- this site includes online learning guides and a hotlist of links to top humanities sites. The learning guides include lesson plans to help students, parents, and teachers use the Internet more effectively as a tool for learning in history and social studies, English and language arts, foreign languages, and art history.

HISTORY TEACHER

http://www.history.com/

- excellent Today in History feature, over 24,000 hours of archival film footage and 20 million photographs, engravings and drawings spanning over 3,000 years of world history

SOCIAL STUDIES RESOURCES

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/index.html

- current events, online activities, lesson plans, resources, newsgroups and mailing lists

SOCIAL STUDIES SOURCES

http://education.indiana.edu/~socialst/

- history, geography, government, international studies, cultural diversity and news sources links

THE NEW YORK TIMES LEARNING NETWORK

http://www.nytimes.com/learning

- the Learning Network connects teachers, students, and parents to news and education resources on the Web. It includes daily lesson plans, interactive news quizzes, and opportunities to interact with The Times reporters. The lesson plans cover many subjects, including social studies, mathematics, fine arts, language arts, technology, and science.

SOCIAL STUDIES WEB SITE FOR K-12 TEACHERS

http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html

- Sections include the study of Archaeology, Diversity, Genealogy, Geography, Economics, Government, U.S. History, World History, Humanities/Art, Resources For Writers, News and Current Events, Media Sites/Media Literacy, and Research/Critical Thinking.

SCORE HISTORY/SOCIAL SCIENCE - Linking teachers to social studies resources, this site offers age-appropriate Web links categorized by grade level, California standards and frameworks, and more.

TODAY IN HISTORY

http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/

- from the History Channel; allows you to search any date for significant events throughout history.

INTERACTIVE

http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html

- this site offer geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities and make sure you visit the Ecotourism Simulation Game!

VIRTUAL FIELDS TRIPS

ACROPOLIS

http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21101m/e211am01.html

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

http://library.advanced.org/2840/

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 CLICKS

http://www.steveweb.com/80clicks/controls/Tourindex.html

BETSY ROSS'S HOUSE

http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/l

THE COMPUTER MUSEUM

http://www.tcm.org/

ELLIS ISLAND

http://www.ellisisland.org/

LEWIS AND CLARK

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

OREGON TRAIL

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html

TENEMENT MUSEUM

http://www.wnet.org/archive/tenement/

U.S. CAPITOL

http://www.senate.gov/vtour/index.html

U.S. SENATE

http://www.senate.gov/

VIRTUAL WORLD TOUR

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/world.html

WASHINGTON MONUMENT

http://www.nps.gov/wamo/

WEBQUESTS

THE GILDED AGE http://www.oswego.org/staff/tcaswell/wq/gildedage/student.htm

Documenting Industry in America - (9-12) This WebQuest concerns the major themes of the Gilded Age in American History. Historians coined the term “Gilded Age” in an effort to illustrate the outwardly showy, but inwardly corrupt nature of American society during the industrialization of the late 1800's.

1930's WebQuest - 8-12 Students will explore topics that are related to the 1930's using the World Wide Web. The "links" that students will find will help them begin to develop an understanding of some of the events surrounding the 1930's.

1900-2000-(8-12) Are you tired of adults telling you what to do, and not letting you have a say about issues that pertain directly to YOU? Would you like to write a letter to the president of the United States and let him know where you stand on important issues and concerns?

Little Rock 9: A collaborative WebQuest on racial desegregation in schools, the Little Rock 9 focuses on the year, 1957, when 9 African American students enrolled in Central High School. The quest encourages students to think about the world they live in now.

Look Who's Footing the Bill: - (9-12) This is an interactive web quest that asks students to explore democracy and the national debt.

The Mongols - (9-12) The Mongols controlled the largest land empire in human. They were the most powerful army of their time and no country could defeat them. Your job will be to learn about their culture and their effect on other cultures.

Multiple Intelligences (MI) Web Hunt - (11-12) Students will learn more about Multiple Intelligences.

Nuclear Power in Seaside - (9-12) Your task in "Nuclear Power in Seaside" is to join a team and take on one of the roles listed provided. You and your teammates will work together to create a Special Report for the town meeting that makes sense out of the complex issue of nuclear power.

Paint Mount Rushmore Red-(9-12) This WebQuest can be used as a cross curriculum as well as in Social Science. To attain that experience, the Quest(ion) is posed: Should Leonard Peltier be set free by pardon or new trial?

Prison Rights - (8-12) In this project, you will be exploring the opposing viewpoints on this topic, evaluating statistics, and reading about life in American prisons.

Then and Now - (9-12) In this quest, students will experience and compare other cultures with their own and search for information about these cultures in non-traditional resources.

Where Would You Like To Live? - (6-12) You have just graduated from college and you have secured your dream job. You have been given the opportunity to live in any one of eight great cities. Where would you like to live?

Last Updated: April 24, 2002

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