http://www.netvouz.com/jgordon/tag/social?feed=rss&pg=3 jgordon's bookmarks tagged "social" on Netvouz http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/socst-hs.html#Interactive This site offers multiple links to interactive sites for high school social studies. Social Studies jgordon Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:49:51 GMT http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/2c.asp This site is a sample of the resources in Beyond Books Interactive Textbooks Social Studies > U.S. History jgordon Mon, 29 May 2006 00:48:34 GMT http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/il/ Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: Illinois The Geonet link is a fantastic, interactive geography website. The students can go anywhere around the world, play games and take quizzes about any country or region. The site focuses on location, place and region, physical systems, human systems, environment/society for each country/continent, and the uses of geography. See bilingual glossary Rec. by Kira Stewart Teacher Resources > Videos Virtual Fieldtrips & Interactive Sites jgordon Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:24:42 GMT http://www.literacymatters.org/about.htm The goal of the Literacy Matters project is to improve the literacy development of middle grades and secondary school students, especially those students who are struggling to succeed. The content within this web site focuses on what matters most in adolescent literacy development. The first two "matters" are adolescent literature and content area literacy. Literacy Matters seeks to reach three audiences. Literacy jgordon Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:02:10 GMT http://www.middleweb.com/linkswkprv.html Check out the many resources in this site across the disciplines. Focus on middle school but some of the links are appropriate for other grades. Teacher Resources > Lesson Planning jgordon Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:22:41 GMT http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/pdf_files/videos/rc_mmactivities_directions.pdf This PDF provides directions for the activities Modeled in the Responsive Classroom Morning Meeting DVD. Language Arts jgordon Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:10:26 GMT http://www.montanakids.com/landc.htm Lewis and Clark: This site is part of a tourism site for the state of Montana. It has many photographs of the actual placesLewis and Clark visited. It also has some interactive Lewis and Clark games. Recommended for grades 3-5. Recommended by Mary Lynn Buckner Social Studies > U.S. History jgordon Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:35:17 GMT http://video.google.com/nara.html Google has digitized 103 historic films from the National Archives and made them available on the Web. The pilot project, which may be expanded, includes such gems as newsreels from World Wars I and II, video of the moon landing and Depression-era films about the national parks and public works projects. Social Studies jgordon Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:37:11 GMT http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/ssrg.html Select Corp pt. 1 for K-6 social studies understandings. Curriculum Development > Examples of Understandings/Big Ideas: Many with Curr. Dev. Examples jgordon Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:27:15 GMT http://www.phschool.com/curriculum_support/ss_skills_tutor/ Social Studies Skills Tutor Social Studies jgordon Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:51:15 GMT