were world-wide. Activities for students to do at the end to see how well they understood the information. (Entered 12/2/2002 10:07:47 AM)
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Title:We Made Do
Annotation:Student-created site that shares memories of people who actually lived through the Great Depression. Content includes transcribed oral histories, photographs, prices of the era, and an opportunity to submit your own memories from family members. (Entered 12/2/2002 10:08:58 AM)
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Title:Changes in the United States
Annotation:Teachers may employ this site to teach a unit on the commencement of the civil rights movement in 1954. Students will be able to click on the "house" at the bottom of the site to learn valuable information about this historic case. Content includes computer interaction and reading comprehension. (Entered 7/22/1999)
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Title:Presidential Elections and the Electoral College
Annotation:Presents materials on elections and the voting process. It links to other election and electoral college resources. (Entered 3/15/2001 12:11:10 PM)
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Title:Time For Kids: Election Connection
Annotation:Use these activities to get kids involved in the 2000 Election. Locate your U.S. representatives and contact them. (Entered 7/24/2000 9:11:22 AM)
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Title:U.S. Electoral College
Annotation:Provides information and statistics on presidential elections, past and present. For the 2000 election, it includes popular vote totals by state, Electoral College members, and state laws and requirements. It also offers past electoral results and an electoral college calculator. (Entered 3/15/2001 12:12:29 PM)
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Title:Build a GDP Data Request
Annotation:Allows students or teachers to input selected information and receive data related to the United States' GDP, GNP, National Income, and GD purchases. This is an excellent tool for producing and comparing economic data. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:34:41 PM)
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Title:Cash Quiz
Annotation:Online quiz to check your knowledge about finances and saving money. You must join Fleetkids to participate. Check out FAQ to help with vocabulary. (Entered 10/26/2000 2:24:42 PM)
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Title:Economic Interdependence
Annotation:Engage students in economics by relating to their sense of style. In this lesson students use magazine ads to analyze patterns of economic activity and investigate economic interdependence. (Entered 6/19/2000 4:56:34 PM)
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Title:Savings and Investing
Annotation:Web excursion for groups of students that examines the types of savings and investment possibilities. Decisions must be made as to which investment is the best to achieve the desired goal. (Entered 11/25/2002 1:13:46 PM)
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Title:The US Economy at a Glance
Annotation:Teachers may benefit from this site to explain the U.S. interdependence to grow its economy. Content includes the study of vital statistics and graphing skills. (Entered 7/22/1999)
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Title:U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau
Annotation:Examine vital information on women in the workforce. Content includes the study of women in the workforce. (Entered 7/22/1999)
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Title:From Producer to Consumer- Making a Filmstrip
Annotation:Students will create a filmstrip and move from producer to consumer as they follow directions to create a filmstrip. (Entered 12/19/2001 7:38:12 AM)

Title:Welcome to Design Paradise
Annotation:Fairly complex but worthwhile game activity of econometric analysis and decision-making for 5th and 6th graders. (Entered 7/28/1999)
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Title:Chronology of the Secession Crisis
Annotation:Students will be able to utilize this site to digest the key events leading to the Civil War. Content includes charting and mapping of the states involved. (Entered 7/23/1999)
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Title:Civil War Links
Annotation:Information related to the causes, key events and personalities involved in this war. Content includes the study of the civil war. (Entered 7/23/1999)
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Title:Changes in the late 19th century
Annotation:Overview of "Foreign Immigrants in Industrial America". Content includes the study of history. (Entered 7/23/1999)
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Title:People and Environmental Change on the Northern Great Plains
Annotation:Provides research information on the history of the Great Plains, the effects of its environment on indigenous peoples and those who later settled the Great Plains areas. Maps are also provided. (Entered 6/14/2000 3:46:56 PM)
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Title:Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
Annotation:Development of vernacular Mexican architecture, and the influence of Spanish/Mexican ranching traditions on the Rio Grande area in California. Content includes the study of the Hispanic cultures and lesson plans. (Entered 8/28/2000 1:23:40 PM)
