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Social Studies is made up of a combination of many different subject areas, including US History and World Cultures. In order to have a thorough understanding of each topic, students should look for information from a variety of educational resources or an answering service, cross-checking and double checking information to ensure that everything is cohesive. In fact, both teachers and students can benefit from a wide selection of informative resources. Whether a person is a longtime student of Social Studies, or just beginning to look at the subject, there is always something more to be learned.

History Pin is a site that lets teachers and students view and share their personal history in a totally new way. It uses Google Maps and Street View technology and hopes to become the largest user-generated archive of the worlds historical images and stories. History Pin asks the public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the History Pin map. Uniquely, History Pin lets you layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, giving a series of peeks into the past. This is a great tool for writing compare and contrast literature and, of course, for use with a History class as well.

Great free games and projects.

News and current events to Rap

Video clips and shorts from NBC News. Wide Variety of topics.

Student News CNN (Current Events)

Interactive Map to show Electoral College

GeoGames is a Flash game that lets you drag-and-drop onto the Planet Earth. You can rotate your planet, test your geography skills, and print a copy when you are done! There's a timer, so you can track your scores.

Welcome to HistoryBuff.com, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing FREE primary source material for students, teachers, and historybuffs. This site focuses primarily on HOW news of major, and not so major, events in American history were reported in newspapers of the time. In addition, there is information about the technology used to produce newspapers over the past 400 years. Our latest addition is panoramas of historic sites in America.

Children & Youth in History is a world history resource that provides teachers and students with access to sources about young people from the past to the present.