CYSD Social Studies

"Bring life and excitement to the classroom teaching with historical Virsonas. Let students learn and explore with many of the same interactive tools they use at home. Our Educational Solutions include: * Historical Characters * Fictional Characters * Public Figures * Pre-packaged Bundles * Custom Virsonas All Virsonas are designed and tested by a team of professionals and are suitable for use in a classroom environment. We provide sample classroom plans with ways to implement Virsonas into your lesson plans as well as first account experiences by fellow teachers."

"The Karpeles Libraryis the world's largest private holding of important original manuscripts & documents.The archives include Literature, Science, Religion,History and Art. Among the treasures are .... "The original draft of the Bill of Rights of the United States", The original manuscript of " The Wedding March", Einstein's description of his " Theory of Relativity", The " Thanksgiving Proclamation" signed by George Washington, Roget's " Thesaurus", Webster's " Dictionary" and over one million more." When viewing the documents you can pull down an overlay that turns the handwritten text into a neat and easy-to-read typed document.

"Welcome to TwHistory. We believe that history is filled with exciting stories. We also believe that these stories can be told through Twitter; through the people who lived and experienced them. We go through journals, diaries, letters, and other original sources to deliver the day-to-day lives of people who lived through some of histories most exciting times. We broadcast this information through Twitter, and feel this is a new and exciting approach to understanding history. Instead of reading about a month-long campaign in a few hours, you experience it over the course of a month in small 140 character 'Tweets'."