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Title:Settlement
Annotation:Provides information and links related to settlement of the West. Students can use this information to explain how the physical environment of the West affected settlement in that area. (Entered 6/19/2000 5:01:08 PM)
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Title:Ethnic Groups in the late 19th century
Annotation:Lesson plan on "The German Forty-Eighters in America". Content includes the study of the Europeans in American. (Entered 7/23/1999)
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Title:Ethnic Groups in the late 19th century
Annotation:Plan a unit on the migration and lifestyles of Asians Americans. Content includes the study various Asians ethnic groups. (Entered 7/23/1999)
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Title:Historical Maps of the United States
Annotation:Maps depicting territory throughout American history. Students can use these maps to make inferences about growth in the U.S. Teachers can use these maps to create visuals for overheads, etc. (Entered 6/14/2000 3:47:52 PM)
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Title:United States Expansion Maps
Annotation:Use this collection of historical maps tracing the expansion of America from 1775-1920. Copy the maps for students to compare, analyze and make connections with historical information of growth and settlement patterns in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Entered 6/19/2000 5:01:55 PM)
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Title:Working and living in the 19 century American West
Annotation:Students will be able to identify one of the leading figures of the California Gold Rush of the 19th century. Content includes the study of history. (Entered 7/23/1999)
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Title:Working and living in the 19 century American West
Annotation:Teachers may review this site in planning an unit on the gold rush in the West around the year 1848. Content includes map skills, writing, cooperative learning, etc. (Entered 7/23/1999)
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Title:Working and living in the 19 century American West
Annotation:Review the history of Union Pacific railroad. Content includes the study of railroad transportation in the American West. (Entered 7/23/1999)
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Title:Working and living in the 19 century American West
Annotation:Thematic unit on the frontier settlers of the American West. Content includes history and geography skills. (Entered 7/23/1999)
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Title:Native American in the West
Annotation:Study the changes impacting the Native American tribes of the American West during the late 19th century. Content includes the study of conquering the American West. (Entered 7/23/1999)
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Title:People and Environmental Change on the Northern Great Plains
Annotation:Research information on the history of the Great Plains, the effects of its environment on indigenous peoples and those who later settled the Great Plains areas. Maps are also provided. (Entered 6/14/2000 3:48:39 PM)
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Title:Regional Outline Maps
Annotation:Before studying the natural resources and physical features that influence human activity in each region of the United States, use these outline maps to identify the regions and what states are involved. Continued use of the maps can include identifying and locating the important physical features in each region. (Entered 7/7/2000 5:23:08 PM)
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Title:Reforms
Annotation:Teachers may utilize this site to analyze the policies of President Theodore Roosevelt. Content includes the study of a president. (Entered 7/27/1999)
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Title:Abraham Lincoln
Annotation:Want your students to know more about Abraham Lincoln? Open this site and let them explore the life of the man and the President, Abraham Lincoln. (Entered 6/19/2000 5:05:26 PM)
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Title:Causes of the Civil War
Annotation:Go beyond the textbook with this wealth of information and documentation on the causes of the Civil War including President Lincoln's speeches, slave statistics, and compromise proposals. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:37:08 PM)
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Title:Civil War Webquest
Annotation: Civil War WebQuest. Did the North really win the Civil War? Students research and take a stand. Online activity. Use in computer lab. Great collaboration activity. (Entered 8/22/2000 8:37:26 AM)
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Title:Crisis at Fort Sumter
Annotation:Learning is enriched as students click on important dates, maps, and images, and read text related to Fort Sumter and other critical events affecting the Civil War. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:36:50 PM)
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Title:Declarations of Causes of Seceding States
Annotation:Why did the southern states want to secede? Get answers straight from the source with these copies of the "declarations of causes of the secession" of the following states: Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas. Use these declarations to develop the perspective of the South as the Civil War approached. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:50:45 PM)
