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This website uses music from a variety of artists to encourage teaching social studies. The songs on this site are a little cheesy for me, but they are impossible to get out of your head. I think that they could be great to incorporate multiple intelligences into a lesson. This site is valuable for social studies teachers because it provides an alternate way to introduce materials.

This website relies on CNN's news and history sources. Although a bias to the left in general reporting must be considered when viewing most CNN articles, the information presented here is historical, and mostly evenly presented.

If I was teaching World history, I would provide this site to my students to give them a general overview of subject matter - basically giving them a big picture before divulging into the specifics. I would probably create an assignment requiring the students to use and explore this website very early on in the year.

I think this site is valuable to Social Studies teachers because it includes a great deal of information in a condensed, thematic, easily to follow manner.

Clearly, as it says here, the book is a work of fiction, which is why a web site like this, if one ever used the book to teach the Civil War, woould be incredibly uselful to supplementing the novel with factual information.

This website uses research sources gathered by the BBC. I would use this website to create a family tree - it makes the process interesting and creates an interest in history by making it relatable. This is valuable to social studies teachers, because if this was employed in the classroom it would help students build research skills in a way that interests them.

"American Journey", has a link to the dates of Tocqueville's trip to the States. Some of the dates are hyperlinked to his actual journal entries. Very simple and student friendly.

"All About Alexis de Tocqueville" has quick facts and a timeline. Very simple for a superficial report or introductory/cursory outline.

"Democracy in America" has very very very basic quotes from this text. I'm not sure that it would be useful for anything academic.

The online map room is maintained by the University of Texas at Austin, and it is frequently updated with new scans and additions from the library. The folks at the library can be contacted by computer or telephone.

The site has a plethora of maps, but I think their modern political maps/historical maps are most helpful. For teachers, this is a great resource to help students understand and analyze history.

The library's online map collection is also searchable-although the search engine is pretty basic

Daily 60 second podcast!

Also, you can search previous podcasts to find ones that have to do with your specific lesson. Listening to the Podcasts could be a "Do now" activity or an activity at a station students rotate through.

Daily 1 question civics quiz! These questions are not always about post Constitutional US. Some of the questions that I have seen had to do with Enlightenment thinking, the middle ages, ancient Greece, etc.

Mission Statement From the site: The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries. . . . The Center specializes in civic/citizenship education, law-related education, and international educational exchange programs for developing democracies. Programs focus on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights; American political traditions and institutions at the federal, state, and local levels; constitutionalism; civic participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.