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"One thing kids (and adults) often have trouble with is the concept of scale. Understanding how big or small something is can be difficult if there is no familiar reference point of which to compare. Here are 3 sites that help students gain an understanding of size and how certain occurrences that happen on our planet compare to places that they are familiar with."

For World History for country analyis

If It Were My Home now offers a feature for quickly comparing ten key statistics about life in different countries. To view the comparisons just select two countries from the lists and click compare. If It Were My Home will also show you a size comparison of a selected country centered over your hometown.

"Wolfram|Alpha has the ability to compute some interesting information about school districts. You can now use Wolfram|Alpha to analyze and compare data on student-teacher ratios, expenditures, revenues, and salaries in more than 18,000 public school districts in the United States."

Not strictly for social studies; could be useful for analyzing ed data

Great site to use for comparing websites.

Interesting site which creates a template to use to compare up to 3 websites. Great for information literacy!

"We have developed computational methods to measure historical significance through analysis of Wikipedia and other data sources. We rank historical figures just as Google ranks webpages, by integrating a diverse set of measurements about their reputation (including PageRank, article length, and readership) into estimates of their fame, explained by a combination of achievement (gravitas) and celebrity. We correct for the passage of time in a principled way, so we can fairly compare the significance of historical figures of different eras."

"Google Earth offers the means to display geographic data from a wide variety of sources together in a geospatial context. This data includes imagery for the entire globe at varying resolutions that contains a great deal of interpretable visual information. Students can use it to find their homes, schools, and other locations that are familiar to them. They can make inferences by comparing places to other locations. In addition, students can learn about the world through rich layers of mappable data offered by Google's server and a great deal of third-party content. They can also create and display their own data."

tool to compare the size of different countries, regions, states or continents

Constitute allows anyone to read, search and compare every constitution in the world, indexed by topic.

Very good easy to follow post on how to make your searches less personalized in order to break out of the info bubble!

Everyone needs to be aware of this issue. Using different search engines, databases, etc. also helps. Comparing and sharing sources also helps.

"Search the web for statistical images: graphs, maps, data tables, scatterplots, figures and statistics."