It not only finds cool copyright-friendly images from Flickr's CC pool, it emphasizes a respect for intellectual property.

Great search engine for images

Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!

Another source of photos for projects that aren't restricted by copyright

"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

Blip Snips is an easy to use web tool that lets users create a video bookmark and then share specific parts of a video. Creating video tags or bookmarks allows users to find content quickly and efficiently. This is also an easy way to edit out some of the extraneous content of a video that might be great in the classroom.

Could be useful for showing video clips in the class.

"Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, a new policy paper by Renee Hobbs, Professor at the School of Communications and the College of Education at Temple University and founder of its Media Education Lab, proposes a detailed plan that positions digital and media literacy as an essential life skill and outlines steps that policymakers, educators, and community advocates can take to help Americans thrive in the digital age."

RT @freeresources: MLK Teaching Resources: speeches, bio, civil rights movement historic places, and more. http://go.usa.gov/r6X #MLK

Sites uses popular music to teach history. School librarian Joyce Valenza writes: "An article in the December 30 Washington Post turned me on to an amazing creative effort developed by a couple of teachers in Hawaii. History for Music Lovers on YouTube is song parody and remix at its most useful. The portal was launched by clever and talented Amy Burvall, of the Le Jardin Academy in Kailua, and Herb Mahelona, who used to work with her, at St. Andrew's Priory in Honolulu. I can see using these as models for creative student research projects. The clever remixing here also seems a cool way of examining transformativeness (repurposing and adding value) as it relates to fair use."... School Library Journal: NeverEndingSearch, Dec. 31; Washington Post, Dec. 30; History for Music Lovers

Watch these and imagine the possibilities in your class!

Save, organize, and share your research

Blekko aims to show search results from only useful, trustworthy sites.

Alternative search engine. Provides much more targeted results than google.

"In remembrance of the Union and Confederate soldiers who served in the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Liljenquist Family recently donated their rare collection of almost 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs to the Library of Congress."

Using the spotlight tool you can make youtube videos interactive. Looks very interesting!

Looks like this could have lots of classroom applications

"Moreofit is the first (and best) website similarity search engine. Give moreofit a website you're interested in, and it'll suggest to you alternative highly related and popular websites to explore."

This could be very helpful for finding more sources on a topic.

Website for digital, information, and citizenship litereracies

very interesting post on reading and writing. Although not specifically directed at social studies there are many connections to the Soc. Studies classroom

Article is directed at English teachers but lots of ideas for social studies classroom

"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."

Smarthistory.org is a free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon after, we embedded the audio files in our online survey courses.

Extremely well done site. Added tag for world history.

Primary sources, videos, timeline creators, animation creators. Don't be put off by the "elementary" look of the site. There is lots for middle and high school levels.

Google map scavenger hunts. You can create your own or play a game already created.

basic easy to follow info on the above

Lots of educational resources for teachers, parents, and students