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Title:Follow the Drinking Gourd
Annotation:Read the song/book on this site and the translation of the contents. Students can gain a better understanding of the effects of slavery and the Underground Railroad from this song/book. (Entered 11/25/2002 8:34:57 PM)
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Title:Harriet Tubman
Annotation:Learn about the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman on this site. Includes information on her life as a conductor on the Underground Railroad and her life as a spy during the Civil War. (Entered 11/25/2002 8:38:09 PM)
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Title:Jefferson Davis
Annotation:Study the life of Jefferson Davis with the Discovery.com site that provides the history of Jefferson Davis and related links. (Entered 6/19/2000 5:04:53 PM)
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Title:Northern/Southern Leaders of the Civil War
Annotation:Learn about the major military and political leaders of the North and South on this site. See pictures of each of them as well. (Entered 11/25/2002 8:35:59 PM)
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Title:Quiz on Civil War
Annotation:Print the GAH beginner's quiz for students and use outline to locate information. (Entered 7/25/2000 2:43:15 PM)
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Title:Reconstruction
Annotation:With this Discovery.com site, students can read text and click on links that will provide them with information about the Reconstruction era. (Entered 6/19/2000 5:03:30 PM)
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Title:State and Local Studies - By State
Annotation:What was going on in Florida prior to and during the Civil War? Find out about Florida and other states through this site by clicking on any of the states listed. A number of links that relate to each state's involvement in the Civil War are provided. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:38:16 PM)
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Title:The Impending Crisis
Annotation:Focus on key events leading to the Civil War with information and documentation on John Brown, Lincoln's election, secession, and Fort Sumter. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:37:52 PM)
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Title:The Samuel J. Bradlee Civil War Letters
Annotation:Develop student empathy of the life of a soldier during the Civil War by reading letters written by a Union soldier during the Civil War. Copies of letters and scanned images of actual letters sent by Samuel J. Bradlee to his family help students understand what Civil War soldiers endured and how they felt. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:51:19 PM)
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Title:The Southern Homefront
Annotation:Build perspective on life in the South during the Civil War with these documents, diaries, almanacs, pamphlets, sermons, and other forms of communication from the south during the Civil War. Topics include: business and economic affairs, religion, politics, currency, education, home life, and social issues. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:52:25 PM)
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Title:The Underground Railroad
Annotation:Virtual tour where students will join Harriet Tubman as they pretend they are slaves and are escaping on the Underground Railroad. Also, contains maps of the routes slaves used to freedom in the North and Canada. (Entered 11/25/2002 8:37:28 PM)
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Title:The Wartime Diary of John Weathered
Annotation:Go deep into the life of a Civil War solder with this journal written by a Confederate soldier after the war. The journal writings cover 3 years, 1862-1864, and discuss the experiences of a young man living in the south and serving in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Use this journal along with the writings of Samuel J. Bradlee, a Union soldier during the Civil War, to make comparisons between the lives of Union and Confederate soldiers. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:51:56 PM)
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Title:Trek the Underground Railroad
Annotation:Travel back in time to the Civil War. On-line student activity to use in computer lab or as learning center. Flash 3 required. (Entered 7/25/2000 2:43:48 PM)
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Title:Underground Railroad - You Are a Slave
Annotation:Allow students to understand slavery in America and participate in an interactive experience while building background knowledge of this topic. (Entered 6/16/2000 3:54:21 PM)
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Title:Major Civil War Leaders- Incredible People
Annotation:Students will research a famous Civil War hero using the computer or other resource material. They will create an acrostic poem and add an appropriate graphic. Contributed by Patricia Adams. (Entered 12/6/2001 4:01:47 PM)

Title:Age of Industry
Annotation:Research/reference site on the history of the textile, agricultural, communication, and transportation industries. Also, information on the cultural arts of this time period and the daily life of the people. Great links to more detailed information on subtopics. (Entered 12/2/2002 8:05:31 AM)
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