Geography
National Geographic Map Machine - National Geographic's redesigned online atlas gives you the world—your way. Find nearly any place on Earth, and view it by population, climate, and much more. Plus, browse antique maps, find country facts, or plan your next outdoor adventure with our trail maps.
National Geographic Kids Magazine - Have fun reading the on-line National Geographic Magazine, enjoy games, and experiments. Also access homework helps and kids news.
Embassy World Maps - To find the maps of a nation, find that nation's name in the drop down menu and then click Launch Map Page.
Geographia - World Travel Destinations, Culture and History Guide: Learn about countries of the world with links to each country’s web sites.
CIA Word Fact Book – The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provides reference maps, country profiles, History of the World Fact Book and more.
Library of Congress - The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress presents its online map collection 1500-2004, reproductions, and Places in the News.
United Nation's Cyberschoolbus - Countries at a glance, UN history, latest UN news, UN web cast, model UN simulation, world student art gallery, human rights center, quizzes and games.
World Geography Webquest - Students learn about the world through teamwork in which the research of the individual contributes to the whole team’s understanding of geography of the world.
Google Earth - Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Geography World - An amazing collection of links to world maps, world cultures, geography news, time and calendars, GPS, geography toys, and map and globe skills.
Historical Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online – An extensive collection of maps supporting the study of world history.
Test Your Geography Knowledge – World geography interactive map quizzes.
World History
Mr. Dowling's World History - The history of the world from pre-history through ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome to Africa, India, China, and Japan up to the Middle Ages, Renaissance and modern times.
Ancient History Internet Sourcebook - Everything you wanted to know about any ancient civilization!
Cybersleuthkids - All kids want to know about prehistory, early man, ancient Middle East, Greeks, Romans, India, China, Aztecs, Inca, and Mayans.
Mr. Donn's Ancient History - Lesson Plans and Activities: From the life and times of early man, daily life in ancient civilizations, up through the Middle Ages.
P. J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper--Social Studies - Links to hundreds of websites which will help with your studies of history and geography.
History's Happenings - The best history sites on the web ranging from the Ancient World, through Medieval World, Modern World, and a special section on United States History.
Social Studies Links and Projects - World and American history links are presented along with great project ideas at 42explore.
European Civilizations Topics and Web Links - A comprehensive collection of web links for the study of European Civilizations.
Women In World History Curriculum – This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women’s history in a global, non- U.S., context.
History World - History World describes world history in interconnecting narratives and illustrated timelines. You can search for events by theme, place and year.
World History: Hyper History – Hyper History is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
World History – Timelines, history, and maps covering world history.
Encyclopedia: History – Infoplease history encyclopedia organized by period of history and topic.
DocLinks - DocLinks is a database of over 1000 annotated Web links to primary documents online for the study of U.S. history and Western Civilization.
Eyewitness Accounts –Eyewitnesstohistory.com presents history through the eyes of those who lived it.
Schools of California Online Resources for Education - Teacher created lessons and activities correlated to the California History/Social Studies Standards.
Interactive History Games - Fun games for the history loving students include Fling the Teacher, Penalty Shootout, Hoop Shoot and more.
Fun History Projects – EasyFunSchool’s collection of hands-on-projects.
Current Events
Time for Kids – Current events for students.
News Summaries - The New York Times Student Connections up-to-date news.
Who's Who & What's What Quiz – Daily news quiz.
Google News - The latest news.
CNN.com – CNN education site.
Today's Font Pages – See the front pages of 426 newspapers.
On-line Periodicals – This site has links to all newspapers and magazines which have web sites.
News Quizzes – This collection of news web sites features current event quizzes.
Research Help
Google - Google is one of the most popular--if not the most popular--search engine. It uses a 'page ranking' technology and ranks pages by 'popularity' or the number of other pages that link to it.
AltaVista - A comprehensive dbase and searches for videos.
AlltheWEb - A comprehensive dbase and the advanced search includes pictures and videos.
Teoma - Teoma's mission is to provide the best search results on the Web. To achieve this, Teoma goes beyond traditional page ranking methods to determine authority, in addition to relevancy. To determine the authority or quality of a site's content, Teoma uses Subject-Specific PopularitySM. Subject-Specific Popularity ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages that reference it, not just general popularity, to determine a site's level of authority.
KidsClick! - KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
SBC Blue Web'n® - Blue Web'n, a part of the non-commercial SBC Knowledge Network Explorer site -- is an online library of 1700+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). You can search by grade level, broad subject area, or specific sub-categories. Each week 5 new sites are added. You can get a list and description of these additions sent to you by signing up below for free monthly updates!
Yahoo - A popular directory which also contains a free service that many educators find of value --'yahoo briefcase'.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
Kid Safe Search Sites - This site has a good list of searching sites that are safe for kids. It includes sites created by teachers as well as well-known searching sites that contain filters.
Vivisimo - This metasearch engine 'clusters' or organizes results from several search engines.
kartOO - KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm.
Wikipedia - This is a free, multi-lingual encyclopedia.
C-SPAN Classroom – Enhance the teaching about government and civics through C-SPAN’s primary source programming.
Fact Monster - Find amazing facts about the United States, the World, and many other topics including science, sports and other cool topics.
Librarians Guide to the Internet (Best Search Tools) - Links and directions on using some of the best search engines, meta-search engines, and directories.
Teaching Searching Strategies – Step-by-step directions for teachers to use in teaching students how to use the Yahooligan search engine.
Choosing the Best Search for Your Information Need - A List of the Kinds of Information and the Best Sources to Find that Information.
Internet Quick Reference Guide - Gives Advice on Which Search Engine to Use in a Specific Situation and Offers Specific Strategies to Search a Topic Quickly and Efficiently.
A Primer in Boolean Logic - A brief introduction to Boolean Logic.
Citation Guide – A guide to citation guides.
Citation Maker – Make perfect citations with this system. Enter the data and the citation is correctly formatted for you.
Teacher Resources
California History Standards - Link to the California State Department of Education to find the complete California History Standards.
History Standards Blue Print - 8th Grade History Test Blue Print
Sample STAR History Questions - Questions released by CDE.
4teachers - This site provides lesson plans, interviews, etc. focusing on using technology in the classroom.
Easytestmaker - This is an online test generator.
Jigzone - Upload your own photos to create online jigsaw puzzles.
Lizardpoint - Fun games and printable worksheets.
Discovery School - Create a custom classroom at this website.
Filamentality - This is an organizational tool that you may want to use in your classroom.
S.C.O.R.E. - Searchable database that connects lesson plans and units to specific standards. Core subject areas. EXCELLENT RESOURCE.
