Gunning Bedford Middle School Library

Social Studies Resources:

• GEG 101 Online's resources for South America.

• Eigth grade mock election site

• Used with eighth grade Western Expansion unit: American Western History Museums, Bronze Stagecoach, Wagon Trains

• Explore Delaware's elected officials at Delaware's Official Web Site

• Browse the world at Mr. Drowling.com

• Tthe U.S. government interagency Kids' Portal. This site was developed and is maintained by the Federal Citizen Information Center . It provides links to Federal kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by subject. Explore, learn, have fun!

• The History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers is a good resource for social studies on the Web.

• Displays the flags of all countries.

• "The principal cities, nations and agglomerations of the world, with tables and maps."

• Links for Africa South of the Sahara

• Since 1994, this has been the internet's most comprehensive listing of states and cities offering information on travel, tourism, and relocation. Offers detailed city guides as well as official and independent city and state websites.

• China the Beautiful showcases classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy

• Retrace the Underground Railroad from Maryland to Canada

• The GeoBee Challenge Online posts five quiz questions from the National Geography Bee each day.

• National Geographic's 'Xpeditions' page is an awesome resource for the geography classroom. The beautifully designed site boasts interactive maps, tours and activities, as well as teaching standards.

• CNN Student News: News for students, resources for teachers.

• Newsweek Education Program: A site designed to help teachers build bridges to real-world issues.

• Time for Kids: Just like TIME magazine, the news in TIME For Kids is completely up-to-date and comes from TIME's news bureaus.

• "State information resource links to state homepages, symbols, flags, maps, constitutions, representatives, songs, birds, flowers, trees, etc."

• National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (UK), collection, conservation & history of these media

• Archives Early America, original newspapers, maps & writings from 18th century America.

• Women's History Page contains a wealth of information about women of many types.

• Middle school social studies resources arranged by grade level.

Country Report Help

• All kinds of maps for every country in the world.
• Go to Fact Monster for help with your country report.
• Information about countries from around the world.  Over 23,000 pages on over 260 countries! 
• Map Zones allow you to print maps for all countries in the world.

Check out these sites too!!

• http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/
• http://geography.about.com/?once=true&
• http://www.state.de.us/dedo/new_web_site/expanding.html

Ms Nolte's African Art Project:

African and Silk fabrics

KenteSource.com

Ms Cylc's National Geographic Milk Carton

Ms Nolte's Australia Extravaganza:

Australia for Kids

Click here: About Australia - its all here! Click here: About Australia - its all here!

Mr. Eubank's Revolutionary Spies project:

Spy letters from the American Revolution

Revolutionary war spies

Revolutionary spies project

Spies of the American Revolution

Women in the Revolutin (student site)

Spies of 1777

Revolutionary War biographies

More spies of the Revolution

Ms Cylc's Cleopatra: A Beauty or Very Unattractive?

Ms Cylc's Glimmer of Hope project.

Ms Cylc's Forces of Nature site.

Ms Cylc's Earth Day Project.

Mr. Greenly's Canada research sites.

Mrs. Cylc: USS Nashville 1

Mrs. Clyc: USS Nashville 2

Founders Online is a repository of information about twelve of America's Founders.

Charters of Freedom website

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