3-5 Social Studies Bookmarks
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A gathering place of primary-source information. Sources held in archives, which document so much important first-hand information, are often not searchable by popular search engines. One needs to search within those institutional sites directly, using specific search phrases not readily discernible to non-scholars. The experience can be frustrating, resulting in researchers leaving sites without finding needed information. AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take a site's users to places where those primary sources are found, and to which the site's users may otherwise not go. The author of each story is listed on the "chapters" page of the story. A link to the author provides more detailed information.
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New technology on the Internet—from geographic-information systems (or GIS) to create-your-own-map programs—is allowing teachers to tap into students’ own interests and show them that geography is much more than filling in country names on a photocopied map. “It brings them into the world community,” Cunha says. “It makes the flat map come alive.”
more from www.edweek.org
Online tutorials for learning how to use Google Earth plus lesson content for K-12 science, math, social studies and ELA.
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the world's largest private holding of important original manuscripts & documents.The archives include Literature, Science, Religion,History and Art. Original manuscripts have text visualizations that enable easy reading
more from www.rain.org
Find out what it means to come to the United States as an immigrant from the early 20th century through the early 21st century.
more from teacher.scholastic.com
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